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Originally Posted by BklynBlue
"Influence" and "inspiration" seem to get used interchangeably, in books, articles and liner notes and yet there are subtle distinctions -
"Influence" - a performer could have a profound impact on another artist's work without any overt similarities being readily apparent.
The impact could just be in the way the artist sees and approaches his work, which I would define, for lack of a better term, as "inspiration".
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Very true. Also sometimes it can be assumed that there's an influence when there isn't - you do get uncanny similarities in two artists' work that is totally accidental. For example, when Mike Vernon first heard Danny Kirwan playing, he thought he sounded just like Lowell Fulson. Vernon told Peter Green, who agreed. Later, once Danny was in Fleetwood Mac, Vernon asked him what he thought of Fulson, and Danny said, "Who's Lowell Fulson?"
