[kj] Warning-U2 Related Post

[Paul]

Sorry meant to say too, the song name, The Fly, I always hated it, because
one of my all time favourite tunes is Wire's, I am the Fly.

Nothing new under the sun though and as someone once said, all art is
plagiarism or was it, art is either plagiarism or revolution?

But then there is always Eighties Vs Come as You Are Vs Life Goes On,
argument, so one never knows.

On 1 March 2017 at 22:31, Paul <dubecho at gmail.com> wrote:

> They do sound pretty similar, but why wait till now? Not huge fan of U2,
> and would not be first time they've "borrowed" from others. I always felt *Achtung
> Baby, Zoo TV, *and* Zooropa* period, they borrowed a lot to get the sound
> they did. Later the too, with Eno and Howie B. I always thought they were
> trying to copy Bowie, by borrowing from other genres and styles, as I say,
> not a fan. Like the Rose tune though : )
>
> On 1 March 2017 at 22:20, kevin <patrickvieira at msn.com> wrote:
>
>> I know U2 and Bono are popular here so anyone got any opinion on this....
>>
>>
>> https://www.google.co.uk/?gws_rd=ssl#q=u2+lawsuit+the+fly&*
>> <https://www.google.co.uk/?gws_rd=ssl#q=u2+lawsuit+the+fly&*>
>> Google <https://www.google.co.uk/?gws_rd=ssl#q=u2+lawsuit+the+fly&*>
>> www.google.co.uk
>> Happy St. David's Day 2017 #GoogleDoodle
>>
>> I won`t bother putting all the links up as they are easily found on
>> youtube.
>>
>> For the record my brother who is a musician states: "There's absolutely
>> nothing original about Paul Rose's "nae slappin'" it's just a standard e
>> minor, changing to d7 riff the same as sixty trillion other blues jamming
>> tracks out there. The guy is obviously  just trying his luck.
>>
>>
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