On the Edmund Fitzgerald - good points. The amazing thing to me is that after all these years (it will be 25 years in November) and underwater robots and what have you the conclusions on the cause are as follows:
"She might have broke up
Or she might have capsized
She may have broke deep and took water."
Amazing. I've read loads on the Fitzgerald ("Big Fitz" they called it) and have seen "the faces and the names" and it amazes me how well GL nailed that in so short a time. In a post somewhere else around here I mentioned that I had the privledge to see him (one of many times) in late November of 1975. He started talking a little bit about the Fitzgerald, starting playing chords on his guitar and muttering some half formed verses and then said "it's something I'm working on." When I picked up "Summertime Dream" the day it was released I ws stunned with what had happened with "what he was working on." He had the basic structure of the song figured out and had let a capacity crowd at Avery Fisher Hall inside the songwriter's mind for half a minute. I will never forget that.
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