Gordon Lightfoot Forums - Massey 2011 set lists and comments

Wednesday May 25, 2011
1. Did She Mention My Name
2. Carefree Highway
3. Sea of Tranquility
4. Never Too Close
5. A Painter Passing Through
6. Let It Ride
7. Christian Island - Carter was magnificent.
8. Shadows
9. If Children Had Wings
10. Beautiful - some fabulous new guitar sounds added by Carter refresh this tune. It's beautiful!
Band Intro. "Terry passed away in February and he will be missed. He was a great guitar player."
11. Hangdog Hotel Room
12. Ribbon of Darkness - one voice in the audience member sang "over me"
13. The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald
BREAK
14. Sweet Guinevere
15. Cotton Jenny
16. Ringneck Loon
17. Home From The Forest
18. Waiting For You - ceiling dust floated down in front of him as he said he was flying home with "lights below, stars above, sun coming up on the horizon" he was laughing about it..This dust would be a part of each concert.
19. Make Way For The Lady
20. Fine As Fine Can Be
21. Couchiching
22. If You Could Read My Mind - hug ovation and a bow to his orchestra who stood for the applause.
23. Restless
24. Baby Step Back - he asked if anyone knew who Mose Allison was.
25. Canadian Railroad Trilogy
ENCORE
26. Rainy Day People
27. In My Fashion

Thursday May 26, 2011
This concert was recorded in HD with 7 cameras.
Prior to the start I asked our group to stand as he walked onstage and give him a huge ovation. We did and the whole place stood for a prolonged ovation..Hope they got it all on video!
After the break when he was going to do IYCRMM (set list was identical in order to night one) I mentioned we should all do it again and we did. It was MAGICAL!! and HE loved it..
1. Did She Mention My Name
2. Carefree Highway
3. Sea of Tranquility
4. Never Too Close
5. A Painter Passing Through
6. Let It Ride
7. Christian Island - when it was over Lightfoot turned and bowed to Carter...Nice! Carter received many rounds of applause throught the concerts each night and acknowledged them with the biggest smile and nod of his head. Barry, Rick and Mike all felt the love..lol
8. Shadows
9. If Children Had Wings
10. Beautiful (more ceiling dust floated down beside him - it fell only around Lightfoot each night!) He picked up and gave it a long look and smiled witha small laugh after he finished singing.
11. Hangdog Hotel Room
12. Ribbon of Darkness (another audience participant sang 'over me')
13. Sundown
14. The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald
BREAK
15. Sweet Guinevere
16. Cotton Jenney
17. Home From The Forest
18. Waiting For You
19. Make Way For The Lady
20. If Children Had Wings
21. Couchiching
22. If You Could Read My Mind - standing 'o' !
23. Restless
24. Baby Step Back
25. Canadian Railroad Trilogy
ENCORE
26. Rainy Day People
27. In My Fashion

Friday May 27, 2011
1. Sweet Guinevere
2. Cotton Jenney
He said they'd been all over the place since the last time at Massey - "Paris, .. London, .. Woodstock ... Ontario.." LOL
3. 14K Gold
4. Never Too Close
5. In My Fashion
6. A Painter Passing Through
7. Rainy Day People
8. Shadows
9. Beautiful
Lightfoot said some groups like to re-invent themselves, not us, we like to stay the same and try to improve...kinda like The Leafs! lol
He introduced the band, mentioning Terry again and that Carter is from Hamilton, a "Hammer!". One lone voice gave us the ARRRRGOS shout at that time..lol (Toronto Argos football team are big Hamilton Ti-Cat rivals) Carter is a Toronto Maple Leafs fan tho.
10. Carefree Highway
11. Hangdog Hotel Room
12. Ribbon Of Darkness - the whole audience sang "over Me" - Lightfoot and the band loved it..
13. Sundown
14. Watcheman's Gone
15. Alberta Bound - lots of energy onstage.
BREAK
16. The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald
17. Ringneck Loon
18. Don Quixote
19. Clouds of Loneliness
20. Let It Ride
21. If Children Had Wings
22. If You Could Read My Mind - a huge ovation and Lightfoot introduced the band for the second time while bowing to them.
23. Restless
24. Baby Step Back - he said he was walking up the 7th fairway - "like this" - and did a little on the spot demo walk, "walking with a pull cart, before they had electric machines" to demonstrate the tempo of the tune he would then write. He's also recounted at other concerts his bro-in-law was up at the tee and kept stepping away and that's where the "Baby Step Back" came from.
25. Ponyman (as a request from a lady from Chicago)
26. Early Morning Rain
ENCORE
27. Blackberry Wine

Saturday May 28, 2011
1. Sweet Guinevere
2. Cotton Jenney
3. Never Too Close (he did his "Ontario" joke again and once again the band laughed quite heartily-especially Carter..)
4. A Painter Passing Through
5. Let It Ride - some wonderful additions from Carter.
6. Rainy Day People
7. Shadows
8. Beautiful
9. If Children Had Wings
Band Intro and mention of Terry again.
10. Carefree Highway
11. Hangdog Hotel Room
12. Ribbon of Darkness
13. Sundown
14. The Watchman's Gone - "fun to play and it has the word BULLSHIT it in it!"
15. Alberta Bound
BREAK
16. The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald
17. Ringneck Loon - a song about avian romance, a meeting up of loons.
18. Don Quixote
19. Clouds of Loneliness
20. In My Fashion
21. Fine As Fine Can Be
22. If You Could Read My Mind - there was a huge ovation again.
23. Baby Step Back - Mose Allison mention again - "reminds me of a M.A. tune, But it's MY tune..I should ask a lawyer to check into it."
24. Restless
"We're almost done! They say I've played 150 times here @ Massey!"
25. Early Morning Rain - "covered by the Kingston Trio and Ian Sylvia who started my career. And then Elvis did it with a word change"..He then told us what the change was so we wouldn't have to guess..lol
26. Song For A Winter's Night
ENCORE and band Intro..and "thanks for the ovation" - "we were coming back anyway."
27. Waiting For You