My fave GL song? Well, like most fans, I have a favorite for just about every day of the week, but my all-time favorite will always be "Early Morning Rain". It will always remind me of my Army days when one didn't stay in one place for very long, and a good portion of my time was spent in airports to and from duty stations and on leave. "Early Morning Rain" is my ultimate "So long" song, and whenever I am leaving somewhere for a long time or making a major life change, EMR is my major theme. I remember seeing a movie from Hong Kong about a love triangle called "Dream of Desire", and at the end of the movie, as we see the main character's 747 take off to take him to a new life, a pop song with acoustic guitars plays, and it sounds like something GL would play. I always fantasized about being the producer of that movie, and when they would give me a choice of songs to use for the closing scenes, I would, without hesitation, insist on EMR. My wife is from Korea, and whenever we fly there, I always have EMR playing in my walkman during takeoff. The sound of it, particularly the steel guitars and bass during the musical breaks(I'm a bass-player myself!)always evoke images of saying farewell to those that you leave behind, and how that feeling of promise and a whole new world opening up for you are feelings that just can't be beat! Whenever I travel, be it by car or plane, Gord's Gold goes with me (even on my honeymoon!), and EMR will always play.
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