[VaSteve]

Here’s my latest issue with the music world. I play guitar… Well used to really. I’m not very good, but I used to go out on the web and find stuff that people “tabbed in”. I’d find files with songs that would have the chord arrangements and the lyrics that generally someone had typed in by listening to the record. Well, apparently this is some sort of a threat to the publishers of this music and they have threatened to shut down most of the sites, which are run on a shoestring anyway.

Unless it was scanned in from a magazine and posted or straight out of the chordbook for sale, what was the harm? I can’t count how many CDs I bought because I liked to play along with my guitar. It’s almost like Porsche coming down on use for writing up a procedure on how to do a valve adjustment. Or NFL interfering with a blog talking about the Superbowl.