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From: rs55611@ihuxk.UUCP (Robert E. Schleicher)
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Subject: Re: John Williams, "stealing"
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Date: Wed, 30-May-84 14:07:35 EDT
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On the subject of riff stealing,  Steve Miller has done this
occasionally (and fairly subtly, I guess).  Examples:

1. The riff from Keep On Rockin' Me (Fly Like An Eagle LP)
   is taken from the song by Free (I don't know the title)
   that starts out "There she stood, in the street, ....".

2. The riff in Jet Airliner is a slightly slower version of the
   blues riff in Crossroads (by Robert Johnson, performed by
   Cream, Ten Years After, and others).

Bob Schleicher
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