Bob Lind's Message Board

That was my posting above.

Grant - you really ought to give this forum a good swift kick. I was logged in when I posted the previous message.

Simon

Thanks for the reply, Bob. Your list was a surprise; I had you down for a bit of a rock 'n' roller. And for some reason I thought Don McLean's Vincent may have made it onto the list. I do hope your reply hasn't started a "We-Want-Another-Bob-Lind-CD" campaign. But one of the first things t...

Bob - say you were asked to do an album. No tight budget, but it had to be an album of material written by other artists.

We know an army of people have covered your songs - but under those conditions, what songs would you choose?

Yeah - well I'm not going to be pedantic about the colour of the envelopes, but I'm going to have to be firm about the used notes; the Ferrari's due for a cam-belt change.

I see what Bob says, first. I certainly wouldn't want anybody digging up my forty year-old quotes.

Ah, well! I wouldn't normally dream of embarrassing Bob, but . . . . .

...used notes in a brown envelope'll do the trick.

Sounds like the same one, Bob numbers. Got the biographical notes and a couple quotes from Bob in the centre section.

Nice word, serendipity. In my friend's rambling bookshop last week - rummaging through one of the cupboards where he keeps the sheet music, and which I collect (only 60's, though). Nothing new. Thought I'd have a snoop in the next cupboard, opened it and half a ton of old classical scores slid out o...

Since the Great Forum Crash of earlier this year, we haven't said much about Bob's downloadable songs from his website.

I was wondering about Roll The Windows Down; be interesting to hear an acoustic version of the song. How about it, Bob?