just out of interest, in a mildly related point...
i've had some really odd things leveled at me whilst being in my band and releasing material to an international market, you know how it is, every musician has some corking after-dinner stories.
one that comes to mind in reading this though is a matter that, i’m very sorry to say, originated from someone who’s actually a friend of mine.
i was told, indirectly, that said friend (also a singer in a similar band) had a particular beef against me and was regularly vocal about it. apparently i ‘stole’ the lyric “your mind’s eye” from him.
we have a lyric in the song ‘straight’ which reads:
“in your mind’s eye am i standing alone?”
the lyric was written by me in early 2005, the music written around 1999 by john and the version with those words on it released in early summer 2005.
the band my friend is in released a song contains a lyric that reads:
“…the mind’s eye”
and, if i remember correctly, was written and self-released around 2003.
according to him (though he’s never said it to my face), this is literally direct plagiarism. what’s perhaps being ignored is that the term ‘the mind’s eye’ has been a philosophical term and theory for… well… who can even say? if we’re talking having used it in music?
this was released back in like ’92 i think. (love that album).
this is also the same person who has apparently said one of our songs of the last album directly ripped off his band in style, as per a tune again on the same release made around 2003. our song that was apparently note-for-note... was written in 1997 by john when it was literally just a one man band.
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