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papercuppie

In Which the RIAA Earns Its Nth Position on My Shitlist

Aug 22, 2006 20:25

OLGA receives takedown notice

So, I went to trusty OLGA to look up a guitar tab for a song whose recording I paid for and legitimately own or license or whatever. There's a notice up saying the archive has been shut down because of legal problems. Now, I remember when this happened seven or eight years ago. It was irritating, and when it came ( Read more... )

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predigested August 23 2006, 02:06:26 UTC

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predigested August 23 2006, 02:32:26 UTC

Yes! Very much so!

I don't like their popunders which manage to get past Firefox, but they have some neat features (like automatically scrolling pages!) and they seem to have a lot of tabs.

Thank you for finding this one!

papercuppie August 23 2006, 02:33:09 UTC

That was me.

reese99 August 23 2006, 14:15:32 UTC

I was always offended by how wrong the tablature frequently was, also. I remember spending hours of my spare time correcting tablature for Mrs. Moore's class in ERHS. I'm sure there's some form of OCD at work here.

The RIAA really needs to learn how to run a business, instead of suing everyone they can find to try to compensate for their failure to run a business. HINT: Try making a product that someone will want.

oh i have to post to this... webmonkeyjr August 24 2006, 13:14:30 UTC

As someone who has played guitar for, jezus christ has it been 15 years, I completely feel your pain. 90% of what's in the Guitar mags as tabs are ass wrong. Since I was never born with the gift of learning by ear, but can read a sheet of music like it was flowing running water, Olga was a great asset.

What these lawyer types seem to forget, and you pointed out, is that you put out good music you will see good returns without having to market the fuck out of it.

God I miss Dimebag...

Re: oh i have to post to this... papercuppie August 24 2006, 14:35:43 UTC

It's not just the magazines-- a lot of the time, the book you get from the music publisher itself, the twenty-dollar big glossy book, is flat-out wrong. I swear I've seen songs that are supposed to be in dropped-D tuning printed as standard, and I've seen wrong keys and wrong timings a lot. Unfortunately, I don't read music well, and I don't have perfect pitch in any case, so I've no clue that it's wrong until I get it home.
And then there's the fact that I don't want to buy a book to learn the entire catalogue of Lisa Loeb just 'cause I've got a gig coming up and I want to learn "Stay." Hell, half the time I'm just looking for the chords, not the whole tab. And when's the last time anyone published a useful fake book for recent music. It makes me want to cry...

Re: oh i have to post to this... webmonkeyjr August 25 2006, 03:08:34 UTC

Lisa Loeb eh? I'll try to track down the tab I have for her. (I'm a fan) I can't promise I'll get it in time for your show, but I know I've got the tab for Stay here somewhere...

Re: oh i have to post to this... papercuppie August 25 2006, 03:52:30 UTC

Ahh, I don't actually have a show, 'cause I'm not very good at all. :) I was speaking in the hypothetical.

Of course, that doesn't mean I'd turn down some Lisa Loeb tab, 'cause I'm all about geek chick chic.