As I was reading Ron's initiating posting for this thread, I started wondering who the folks were who made the nominating selections. I have no idea who they are or their credentials for making these types of choices. Do you? [Yes, because I can type http://www.grammy.com/ and click on the history button. -Dave] Off the top of my head, I would think that none of them should be professionally in the music field - too many opportunities for insider bias. All of them would ideally be serious record collectors who buy at least 300 recordings per year with a wide variety of different genres and labels. Although I have essentially described myself and many others on the list, I have the perception that none of us were asked to be on the Grammy panel for classical recordings. I also have the perception that most of the panel members likely were familiar with only a tiny percentage of the recordings that were released during the year. Ignorance is not a good foundation for making selections. I'm going to locate an e-mail address for the Grammy Awards and recommend that they use folks like Deryk, Steve, Tony, et al to make the choices next year. No, I don't expect any positive response, but I do want them to know that there's at least one person who is aware of how poorly their process is currently worked. [That address would be [log in to unmask] -Dave] Don Satz [log in to unmask]