[jj]

i remember an interviewer asking Gord how he could keep up the hard work for so many year (writing, recording, touring, etc)

Gord replied something along the lines of

"yes, i am dedicated but that isn't hard work....hard work is mining, farming, all that kind of stuff... not pushing a pen or holding a guitar"

my best wishes to this rescue mission ( just about to begin)...yeah, they should pipe some gentle Lightfoot into that tube in order to keep them nice and calm during the ascent