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Originally posted by phishfearme:

RMD - how did you get such an excellent seat?? i called the fox theatre after i found out what seat i got and they said all the front rows we taken as "producer reserved". glad you got one of the great seats though.

My only guess is that I happened to be monitoring their website after noticing the ticket purchase link had changed. Suddenly, tickets were available, I saw the available seats, purchased what looked like good ones to me, and now hope its true. According to my credit card statement, it is.

[ January 11, 2007, 19:22: Message edited by: RMD ]

I agree with Borderstone that it would be great to hear "End of All Time" in concert, and "Shellfish" too.

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Originally posted by swede:
I agree with Borderstone that it would be great to hear "End of All Time" in concert, and "Shellfish" too.

It is a fact as you no doubt realise that the recording of "Shellfish" on the "Harmony" album is a live performance from the 2001 Massey season that he performed each night and at several other 2001 concerts.
As far as other Harmony songs live go,he obviously is very pleased with Clouds of Loneliness and for a while enjoyed doing Couchiching live and once did my favourite Inspiration Lady live (at my request) in Vegas but nothing else (yet)
I was most pleased recently to be able to hear a live (1975) recording of the magnificent "Now and Then" and I know from talking to the band that sometimes they rehearse odd songs (I was told AFTER one concert in 2000 that "Farewell To Nova Scotia" could have been played had it been requested that night. but told too late to request it myself.)
I think myself that the band should have a policy of picking out and rehearsing a few rarely performed songs to rotate in occasionally but there will always be the hard core of regular songs that "must" be played at every concert.
The problem as I see it is Gord will only be performing those songs that he feels he can do to perfection nowadays to suit both his present vocal range and now ones he can play using just his thumb. Knowing as we all do how hard it is to pick any list of favourites from such a splendid catalogue it must be hard for him to decide.

Hey Swede,thanks for agreeing. :) If he played End Of All Time on the 28th,I'd jump for joy and not care who saw me! :D

(I jumped for joy at Mariah Carey's show but that was for a different reason! LOL! :D )

Kind of reminds me of what one of the female actresses said about seeing Gordon live,on "Third Rock From the Sun" a few years back:

"If he sings The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald..I may just throw my panties on stage!! :D

Re: Giving the People What They Want.

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Originally Posted by talbot10 (Post 109773)

Surprisingly, that is not true! He has occasionally performed a few lines from songs that he hadn't rehearsed, usually stopping pretty quickly but giving people a real treat. And once he played an entire song through, but definitely not planned.

It was during the fall after Songbook came out, and someone yelled out "Heaven Don't Deserve Me". Lightfoot quietly played a couple of lines (as I recall, he stepped away from the mic, so he could hear it but most of the audience could not), then, satisfied, stepped up and played the song through. What he was doing was transposing on the fly; the song is played on his 12 string in standard tuning, and this was the 2nd set with only his Dropped D tuned 12 on stage (now he sometimes has both).

This was the first time he had ever played the song in concert, but after that it became one of the songs that he would often do during the first set. That first performance was definitely not planned! He might have been thinking about playing that song in concert, but definitely not with his guitar tuned as it was. I always thought that performance was a good example of both his desire to please the audience and his excellent guitar skills. [/b]

[/b][/QUOTE]Sorry for that empty post before! in any event, we are talking about tuning two strings on the twelve ....... not exactly a Segovia like effort by Gord. Lets not turn him into an Al Dimeola master of ad lib for a five chord song!!! for 70 bucks a seat it is the least he can do.
Bill[/QUOTE]

i agree… was looking for another topic in a search and saw this… it makes no sense