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TennTroubadour · 02-14-2008, 12:41 PM

Hey Char, thanks a bunch for the link to The Cumberland Trio and the "props!!" :-) Hope all you Lightheads enjoy our music & concert videos.

The Chattanooga show exceeeded my wildest expectations- sold out hall with INCREDIBLE acoustics. It was a wildly enthusiastic crowd which really pumped Gord & the guys up. His voice was MUCH, MUCH better than Nashville a few months ago, and he became more animated as the show progressed, and the audience kept loving him back. He was REALLY happy, and it showed. The Tivoli acoustics are so damn good that we could hear Rick & Terry's unmiced harmony vocals from the 6th row!! He did almost two hours, and I'm sure someone will post a set list. The second half especially was a love fest as he added Pony Man by request to the set. After the encore he came out a 2nd time for extended smiles, waves and those signature bows!!

After the show, he was really upbeat and visited with the few of us with backstage passes (THANKS ANN LIEBOLD!!), along with the meet and greet for the drawing winners of a local radio station sponsor. All this occured down front in the hall itself- not backstage.

NOWWWW....for those of you in suspense, Dore really did herself proud last night!! She was a model of decorum. Gord did recognize her from the audience when she did her signature "You are AWESOME" after the first song. After the show she had some chocolates in the form of long stem red roses and gave Gord one along with band members, other Lightheads....AND even...yes ME!! :-)

We had a really good visit, and she is a fine lady, and forgave me for my post after the Nashville concert, for which I politely apologized in person, telling her I should have sent it to her privately. We even had our picture made together by her wonderful husband Ken.

I had a really good 5-10 minute private visit with Gord, reminiscing about our mutual experiences during the good ol' days of the folk era from our first meeting in Toronto in 1966 at the Riverboat to jamming at Bradley's Barn in Nashville in the late '60s and mid '70s et al. My close friend and ARDENT Gord fan, John from Austin, TX (aka the "Pen Man"), flew up as our guest for the show and had his incredible exotic wood ball point pens for Gord and each of the band guys. John has a Gibson B-45-12 that all you Gord fanantic players would die for- a 1964 cherry sunburst exactly like Gord's two.

SOOOO... all in all it was a great concert and a fantastic evening. Cya at Massey 2008 in May!!!!

02-14-2008, 12:41 PM	#31
TennTroubadour Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Chattanooga, TN, USA Posts: 16	Re: GordQuest 2008 -Chattanooga from TennTroubadour Hey Char, thanks a bunch for the link to The Cumberland Trio and the "props!!" :-) Hope all you Lightheads enjoy our music & concert videos. The Chattanooga show exceeeded my wildest expectations- sold out hall with INCREDIBLE acoustics. It was a wildly enthusiastic crowd which really pumped Gord & the guys up. His voice was MUCH, MUCH better than Nashville a few months ago, and he became more animated as the show progressed, and the audience kept loving him back. He was REALLY happy, and it showed. The Tivoli acoustics are so damn good that we could hear Rick & Terry's unmiced harmony vocals from the 6th row!! He did almost two hours, and I'm sure someone will post a set list. The second half especially was a love fest as he added Pony Man by request to the set. After the encore he came out a 2nd time for extended smiles, waves and those signature bows!! After the show, he was really upbeat and visited with the few of us with backstage passes (THANKS ANN LIEBOLD!!), along with the meet and greet for the drawing winners of a local radio station sponsor. All this occured down front in the hall itself- not backstage. NOWWWW....for those of you in suspense, Dore really did herself proud last night!! She was a model of decorum. Gord did recognize her from the audience when she did her signature "You are AWESOME" after the first song. After the show she had some chocolates in the form of long stem red roses and gave Gord one along with band members, other Lightheads....AND even...yes ME!! :-) We had a really good visit, and she is a fine lady, and forgave me for my post after the Nashville concert, for which I politely apologized in person, telling her I should have sent it to her privately. We even had our picture made together by her wonderful husband Ken. I had a really good 5-10 minute private visit with Gord, reminiscing about our mutual experiences during the good ol' days of the folk era from our first meeting in Toronto in 1966 at the Riverboat to jamming at Bradley's Barn in Nashville in the late '60s and mid '70s et al. My close friend and ARDENT Gord fan, John from Austin, TX (aka the "Pen Man"), flew up as our guest for the show and had his incredible exotic wood ball point pens for Gord and each of the band guys. John has a Gibson B-45-12 that all you Gord fanantic players would die for- a 1964 cherry sunburst exactly like Gord's two. SOOOO... all in all it was a great concert and a fantastic evening. Cya at Massey 2008 in May!!!!