Jerry, I get a lot of pleasure from recording, although it's not of professional quality. For the last few years I've recorded the concerts from a series of which I am a co-founder. Each month we book five or six sets and I record the whole evening. Afterward I edit the disk, marking each song track then make each performer a CD of his or her set.

We also have a much larger annual show in a top of the mountain theatre for which I'm the booker and I do the same thing for them. On occasion when someone requests the entire evening on CD, I get permission from each of the performers and burn several CDs for the individual.

It is time consuming but I really do enjoy it. I have a Sony mini-disc microphone and it does a surprisingly good job.