Well yeah, but its dubious to try and analyse "influence" as a clearly definable or universal thing in any context.
Influence can be concious and subconcious, active and passive, positive and negative. When it boild down to it, if you've heard, tasted, seen, smelt or felt it thsan it has influenced you in some way.
And so the best you can do is try and talk in general terms with like minded people, with unspoken understandngs as to what is meant by having been influenced by something or someone. The inference in all this is the CONCIOUS and deliberate drawing of influence from people, I suppose.
> I used to believe a theory that pretty much every modern
> pop producer is influenced by David Foster, whether they
> know it or not. Later I stopped believing that theory. Not
> sure about it now.
>
> I also used to think the recording of "I Want to Spend My
> Lifetime Loving You" sounded like Walter Afanasieff. Then
> I heard it later and changed my mind. These things are
> hard to speculate about. You never know if somebody was
> influenced, or if they just sound that way independently.
> And if Steinman raves about how he loves producer X, still
> does that mean he sounds similar, or that he does things
> similarly. Maybe not.
>
> > Jim Steinman is one of my favorite record
> > producers...Question: who do you think are Steinman's
> > influences as a record producer. And why is it you believe
> > this producer influenced Steinman.
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