Just a quick story I think you guys might be interested in:
A local radio station in Toronto has been
holding a competition for the last few days in which the prize was a pair of
front-row seats to Friday’s concert here in Toronto. To win the tickets you had to
be the seventh caller and you had to correctly identify all 10 songs. I
tell you, it was tough. To hear clips of 10 songs go by in 5 seconds or
less and identify them was much harder than you might think. All the
sounds are very familiar, and while a handful of songs were immediately
obvious, correctly identifying all the songs was a real challenge.
Fortunately it became a bit of a team effort, as my friends Jock, Chris Orange
(Chris is on this list), and I listened over and over again to the clip we
recorded, and we discussed for ages on multiple telephone conference calls what
the songs might be. Over the last three days each of us was able to get
through to the radio station as the seventh caller, and with a variety of
combinations of song choices, we had anywhere from 7 to 9 of the songs
correctly identified. Some other callers were quite good, and a handful
of callers were truly clueless. Ultimately, Jock, Chris, were certain we
knew which 9 songs we had correctly identified and which song had to be
jettisoned from the list. And just yesterday evening Jock figured out what
the song was that we were having trouble identifying. Armed with what we
now thought was the correct final list of songs, I ended up being the lucky one
that got though as the seventh caller when the competition resumed this morning….and…..drumroll
please (thank you, Stewart)….I won a pair of front row tickets to Friday’s
concert!!!!!!!!! How cool is that!?!?
Cheers,
Bruce