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RE: The Spark + Unbewusstes - Finish The Story Contest - Week #66 @bananafish
Wow - wow - wow - what an insight!!!!
I've vaguely thought along these lines as a reader, having "heard" a certain voice, a certain cadence, and my own writing unconsciously "informed" by someone else's influence. This -
babies can hear in the womb
and your parents were both immersed in music, and
it has occurred to me that copyright law in music is especially problematic.
I hear what you mean... see what you mean... Eric Carmen's "All By Myself," though, was a conscious nod to Rachmaninoff. But how often does a familiar riff show up, like Pat Metheny's train song. I keep hearing "Queen Bee, Chasing me" (a playground jumping rope song he must have heard at recess)
Others may not hear it, but I do, starting at 55 seconds in.
Nope, not familiar with it.
And that's the year I started in first grade, so you'd think I would have.
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Interesting, but I've also never heard "Queen bee chasing me," at least not that I recall.
Maybe it was a regional thing.
So many songs have intentional nods to favorite composers, and sometimes, the homage is what makes the song for me.
Case in point is "Toward the Blue Horizon," by Riverside, when guitarist Piotr Grudzienski breaks into into the opening riff from Porcupine Tree's "Blind House," acknowledging their early influence on the band, and on him.
And Steven Wilson, lead man and primary (often sole) songwriter of Porcupine Tree, has frequently referenced earlier works, from artists as diverse as King Crimson, Dead Can Dance and Prince.
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