Posted on 05/19/2006 9:12:53 PM PDT by ZGuy
He's back on the "Carefree Highway".
Currently on his 2006 Tour.
http://www.lightfoot.ca/
By the 1990s he was mostly touring, giving just fifty concerts a year by 1998, mainly in North America, while he released two albums in the period. In the fall of 2002, he was in Orillia when he suffered a near-fatal abdominal hemorrhage that left him in a comatose state for a short period of time. He recovered and later returned to the music business with the album Harmony and an appearance on Canadian Idol. In 2005, he made a low-key tour called, with characteristically droll humour, the "Better Late Than Never Tour".
Every man knew and the Captain did too....
I got tickets to his show in Milwaukee this fall.
The wind in the wires made a tattletale sound
And a wave broke over the railing
And every man knew, as the Captain did, too,
T'was the witch of November come stealing.
Did he get the apartment that you wanted?
As has been said in this forum, the lakes are incredibly trecherous, and are nothing like the open seas. I've been on the lake and on the Pacific, and had the crap scared out of me on both.
What makes the Lakes especially trecherous is how quickly the swells can come, and that they can come from several directions at once.
Remember: Every aspect of life can be linked in some way to Seinfeld.
thanks for the link :)
The thing I love about this verse, is the rise and fall of the music behind it, so evocative of waves...brilliantly done.
1. Lake Superior is, by surface area, the world's largest freshwater lake.
2. The surface area of Lake Superior (31,700 square miles or 82,170 square kilometers) is greater than the combined areas of Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire.
3. Lake Superior contains as much water as all the other Great Lakes combined, even throwing in two extra Lake Eries.
4. Lake Superior contains 10% of all the earth's fresh surface water.
5. There is enough water in Lake Superior (3,000,000,000,000,000--or 3 quadrillion-- gallons) to flood all of North and South America to a depth of one foot.
6. The deepest point in Lake Superior (about 40 miles north of Munising, Michigan) is 1,300 feet (400 meters) below the surface.
7. Over 300 streams and rivers empty into Lake Superior.
8, The average elevation of Lake Superior is about 602 feet above sea level.
9. The Lake Superior watershed region ranges in size from 160 miles inland near Wabakimi Provincial Park to only 5 miles inland from Pictured Rocks National Seashore.
10. The Lake Superior shoreline, if straightened out, could connect Duluth and the Bahama Islands.
11. The average underwater visibility of Lake Superior is 27 feet, making it easily the cleanest and clearest of the Great Lakes. Underwater visibility in places reaches 100 feet. Lake Superior has been described as "the most oligotrophic lake in the world."
12. The lake is about 350 miles (563 km) in length and 160 miles (257 km) in width.
13. In the summer, the sun sets more than 35 minutes later on the western shore of Lake Superior than at its southeastern edge.
ping!
Ha ha, suckers, it's earworm time!
What a memorable night for you. Thanks for telling us.
Welcome to FR!
T'was the witch of November come stealing.
Cool facts. Did you know, it takes 24 hours to drive around Lake Michigan? I'm sure it longer for Lake Superior. And it's cold, even in August or September, you can't last long, your bones start to ache.
Shortly before deploying my son bought himself an electric guitar, largely so that he could learn to play "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald".
I'm sure many a soldier in the northern part of Kuwait has been serenaded with it by now.;^)
He is fascinated by the story, and so am I.
We always seem to have really wicked weather right around that date every year.
Terrific song, always gives me chills.
But it's got some of the most tortured rhymes in existence.
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