SANDYO, I agree wholeheartedly. Cherokee Bend has to have some of the best guitar work I've heard. This is one of those songs that I think sounds just as good on the Gord's Gold album. I hope I don't get too many rebuttals on that opinion, but I think the new (well, newer than the originals anyway) recordings on Gord's Gold Vol. 1 are really nice. In fact, in many ways I like that album's version of Song for a Winter's Night the best. Maybe that could be a new topic, I'd like to hear other people's opinions on the Gold Vol 1 album (most of the remakes on Gord's Gold Vol. 2 I don't care for compared to the original recordings).
Back to the topic, Carefree Highway also has some nice guitar work and I also enjoy the instrumentals in The Watchman's Gone.

If others would like to talk about Gord's Gold, I would be happy to start a topic or just go ahead and do it yourself. I guess I'll find out soon whether or not I am the only one who cares about it.

SANDYO, I agree wholeheartedly. Cherokee Bend has to have some of the best guitar work I've heard. This is one of those songs that I think sounds just as good on the Gord's Gold album. I hope I don't get too many rebuttals on that opinion, but I think the new (well, newer than the originals anyway) recordings on Gord's Gold Vol. 1 are really nice. In fact, in many ways I like that album's version of Song for a Winter's Night the best. Maybe that could be a new topic, I'd like to hear other people's opinions on the Gold Vol 1 album (most of the remakes on Gord's Gold Vol. 2 I don't care for compared to the original recordings).
Back to the topic, Carefree Highway also has some nice guitar work and I also enjoy the instrumentals in The Watchman's Gone.

If others would like to talk about Gord's Gold, I would be happy to start a topic or just go ahead and do it yourself. I guess I'll find out soon whether or not I am the only one who cares about it.

Big Fitz75: I don't think there was any "electric" guitar in SUNDOWN, I think it was a 12-string guitar. The booklet for SONGBOOK says that "the first album on which Lightfoot played electric guitar" was 1978's ENDLESS WIRE.

Big Fitz75: I don't think there was any "electric" guitar in SUNDOWN, I think it was a 12-string guitar. The booklet for SONGBOOK says that "the first album on which Lightfoot played electric guitar" was 1978's ENDLESS WIRE.

Tom - Gord plays 12 string on Sundown, but Red Shea does just great lead electric on it.

That was a wonderful time - when both Red and Terry were appearing on te albums - gee, on Sundown you even have both Rick Haynes and John Stockfish (whatever happened to him?) on bass.

I don't argue with much of what I've read here so far. For something that's not an instrumental break but is some outrageous guitar playing listen to Red on the Sunday Concert version of The Canadian Railroad Trilogy. The combination of speed and control makes my hands hurt! By the way, tha's one song that I think suffers from the WB recuts of old UA songs. I like the Trilogy the way it was originally done - that concert version is my favorite - except for the bozo that claps before it's over (which seems to happen all the time....)

Tom - Gord plays 12 string on Sundown, but Red Shea does just great lead electric on it.

That was a wonderful time - when both Red and Terry were appearing on te albums - gee, on Sundown you even have both Rick Haynes and John Stockfish (whatever happened to him?) on bass.

I don't argue with much of what I've read here so far. For something that's not an instrumental break but is some outrageous guitar playing listen to Red on the Sunday Concert version of The Canadian Railroad Trilogy. The combination of speed and control makes my hands hurt! By the way, tha's one song that I think suffers from the WB recuts of old UA songs. I like the Trilogy the way it was originally done - that concert version is my favorite - except for the bozo that claps before it's over (which seems to happen all the time....)

I feel that the guitar work in " Wreck" tells an erie tale even if there were no words...now I think I know what the "witch of November" sounds like.

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The house you live in will never fall down, if you pity the stranger that stands at your door.....GL

I feel that the guitar work in " Wreck" tells an erie tale even if there were no words...now I think I know what the "witch of November" sounds like.

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The house you live in will never fall down, if you pity the stranger that stands at your door.....GL

Fezo,

You are so right on about the CRT on the Sunday Concert Album. I would never take anything away from Terry, but Red's guitar work is totally awesome. Like you said the control and clarity of each note is beyond description. It's like there was this one moment in time that all the energy in the Universe came together for Red to make that one performance something that every picker from here to the end of time stand in total Awe. Those runs in the last third of the number defy replication. Not even Terry can do it the way Red did it. A true Genius and Master of the instrument.

Rob

Fezo,

You are so right on about the CRT on the Sunday Concert Album. I would never take anything away from Terry, but Red's guitar work is totally awesome. Like you said the control and clarity of each note is beyond description. It's like there was this one moment in time that all the energy in the Universe came together for Red to make that one performance something that every picker from here to the end of time stand in total Awe. Those runs in the last third of the number defy replication. Not even Terry can do it the way Red did it. A true Genius and Master of the instrument.

Rob

quote:Originally posted by fezo:
I like the Trilogy the way it was originally done - that concert version is my favorite - except for the bozo that claps before it's over (which seems to happen all the time....)

Hi fezo,

I agree with you on CRT, I also like the Sunday Concert version best. I have become so used to the clapping, that - strange enough - if I listen to another version, I miss it.

quote:Originally posted by Tom:
Big Fitz75: I don't think there was any "electric" guitar in SUNDOWN, I think it was a 12-string guitar. The booklet for SONGBOOK says that "the first album on which Lightfoot played electric guitar" was 1978's ENDLESS WIRE.

Actually Tom, BigFitz75 is correct. There IS electric guitar in Sundown. If you check the album or CD notes, you'll see that the electric guitar is credited to Red Shea, while Terry plays the acoustic. It is probably true that the first time Gord himself played electric guitar on one of his albums was on Endless Wire, but it wasn't the first time SOMEONE had played electric guitar. He'd been utilizing electric guitar for years before that. One thing I've always wondered about is why Red played electric on Sundown, while Terry did the accoustic parts. I always believed that one of the reasons that Gordon brought TC into the band while Red was still there was because Gord wanted to add electric and Terry with his country rock background was more proficient with it, while Red was a master at the acoustic. But in Sundown the usual roles are reversed. Interesting.
Erica

quote:Originally posted by Tom:
Big Fitz75: I don't think there was any "electric" guitar in SUNDOWN, I think it was a 12-string guitar. The booklet for SONGBOOK says that "the first album on which Lightfoot played electric guitar" was 1978's ENDLESS WIRE.

Actually Tom, BigFitz75 is correct. There IS electric guitar in Sundown. If you check the album or CD notes, you'll see that the electric guitar is credited to Red Shea, while Terry plays the acoustic. It is probably true that the first time Gord himself played electric guitar on one of his albums was on Endless Wire, but it wasn't the first time SOMEONE had played electric guitar. He'd been utilizing electric guitar for years before that. One thing I've always wondered about is why Red played electric on Sundown, while Terry did the accoustic parts. I always believed that one of the reasons that Gordon brought TC into the band while Red was still there was because Gord wanted to add electric and Terry with his country rock background was more proficient with it, while Red was a master at the acoustic. But in Sundown the usual roles are reversed. Interesting.
Erica