An A&R guy from Mercury records once told me that our *new* song sounded a lot like Paul Rogers (Free). It still didn't seem to matter to him when I told him we'd written the song ten years before -- while 'Bad Company' was still in high school.
Sometimes it takes a few years for things to come to fruition, but often when they do -- lookout!
There was a 'thing' happening there then that I found somewhat remarkable. While Clapton was recording Layla in Miami with Duane Allman, he decided to cover a song from a relatively unknown group called Bob Marley and The Whalers, and because he took 'I Shot The Sheriff' back to England and recorded it, Bob Marley became famous (Marley's version was a hundred times better (how you stuff rhythm and feel into an Englishman I'll never figure)
