November 20th 1980. I bought my first VCR. I remember paying close to $2,000 for a 2 head RCA . Brand spanken new. Today you buy one for $70,00 Cdn, and it's a 4 head. The sole purpose for buying that VCR, was to have the Gordon Lightfoot Olympic Tribute Concert, which my brother in law had tape, on CBC TV for me, at the department store he was working. I said if you set that machine to tape that concert, next week I will buy a VCR, from you.
I know that concert from start to finish, it also had Liona Boyd, Caroll Baker, Harry Chapin, and The Good Brothers, live from Exhibition Stadium in Toronto. I know some of you folks were at that concert. I remember Gord being very cool, on that stage.
I drove in a severe winter storm in 1978, 35 miles,one way, and then back, to buy the new Lightfoot Album, :Endless Wire." Me and a friend. We were going no more than 25 to 35 miles an hour. Visibility very poor. But when I got back home, and gave 'Endless Wire' a Spin, I thought to myself, it was worth it.
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