no Tony. If you perform or play other peoples songs publically without expressed permission you are infringing on copyright. Just about every musician in the world will have done this at some point and pretty much every pro musician here is likely to have done it and probably still doing it. Most of the time the risk is negligible in terms of being warned or threatened but when peole are downloading the stuff you have played i the numbers that the above poster cliams was happening with his music then you can expect some heat.

its an intersting story.....