From Michael Upton Sent Wed, Sep 30th 1998, 00:11
On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, rob joanisse wrote: | > So original that Mani himself admitted that he ripped off the | > bassline from a Can song! At least this is what Jason Pierce told | > me when I interviewed him. | >> Isn't that obvious when you listen to Can's "Tago Mago" or "Ege Bamyasi"? | >> I think the track 'Fools Gold' was ripped off from may have been | >> 'Vitamin C'. | it's from bobby bird's "hot pants/i'm coming", one of the classic hip | hop breaks. check big daddy kane's "RAW" for an earlier appearance. the | stone roses added that funky-ass tambourine though. | unless can were secretely sampling bobby bird too... They were talking about the bass line, not the break - but, yeah, that beat's pretty excellent too. Michael ____________________________________________ "Also, he has automatic evasion devices" http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~michael/jj.html