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johnfowles · 07-22-2009, 11:23 AM

Yay Pam what a splendiferius find,it is so much better than the prosaic black and white one in the Songbook booklet

Like Yuri I was at Expo 67 many times (somewhere I have my old Expo passport and that year we felt we were living at the very centre of the world)
which of course was thanks to Montreal's dynamic Mayor Jean Drapeau
who had succeeded in the three years since I had arrived in Montreal in converting it from what had all the hallmarks of wartime bomb damaged London England with many a derelict vacant lot into a city of overall neatness
I do not think that Gord's Expo appearances were especially well publicised if at all (but this was just before I became a Lighthead) but at the end of his week there a mate of my guitar playing friend David Moxey from the CERA (Canadair Employees Recreation Association) Badminton Club , his mate Peter Wright (himself newly arrived from Toronto and who had seen Gord at the Riverboat) and knew that both David and I were becoming Gordfans after we had heard him on Montreal's CJAD-FM station,phoned us very excitedly on the Sunday evening May 21st 1967, to say we just had to go and see Gord at the New Penelope , a small coffee bar on Sherbrook Street West in downtown Montreal

I was only one of about 250 crammed into that coffee bar,I may be wrong about that figure though because I just found
http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/...Collection.htm

and a reviewer there said amongst other things that I am saving for another thread
"have followed this great artist from the humble early days when he was playing for crowds as small as 100 at 'The New Penelope' in Montreal"

and it was like all subsequent lightfoot concerts I have been lucky to attend magnificent and truly memorable but during that week Gord was seen by amongst others the young Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings and as reported on on this forum back in 2002 by either Annette Hannivan or Mister hoot'n holler
(one can't be sure because there are two identical postings in thread
http://www.corfid.com/vbb/showthread...highlight=expo
"your first GL concert"
under both member's names which are a legacy of Florian's earlier attempt to move the the forums from the old program/webhost to the new improved one which caused many spurious duplicates like that one)
I am going to contact both Peter Wright (still I believe living in Montreal)
and Dave Moxey who is now yet another "Dave From Melbourne" and give them both the URL of this thread and invite them to add their comments

07-22-2009, 11:23 AM	#4
johnfowles Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: New Jersey U.S.A. ex UK and Canada Posts: 4,846	Re: photo from '67 Montreal Expo Yay Pam what a splendiferius find,it is so much better than the prosaic black and white one in the Songbook booklet Like Yuri I was at Expo 67 many times (somewhere I have my old Expo passport and that year we felt we were living at the very centre of the world) which of course was thanks to Montreal's dynamic Mayor Jean Drapeau who had succeeded in the three years since I had arrived in Montreal in converting it from what had all the hallmarks of wartime bomb damaged London England with many a derelict vacant lot into a city of overall neatness I do not think that Gord's Expo appearances were especially well publicised if at all (but this was just before I became a Lighthead) but at the end of his week there a mate of my guitar playing friend David Moxey from the CERA (Canadair Employees Recreation Association) Badminton Club , his mate Peter Wright (himself newly arrived from Toronto and who had seen Gord at the Riverboat) and knew that both David and I were becoming Gordfans after we had heard him on Montreal's CJAD-FM station,phoned us very excitedly on the Sunday evening May 21st 1967, to say we just had to go and see Gord at the New Penelope , a small coffee bar on Sherbrook Street West in downtown Montreal I was only one of about 250 crammed into that coffee bar,I may be wrong about that figure though because I just found http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/...Collection.htm and a reviewer there said amongst other things that I am saving for another thread "have followed this great artist from the humble early days when he was playing for crowds as small as 100 at 'The New Penelope' in Montreal" and it was like all subsequent lightfoot concerts I have been lucky to attend magnificent and truly memorable but during that week Gord was seen by amongst others the young Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings and as reported on on this forum back in 2002 by either Annette Hannivan or Mister hoot'n holler (one can't be sure because there are two identical postings in thread http://www.corfid.com/vbb/showthread...highlight=expo "your first GL concert" under both member's names which are a legacy of Florian's earlier attempt to move the the forums from the old program/webhost to the new improved one which caused many spurious duplicates like that one) I am going to contact both Peter Wright (still I believe living in Montreal) and Dave Moxey who is now yet another "Dave From Melbourne" and give them both the URL of this thread and invite them to add their comments __________________ "Sir" John Fowles Bt Honorary Curator Bootleg Museum (where Sir does not signify that I am a fully benighted Knight just a Bt which signifies a humble Baronet -?? read the wiki!) I meant no one no harm Once inside we found a curious moonbeam Doing dances on the floor Last edited by johnfowles; 07-22-2009 at 11:33 AM.