It had that effect on people. "Fish" wasn't exactly an electric character.
Well, I went to an autograph show one time and saw this guy at a table...
And it was just about as exciting seeing him there as it is on this screen.
Posted on 02/18/2010 5:32:26 PM PST by Daffynition
Canadian icon Gordon Lightfoot said he was at the dentist when he heard on the radio that he was dead.
The folk legend, whose hits include If You Could Read My Mind, Sundown and The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, took the news lightheartedly and was soon on the phone with Toronto-based all-news station CP24.
"I'm fine, everything is good. I don't know where it comes from. It seems like a bit of a hoax or something," the 71-year-old singer said. "I was quite surprised to hear [it] myself.
"I haven't had so much airplay on my music now for weeks."
The initial reports of Lightfoot's death appeared on Canwest news sites on Thursday afternoon, spreading instantaneously across many blogs and Twitter posts.
The report was discovered to be untrue within minutes of the news being posted.
B.C. Fiedler Management, Lightfoot's concert tour promoters, put out a quick statement proclaiming Lightfoot "is alive and in good health" and that the report was "false and completely without merit."
"This is just an unfortunate prank," said promoter Bernie Fiedler.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2010/02/18/lightfoot-alive.html?ref=rss#ixzz0fwPwMDBO
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It had that effect on people. "Fish" wasn't exactly an electric character.
Well, I went to an autograph show one time and saw this guy at a table...
And it was just about as exciting seeing him there as it is on this screen.
I kid. I wish him his health and even sent out a music list ping...
That's it.
Ping.
I thought he had perished in the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Quite_Dead
Not Quite Dead is an underground comic book series by Gilbert Shelton and Pic, published in France by the magazine Flag and in the U.S. by Rip Off Press. The title is the name of a fictional band. The main characters—the band members—first appeared on the cover of Rip Off Comix #19 1988.Band members are named Sweaty Eddie, Elephant Fingers, Felonius Punk, Thor, and Cat Whittington, with a manager named Gnarly Charlie.
The current issue is #6 (2005).
It would have been better if I made it more clear that I meant Lightfoot himself.
I still listen to Summertime Dream regularly. I played it to death on my road trip out west this past summer in fact. We listened to "Race Among the Ruins" while racing among ruins. My GF had never heard of him until then and now she has that CD in her car's CD player right now. Gordon Lightfoot is awesome.
That's deep. Superior actually.;)
Jes teasing!
29 times.
He does kinda have that pickled, waterlogged look to him, doesn't he? LMAO
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"........That happened on the day my best friend's dad died.
The Maritime Sailors' Cathedral is indeed in downtown Detroit......
Man, I just pulled out his old CDs yesterday. Big fan.
I think he has MS. Not sure.
Saw hin live at college. Got annoyed when fans sang along.
Does he sound as good as he always did? His voice was like silk.
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