[talbot10]

Originally posted by talbot10:
quote:Originally posted by vlmagee:
quote:Originally posted by Gitchigumee:
I seriously doubt he would improvise and throw in a song that has not been rehearsed.

Surprisingly, that is not true! He has occasionally performed a few lines from songs that he hadn't rehearsed, usually stopping pretty quickly but giving people a real treat. And once he played an entire song through, but definitely not planned.

It was during the fall after Songbook came out, and someone yelled out "Heaven Don't Deserve Me". Lightfoot quietly played a couple of lines (as I recall, he stepped away from the mic, so he could hear it but most of the audience could not), then, satisfied, stepped up and played the song through. What he was doing was transposing on the fly; the song is played on his 12 string in standard tuning, and this was the 2nd set with only his Dropped D tuned 12 on stage (now he sometimes has both).

This was the first time he had ever played the song in concert, but after that it became one of the songs that he would often do during the first set. That first performance was definitely not planned! He might have been thinking about playing that song in concert, but definitely not with his guitar tuned as it was. I always thought that performance was a good example of both his desire to please the audience and his excellent guitar skills. [/QUOTE][/QUOTE]Sorry for that empty post before! in any event, we are talking about tuning two strings on the twelve ....... not exactly a Segovia like effort by Gord. Lets not turn him into an Al Dimeola master of ad lib for a five chord song!!! for 70 bucks a seat it is the least he can do.
Bill