Heya Chaz, I was just pointing out the extremes of the situation. It always amuses me when I read a band's influences and one of them drops a pretentious reference.
For instance, if that Dashboard Confessional guy was all like, "I'm influenced by Ornette Coleman." Clearly, no lineage. Meat Puppets to Nirvana? Hell, that's almost blood.
Now, I discussed this with Snailhook at the MMR show. What's up with the Velvet's and Television comparisons to The Strokes?