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Rick Schmidlin
May-01-2008, 2:02pm
Yankee Lady....Jesse Winchester http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif


Remember one song only, and you don't have to explain, let the song do that http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

Dan Cole
May-01-2008, 2:09pm
Dawg's Rag - DGQ

JEStanek
May-01-2008, 2:11pm
I really don't like the question. Imagine having only one song to hear for eternity... within a few days I may hate it! I guess I could always hear many songs in my head... for a desert island to play only when needed? Cornfed Dames off A Date With Elvis.

Jamie

Tighthead
May-01-2008, 2:13pm
Love Never Dies...Martin Simpson

Milan Christi
May-01-2008, 2:14pm
The Weight

Bob Wiegers
May-01-2008, 2:14pm
Short Trip Home - Edgar Meyer

Frank Russell
May-01-2008, 2:22pm
Dancing With Tears in My Eyes - by X. Haven't gotten tired of it in over twenty years so far. Frank

fwoompf
May-01-2008, 2:25pm
I'd write a song with instructions on how to escape desert islands.

"Desert Island Breakdown"?

Jim MacDaniel
May-01-2008, 2:32pm
Wow -- I could hang with listening to only one desert island CD as long as I could play anything I want, but if I could only play one song while stranded, I would come down with a hard-core case of island fever.

That said, put me down for Thile's Song for a Young Queen anyway, since I've been wanting to learn that one for years. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

Snakebeard Jackson
May-01-2008, 2:37pm
John Jacobjinglehimershimdt.

JEStanek
May-01-2008, 2:39pm
My answer was if listening to one song... to play one... J.S. Bach: Cello Suite #1 In G, BWV 1007 - 1. Prélude It may take me many years on the island to get it right.

Jamie

Chris Biorkman
May-01-2008, 2:42pm
Playing one song repetitively is very annoying. My fraternity played "Who Let the Dogs Out" 24 hours a day for the entire 6 days of he'll week. By the last day, sanity was only a faint memory. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

Ken Olmstead
May-01-2008, 2:45pm
I am with Jamie. Except mine would be Bach's Chaconne. It is about 15 minutes long and easily would take the rest of my life to master. But, I could spend the rest of my life just listening to Mike Marshall play it like at Wintergrass...out of this universe!!

Jim MacDaniel
May-01-2008, 2:50pm
Playing one song repetitively is very annoying. My fraternity played "Who Let the Dogs Out" 24 hours a day for the entire 6 days of he'll week. By the last day, sanity was only a faint memory. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
LOL (not to mention that one was annoying on first listen)

mandocaster
May-01-2008, 2:51pm
Could you play variations? Change the time signature?

If not, yow. It sounds like hell. Literally.

Bach's prelude in D from the Cello Suites

Eddie Sheehy
May-01-2008, 3:45pm
It'd have to be a song for a Blarge bouzouki - which I'd then chop up and make a raft and paddles out of it, using the sheet music for sails and trailing the strings to catch fish. So "Twinkle, twinkle, Little Star", which is nice and short, would do fine and get me started on the raft sooner. Or even better, "Danny Boy" which I detest and would probably skip.

Tillmanator
May-01-2008, 4:34pm
If it's something I have to listen to then that's easy:

"Are You Going with Me?" Pat Metheny

If it's something I have to play....that's tougher... maybe "I Will" Beatles.... That seems kinda dumb but I like it.

Gutbucket
May-01-2008, 5:14pm
100 bottles of beer on the wall. nuff said.

Jim Kasperson
May-01-2008, 5:24pm
If it's to listen to it would clearly be Keith Jarret's Koln Concert. I heard it first in 1975 and when I get stressed anywhere I let it start to go through my head. I wore out the record and then wore out two cassette tapes. I now have the DVD . It's still fine.

If it is one song to play-- Don't tell. I would cheat. It is a desert island after all.
Kasper

Jason Nagati
May-01-2008, 6:09pm
O sole mio. If I ever return to civilization I will be able to serenade someone with a well practiced performance.

Rick Schmidlin
May-01-2008, 11:08pm
Dancing With Tears in My Eyes - by X. #Haven't gotten tired of it in over twenty years so far. #Frank
That cool, I was X' s lighting director from1980-85.

Ivan Kelsall
May-02-2008, 3:39am
Any one of the Concerto Grossi either opus.3 or opus 6 by George Freidrich Handel - they are all astoundingly beautiful. All strings,no brass, percussion etc. No more elegant,graceful music has ever been written IMHO,
Saska

Mike Snyder
May-02-2008, 5:04am
Bela Fleck- Whitewater- And a shovel.
I'll dig my way out.

Dan Krhla
May-02-2008, 6:47am
Dylan's 'With God on our Side'

or a recording of my 2.5 year old singing his version of Springsteen's version of Reed's 'How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live' http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

fishdawg40
May-02-2008, 6:48am
Dawg's Rag - DGQ
Love that choice!

I might have to go with the Steam Powered Aeroplane. Hartford's voice is very comforting. And that would be good if I were stuck on a desert island.

mandolirius
May-02-2008, 10:48am
The audio book version of "Building a Raft for Dummies".

luckylarue
May-02-2008, 11:11am
I'll cheat and say Coltrane's A Love Supreme suite - all four parts.

woodwizard
May-02-2008, 11:56am
I think the average consensus is: NOT POSSIBLE http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif

Rick Schmidlin
May-02-2008, 5:23pm
I'll cheat and say Coltrane's A Love Supreme suite - all four parts.
Agreed what a choice, McCoy Tyner is one of my friends.

John Flynn
May-02-2008, 5:24pm
I agree with the "not possible," but it's hypothetical question, so we are only giving hypothetical answers, which is cool.

My tune: Amazing Grace

mandopete
May-02-2008, 5:43pm
This is the song that never ends
It just goes on and on my friend
Some people started singing it not knowing what it was
And it goes on and on forever just because
(repeat)

Brandon Flynn
May-17-2008, 1:46pm
This is like picking one song that is your favorite to play or listen to. I can't pick just one.

Jim
May-17-2008, 2:19pm
I think I'd rather have nothing at all than just one to get sick of.

Brad Weiss
May-17-2008, 2:56pm
Major Major says he shoots skeet with other officers as it's the most tedious thing imaginable, thereby creating the perception that his life is getting longer and longer. #Any good banjo tune would do it for me....

JEStanek
May-17-2008, 3:01pm
The question is a Catch 22 (nod to BradW). My desert island CD is John Coltrane's A Love Supreme.

Jamie

Rick Schmidlin
May-17-2008, 5:10pm
The question is a Catch 22 (nod to BradW). #My desert island CD is John Coltrane's A Love Supreme.

Jamie
And McCoy Tyner is one of my best friends http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

terrierguy
May-19-2008, 10:33am
Hmmmmmmmmmm tough question. Torn between Ripple (Grateful Dead) and Wonder Where the Lions Are (Bruce Cockburn). Can't I have two?

Keith Erickson
May-19-2008, 2:37pm
Well...
...when in Rome http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

What the heck...

...I choose the Theme from Gilligans Island http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif

Rick Schmidlin
May-19-2008, 4:25pm
Hmmmmmmmmmm tough question. #Torn between Ripple (Grateful Dead) and Wonder Where the Lions Are (Bruce Cockburn). #Can't I have two?
Yep http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif