'Stereophonic,' which tells the story of a fictional 1970s rock band struggling to record an album, is now being sued for copyright infringement by a sound engineer and producer of Fleetwood Mac's 'Rumours' album
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The character of the sound engineer, Grover, and his promotion from engineer to producer is one that the suit claims mirrors Caillat's own trajectory while working on.
The complaint lays out other perceived similarities — notably, it calls attention to the use of the 1976 Mill Valley Houseboat Wars, mentioned in Caillat's book, as fodder for a key scene featuring Reg monologuing about the houseboats. This monologue has been widely praised in reviews and was a component in actor Will Brill's Tony-winning performance.
last spring that it was the ethos of the 1970s music scene that inspired him as a whole."A lot of my first impressions about what music and popular culture was were formed during this period," he said."There was an innocence to the period in some ways, meaning that everything wasn't so corporatized. There's a prelapsarian desire for going back to what it was — this innocent, pure experience of 'I just want to make a great record.
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