[johnfowles]

Originally Posted by jj

i'm not familiar with the file name/extension of the one that downloaded...and neither is my computer...it wouldn't launch

A very good question Jim Me Lad and for anybody else who is similarly peplexed and challenged here is my take on the matter
I surmise that what TG did was first of all (as I did) discover the existence of a "torrent" comprising these 7 tracks and having downloaded them as 7 "Lossless" flac (Free Lossless Audio Codec ) format files he then decoded them to "lossy" mp3s, albeit at the top quality sampling rate of 320 KBPS, then in order to minimise the size of the stored downloadable file he bundled them all together in a rar format compressed file of 63.6MB , where rar is akin to a zip file and just like a zip file you then have to "unrar" the file. and just like a zipfile where one suitable decompression program to unzip a zipfile is called PKUnZip (another WinZip) for rars there is a Windows program called Err Umm "unrar" and an elimentary and simple google will find you this enticing result (no doubt MAC addicts can unearth an equivalent for Snow Dragon or whatever your flavoUr of Apple OS is termed)
"UnRAR for Windows Free Download
UnRAR for Windows extracts the files from a RAR type archive (*.rar). Perfect for opening RAR compressed files that you have downloaded from the Internet.
www.softpile.com/Utilities/.../Review_20895_index.html "

from there or another download website you can download the very small program installation file (unrarw20.exe) only 816KB
it's shareware (US$12.95) with a free trial limit of 5 extractions but for the purpose of this exercise you will only need to use it once
You should end up with 7 mp3s totalling 67.1MB

There remains the question of why there are only 7 tracks in this set
when the record shows that October 28 featured a pretty full setlist of 17 songs:-
http://www.lightfoot.ca/751028.htm

yet the torrent only features just 7 tracks
I think I can shed a little light on this conundrum
It so happens that in 1979 the BBC (monopoloy public radio a.k.a. "the wireless") in the UK started the previously unimaginable luxury of 24 hour broadcasting and at some time probably in 1980 or 1981 they had a great overnight program called "You and the Night and the Music" which ran from 2 AM to 5AM for a while the disc jockey (I forget which one) at the beginning would reel off the list of artists he would be featuring. one night this included Gord , so as that night I was working late I stood by my cassette recorder and waited. On subsequent nights I would set the tape at a suitable point then if GL was scheduled left the recorder on its timer and retired to bed
In this fashion I was able to record 5 of the 7 tracks from that Frankfurt concert
I could not have been listening to the full program each night because I found that "Bend In The Water " had in fact been featured twice
so my tape has 6 tracks
After one track the announcer/DJ helpfully revealed that this was indeed from a concert in Frankfurt and that it was on the album "Back to Back"!!
Not having heard of such an album before the next morning I phoned the Beeb in London to be told "sorry that is a special radio station only album that is not for retail sale" or words to that effect, Dammit!!!
Nevertheless I have to assume that one copy escaped outside and hence the torrent.
I have no idea what else was on this alleged album but I would guess that it was a sort of compilation and that whoever compiled it chose just the 7 Lightfoot tracks
Other details
Wayne on:-
http://www.lightfoot.ca/radioapp.htm

states:-
"-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."
which are of course the 7 tracks in question
He further says
"BBC RADIO - London, UK - May 17, 1981
BBC played six songs from Lightfoot's October 28, 1975 concert in Frankfurt, Germany in anticipation of his London Royal Albert Hall concert the next evening. Songs included Bend In The Water (twice); If You Could Read My Mind; Sundown; All The Lovely Ladies and Canadian Railroad Trilogy."
he said that because in 1997 having "met" Wayne by email thanks to his postings on the newsgroup alt.music.Iightfoot I had traded with him for 4 hours of assorted GL video and sent him casssette copies of everything I had accumulated over thirty years,including my off BBC recordings. I never said they were all broadcast on May 17th though., so he obviously just assumed that date. I did attend that May 18th RAH concert see:-
http://www.lightfoot.ca/810518.htm

I do remember Wayne teling me in an email that he already had some of tha Frankfurt concert. so as he was able to state a date just maybe he had a copy of whatever was broadcast in Germany hence the broadcast might well have comprised only 7 tracks
Just possibly the complete Frankfurt concert recording exists (probably Gord has a copy stashed away togther with a zillion other desirable gems!!)