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It is extremely hard to get guitar/drum/bass/etc. tabs anymore

JamesFreyyer	Date: March 30, 2007 @ 9:07 AM Because some fatcat asshole keeps shutting them down! explain to me how Tab is illegal? hell if someone wanted to play a song i wrote i'd be honored.
Orion	Date: March 30, 2007 @ 9:16 AM I agree with Lunchbox i mean james... i hate whoever shut the tab sites down, fucking asshole goddamn piece of hell Bill & Crystal wanna put some vocals on one our songs, i was like really? I would be honored but yeah this fucking sucks!!! ... iI feel like i left something out..ohh, yeah BUMP! BUMP!
JamesFreyyer	Date: March 30, 2007 @ 9:17 AM Calm down there Spanky
southwing	Date: March 30, 2007 @ 1:19 PM I can relate, I got upset when the OLGA got missing. How can someones interpretations of tabs and lyrics be piracy, come on, now we can't even interpret......fuckers , I'm with you Orion...call me Spanky too.
Opossum	Date: March 30, 2007 @ 1:32 PM If anyone copies my Am Em chord progression...I'm so going to sue! I saw that...don't you dare pluck the open A string!
ndstgmoe	Date: March 30, 2007 @ 3:31 PM I think they're taking this thing a bit too far. It don't make no sense to me... Next you won't be able to LISTEN to music.
Distilled1	Date: March 30, 2007 @ 7:17 PM guitar tab is extreemly easy. Ultimate-guitar tab has a great great selection miss Olga that was a grand site
Orion	Date: March 31, 2007 @ 12:11 AM Ultimate-guitar is gone, MXtabs is gone, Taborama is gone, Thetabworld is gone pretty soon you're gonna have to pay the copyright to listen to music...
Orion	Date: March 31, 2007 @ 2:23 AM or wait, don't you do that when you buy the cd?
GeneHilbert	Date: March 31, 2007 @ 12:12 PM http://www.911tabs.com/link/?2285240 Have at it
Distilled1	Date: March 31, 2007 @ 1:35 PM ultima guitar is there looking at it right now http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/
Distilled1	Date: March 31, 2007 @ 1:35 PM updated today as well
Distilled1	Date: March 31, 2007 @ 1:38 PM http://www.guitaretab.com/ http://www.tabcrawler.com/ (drums too) http://www.harmony-central.com/Guitar/tab.html (has links to them all) Google is your friend
Orion	Date: April 1, 2007 @ 12:25 AM http://www.bassmasta.net/ here is one thats all bass tabs and are making one hell of a stand against these morons!
JamesFreyyer	Date: April 1, 2007 @ 9:01 AM HAHA tab sites I'll take those as birthday presents!
JamesFreyyer	Date: April 1, 2007 @ 9:03 AM Damn Distilled1 your an overachiever!
Distilled1	Date: April 1, 2007 @ 10:50 AM I use them all the time for live stuff so I knew there are still tons out there, many are not backing down.
GeneHilbert	Date: April 1, 2007 @ 11:23 AM Plus they move around......
Orion	Date: April 1, 2007 @ 1:44 PM yeah i know ultimate guitar is down, i messed up
Orion	Date: April 1, 2007 @ 1:45 PM is not* omg
carouselx	Date: April 7, 2007 @ 1:39 PM You know why... it could possibly someway down the line make them lose money. It makes YOU go to another website not affiliated with them making money instead of buying the artists tab booklet if they even have one.
Orion	Date: April 11, 2007 @ 5:22 AM yep! it's all about MONEY
shadowself	Date: April 11, 2007 @ 5:30 PM I don't know how the artists can live with themselves being represented by slime like the National Music Publishers Association and the Music Publishers Association of America. I can almost guarantee that 99% of the artists would say "WHAT THE FUCK!?" if they were told that these organisations have blocked sites from hosting tablature that fans have transcribed by ear. Metallica would likely be in the 1% who would stand behind this action. Like the owner of guitartabs.com mentioned, if someone is serious enough about learning the song to buy a $30 piece of sheet music, they will not settle for a by-ear tablature transcription. If the publishing companies thinks they are losing money because of online tabs, they are completely out of their minds and the legal system has turned into a total farce if they can actually convince the courts that revenue is being lost.
Orion	Date: April 12, 2007 @ 1:58 AM Hey i'm a Metallica fan i like thier music from 83 to 92 tho...
Orion	Date: April 12, 2007 @ 1:59 AM i don't know how that helps
ChillinBuzz	Date: April 13, 2007 @ 9:38 PM 92? I personally thought the real suckage started on the Black Album in 1991... but listen to Justice and the change was already starting. Up to 1991, they were gods... just say Napster, S&M & aeroplane sick bags, please I am all for people learning songs from tabs if that's how they want to, they also come in useful for parts even the best trained ears sometimes struggle with. As far as I am aware, the notes themselves are not actually copyrighted (but you can bet that will be on the RIAA's future agenda in order to murder us Indies) - So why shut a tab site down? Makes no sense, unless there wasn't just "by ear" tabs and they were actual copies from published tab books.... This whole "we are losing revenue" argument is way too thin now... Just remember, when they've shut down and sued every other sector of music, they'll turn to us.
ChillinBuzz	Date: April 13, 2007 @ 9:39 PM Here's another thought, wouldn't a fan's "by ear" tab be the tablature equivalent of a cover song?
Orion	Date: April 14, 2007 @ 4:13 AM Hey justice was fucking badass! the change started with fucking bob rock on The black album(Metallica)... i don't know why i siad 92...
Orion	Date: April 14, 2007 @ 4:20 AM i guess they did start changing on justice because of fucking "newsted?
zedsalt	Date: April 14, 2007 @ 11:05 AM Peter Buck always said that he relied on REM tab books when it came time to tour. He found himself unable to remember even what tuning he had the guitar in when he had written each song, and the tab books provided him with a passable version that he could play in Standard. If they stop making REM tab books, he's going to have to hire someone to transcribe for him.
PrincessTast...	Date: April 14, 2007 @ 11:13 AM There actually aren't any bass parts on ...And Justice, none that I can hear anyway. I think I heard something about them not trusting Newstead to play right, so they turned him way the f'ck down in the mix and threw 30 some-odd tracks of guitar on top to drown him out.
Orion	Date: April 15, 2007 @ 7:08 AM Yep!
ChillinBuzz	Date: April 15, 2007 @ 7:35 PM No, I don't think it was Jason Newsted's fault, remember they had lost Cliff Burton in a really horrid accident and I should imagine it affected their attitude immensely. Had he not been killed, they'd have probably thrashed it out a bit longer... and I love Justice, in fact, I have Kill Em All, Ride The Lightning, Master Of Puppets and Justice on cassette still, some of the best music I bought when I was younger
ChillinBuzz	Date: April 15, 2007 @ 7:38 PM There are bass parts on Justice, as you say PrincessTastebud, they turned the bass right down and compensated with deepening the rhythm guitar from what it sounds like. Jason was on the Garage Days E.P. and you could hear his bass absolutely fine on that (Killing Joke's "The Wait" is effing awesome as a cover)... I developed my own style of recording music when I had ideas, something like # (x/y/z) where x was the string (1-E, 2-A, etc), y was the fret number and z was the number of taps (or ticks if using a metronome) - the # was the note itself if i bothered to write it down
PrincessTast...	Date: April 16, 2007 @ 8:50 AM No don't get me wrong, ...And Justice is one of the best metal albums of all time, and certainly the last time Metallica were truly great. Then they cut their hair...
Orion	Date: April 16, 2007 @ 11:29 AM big deal oooo they cut thier hair, i can't listen to them now... it's about the music!
Orion	Date: April 16, 2007 @ 11:37 AM i heard two new songs on youtube, and they weren't that bad.. still kinda like St anger, but with out the annoying snare drum.... thier new cd is gonna better hopefully, now that they have a new bass player, Newsted was alright when you could actually hear him playing...
ChillinBuzz	Date: April 16, 2007 @ 7:22 PM I thought Newsted was a pretty good replacement but sorry, S&M and Load and all that era was a pile of shite to someone who loved the thrash of the 80s from them... All bands evolve but you gotta admit, that was one hell of a change. Even Megadeth went softer but not that much! Hair... makes no difference. "Creeping Death" with an orchestra... how the poor dog wailed.
Orion	Date: April 22, 2007 @ 4:50 AM
RocShaman	Date: April 23, 2007 @ 7:54 AM The Grateful Dead let people "tape, sell and trade" their music and I don't think it hurt their bottom line a bit. They're all multi-millionaires and I bet their record companies made out all right too. Another site with tab-chords: http://www.chordie.com/