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I agree with JJ, Bill. Very nice work!

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Yes he is! I'm hoping to see him perform live someday (hint, hint!) ...maybe at the Vanilla Bean ;)

oh and I fell in love with Traverse City and up the peninsula when I visited there last Fall! It had that 'vintage' touristy-feel to it and I thought it was just charming!

And nice photo Vickie!

Pam

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Hi Vickie and Bill!

We're 32 hours away from the Manistee concert !

However, I never got back to the casino to find a meeting spot. I have a picture of you, Vickie...I'm sorry to say that I don't have a recent pic of me that looks like I think I look, so I haven't posted one(I take a lousy photo). So I think it will be up to me to find you. I'll check around by the entrance to the concert hall. Other wise, my husband and I will be in row G (on the right side of the stage) in the aisle seats. Bill, where are you going to be sitting?

The concert is SOLD OUT!

I'm getting very excited!!!

See you there!
Kathy

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Hi Kathy! I dropped both you and Bill a message with my seat information - looking forward to meeting up with you. :) It was great to log onto the casino web site and see that the concert has sold out!

Vickie

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HI Cathy and Vickie,
I Actually don't know where I am sitting :). I am going to the show with a guy
I work with and he got the tickets a while ago. I will definately look for you both
either before the show or at intermission. I am not sure when exactly I will get there.
Bill

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Kathy, I'm so sorry Bill and I didn't find you - we had planned to hunt you down during intermission. But, as you know, there was no intermission. Bill, thanks for letting me hang out with you and your buddy; I had a lot of fun. :) We had some interesting moments, eh? LOL

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HI Vickie!
Have a great time at the concert tonight! It was great to meet you at the show last night and hang out. I had a great time!!
We sure had a lot of laughs, did'nt we! :)
Kathy I second what Vickie said. We were all surprised ther was no intermission. Hopefully we can all get to meet again!
The show was great and Gord did 21 songs without a break. He may 70 but he sure has a lot of energy. These are the songs: Not in the right order:

Cotten Jenney
Never to close
early morning rain
ribbon of darkness
If you could read my mind
don Q
Beautiful
Hang Dog
If Children had wings
In my Fashion
triangle
14 karat Gold
Sea of Tranquility
Shadows
Baby Step Back
A painter passing through
The wreck
Old dan's records
Rainy Day People
Sundown
The Watchman's gone

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Row E, Stage Left...it was great to see Gord again. He played one long set, his usual two dozen or so songs. Took about the first half dozen songs or so for him to loosen up the vocal strings and it is somewhat painful to realize that he can no longer hit a lot of the higher notes and occasionally the voice cuts out. Nevertheless, another great performance from the old master. He gives it his all and, at nearly 70, what more can we ask for? Looking about the arena it was also painfully obvious to realize that the core audience has aged along with Gord and the band. At 53 and 52, my wife and I felt like we were two of the more youthful in the crowd. Set list was very similar to the sets he used earlier this year in Florida. Opened with 14 Karat Gold and wrapped with a double encore, concluding on Old Dan's Records. All in all, a truly enjoyable way to spend the evening. The casino hotel was reasonable and the pre-concert meal we enjoyed in one of their restaurants was pleasant and, with coupons off the internet site, quite a bargain. Didn't catch his name but there was a quite talented young man singing and accompanying himself on guitar throughout our meal, playing a pleasant mix of 60s to current tunes.

To answer some of the earlier posts...Gord typically doesn't do an intermission when playing casino venues. I think he fears losing people during the break to the gaming rooms and then its hard to bring them back in without disrupting the entire audience and "flow" of the second half.

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. Didn't catch his name but there was a quite talented young man singing and accompanying himself on guitar throughout our meal, playing a pleasant mix of 60s to current tunes.

Yeah we saw that kid too...He was good
Bill

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I asked Rick last night about the different format used for casino shows. The format isn't Gord's choice. Apparently, the casinos specifically contract the performances for a more limited time period, fearing a longer performance will lose them too much money in the casino. Go figure! LOL

Vickie