The Skip Weshner Interviews
 

A good friend of mine just recently found at Half Price Books a cd titled "Gordon Lightfoot, The Skip Weshner Radio Show 1968-1970". He purchased it for me and what a great gift it is. Not only are there over 60 minutes of interviews but there are many songs sung by Gordon including his version of Elton John's "Your Song". I never even realized this cd existed until it was given to me. Does anyone else have more information this release?

Re: The Skip Weshner Interviews
 

If you had tried a basic search of this forum you would have found that the Skip Weshner tapes have been featured in no less than 23 earlier threads (although several links have now expired !!)and/or that nice Mr Google can show you many CD images including these from
http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=993

http://www.bigozine2.com/MP312/GLkrhm/GLkrhmFrs.jpg

http://www.bigozine2.com/MP312/GLkrhm/GLkrhmBks.jpg
on that page they are lnks to a pdf file that includes much larger images that are sized versions for printing actual jewel case inserts

Re: The Skip Weshner Interviews
 

On YouTube as well as "Your Song" there are simulated "audio/videos" of two other rarities from the Skip tapes:-
The Seabird Song and TheDoomsday Song
Incidentally "ROIO" which is a part of the bigozone2.com URL I presented is an anagram for
"Recordings Of Independant Origin" (i.e. a euphemism for Bootlegs!!)
as per the disclaimer. which I have always liked. on
http://dimesdozen.org

"DIME is merely a BitTorrent tracker for audio and video recordings of independent origin (ROIO) which have not been officially released. No audio or video content is hosted here. We only provide meta information files for the ROIOs. If you're an artist (or a legal representative of an artist or its estate) and you don't want your ROIOs shared on DIME for free among your fans, you may opt out any time by sending e-mail to the site admin. We will then put you in our list of not allowed artists, known as the NAB list. This will halt all sharing of your ROIOs using DIME's trackers within minutes. BTW, the ROIOs exist, you can't make them vanish. So, why not let your fans get them for free from one another instead of having to purchase them from commercial bootleggers on auction sites?"

Re: The Skip Weshner Interviews
 

enjoy, dray - yeah, the full mp3 (a few hours?) for download was put online quite a while back ... the interview banter is interesting also

GORDON LIGHTFOOT
Skip Weshner Tapes
Los Angeles, California, USA, 1968-1970

SOURCE: Radio (Discs 1-3) & Audience (Disc 4)

Disc 1 - 1968-04-01 and 1970 Skip Weshner Show:
=== edited versions ===
01. Bitter Green [edited, 1968-04-01]
02. Talking In Your Sleep [edited, 1970]
03. Your Song [edited, 1970]
=== 1968-04-01 Skip Weshner Show, KRHM-FM Radio Studio, Los Angeles, California ===
04. conversation / Softly
05. conversation
06. Bitter Green [unedited]
07. conversation
=== 1970 Skip Weshner Show, KRHM-FM Radio Studio, Los Angeles, California ===
08. conversation
09. Talking In Your Sleep [unedited]
10. conversation
11. Your Song [unedited]
12. conversation

Disc 2 - 1969-08-09 Skip Weshner Show, KRHM-FM Radio Studio, Los Angeles, California � Part 1:
=== edited versions ===
01. Minstrel Of The Dawn [edited]
02. Looking At The Rain [edited]
03. Sit Down Young Stranger [edited]
04. Cobwebs & Dust [edited]
05. Me And Bobby McGee [edited]
06. The Last Time I Saw Her [edited]
07. The Seabird Song [edited]
=== unedited versions ===
08. intro
09. conversation
10. Minstrel Of The Dawn [unedited]
11. conversation
12. Looking At The Rain [unedited]
13. conversation
14. Sit Down Young Stranger [unedited]
15. conversation
16. Cobwebs & Dust [unedited]
17. conversation
18. Me And Bobby McGee [unedited]
19. conversation
20. conversation
21. The Last Time I Saw Her [unedited]
22. conversation
23. The Doomsday Song
24. conversation
25. recitation of The Doomsday Song
26. conversation
27. The Seabird Song [unedited]

Disc 3 � 1969-08-09 Skip Weshner Show, KRHM Radio Studio, Los Angeles, California � Part 2:
01. conversation
02. conversation
03. Cobwebs & Dust [unedited]
04. Me And Bobby McGee [unedited]
05. The Last Time I Saw Her [unedited]
06. The Seabird Song [unedited]

Disc 4 - 1968 Party at Skip Weshner�s Home, Los Angeles, California:
=== edited versions ===
01. Unsettled Ways [edited]
02. Ballad Of The Yarmouth Castle [edited]
03. When Spring Was O�er The Land [edited]
04. The Mountains And Maryann [edited]
05. Long Way Back Home [edited]
06. Take It Or Leave It [edited]
07. Pleasures Of The Night [edited]
08. instrumental #1 [edited]
09. The Auctioneer [edited]
=== unedited versions ===
10. Unsettled Ways [unedited]
11. party talk & guitar tuning
12. Ballad Of The Yarmouth Castle [unedited]
13. talk Gordon
14. When Spring Was O�er The Land [unedited]
15. party talk & guitar tuning
16. The Mountains And Maryann [unedited]
17. party talk & guitar tuning
18. Long Way Back Home [unedited]
19. party talk & guitar tuning
20. Take It Or Leave It [unedited]
21. party talk & guitar tuning
22. Pleasures Of The Night [unedited]
23. party talk & guitar tuning
24. instrumental #1 [unedited]
25. party talk & guitar tuning
26. instrumental #2
27. party talk & guitar tuning
28. unknown song � Doug Dillard
29. party talk & guitar tuning
30. Midnight Train / Another Morning � Doug Dillard & Hoyt Axton
31. party talk & guitar tuning
32. Another Morning reprise #1 � Doug Dillard & Hoyt Axton
33. party talk & guitar tuning
34. Farther Along � Doug Dillard & Hoyt Axton
35. party talk & guitar tuning
36. Another Morning reprise #2 � Doug Dillard & Hoyt Axton
37. party talk & guitar tuning
38. The Auctioneer rehearsal
39. party talk & guitar tuning
40. The Auctioneer [unedited]
41. party talk & guitar tuning
42. instrumental #1 � Doug Dillard & Hoyt Axton
43. party talk & guitar tuning
44. instrumental #2 � Doug Dillard & Hoyt Axton
45. party talk & guitar tuning

Re: The Skip Weshner Interviews
 

Or you do not even need to download anything! For instant listening on
htt://www.sugarmegs.org go to the g for "gordon' listing at
http://tela.sugarmegs.org/alpha/g.html
then scroll down past several bazillion irrelevant
Grateful Dead bootlegs to the GL sequence where you will find
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/LIGHTFO.../sugarmegs.jpg
once there you can look at the set list and listen by clicking either the item's name as highlit or either of the wma or mp3 links and if you so desire you could save the complete recording as a single continuous audio file by right clicking then "save target as" either the wma or mp3 links the reulting wma file will be 68.3MB the mp3 186MB
but to burn to a CD ideally the tracks have to be split
(Try the free Audacity audio editor or contact Peterbro for advice!!)
As a check I have just downloaded the mp3 and an anaysis by the freeware mediainfo http://www.johnfowles.org.uk//LIGHTF..._mediainfo.jpg
shows that it totals almost 4 hours so it should if split correspondingly JUST!! fit on 3 80 minute blank CDs
the mp3 sampling was "variable" averaging 111 Kilobits per second which should produce pretty decent sounding CDs I displayed possible jewel case artwork above

Re: The Skip Weshner Interviews
 

As well as the two more obvious rare unreleased song's ('TheSeabird Song" and "The Doomsday Song') I now realise that there is a third "Take it or Leave it "