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Old 12-23-2009, 12:16 AM   #7
jj
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Default Re: Phil Ochs-Gordon Lightfoot

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Originally Posted by patybear View Post
I HATE it! Sounds to
me like the guy can't even sing!
patybear
oh my, for real? i'd like to be able to sing like that...maybe you didn't play the Amitchka live audio clip (the audio only one)

sounds like quite a beautiful and vulnerable bit of singing to me, anyhow...it's got that charming yet awkward Sexsmith-like flavour to it...then again, i remember poor Ron getting booed off the stage opening for Blue Rodeo in Hamilton years ago, lol...but guess he's got the last laugh now

i don't know why the headline bothers comparing the two


note: Gord omitted these 2 verses:
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Scenes of my young years were warm in my mind,
Visions of shadows that shine.
Til one day I returned and found they were the
Victims of the vines of changes.
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The world's spinning madly, it drifts in the dark
Swings through a hollow of haze,
A race around the stars, a journey through
The universe ablaze with changes.
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Gord's performance of Changes in my top 3 all time list of GL recordings (not just covers), which should speak volumes

Last edited by jj; 12-23-2009 at 12:26 AM.
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