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Originally posted by Madman-Rogovich:
So what if you play in a covers band? and you're playing different songs every night you seriously reckon every time you can't quite work out a lick by ear you should pay the £10 for the official music?
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If you're making money playing someone elses music, and you need tabs to do it, you should definitely be paying the money. It's a job. Do you expect to get your gasoline for free if you drive a taxi? Do you expect to get free wood to build houses?
It's the songwriters intellectual property, so pay them what they're due if you're going to make money off it.
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Personally If I like an artists work and I see a book of their transcriptions I will buy it as its much nicer to have a book than a printout but I'm not going to buy something for the sake of a few notes, that would be ridiculous.
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Yeah it would be. So work it out by ear.
If you steal the artists work, you're not really a fan.
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*edit* Decided to withdraw the argument against Tommy Emmanuel being amongst the worlds greatests guitarists, due too the off topic nature that'd no doubt ensue 
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Wise move. He's not AMONGST the worlds greatest guitarist, he IS the worlds greatest guitarist.
He's the only guitarist the late great Chet Atkins acknowledged as a worthy successor to him.
You seriously need to see the guy LIVE in concert to become a convert. I'm telling you, he does things on the guitar you'd never think possible. His reach alone, meant that he simultaneously played notes on the bottom and top strings, seven or eight frets apart. He plays solo concerts that sound like 3 guitarists, because he splits the bassline, the chords, and the melody. (He shows how he does it in concert, giving practically a music lesson in the process) Beatles songs like you've never heard.
Here's one album of his - all on one guitar. Check out the song "Train to Dusseldorf"
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/M...92496&s=143441
He is seriously a freak.
[ 08-10-2006, 01:22 AM: Message edited by: Melchior ]