[johnfowles]

To access New York City this time instead of fighting the traffic by road we let the train take the strain, arriving early enough to make the ten block walk up Seventh Avenue to 43rd Street and in time to spend a pleasant period ensconsed in three of Mayor Bloomberg's chairs on the newly pedestrianised half of Times Square before having a splendid meal at the Belgian BXL Restaurant adjacent to the Town Hall

Theater, washed down by a superb Kwak beer in a traditional Belgian coachman's glass

Gezundheit!
In the auditorium we were pleased to meet up with Jenney, Bill Hall and Frank, and Eric Greenberg, before settling down for a full 25 song setlist
first half
1 Triangle
2 Cotton Jenny
3 14 Karat Gold
3 Sea Of Tranquility
4 Let It Ride
5 A Painter Passing Through
6 Spanish Moss/7 Shadows
8 Beautiful
9 Carefree Highway
10 Hangdog Hotel Room
11 Ribbon Of Darkness/12 Sundown
13 The Watchman's Gone
second half
1 The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzfgerald
2 Alberta Bound
3 Don Quixote
4 Clouds Of Loneliness
5 Waiting For You
6 Minstrel Of The Dawn
7 If You Could Read My Mind
8 Baby Step Back
9 Restless
As usual Gord deftly proceeded through the amazing verbal sequence of ironcast...ironclad...built to last... overcast..
10 Early Morning Rain
Written when he and his fellow students went out to LA Airport to watch the planes as a break from swimming
11 Song For A Winter's Night
encore
12 Old Dan's Records