Howdy,

Discovering a briefcase in the garage, I pried it open to reveal some old Army SGT stripes, some ditto machine copies of The Purple Shaft(a lunchtime produced, "underground" rip & tear Army humor thing we sneaked out to the masses, and a copy of Songwriter Magazine - January 1976.

This edition of the short-lived magazine featured a lengthy interview w/
Gordon Lightfoot - w/ Gord on the cover.

Does anyone recall that Magazine, run by Len Latimer and Paul Baratta, w/ a
Hollywood PO Box? This issue was their first year anniversary issue. I
only have two - the Lightfoot edition and one w/ Jimmy Webb.

The interviews are extremely well done, aimed directly at the aspiring
songwriter, and was full of encouragement. I subscribed, but never thought
to hold on to issues. So remain these two.

Gord's comments are as relevant today as 30yrs ago. I'd like to show y'all the interview, but I don't have a scanner (or for that matter) how to do it.

Anybody know anything further about Songwriter Magazine from that era? Or, perhaps, how I might put the interview in a postable form in order to share it w/ y'all?

Blessings,

The Rez

It was a Beautiful Rainbow
A Beautiful Time in my Life
A Thing to Share - a Time to Care
To be Alive






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It was a Beautiful Rainbow
A Beautiful Time in my Life
A Thing to Share
A Time to Care
To Be Alive

Howdy,

Discovering a briefcase in the garage, I pried it open to reveal some old Army SGT stripes, some ditto machine copies of The Purple Shaft(a lunchtime produced, "underground" rip & tear Army humor thing we sneaked out to the masses, and a copy of Songwriter Magazine - January 1976.

This edition of the short-lived magazine featured a lengthy interview w/
Gordon Lightfoot - w/ Gord on the cover.

Does anyone recall that Magazine, run by Len Latimer and Paul Baratta, w/ a
Hollywood PO Box? This issue was their first year anniversary issue. I
only have two - the Lightfoot edition and one w/ Jimmy Webb.

The interviews are extremely well done, aimed directly at the aspiring
songwriter, and was full of encouragement. I subscribed, but never thought
to hold on to issues. So remain these two.

Gord's comments are as relevant today as 30yrs ago. I'd like to show y'all the interview, but I don't have a scanner (or for that matter) how to do it.

Anybody know anything further about Songwriter Magazine from that era? Or, perhaps, how I might put the interview in a postable form in order to share it w/ y'all?

Blessings,

The Rez

It was a Beautiful Rainbow
A Beautiful Time in my Life
A Thing to Share - a Time to Care
To be Alive






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It was a Beautiful Rainbow
A Beautiful Time in my Life
A Thing to Share
A Time to Care
To Be Alive

I had that article too. I remember another issue with Harry Nilson, and one with the guys from ABBA.

I found one, thru a friend, on eBay w/ John Stewart interviewed. It sold for $51 bucks.

Not my $51 bucks, however.

I'm just sorta new to all the gizmos available w/ computers these days. Any geeks (in the best possible meaning) know to walk me thru the process from magazine to post here for folks to read?

The Rez

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It was a Beautiful Rainbow
A Beautiful Time in my Life
A Thing to Share
A Time to Care
To Be Alive

quote:Originally posted by The Rez:

I'm just sorta new to all the gizmos available w/ computers these days. Any geeks (in the best possible meaning) know to walk me thru the process from magazine to post here for folks to read?

The Rez


Rex (and also for Char's and Silverheel's education and encouragement).As I see it there are three options you might care to try
1 (decidedly non geek) put on your glasses which I an am sure at your advanced age you will need and simply copy type out the text
2.(preferred and most satisfying method)
go out like LSH did a few months ago and find a cheap scanner you'll never regret it
But I recommend a better machine such as my own HP PSC1350 3-in-1 (Printer/Scanner/Copier) or the similar model 1315. Or there are 4-in-1 models that add faxing capabilty
Either way you should then be in a position to not only usefully make colo(U)r photocopies but the included software has a brilliant OCR program(me)called readiris
that enables the machine to scan the text
in any area you designate and perform the miracle of Optical Character Recognition
mine actually loads it straight into my choice of my available Word processor
word or Wordpad which is handy as the OCR rarely gets everything correct although it is pretty close
After a quick google:-
PSC1350
varying prices as low as
$79.95
or from Staples at $87.74

his machine has a useful built in reader for a variety of smart/flash memory cards as used in digital cameras
There are cheaper basic flat bed scanners including the
HP Scanjet 4600 $39.99 from an amazon affiliate at:- http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...48164?v=glance
It has readiris software too
I have no connection with HP BTW and would only advise you to steer clear of any Epson product judging by their ridiculously picky/unreliable printers!!!
3 you could go and buy a (very useful)digital camera and snap the pages to display here (some bugger around here can no doubt then be persuaded to tell you how to display your pix on this forum) right SM??
John Fowles
To err is human; to foul things up totally, you need a computer.

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My Gordon Lightfoot webring
starts at
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot

[This message has been edited by johnfowles (edited March 14, 2005).]

quote:Originally posted by The Rez:

I'm just sorta new to all the gizmos available w/ computers these days. Any geeks (in the best possible meaning) know to walk me thru the process from magazine to post here for folks to read?

The Rez


Rex (and also for Char's and Silverheel's education and encouragement).As I see it there are three options you might care to try
1 (decidedly non geek) put on your glasses which I an am sure at your advanced age you will need and simply copy type out the text
2.(preferred and most satisfying method)
go out like LSH did a few months ago and find a cheap scanner you'll never regret it
But I recommend a better machine such as my own HP PSC1350 3-in-1 (Printer/Scanner/Copier) or the similar model 1315. Or there are 4-in-1 models that add faxing capabilty
Either way you should then be in a position to not only usefully make colo(U)r photocopies but the included software has a brilliant OCR program(me)called readiris
that enables the machine to scan the text
in any area you designate and perform the miracle of Optical Character Recognition
mine actually loads it straight into my choice of my available Word processor
word or Wordpad which is handy as the OCR rarely gets everything correct although it is pretty close
After a quick google:-
PSC1350
varying prices as low as
$79.95
or from Staples at $87.74

his machine has a useful built in reader for a variety of smart/flash memory cards as used in digital cameras
There are cheaper basic flat bed scanners including the
HP Scanjet 4600 $39.99 from an amazon affiliate at:- http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...48164?v=glance
It has readiris software too
I have no connection with HP BTW and would only advise you to steer clear of any Epson product judging by their ridiculously picky/unreliable printers!!!
3 you could go and buy a (very useful)digital camera and snap the pages to display here (some bugger around here can no doubt then be persuaded to tell you how to display your pix on this forum) right SM??
John Fowles
To err is human; to foul things up totally, you need a computer.

------------------
My Gordon Lightfoot webring
starts at
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot

[This message has been edited by johnfowles (edited March 14, 2005).]

Rez,
Do you have the issue with the interview with JS? If you do and you put it up on Small Talk you will be in the running for the 'Dear of the Year'. http://www.corfid.com/ubb/smile.gif

I think Char won last year for those fantastic reviews she wrote.

I think Char won last year for those fantastic reviews she wrote.