News: guitar identity fraud and you

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20-12-2007:

A raging post is happening right now on petrucci forum. Why? Well it's because someone else is pretending to be you... no I don't mean the Joe Stump Yngwie Malmsteen debate, but the impersonation of guitar players: This post is about Andy McKee:

About 2 and a half weeks ago, I got a message telling me that my music was being paraded around as someone else's work here on myspace. Someone named David Melycher.

So I went to David's page and found my song "For My Father" posted there but titled "Midnight Walk" by David Melycher. Wow that's a bit rude I thought. As I listened to the mp3, I couldn't help but notice that it wasn't even him playing. It was directly from my album "Art of Motion".


As a result I did a bit of digging to find out this is more common that you would think.

CREED Guitarist Impersonator
http://www.roadrun.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=17529

Mark Tremonti
A man called Kevin Eckenrod once impersonated Mark Tremonti in order to obtain free drinks at beach bars. He was arrested and released on bail.

Randy Meisner
http://music.yahoo.com/read/news/12042541
A con man who impersonated former Eagles bass guitarist Randy Meisner for 10 years has pleaded guilty to felony fraud charges.

Mel Galley


Bootsy Collins

And as Chris Brooks points out Brett Garsed too!

Will you be next?!


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