SIMPLY RED
Somewhere, some time ago—in these very pages—I postulated the existence of xerox, a not-necessarily prejudicial term referring to a musician’s carbon-copy conversion of a previous and already well-worn prototype. And that the xerox range of lookalike or soundalike facsimiles spanned diverse turf imitating obscure and familiar rock ’n’ roll icons.
SIMPLY RED
GOOD CLASS II XEROX
Gregg Khruschev Turner
BACKGROUND
Somewhere, some time ago—in these very pages—I postulated the existence of xerox, a not-necessarily prejudicial term referring to a musician’s carbon-copy conversion of a previous and already wellworn prototype. And that the xerox range of lookalike or soundalike facsimiles spanned diverse turf imitating obscure and familiar rock ’n’ roll icons. Just as the integers are comprised of prime numbers (one and that prime being the only factors) and composite numbers (two or more primes as factors), xerox-rockers were described as as the disjoint union of “prime” and “composite” facsimiles.