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johnfowles 05-25-2010 11:49 AM

http://setlist.fm video playlists
 
I know that several people here receive Google Alerts that provide links to websites and blogs in which Gord is mentioned.
For the benefit of others who do not see such alerts here is my report on an alert on Sunday
one of whose links was to:-
http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/gordon-lightfoot/2006/the-tulalip-amphitheatre-tulalip-wa-6bd4ce7a.html
that page was originally incorrectly headed
"Gordon Lightfoot Concert at The Tulalip Amphitheatre, Tulalip, WA, USA Setlist on August 20, 2008"
but after I posted a correcting note it has been suitably amended to the correct 2006
also set-listed were
1.Gordon Lightfoot Concert at The Tulalip Amphitheatre, Tulalip, WA, USA Setlist on August 26, 2007
2.Gordon Lightfoot Concert at Robinson Center Hall, Little Rock, AR, USA Setlist on October 5, 2008
3.Gordon Lightfoot Concert at Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, Edmonton, AB, Canada Setlist on April 14, 2009
and
4.Gordon Lightfoot Concert at Holy Heart Theatre, Saint John's, NL, Canada Setlist on March 30, 2010
 
this enterprising website in the particular case of Gord takes full advantage of two pertinent facts about GL concerts over the last few years
1 the very limited number of songs in "rotation"
2 the widespread use by fans of extremely capable cell (mobile) phones
and the consequent uploading of reasonable qualiy albeit monaural videos of most of the songs in rotation
because the way the website operates is that after somebody adds a setlist the site is programmed to search for suitable videos on youtube to make what is then in effect an ersatz video recording of the particular concert
setlist.fm then uses the list of videos as a "playlist" so that the entire concert will play
However the youtube videos found by setlist .fm's program are not necessarily the most appropriate ones available and consistently leads to some incongruities in particular these two
1 Cotton Jenny the rather unrepresentational clip is from Soundstage 1979
a more appropriate one would have been
Gordon and the band in Hanford, CA 10/16/08
at http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=P339C_5SyuI
2 Triangle is a very truncated 1:08 version from Tarrytown NY in June 2009
A much better choice would have been the full length video from Massey in November 2009
But there does not seem to be any method to allow users to select their own choice of video, although there is a playlist facility on youtube.com itself
To those I have myself now added:-

Gordon Lightfoot Concert at Harbour Station, Saint John, NB, Canada Setlist on April 4, 2010
http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/gordon...-73d4cadd.html
That is the most recent (in fact very recent) bootleg as currently available in perfect quality lossless files (in FLAC format) as a download from a Bit torrent. listed on dime
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-d....php?id=297994
this revealed that as well as "Clouds Of Loneliness" another frequenty played rotational song "Blackbery Wine" is not represented on youtube at present.
Nevertheless the website is an interesting idea using whatever existing resources there are already on youtube,
Funnily enough I had in mind a similar project to create a simulated (audio only) CD "bootleg" of the February 21st 2008 Tampa FL concert using mp3s that are available for the later May 2008 Massey Hall concerts, There were however three non-rotational songs in that concert
Gord's solo I'll Tag Along
Ring Them Bells and
My little Love
An audio only mp3 of tag I can rip from one of several available video recordings of Gord performing that song solo
and I think I have a "Bells" mp3 from another bootleg somewhere
that only leaves "my little love" but I noted that the 14 Karat Gold video on one setlist.fm roster was from the Feb 17th 2008 concert in Columbus GA in which "my little love" was featured so as there are 3 sources I now know of of videos from that concert (two corfiddlers claimed to have the complete concert in video format) it should be possible to acquire that rendition in mp3 format to complete the set


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