Hi everyone, I just joined on this forum this week.
Sorry for asking, but I was wondering if anyone could show me any especially good threads that I should take a look at first, so I can get involved here? Thanks! Michael Gladstone |
Hi everyone, I just joined on this forum this week.
Sorry for asking, but I was wondering if anyone could show me any especially good threads that I should take a look at first, so I can get involved here? Thanks! Michael Gladstone |
You're going to be doing well to just keep up with the recent posts on the current threads. This is an extremely active forum if you haven't already realized it. And I suspect now that Gord's concert schedule has kicked in for 2007, it's going to be getting even busier. If you have something you'd like to say, for instance, about a particular song, just look through the titles of threads, and chances are you'll find it and then you won't have to start a new thread. I also always check the Small Talk section every day, and there's sometimes pretty interesting stuff discussed there too, that does not directly relate to GL. This forum is a blast, especially when you begin to understand some of the personalities better. Lots of diversity. Have fun and welcome!
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Hi Mike Gladstone!
(Hey another"Stone"-"er")LOL!! :D Borderstone here,first of a big welcome to you,hope you enjoy it here. ;) In answer to your question,the simpler answer is,on this board,anything that's about Gordon Lightfoot is ususally a good thread. More so though,I'd reccomend the threads that at least have more than 5 replies. Some folks start topics and for whatever reason,they just don't get a big response. Even mine! :eek: Okay "B".. :rolleyes: you might want to check that ego at the door! LOL! :D In,"Samll Talk", whatever you find the most interesting is most likely the best. |
I would also suggest using the search option at the top of the page. However, in all honesty I see nothing wrong in asking or stating what you want to. Redundancy is alright in my book, so if its been discussed before......who cares ?
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if you want to digest some fellow fan emotion, this is always a good browse, thx to our archive/webmaster
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/LIGHTFOOT/BDCARD1.HTM ...assuming you can get by the midis;) |
if you want to digest some fellow fan emotion, this is always a good browse, thx to our archive/webmaster
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/LIGHTFOOT/BDCARD1.HTM ...assuming you can get by the midis;) |
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Actually that birthday card archive is thanks to David Sims who once had a fine geocities GL site from where with perspicacity I had saved the birthday card pages back in 1997 Unfortunately after David abandoned his dedicated site he started a Yahoo "fan club" group at:- http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group...ghtfootfanclub but latterly it has been afflicted with the irrelevant and mindless spam that is affecting many such groups and sites going back to Mike's question funnily enough I had thought of starting a new topic with a very similar title myself, The reason being that I fuly intend in the fairly near future doing what I have planned to do for a very long time and that is to properly set up a Gordon Lightfoot webring As that wiki explains at its start:- "To be a part of the webring, each site has a common navigation bar; it contains links to the previous and next site" Note in particular the reference to a "Navigation Bar" http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/images/Ferrari_Webring.jpg Typical Navbar for the Ferrari webring It is obviously not possible to add such a bar to many sites that I want to feature in such a webring For example Google Group's presentation of the moribund Newsgroup alt.music.lightfoot http://www.newsgroup.shorturl.com Although as Valerie has just commented in an email to me "I'm afraid the newsgroup is essentially dead." That is obviously true but it remains as an extensive archive of thousands of messages over the last 13 years and is an excellent resource for research etc In fact the organisation I used to set up such a ring (for free) a long time ago, http://www.webring.org actually checks every site in a ring and if it does not feature a navigation bar it is automatically removed I worked out a workaround for this many moons ago;which is to write a "portal" page for every site I wish to include in my ring. On that page I would then describe its purpose and history and provide a clickable link to the actual website plus include the all important navigation bar of course I would also like to list on the portal page what I consider to be the highlights of that particular site In the case of corfid I intend two portals one for the site as a whole linking to:- http://www.corfid.com and the other to the Discussion Forums linking to the summary page at:- http://www.corfid.notlong.com Obviously the highlights of the forums should include some of the best threads (topics) that newbie Mike is asking about here. So any thoughts would be appreciated To get the ball rolling I think most would agree that the two topics initiated by that long absent "stationmaster" fellow (Lorne now busy selling toilets on the rock I believe) are worthy of attention:- 1.Topic: Sounds like a lyric... 6 pages starting at:- http://www.corfid.com/ubb/ultimatebb...c;f=1;t=003673 and the 29 pages comprising his immensely popular and enjoyable quiz topic: "PICTURE" that song... http://www.corfid.com/ubb/ultimatebb...=002499#000000 and I must not forget the "corfid member map" that was started by Watchman Al in the small talk forum then referred to by BillW at:- http://www.corfid.com/ubb/ultimatebb...=003558#000000 There was a confusing period of non-access during which two other topics started Topic: CORFID member map http://www.corfid.com/ubb/ultimatebb...=004106#000000 and Topic: NEW map location http://www.corfid.com/ubb/ultimatebb...=004109#000001 OK that is more than enough reading (and chuckling) to keep Mike busy for a while but if anybody has a favo(u)rite old topic that they think should be listed on my webring portal page I would apprceciate you posting it here and Of course there is the non participant (nowadays) Sheryl's fine first concert report at:- http://www.corfid.com/ubb/ultimatebb...c;f=1;t=003140 [ February 09, 2007, 09:25: Message edited by: johnfowles ] |
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Actually that birthday card archive is thanks to David Sims who once had a fine geocities GL site from where with perspicacity I had saved the birthday card pages back in 1997 Unfortunately after David abandoned his dedicated site he started a Yahoo "fan club" group at:- http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group...ghtfootfanclub but latterly it has been afflicted with the irrelevant and mindless spam that is affecting many such groups and sites going back to Mike's question funnily enough I had thought of starting a new topic with a very similar title myself, The reason being that I fuly intend in the fairly near future doing what I have planned to do for a very long time and that is to properly set up a Gordon Lightfoot webring As that wiki explains at its start:- "To be a part of the webring, each site has a common navigation bar; it contains links to the previous and next site" Note in particular the reference to a "Navigation Bar" http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/images/Ferrari_Webring.jpg Typical Navbar for the Ferrari webring It is obviously not possible to add such a bar to many sites that I want to feature in such a webring For example Google Group's presentation of the moribund Newsgroup alt.music.lightfoot http://www.newsgroup.shorturl.com Although as Valerie has just commented in an email to me "I'm afraid the newsgroup is essentially dead." That is obviously true but it remains as an extensive archive of thousands of messages over the last 13 years and is an excellent resource for research etc In fact the organisation I used to set up such a ring (for free) a long time ago, http://www.webring.org actually checks every site in a ring and if it does not feature a navigation bar it is automatically removed I worked out a workaround for this many moons ago;which is to write a "portal" page for every site I wish to include in my ring. On that page I would then describe its purpose and history and provide a clickable link to the actual website plus include the all important navigation bar of course I would also like to list on the portal page what I consider to be the highlights of that particular site In the case of corfid I intend two portals one for the site as a whole linking to:- http://www.corfid.com and the other to the Discussion Forums linking to the summary page at:- http://www.corfid.notlong.com Obviously the highlights of the forums should include some of the best threads (topics) that newbie Mike is asking about here. So any thoughts would be appreciated To get the ball rolling I think most would agree that the two topics initiated by that long absent "stationmaster" fellow (Lorne now busy selling toilets on the rock I believe) are worthy of attention:- 1.Topic: Sounds like a lyric... 6 pages starting at:- http://www.corfid.com/ubb/ultimatebb...c;f=1;t=003673 and the 29 pages comprising his immensely popular and enjoyable quiz topic: "PICTURE" that song... http://www.corfid.com/ubb/ultimatebb...=002499#000000 and I must not forget the "corfid member map" that was started by Watchman Al in the small talk forum then referred to by BillW at:- http://www.corfid.com/ubb/ultimatebb...=003558#000000 There was a confusing period of non-access during which two other topics started Topic: CORFID member map http://www.corfid.com/ubb/ultimatebb...=004106#000000 and Topic: NEW map location http://www.corfid.com/ubb/ultimatebb...=004109#000001 OK that is more than enough reading (and chuckling) to keep Mike busy for a while but if anybody has a favo(u)rite old topic that they think should be listed on my webring portal page I would apprceciate you posting it here and Of course there is the non participant (nowadays) Sheryl's fine first concert report at:- http://www.corfid.com/ubb/ultimatebb...c;f=1;t=003140 [ February 09, 2007, 09:25: Message edited by: johnfowles ] |
Perhaps the easiest way to find a really good thread to to look for a topic started be PeterBro10!
Sure hit every time!!! (just kidding of coarse, but could'nt resist). |
but seriously, one of corfids best kept secrets is the search function. try it out, it's pretty handy.
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It is always worth reading the confessions of other Lightfoot addicts in the guest book,now conveniently split into yearly archives example 1999 (the first) at:- http://www.corfid.com/gl/gbook1999.htm John P.S. Strangely the most recent corfid guest book entry appears to be the one by the irrepressible Jessie-Joe on March 15th 2006 in which he said "Hey guys, This site was block for so long, happy to see it running again. Gord I will see you once again on your birthday, at "The Old Lady" on shutter street. Looking really forward to this one. Youre biggest fan and friend" OMER" Unfortunately having attended the Kitchener concert in October Omer did not venture west again in November when he would surely have enjoyed the jam sessions etc He had previously signed the guestbook in December 2005:- "Hello,to everyone! I am without a doubt,the bigest GORDON LIGHTFOOT fan there is.I challenge anyone to try to stump me on any information about our beloved genius.I've been worshiping him since 1969.Saw him twice in concert,in Halifax,NS Oct,1987 and in Moncton,NB April 1990.Own every CD'S,and lots more stuff.HE is simply the best. Bye for now! Omer J. Landry omarlandry@hotmail.com" (I think that email address is no good??) [ February 09, 2007, 10:01: Message edited by: johnfowles ] |
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It is always worth reading the confessions of other Lightfoot addicts in the guest book,now conveniently split into yearly archives example 1999 (the first) at:- http://www.corfid.com/gl/gbook1999.htm John P.S. Strangely the most recent corfid guest book entry appears to be the one by the irrepressible Jessie-Joe on March 15th 2006 in which he said "Hey guys, This site was block for so long, happy to see it running again. Gord I will see you once again on your birthday, at "The Old Lady" on shutter street. Looking really forward to this one. Youre biggest fan and friend" OMER" Unfortunately having attended the Kitchener concert in October Omer did not venture west again in November when he would surely have enjoyed the jam sessions etc He had previously signed the guestbook in December 2005:- "Hello,to everyone! I am without a doubt,the bigest GORDON LIGHTFOOT fan there is.I challenge anyone to try to stump me on any information about our beloved genius.I've been worshiping him since 1969.Saw him twice in concert,in Halifax,NS Oct,1987 and in Moncton,NB April 1990.Own every CD'S,and lots more stuff.HE is simply the best. Bye for now! Omer J. Landry omarlandry@hotmail.com" (I think that email address is no good??) [ February 09, 2007, 10:01: Message edited by: johnfowles ] |
Jesse, you're an Omer? Go figure.
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from recent 2006 entries at:- http://www.corfid.com/gl/gbook.htm#add 1."Name: Omer Landry lightfoot249@hotmail.com From: (IP Address: 156.34.54.97) Added: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 5:01 PM Comments: Hey guys, This site was block for so long, happy to see it running again. Gord I will see you once again on your birthday, at "The Old Lady" on shutter street. Looking really forward to this one. Youre biggest fan and friend. OMER> " ------------------------------------------------------------ 2.Name: Omer J. Landry omarlandry@hotmail.com From: (IP Address: 156.34.57.122) Added: Friday, December 2, 2005 7:35 AM Comments: Hello,to everyone! I am without a doubt,the bigest GORDON LIGHTFOOT fan there is.I challenge anyone to try to stump me on any information about our beloved genius.I've been worshiping him since 1969.Saw him twice in concert,in Halifax,NS Oct,1987 and in Moncton,NB April 1990.Own every CD'S,and lots more stuff.HE is simply the best. Bye for now! Omer J. Landry omarlandry@hotmail.com ------------------------------------------------- 3.Name: Omer J. Landry omarlndry@hotmail.com From: (IP Address: 156.34.46.212) Added: Thursday, December 1, 2005 8:10 AM Comments: Hello to Gordie's fan everywhere! I have been a Lightfoot fan since 1969, when I bought my first LP,"Did She Mention My Name. Today I've got every CD's.Books,articles,and many more stuff.I am the biggest GL fan ever. I simply worship the man.Would like to hear from anyone out there,preferably ladies who could share the same interest in that great poet,and dare anyone who can try to stump me on information about Lightfoot.Maybe I would learn or you would learn new stuff.It could be fun.I am from CANADA. Bye for now! PS,Hey Gord,if I should be lucky enough for you to read this please reply? omarlandry@hotmail.com Ok Omer/Omar I make that 4 Omers versus 3 Omar's No wonder I am confused!! John/Jean P.S. only reprocduced what was already in the public domain for anybody to find. You are forgiven for your initial smartass challenge, because you quickly retracted when you realised the strength of fan knowledge here!! |
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from recent 2006 entries at:- http://www.corfid.com/gl/gbook.htm#add 1."Name: Omer Landry lightfoot249@hotmail.com From: (IP Address: 156.34.54.97) Added: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 5:01 PM Comments: Hey guys, This site was block for so long, happy to see it running again. Gord I will see you once again on your birthday, at "The Old Lady" on shutter street. Looking really forward to this one. Youre biggest fan and friend. OMER> " ------------------------------------------------------------ 2.Name: Omer J. Landry omarlandry@hotmail.com From: (IP Address: 156.34.57.122) Added: Friday, December 2, 2005 7:35 AM Comments: Hello,to everyone! I am without a doubt,the bigest GORDON LIGHTFOOT fan there is.I challenge anyone to try to stump me on any information about our beloved genius.I've been worshiping him since 1969.Saw him twice in concert,in Halifax,NS Oct,1987 and in Moncton,NB April 1990.Own every CD'S,and lots more stuff.HE is simply the best. Bye for now! Omer J. Landry omarlandry@hotmail.com ------------------------------------------------- 3.Name: Omer J. Landry omarlndry@hotmail.com From: (IP Address: 156.34.46.212) Added: Thursday, December 1, 2005 8:10 AM Comments: Hello to Gordie's fan everywhere! I have been a Lightfoot fan since 1969, when I bought my first LP,"Did She Mention My Name. Today I've got every CD's.Books,articles,and many more stuff.I am the biggest GL fan ever. I simply worship the man.Would like to hear from anyone out there,preferably ladies who could share the same interest in that great poet,and dare anyone who can try to stump me on information about Lightfoot.Maybe I would learn or you would learn new stuff.It could be fun.I am from CANADA. Bye for now! PS,Hey Gord,if I should be lucky enough for you to read this please reply? omarlandry@hotmail.com Ok Omer/Omar I make that 4 Omers versus 3 Omar's No wonder I am confused!! John/Jean P.S. only reprocduced what was already in the public domain for anybody to find. You are forgiven for your initial smartass challenge, because you quickly retracted when you realised the strength of fan knowledge here!! |
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Whattya think ? Are you digesting all the suggestions or is this another case of ask a question and never post again ? Bill :) |
My favorite all-time thread is "You Create The Setlist."
Borderstone's second selection is something I still go back to when I want a good belly laugh! What an imagination... egads... |
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BUT you omitted to quote the topic URL which was:- http://www.corfid.com/ubb/ultimatebb...=003522#000000 ANY more ANYbody??? Yes Walter's mythical list is awesome and very funny it is at http://www.corfid.com/ubb/ultimatebb...=003522#000014 Note for anybody remotely interested. In the same way the webmaster's emailed links for topics one subscribes to work i worked out that as Walter's funny was the 14th posting to that topic I changed the #0000000 in the basic URL to #000014. |
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BUT you omitted to quote the topic URL which was:- http://www.corfid.com/ubb/ultimatebb...=003522#000000 ANY more ANYbody??? Yes Walter's mythical list is awesome and very funny it is at http://www.corfid.com/ubb/ultimatebb...=003522#000014 Note for anybody remotely interested. In the same way the webmaster's emailed links for topics one subscribes to work i worked out that as Walter's funny was the 14th posting to that topic I changed the #0000000 in the basic URL to #000014. |
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IP: Logged | johnfowles Member Member # 622 posted 02-09-2007 11:50 AM He had previously signed the guestbook in December 2005:- "Hello,to everyone! I am without a doubt,the bigest GORDON LIGHTFOOT fan there is.I challenge anyone to try to stump me on any information about our beloved genius. Reply: To all Corfidians: That was then and this is now. Please do not try to stomp me... Before discovering Corfid, I thought I was the only Gordon Lightfoot fan in the world. But quickly found out that wasn't so. You all know as much, even more than I do, about this magical Poet Genius...Gordon Lightfoot. :) ~Jesse~ :redface: ;) :eek: :rolleyes: :) [ February 11, 2007, 10:53: Message edited by: Jesse-Joe ] |
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IP: Logged | johnfowles Member Member # 622 posted 02-09-2007 11:50 AM He had previously signed the guestbook in December 2005:- "Hello,to everyone! I am without a doubt,the bigest GORDON LIGHTFOOT fan there is.I challenge anyone to try to stump me on any information about our beloved genius. Reply: To all Corfidians: That was then and this is now. Please do not try to stomp me... Before discovering Corfid, I thought I was the only Gordon Lightfoot fan in the world. But quickly found out that wasn't so. You all know as much, even more than I do, about this magical Poet Genius...Gordon Lightfoot. :) ~Jesse~ :redface: ;) :eek: :rolleyes: :) [ February 11, 2007, 10:53: Message edited by: Jesse-Joe ] |
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You and me both Jess. ;) Not only did I think I and oldies stations were the only one who recalled him but that a website for him could not "possibly" exist!
In years since, I've found there's websites for nearly every "fairly" known singer,to the ridiculously famous. My favorite thread (besides my own...just playin') :D was Stationmaster's "Picture that Song" game. Which if you go to it now,the pictures that were clues to GL's songs,are gone. :( It was fun for all the months that it lasted though. ;) |
I was pleasantly surprised to find such an active website about Gordon Lightfoot and I too felt like the only Lightfoot fan in the whole world until I came here. I am not nearly as knowledgeable as many of you, and I'm still learning quite a bit, but steadily getting up to speed... with some help from all you guys + gals! :D
Mike, welcome to the forum! Some threads I find interesting are: "Do you think the song For Lovin Me is chauvinistic?" http://www.corfid.com/ubb/ultimatebb...c;f=1;t=003955 or... "When you think of GL - what year do you visualize?" http://www.corfid.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ul...c;f=1;t=004093 Always interesting to hear different interpretations from an array of fans about Gordon and his music. Have fun! |
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Char Stamp... Isn't it weird how many of us did think, that we were the only Gordon Lightfoot fan in the world ? The guy has toured all over the world, and he is a Millionaire many times over. And to actually think that I would be his only fan... :redface: Gitchigumee, your signature tells it all... Those 4 lines are pure genius. So simple, yet I dont think anyone else could have engraved that in my mind so perfectly. :rolleyes: There is a place that I drive by, close to Moncton. It's on the TCH, {Trans Canada Highway}, you look in the distance, there is lots of green dark forests,(mountains of it) and to top it all 2 railroad tracks, side by side, that seems to go forever in that forest. Everytime I go by there, those 4 lines do come to mind. And many a times I will play CRT in the CD player. It's something that I can not describe in words, how proud it makes me feel to be a Canadian, like he is... Thank's so much to you ~Gordon Lightfoot~. :) http://www.gordonlightfoot.com/Lyrics/CRT.txt [ February 14, 2007, 12:34: Message edited by: Jesse-Joe ] |
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Char Stamp... Isn't it weird how many of us did think, that we were the only Gordon Lightfoot fan in the world ? The guy has toured all over the world, and he is a Millionaire many times over. And to actually think that I would be his only fan... :redface: Gitchigumee, your signature tells it all... Those 4 lines are pure genius. So simple, yet I dont think anyone else could have engraved that in my mind so perfectly. :rolleyes: There is a place that I drive by, close to Moncton. It's on the TCH, {Trans Canada Highway}, you look in the distance, there is lots of green dark forests,(mountains of it) and to top it all 2 railroad tracks, side by side, that seems to go forever in that forest. Everytime I go by there, those 4 lines do come to mind. And many a times I will play CRT in the CD player. It's something that I can not describe in words, how proud it makes me feel to be a Canadian, like he is... Thank's so much to you ~Gordon Lightfoot~. :) http://www.gordonlightfoot.com/Lyrics/CRT.txt [ February 14, 2007, 12:34: Message edited by: Jesse-Joe ] |
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More and more, I look with yearning to the north and I truly believe if I had to choose another country to call my home, it would be Canada. The more I learn about it, the more I am intrigued. Each experience I have had in your beautiful country has been wonderful. From fishing trips with my dad to motorcycle trips with my husband. I have found the scenery exceedingly beautiful and the people very friendly. And of course the Canadian people I have met and keep meeting on this forum ... what can I say, they're my kind of people. I look forward to spending much more time in your country in the future, and I actually have 2 possible trips coming up in 2008. Being an American, I was always brought up to believe that I live in the greatest country on earth. I agree that it is great, but the older I get, the more I realize that the universe doesn't revolve around the good old US of A only. I am not always proud of what our country has done, and what it is doing. I am definitely not always proud of our leadership and can even understand why some of our "enemies" hate us so badly. It would have been unimaginable to think those thoughts growing up! Jesse, you have every right to feel proud to be Canadian. |
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had the internet demonstrated to me by a friend in Yeovil Somerset England, to whom I had gone to for advice on buying a new computer, and he was keento show off his new ISDN telephone line,whatever that was, and invited me to suggest a search using, I believe, the search engine. Feeling somewhat foolish since I KNEW for a fact that I was the only Lightfot fan in the world and certain that my friend had never heard of him, and would marvel at my insanity,I said "sure please see if there is ANYTHING on the internet about Gordon Lightfoot".I was astonished to find a selection of sites and, shortly thereafter with a new computer incorporating a strange gubbins called a "modem", I was able to do my own searches using probably Yahoo.At that time the prime source of GL info on the internet was the pioneer site set up as a demo site for his university class by Matthew Fifer, a site long since gone but happily archived by the wonderful Wayback Machine One typical set of pages is at:- Archived set from 2001 in the index on the left you will see two important links:- 1.the newsgroup a link to a page describing alt.music.lightfoot and its then access using the usenet provider Dejanews which was later taken over by http://remarq.com (the dejanews link now forwards you to google groups and I remember a BBC disc jockey in probably 1998 recommending a great new search engine with the odd name of google, who succeded dejanews and remarq as the custodian of the massive usenet/newsgroup archive. Nowadays if you go and ogle for "Gordon Lightfoot" there are allegedly a staggering 1.2 million plus results!! I devoured the Newsgroup,especially a fantastic series of FAQs that were updated monthly by an obviously besotted fan called Wayne Francis and in 1998/99 I found that Rik Stevens had started a chatroom on his own GL tribute site see his 1998 announcement at:- http://rikchat.notlong.com/ I joined in and very rapidly found that I was by no means the only lightfoot fan around and the rest is history!! 2.FAQs. This is a link to those FAQs which opens a page saying "The FAQs are written and maintained by Wayne Francis." with a clickable list of sections. These were in fact the same set of FAQs found on dejanews/the newsgroup and used by permission on Matthew's site.In 1999 Wayne combined all his FAQ material and started his now well known "unofficial official" Lightfoot cornucopia at Lightfoot! The Gordon Lightfoot Internet Companion John |
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had the internet demonstrated to me by a friend in Yeovil Somerset England, to whom I had gone to for advice on buying a new computer, and he was keento show off his new ISDN telephone line,whatever that was, and invited me to suggest a search using, I believe, the search engine. Feeling somewhat foolish since I KNEW for a fact that I was the only Lightfot fan in the world and certain that my friend had never heard of him, and would marvel at my insanity,I said "sure please see if there is ANYTHING on the internet about Gordon Lightfoot".I was astonished to find a selection of sites and, shortly thereafter with a new computer incorporating a strange gubbins called a "modem", I was able to do my own searches using probably Yahoo.At that time the prime source of GL info on the internet was the pioneer site set up as a demo site for his university class by Matthew Fifer, a site long since gone but happily archived by the wonderful Wayback Machine One typical set of pages is at:- Archived set from 2001 in the index on the left you will see two important links:- 1.the newsgroup a link to a page describing alt.music.lightfoot and its then access using the usenet provider Dejanews which was later taken over by http://remarq.com (the dejanews link now forwards you to google groups and I remember a BBC disc jockey in probably 1998 recommending a great new search engine with the odd name of google, who succeded dejanews and remarq as the custodian of the massive usenet/newsgroup archive. Nowadays if you go and ogle for "Gordon Lightfoot" there are allegedly a staggering 1.2 million plus results!! I devoured the Newsgroup,especially a fantastic series of FAQs that were updated monthly by an obviously besotted fan called Wayne Francis and in 1998/99 I found that Rik Stevens had started a chatroom on his own GL tribute site see his 1998 announcement at:- http://rikchat.notlong.com/ I joined in and very rapidly found that I was by no means the only lightfoot fan around and the rest is history!! 2.FAQs. This is a link to those FAQs which opens a page saying "The FAQs are written and maintained by Wayne Francis." with a clickable list of sections. These were in fact the same set of FAQs found on dejanews/the newsgroup and used by permission on Matthew's site.In 1999 Wayne combined all his FAQ material and started his now well known "unofficial official" Lightfoot cornucopia at Lightfoot! The Gordon Lightfoot Internet Companion John |
Thank's Gitchigumee, for the kind words... ;) :)
We Canadians are pretty nice folks, eh!! lol :cool: :) http://particle.physics.ucdavis.edu/...tlecanflag.gif http://particle.physics.ucdavis.edu/Canadians/ [ February 14, 2007, 15:54: Message edited by: Jesse-Joe ] |
Thank's Gitchigumee, for the kind words... ;) :)
We Canadians are pretty nice folks, eh!! lol :cool: :) http://particle.physics.ucdavis.edu/...tlecanflag.gif http://particle.physics.ucdavis.edu/Canadians/ [ February 14, 2007, 15:54: Message edited by: Jesse-Joe ] |
All very interesting John. Whatever became of Matthew Fifer? I remember E.M.P. answering one of my letters, telling me about this Mr. Fifer, that had opened up a site, on the Internet, about our beloved Poet. I of course at that time did not own a computer, and tought how I was going to miss out a lot on GL... :eek: :rolleyes: :)
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All very interesting John. Whatever became of Matthew Fifer? I remember E.M.P. answering one of my letters, telling me about this Mr. Fifer, that had opened up a site, on the Internet, about our beloved Poet. I of course at that time did not own a computer, and tought how I was going to miss out a lot on GL... :eek: :rolleyes: :)
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Regarding Matthew,I have corresponded with him by email within the last year he is now I believe living and working in Boston .He told me that his pioneering GL site was purely a temporary demonstration aid for the students he was teaching HTML/web authoring to at NWU to show what one could do on a web site so he naturally chose GL as the subject. the site was hosted on his own webspace on the main NWU website,so when he left that employment the site was taken down If you google long enough for "mfifer lightfoot" as I just did you will find sites that still list Matthew's old URL which was at:- http://www.mmlc.nwu.edu/~mfifer/lightfoot/index.html if you then copy and paste that into the "take me back" search box at httP://www.wayback.notlong.com you will find that there are 24 sets of his website archived from 1998 through 2001 (not all are complete) including of course the one I linked to above http://www.mfifer.notlong.com/ I saved many text details from his site back in 1997 and intend to try to recreate as much as possible to upload to my own web site as a tribute to Matthew,but of course I first have to clear the idea with him. |
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Regarding Matthew,I have corresponded with him by email within the last year he is now I believe living and working in Boston .He told me that his pioneering GL site was purely a temporary demonstration aid for the students he was teaching HTML/web authoring to at NWU to show what one could do on a web site so he naturally chose GL as the subject. the site was hosted on his own webspace on the main NWU website,so when he left that employment the site was taken down If you google long enough for "mfifer lightfoot" as I just did you will find sites that still list Matthew's old URL which was at:- http://www.mmlc.nwu.edu/~mfifer/lightfoot/index.html if you then copy and paste that into the "take me back" search box at httP://www.wayback.notlong.com you will find that there are 24 sets of his website archived from 1998 through 2001 (not all are complete) including of course the one I linked to above http://www.mfifer.notlong.com/ I saved many text details from his site back in 1997 and intend to try to recreate as much as possible to upload to my own web site as a tribute to Matthew,but of course I first have to clear the idea with him. |
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