Sparta NJ

[SilverHeels]

Is anyone going to be at the Sparta concert tonight?

[charlene]

I wish I was...
are you?

I don't know of anyone else who is going..no one has said anything here about it..

[SilverHeels]

I wish I was too but sadly I am not. David, 2M2L, however, is going and I thought it would have been nice for him to meet up with some fellow Lightheads. It's not very far from where he lives.

[charlene]

good to hear he's up and getting out to a concert!!

[SilverHeels]

It's that ol' Lightfoot magic - does it everytime, and the gig is so close by. I am, of course, insanely envious, but Sparta is a bit more than 40miles from me ... ;)

[fezo]

I'll be there!

Kind of funny. We are maybe two and half hours away but it's been a while. Then, after we have the tickets and all, he's playing much closer in Red Bank. Maybe I'll go twice....

I'll be the short guy with the glasses...

[SilverHeels]

Fezo,
where are you sitting? I'll tell David to come find you.

[charlene]

Originally posted by fezo:
Maybe I'll go twice....

]MAYBE??????????/no maybe about it! go to TWO!
lol

[fezo]

I'm in row J. Short little Italian guy with a brother so there looks like there's two of me.

My brother has the tickets so I'm not sure of the exact seat.

[SilverHeels]

'Short little Italian guy'? Ciao pisano!
Have a great time, guys - wish I could be there too. Will expect full report domani.
:D

[Jennifer]

Hey everyone who's going to catch the show, have a great time, and don't do anything I wouldn't do... aw shucks, go ahead, you only live once! :D

[imported_Next_Saturday]

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[fezo]

This is the quick report because it's the middle of the night....

Good show. Yeah, it's the first in a while and did have to acknowledge that the voice isn't what it was but it's still unmistakably him. He picked from all over but was largely on songs from albums from Endless Wire forward. He of course included many of the hits and tried to touch as many bases as posiible - opened with Cotton Jenny followed by Carefree Highway. I wasn't keeping a setlist so just off the top of my head he did Ribbon of Darkness, Early Morning Rain, Edmund Fitzgerald, Never Too Close,Sea of Tranquility, Triangle, Old Dan's Records, Beautiful, Shadows... I'll try more when I'm awake. Very sorry that he didn't do Canadian Railroad Trilogy or Don Quixote. Of course about a hundred other songs.

And, this is a first for someone who has been listening to him from the beginning - I finally met him! Hung around after the show long enough that he did come out, autographed my old cover of "Sit Down Young Stranger (Yeah - vinyl before the name change) and my CD cover of Summer Side of Life. I has brought my CD cover for Don Quixote but it is missing at the moment. I've got a picture of us but I have to figure out uploading it. It's great - he's as short as I am!

He was very nice to talk to. Would have gotten more in but I had competition - but all were very nice. I mentioned I knew how to play almost as many of his songs as he did and he got talking about how he started learning maye 80 of other peoples song before he started trying his hand at it. It was really great - like talking to an old friend - for good reason!

Never connected with DAvid and I had teh wrong row number for me!

[brink-]

I am really surprised he didn't play CRT. So glad you got to meet him.
Funny about the height, at one time on this forum there was a discussion about him being 6' or taller. I had jujust met him and knew that couldn't be right, I am 5' and I knew I didn't look that far up.
Waiting for a more in depth review though.
WAKE UP FEZO!! (for non-Wiggles fans - sorry I couldn't resist.)

[Jenney]

He didn't play CRT the other night in Torrington either. I was mildly surprised, but sometimes he seems to throw it in as the tour progresses.

[charlene]

I guess of the two epics to choose from when playing a U.S. date he's best to go with the Wreck...if he had to choose up here it's a safe bet he'd do The Trilogy probably...it will be interesting to see the set lists fromt he east coast tour in May...
Glad you got to meet him FEZO - send the pic to me if you have any probs...I'll post it for you..
Char

[fezo]

That silly brother of mine didn't buy the best seats available so we ended up in row U instead of J. We moved up considerably for the second set which was stronger.

I do feel sorry for people like my brother who were seeing him for the first time and don't have, say 36 years worth of memory to draw from. First time I saw Gord Red Shea was still touring! By the third or so time it was the day he starting writing the Wreck.

I'm happy he still gets around - he clearly enjoys it and is full of stories. Would have loved to hijack him for an hour and pick his brain.

He did tell the Elvis story and later I asked him who changed teh line in EMR form "where the cold winds blow" to "where the pavement never (or sometimes "ever") grows. He didn't know! He said "did I used to say cold winds blow?" Then guessed that maybe it ws Ronnie Hawkins who introduced the song to Peter Paul and Mary.

[charlene]

FEZO and LIGHTFOOT:
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/1810/dscn0513lu4.jpg

[RM]

Originally posted by fezo:
I wasn't keeping a setlist
So...the pen in your pocket is a prop ?
he's as short as I am!
On my screen, Lightfoot looks a bit taller. Maybe it's the resolution.

I'm just being silly...I'm glad you revisited the music, and you had the opportunity to meet him.

[charlene]

http://www.corfid.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=004419
scroll to the pics..

I'm 5'5" and we had on shoes with comparable heel height..my daughter is 5'3".
There's not much difference in height between Gord and I. He had his arm around my waist and I had mine around his..I barely look up to see eye to eye..lol

[fezo]

OK - my height is an illusion.... No, Gord's a little bit taller. I'm used to guys being a lot bit taller....

The pen IS a prop! It was my wife's Sharpie - in case Gord didn't have one (which of course he did!)

[BILLW]

Great picture, thanks for sharing it.

Bill :)