Of course the stones were imitators. They homogenized R and B and rock n roll to a largely white audience. They happened to be in the right place in the right time. Keith Richards et al is quite talented and pop culture forgave them for ripping off the old masters and bestowed them as 'originators' of their own style of hand.
Tom getting off topic Martin
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> > From: classicrendezvous-request@bikelist.org
> > Reply-To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> > Date: 24 Apr 2003 12:06:02 -0700
> > To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> > Subject: Classicrendezvous Digest, Vol 4, Issue 84
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> > [CR]On the idea of imitatation
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> Tom Sanders wrote:
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> : Are the Rolling Stones mere imitators =
> of Little Richard. Hell no!"
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> well, actually, i think the Stones were more like Chuck Berry than that
wild
> man Little Richard ;-)
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> (kinda on-topic)
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> eric zamora
> fresno, ca.