strathspey@strathspey.org:27543

Oberdan Otto

Re: Island CD Survey

Sept. 27, 2001, 4:42 a.m. (Message 27543, in reply to message 27505)

>Well, I'm going to assume I'm stranded on the same island with Marjorie
>and Anselm, so I've already got Cairngorms, the San Francisco
>Collection, Memories of Scottish Weekend, and the John Taylor and Andy
>Imbrie discs, all of which are among my favorites.  This leaves me free
>to bring my other top choices:
>
>- Boston Celebrate 50  (various)
>- Terpsichore (Elke Baker and Liz Donaldson)
>- Any of the 3 Berkeley Players albums (which we have transferred to
>CDs)

Well, as much as I might like being stranded with Marjorie and 
Anselm, I wouldn't like leaving something like music choices to 
chance. What about all those terrific pre-CD albums: Stan Hamilton, 
Berkeley Players, Jimmy Blue, Jim Johnstone, etc...

Problem is, there are sooo many wonderful recordings that it would be 
easier for me to pick 3 not to bring than to leave all of the rest of 
my music behind. I would opt for something about the same size as a 
stack of 3 standard jewel cases--a 60 gigabyte external drive with 
all my music in mp3 format. The original challenge implicitly assumed 
that a CD player, amplification and electricity were available, so I 
would replace the CD player and amplifier with an mmx notebook PC 
with internal speakers (which could also play your 3 CD's if you got 
stranded with me).

Happiness is ALL of my music. :)))

Cheers, Oberdan.

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