[johnfowles]

Today whilst searching for something else I found this BBC page:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A25244336
It is a long article in a section of the UK BBC site that was apparently closed back in February this year , but the contributions and postings still remain on line.
"Gordon Lightfoot by Mark Drobnick (concert review), Riverside Theatre, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A. - Sept. 24, 2006"
which was from July 2007 and contained amongst other things the following that I am pretty sure I have not read before,
Of course I might be wrong but if so it is certainly a good (re-)read nevertheless,
I have now checked this earlier thread
which Val started by giving a link to a review at:-
http://onmilwaukee.com/music/articles/lightfoot.html
that review was written by By Jim Vailliencourt
and Published Sept. 25, 2006 at 8:08 a.m.
but the one I just found was by a different reporter and is completely different
a google for a probably unique phrase in this report viz
"prop was a foam replica created" only gave the one BBC result which strikes me as very odd because the poster to the BBC Collective obviously found it somewhere in order to copy the text to post on that website.
Mind you at the bottom it doth say

Posted: 27 July 2007

E-mail: mark_h_drobnick@yahoo.com

Mark Drobnick © 2007
so maybe he wrote it ,
Yes!! another google revealed:-

Mark Drobnick has been a Beatle fan since the mid-1960's and is accomplished at applied piano and guitar. He is a graduate of Carthage College and University of Illinois and is licensed as teacher, real estate broker, and analytical chemist. He currently resides in Waukegan with his wife and three children.
He is obviously one of us so I think that I'll drop an email to Mark referring him to this thread.Hopefully he'll reply and tell us a bit about himself and if that great review was ever published.
I note that Wayne has no review of that concert on his web site just a setlist at:-
http://www.lightfoot.ca/060924.htm
Anyway all of the following quotes from Mark's article are well worth reading and are different to any other statements in reviews that I can remember, or has anybody else here seen them before??
"and, oh yes, a model, nautical freighter, complete with mid-section deck of cargo hatches, through which could be loaded (scale size) iron ore. Okay, so we were going to get to hear "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" tonight. Such was to be expected. After all, it references the Great Lakes, Wisconsin, and as Gordon later instructed, the craft had been built here, in Milwaukee! The prop was a foam replica created by artist, "Jeff Cowell.""
"Gordon began the concert with 12-string acoustic, then alternated to 6-string, recurrently back and forth, throughout the evening. To match his vocal register, he likes them "capo-ed" at the third fret. Lead guitarist, Terry Clements, matched him on pitch, but, for the second half of the program was seen to be at a whole tone higher than Gordon! "
"The rest of the band consists of Barry Keane (drums), Mike Heffernan (keyboards), and Richard Haynes (bass). Gordon praised Heffernan’s musicianship: "my songs are mere child’s play for him." Gord exalted Haynes: "he’s been my guardian angel." The band dressed casually, polo shirts and jeans, as average men, two appearing a bit panzon, and two balding. (By the way, these "average" men played, excellently.)

Then there was Gordon. Somewhat reminiscent of actor Errol Flynn in appearance, always, he looked gaunt and tidy, face expressive. Crowd pleaser that he is, underwent a costume change at intermission. Gordon started the show in long-sleeved, maroon shirt, brown vest, black pants and shoes; finished with black & silver Hawaiian shirt, black pants plus white shoes."

"When Gordon recited the narrative, insert verse of "In My Fashion," about the slide rule, I thought, in these days of the P.C. and electronic calculator, how many even remember or know what he’s referring to? True, it’s not as antiquated as the abacus."