Lately, since the 8/4/06 Concord, NH concert, my admiration for the man and his music has been revived. What a pleasure :)
I'm loving his music as much as ever (maybe more), listening to my old records, scrolling through this message board, reading interviews, watching clips from performances and looking at photos of him throughout his career. The photos that grab me and ignite a spark of recognition ( even make my heart skip a beat ;) )are the ones from around 1976. For example, the cover of Gord's Gold. To my mind's eye that will always be the GL I visualize when I think of him. ( That's also the year I met my husband and the year I first started hearing GL. A meaningful year all around for me.) I'd love to hear what others think/feel. And, by the way, thanks for such a warm welcome to this board. You're a special and very nice group of people :) |
Lately, since the 8/4/06 Concord, NH concert, my admiration for the man and his music has been revived. What a pleasure :)
I'm loving his music as much as ever (maybe more), listening to my old records, scrolling through this message board, reading interviews, watching clips from performances and looking at photos of him throughout his career. The photos that grab me and ignite a spark of recognition ( even make my heart skip a beat ;) )are the ones from around 1976. For example, the cover of Gord's Gold. To my mind's eye that will always be the GL I visualize when I think of him. ( That's also the year I met my husband and the year I first started hearing GL. A meaningful year all around for me.) I'd love to hear what others think/feel. And, by the way, thanks for such a warm welcome to this board. You're a special and very nice group of people :) |
Yes Ann 1976 was a very good year!
lol Isn't it wonderful to revive all those feelings by going thru archives of Lightfoot stuff? I still do it every once in a while.... My middle name is Anne...and since first hearing Gord's Carefree Highway I wished it was my first.. ;) |
Yes Ann 1976 was a very good year!
lol Isn't it wonderful to revive all those feelings by going thru archives of Lightfoot stuff? I still do it every once in a while.... My middle name is Anne...and since first hearing Gord's Carefree Highway I wished it was my first.. ;) |
I always visualize Gord from the Gord's Gold era too, although I've seen him a bunch of times in the past 6 years. I guess it's just us reliving our youth... or Gord's youth.
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OK I particularly recall 1967 which was such a special year for me.It was Canada's Centennial year of course with the wonderful Expo 67 set on an island in the St Lawrence river just off Montreal's main large island
http://expo67.ncf.ca/ariel_st.helens_nae000990830.jpg i could write a whole book of my memories of Expo alone, suffice it to say that in preparation for it Montreal's mayor (Jean Drapeau) ordered a general cleanup turning the city from a replica London bomb site into a smart clean city,and a special mention of the great British pavilion replete with much British humour. (in the entrance hall was a full sized Concorde Olympus jet engine mounted vertically above a large circular mirror, there were usually a group of young lads closely studying the mirror and watching young lasses climbing the circular staircase strategically winding up around the engine!). And of course one day in May Gord Red and John played at Expo and in the evening gave a concert at the New Penelope coffee house, my first of many immensely enjoyable concerts. Next I well remember my first Royal Albert Hall. London concert in June 1972. At all those early concerts my overriding memory is of the way Gord rocked/nodded his head at certain points, If you don't know what I mean , play your copy of the Reno video (always a good idea!) and at about 46 minutes (in the middle of Shadows) he does a nice example http://h1.ripway.com/johnfowles/ligh...no_Shadows.jpg Then there was of course 1999 when I found the chatroom, met a number of wonderful ladies especially Susan, Jenney and Diane and set myself up to overcome my health problem in 2000 John Fowles |
OK I particularly recall 1967 which was such a special year for me.It was Canada's Centennial year of course with the wonderful Expo 67 set on an island in the St Lawrence river just off Montreal's main large island
http://expo67.ncf.ca/ariel_st.helens_nae000990830.jpg i could write a whole book of my memories of Expo alone, suffice it to say that in preparation for it Montreal's mayor (Jean Drapeau) ordered a general cleanup turning the city from a replica London bomb site into a smart clean city,and a special mention of the great British pavilion replete with much British humour. (in the entrance hall was a full sized Concorde Olympus jet engine mounted vertically above a large circular mirror, there were usually a group of young lads closely studying the mirror and watching young lasses climbing the circular staircase strategically winding up around the engine!). And of course one day in May Gord Red and John played at Expo and in the evening gave a concert at the New Penelope coffee house, my first of many immensely enjoyable concerts. Next I well remember my first Royal Albert Hall. London concert in June 1972. At all those early concerts my overriding memory is of the way Gord rocked/nodded his head at certain points, If you don't know what I mean , play your copy of the Reno video (always a good idea!) and at about 46 minutes (in the middle of Shadows) he does a nice example http://h1.ripway.com/johnfowles/ligh...no_Shadows.jpg Then there was of course 1999 when I found the chatroom, met a number of wonderful ladies especially Susan, Jenney and Diane and set myself up to overcome my health problem in 2000 John Fowles |
"At all those early concerts my overriding memory is of the way Gord rocked/nodded his head at certain points"
AnneOK does a "mean" Lightfoot head bob. She demonstrated it several times at the lighthead weekends. |
Lisa always gets a kick out of it....she knows when he does it in certain songs in concert and when I have the song/album on she'll walk by and do it or call out - 'here it comes mum" and I know exactly what she means!
she's a nasty little thing! lolol I never got to EXPO '67 - I was 12 that summer, blissfully unaware of it other than knowing my mum was going with a friend. I had my rollerskates and key and would skate all day....couldn't use them up north in the bush tho... |
Lisa always gets a kick out of it....she knows when he does it in certain songs in concert and when I have the song/album on she'll walk by and do it or call out - 'here it comes mum" and I know exactly what she means!
she's a nasty little thing! lolol I never got to EXPO '67 - I was 12 that summer, blissfully unaware of it other than knowing my mum was going with a friend. I had my rollerskates and key and would skate all day....couldn't use them up north in the bush tho... |
Great pic of the Expo John, I, like Charlene was about 11 or 12. I do what Lisa does Charlene. Even when I hear, Don Quixote, just maybe a minute before it ends, the song comes to a halt, and he stomp his feet twice. Every time I hear that song I do it. Lisa is ok, a real Lightfoot fan. {Lighthead}lol
You John having lived in Montreal in those years, you were a privilege man. I dont know what I wouldn't give to be able to go back in time. I would be at The New Penelope, hearing that new Minstrel Of The Dawn, POET, doing, " Did She Mention my Name?" I was almost old enough to go see him in concert at The Moncton High School Auditorium. The year was 1969, I was in grade 8. That would have meant more to me than in 1987, when I first saw him. I was born, 5 years too late...Jesse. |
Great pic of the Expo John, I, like Charlene was about 11 or 12. I do what Lisa does Charlene. Even when I hear, Don Quixote, just maybe a minute before it ends, the song comes to a halt, and he stomp his feet twice. Every time I hear that song I do it. Lisa is ok, a real Lightfoot fan. {Lighthead}lol
You John having lived in Montreal in those years, you were a privilege man. I dont know what I wouldn't give to be able to go back in time. I would be at The New Penelope, hearing that new Minstrel Of The Dawn, POET, doing, " Did She Mention my Name?" I was almost old enough to go see him in concert at The Moncton High School Auditorium. The year was 1969, I was in grade 8. That would have meant more to me than in 1987, when I first saw him. I was born, 5 years too late...Jesse. |
On a late lunch break here so,I gotta be quick!
1970's becasue that's his heyday in the U.S. but in 2nd place 1986 becasue that's when I saw the picture sleeve for,"Anything For Love" and knew what he looked like. :) Later! |
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I started listening to Gord in 1969. But when I hear him, it brings me to the year 1976. A year that I discovered true love. And his music was getting better and better...JESSE. :)
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I started listening to Gord in 1969. But when I hear him, it brings me to the year 1976. A year that I discovered true love. And his music was getting better and better...JESSE. :)
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Of course I looooooove the Gords Gold pic and other images from that era but I really enjoy those pictures of sweet young baby-face Gordon from his United Artist days with his hair swept back like James Dean. They're just so charming :)
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I nearly settled for a scan of the back insert from songbook disk 1 and then found what I wanted on the album sleeve back of the first UA album Lightfoot! which I think is spot-on this picture is also shown in the nice booklet that you get with the 3-CD SET "Original Lightfoot"/"The United Artist Years" Just like this eh? http://h1.ripway.com/johnfowles/lightfoot/gl_1965.jpg a little later he had changed as in this 1969 photo http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/LIGHTFO...Jones/1969.jpg Which is just one of 24 pix from "The Lightfoot Years at:- http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/LIGHTFO...foot_years.htm John Fowles |
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I nearly settled for a scan of the back insert from songbook disk 1 and then found what I wanted on the album sleeve back of the first UA album Lightfoot! which I think is spot-on this picture is also shown in the nice booklet that you get with the 3-CD SET "Original Lightfoot"/"The United Artist Years" Just like this eh? http://h1.ripway.com/johnfowles/lightfoot/gl_1965.jpg a little later he had changed as in this 1969 photo http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/LIGHTFO...Jones/1969.jpg Which is just one of 24 pix from "The Lightfoot Years at:- http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/LIGHTFO...foot_years.htm John Fowles |
John you have the nicest old pics of Gord. Seems to prove to me, you followed his carrer since EXPO 67 in Montreal...Jesse :)
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John you have the nicest old pics of Gord. Seems to prove to me, you followed his carrer since EXPO 67 in Montreal...Jesse :)
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I nearly settled for a scan of the back insert from songbook disk 1 and then found what I wanted on the album sleeve back of the first UA album Lightfoot! which I think is spot-on this picture is also shown in the nice booklet that you get with the 3-CD SET "Original Lightfoot"/"The United Artist Years" [/QUOTE]I've never seen him looking like that - love it! :) |
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I nearly settled for a scan of the back insert from songbook disk 1 and then found what I wanted on the album sleeve back of the first UA album Lightfoot! which I think is spot-on this picture is also shown in the nice booklet that you get with the 3-CD SET "Original Lightfoot"/"The United Artist Years" [/QUOTE]I've never seen him looking like that - love it! :) |
"At all those early concerts my overriding memory is of the way Gord rocked/nodded his head at certain points"
He did a couple of head bobs, perfectly timed, in the 1970 youtube video of For Lovin' Me. And he did it to great effect. |
Good point, David. The subtle things he does are part of his mistique. He's a classy performer.
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Good point, David. The subtle things he does are part of his mistique. He's a classy performer.
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I have the 2-CD set UA Collection (one of my most cherished; I really do gravitate a lot to his earlier stuff) and there are 2 pictures of him on the inside sleeve, one is a nice clear head shot of him smiling, and in the other he is sitting on what looks to be a large rock; he is holding his guitar and his face is tilted upwards and he is smiling again. They are both beautiful, charming pictures and he looks so young and yet to be touched by fame. <sigh> People don't take pictures like that anymore, simple and without pretense. Anyway I know most people picture Gordon early to mid 70's with the unruly curls and slightly scruffy appearance, which worked well for him also, but when I listen to Long River or 16 Miles to Seven Lakes I picture that clean cut young man with the swept back hair :) |
1974 . My Sophomore year in High school. Bought my first - Sundown. I will always visualize Gord that way, the way I liked to dress, too, Jeans.
At 16 My beard came in full and I tried so hard to look like him....for the women you know...LOL But mom and Dad balked at the hair salon thing - I found I'd have to get a "perm" and refused on general manhood paranoid rules of youth ! haha I loved the imagery in the album, listening to it as Autumn was in full Ohio tilt - we moved to Colorado the next summer when Dad retired from NASA. I grew to love this album for that imagery,then discovered DQ, then COTS, it just kept getting better and better. In my senior year in Colorado in '76, GG1 and Summertime Dream came out, the Wreck was #1, and I too loved the new version of Song For a Winter's Night in the Winter up at my folks house at near 10,000 feet in the Rockies, several feet of snow through the winter. It all made the songs imagery more powerful. I loved the last great year of orchestration IMHO on GG1 and redo of CRT, still reveling in Beautiful, and all the songs I connected with different girlfriends, etc. After I thought girlfriends were all aplyed out.. and I was a sad sack..... fast-fwd to , oh.....1980, and I met my wife-to-be Merry at the same time DSR came out, and I listened to Make Way For The Lady after meeting her over and over..... memories I continued to go back to Sundown for : * Is There Anyone Home - Ohio imagery in Fall * Seven Island Suite " * Too Late For Prayin' " * Circle of Steel " - Winter * Sundown & Watchman's Gone - defining songs incredible orchestration - loved it in headphones - the old heavy ones, In short, including IYCRMM, 1970 - 1976 defined Lightfoot for me. I attached each song to the great human tragedies of adolescence - girlfriends, firsts of everything, loves lost, football games in the fall, snowmelt and our 4wd road out in the Colorado spring - so many memories. GG1 dated Cristmas 1976 foreever for me. Christmas in the Rockies. I got a Hudson's Bay Blanket and a Yamaha Classical Guitar. Then Restless from Waiting For You, and The whole album Painter started it all over for me again....... more another time - geo steve |
1976. The picture on "Summertime Dream" l.p. is the best. The moustache and cigarette - just looks real cool. Had Gord sign it personally for me a few years ago because it was actually the first Gord l.p. I ever bought.
Also like the picture on "East of Midnight" looking so suave. Also had him sign this one. He told me,"I travelled all the way to New York (City) for that picture. I actually look civilized in this one!" |
1976. The picture on "Summertime Dream" l.p. is the best. The moustache and cigarette - just looks real cool. Had Gord sign it personally for me a few years ago because it was actually the first Gord l.p. I ever bought.
Also like the picture on "East of Midnight" looking so suave. Also had him sign this one. He told me,"I travelled all the way to New York (City) for that picture. I actually look civilized in this one!" |
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This is one silly conversation I started, isn't it? ;) |
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This is one silly conversation I started, isn't it? ;) |
Silly??? Not at all. Gord's our favorite topic, right?
Going to see him on Sept. 23rd in Aurora. Taking my whole family. Can't wait. |
Silly??? Not at all. Gord's our favorite topic, right?
Going to see him on Sept. 23rd in Aurora. Taking my whole family. Can't wait. |
Re: When you think of GL - what year do you visualize?
1976 and 1987-88
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