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Moon spruce tomorrow, great.
Rich, I also was reading a thread where Old97 disappeared ? I always enjoy his comments. bert
They’re all grown now but, I have a daughter and two sons… you’ve got your hands full now yet you’ve got a wonderful spirit about today, time changes things. hugs back, bert
To keep skills at a high level demands a lot of time. Priorities get in the way to a great extent. I’m retired now but when I worked for a software company travel was at a peak, no time for anything but catch the next plane, etc. Now that I’m retired it’s all about energy, always something needing a remedy.
Yes, going through this pattern is difficult struggle.
best wishes, bert
Thanks Dermot, Samba Pa Ti has been my fav Carlos tune for years. So wonderful to see what kids can do with guitars these days. Keep the baby faith as they say or something like that. bert 🙂
Mr Jelly, that is exactly what I’m trying to say… riffs/chord progressions are not a violation of someone’s copyright. I don’t worry about these things either, it’s just good to have a basic understanding.
Hank, you got it on cruise control. best always, bert
Tad, that sums it up. Copyrights are the most contentious issue in the music business. The fruitless lawsuit over ‘Stairway to Heaven’ is the most high profile in recent times. I just feel we should all have a basic understanding in this area. The songwriters group I mentioned included professional writers who had good/bad experiences to tell.
One guy wrote TV jingles, he had some great stories… and so on. .02c bert
Well said Old, it’s all influenced from somewhere.
Sometime after Harrison, Dylan, Petty, Lynne, and Orbison formed the Traveling Wilburys supergroup…. there’s a video out there somewhere with them sitting around talking. Petty said ‘these songs we write have all be written before us, we’re just keeping them alive’…. they all nodded in agreement and said so true.
I enjoy so many types of music that I have no idea where my influences come from… true. but, Always have tried to not step on toes. bert
Hank, I understand your dilemma… I’m also in the 4th quarter with no timeouts left. 🙂
What you are describing is (c) copyrights. Chord progressions, riffs, etc are not copyrightable. What is copyrightable is the melody/lyrics of the music. My primary purpose for owning guitars is songwriting, which is why I love my SCGC VJ so dearly, best ever. I’ve been copywriting songs for 40+ years but quit trying to get published long ago for the simple reason… I don’t want the headaches of being in the music business. I was a member of a wonderful songwriters group here in ATL (amateurs and published pros) for several years, learned a ton, mostly about song structure… need a bridge over here in that one, etc.
The fine line in copyright is when your work gets published, that’s when the money kicks in…. George Harrison’s “My Sweet Lord” million seller was a subliminal steal of the Chiffons ‘He’s so Fine’ melody, but not the lyrics. It was a unintentional steal but he gladly paid the damages and was profusely sorry, had a happy ending… some don’t.
I’ve been reading this thread and can say that as long as long as you don’t borrow the melody or lyrics you’re probably fine. Chord progressions are not copyrightable.
Have at it, ps – if you want to copywrite… today it’s all online and much more simple than it used to be when a friend got me started. I did one 3-4yrs ago, ~$50/song and got the copyright # ~6-7wks later.
Hope this helps, bert
Welcome to the forum bluesbrian, I tend to do a little string bending also. Jimmy Reed is why I wanted a guitar in the first place. You’re in good company around here with the H-13, so I’m told. best regards, bert
Long ago, Bob Dylan wrote ‘The Times They are A’Changin’
never been more true, stay safe everyone.
bert
Daniel,
thanks for your explain of the early forum days… you were not a failure.In the mid-70s I moved to Santa Cruz for a job with a good sized company plus a move toward an opportunity in Silicon Valley. The previous computer guy was a novice who knew almost nothing about software design, much as it was in those days. I tried to patch his work but in frustration ended up rewriting all of the applications to go forward. I wound up going to work for HP which was my plan from the beginning but…. you were not a failure. I understand your catch22 situation completely.
We got your back around here. bert
So often, people try to simplify things that are not simple. I was working in early computing when MOSFET (first transistor on a chip) came into existence, changed the world forever. Push button computer applications don’t come from a magic wand.
Hat’s off to indexless and others who do the down and dirty to keep us afloat. bert
Welcome Dermot, good to have you on board.
I never knew of the old forum, thanks Tad for the background. I have played SCGC guitars for many years but the orig forum completely escaped my radar unfortunately. However… I was an active member of the orig Colling forum that went tits up a while back, pook happens.
Big +1 on Indexless and Tad for getting this forum rolling again. We’ll have you connecting with a fine SCGC guitar in no time. 🙂 best wishes, bert
