"Damage Inc" Control: Metallica APOLOGIZES to Canadian "tribute" band after attorney letter

[ProfessorGAC]

10. We Paid BMI Fees for Nearly 25 Years

And, it's not punitive. Since about 30% of our stuff was songs we wrote, then we figured we played around 24 to 28 cover tunes a night.

You figure the number of songs, pay a small fee per song, and use a decent estimate of the number of gigs you would play. So, we used to use around 90 per year.

It's a pretty small price for feeling like we were doing the right thing.

On Edit: Also, some of the clubs we played payed BMI or ASCAP, so we were covered on both ends.