It kinda hit me why Frank Zappa fanatically transcribed _all_ his music (at one point he had a young inter named Steve Vai do it); submit those despot copies to

It kinda hit me why Frank Zappa fanatically transcribed _all_ his music (at one point he had a young inter named Steve Vai do it); submit those despot copies to the copyright office. It's what the major labels did, and he was decidedly independent with a good helping of paranoia to boot.