Posted on 09/04/2014 5:17:30 PM PDT by Squawk 8888
Carefree Hwy was the first roadtrip this TN boy made in Arizona. LAFB to Scottsdale. I didn’t have a clue what awaited me next. :^)
I hitchhiked across the Mackinaw Bridge just a few hours before the Edmund Fitzgerald sunk in that 1975 November gale. The bridge had started swaying in the wind when we were crossing so I figured it was going to be a bad one. It was closed to traffic about an hour after I got across. That song still gives me chills every time I hear it.
Gord played regularly in Detroit back in the early 70’s. I loved seeing him live. Six years ago I saw him again in concert in Idaho Falls. He was still the same guy playing the same great songs but his voice had become thin which is to be expected at age 69. It must really be thin now.
Not this chick.
When MGD and I were first married, a friend had tickets to see Gordon Lightfoot and invited us to go. It was the longest night of my life.
Many do, but the greatest appreciation is shown by the Dutch. Our war graves in the Netherlands are tended by schoolchildren.
LOL Yea he did your FR name also. I remember traveling with my parents back in the early 1970’s through western Canada and Alberta Bound was playing on local radios there. When Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald was a hit I was at Great Lakes NTC. I’ve always like his music both his lyrics and playing.
That's my personal Gord favorite.
Nice drive :)
“Many do, but the greatest appreciation is shown by the Dutch. Our war graves in the Netherlands are tended by schoolchildren.”
Nice, I couldn’t think of a classier way to show thanks.
Since WWII Canada has had very close relations with the Dutch. The Queen stayed in Ottawa during the Nazi occupation where she gave birth to one of her children; an Order-in-Council was issued declaring the delivery room to be Dutch soil. The friendship was cemented when Gen. Guy Simmonds booted the Nazis back to Germany. The Ottawa Tulip Festival was the result of Queen Juliana’s gratitude; all of the bulbs were a gift from the Dutch royal family.
“The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” was my father’s favorite song when I was a kid.
That song is so haunting; “Edmund Fitzgerald” and “Hotel California” scared the snot out of me as a small fry and still kind of do!
“Canadian Railroad Trilogy,” I have always thought, is one of the most boldly conservative songs of all time.
http://grooveshark.com/#!/search?q=canadian+railroad+trilogy+
Very interesting. I suppose about as many Americans know of the town of Inuvik as know what you speak. I drove the Dempster Highway several decades ago. And until very recently, EVERY CANADIAN that I mentioned it to knew of Inuvik, and not a SINGLE AMERICAN knew of it. It was fun for me to talk it.
We have a lot in common, but we are far from identical twins - for example, how many Americans understand that Canadians were fighting and dying in Europe before Pearl Harbor, 2+ years before, to be exact? To us at the time, it was a “war in Europe”. To Canada it was already a WORLD WAR and (many) body bags were coming home.
Ann Murray's father gave birth to my father. Small world eh?
Is that right! I love Ann Murray!
Gordon Lightfoot, if you read this, please know how awful we felt for you having to endure the rowdy crowd at Red Rocks amphitheater outside of Denver in the early 70’s when some drunken idiot threw a beer bottle at you and you left the stage and graciously came back to play 2 more songs.
Liquor was never allowed at Red Rocks after that.
Man, was that sad, for you especially, and for everyone who’d waited for hours in the hot sun. LOVE your perfect songs, which have endured and still inspire, and always will. Bought one of your Greatest Hits CDs earlier this year and it makes me feel young. Thank you for that.
Now I get Gordon better, I think. Sorry.
Tull’s “Too Old To Rock And Roll [Too Young To Die] was used to flush Noriega out of his hole.
I love Tull madly...but I totally get it.
:D
More here
http://darrengarnick.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/gitmo-boombox-music/
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