Long ago, January 1942 in fact, a chap called Roy Plomley started a programme called
Dessert Island Discs... the idea was to choose 8 records a luxury item and a book, to take with you to a dessert island - the format remained popular and still runs to this day...
Now how would it relate to us, here...?
Okay, how about this scenario... You would be supplied with a fridge (solar power being an agreed item) filled with libations of your choice (that never seemed to empty), a permanant satelite uplink to the LBO, and no escape...
You could take with you an Ipod with TEN CD's uploaded (only one per artist with a brief explanation as to why), an instrument of your choice (amps and cabs laid on, solar powered, of course) and 2 books (apparently the Bible and the Complete Works of Shakespeare are always available...), so what would be your choice...?
I'll start off...
Allman Brothers Band - At Filmore East (deluxe) - Duane and Berry and Dickie and Gregg and Butch and Jaimoe, playin' their hearts out... hittin' LOTS of notes...
Vangelis - Blade Runner soundtrack - "I've seen things you people would not believe..."
Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters - Alone/easy target just has meaning for me...
Sarah McLachlan - Fumblin' towards Ecstasy - got stuck here a whiles back, not sure if I made it out alive...
Deep Purple - Made In Japan - "I want everything louder than everything else"; the second greatest live album of all time...
Grand Funk Railroad - Live Album - mindless trash... love it...
Don Henley - Inside Job - damn it Rose, "there not here, there not coming"
Robert Johnson collection - sometimes you GET the blues...
Rush - T4E - just perfection...
Gustav Holst - Planet Suite - just to be played late at night when I'm feeling mellow...
Instrument would have to be my Ibanez V302 12 string, which was a 21st present from my parents - I'd e tune her and learn to play the blues like they oughta be played, when you're starvin', destitute, an' lonesome; don't need no amps, and I'd find a bottleneck or 2 in the fridge...
Dune by Frank Herbert - without any doubt, the greatest work of Science Fiction written, if I could write something considered half as good I'd be at peace...
Lord of the Rings (trilogy edition)- the fantasy equivalent of the above...
Well, just going for a walk round the Island to see what the tides brought in...
a Hebridean Island beach...
