I thought we'd done with this? Now the nitpicking begins in earnest! Still - anything that keeps this thread buoyant & gets people listening to Dick Miles can't be that bad, eh??

Anyhoo - I think it's important to acknowledge sources; even hip-hop artists do this (proudly) with their samples, though I'm sure a fair few Crimso heads were suitably outraged by Kanye West's Power, just as said Crimso heads would have outnumbered by the millions who loved Power who'd never even heard of King Crimson. Like my neighbour - I played him the original one day and it terrified the living daylights out of him (terrifies me too actually and I've grown up with it...).

So. Whilst such borrowing doesn't change the original, and says nothing about the quality of either, and may in fact (as Vic suggest) be more of an open tribute than plagiarism as such, I feel it pays respect to the canon. This is all the more essential in folk where someone hearing Dick's song might not even be aware of Willie Scott or the Shepherd's Song, in which case they might like to go out and enrich their lives by finding out. Like my neighbour kistening to KC for the first time, the original will blow their mind, The Traditional / Revival dichotomy makes such transparency even more important; and it's not a matter of nit-picking to point this out.