God Damn Music Business
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Re: God Damn Music Business
Posted by Underdog on Tue Dec 20th at 1:42pm 2005


I heard once that Huey Lewis tried to sue Ray Parker Jr. Because of a copy right infringement over the Ghost Buster theme. Apparently the song shares to many coincidences with "I want a new drug" or one of his other titles.

I never heard whether his suit paid off but the song is still credited to Parker so....




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Re: God Damn Music Business
Posted by fishy on Tue Dec 20th at 5:19pm 2005


are we still allowed to sing along to the radio, or do we need some sort of licence yet?


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Posted by Nickelplate on Tue Dec 20th at 6:57pm 2005


Okay, here's the plan. Get a crapload of CD-R's make two copies of every CD you own. Give each copy to two of your friends. and accept a copy of all of thier CD's. Now you have like 200 new CD's that you will again copy and give to two different friends. eventually the market will be saturated by illegal CD's with no definitive source and no-one will buy new CD's. ANd everyone gets the CD's they want and they can give away the ones the dont want.

It's called Socialist Music Propagation. everyone spends the same amount on CD-R's so the only one making money off this is the store where you buy CD-R's. but i dont matter donating to wal-mart or something, as long as I gyp RIAA out of billions of dollars.




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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Tue Dec 20th at 7:08pm 2005


Wal-mart is worse....




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Posted by Myrk- on Tue Dec 20th at 8:51pm 2005


What I find funny about this is that we as fans put in the time to make the tabs- I'm sure this whole argument can be aimed at the bands themselves and they will protest. The people will hate the bands they once loved because of thier cold heartedness! One of the best forms of advertising is actually in tabbing on the net- the number of times I've learnt a random tab from the net, then ended out buying thier music- they make more than they will from thier obviously small amount of staff tabbing the occasional album.

You guys find that the only tab books available are for ridiculously simple crap bands like Greenday or Metallica's St Anger? When I see a tab book for Soilworks Chainheart Machine, Ingwie Malmsteens entire discography, and even a Cacophony tab book, then I'll tell them they have a case against online tabs!




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Re: God Damn Music Business
Posted by French Toast on Tue Dec 20th at 9:07pm 2005



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something else to consider, any self respecting musician that wants to can tab out a song on tab or staff, if he wants to bad enough....***pssst...if ya know what yer doing, you can use a prog like goldwave or soundforge to make it that much easier....they wont do it for you, but they will tell you whats what...

Indeed. And I try my best to figure the song out on my own, but there's always some part that I can't get, or one chord that I've never heard of.

It's especially useful for learning solos as they can be a bitch to tab. Take Stairway to Heaven for example. I figured out a chunk of it on my own, but I needed online tabs to help me fill in certain spots, and for the solo. I can now play the whole thing and impress my friends <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">




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Posted by Myrk- on Tue Dec 20th at 9:38pm 2005


I tab alot of stuff myself, check out on www.mysongbook.com for some gp4 tabs I've done of some megadeth songs. Right now I'm working on In Flames new song, Reflect the Storm, which has an amazing verse riff and a wierd spacey chorus which is a bitch to work out.


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