RIP Gordon Lightfoot
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Re: RIP Gordon Lightfoot
Beat me to it sixstring.
Must watch the documentary on Amazon Prime video. When Getty Lee and Alex Lifeson claim that Gordon is/was the best Canadian musician ever; that goes to say.
Must watch the documentary on Amazon Prime video. When Getty Lee and Alex Lifeson claim that Gordon is/was the best Canadian musician ever; that goes to say.
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Re: RIP Gordon Lightfoot
R.I.P.
Seems like he toured right up to the end.
Seems like he toured right up to the end.
"I don't ask for much. The truth will do just fine. Won't you lay it on the line?"
Re: RIP Gordon Lightfoot
He wrote some great songs, some of which are timeless. You can play Sundown to a person of any age and there's a good chance they will like the song.
Re: RIP Gordon Lightfoot
Just learned Sundown. Capo on 2nd fret. Hell of a songwriter and story teller. Edmund Fitzgerald weaves an amazing story. I think he read about it in Newsweek and penned the song.
Just smile and wave boys, smile and wave...
Re: RIP Gordon Lightfoot
"Women and music...I'm always amazed at other people's choices" - David Lee Roth
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Re: RIP Gordon Lightfoot
Nick Beato nailed it. Every time I have heard that song, Whitney Houston's lyrics would pop in my head. Amazingly I just came across this.
In 1987, Lightfoot filed a lawsuit against Michael Masser, the composer of Whitney Houston's hit "The Greatest Love of All", alleging plagiarism of 24 bars of "If You Could Read My Mind"; the transitional section that begins "I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow" of the Masser song has the same melody as "I never thought I could act this way and I got to say that I just don't get it; I don't know where we went wrong but the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back" of Lightfoot's song.
Lightfoot stated that he dropped the lawsuit when he felt it was having a negative effect on the singer Houston because the lawsuit was about the writer and not her.[8] He also said that he did not want people to think that he had stolen his melody from Masser.[9] The case was settled out of court, and Masser issued a public apology.
Excellent cost performance is a strong friend of a left-handed guitarist!
82-83 The Duke Bass White
84 Focus 3000 Blue
85 Ferrington KFS-2 Black
86 Ferrington KFS-2 Sunburst
86 Focus 1000 White
87 Focus 1000 Black
87 Focus 6000 Black
87 American Pacer Custom I FlipFlop Blue
87 ZX30 Red
88 Focus 700ST Bass Blue
2000 FR-422SML Red
82-83 The Duke Bass White
84 Focus 3000 Blue
85 Ferrington KFS-2 Black
86 Ferrington KFS-2 Sunburst
86 Focus 1000 White
87 Focus 1000 Black
87 Focus 6000 Black
87 American Pacer Custom I FlipFlop Blue
87 ZX30 Red
88 Focus 700ST Bass Blue
2000 FR-422SML Red
Re: RIP Gordon Lightfoot
Another one of the greats that will be missed by so many, but still immortal because of the music he left for everyone to hear and enjoy. As with many, my first exposure to Gordon was "Edmund Fitzgerald". But after hearing that at a far younger age (I was 15 when it was released in 1976), I soon acquired an 8-track tape (yes, I'm that old) called "Summertime Dream"; the album that "EF" was on. One of the songs on there, "I'm Not Supposed To Care", transcends time....the way so many of his songs do....and it still touches deeply.
Not sure if there's a rotation to the lineup of the Hereafter Band, or if all the ones that are lost to us play at the same time.....either way, it's one hell of a show.
R.I.P. , young man........fair weather is your reward.
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Sailors pray,
For fair winds and a following sea
The smell of salt in the air,
The feel of their skin as it's touched by the spray
An albatross soaring above,
Dolphins in the ship's wake at play
To witness a work of art that only God can create,
The sunset at the end of day
At night a million stars in the sky,
Safe anchorage in an islands lee
When the time comes to die as for all it must,
To awake in Sailors Heaven where nothing ever rusts
And always there would be,
Fair winds and a following sea
Not sure if there's a rotation to the lineup of the Hereafter Band, or if all the ones that are lost to us play at the same time.....either way, it's one hell of a show.
R.I.P. , young man........fair weather is your reward.
******
Sailors pray,
For fair winds and a following sea
The smell of salt in the air,
The feel of their skin as it's touched by the spray
An albatross soaring above,
Dolphins in the ship's wake at play
To witness a work of art that only God can create,
The sunset at the end of day
At night a million stars in the sky,
Safe anchorage in an islands lee
When the time comes to die as for all it must,
To awake in Sailors Heaven where nothing ever rusts
And always there would be,
Fair winds and a following sea