Just to clarify: Lightfoot did not retune. He transposed.
Back in the 70s, he used only one 12 string on stage, and he did retune for EMR or CRT (whichever he played first). Sometimes a string broke, and the process took a good 10 minutes, if not longer. He didn't lose anybody.
But he did eventually decide that retuning a 12 on stage is not something he wanted to do. And he certainly wouldn't want to do it twice, because he'd have to retune back to dropped D for EMR and CRT.
Bill, sometimes you are too funny!
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