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Originally posted by Kerstin:
I heard Gordon Lightfoot's music for the first time a few weeks..... I was instantly hooked......
I guess my excuse could be that I grew up in Germany and he is not that famous over there.
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n a May 2005 posting at:-
http://www.corfid.com/ubb/ultimatebb...=003205#000002
I had asked then newbie Claudia (another firm fan from Germany):-
"I was wondering why it appears that Gord is still very popular in Germany. Any ideas??"
if you click on the director link at the top of each page then enter the keyword Germany and select "search only location"
from the drop down list under the keyword box you will find no less than 21 members who have registered from Germany, at
least one of whom is from Hamburg.If instead you search for hamburg you will find that there is in addition a fine fan who
took the pic for Char at Niagara last Saturday the renowned photographer and corfid member #114 Dan Risoto, but he hails from
the "other" Hamburg in New York State just to confuse you!!
I am writing this to add my welcome to another recent discoverer of the magic of what our good friend Jessie Joe likes to
call the "poet genius".I suspect I speak for a lot of us seasoned fans here by saying that it warms my heart to read each
newbie's story of that discovery, followed by their first impressions, followed by their successive requests for advice in
purchaSing of the 20 original albums and the Reno DVD,followed by their inevitable questions which we are all very keen to
answer
In fact Kerstin you must make yourself familiar with the encyclopaedic contents of Wayne Francis's site at:-
http://www.lightfoot.ca
where on his radio/television appearances page at:-
http://www.lightfoot.ca/radioapp.htm
you can nead
GERMAN RADIO - Oct. 29, 1975
Taped at Lightfoot's Frankfurt concert, this radio special included stellar performances of Bend In The Water; Don Quixote;
If You Could Read My Mind; All The Lovely Ladies; Sundown; The Auctioneer and Canadian Railroad Trilogy
and on his "chronology" page for the 70's at:-
http://www.lightfoot.ca/chron03.htm
you can read that in 1975
"In October, he makes a brief tour of Europe with stops in Amsterdam, Hamburg, Munich, Frankfurt and finally at a sold out
Royal Albert Hall in London" (a concert I missed as I was unaware that it as on dammit)
In fact Wayne lists the setlist for the october 28th Frankfurt concert (from the Jahrhunderthalle) at:-
http://www.lightfoot.ca/751028.htm
and a fine recording was made of this concert (a few tracks of which I heard on the UK BBC radio 2, but when I phoned the
Beeb to try to track the album down I was informed that it was only availabe to radio stations nevertheless a bootleg copy
exists
In addition a while ago a nice live video of Sundown was floating around attributed according to the filename to "disc074"
and/or Germany
Last year I bought on ebay a copy of the 1974 'Midnight special"DVD
and was somewhat surprised to discover that the Sundown video on it (my main reason for buying the DVD of course, not being
in any way a fan of the Fat Man) was in fact the same as the alleged German TV appearance
In addition there have been a number of German market specific GL releases
such as an interesting compilation:-
which as an ebay seller once opined
"it's a nice career retrospective, covering music from the 60s up through the late 70s"
For once this is not yet another regurgitation of The first five United Artists albums as you can see by the contents
listed at:-
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot/I'M_THE_ONE_contents.htm
Plus much more importantly is the Hamburg record label Bear Family
which has issued three attractive CDs based on the first five UA albums with bonus tracks
see their GL page at:-
http://www.bear-family.de/mailorder/...epid=bearonly&
Dang I was intending this as a suggestion that Kerstin try to locate these whilst in Germany
thus avoiding imnport charges and shipping should she try to buy them in the States but I expect she is already there and
will not see this in time sorry.
Yet another german-born fan is Gunther Wandtke, now in Sydney Australia who had obviously heard of Gord in Germany
[ March 07, 2007, 14:48: Message edited by: johnfowles ]