----- Original Message ----- From: laura gavoor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Moby is a righteously smart dude. > agreed. hes' also a very good musician.
> He's been utilizing OP talent and soul > and black artist's music and skills for some time now. He's ALWAYS wanted > to be a rock star whether he was shmoozing our scene/family or not. He's > another guy who has and continues to climb the rockstar stairway to heaven > on the backs of FAR more talented people of color. > > Whether you wish to partake in yet another black/white discussion of our > music...the facts remain self-evident, Moby's BIGGEST HIT is not only a > sample of a black blues artist but is also a direct rip-off of a far more > ingenius and truly unique white artist who has taken the influence of black > dance music artists and married that devotion to his own passion thereby > creating something unique...the artist is St. Germain and the track in > question is Alabama Blues. > placing this blame on moby for "stealing Black music" is wrong. if you are going to blame someone blame Alen Lomax he went around the south in the 1920-1950 going to prisions and share croppers houses recording them on his protable record cutter. but you never heard muddy waters bi**h about him. (now leadbelly was a differnt story he was used up by lomax and the record comp ilk until he died). so I dont see how moby was stealing music.jist because he white?? thats like saying stevie ray vahun stole the blues from bb king. and the blue & jazz cats are about doing standards all the artist cover one an other. how many other artist are doing blues laced techno (I'm a little curious if there are others. but I'm sure there are and probby before moby did it to???) there are also no blues artist samples. moby plays most of the insturments on play so who is he rippin off himself? > An d as for Mute records, what black artists do they have?? > you know in Europe they don't have the racism problems we have here in america(they have it but not as intense.). so not having a "black or minority" artist is not as big as a deal as here. but like one list member told me "everybody is a racist". I disagree racism is a learned expression ussually from ones parents or close family member. anyways I'm so sick or the race issue this list is about music and not who stole what. was it Juan Atkins who said he was trying to imatate kraftwerk or was it derrick? I know afrika bambaataa was hudge on them. a beat is a beat and if you don't have rhythm you suck(lol). it does not matter what race or gender you still will be a rhythmless wonder. moby fact every song on play has been licensed in some fashion. good for him. I think he knows that pop star stardom is like it's over before you know it. please don't take my response a moby defense but I think moby is doing what he wants and I am getting tired of the moby pro/con posts that have been plaguing the list for the past 2 weeks for not liking him a lot of people sure talk about him allot. a very lot! my pro/con moby post. so please dont take it personially. it's jist music and weather you like it or not is your opion and this above is mine. Scott Laakso --- ------- imajin/ imagine http://www.mp3.com/i_majin http://www.ampcast.com/imagine
