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Originally Posted by Lord Larehip
Forget it, Rez. I've run into so many of these "We-Brits-Invented-Every-Music-Under-the-Sun" types online, I don't know where they all come from. Nobody in I met in England said that s-hit to my face. But I've run into Brits online who think they invented blues, who think they invented ragtime, who think they invented funk and soul, and one who said he hated bop jazz and preferred "good old UK trad jazz." So I guess they invented early jazz as well. We Americans stole it from them and called it Dixieland to hide its oh-so-obvious British origins.
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As Nurse Duckett said, you fall for things hook, line and sinker, and these online Brits must've seen you coming (or in this case heard your keystrokes) a mile off, they were just wagging your tail that's all.
Nobody in the UK and into music, believes Britain invented every kind of genre at all, just to clear that up.
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Here's what Wiki said about the Dolls: "The New York Dolls is an American hard rock band formed in New York City in 1971. Along with the Velvet Underground and the Stooges, they were one of the first bands in the early punk rock scene.[2]"
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Anybody can edit on Wiki, even you.
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But they would be wrong, of course, because the Dolls didn't play anything that the Stones weren't playing in '68. I have that on good authority, you see.
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.... and that's exactly what the Dolls were actually doing. They weren't very original in terms of music at all, as they just reworked old Stones and rock n roll riffs into their sound and then just camped and sleazed the whole thing up.