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Started by roadman, November 09, 2015, 08:08:17 PM

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ixnay

Quote from: jwolfer on November 19, 2015, 11:12:18 AM
Quote from: triplemultiplex on November 19, 2015, 10:50:35 AM
Quote from: RoadWarrior56 on November 19, 2015, 06:34:51 AM
I always liked Gordon Lightfoot and much of his music, but I got so sick of his song about the Edmound Fitzgerald.  I was in college at the time the song came out, and my "neighbors" in the adjacenent dorm room played that song to death, right through the walls.  I think that is the type of song that you either love or your hate.  There is no neutral ground.

That is surprising.  It doesn't strike me as the kind of song the college kids would crank up.
Different time, I suppose.
If was the mid 70s.. James Taylor, the Carpenters

The kind of music heard in our apartment on Phila.'s soft-pop station in the late '70s, which is probably where I first heard "Wreck..." (though I remembered the melody [and liked it], not the words).  I was in 9th grade at the time of the sinking and didn't hear about the sinking until a decade later (when I was an avid listener to American Top 40 and Casey Kasem marked the 10th anniversary by playing "Wreck..." as an "extra" after telling the story of the Fitzgerald).

Has anybody seen Gordon perform live?  Last year, Lightfoot brought his "50 Years on the Carefree Highway" tour to the Grand Theatre in downtown Wilmington, DE.
http://www.broadwayworld.com/regional/Gordon-Lightfoot-85279/map#

I've been through Gordonsville and Lightfoot, Virginia (carefree highways go through both)...

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Gordonsville,+VA+22942/@38.1362735,-78.1968187,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x89b40948f3108997:0xc664ef65d7ce288e

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Lightfoot,+VA+23188/@37.3407184,-76.7631797,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x89b08c3f2280fe11:0x6b6e6bbe98e203c6

ixnay
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bulldog1979

Quote from: ixnay on November 21, 2015, 08:56:51 AM

Has anybody seen Gordon perform live?

I have. He's come up to the UP every few years for the anniversary of the sinking, and back when I was in high school in the 1990s, he performed in concert here in Ishpeming a night or two before the ceremonies at Whitefish Point. As I remember, he performed "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" as his last song before the intermission. When the guitar started to open the song, the audience gave him a standing ovation loud enough to drown out his band. They had to start the song over once the audience quieted down.



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