Youngish Gord picture

[johnfowles]

http://www.nationalpost.com/arts/3229275.bin?size=620x465
This is a photo that I do not remember ever seeing before that heads a strange article about gord and Terry Whelan at:-
http://www.nationalpost.com/arts/Dave+Bidini+could+read+Gordon+Lightfoot+mind/3229249/story.html

[charlene]

Just sat down with the Post and the Jays/Yankees game and saw that it's already been posted..Interesting read...
Bidini is a great writer - music, sports..all good and one reason I subscribe to the Post.. He wrote something about Gord a few years ago - I'll have to find it.. He was also in The Rheostatics group - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheostatics

[RM]

Interesting read...
Bidini is a great writer

Yes, it's an interesting approach. Do you know if Bidini and Lightfoot are pretty familiar with each other (on a personal level) ?

[charlene]

Not sure if there's a personal level - perhaps in passing at different musicvenues they might run into each other around town. Bidini is a sports fan like Gord so there's that connection too..
http://www.corfid.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=19742
http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/654220
video - http://archives.cbc.ca/arts_entertainment/music/clips/4635/ - Laurie Brown narrates - she moderated the CBC Songwriters show in January with Lightfoot and Gord Downie..lord she's been around forever..lol
http://radiofreecanuckistan.blogspot.com/2007/04/kings-of-past.html
The Rheostatics were never on my radar - wouldn't know one of their songs to save my life but they're an important part of the Canadian musical scene.

[charlene]

the hard copy of the article is titled :
Ode to Gord
Imagining what a Canadian folk legend's first time on stage might have felt like.

[RM]

the hard copy of the article is titled :
Ode to Gord
Imagining what a Canadian folk legend's first time on stage might have felt like.

I wonder if the details in the article are just conjecture on Bidini's part, or derived from chatting with Lightfoot ? Was there really a ventriloquist ? (perhaps Lightfoot has mentioned it before).

Regardless, Bidini has one creative mind.

[charlene]

pretty sure it's all his imagination..

if I get a chance and I remember to, I will ask the legend himself..

One week from today I'm a headin' to Orillia for the big b.d.party/Mariposa festival...
lol

[timetraveler]

http://www.nationalpost.com/arts/3229275.bin?size=620x465
This is a photo that I do not remember ever seeing before that heads a strange article about gord and Terry Whelan at:-
http://www.nationalpost.com/arts/Dave+Bidini+could+read+Gordon+Lightfoot+mind/3229249/story.html
I don't know that it was all that unusual an article. For all we know, that's what might have actually been on their minds at the time. Myself, I liked the human face that the writer put on the whole thing.

[charlene]

-- the hard copy of the article is titled :
Ode to Gord
Imagining what a Canadian folk legend's first time on stage might have felt like.

[charlene]

I have been talking with Dave Bidini. As I thought he has not met Lightfoot.
He is writing a new book about him, a tribute to Lightfoot, and would like to read your stories about Gordon.
Concert experiences, meeting him, what his music means to you etc.etc.
If you find old posts please link them here.

[jj]

a tribute to Lightfoot

it's hard to top this Tribute link...the best i've come across in the past dozen years...i still read the tributes posted (from a lot of non-corfidians too) for the 70th birthday...tributes from stars also, pics...it doesn't get any better...he needs to get in touch with Newland...dont' know if EMP involved or if it's a kind of a hobby initiative...enjoy:)

http://jam.canoe.ca/Comment/2008/11/13/7400686.php

ps) what we need someday is a Gord AUTObiography and him to talk about his songs and the creative process more, more, more...i can take of leave the wine and women chapters of his life...there is no shortage of A1 pics that have appeared here, pro and amateur

[charlene]

David Newland printed out all of the 70th birthday tributes at that link for me and Gordon. So Sweet!
I'll pass the link on to Dave Bidini.
His band covered The Wreck -
YouTube - Rheostatics - Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
- probably in a link somewhere here at corfid.

Yep James, a comprehensive book like that would be awesome and another musician such as Bidini could probably do it justice but it seems he won't be talking with Lightfoot.

[charlene]

Dave is looking for "Lightfoot" stories. He's writing a book about Lightfoot...
Last Call for your stories:

e-mail Dave @ hockeytrope@hotmail.com

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