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Bill · 06-12-2009, 09:34 AM

I had the 45rpm disc for If You Could Read My Mind, but had no idea who Gord was...I was just a kid. Then while plowing through my brother's Beatles albums I came across Sundown and played it endlessly over and over (old days of watching the album drop and needle arm lift and swing across). Then I got his copy of Don Quixote and played both over and over. This was 1975 and I was really beginning to play guitar a lot.
Then I started the album quest and the first one I bought was the newly released Summertime Dream. After that I drove (new license at 16!) all over to record stores in western Ky and Tenn. picking up the older albums until I had them all. It was a magical time of discovery. The later years were less fun -- the angst of wondering when another album would come out, and it taking so long between projects. Endless Wire came out my senior year of high school, and I remember picking up Dream Street Rose and Salute (the first tour I saw him in concert)...but just all the waiting...and no internet too bring news to remote places like the farmlands of Kentucky. You guys have been a blessing of pictures, stories, and video...it sort of recaptures those early days of discovering old albums!

06-12-2009, 09:34 AM	#22
Bill Senior Member Join Date: May 2000 Location: Lynchburg, VA Posts: 544	Re: More Gord Memories I had the 45rpm disc for If You Could Read My Mind, but had no idea who Gord was...I was just a kid. Then while plowing through my brother's Beatles albums I came across Sundown and played it endlessly over and over (old days of watching the album drop and needle arm lift and swing across). Then I got his copy of Don Quixote and played both over and over. This was 1975 and I was really beginning to play guitar a lot. Then I started the album quest and the first one I bought was the newly released Summertime Dream. After that I drove (new license at 16!) all over to record stores in western Ky and Tenn. picking up the older albums until I had them all. It was a magical time of discovery. The later years were less fun -- the angst of wondering when another album would come out, and it taking so long between projects. Endless Wire came out my senior year of high school, and I remember picking up Dream Street Rose and Salute (the first tour I saw him in concert)...but just all the waiting...and no internet too bring news to remote places like the farmlands of Kentucky. You guys have been a blessing of pictures, stories, and video...it sort of recaptures those early days of discovering old albums!