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Originally Posted by Jenney
He said it was the first time they had done it live. I've never heard it before either. He did it again on Saturday night. Just great hearing some of this "recyled" stuff!
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Gord's claim can be verified by listening to his protracted intro on the Saturday as included in Char's superbly comprehensive YouTube video
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Originally Posted by val@gordonlightfoot.com
Another highlight was the first ever live performnce of Circle Of Steel, on Thursday night, which he repeated on Saturday night. All I can say is, Wow! Someone asked me several months ago if Gord might do it and I said, "Not very likely; he's never done it live to my knowledge". How nice to be wrong!
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Yes well we all make mistakes,as the hedgehog said as he dismounted the scrubbing brush!!
I did wonder about Gord and Val's confident statements that claimed that Thursday November 25 was the very first time that Circle Of Steel had been sung "in public" because it never figured in Jones The Younger's list of unsung songs that he made and posted at:-
http://www.corfid.com/vbb/showpost.p...70&postcount=5
after fairly meiiculously combing the internet sources and sure enough Jimbo WAS correct as a quick check of the setlists of the Sundown year (1974 ) revealed that at the Port Huron Michigan concert on April 6 Circle Of Steel was performed see:-
http://www.lightfoot.ca/740405.htm
there are not many setlists for 1974 on Wayne's 1974 page so it is quite possible that it was performed more than once that year.
For example "plumguru" Doug felt sure he had heard Circle Of Steel live in San Diego see
http://www.corfid.com/vbb/showpost.p...6&postcount=11
that could well have been the January 25 1974 concert (noting that the Sundown album was recorded in November 1973 and released in january 1974)
I have checked tbe Newsgroup for relevant setlists but found none but I did find a lengthy maiden 1997 posting by Andy T at:-
https://groups.google.com/group/alt....n&dmode=source
Actually as with most Gordsongs a search on the Google Group/Newsgroup alt.music.lightfoot for any song title will often as in this case unearth a host of interesting threads thereupon, in this case it includes a few learned treatises by one Steven M Dunbar better known hereabouts as a "geoman" for example there is a fine thread from 1997 that he initiated at:-
https://groups.google.com/group/alt....n&dmode=source
in which he starts off by saying innociously:-
"Lightfoot imagery and more rambling on my part...." and proceeds to say amongst many many other things:-
"Circle of Steel - Cold snowy dawn in England at sunrise, Christmas time; a sort of Dickens-like setting, almost blue-delft (spelling ?) colors. The "and the sun hits the handle of her heirloom cup" is particularly striking imagery. Wintertime, snow, blueish light. I have never known what the actual "circle of steel" is supposed to be. Its probably quite obvious, and I will smack my forehead when someone kindly tells me 
A roulette wheel ?"
That Christmas connnection was one that our James neglected when he compiled the tracklist for Gord's famous Christmas album
(image from the entertaining thread at:-
http://www.corfid.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=11951
Discuss!!