James. you really don't get out much, do you? ;-)

In all music, there are a few originals and a lot of followers. You can't get mad a people for imitating and even copying sounds that they like (occasionally with, but usually without credit), because, like it or not, that's mostly what music is about.

Most of what people do is lifted straight from someone who lifted it from someone, ad infinitum. Over time somebody hears something wrong, or misremembers, or is just such a wack job that they can't follow anything, and you get a little new mixed in--that's the game, as it has been played from the year one--

Folks who are imitated are mostly flattered, a) because it means that the folks who copied them love their music, and b)because it means that they are the originals--