There's also a Schooner Fare reference in RSB ("Portland Town") mixed with
a They Might Be Giants ("Birdhouse") reference.
> For those who buy into my drivel about how music can inform the feel
> within the game, the summation for why "Clipper" was the correct name for
> the RC's distinctive vessel comes in a Schooner Fare song, "Day of the
> Clipper," available here.
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Day-of-the-Clipper/dp/B004LEMBVW/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1340568609&sr=1-4
>
> Actually there is a live version which is better (my wife and I used to
> see them whenever they were in town at the Birchmere in Alexandria,
> usually with my pastor (Bastien--find the name in TNE) and his wife), but
> that appears to be available only on vinyl.
>
> It is well worth the 99 cents, and you should also be able to see how it
> is absolutely (like "The White City") about the spirit behind the RC. If
> it brings a tear to your eye, you hear it like I did. If not, I'm just a
> sentimental old sop.
>
> "Windjammer" is another age of sail "name to conjure with," as Loren used
> to say. However, "wind" doesn't fit a space game, and the barefoot cruise
> people have ruined it. "Windjammer" and "Clipper" are not about leisure;
> they are about the highest expression of technology in their time and
> about sailing close-hauled around the Horn into the teeth of a gale,
> dammit.
>
> Schooner Fare also impinged on Traveller via "Mary Ellen Carter," in Star
> Vikings. Although Mary Ellen Carter was not written by SF (Stan Rogers),
> it was on their albums where I listened to it most. "Mary L. McKay" would
> have eventually made it into Traveller as well. Of course "Barrett's
> Privateers" (also Stan Rogers) was kind of in Traveller's DNA.
>
> Dave
>
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