Ebay.com GL items

[Jesse Joe]

Hey Sir John this is a great post. Are 8 track tapes worth good money these days?

[johnfowles]

Originally posted by Jessi -Joe:
Hey Sir John this is a great post. Are 8 track tapes worth good money these days?

I doubt it J-J although I am amazed how often GL ones appear on ebay, obviously collector's pieces for those obsessives who already have the vinyl cassette and CD, Susan still has 30 assorted 8-track cartridges AND a home-machine to play them on,which I think still works. The 30 include 4 GL(EW,SD,SSOL,and DSR) and, don't tell her I told you, John Denver with the Muppets and one by Mr Nose (Manilow) himself!!
John Fowles

Layin’ down track and buildin’ the bridges

We’re gonna lay down the tracks and tear up the trails

Boss Man Boss Man clear the track

OK OK enough of that

Today on ebay something rare and Australian
A May 1985 guitar magazine on sale in the hooligan state of New South Wales

John Fowles

Any kind of freedom comin’ clean Is just another state of mind
When you wake up to the promise Of your dream world comin' true

I was in some aimless state Where lovers meet while angels wait. With gifts of time, they hesitate
(who said Gord's lyrics don't rhyme??

[johnfowles]

[quote]Originally posted by johnfowles:

Today on ebay something rare and Australian
A May 1985 guitar magazine on sale in the hooligan state of New South Wales

no bids yet other than the sellers opening price of
AUSSIEBUCKS 0.99 (Approximately US $0.74)
Plus Postage/packing is a flat $3 for Australian bidders.
what are you waiting for Steve and Gunter and Mike and Mende and Ron
in the current Ebay listing at:-
http://www.ebaylightfoot.notlong.com
the next item at:-
http://cgi.ebay.com/RHEOSTATICS-Melv...QQcmdZViewItem
is a Rheostatics CD which includes their version of TWOTEF
Then there is a simple (i.e. not zoneranger inspired) Japanese Picture sleeve 45 of Summertime Dream

[Sheryl]

I clicked on your link and started scrolling through all the Gord stuff -- what treasures! I got a laugh when I saw the 8 tracks for sale!! Hands up if you still have the machine to play the 8 tracks!

[johnfowles]

Originally posted by Sheryl:
Hands up if you still have the machine to play the 8 tracks!

Yes yes Susan still has her old and working home model 8-track player
and now for some Ebay UK GL items

The arch bootlegger in the UK,who this time around is calling himself "buzzfledder", has put up for Ebay (UK) auction the first
time that I am aware of a CD of THE FOLKFEST BENEFIT, NEW YORK, 1987
http://cgi.ebay.com/Gordon-Lightfoot...QQcmdZViewItem

this joins a concurrant auction of an audio only CD OF THE 1979 PBS Soundstage television special from 1979
http://cgi.ebay.com/GORDON-LIGHTFOOT...QQcmdZViewItem

plus two other of his GL auctions now ended
the 1973 PBS Chicago special again audio only
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/GORDON-LIGHTFO...QQcmdZViewItem

and
another CD cobbled together from a radio broadcast of another concert the 1969
Charlottetown PEI Summer festival as broadcast by the CBC ON 5 oCTOBER 1969
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/GORDON-LIGHTFO...QQcmdZViewItem

There were no bids for this one so no doubt he'll try again in due course to make his money out of Gord
and some time ago The Two Tones Plus (the plus being the two songs on the lone Two Tones single Lessons in Love and Sweet Polly)
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/TWO-TONES-GORD...QQcmdZViewItem

John Fowles
all very relevant in the light of the old mp3 topic resurrected by Mr Suber the other day

[ May 04, 2006, 09:49: Message edited by: johnfowles ]

[johnfowles]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by johnfowles:
and now for some Ebay UK GL items

The arch bootlegger in the UK,who this time around is calling himself "buzzfledder"


The same "gentleman" has now added another interesting unauthorised bootleg CD
(actually a 2-CD set) of the aborted 1974 Massey hall recording that was abandoned after Gord had spent (I read somewhere very recently but cannot refind dammit) $20,000-$25,000 setting up the recording "session" because he was disatisfied with the sound because of a broken fingernail.
He must have had very bittle nails that year see Bru's breathless recount of how he nearly sat on her lap at London's Royal Albert Hall when he dropped down into the audience to cadge an emery board see:-
http://www.corfid.com/ubb/ultimatebb...=000069#000024
"Buzzfledder"'s new auction is at:-
http://cgi.ebay.com/Gordon-Lightfoot...QQcmdZViewItem

Those who are fortunate to already have this will know that it contains very nice "Live" versions of the following unreleased songs
Tennessee Stud
Pleasures of the Night
Divorce Country Style
Partners
and an earlier live Stone Cold Sober

this 1974 concert has been discussed here before at:-
http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/001842.html
http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000069.html
It all goes to prove how fastidious Gord is which means that he probably strongly disapproves of the existance and ready disemination by means of mp3s of many unauthorised gems
John Fowles

Oh God the pride of man broken in the dust again

Sometimes a broken dream Will make you sad or make you mean

Lord abide, let us stem the tide Of broken dreams

[johnfowles]

And to complete his collection of unauthorised offerings yesterday he added this strange compilation 2-cd set
http://cgi.ebay.com/Gordon-Lightfoot...QQcmdZViewItem

[johnfowles]

Just as Walter (broderstone) is hung up his Billboard chart positions,so was I in my later schooldays obsessed with the UK hit parade,Our favo(u)rite source of information in those days was the
no not the "enemy" but the "New Musical Express" a weekly Black and White tabloid
publication described by answers.com as:-
"The New Musical Express (better known as the NME) is a music magazine in the UK which has been published weekly since March 1952."
I still have a few cuttings especially from 1959 with details of that year's plane crash near Clear Lake Iowa that took the life of my then musical hero Buddy Holly.Fast forward to 1971 I was then back in the UK, having become a Lighthead in a big way, and had of course bought the IYCRMM LP, but news of Gord was to put it mildly scant. All the more interesting therefore to be reminded that in 1971 the NME actually had an article on Gord in an issue I sadly missed but possibly Bruna has squirelled away??
This has just come up on ebay again at:-
http://cgi.ebay.com/Gordon-Lightfoot...QQcmdZViewItem


John Fowles
I recently found that the NME had itself been the subject of an American University
"Class Project" see Contents listing for 1953-1969 at:-
http://www.skidmore.edu/~gthompso/br...NME/index.html
Now Skidmore University is in Saratoga Springs, New York home of the Caffe Lena and two great GL tribute band concerts see:-
http://mageenet.org/LightfootTributeBand/home.shtml


of note is this that I found on
http://www.skidmore.edu/~gthompso/br...E/nme6512.html
where I read a note from December 1965:-
"American folk stars on February tour [The Ian Campbell Folk Group headlines a tour with Gordon Lightfoot and Ian and Sylvia.]"
1971 is of course ouside the timeframe of 1953-1969 that the above referenced page covers

[ May 10, 2006, 08:32: Message edited by: johnfowles ]

[Borderstone]

Gord looks really cool in that above b & w picture John. I think the long hair would have been enough,skip the beard & 'stache.

(I know ladies...bite yer tounge B! :D )

[ May 09, 2006, 22:41: Message edited by: Borderstone ]

[johnfowles]

Originally posted by Borderstone:
Gord looks really cool in that above b & w picture John. I think the long hair would have been enough,skip the beard & 'stache.

(I know ladies...bite yer tounge B! :D )

Like my own hair it was not that long and trendy for very long

another nice new Ebay item yesterday a poster for "Saturday November 24th"
(the seller said "This is an unknown year promotional concert poster")
but using the Javascript "Find any day for a given date:" at:-
http://cornish-family.netfirms.com/findday.htm
or http://www.kernow.notlong.com
(Kernow is Cornwall,UK if you did not know)
that was either 1973 or 1979
and per:-
http://www.lightfoot.ca/1979.htm
Gord did not do such a concert in 1979 so 1973 it must have been

John Fowles
Jenney was that a CT concert you got to back in your pre-stalking days??

[Jesse Joe]

This is very interesting Sir John, Im constantly looking for old Lightfoot performances like the soundstage one, I have that on VHS which I recorded in 1980 on a PBS station from Maine. The sound is terrible, and it last only 1 hour. I remember when he introduces his then new song, "ON THE HIGH SEAS", he must have been playing a joke on the audience as he says, " This one is called 'On The Tv."

[Jesse Joe]

Originally posted by johnfowles:
quote:Originally posted by Jessi -Joe:
Hey Sir John this is a great post. Are 8 track tapes worth good money these days?

I doubt it J-J although I am amazed how often GL ones appear on ebay, obviously collector's pieces for those obsessives who already have the vinyl cassette and CD, Susan still has 30 assorted 8-track cartridges AND a home-machine to play them on,which I think still works. The 30 include 4 GL(EW,SD,SSOL,and DSR) and, don't tell her I told you, John Denver with the Muppets and one by Mr Nose (Manilow) himself!!
John Fowles

Layin’ down track and buildin’ the bridges

We’re gonna lay down the tracks and tear up the trails

Boss Man Boss Man clear the track

OK OK enough of that

Today on ebay something rare and Australian
A May 1985 guitar magazine on sale in the hooligan state of New South Wales

John Fowles

Any kind of freedom comin’ clean Is just another state of mind
When you wake up to the promise Of your dream world comin' true

I was in some aimless state Where lovers meet while angels wait. With gifts of time, they hesitate
(who said Gord's lyrics don't rhyme?? [/QUOTE]

[Jesse Joe]

Originally posted by Jessi -Joe:
Your talking about your wife Susan who still has a 8 track tape machine, I too still have one that works and I proudly own 14, 8 track GL tapes. Some others of different artists as well.

[johnfowles]

nd now something for the Ladies on auction from the UK currently under 5 quid.
Who will be the gallant to buy this for Bru???
(it's not Too Much To Lose I might say but won't)
at http://cgi.ebay.com/GORDON-LIGHTFOOT...QQcmdZViewItem

Loverly
John
Bru and there you were thinking that nobody else had even heard of Gord over there

[Affair on Touhy Ave.]

Interesting a GL neck chain. But what's next. GL bedsheets? I'm sure any woman fan of GL would like that!

[Sheryl]

I don't know, I think that necklace is kinda cool.

[SilverHeels]

I like that necklace, John.
Now ... is it too much to lose ...

[Sheryl]

Bru, we can start a bidding war on it, LOL!!

[SilverHeels]

but then one of us will have to pay megabucks!
LOL

[Sheryl]

John said it was 5 quid. How much is that? 5 pounds?

[SilverHeels]

yes, 5 pounds, at the moment.

[Janice]

Bru, am I correct in thinking that "quid" is slang for "pounds" - similar to how we use "bucks" to mean "dollars"?

[johnfowles]

A recently posted auction gives UK fans a rare chance to acquire the excellent Canadian 3-CD box set that includes all 5
United Artist albums:-
http://cgi.ebay.com/GORDON-LIGHTFOOT...QQcmdZViewItem
or
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/GORDON-LIGHTFO...QQcmdZViewItem


I don't think I have ever seen it on ebay.co.uk before, and doubt that it was ever on sale In the UK.
My own copy was bought in 1994 in Montreal by an English friend visiting Canada who was armed with a comprehensive list of
all albums (vinyl and CD) that I at that time owned, in addition to this box set she also found to my delight the 1993-issued Waiting For You CD which in those primitive pre-internet days I had never even heard of.
Fortunately by 1998 I had internet access and heard of APPT in time to grab the solitary copy on sale in the HMV store on
Oxford Steet London on June 21st
John Fowles
in reply to Janice's query about the slang term "quid"
I found this site:-
http://www.businessballs.com/moneyslanghistory.htm
which states amongst other theories that
"The slang money expression 'quid' seems first to have appeared in late 1600's England, derived from Latin (quid meaning
'what', as in 'quid pro quo' - 'something for something else'). "
I have previously written about the pound sign itself (£) on the Newsgroup see:-
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.m...b53798b?hl=en&
Noow regarding the US slang term "buck" two entertaining theories are on:-
http://entspire.com/newsletters/orig...ord%202-03.htm

[johnfowles]

And now one for the underpriviledged hooligan wannabee concert goers down under on auction from Brisbane is this at:-
http://cgi.ebay.com/GORDON-LIGHTFOOT...QQcmdZViewItem


this bill is billed according to the seller as
"1975 ORIGINAL STREET POSTER"
but September 19th was on a Thursday in 1974
when Gord did indeed play in Sydney and obviously survived!!
John Fowles
I found this topical picture

caption:-
Cats' first Austalian concert was at the Hordern Pavilion

[johnfowles]

today's crop incudes an interesting old 1967 poster
http://cgi.ebay.com/VERY-RARE-GORDON...QQcmdZViewItem

I cannot read all the text on it but fortunately the seller says it is
"Poster text is: Gordon Lightfoot 8:30 till 11 P.M. Thursday September 14 University Hall Wolfville 1.50 advanced tickets student building rear"

And yesterday a Warner Bros attempt to muscle in on the United Artists regurgitation antics with their own compilation
note Made in 1981 i.e. released after GG and GG2 and this example attributed to Germany but I recall seeing this on sale in the UK in both vinyl and cassette versions
http://cgi.ebay.com/GORDON-LIGHTFOOT...QQcmdZViewItem



Track listing
early morning rain
the wreck of edmund fitzgerald
carefree highway
minstrel of the dawn
rainy day people
sundown
summer side of life
cold on the shoulder
endless wire
if you could read my mind
canadian railroad trilogy
if there`s a reason
cotton jenny
song for a winter`s night
daylight katy
old dan`s record
me and bobby mcgee
the circle is small