[Trash-talk] Curve ripped us off! boo hoo!

[Alan Hoppe]

I read @nette's post that had the snippet of a Curve review with the usual 
Garbage-Ripped-Curve-Off-We-Hate-Garbage stuff .. and then I read your posts 
and was overwhelmed with thoughts of bathtub gin. That sounds like fuN! I 
think my grampa made some of that stuff.

@nette's article thingie sounded like it was written by some reviewer dweeb 
who just needed an excuse to vent his hatred for Garbage and Shirley. These 
sorts of idiots will always exist. Clever with the verbage but not with any 
other form of performance art. Stuck writing little reviews of art instead. 
They are like little tse tse flies hovering about annoying me, and I keep 
finding them in my damn bathtub gin!

-Alan-

>From: bathtub gin <garbagebase at yahoo.com>
>To: trash-talk at tcp.com
>Subject: Re: [Trash-talk] Curve ripped us off! boo hoo!
>Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 13:59:10 -0800 (PST)
>
>Hey that's all well and good. But just to clarify, I have made 2 posts
>on this topic, and yes, at least one of the 2 implies that Curve may
>have said something that apparently they didn't. For that I do
>apologize, and I thank you for the clarification. But I hardly consider
>that I am "continually" making such statements.  (Bashing Bush
>continually, yes. Curve? no.)
>
>The article posted here by Anette the other day was worded in such a
>way that it appeared to come directly from the band or it's management,
>thus my misunderstanding of who exactly was making the "rip off"
>accusations.
>
>Bill Shaw
>www.garbagebase.com
>
>
>--- Ian Abbott <iabbott at ruiner.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > True, but the thing is that they (as in Curve) have NEVER SAID that
> > Garbage ripped them off, so you're doing them an injustice by
> > continually - whether you are intending to or not - implying that
> > they
> > did, allowing you to then go on with your own immature "boo hoo"
> > statements... :)
> >
> > Give it a rest, mate
> > Ian
> >
> >
> > On 10 Mar 2004, at 20:00, trash-talk-request at tcp.com wrote:
> >
> > > From: bathtub gin <garbagebase at yahoo.com>
> > > Date: 9 March 2004 22:33:12 GMT
> > > To: trash-talk at tcp.com
> > > Subject: Re: [Trash-talk] Re: Curve
> > >
> > >
> > > Well I wouldn't have a problem with a statement that Garbage copied
> > > Curve, that they were influenced by Curve, that they incorporate
> > > elements of Curve's sound, that they borrowed from Curve, etc...
> > >
> > > I just don't like the phrase "rip off" applied to something that by
> > > definition cannot be owned. To me, it makes them sound like babies,
> > > "they ripped us off, boo hoo hoo..."
> > >
> > > Imitation, after all, is often called the highest form of flattery.

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