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Old 07-13-2008, 09:52 PM   #19
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Default Re: Well, how rude (Albany Times Union article)

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Originally Posted by Auburn Annie View Post
http://timesunion.com/AspStories/sto...storyID=700310 (scroll down halfway) - anybody here attend?


Fans pan Lightfoot

Gordon Lightfoot drew about 2,000 to Proctors, but a half-dozen couples exiting the theater told me the singer had lost his pizzazz.

Joe Suhrada, a Schenectady County legislator and longtime Lightfoot fan, agreed. "When I saw him in 2002 at Albany's Palace, he was dynamic," Suhrada recalled. "Since then, he suffered a serious illness that took its toll."

About 100 fans hung out to meet Lightfoot. I spotted Suhrada, one of only a handful granted an audience. Some turned-away fans were disgruntled. "Go back to Canada," one hollered.

After meeting with Lightfoot, we headed toward our parked cars. Out of nowhere, youths in a passing vehicle hurled two water-filled balloons at us.

Both bombs were off-target. For a moment, we wondered if the bombing mission was at select targets or at random. Moments later, a couple women at a nearby bus stop said guys in a SUV fired two balloon bombs that missed them.
I got my ticket for his show here, in Little Rock, in October. After reading about the appalling
behaviour of the people in Albany, I can only pray that the people here won't behave in such a terrible fashion.
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