Cataloging Question

I see what you're getting at.  If I were to get technical about it, I would put it under "D" for Dave Rawlings Machine like I would put Pink Floyd under "P", but for ease in finding it, I'd probably put with the other Dave Rawlings records (under "R" I assume?). 

I've seen record stores arrange things differently from one to the next.  They often group artists that were in a band together.  The one I was at yesterday had David Gilmour, Roger Waters, and Pink Floyd altogether for example.  The one I go to most often does the same thing, for example all of the John, Paul, George, Ringo, Wings, John & Yoko, etc. records are all right next to the Beatles, under a separator that says "Solo Records".

I didnt know that i needed your permission to participate in a thread you started , which you asked for members opinions / input.

I never said you needed permission?  Sorry I wasted your time...

you didnt waste my time....but if you look at my first reply, I mentioned to put all the albums together so it would be easier to find them when you want to listen to them.         
 then you made the comment of  the other artists and whether it be solo stuff or group stuff and where to put it......and again, just put it all under one artist.     
but I make the comment of that you are making more out of this and you got all bent out of shape.   

what I dont get is what does it matter how you catalog your albums or the next person does theirs.   if they do theirs a different way then you do, are you now going to change yours around to be like theirs now ?       

If its a group, it goes by the name of the group: ie, The Eagles under E.
If its an artist, it goes by the name of the artist: ie, Don Henley under H.
My parents taught me this, as their parents taught them. Kids in the one-room schoolhouse on the prairie learned this even before Sears & Roebuck started delivering gramophones. This is the extent to which our schools have dumbed us all down.

Well, not all.

Alphabetical order is good, but not really great for me. I don't want to look for Bryan Ferry knowing I can find his stuff in the Roxy music section also I don't want to look for just Chick Corea. I want to look first in the Jazz section that I have. My catalog is over 6000 records.