Gordon Lightfoot will be live on The Bill Bennet Program which is heard throughout the U.S. this morning.

Is Bill Bennet on radio or TV?

Archives are kept on his web page.

bennettmornings.com

I heard most of the interview this morning.

GL sounded GREAT.... I don't know what he sounds like in concert but his voice sounded excellent on the program this morning.

Bennet is a BIG "If You Could Read My Mind" fan and he asked GL what is the song about. GL told him and Bennet said later that he (Bennet) felt bad that it was about GL's divorce.

Bennet is a "class act" and the interview was very well handled.

I hope they put it in the Bennet archives.

Wes

[ August 01, 2006, 08:52: Message edited by: Wes Steele ]

You can listen to the show at this link:
http://www.bennettmornings.com/pg/jsp/charts/streamingAudioMaster.jsp?dispid=302&headerDest=L3B nL2pzcC9tZWRpYS9mbGFzaHdlbGNvbWUuanNwP3BpZD0zMjE3M yZwbGF5bGlzdD10cnVlJmNoYXJ0dHlwZT1j aGFydCZjaGFydElEPTMwMiZwbGF5bGlzdFNpemU9Mg==

aha - I checked a while ago and e-mailed Bill as it hadn't been put up yet......
gonna listen now....
;)

Wes,

Thanks for the "heads up". Nice interview, with Bennett showing a great deal of respect for Lightfoot.

RMD

OK with a slow connection I decided to download the mp3 rather than just listen to it
all that the download mp3 link seems to do is download a web page title
"Bill Bennett: Premium Membership Benefits"
and at one point I thought I saw that a basic membership was $4.95
However without me paying anything or any actual storing mp3 download taking place the interview started coming through my loudspeakers. Wonderful
Great to hear Gord really talking about the meaning of IYCRMM (ghosts and movie stars)
But Iwassurprise to hear again that he saw the famous Carefree Highway signboard at "2 am"

http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/9...don1978la0.jpg
Photo by Rick Haynes in the songbook booklet
Gord likes Kristofferson and Johhny Cash

[ August 01, 2006, 19:00: Message edited by: johnfowles ]

Hey Cathy, I listened to the complete interview, just great, but can't seem to be able to burn it on a CD. Did you do it? Thanks, it was enjoyable hearing Gord again.

J-J me neither yet
This is a more advanced example of making a CD
that I have yet to master but in essence you need a programme like
Music Match
that you set to record from "line in" then then as I understand it (and Valerie Magee will no doubt correct me if I am wrong)
whatever is being played through your computer's loudspeakers will be recorded onto your hard disk as either a full wav file or if you so select a compressed mp3.Either can then be burnt to a CD. What I am not sure of is whether it is possible to burn in real time direct to a CD,and if so how do you do it.
I now have a new computer with a DVD burner
and also a USB plug-in TV tuner device plus software that claims to burn in real time to a DVD, in other words I can turn my humble PC into a full fledged Digital Video Recorder
And another USB device I have should allow me to digitise to DVD my stack of video tapes (both standard VHS and the small 1-hour miniDV tapes from my digital camcorder woo hoo!!!
Anyway for starters go to the MusicMatch site where you can download their great free programme.
Great because it not only can rip mp3s from your CDs but if you are on line and play a CD Music Match automatically looks up a fantastic on line database of albums, and if it finds the album you are playing in its "playlist" panel it will display all the titles of every track and their running time
All Gord's albums are there including the 4 disks of songbook snd some unauthorised CDs
like the 1976 Montreux bootleg. wonderful
John

Oh ok, John, then it's not only me, funny thing I could have burned the beginning of his show which had nothing to do with Lightfoot, using the same method as you had instructed me. I did not of course.

Hey John, if I dont catch up with you again , have a great time at the Lightfoot shows, I will be thinking of youssss...Jesse

No, I can't burn it. I can't even download the mp3. It just shows up as an Internet link.

I suppose I could record it through Cool Edit Pro, then burn it, but I just don't have the energy to do it. I guess I don't want it that badly.

Same here, that is not good.

Yes that was all I could download (the page that more or less says and certainly infers that you cannot download the mp3 without first shelling out $4.95 to join Bill's "circle",hence my interest in finding a way to directly record,both live and archived radio shows, in direct digital format onto my hard drive at least and preferably and where appropriate onto an audio CD-R
Yes I do know any fool can plug the computer's sound output into a cassette recoder and tape it but recording directly digitally would be more efficient
John
I am sure that Music Match is the way.
I recall that when live Canadian broadcasts from for example Peterborouhgh were about Valerie tried to instruct us all and Char used her cassette recorder.
I think I'll search for that old Peterborough topic now
found it!!
Go to:-
http://www.corfid.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ul...c;f=1;t=002924
(actually not Peterborough but the presentations by Gord to the Guess Who.I know Brink was able to record that, did you follow Val's destructions Deb?)
On that topic
"Gord as presenter for the Guess Who"
scroll down to Valerie's instructions
posted January 22, 2005 17:07

[ August 01, 2006, 16:31: Message edited by: johnfowles ]

Try this:

http://members.aol.com/plumbguru2/GL...-lightfoot.mp3

The capture was a little messy so you may hear chairs squeaking, doors shutting, or a phone ringing but it came out okay for those that wanted to keep a copy and not buy a membership.

If you want to record any audio off your PC download the free DbPowerAmp software, it has an Auxillary Input feature.. I use it periodically to save GL audio stuff I find on the WWW.

www.dbpoweramp.com

:)

This is a very nice interview. I'm so glad you posted this, thanks! I like how Bennett described GL's voice at one point as being "clean and unencumbered". You can see he really enjoyed interviewing him.

Thanks again!

You can also save it to your pc as an mp3, as the download option seems to be working now.

Look for the red GL player under Bill Bennett's head and click on "save" in the far right corner of the player. If your browser doesn't allow popups you'll have to allow it this one time. Then the save option appears and you download it as you would anything else.

Re: GL On Bill Bennet This Morning
 

better link - Aug.2006-Bill Bennett radio interview with Lightfoot - http://srnnews.townhall.com/mediapla...4-97247fc26c2f

Re: GL On Bill Bennet This Morning
 

I don't know about the rest of you but personally I love seeing old threads being resurrected , even if it is not always obvious that it is an old thread as is not the case with this one because our Charlady cleverly prefaced her update with a reference to its being from 2006
I scanned the various messages it contains and picked up on my own words as quoted above
I actually bought MusicMatch whilst still in the UK with pounds Sterling back in 1999 (the version number was then 6 I think but the latest version before Yah bloody Hoo took it over in 2004 and comprehensively emasculated it was 10) and it remains a firm favoUrite program with me : yes my original registration number still functions to immediately upgrade a newly installed copy to MusicMatch Plus.
Today it so happens that having just recovered my HP Mini netbook to the ex-factory software state I need to reinstall MMJB (Music Match JukeBox dontcha know) on it but as it runs windoze 7 I know that the later versions of MMJB are not compatible with windows7
However I did find that as stated in the wiki at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musicmatch
"When Windows 7 was released, users had come to find that the newer versions of MusicMatch were no longer compatible with this OS release because of an error recognizing one of the critical DLL files. The simplest workaround is to load MusicMatch 7.5 as the DLL files in the older version are compatible with all versions of Windows 7. Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit) does support version 9 of Musicmatch."
Fortuneately old version 7.5 is archived on
http://www.oldapps.com/musicmatch.php?old_musicmatch=7
(the file is musicmatch75.exe and is 9.95MB)
musicmatch 10 is now a free download from
http://musicmatch-jukebox.soft32.com/