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From: jbuck@epicen.UUCP (Joe Buck)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Is Dream Syndicate a VU ripoff?
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Date: Sun, 26-May-85 18:26:27 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 26 18:26:27 1985
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>John Reeves -
>I also think that your selling Alice, Ig and the Dream Syndicate short
>if you're gonna lump'em as VU derivatives. 

Apologies for dismissing Iggy Pop so easily. Alice - well, some arguments
could be made in his favor. But the Dream Syndicate? They even stole the
name! From the liner notes to "VU" -

... [John] Cale had studied in London under the avant-garde composer
Cornelius Cardew, and was working in New York as a member of composer
La Monte Young's experimental-music group, the Dream Syndicate.
                                               ----- ---------
That is, John Cale was in a group of that name before the Velvet Underground
was even formed. So much for originality.

Still, I enjoyed "The Days of Wine and Roses" because I like V.U. With "The
Medicine Show" apparently Dream Syndicate lead vocalist Steve Wynn decided 
to steal a lot more from Jim Morrison and less from Lou Reed. But I still
contend that they are utterly lacking in originality. At least they have
good taste in what they steal.

I say again -- why settle for copies when you can have the real thing?
-- 
Joe Buck		Entropic Processing, Inc. (epi)
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