07-03-2010, 12:02 PM
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Youngish Gord picture
This is a photo that I do not remember ever seeing before that heads a strange article about gord and Terry Whelan at:-
http://www.nationalpost.com/arts/Dav...249/story.html
Last edited by johnfowles; 07-03-2010 at 02:22 PM.
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07-03-2010, 01:27 PM
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Re: Youngish Gord picture
Just sat down with the Post and the Jays/Yankees game and saw that it's already been posted..Interesting read...
Bidini is a great writer - music, sports..all good and one reason I subscribe to the Post.. He wrote something about Gord a few years ago - I'll have to find it.. He was also in The Rheostatics group - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheostatics
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07-03-2010, 01:57 PM
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Re: Youngish Gord picture
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Originally Posted by charlene
Interesting read...
Bidini is a great writer
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Yes, it's an interesting approach. Do you know if Bidini and Lightfoot are pretty familiar with each other (on a personal level) ?
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07-04-2010, 10:35 AM
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Re: Youngish Gord picture
the hard copy of the article is titled :
Ode to Gord
Imagining what a Canadian folk legend's first time on stage might have felt like.
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07-04-2010, 11:20 AM
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Re: Youngish Gord picture
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Originally Posted by charlene
the hard copy of the article is titled :
Ode to Gord
Imagining what a Canadian folk legend's first time on stage might have felt like.
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I wonder if the details in the article are just conjecture on Bidini's part, or derived from chatting with Lightfoot ? Was there really a ventriloquist ? (perhaps Lightfoot has mentioned it before).
Regardless, Bidini has one creative mind.
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07-04-2010, 11:33 AM
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Re: Youngish Gord picture
pretty sure it's all his imagination..
if I get a chance and I remember to, I will ask the legend himself..
One week from today I'm a headin' to Orillia for the big b.d.party/Mariposa festival...
lol
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07-07-2010, 10:07 PM
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Re: Youngish Gord picture
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Originally Posted by johnfowles
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I don't know that it was all that unusual an article. For all we know, that's what might have actually been on their minds at the time. Myself, I liked the human face that the writer put on the whole thing.
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07-07-2010, 10:35 PM
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Re: Youngish Gord picture
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Originally Posted by charlene
the hard copy of the article is titled :
Ode to Gord
Imagining what a Canadian folk legend's first time on stage might have felt like.
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11-11-2010, 10:42 AM
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Re: Youngish Gord picture
I have been talking with Dave Bidini. As I thought he has not met Lightfoot.
He is writing a new book about him, a tribute to Lightfoot, and would like to read your stories about Gordon.
Concert experiences, meeting him, what his music means to you etc.etc.
If you find old posts please link them here.
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11-11-2010, 11:00 AM
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Re: Youngish Gord picture
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Originally Posted by charlene
a tribute to Lightfoot
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it's hard to top this Tribute link...the best i've come across in the past dozen years...i still read the tributes posted (from a lot of non-corfidians too) for the 70th birthday...tributes from stars also, pics...it doesn't get any better...he needs to get in touch with Newland...dont' know if EMP involved or if it's a kind of a hobby initiative...enjoy 
http://jam.canoe.ca/Comment/2008/11/13/7400686.php
ps) what we need someday is a Gord AUTObiography and him to talk about his songs and the creative process more, more, more...i can take of leave the wine and women chapters of his life...there is no shortage of A1 pics that have appeared here, pro and amateur
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11-11-2010, 11:19 AM
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Re: Youngish Gord picture
David Newland printed out all of the 70th birthday tributes at that link for me and Gordon. So Sweet!
I'll pass the link on to Dave Bidini.
His band covered The Wreck -
- probably in a link somewhere here at corfid.
Yep James, a comprehensive book like that would be awesome and another musician such as Bidini could probably do it justice but it seems he won't be talking with Lightfoot.
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11-27-2010, 08:01 PM
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Re: Youngish Gord picture
Dave is looking for "Lightfoot" stories. He's writing a book about Lightfoot...
Last Call for your stories:
e-mail Dave @ hockeytrope@hotmail.com
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