Re: Grosvenor Hall, Belfast
Thanks guys, and Diane, your story is wonderful. I love hearing about these kinds of happenings. Really cool choice of license plate name as well.
Didn't have the offspring with me on this trip JJ.
Mar and I went with another couple who bought a condo in Coleraine, a town just North of Belfast and we used that as a base and traveled around from there. It's their retirement place and we've been friends for quite some time.
The "Troubles," as they're referred to in Ireland were on at that time as Char mentions and yes, it certainly was a very dangerous place to be.
It was a most courageous thing for Gord to do and clearly he would not underestimate the extreme danger that was so close at hand.
His songs reveal lots and being the rabid fan that I have been for forty odd years he has become somewhat of a mentor to me.
I just read the lyrics. But.....only he would have the answer as to why he would have taken such a risk.
"To take my troubles as they fall
To stand against the icy wind
To guard against confusion and decline."
These are just a few sample words from "Face of a Thousand People."
As the folks who live in that part of the world would say: "Now there's some rather mentoring words, would you not think?"
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