Reply #10: Thank you!

[LynneSin]

Actually, probably because of bands like Led Zeppelin and the Willie Dixon lawsuit that musicians are now required to get permissions before sampling/using songs from other artists. I was suprised on Robert Plant's 'Sixty-Six to Timbuktu' album (which was a greatest hits for his solo works) that much of the early pre-zep songs were made famous by other singers like "Hey Joe" and "For What It's Worth". The first CD (the pre-zep stuff) was old recordings of the stuff he had done (some of it unreleased) and basically he'd show up to the studio and since the studios owned the songs they'd ask him to record some of this stuff (btw - most of it wasn't very good, even he admits to that).