I was an usher at Massey Hall - seating 2600 - in Toronto in the mid 70's, it was the best job in the world, one night Segovia, the next night Frank Zappa and the next night Bob Marley. I was there for the Lightfoot concert series in 74, 76, 77 and 78. It was a tough job but someone had to do it.
When I was there in 74 ushering for the Lightfoot concerts, I think
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was doing the sound recording of all the concerts for a possible album. The reason they didn't use the tapes I heard was that Lightfoot had a broken fingernail which resulted in some undesired sound effects.
But I have always thought that, now that audio technology being what it is - those tapes could be cleaned up and all traces of the broken fingernail removed.
Has anyone heard anything about the tapes, who has them and if they have ever been mentioned by Lightfoot or anyone else as the material for a possible for a live album from the mid 70s.
He was at the top of his form and his band was hot. And he always had the most beautiful women in Toronto there for his concerts. Their boyfriends always looked a bit redundant for the duration of the concerts.