The Great Copycat Experience
Apparently the music industry took notice when my EP was released this past April. Jimmy Chamberlin, former drummer of the Smashing Pumpkins, recently posted a website to announce the imminent release of an album by his new band called...wait for it...The Jimmy Chamberlin Complex.
What a "coincidence" isn't it? Mr. Chamberlin could have at least consulted me before riding my coattails to superstardom, much like author Dale Brown capitalizing on Dan Brown's The DaVinci Code. The friggin' DaVinci Code is constantly checked out of the library, so readers are fooled into thinking that Dale the Hack's books were written by Dan the Magnificient, both of them having first names that start with D. But aren't they surprised when they start reading and realize that it doesn't have Dan's patented plot twist (*spoiler*: psst: in every one of his books, the person you think is good at the beginning turns out to be bad and vice versa. shh, don't tell.).
I fear the same thing will happen when music fans go to their local Sam Goody only to find that there are no remaining copies of the newest release by The Chris Hill Festival. I therefore demand that Mr. Chamberlin and I split our record sales 50-50. The names of our respective bands are so similar, so who can really tell which CD people intended to buy, much like the ballots in Florida only neither I nor Jimmy plan to build a giant fence along the border of the US and Mexico.
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