Hello, I am new at writing on this website about Gord. I am a huge G.L. fan and would like to see him in a concert sometime. Yet
I am only 21, I have all the albums available on cd as well as my mother's Gord's Gold LP. That was mainly how I started listening to him. My one fav. album is a toss up between Summer Side, and Endless Wire. I really like Endless Wire, just something different about that album and "If children had wings" is one damn good song, I love it. I also play guitar and been playing for about 7 years now and always seem to play Gord's music. I'd be interested to know if there are any G.L. fans my age out there also

Hello, I am new at writing on this website about Gord. I am a huge G.L. fan and would like to see him in a concert sometime. Yet
I am only 21, I have all the albums available on cd as well as my mother's Gord's Gold LP. That was mainly how I started listening to him. My one fav. album is a toss up between Summer Side, and Endless Wire. I really like Endless Wire, just something different about that album and "If children had wings" is one damn good song, I love it. I also play guitar and been playing for about 7 years now and always seem to play Gord's music. I'd be interested to know if there are any G.L. fans my age out there also

I'm 22. I play his music on the guitar too, though probably not as well as you if you've been playing 7 years (I'm more recently self taught). My favourite album is don Quixote. I own almost all I have of him on record, a couple of CD's though. Got my dad Don Quixote for Christmas, it is actually mutually our favourite album. My mom says he's wearing it out already. Oh, anyway, that is answering whether there are fans your age out there...with some babble...

I'm 22. I play his music on the guitar too, though probably not as well as you if you've been playing 7 years (I'm more recently self taught). My favourite album is don Quixote. I own almost all I have of him on record, a couple of CD's though. Got my dad Don Quixote for Christmas, it is actually mutually our favourite album. My mom says he's wearing it out already. Oh, anyway, that is answering whether there are fans your age out there...with some babble...

24 Here , My first album was also gord's Gold. My dad had it, now I have them all on cd that are available. I couldn't tell you my favorite album, there all great!

24 Here , My first album was also gord's Gold. My dad had it, now I have them all on cd that are available. I couldn't tell you my favorite album, there all great!

I myself am a 21 year old fan of Gordon Lightfoot. I first began listening to him at an early age and that had an impact on me. Like EndlessWire I also play guitar (Both electric and acoustic) and I often find myself playing Gordon's songs (I was playing "Sundown" at a family holiday get together recently). In fact I found this page when looking for guitar tabs for one of Gordon's songs (I have since found them). Also the first album I heard was my dad's Gords Gold album. I have purchased several of Gordon's albums on CD. Unfortunately I have never had the opportunity to see him in concert although I hope to someday. I am open to all kinds of music from CCR to Led Zeppelin to Korn. But I always will listen to and apreciate the music of Gordon Lightfoot.



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Look into his shining eyes and if you see a ghost don't be surprised......Listen to the strings. That jangle and dangle while the old guitar sings.

The lake it is said never gives up her dead, when the gales of November come early.

I'm 21 too and have been a Lightfoot fan for probably my whole life. My dad got me started on it. He use to play Gord's Gold every Sunday morning to wake me and my brother and sisters up for church. I didn't really become a serious fan until I was about 13 or 14. Since then I have bought every one of his albums as well as a bootleg and just recently tracked down copies of the two biography's writen about him. I''ve seen him once in concert in 1995 in Pittsburgh, and I'll be at his show on May 10 in Pittsburgh with my other GL fan friends. I got them all started on his music and there all around my age. I too play a few of his songs on the guitar but I'm not very good. My favorite album would have to be Old Dan's Records. I don't have a favorite song because there all great, but I'm partial to "The House You Live In". Its nice to know that there is a whole new generation of Lightfoot fans out there.

I'm 21 too and have been a Lightfoot fan for probably my whole life. My dad got me started on it. He use to play Gord's Gold every Sunday morning to wake me and my brother and sisters up for church. I didn't really become a serious fan until I was about 13 or 14. Since then I have bought every one of his albums as well as a bootleg and just recently tracked down copies of the two biography's writen about him. I''ve seen him once in concert in 1995 in Pittsburgh, and I'll be at his show on May 10 in Pittsburgh with my other GL fan friends. I got them all started on his music and there all around my age. I too play a few of his songs on the guitar but I'm not very good. My favorite album would have to be Old Dan's Records. I don't have a favorite song because there all great, but I'm partial to "The House You Live In". Its nice to know that there is a whole new generation of Lightfoot fans out there.

Wow. Does anyone else notice that all the people around our age (with the exception of myself) got hooked by listening to Gord's Gold? Interesting. I didn't even here that until sometime in the 90's when my grandparents died and my grandfather's Gord's Gold found his way to our house. I know when I got hooked, we were driving on vacation in our yellow 1973 Oldsmobile Omega and I wanted to listen to Pete's Dragon for what was like the millionth time (this was on a boombox plugged into the cigarette lighter) and I got vetoed and in went Don Quixote and then I had to listen to that like a million times. The rest is history.

Wow. Does anyone else notice that all the people around our age (with the exception of myself) got hooked by listening to Gord's Gold? Interesting. I didn't even here that until sometime in the 90's when my grandparents died and my grandfather's Gord's Gold found his way to our house. I know when I got hooked, we were driving on vacation in our yellow 1973 Oldsmobile Omega and I wanted to listen to Pete's Dragon for what was like the millionth time (this was on a boombox plugged into the cigarette lighter) and I got vetoed and in went Don Quixote and then I had to listen to that like a million times. The rest is history.

Well, seems like I also fit the descriptions here quite well. I am 25 years old and Gordon Lightfoot's music has been with me all my life.

It makes me very happy to see that Gordon Lightfoot has many fans in my generation.

I'm 18 and I've been a Gordon Lightfoot fan all my life. My mother's a fan, and so I grew up with it. I think I've seen him in concert at least 4 times. I remember in 6th grade I failed a test on Canadian geography (I have a learning disability that makes it very diffcult for me to memorize certain types of information) and my mom said, "but honey, you do know all of the Great Lakes. Remember that verse in Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald? That has all of the lakes, and they're in order except for Lake Erie." I did fine on the retest...

It's kind of interesting here at college. Very few people have heard of Gordon Lightfoot (although one guy who lived down the hall from me last year could sing the first part of Canadian Railroad Trilogy...) but most of them asked their parents about him over break and their parents dug out their old records...it's fun. I'm one of the few people in my dorm with a car, and my radio's broken and only the tape player works...slowly but surely, they're getting used to it...some of them may even become fans....one girl sings along now...

I've actually gone out and bought all of the albums I could find. My mom had most of his Warner Brothers stuff, but I went to the local used record store and picked up the rest of it and his UA stuff. Now I'm more familiar with most of his songs than she is...I think I have all of his offical albums now, although I have abridged versions of Sunday Concert and Lightfoot! http://www.corfid.com/ubb/frown.gif . My next project is to start buying this stuff on CD...

I'm 18 and I've been a Gordon Lightfoot fan all my life. My mother's a fan, and so I grew up with it. I think I've seen him in concert at least 4 times. I remember in 6th grade I failed a test on Canadian geography (I have a learning disability that makes it very diffcult for me to memorize certain types of information) and my mom said, "but honey, you do know all of the Great Lakes. Remember that verse in Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald? That has all of the lakes, and they're in order except for Lake Erie." I did fine on the retest...

It's kind of interesting here at college. Very few people have heard of Gordon Lightfoot (although one guy who lived down the hall from me last year could sing the first part of Canadian Railroad Trilogy...) but most of them asked their parents about him over break and their parents dug out their old records...it's fun. I'm one of the few people in my dorm with a car, and my radio's broken and only the tape player works...slowly but surely, they're getting used to it...some of them may even become fans....one girl sings along now...

I've actually gone out and bought all of the albums I could find. My mom had most of his Warner Brothers stuff, but I went to the local used record store and picked up the rest of it and his UA stuff. Now I'm more familiar with most of his songs than she is...I think I have all of his offical albums now, although I have abridged versions of Sunday Concert and Lightfoot! http://www.corfid.com/ubb/frown.gif . My next project is to start buying this stuff on CD...

Algeh - Where do you attend college? I work in a college town and attended the college here some....years ago, and it was always my mission (still is) to educate anybody I could
about Gord. Your college experience is sounding alot like mine. Gord came to our campus back in the seventies and that one was the start of many a concert attendance to come! It's so nice to see the "younger generation" appreciating him now, and discovering him. Spread the word, Algeh!

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"the mornin' after blues, from my head down to my shoes..."

Algeh - Where do you attend college? I work in a college town and attended the college here some....years ago, and it was always my mission (still is) to educate anybody I could
about Gord. Your college experience is sounding alot like mine. Gord came to our campus back in the seventies and that one was the start of many a concert attendance to come! It's so nice to see the "younger generation" appreciating him now, and discovering him. Spread the word, Algeh!

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"the mornin' after blues, from my head down to my shoes..."

I go to college at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, OR. It's a nice little school. (The same one my mother went to. http://www.corfid.com/ubb/smile.gif ) I live in the substance-free dorm, so most of the people are pretty reasonable, no real party types (not that i have anything against party types, just that they can be hard to live with.). Don't worry, I'll keep exposing other college students to Gordon Lightfoot at every opportunity.... http://www.corfid.com/ubb/smile.gif (I'm sorry this post isn't up to my usual standard of coherancy, I just finished writing an essay and my brain is fried. TGIF.)

I go to college at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, OR. It's a nice little school. (The same one my mother went to. http://www.corfid.com/ubb/smile.gif ) I live in the substance-free dorm, so most of the people are pretty reasonable, no real party types (not that i have anything against party types, just that they can be hard to live with.). Don't worry, I'll keep exposing other college students to Gordon Lightfoot at every opportunity.... http://www.corfid.com/ubb/smile.gif (I'm sorry this post isn't up to my usual standard of coherancy, I just finished writing an essay and my brain is fried. TGIF.)

I am new to this format, but not new to G.L. Have been listening to Gord since the 70's and will get to see him in concert for the first time on May 12th,Carlisle,PA. I am the same age as G.L., and it is so great to see 20 year olds appreciating his music. Now, pass that on to the Bryce Jordan Center at P.S.U. I have been trying to get them to invite him for a concert.

I am new to this format, but not new to G.L. Have been listening to Gord since the 70's and will get to see him in concert for the first time on May 12th,Carlisle,PA. I am the same age as G.L., and it is so great to see 20 year olds appreciating his music. Now, pass that on to the Bryce Jordan Center at P.S.U. I have been trying to get them to invite him for a concert.

quote:Originally posted by Algeh:
I'm one of the few people in my dorm with a car, and my radio's broken and only the tape player works...slowly but surely, they're getting used to it...some of them may even become fans....one girl sings along now...

Hi Algeh,

Welcome to this discussion board!

I really like the part about playing Gordon Lightfoot's music in the car. I do exactly the same to my innocent victims http://www.corfid.com/ubb/wink.gif!

quote:Originally posted by Algeh:
I think I have all of his offical albums now, although I have abridged versions of Sunday Concert and Lightfoot!. My next project is to start buying this stuff on CD...

If you plan to buy "Sunday Concert Live", I strongly suggest you go for the "Sunday Concert Plus" edition. It's a little bit more expensive, but includes songs like "Spin, Spin" or "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues (Bob Dylan)" which are not available on CD otherwise.

Algeh

A suggestion for getting the UA albums on CD. Pick up the United Artists Collection. It's got all of the music from the UA albums on it except for Sunday Concert (I'm with Florian on that one. Pick up the plus edition. It's worth the extra money.)

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Look into his shining eyes and if you see a ghost don't be surprised......Listen to the strings. That jangle and dangle while the old guitar sings.

The lake it is said never gives up her dead, when the gales of November come early.

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Algeh

A suggestion for getting the UA albums on CD. Pick up the United Artists Collection. It's got all of the music from the UA albums on it except for Sunday Concert (I'm with Floria on that one. Pick up the plus edition. It's worth the extra money.)

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Look into his shining eyes and if you see a ghost don't be surprised......Listen to the strings. That jangle and dangle while the old guitar sings.

The lake it is said never gives up her dead, when the gales of November come early.

I just wanted to thank everyone for their replies.....It's a few months until my birthday http://www.corfid.com/ubb/frown.gif but I'll pass along the info about the compilation to my mother when the time comes....

I just wanted to thank everyone for their replies.....It's a few months until my birthday http://www.corfid.com/ubb/frown.gif but I'll pass along the info about the compilation to my mother when the time comes....

Hi, I am 22 and I discovered GL when I was around 17 or so and living out west, they played it on the radio. I have gotten some strange looks when people see my GL CDs and tapes in my car or at home. One man, my fathers friend raised an eyebrow and said "Gordon Lightfoot, that's from our generation," he was genuinely puzzled if not alarmed. Hilarious. My boyfriend, after listening to Gord's Gold one night a few times confided to me when we were alone that "Actually, I like this kind of music. But don't ever tell anyone." and he sort of grinned. Well that's our little secret, so he can protest to his friends but he would have to like it or lump it because, baby, GL is always going to be part of my music collection!

My mother and father took my car down to Lunenburg a few months ago for a day trip and 60 minutes of Gordon Lightfoot was in the tape deck. My mom told me they listened to it all the way down (Dad is an old fan) and she and Dad tried to figure out why I like it so much and then they decided it was because I miss my guitar. I thought about that when she told me and she might be partly right. I don't enjoy his newer music as much because it has lost its folk edge, like it was played in someone's living room. From the age of 11 years old I have had a guitar and Farewell to Nova Scotia was one of the first handful of songs that I learned to play. In junior high school every weekend and some week nights myself and a group of older men and sometimes I would bring my friend or my sister and we would get together and play and drink Keiths. Neil Young was a favorite, I could play all the tablature for Cinnamon Girl and that was fine, and Let the Circle Be Unbroken, Fox on the Run, their guitars were nicer than mine and Audley even had an electric tuner, which was a big thing, my dad would tune my guitar by ear. One man, Tony, who was 36 at the time, in particular was my favorite partner for guitar and he didn't sing a whole lot but we used to practice the Johnny Cash/June Carter rendition of "If I was a carpenter", which I had on an old record (I have a lot of old records) and some Porter Wagner and Dolly Parton ones off another record. One of my favorites from the Dolly record was "Love Isn't Free", that song always used to give me goosebumps. Just before my grandfather died of lung cancer I remember he had a country collection tape and one song stood out, County Bumpkin. He used to lay on the old couch in the parlor, when he could have enough strength he would sometimes read Louis L'amour novels and I would try to sing along and hold his hand. I was nine years old and I have a picture of us at his birthday that year and I am on his lap I am smiling but my eyes are shining with tears because when he held me I felt how thin and hollow he was, like the husk of a corn with no life in it, just a few breaths left. Around that time too I remember going into the downstairs bedroom where he slept and putting a picture of a horse I drew under his pillow and when I lifted the pillow I found a brown handled gleaming metal handgun, no trigger lock or anything. I quickly replaced the pillow and put the picture on his dresser. It was like he was no longer a man, he had to depend on a gun for protection for his wife and in his youth he was like me, a scrapper. He could drink a litre of Kelly's between the dam and the driveway on the way home from work and he pulled out all his own teeth before he was 21. My grandmother made alot of baked beans and mashed potatoes and meatloaf and salt cod and everything had to be mashed. He was a lobster fisherman in season and a carpenter and boatbuilder in the offseasons. He died shortly afterward in the hospital in Halifax and he wanted to die at home, that was a sin. When I got playing the guitar I looked for and found a copy of that song (Country Bumpkin by Cal Ripkin), but it was hard to find and I didn't actually find it until I was living in Calgary and I walked down to Music Stop on the corner of 14 Street and 17 Avenue SW and found it in a songbook and got it and went home and learned to play it on guitar. It was amazing that I could still remember the tune and rhythym after so long, but it had left a strong mark on me to search all those years. I know that if I still hung around with the Pineos (we lost touch. when I moved to Calgary I lived there for 4 years, and then back here and then to Halifax for a year) we would be playing the GL tunes, and it would be grand.

I get all my friends to listen to GL and even my sister. My daughter loves to be put to sleep with Gord's Gold, in the car or at home, it takes less than one or two songs and she often requests it. She is so cute when she tries to remember the words to Sundown or Cotton Ginny.

Hopefully she will continue to enjoy the GL tradition because his music is a valuable part of our heritage as Canadians and his respect for nature and people is to important to let go. Let us never forget.

Hi, I am 22 and I discovered GL when I was around 17 or so and living out west, they played it on the radio. I have gotten some strange looks when people see my GL CDs and tapes in my car or at home. One man, my fathers friend raised an eyebrow and said "Gordon Lightfoot, that's from our generation," he was genuinely puzzled if not alarmed. Hilarious. My boyfriend, after listening to Gord's Gold one night a few times confided to me when we were alone that "Actually, I like this kind of music. But don't ever tell anyone." and he sort of grinned. Well that's our little secret, so he can protest to his friends but he would have to like it or lump it because, baby, GL is always going to be part of my music collection!

My mother and father took my car down to Lunenburg a few months ago for a day trip and 60 minutes of Gordon Lightfoot was in the tape deck. My mom told me they listened to it all the way down (Dad is an old fan) and she and Dad tried to figure out why I like it so much and then they decided it was because I miss my guitar. I thought about that when she told me and she might be partly right. I don't enjoy his newer music as much because it has lost its folk edge, like it was played in someone's living room. From the age of 11 years old I have had a guitar and Farewell to Nova Scotia was one of the first handful of songs that I learned to play. In junior high school every weekend and some week nights myself and a group of older men and sometimes I would bring my friend or my sister and we would get together and play and drink Keiths. Neil Young was a favorite, I could play all the tablature for Cinnamon Girl and that was fine, and Let the Circle Be Unbroken, Fox on the Run, their guitars were nicer than mine and Audley even had an electric tuner, which was a big thing, my dad would tune my guitar by ear. One man, Tony, who was 36 at the time, in particular was my favorite partner for guitar and he didn't sing a whole lot but we used to practice the Johnny Cash/June Carter rendition of "If I was a carpenter", which I had on an old record (I have a lot of old records) and some Porter Wagner and Dolly Parton ones off another record. One of my favorites from the Dolly record was "Love Isn't Free", that song always used to give me goosebumps. Just before my grandfather died of lung cancer I remember he had a country collection tape and one song stood out, County Bumpkin. He used to lay on the old couch in the parlor, when he could have enough strength he would sometimes read Louis L'amour novels and I would try to sing along and hold his hand. I was nine years old and I have a picture of us at his birthday that year and I am on his lap I am smiling but my eyes are shining with tears because when he held me I felt how thin and hollow he was, like the husk of a corn with no life in it, just a few breaths left. Around that time too I remember going into the downstairs bedroom where he slept and putting a picture of a horse I drew under his pillow and when I lifted the pillow I found a brown handled gleaming metal handgun, no trigger lock or anything. I quickly replaced the pillow and put the picture on his dresser. It was like he was no longer a man, he had to depend on a gun for protection for his wife and in his youth he was like me, a scrapper. He could drink a litre of Kelly's between the dam and the driveway on the way home from work and he pulled out all his own teeth before he was 21. My grandmother made alot of baked beans and mashed potatoes and meatloaf and salt cod and everything had to be mashed. He was a lobster fisherman in season and a carpenter and boatbuilder in the offseasons. He died shortly afterward in the hospital in Halifax and he wanted to die at home, that was a sin. When I got playing the guitar I looked for and found a copy of that song (Country Bumpkin by Cal Ripkin), but it was hard to find and I didn't actually find it until I was living in Calgary and I walked down to Music Stop on the corner of 14 Street and 17 Avenue SW and found it in a songbook and got it and went home and learned to play it on guitar. It was amazing that I could still remember the tune and rhythym after so long, but it had left a strong mark on me to search all those years. I know that if I still hung around with the Pineos (we lost touch. when I moved to Calgary I lived there for 4 years, and then back here and then to Halifax for a year) we would be playing the GL tunes, and it would be grand.

I get all my friends to listen to GL and even my sister. My daughter loves to be put to sleep with Gord's Gold, in the car or at home, it takes less than one or two songs and she often requests it. She is so cute when she tries to remember the words to Sundown or Cotton Ginny.

Hopefully she will continue to enjoy the GL tradition because his music is a valuable part of our heritage as Canadians and his respect for nature and people is to important to let go. Let us never forget.

I just found this and thinking that there now seem to be quite a number of young Lightheads around I thought I would resurrect it , Nice that this topic was not purged by Florian!!
John Fowles
Sit down young stranger I do not understand

Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams

Make an old man groan, a young
man pain!" All the day, sit and spin, Spin

Bringing the goods to a young growing land

and especially for Brian/"iron"

And your young brother Ernie's up in Pittsburgh, PA.
She loves a young man and he lives in the town

[ January 11, 2006, 16:43: Message edited by: johnfowles ]

I just found this and thinking that there now seem to be quite a number of young Lightheads around I thought I would resurrect it , Nice that this topic was not purged by Florian!!
John Fowles
Sit down young stranger I do not understand

Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams

Make an old man groan, a young
man pain!" All the day, sit and spin, Spin

Bringing the goods to a young growing land

and especially for Brian/"iron"

And your young brother Ernie's up in Pittsburgh, PA.
She loves a young man and he lives in the town

[ January 11, 2006, 16:43: Message edited by: johnfowles ]

Gee,our 21 year old Lightfoot fan will be 27 this year! :eek:
Boy, time sure goes "tweet,tweet,tweet"! :rolleyes:

I became a fan at 33 and this August will be 5 years of GL. :) (Hmmm..."33rd of August??!" :eek: Ah,hA!!!! :cool:

This is pretty cool.I had no idea there were so many GL fans in my age group.I just turned 21 last week,and I also like to diddle with the guitfiddle,especially Gord stuff. Cool...