OK, who else would be at home on this forum at 11PM New Years Eve? I swear this is a perfectly sober suggestion - don't drink and never have.
I really have no right to even make suggestions being only a limited series one subscriber due to finances, but here goes anyway.
Between Paul and Prof. Keith J. I would like to suggest a new joint recording project between Reference Recordings and The Tape Project.
Record, in state of the art analog, direct to 2 track stereo tape via either Keith's and/or Paul's state of the art reel to reel, _and_ direct to disc on the newly tweaked lathe, (and to high resolution digital as well), in a good venue, with a good symphony, the sonic spectacular of... wait for it... a compilation of Leroy Anderson's wonderful songs!
There have been a few of these compilations of his music done in the past, but not since the days of Living Presence and Living Stereo. Good as those are, time and even analog technology have marched on.
I could scarcely think of a better "sonic shootout" than a prof. Johnson engineered recording of this very dynamic, but light and fun material, recorded in the ultimate analog disc vs tape vs state of the art digital formats and released in those formats as well through RR and the Tape Project.
I can only imagine how hard the logistics would be to pull this off, but I could _not_ imagine anybody more qualified and with more combined experience at all of this to do it than a team headed by Keith and Paul !
OK, I promise, no more wacky ideas until 2012 :-)
Happy New Year Tape Project people!