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Riffstorm · 01-19-2004, 01:04 AM

quote:Originally posted by 97-5 busdriver:
What is your least favorite Gordon footLight soong?
I grew up in the late 70's to early 80's listening to heavy metal and new wave.I never liked country or folk{back then I never heard of it} during the late 80's early 90's New York had a new radio station format called "Echos...(and still do}It was such a unique sampling of all types of instrumental music especially acoustic guitar. So, one very late night after hanging out with friends I put on the Echo station and heard this melody that I truly was head strung over. The DJ never mentioned who wrote or sang it. It took me a while to find out ....which is another whole story in itself of course .Now, almost 15 years later, I have watched Gordie perform live 3 times at the Westbury music fair on long island. So, what does that tell you? It tells me that I was probably in my teen years just following what other teens were listening to at the time. So I guess my taste now in music is like a fine and mature wine that got better with age( have a taste for classic rock during kareoke nite after a couple of Jd's). The only song or songs in Gordies career that i don't like is anything that sounds too country! Sure, John Denver might be an exception but I still think till the day I die is that every man whatever background he posesses wishes he was a country boy, sometime or another.

01-19-2004, 01:04 AM	#71
Riffstorm Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: west islip, ny Posts: 27	quote:Originally posted by 97-5 busdriver: What is your least favorite Gordon footLight soong? I grew up in the late 70's to early 80's listening to heavy metal and new wave.I never liked country or folk{back then I never heard of it} during the late 80's early 90's New York had a new radio station format called "Echos...(and still do}It was such a unique sampling of all types of instrumental music especially acoustic guitar. So, one very late night after hanging out with friends I put on the Echo station and heard this melody that I truly was head strung over. The DJ never mentioned who wrote or sang it. It took me a while to find out ....which is another whole story in itself of course .Now, almost 15 years later, I have watched Gordie perform live 3 times at the Westbury music fair on long island. So, what does that tell you? It tells me that I was probably in my teen years just following what other teens were listening to at the time. So I guess my taste now in music is like a fine and mature wine that got better with age( have a taste for classic rock during kareoke nite after a couple of Jd's). The only song or songs in Gordies career that i don't like is anything that sounds too country! Sure, John Denver might be an exception but I still think till the day I die is that every man whatever background he posesses wishes he was a country boy, sometime or another.