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Old 10-30-2011, 01:20 AM   #8
jj
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Default Re: David Rea, "First" Lead Guitar Player for Lightfoot, Passes Away

sounds like he must be wearing the big hat in your pic - glad Gord's not a hat guy but he looks like he's about ready for a Willie bandana!

i was checking out this wonderful album write up (Wayne needs to assemble a book sometime.. then again, his site is more than a book, i suppose) http://www.lightfoot.ca/lightrev.htm and i've concluded/corrected a few things:

Gord and the lead guys were ALL there pretty much at once for the initial RMS '64 recording, and that there was no '65 session work...my conjecture wrong and also Gord's response to Bob unless Gord and Bruce did some live stuff before the Lightfoot! sessions...but here's the neat bits about who's who:

Bruce was playing on The Long River (Gord's first song with Canadian imagery)

David was doing the lovely work on I'm Not Sayin...not much else is specified

fyi, here's a clip of Bill Lee (black bassist on Lightfoot!) where he speaks of folk music at the 4 minute mark Jazz Bassist Bill Lee Interview Part 2 - YouTube they don't mention Gord ....then later in Part 3 of the interview, about 9 mins in Jazz Bassist Bill Lee Interview Part 4 - YouTube I was hoping he'd break into Oh Linda!....but not to be
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