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charlene · 11-03-2010, 04:48 PM

Disclaimer: For those men who do not/did not emulate GL as laid out below please do not be offended..

http://www.seattleweekly.com/2010-11...mmended-shows/
Gordon Lightfoot / Friday, November 5

Now that he's over 70, his frame and voice a good deal frailer than they were in his prime, it's easy to forget that for decades Canadian folk legend Gordon Lightfoot defined what it meant to be a man. He was handsomely hirsute, wore a lot of denim, drank dark-hued booze, chased hot skirt, lived in the wilds of Ontario, chopped his own wood, killed wild boar with his bare hands, fished with a spear, raced a team of sled dogs, arm-wrestled competitively, wore Skin Bracer aftershave, and built his own forested cabin from log and rock, like that old guy on PBS. Even if he didn't do all that (and we have no proof he didn't), he still wrote "Sundown," "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," "Carefree Highway," and "If You Could Read My Mind." That's more than enough. Moore Theatre, 1932 Second Ave., 877-784-4849. 8 p.m. $28–$58. All ages. MIKE SEELY

11-03-2010, 04:48 PM	#1
charlene Moderator Join Date: May 2000 Posts: 16,001	Gordon Lightfoot defined what it meant to be a man Disclaimer: For those men who do not/did not emulate GL as laid out below please do not be offended.. http://www.seattleweekly.com/2010-11...mmended-shows/ Gordon Lightfoot / Friday, November 5 Now that he's over 70, his frame and voice a good deal frailer than they were in his prime, it's easy to forget that for decades Canadian folk legend Gordon Lightfoot defined what it meant to be a man. He was handsomely hirsute, wore a lot of denim, drank dark-hued booze, chased hot skirt, lived in the wilds of Ontario, chopped his own wood, killed wild boar with his bare hands, fished with a spear, raced a team of sled dogs, arm-wrestled competitively, wore Skin Bracer aftershave, and built his own forested cabin from log and rock, like that old guy on PBS. Even if he didn't do all that (and we have no proof he didn't), he still wrote "Sundown," "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," "Carefree Highway," and "If You Could Read My Mind." That's more than enough. Moore Theatre, 1932 Second Ave., 877-784-4849. 8 p.m. $28–$58. All ages. MIKE SEELY