The other night I had my MP3 player trying to ull me to sleep. I’ve got it on Shuffle because I always want to be surprised what the next song will be.
But that night I was listening to Climax Blues Band and at the end the MC was trying to get the crowd fired up for an encore.
For nearly a solid minute the show's MC exhorted the crowd to give it up for the band. But when the band finally came back onstage for the encore, my MP3 kicked in to the next song , which was Dan Fogelberg.
It was so jarring to go from rock 'n' roll to Fogelberg's soothing brand of pop that my eyes flew open and I was wide awake. It took a while for me to get the combination of Fogelberg and the Climnax Blues Band out of my mind so I could sleep.
Beware the Shuffle capability of MP3 -- you never know what you're going to get.