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johnfowles · 08-21-2005, 02:13 AM

Susan is away for a few days but said that when she gets back she will post
the setlist for redding that she carefully wrote down in the dark,well fairly
carefully as she managed to almsot obliterate the second half's opener "The
Pony Man by writing the second "beautiful" right on top of where she had
written pony man luckily the P was very clear.Previous posters have covered
most of the two evening's highlights and Gord's chatter. So I wont repeat them
here,
We were able to attend both Glenside and Reading. I read up on the history
of the latter in the Pennsylvania Dutch (German) Country and learned that
"King Charles deeded this land to William Penn in 1681. Penn’s sons founded
Reading in 1748, naming it, Reading, in honor of their ancestral home in
Reading England."
all Brits know the original Reading in Berkshire is pronounced "redding in barkshire"
where Berk/Barkshire is similar to Derby/Darby.
He also introduced Ghosts of Cape Horn as being about as far south as you could
go and at one point stated that this was the first time in his career that he
had played in Redding, having been to Britain 5 times and Europe twice plus
once to some place known as Australia.
Regarding the guitars he said that Terry's was made in New Jersey and that
his son had "absconded" with his own "signature" Martin and thus he now had a
new Martin but I could see none of the distinguishing decoration of a D18GL
version.
He actually introduced Cotton Jenny by saying over his shoulder "Cotton boys"
and asked Mike for a note to start the "ethereal" Restless. Barry once told
me when I asked him how they knew which song to play next that sometimes they
get lucky when Gord will confide the title of the next song to Terry then if
an eavesdropping Barry catches it he'll pass it on to Rick and Mike!!
Which reminds me that at Reading a loud voice complimented Rick on his fine
new ponytail leading Gord to comment that there really wasn't anything else to
do with it!! At Glenside I was indeed glum as BillW noticed because after
walking back to row F to try to find "fork Mary" I only found two ladies
blocking the aisle end of the row (neither wearing anything peach colo(u)red
nor answering to the name Mary and seat 111 was definitely occupied by a largish
gent sporting a tee shirt emblazoned with the name of a defunct prison Island
near the Golden Gate Bridge. I regret that I failed to try to find Brian and
Gloria at Glenside and left my notes containing his seats at Reading in another
pair of trousers.We were delighted to join Bill and Lizanne at the Athena for
a splendid Greek meal and there to also meet the brother and sister act of
formerly Lavender and Gabe (JBT).Strange that nobody came up to the 5 of us
in row DD where Bill's Hawaian shirt was plainly evident and he and I were
wearing our distinctive red badges from Hamilton last November.However on both
nights we were pleased to witness Gord making a fuss over talking to his old
friend Tom Levine (who he first met in New Jersey 33 years ago and now at 40
is not only wheelchair bound but can only communicate laboriously by using a
head mounted wand device to spell out words on a voice synthesizer.
Susan took a series of digital pix of Gord with Tom at Glenside and we got
the best two printed in Reading then Gord autographed the one Tom liked best
which we gave to him in a frame. Tom would like this pic to be displayed on the Internet so I will upload it then we will be emailing the
uploaded picture's address to Tom with the code to display it here.so hopefully he can then do this himself.No doubt his new African-American ahem minder
Darren Scott or his sidekick Gerard or is it Gerald?? could help Tom with
this especially since Darren admitted to becoming a Lightfoot fan himself rare for a person of
colo(u)r (I pointed him in the direction of the Reno video with its performance of the
jazz/blues influenced Make Way For The Lady.And that reminds me that Gord embelished his reference to the aging/departed Warner Records people by adding that another older artist (Dave Brubeck) was an early influence
OK I must stop there before somebody accuses me of being long winded again
John Fowles
A message to the wind
I must begin to write of love and rain

[ August 21, 2005, 08:35: Message edited by: johnfowles ]

08-21-2005, 02:13 AM	#5
johnfowles Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: New Jersey U.S.A. ex UK and Canada Posts: 4,846	Susan is away for a few days but said that when she gets back she will post the setlist for redding that she carefully wrote down in the dark,well fairly carefully as she managed to almsot obliterate the second half's opener "The Pony Man by writing the second "beautiful" right on top of where she had written pony man luckily the P was very clear.Previous posters have covered most of the two evening's highlights and Gord's chatter. So I wont repeat them here, We were able to attend both Glenside and Reading. I read up on the history of the latter in the Pennsylvania Dutch (German) Country and learned that "King Charles deeded this land to William Penn in 1681. Penn’s sons founded Reading in 1748, naming it, Reading, in honor of their ancestral home in Reading England." all Brits know the original Reading in Berkshire is pronounced "redding in barkshire" where Berk/Barkshire is similar to Derby/Darby. He also introduced Ghosts of Cape Horn as being about as far south as you could go and at one point stated that this was the first time in his career that he had played in Redding, having been to Britain 5 times and Europe twice plus once to some place known as Australia. Regarding the guitars he said that Terry's was made in New Jersey and that his son had "absconded" with his own "signature" Martin and thus he now had a new Martin but I could see none of the distinguishing decoration of a D18GL version. He actually introduced Cotton Jenny by saying over his shoulder "Cotton boys" and asked Mike for a note to start the "ethereal" Restless. Barry once told me when I asked him how they knew which song to play next that sometimes they get lucky when Gord will confide the title of the next song to Terry then if an eavesdropping Barry catches it he'll pass it on to Rick and Mike!! Which reminds me that at Reading a loud voice complimented Rick on his fine new ponytail leading Gord to comment that there really wasn't anything else to do with it!! At Glenside I was indeed glum as BillW noticed because after walking back to row F to try to find "fork Mary" I only found two ladies blocking the aisle end of the row (neither wearing anything peach colo(u)red nor answering to the name Mary and seat 111 was definitely occupied by a largish gent sporting a tee shirt emblazoned with the name of a defunct prison Island near the Golden Gate Bridge. I regret that I failed to try to find Brian and Gloria at Glenside and left my notes containing his seats at Reading in another pair of trousers.We were delighted to join Bill and Lizanne at the Athena for a splendid Greek meal and there to also meet the brother and sister act of formerly Lavender and Gabe (JBT).Strange that nobody came up to the 5 of us in row DD where Bill's Hawaian shirt was plainly evident and he and I were wearing our distinctive red badges from Hamilton last November.However on both nights we were pleased to witness Gord making a fuss over talking to his old friend Tom Levine (who he first met in New Jersey 33 years ago and now at 40 is not only wheelchair bound but can only communicate laboriously by using a head mounted wand device to spell out words on a voice synthesizer. Susan took a series of digital pix of Gord with Tom at Glenside and we got the best two printed in Reading then Gord autographed the one Tom liked best which we gave to him in a frame. Tom would like this pic to be displayed on the Internet so I will upload it then we will be emailing the uploaded picture's address to Tom with the code to display it here.so hopefully he can then do this himself.No doubt his new African-American ahem minder Darren Scott or his sidekick Gerard or is it Gerald?? could help Tom with this especially since Darren admitted to becoming a Lightfoot fan himself rare for a person of colo(u)r (I pointed him in the direction of the Reno video with its performance of the jazz/blues influenced Make Way For The Lady.And that reminds me that Gord embelished his reference to the aging/departed Warner Records people by adding that another older artist (Dave Brubeck) was an early influence OK I must stop there before somebody accuses me of being long winded again John Fowles A message to the *wind* I must begin to write of love and rain [ August 21, 2005, 08:35: Message edited by: johnfowles ]