Todd has a great story about this song you can hear on Tales from Moondawg's Tavern. It goes like this:
This is a song I’ve been singing since I was 18. I was living in Texas at the time. Normally, I’d listen to Jerry Jeff, and I’d listen to all these people, but nobody had ever really played me any Bob Dylan. I got this Bob Dylan tape and I started listening to it, and it took me a minute to get it, and then I started laughing. I said, “This is the fuckin’ coolest thing I’ve ever heard.” So, then I got it in my head that I wanted to have a song like “Johnny’s in the basement, mixing up the medicine…” And so I made up this song, and I started playing it around, and everybody liked it, and they seemed to enjoy it, and they’d sing along to it. And then I was at this after-show party with all these musician types. And then I’d play ‘em my song, and one of them goes “That’s just like a Bob Dylan song.” And I’m like, “Yeah! You like it, too?” And he says, “You can’t just you can’t drive around, taking other people’s songs and turn ‘em into your own songs and copy everybody and just do that. You can’t do that.” And I thought, “Okay…” And I put the song away for a few, like eight years I put the song away and never played it again. And then I got this record contract and I toured around with a billion other bands for a few years, and I found out you know, yeah, you CAN just copy other people.
Todd has a great story about this song you can hear on Tales from Moondawg's Tavern. It goes like this:
This is a song I’ve been singing since I was 18. I was living in Texas at the time. Normally, I’d listen to Jerry Jeff, and I’d listen to all these people, but nobody had ever really played me any Bob Dylan. I got this Bob Dylan tape and I started listening to it, and it took me a minute to get it, and then I started laughing. I said, “This is the fuckin’ coolest thing I’ve ever heard.” So, then I got it in my head that I wanted to have a song like “Johnny’s in the basement, mixing up the medicine…” And so I made up this song, and I started playing it around, and everybody liked it, and they seemed to enjoy it, and they’d sing along to it. And then I was at this after-show party with all these musician types. And then I’d play ‘em my song, and one of them goes “That’s just like a Bob Dylan song.” And I’m like, “Yeah! You like it, too?” And he says, “You can’t just you can’t drive around, taking other people’s songs and turn ‘em into your own songs and copy everybody and just do that. You can’t do that.” And I thought, “Okay…” And I put the song away for a few, like eight years I put the song away and never played it again. And then I got this record contract and I toured around with a billion other bands for a few years, and I found out you know, yeah, you CAN just copy other people.