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Rob1956 · 05-05-2012, 07:18 PM

It's great to re-read these posts from 6 years ago. Yusuf Islam did indeed go on to release 2 albums of pop music in '06 and '09 under the YI name...more correctly just Yusuf. His musical, Moonshadow: The Musical opens May 19 in Melbourne. Gord, of course released "All Live" which I just finished listening to for the first time. I noticed that there was a story on the internet that he didn't want to use any post 2002 recordings because the tracheotomy he had during his health emergency changed the timbre of his voice. That's the first time I've read that Gord acknowledged that some damage was indeed done due to that proceedure. Before, he had said things like "the voice will find its way back". Not exactly true, but I'd rather hear his voice "damaged" than he not being here at all.
If you want to hear surround done right and if you're a Jethro Tull/Ian Anderson fan, I suggest you pick up Ian's Thick As A Brick 2 cd/dvd. There's a 5.1 surround edition of the album included and it's excellent. To be done right, Gord would have to have a great surround engineer come in and remix his albums in surround, not just use the crappy out of phase left minus right pseudo-surround. Maybe that could be his project once he retires from touring.

05-05-2012, 07:18 PM	#47
Rob1956 Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Hickory Hills, IL Posts: 454	Re: Quadraphonic Lightfoot Albums It's great to re-read these posts from 6 years ago. Yusuf Islam did indeed go on to release 2 albums of pop music in '06 and '09 under the YI name...more correctly just Yusuf. His musical, Moonshadow: The Musical opens May 19 in Melbourne. Gord, of course released "All Live" which I just finished listening to for the first time. I noticed that there was a story on the internet that he didn't want to use any post 2002 recordings because the tracheotomy he had during his health emergency changed the timbre of his voice. That's the first time I've read that Gord acknowledged that some damage was indeed done due to that proceedure. Before, he had said things like "the voice will find its way back". Not exactly true, but I'd rather hear his voice "damaged" than he not being here at all. If you want to hear surround done right and if you're a Jethro Tull/Ian Anderson fan, I suggest you pick up Ian's Thick As A Brick 2 cd/dvd. There's a 5.1 surround edition of the album included and it's excellent. To be done right, Gord would have to have a great surround engineer come in and remix his albums in surround, not just use the crappy out of phase left minus right pseudo-surround. Maybe that could be his project once he retires from touring.