Thanks again, Bryan. Much appreciated.

There should be no difference to the treatment of ANY floor singers on a singers night. I wholly agree. Well, maybe if we start to run out of time for a second 'round' one or two that sang first time round may be dropped at my discresion but I am, after all, der management:-)

Once they have sung and, with their permission of course, been recorded, should we then keep everything on record? If you could indeed go back 200 years and record a tavern jam session and join in a few choruses of 'the wheels on the coach go round and round' do you then keep everything? Or do you then start to edit your minidisk? Why keep a poor version of 'Adieu sweet lovely Nancy' that has already been recorded by much better singers?

An academic excercise maybe? That is the only reason I can think of. It is interesting to study the differences. Unfortunately when these excercises become exclusively academic I loose the point. I am sure there is one and it is my poor little brain that can't cope but, I ask once again, why keep on record an inferior versions of the same song?

Oh - and sorry - I am not talking personal taste here. I am sure that are musicaly excelent operatic and jazz versions of "Wild Rover" that DO need recording, even though I am sure I would not be overly enamoured. I am talking of versions that have no musical merit at all, of which I have heard many, unfortunately:-(

Cheers

Dave