quote:Originally posted by Iron:
Perhaps I could e-mail Prof. Fowles if He would'nt mind??
. It is one of many that still gives me the bumps...
I know the feeling Iron as soon as Mike sets up that opening sound it is just incredible
And now my further reply to any pickers interested:-
OK Professor Fowles to the rescue
I am hereby replying to David (Martin D18) who e-mailed me and would have copied to "Ironman" who said in part above:-
Perhaps I could e-mail Prof. Fowles if He would'nt mind??" I wouldn't have minded but like Martin you too Sir gave no e-mail addy???
but he is obviously another fellow who wishes to remain anonymous
anyway I recently discovered that on some old floppies from my early surfing days back in 1997)I had saved a number of pages from Matthew Fifer's site as well as the restless tab and what I think is Matthew's wav file.This got me thinking because there are still a number of music sites around that contain outdated links to his pioneering GL site. I recently managed to communicate with him and he told me that his site was a demo only for his then university students so when he moved on he abandoned the site some years ago. I would like to try to rebuild the site and archive it on my own site, so will be e-mailing those that I think might have saved some of his pages and/or digital photograph collection. Meanwhile and to help David and Ironman I have uploaded Matt's index/opening page plus the tabindex page and the 4 tabs that I found I had saved. (He had listed 5 plus restless but I did not save CRT or The Wreck)
Hope this helps
So far only the relevant link (to "guitar chords and tabs") on Matthew's menu works
but I will endeavour to add more pages as time permits.
Also for anyone wondering yes there was a time in the fair land of England when I would pick up my axe and try a litle inexpert strumming but since my January 2000 stroke I am afraid that with my weakened left side and hand in particular I cannot get my fingers around the neck to press down on the strings (although I WAS left-handed I had learnt to play on friend's guitar strung for a RH picker so got pretty good at fingering the chords but remained a fairly hopeless strummer!!!
Oh yes the link is:-
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/matthewfifer
and when you get to the link entitled
"Restless (bridge) -- solo guitar "
you should right click on it then select "save target as"(for Internet Explorer users)(it is a small file of only 422400 bytes)
Maccies you are on your own!!!
I trust that Mr Fifer will not object to my using his material and will be e-mailing him shortly to explain
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My Gordon Lightfoot webring
starts at
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot
[This message has been edited by johnfowles (edited December 05, 2003).]
