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[imported_Next_Saturday]

In My Fashion shot from the audience,presumably 9/17/2006:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzSaLhY2xAg

And this one's a treat from the Johnny Cash show, an all-star lineup including Lightfoot singing a bit of Steel Rail Blues:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzoPM0DwwuY

[BILLW]

say what you will about 'unauthorized video' ,etc. but you have to admit that's a great thing to see. Long Live Lightfoot !!!!!!!!!

Bill :)

[Jennifer]

I love it! :)

[Jesse Joe]

That's just great, Thank's Next_ Saturday, for sharing this. You can actually see him struggling with his strumming hand a few times.

But the Johnny Cash one is awesome, I remember watching that show on TV in around 1970. Now if someone could just find the Johnny Cash Show where Gord does CRT...~Jesse~ :)

[Cathy]

Originally posted by Jesse -Joe:
That's just great, Thank's Next_ Saturday, for sharing this. You can actually see him struggling with his strumming hand a few times.

But the Johnny Cash one is awesome, I remember watching that show on TV in around 1970. Now if someone could just find the Johnny Cash Show where Gord does CRT...~Jesse~ :) I wonder if Gord has considered using Gorilla Snot (I know, it's a strange name), a sticky substance he could put on the pick to keep it positioned right? It would probably solve the problem quite well, until he gets his grip back.

[mnmouse]

Yes, that is from the Minneapolis concert last Sunday.

[Jesse Joe]

Being a guitar buff for nearly 38 years thats a new one for me Cathy. { Gorilla Snot } I guess you learn new things all the time. :) ~Jesse-Joe~

[Cathy]

I know an old fiddler who uses it. He's in his 80s and is in the first stages of Parkinson's disease. He was consantly dropping his bow before he started using it.

[Gitchigumee]

Oh My God! I LOVE those videos! I gotta figure out a way I can save them, burn em or whatever they call it. As you can see, I'm not too swift with computers. Did you guys see the Canadian Railroad Trilogy performance? Be still my beating heart.

[Auburn Annie]

Flashback time folks ... also on YouTube is Scott McKenzie's "San Francisco" at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0hF2qIPF2M

Notes:

We met once a lifetime ago ...

SAN FRANCISCO
Scott McKenzie

If you're going to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
If you're going to San Francisco
You're gonna meet some gentle people there

For those who come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there
In the streets of San Francisco
Gentle people with flowers in their hair

All across the nation such a strange vibration
People in motion
There's a whole generation with a new explanation
People in motion people in motion

For those who come to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
If you come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there

If you come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there

...it was in April...1964 at Guelph University taping the Canadian Folk Music show called "Let's Sing Out" "with Oscar Brand. Scott was performing with The Journeymen. John Phillips went on to form the Mama's and the Papa's. Scott went on to record San Francisco and Dick Weissman just kept playing an amazing banjo.

Scott contacted me when he saw the video's of the Journeymen on this StonewallStudios Youtube channel. His contact was inspiring. The other day I asked if I could produce San Francisco and he wrote:

I see no problem with you creating a video around San Francisco at all...

I contacted Scott McKenzie wondering if these images were suitable. Here is his response:

"Just for clarification: Although the idea for the song was my idea, my dear friend John Phillips wrote it".
"As for the images that were in our minds (I was with him when he wrote it; we had been discussing it for weeks) ... John and Lou Adler were producing Monterey Pop - just a few weeks off -- and we were both thinking about the already huge number of young people who were making their way to California, especially to San Francisco. I was concerned that many of those young people might not understand how older people, especially property owners and residents in the San Francisco and Monterey area, were understandably anxious about this deluge of people who belonged to a generation that had rejected their values. John had encountered hostility from some of the people in Monterey to the idea of using the fairgrounds for pop music.
One interesting note -- when John was writing, the idea of Greek youth attending the first Olympic games flashed into his mind. So "flowers in their hair" also referred to these idealized youth of ancient times. John was a great lover of Byron, Shelley and Keats, so ancient Greek references were completely natural to him.

Does any of this help?"

I Guess it does Scott. Thank you...for these liner notes on this wonderfull watershed song known world wide.

[Jesse Joe]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Cathy:
I know an old fiddler who uses it. He's in his 80s and is in the first stages of Parkinson's disease. He was consantly dropping his bow before he started using it. [/QUOTE}





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http://www.gorillasnot.com/


You were not kidding Cathy... :)

[ September 22, 2006, 19:48: Message edited by: Jesse -Joe ]

[Cathy]

I just e-mailed the Gorilla Snot big boss and asked him to send Gord a jar of their product.

[Jesse Joe]

Good for you Cathy. Would like to see his face when he gets the stuff. They probably know about it, Im sort of taking a guess. :) ~Jesse~

[Cathy]

I got confirmation today:

"Cathy,

The jar will leave here Monday to the address supplied. I have always been a big fan. I hope it helps.

Dan Ezso
Gorilla Snot Products"

Is that cool, or what?

that is like totally cool!!
lol
I hope he adds your name!

[ September 23, 2006, 21:30: Message edited by: charlene ]

[Jesse Joe]

That's very cool. Great job Cathy...~Jesse~ :) ;)