DoctorWu wrote:

 

Thanks, pbear.

The legal system nowadays is a real buzz kill sometimes.  But I guess they have their reasons, which I try very hard to respect. 

 

What I was thinking about doing was maybe covering a couple of old Yardbirds tunes; ones that I listened to way back when I was just a kid in Middle School.  Three of my favorite guitarists originally came from the Yardbirds: Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page.  I thought that covering their songs might be a lot of fun to do and I could sort of put my own spin to the songs.  Also, it's kind of my way of me honoring one of the bands from the 60's that both inspired me and made me happy way back when I was just a young pup.

 

And (oops!) my new avatar actually is an Internet screen capture that I'd photoshopped a little bit.  I don't even remember which web site I found it on.  But I thought that it looked like an old guy having fun and therefore might be a fitting avatar for me.  It's actually a pretty terrible drawing, come to think of it, which is why I photoshopped it a little.  So if worse comes to worse, I could probably sketch something myself that would look at least that good. LOL! 

 

Hmmm...  You know what?  That's actually a pretty good idea.  I could hand sketch sort of a self-portrait or something, scan it into a file, and then color it up a little in Photoshop.

see, copyright laws enhance creativity--they don't squash it. 

for the Yardbird tunes you could do what Line6 and others do which is to record a song "in the style of" "in the manner of" "inspired by" the Yardbirds.  i honestly don't know how different it has to be to keep you out of Vanilla Ice territory.

posted or not i think it would be great fun to have in your cd player for the morning drive to work.  it might just inspire you to work harder.  that just might get you the raise that you need to pay the royalties that would allow you to post your covers online.  again, copyright laws make for a more productive and wonderful world.