This has been an awesome thread.
I'd like to echo the others and say Thanks, Gahoendoe, for your efforts.
I especially liked your explaination of your forum name... very clever.

QUOTE...."Here is the link to Christian Island...known for millenia as "Gahoendoe" in The Huron native language.


and with this video now LIVE at the channel and in the spirit of this forumn I have been given a permanent forum name...it is "Gahoendoe" ."

Wow, look at all these great videos, and I am SOOOO happy to see Too Much to Lose on this list now. I love Jack Nicholson and think he's the perfect subject.

Great selections guys!

To Peter Bro...which some could read as clever for Peterborough, thank you for identifying the "source" of my forum name "Gahoendoe". :cool:

A wise communicator told me that the key to great entertainment is education in the process...he called it Edu-tainment. I studied with him for 2 years, and plead guilty to the charge. :)

I often slide into the edutaining style with Gord's music...for my own benefi, eg; prior to researching and producing "Christian Island", I did not know the history of the Huron island name "Gahoendoe".

There is much to learn in his lyrics and music. Does anyone know if he carries native blood? There is an underlying sensitivity in many of his songs, for me, of and for First Nations peoples.

A river of requests for videos of GL's music has begun to flow. Some requests are presented to me with the power of suggestion that cannot be ignored. I have recently posted GL video # 23

"Mother of a Miner's Child"

If there are other, (can't wait until after Massey Hall), requests burning holes in your hearts...please contact me. The collecting and sorting of the images takes more than 70% of the production time : :( .

If you have images to accompany your request, your request will be prioritized and could be completed within 48 hours of being received by me :D .

This has been an amazing 4 month journey. After the first 125 days at Youtube, The channel has received 180,000 video views, 4100 profile visits, 650 off-line messages, 1000 video messages and 127 subscribers. Pretty solid I think not having any politics, sex, violence, drugs or disasters...75% acoustic instrumentation...there is hope! :D

[All of Gordon's songs are in their own "(23) favorites" playlist at the Channel...you don't have to hunt for them anymore.]

I sincerely thank you, the members of this forum, for your support and encouragement. I understand that from time to time my take on a song may vary significantly from anothers...your acceptance of my work is the renewed energy I need to continue my personal "Race Among the Ruins".

I intend to complete as many still image interpretations as I can of this magnificent, magical minstrel..."producing" the entire body of his work is my 5 year goal. Though this may seem a daunting task,by my calculation,10% of his "library" is now "produced".

Sincerely and in Peace,

Gahoendoe

I love the use of the black and white photos. I just visited Bisbee Arizona and they had a nice exhibit at the museum (from the Smithsonian) about mining, this would have fit in very nicely.
Another perfect rendition.

boy did that take me back to my childhood..

spending summers going between the mine and the cabin up in Timmins. Watching the miners with their hard hats with the flashlights on them...they'd be walking up the road to the canteen for a beer after work or coming to my grandparents to pick up laundry as they headed to the bunkhouse. i saw the dirt on their clothes atfter their shift but when my grandmother was done with them in the old wringer washer they were perfectly clean again.

sitting and watching my grandfather roll his cigarettes for the next day and helping him pack his lunch box with his thermos and sandwiches wrapped in wax paper. being quiet when he came home because he'd have a nap while supper was being prepared and quiet again because the CBC news was on and he didn't know how to read or write so this was how he learned about the world. he'd been working at the mines since before he was a teen after leaving nova scotia.

I don't remember seeing my granmother ever sit much...maybe to play cribbage once in a while. She worked as hard as he did...and none of their sons became miners...nor did their daughters marry miners. Both of my grandfathers were miners - hardworking labourers doing a dirty job in dangerous conditions. As kids we never saw how dangerous it was when we'd ride down the elevator so far underground and sit in the buckets riding the rails past the dynamite holes dotting the walls.
This song has always been a fave of mine for several reasons and another was added after hearing Jory Nash put his stamp of excellence on it.
Thanks for the images....bittersweet memories on a cold Toronto morning....

boy did that take me back to my childhood..

spending summers going between the mine and the cabin up in Timmins. Watching the miners with their hard hats with the flashlights on them...they'd be walking up the road to the canteen for a beer after work or coming to my grandparents to pick up laundry as they headed to the bunkhouse. i saw the dirt on their clothes atfter their shift but when my grandmother was done with them in the old wringer washer they were perfectly clean again.

sitting and watching my grandfather roll his cigarettes for the next day and helping him pack his lunch box with his thermos and sandwiches wrapped in wax paper. being quiet when he came home because he'd have a nap while supper was being prepared and quiet again because the CBC news was on and he didn't know how to read or write so this was how he learned about the world. he'd been working at the mines since before he was a teen after leaving nova scotia.

I don't remember seeing my granmother ever sit much...maybe to play cribbage once in a while. She worked as hard as he did...and none of their sons became miners...nor did their daughters marry miners. Both of my grandfathers were miners - hardworking labourers doing a dirty job in dangerous conditions. As kids we never saw how dangerous it was when we'd ride down the elevator so far underground and sit in the buckets riding the rails past the dynamite holes dotting the walls.
This song has always been a fave of mine for several reasons and another was added after hearing Jory Nash put his stamp of excellence on it.
Thanks for the images....bittersweet memories on a cold Toronto morning....

My paternal grandfather was a miner's child, in Pennsylvania. His father died (not mine-related) when Gramp was nine years old. He then went to work in the mines near Clark's Summit as he was the oldest and had his widowed mother and younger brother and sister to help support (no child labor laws then.)I come from hardy stock, though. He lived to be nearly 90. Between mining and shoecrafting he was also a terrific dancer, and was offered a spot on the vaudeville circuit but declined because he had just met a pretty little blue-eyed blonde and decided to stick around. He courted her by singing under her window, and she responded by emptying the contents of a chamber pot over his head. She was feisty and fun and it was love at first splash. They were married just over 50 years. Thanks for the video - it's one of my favorite songs.

My paternal grandfather was a miner's child, in Pennsylvania. His father died (not mine-related) when Gramp was nine years old. He then went to work in the mines near Clark's Summit as he was the oldest and had his widowed mother and younger brother and sister to help support (no child labor laws then.)I come from hardy stock, though. He lived to be nearly 90. Between mining and shoecrafting he was also a terrific dancer, and was offered a spot on the vaudeville circuit but declined because he had just met a pretty little blue-eyed blonde and decided to stick around. He courted her by singing under her window, and she responded by emptying the contents of a chamber pot over his head. She was feisty and fun and it was love at first splash. They were married just over 50 years. Thanks for the video - it's one of my favorite songs.

Charlene,

You expressed your recollections beautifully. It has
to be one of the best written posts I've seen in this forum. Great imagery.

He courted her by singing under her window, and she responded by emptying the contents of a chamber pot over his head. She was feisty and fun and it was love at first splash. They were married just over 50 years. Thanks for the video - it's one of my favorite songs. [/QB][/QUOTE]


Is a "chamber pot" what I think it is???? That's hilarious!!!!

Exactly what you think it is, lol.

Granny worked for the Board of Elections for many years, and one time had my grandfather, dressed in a girdle, parading up and down State Street with a placard exhorting locals to register to vote. He had a fabulous (very impish) sense of humor. Probably collected on a few bets that he wouldn't do it, too. They were both card-playing fiends. Sunday night was poker night at our house LONG before it became fashionable.

Exactly what you think it is, lol.

Granny worked for the Board of Elections for many years, and one time had my grandfather, dressed in a girdle, parading up and down State Street with a placard exhorting locals to register to vote. He had a fabulous (very impish) sense of humor. Probably collected on a few bets that he wouldn't do it, too. They were both card-playing fiends. Sunday night was poker night at our house LONG before it became fashionable.

oh yeah - the chamber pots...ew!
we had them in the cabin for the grandkids who were afraid to head out to the back 40 and the two seater in the woods..
before my grandmother married my grandfather her family owned a big old hotel in Huntsville, Ontario and she was a chambermaid as a young girl....and chamber pots were part and parcel of the household cleaning duties...thank gawd for Mr. Crapper and his invention!

True love and a Chamber Pot....whoda thunk it!?
lol

oh yeah - the chamber pots...ew!
we had them in the cabin for the grandkids who were afraid to head out to the back 40 and the two seater in the woods..
before my grandmother married my grandfather her family owned a big old hotel in Huntsville, Ontario and she was a chambermaid as a young girl....and chamber pots were part and parcel of the household cleaning duties...thank gawd for Mr. Crapper and his invention!

True love and a Chamber Pot....whoda thunk it!?
lol

I'm old enough to remember when we had a two-seater at their summer place on Cayuga Lake. Many hurrahs when indoor plumbing was installed.

I'm old enough to remember when we had a two-seater at their summer place on Cayuga Lake. Many hurrahs when indoor plumbing was installed.

Tom, another good one. Love the black and white photos - really evocative of that time. Very atmosheric. 5 red ones!

My father and uncle, back when they were kids, moved the two seater back a couple of feet, hid in the bushes, and watched their drunken uncle fall into the hole. He went in to his hips before he managed to grab the door frame and stop his descent. The kids laughed hysterically.

Thanks Char and Annie... this is great stuff! I needed a good chuckle!! This is Edification according to John F lol.

For the record, 7 of the images in the "Mother of a Miners Child" were coloured to start out..they were " adjusted " to fit with the theme. :cool:
The first to answer this question gets to request the next GL video... how did I interpret the word "child" as in "Mother of a miner's child"? :D

Quite a memory vein was opened by this video...funny how we can "mine" our mind, sort of, as in haul out the memories...weak I know...I'll stick to what I know I can do. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

tj - not sure what you're asking - the child is the son of the miner singing the song - i think but i'm sure that's not what you're after. BUT that won't stop me from making and wishing for another request. your wonderful GL library of videos is missing the one song that probably introduced 95% of us to him - if you could read my mind.

thanks for the great work.

phish

Gahoendoe,,


Great stuff - a pleasure to stop by and see what's new.

Best to you and all here.

phishfearme: To clarify my challenge...to anyone who can identify how I presented the "Child" in the video, you will "win" a GL Stonewall-video of your choice...it is a trick question indeed. As in many of Gord's lyrics I think they can be interpreted on many levels. :cool:

If You Could Read My Mind has now been added to the list of videos to produce after the Massey Hall concert week ion November. Thank you for the request and good luck on solving the " Child" image riddle. ;)

Gahoendoe,

"The First Time I Ever Saw Her Face" would make a great addition to an already great list ... thanks again.

how about 'A passing ship' ?

Gahoendoe, thank you very much for the site and the catalog listing of videos. What an impressive, wonderful, and beautiful collection of music videos; I’m mesmerized by the splendor of the visualizations, by the syncopation, by the way the music is entwined with the lyrics. Your instinct is right on because your perspectives and characterizations rendered through the images are most striking. Even though the interpretations are excellent, I have some personal thoughts and interpretations of lyric that differ with some of the tunes, but this is what good poetry and storytelling is suppose to do, lend itself, at times, to personal translations. Again, simply superb and so enjoyable. Commendations to you and to all involved in these works of art, these gems which are creative, insightful, and a tremendous way to capture Lightfoot’s music. These should make him proud. I, too, began to learn from him at coffee houses and the like for almost 40 years now. I echo your sentiments, “Thank you Gordon Lightfoot ... you have no idea of all the gifts you have given to others... like us ... throughout your life.”

Gahoendoe, thank you very much for the site and the catalog listing of videos. What an impressive, wonderful, and beautiful collection of music videos; I’m mesmerized by the splendor of the visualizations, by the syncopation, by the way the music is entwined with the lyrics. Your instinct is right on because your perspectives and characterizations rendered through the images are most striking. Even though the interpretations are excellent, I have some personal thoughts and interpretations of lyric that differ with some of the tunes, but this is what good poetry and storytelling is suppose to do, lend itself, at times, to personal translations. Again, simply superb and so enjoyable. Commendations to you and to all involved in these works of art, these gems which are creative, insightful, and a tremendous way to capture Lightfoot’s music. These should make him proud. I, too, began to learn from him at coffee houses and the like for almost 40 years now. I echo your sentiments, “Thank you Gordon Lightfoot ... you have no idea of all the gifts you have given to others... like us ... throughout your life.”

Gahoendoe, since you implied, some future video considerations I could see are: “Lazy Mornin’” or “That Same Old Obsession” from Old Dan’s Records, “Ode to Big Blue” from Don Quixote would be interesting, “I’m Not Supposed to Care” (Summertime Dream) and “Tattoo” (Salute) have wonderful chord changes that could work with the right visualization, “If Children Had Wings” from Endless Wire offers some fascinating possibilities. “Ribbon of Darkness” I just like, and “Bitter Green”, well this story could be the basis for a movie. Thank you for letting me indulge myself for a bit. Auburn Annie is right, with over 200 songs, you could be at this for years!

Gahoendoe, since you implied, some future video considerations I could see are: “Lazy Mornin’” or “That Same Old Obsession” from Old Dan’s Records, “Ode to Big Blue” from Don Quixote would be interesting, “I’m Not Supposed to Care” (Summertime Dream) and “Tattoo” (Salute) have wonderful chord changes that could work with the right visualization, “If Children Had Wings” from Endless Wire offers some fascinating possibilities. “Ribbon of Darkness” I just like, and “Bitter Green”, well this story could be the basis for a movie. Thank you for letting me indulge myself for a bit. Auburn Annie is right, with over 200 songs, you could be at this for years!

Wonderfully written Walls. You have written what many of us were thinking.

ditto!

I was just thinking of all the new videos we will see after Massey.

Hallo everybody,i live in Belgium and still waiting when Mr Lightfoot can come to Europe,it is for years now.Canada is far to go for me,but maybe....

Hallo everybody,i live in Belgium and still waiting when Mr Lightfoot can come to Europe,it is for years now.Canada is far to go for me,but maybe....

.... you were saying??...
HI Julleken
I am tempted mightily to say that you posted a day early:Oh go on I'll say it anyway
You know "It's Tuesday so this must be Belgium"!
I do not personally recall hearing of a belgian fan here before:
we certainly have french German,Italian and British posters here and of course Florian whose wonderful site this is is himself from
Vienna Austria. You are quite right it is a very long time since Gord played in Europe,1981 I believe, but you are wrong Canada is not too far just rather expensive but far more accessible to you than to the handful of avid fans from Australia,
But if you are a keen fan the effort and expense of getting over to Toronto is well worth it and as it appears most unlikely that Gord will ever venture over the Atlantic again it will most likely be the only way you are going to be able to see this genius in action.
It is not too late to plan a visit for the upcoming 4 Massey Hall concerts on November 16 to 19, and I believe there may well be some good spare tickets for sale if you ask here There is also the thought that opportunities to see Lightfoot concerts in the future might get more limited although we all most fervently hope that there will be another Massey season in, probably, May 2008.
You are assured of a warm welcome Give it some very deep thought and if you have any questions do ask

.... you were saying??...
HI Julleken
I am tempted mightily to say that you posted a day early:Oh go on I'll say it anyway
You know "It's Tuesday so this must be Belgium"!
I do not personally recall hearing of a belgian fan here before:
we certainly have french German,Italian and British posters here and of course Florian whose wonderful site this is is himself from
Vienna Austria. You are quite right it is a very long time since Gord played in Europe,1981 I believe, but you are wrong Canada is not too far just rather expensive but far more accessible to you than to the handful of avid fans from Australia,
But if you are a keen fan the effort and expense of getting over to Toronto is well worth it and as it appears most unlikely that Gord will ever venture over the Atlantic again it will most likely be the only way you are going to be able to see this genius in action.
It is not too late to plan a visit for the upcoming 4 Massey Hall concerts on November 16 to 19, and I believe there may well be some good spare tickets for sale if you ask here There is also the thought that opportunities to see Lightfoot concerts in the future might get more limited although we all most fervently hope that there will be another Massey season in, probably, May 2008.
You are assured of a warm welcome Give it some very deep thought and if you have any questions do ask

Absolutely astounding work done by Stonewall Studios!!!! All of my favorites with a video background!! How can it get any better than this? I hope Gordon can see these videos.....

Absolutely astounding work done by Stonewall Studios!!!! All of my favorites with a video background!! How can it get any better than this? I hope Gordon can see these videos.....

To Walls, Brink, Silver Heels, Auburn Annie, Musky-Man, Reno-Rick and all who have posted at this "video" thread, I am making a list and reading it twice as a guide for the new Gordon Lightfoot video productions that will be undertaken post the Massey Hall Concert Series.

Your enthusiasm and support for the image-story perspectives I find in his work are the energy that I will need to soldier-on with this project. I realize the library is daunting and will liklely not achieve a 100% video-catalogue. One condition I want to apply...the requests must be for a song he wrote...not a song he covered..for example Musky-Man " The First Time Ever"...( I saw your face) is not a Lightfoot original.

There has been an unexpected, most welcome outcome from my Youtube video production. One of the founders of the New Renaissance School of Art in Italy has asked that I come to Florence to teach a "short" course on still image video production. There are only a handfull of us on Youtube who produce almost exclusively with still images and photo-editing techniques.

I responded in the affirmative. We are arranging to schedule a 4-6 week class in late summer-fall 2007. I plan to use several clips from the Gordon Lightfoot video series as examples of various production techniques and interpretation alternatives.

Without the encouragement of this Forum and the support of individuals in it, I cannot be certain that this invitation would have been earned. Thank you one and all. Will be visiting with some of you for the first time,here in the Studio, a week from today, which is something our household looks foreward to with ever increasing anticipation. God Speed.

Sincerely,

Teejaysang
a.k.a Tom Salter

Teeyaysang aka Tom,
Congratulations and well done! You will love Florence - one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Keep us posted and am looking forward to the next GL videos.
Way to go, Gahoendoe!