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...buddy???" Underneath, he drew an angry alien. I decided it was best to call. After I listened to some Goulet tunes while on hold, Goulet picked up, talking loudly and frequently calling me "the kid." Our relationship flourished over the next year, with letters, free Goulet CDs and voice-mail critiques of my columns: "Armpit smelling? There's something wrong with you, kid." Last month I called to tell him I was coming to Vegas, and he invited me to dinner and drinks at the maison de Goulet. After passing the guard at his gated community, I had trouble locating...
Nomad Jukebox CREATIVE, $500 This sleek, easy-to-use MP3 player can hold as much music as 150 CDs. The Nomad lets you record from other devices and transfer the files to your Mac or PC. Backlighted screen for your playlist...
...think that music is most interesting when it's in its originally intended context. Beethoven didn't write his symphonies for musicologists and critics; he wrote it for prospective ticket purchasers. Those were his people. The other aspect is the reinforcement of how exciting performance is. We have CDs, and this is great. We can listen to whatever we want whenever we want. Before 1920 or so, if you wanted to hear music, you had to make it yourself or go to where someone was making music. Music existed only when someone was performing. If a CD performance wasn...
...CDs are people making music, but they're not making it now. We forget that symphony orchestras can't be put in jewel cases. When you perform for people, you can get a sense of how you're doing. If you're doing we'll and people are enjoying it, you do better. You rise to the occasion and things come out that you didn't know you had in you. Other days, nothing goes right and you go through the motions. Music is not just what I do; it's an interaction among people...
Still, the Nomad was good enough to get me started. Its hard disk, unfortunately, was not sufficiently spacious to store my entire collection. Creative Labs claims the average CD collection is much smaller than mine, between 80 and 120 CDs, and the Nomad certainly has space for that. The rest of my bulky medley is now squatting happily on my computer's hard drive; I just swap tracks as necessary...