Sure vocalist Jon Davison has addressed the accusations made in a lawsuit by former bandmate Riz Story, calling them “blatant lies.”
Story sued the band final week claiming the prog-rock legends stole elements of his track ‘Reunion’ from his 2014 movie A Winter Rose for their very own monitor ‘Dare To Know’.
Story alleged that the melody was first conceived of when he and Davison have been in a band with late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins again within the ’90s. He additionally claimed they have been founding members of a band known as Anybody.
Whereas Davison has confirmed that they have been in a band with Hawkins, they weren’t founding members of Anybody. As a substitute, they have been in a band known as Blash Meth, and he left earlier than it turned Anybody years later.
“Any suggestion that I might need heard this generic melody once we have been youthful, not to mention thought it was worthy of Sure, is completely absurd,” he wrote.
Within the assertion, Davison continued: “For the report I didn’t write ‘Dare To Know.’ As anybody who research the Sure albums will know meticulous care is taken on each track to accurately credit score the songwriters. On The Quest, I’ve credit on 6 of 11 songs, hardly the “almost each different track” that’s incorrectly acknowledged of their declare to attempt to help their fiction.
“Nor did I ever hear the “musical composition” supposedly known as ‘Reunion’ or see the indie movie A Winter Rose. Riz despatched me a 2min trailer for A Winter Rose, and out of politeness I congratulated him, however had no real interest in seeing the movie. Frankly I used to be turned off by Riz’s ‘filmmaking’ after his first launch was borderline pornographic in nature. I’m not even certain if A Winter Rose had a theatrical launch after the premiere, which I most definitely didn’t attend.
Davison implied that Story filed the lawsuit as a result of he felt rejected after “hoping to work with Sure, and, I’m sorry to say, failing.” He additionally argued that the melody isn’t unique.
“As I’m certain many have now heard, this generic melody is widespread and predictable with origins in conventional music relationship way back to the Renaissance period,” he mentioned. “Quite a few examples have been made, it’s virtually equivalent to the opening guitar riff in Santana’s ‘Black Magic Girl’ or to conventional descending melodies resembling Tommaso Giordani’s ‘Caro Mio Ben’ from 1782. The record is infinite. Put merely, this can be a primary sequence that may be present in a whole bunch of compositions, and opposite to their evaluation by Dr Lustig, we imagine confirms how the similarity has occurred by likelihood alone.”
Story’s lawyer responded by saying that his consumer “seems ahead” to his day in courtroom. “It’s unlucky that Sure continues to answer Riz Story’s compelling copyright infringement lawsuit with advert hominem assaults. The newest is a protracted diatribe by Jon Davison that’s equal elements simply disprovable fiction and self-incriminating admissions,” he wrote.
In different information, former Sure keyboardist Rick Wakeman has been taking part in his ultimate solo tour in the USA, stating when it was introduced that it’s time “to name it a day”.
