And is anything very original these days? A minor tweak to a melody and a fresh set of words: that accounts for about 99.8% of anything we hear. Surely anyone going to the expense of producing music could inject enough originality to pass a copyright test.

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So Briese, did you get the info you needed?

Yes stratmansteve, I got what I was looking for and a whole lot more. I guess I was playing with matches and didn't know it. I will try to be more careful in the future.

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'09 Am Deluxe Ash Strat
'09 Mex Standard Strat
'10 Mex Standard Tele
Champ 600
Blues jr.
'65 Deluxe Reverb Reissue

Bri-dude. You were simply playing with a lighter when some dunderhead with a tinderbox and a coffee can fulla gasoline decided to huck em at ya. Consider yourself an innocent bystander. BroDave is our resident guru and respected elder. When the clowns begin the fooling, only one man is ever above reproach, and it is BroDave. When someone pisses on his shoes, we all get a little touchy. He may ramble and be long winded, but like a groovy uncle to all of us, we listen, and take what we need from it. The rest, well we chalk it up to memory as things that may come in handy later. The way BroDave's post was answered was a bit of an insult to us that see him as our groovy uncle. Hope you understand where we come from on this.

Stay Groovy.

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Liam

-Candy Apple Red Precision Bass (Maple fingerboard) carrying Rotosound Steve Harris Strings
-1980-something Bentley Series 10
-Fender Rumble 15

She had a snake for a pet and an amulete and she was breeding a dwarf and she was'nt done yet,she had grey green skin and a doll with a pin, I told he she was alright but I could'nt come on,Naturally I was very busy then.
Now what were we talking about ? Some Jackwagget getting snooty(snotty)? and let it be known it will get worse and WORSE and WORSEevery single solitary time,see Music is an equal playing field,so where your from or what you do,or what you make a year, cannot change or buy or lease or borrow experience and practice time in the woodshed,not even a better bass can change the playing field,if you suck then no matter what bass you own will change that.
So when someone has decades of exp there is nothing that can superseed that,one cannot get it without time spent doing it,so show the man/? who put the time in some respect will ya please!
THIS HERE IS ONE COURTROOM THAT CANNOT BE SWAYED,THESE JUDGES CANNOT BE BOUGHT,AND ALL US PROSECUTERS ARE MORE CROOKED THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE! so please take a seat sir and learn a thing or two from those who did it while you were in diapers.

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BOOMSHANKA: "May the seed of your loin be fruitfull in the belly of your woman"
Neil quoted from the "Young Ones" MTV Sketch series.

I have always copyrighted all of my creations through the library of congress. All these other methods may work to protect your stuff. I honestly don't know but I do know that U.S. copyrights are air tight and cannot be contested in any court.
So if some big publisher stold one of my songs (yeah...that'll happen) and they have all these lawyers working for them and I bring a sealed envelope into the courtroom that I sent to my mother with my music in it. Those lawyers would most probaly find ways for it to be expensive for me to win the case. You have to remember that in the American court system, it's quite often not at all about winning a case. Most of these cases never make it to court because the little guy cannot afford to take the big guys to court so they often end up out of what is rightfully theirs because they don't have the resources that big companies do.
Take if from a guy who's been there. Library of Congress....yes!

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So THAT'S who stole my mojo! I've been looking for it. I think it's been looking for me, too. I WANT IT BACK!

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Shirley Has The Blues

Blacktop P Bass
mim Deluxe P Bass Special
mim P Bass
Ibanez BTB405

I had no idea people were this passionate about copyright law.