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Bassmasta....gone??

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richard simmons

Jul 20, 2006
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#1
I just tried to find a song on www.bassmasta.net, my favorite tab site, and no songs are there. It says:

This guitar tablature file of (enter band and song name here) has been removed due to legal reasons. We thank you for your support. Good luck figuring out this song! We know you can do it!

I liked this site a lot, and I'm really pissed. I hope this crap can be resolved soon.
 
#5
Its a shame, not just with bassmasta but all the sites, alot of younger bass players start learning through tabs, its like taking the first step away from them, i wonder if in some way this will affect the number of younger people who take up instruments like the bass or guitar?
 
#6
bassarchive,net (i think it was called) was shut down two days ago, so I checked out bassmasta yesterday and loved it, now its gone. A google search of "bass tabs" had many results but ALL OF THEM ARE SHUT DOWN! Anyone have another tab site because tabs are basically my only means of learning right now. I don't think the industry understands how badly this is affecting everyone who learns their instrument through the site. Cant we start a petition or something? This is really crazy that a non-profit tab made by some someone is illegal.

O god I might have to get lesson now :bawl:
 
#7
bassmanandy said:
Its a shame, not just with bassmasta but all the sites, alot of younger bass players start learning through tabs, its like taking the first step away from them, i wonder if in some way this will effect the number of younger people who take up instruments like the bass or guitar?
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Its affecting me right now. Im trying to do my daily practice but all I can do is the 4 songs I know by heart...
 
#10
It lives on in the past. Go to the Wayback Machine ([Invalid or Expired Link Removed], type in the URL and press Take Me Back. Pick a date and you can access the site as of that date. You won't be able to do some of the interactive stuff like leaving comments, but you can get to the tabs still.
 
#12
Oh my god, this is ridiculous. Im a young bass player. I've been playing for a year and I havnt had one single lesson. Ive just read tabs and learnt new things as ive progressed. I dont like the idea of lessons. So i just sit down, read a tab and learn my fav songs. With Bassmasta gone, that leaves what? Ultimate Guitar? Half the BASS tabs at half the quality. As you can understand, I am very... very... very pissed off! I found this site a long time ago, about 2 months after I started playing. Ive already signed it about 3 times with different names and all my emails (is that illigal? Hehe oh well :D) But i urge all of you who havnt signed it to go and sign now.

http://www.tabaid.com/
 
#15
Bassmasta isn't completely down. They've taken down a fair amount of tabs for "legal issues," however you can still access a lot of the tabs on the site. I think they mostly just took down the really popular ones like Rage Against The Machine and Red Hot Chili Peppers. There's plenty of others though, so maybe that means Bassmasta plans on coming back in full force in the future?

In the mean time we should attempt to tab out every song that we can think of. I would try to lend my skills but sadly I really can't learn by ear. But I know we have some good tabbers here, let's get cracking!

-Lokkenjawnz
 
#16
Lokkenjawnz said:
Bassmasta isn't completely down. They've taken down a fair amount of tabs for "legal issues," however you can still access a lot of the tabs on the site. I think they mostly just took down the really popular ones like Rage Against The Machine and Red Hot Chili Peppers. There's plenty of others though, so maybe that means Bassmasta plans on coming back in full force in the future?

In the mean time we should attempt to tab out every song that we can think of. I would try to lend my skills but sadly I really can't learn by ear. But I know we have some good tabbers here, let's get cracking!

-Lokkenjawnz
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Erm, you sure? I just checked all of my favourite bands and not one tab is up. I listen to metal bands, mostly from Finland and Sweden too, so you wouldnt expect them to be really popular... Some of the Misc tabs are still on though.
 
#18
I have it bookmarked on my computer and was able to go right to the sight and print out some Red Hot Chili Peppers tabs. I did have problems however geeting Toll bass tabs and got that error message that we are speaking of.
 
#19
jurberg said:
It lives on in the past. Go to the Wayback Machine ([Invalid or Expired Link Removed], type in the URL and press Take Me Back. Pick a date and you can access the site as of that date. You won't be able to do some of the interactive stuff like leaving comments, but you can get to the tabs still.
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Cool!, Thanks!

Yeah, ASCAP and BMI are going after all tab and lyrics sites. I guess they want us to pay $20 a song or whatever for sheet music, if it existed for every song thats tabbed. :rollno:
 

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