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Originally posted by RJ:
I'm one of the probably very few oddballs who loves Gord's voice now much more than I did when he was younger. I find it more expressive; it hits me harder now, moves me more etc
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Interesting I have recently repeatedly played a CD of a 2005 Californian concert whose first track happens to be "The Pony Man", which is normally nowhere close to making it into any sort of listing of my favourites, and I suddenly realised thay Gord singing it nowadays in his current "lived in" voice actually sounds to me now better suited to the song than the original recording on the IYCRMM/SDYS album and really made me listen to and appreciate the qualities of the song as if for the first time, wierd!!
No I am not weird just newly appreciative of that children's song.
As an aside I believe I remember hearing a comment from Gord somewhere that if he does not nowadays start the second half of a concert (after the intermission ) with SDYS it would be because he had a request for "The Pony Man
A still from somebody else's interpretaton of the song
John Fowles
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Originally posted by Bill:
There are some songs in concert that sound like the recordings. At Wolftrap a few years ago I was astonished when he did Minstre(a)l of the Dawn sounding almost exactly like the recording!
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And yes recent concert performances of
"Minstrel of the Dawn" have been simply magnificent
[ October 18, 2006, 11:14: Message edited by: johnfowles ]