On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, mallen wrote:
quoted 8 lines according to a recent electronic musician interview with the dust brothers> according to a recent electronic musician interview with the dust brothers
> (i think it was EM maybe keyboard .. not sure) there was a lengthy section
> about the chemical bros.. it seems that the chemicals were really big fans
> of the dust bros. (and why not .. very incredible work with the dust bros)
> and were originally named the dust bros (outta respect i guess) when the
> chems started to get big there were a couple of cease and desist papers
> sent about and the chemicals were forced to change their name & the werent
> to happy about it ...
Hmmm, interesting - in the new ish of Select, there's an article about the
Chems and they said they didn't mind too much changing their name (since
they *did* "steal" it from the Dust Bros originally). But I seem to
remember it wasn't quite that friendly at the time....
cya
brian