From
1968 to
2006 a very amazing list of
Gordon Lightfoot concerts. But as I told you many times before John you are so lucky to have seen him in the
60's. I did not get to see him
April 03,
1969 at
The Moncton High School Auditorium, tickets were
$3.00. I was not driving yet, and I was living 30 miles from Moncton in those days. Could not convince anyone to take me to see that poet which I was really getting into his music. (I seemed to be the only one.) But I do have an audio CD, of the concert he did in Charlottetown of that year, thanks to a great Corfidian which doesn't want to be mention, which was probably the same show he did in Moncton. When I listen to it, I always think that's the concert I missed. At one point he tells the audience in Charlottetown about Kris Kristofferson's "Me And Bobby McGee," saying that Roger Miller murdered the song.{Im assuming that it's a good thing to murder a song?} And of course we all know that when the new Album came out, "Sit Down Young Stranger" Bobby McGee was on it.
After 1969 Lightfoot only return to Moncton in 1990,
and then 2007.
But I got to see him in 1987 in Halifax, NS. He quit drinking labor day 1982.
So I really missed out a lot, the 70"s, the famous "Sundown" years, the drinking days, all something I would give an arm,
well ok maybe a leg, because I love to play guitar too much to give an arm.
to be able to return to the 70's. I always said I was born about 5 years to late and in the wrong province. I find Char so lucky, to be living as close to Gordon and Massey Hall, as she does, and she is about my age too. Sometimes life just ain't fair...