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DESERT ISLAND PICKS . . .

If you were deserted on a desert island,

what 13 albums would you serenade yourself with?

= Roger ============================

Roger Holden, veteran Lawrence guitarist of Uncle Dirtytoes, if deserted today would bring the following albums (though it may change tomorrow, there's so many great notes floating around out there):
1. Meet the Beatles 1964
2. Cry of Love - Jimi Hendrix 1970
3. Todd - Todd Rundgren 1974
4. Propaganda - Sparks 1974
5. Del Shannon Collection
6. Rubber Soul - Beatles
7. Hollies Collection
8. Abraxis - Santana 1970
9. Leslie Gore Collection
10. Johnny Cash Collection
11. Aqualung - Jethro Tull
12. Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson 1970
13. 12 Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus - Spirit 1970

= Maria ============================

Maria Anthony,, founder, lead singer/songwriter for the 'Toes agonized over her picks for weeks . . . and then changed them after she handed them over. I suspect she'll change again soon, but for now, take her to an island and she's survive with these 13 albums:

1. Jethro Tull - Songs from the Wood
2. Alastair McDonald - Honest Poverty
3. Fairport Convention - Liege and Lief
4. Steeleye Span - Original Masters
5. The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
6. Richard and Linda Thompson - I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
7. Maria Anthony & Megan Hurt - Thegither an' a' (plug here!)
8. Uncle Dirtytoes - Foot to the Path (she's a salesperson at heart)
9. Pete Townsend - Who Came First
10. Battlefield Band - Leaving Friday Harbour
11. Alastair McDonald - Velvet & Steel
12. Emerson Lake and Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery
13. Sandy Denny - Like an Old Fashioned Waltz

= Mike =============================

Mike Fitzgerald veteran Lawrence drummer and shoe mogul.
"Here it is the much anticipated, highly exciting , yet still inviting, modest, lucky 13 yes count em 13 desert island albums. It sure was hard to decide. Are you ready? Here it is:
1. The Lonesome Houndogs- Dreaming of Yuda.
2. The Lonesome Houndogs- Live at the Ks New Music Festival 9/4/98.
3. Yes- Close to the Edge.
4. Jerry Jeff Walker- Viva Terlingua.
5. King Crimson- Red.
6. Genesis- The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.
7. Mahavishnu Orchestra- Inner mounting Flame.
8. Mahavishnu Orchestra- Between Nothingness and Eternity.
9. The Who- Live at Leeds.
10. Black Sabbath- Vol. 4.
11. Dave Brubeck- Take Five.
12. Neil Young- Zuma.
13. Uncle Dirty Toes- Live at Stony Point Barn.
(These are in not in a particular order. Uncle dirtytoes is not last by any means. I think I could hang with these on a desert Island.)

= Megan============================

Okay, call me square, but in posting Megan's picks, I'm not even sure which are the bands and which are the titles or where they end and go into the next. Ain't she an eclecticly hip chicken?
1. HAIR -- Broadway soundtrack for the musical
2. Peter Gabriel -- Passion
3. Virginia Rodrigues -- Sol Negro
4. Velvet Underground & Nico
5. Laurie Anderson -- United States Live 1,2,3
6. The Horseflies -- Gravity Dance
7. Siouxsie & The Banshees -- Once Upon a Time: The Singles
8. Malicorne -- Legende
9. Olly Sagar and the Absolute Clock - Air in a Stone
10. Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto -- Getz/Gilberto
11. John Taverner -- The Protecting Veil
12. Vision -- The Music of Hildegard von Bingen
13. Shankar with Zakir Hussain & Vikku Vinayakram -- Raga Aberi

= Barry =============================

1. Apostrophe ---Frank Zappa
2. Are You Experienced ---The Jimi Hendrix Experience
3. Sargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band --The Beatles
4. Let's Take It to the Stage"-- Funkadelic,
5. Games Without Frontiers --Peter Gabriel.
6. Tubular bells--- Mike Oldfield
7. Led Zeppelin III---Led Zeppelin
8. The Sensual World--Kate Bush
9. Under The Pink--Tori Amos
10. Aqualung --- Jethro Tull
11. Wish You Were ---Pink Floyd.
12. Ys---Joanna Newsom.
13. Their Satanic Majesties Request ---The Rolling Stones

==Darrell ============================

1. The Beatles - The White Album
2. The Beatles - Rubber Soul
3. The Beatles - Help!
4. The Beatles - Revolver
5. The Beatles - Abbey Road
6. The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
7. The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
8. Bruce Springsteen - Magic
9. Genesis - Platinum Collection
10. Richard Thompson - Rumour and Sigh
11. Grateful Dead - Live Dead
12. Bruce Springsteen - The River
13. My Taylor guitar (clearly a cheat of an answer - but he does make lovely music with that old guitar of his, so who can deny him? Plus he can probably play every song on those other 12 albums on that guitar)

= Mark =============================

Mark von Schlemmer, veteran Lawrence . . . okay, I'm not a veteran at anything (but my Dad was an Army Colonel, does that count?) but I'm the bassist of Uncle Dirtytoes and the "web guy" (I don't even count as a master), if deserted today (updated in 2010!) I would bring the following albums:
1. Cat Stevens - Teaser and the Firecat
2. The Beatles - Abbey Road
3. Uncle Dirtytoes - Make Them Come Alive
4. Paul Simon – Negotiations and Love Songs
5. Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown
6. R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
7. The Beatles - The White Album
8. Ravi Shankar & Philip Glass – Passages
9. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
10. Aimee Mann - Bachelor No. 2
11. Elliott Smith - Either/Or
12. Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom
13. Fairport Convention - Liege and Lief

= Bob (a dear friend and our former ever-faithful sound man who passed away a few years ago.) ======
"This is what my truck carries at all times, not that it belongs on a dirtytoes page[of course it does, Bob!], but if/when I hit the island . . ."
1. Gregg Allman - One More Try
2. Ted Nugent - Great Gonzos
3. Pink Floyd - The Divison Bell
4. Veruca Salt - American Thighs
5. The Essential Lynyrd Skynyrd
6. Rush - Chronicles
7. Tom Petty - Greatest Hits
8. The Allman Brothers - Decade of Hits 69-79
9. Ratt - Ratt & Roll
10. Ozzy - Live & Loud
11. Skid Row
12. Iron Maiden - Live After Death
13. Metallica - . . . And Justice For All

put your left foot in Take me Home, country roads . . .