That silly brother of mine didn't buy the best seats available so we ended up in row U instead of J. We moved up considerably for the second set which was stronger.
I do feel sorry for people like my brother who were seeing him for the first time and don't have, say 36 years worth of memory to draw from. First time I saw Gord Red Shea was still touring! By the third or so time it was the day he starting writing the Wreck.
I'm happy he still gets around - he clearly enjoys it and is full of stories. Would have loved to hijack him for an hour and pick his brain.
He did tell the Elvis story and later I asked him who changed teh line in EMR form "where the cold winds blow" to "where the pavement never (or sometimes "ever") grows. He didn't know! He said "did I used to say cold winds blow?" Then guessed that maybe it ws Ronnie Hawkins who introduced the song to Peter Paul and Mary.
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