[johnfowles]

Originally Posted by jj

the last photo I saw of Red was from years ago in this 2001 Sounding Board article excerpt

I thought I would use Jimmy's image as a further demonstration of the use of the free online OCR sevice provided by
http://www.onlineocr.net
The result was absolutely perfect exept that the final word came out as "Badcpadcee"
I had not heard of that model either so I will not citicise the website too much!!!
When I then read the text in Jimmy's image I realised that it provided scant information about who this Roger fellow was
although he obviously played with Hank Snow at some point Googling indicated that he was Roger Carroll a bass player
Whilst refinding this thread to complete my draft for this post I found
http://www.corfid.com/vbb/showpost.p...63&postcount=4
in which Valerie had displayed her own subtly different
screenshot made from the actual archived pdf file of volume 10 of the Martin Guitar Sounding Board and thus I found that Jimmy had unfortunately omitted an explanatory heading pragraph
I have now uploaded the complete text portion of that image to
http://onlineocr.net
which then produced the following digitised text which is perfect except for the First and last words!!
RCC,;ER & RED'S UNBROKEN CIRCLE Roger Carroll, of Springfield, Tennessee (above right) played bass with Hank Snow on all his road shows, at all of his many appearances at the Grand Ole Opry, and on his duet album "Brand On My Heart" with Willie Nelson. Red Shea, (above left with the red cap) accompanied Gordon Lightfoot on guitar on many of his legendary hits induding "If You Could Read My Mind," "Beautiful," "Alberta Bound," and "Sundown." Red also played guitar on the Tommy Hunter TV Show, and with Ian and Sylvia. Roger sent this photo to us and explained that when he first started playing bluegrass and country guitar, he had a Martin guitar playing friend named Terry Gann (now of Tucson, Arizona) whose band played a lot of Kingston Trio and Gordon Lightfoot material. It was there that Roger first encountered Red Shea's great and different chord progressions. And it was in that band that Roger got to "play around the great Martin sound!" Roger met up with Red again several years later while taping a Tommy Hunter TV Show with Hank Snow in Toronto. While talking with Red about "stealing" his licks, Red confessed that he had "stole" all his licks from Hank Snow records. They figured it out then and there that when Roger went to work with Hank Snow, he was actually bringing back all of those "stolen licks" to Hank, kind of "full circle." The two have been friends ever since and have been able to catch up with each other in either Canada or Nashville. On this particular trip to Canada, they met up for some lunch and shared a picking lesson on a Martin Badcpadcer.
For further proof of the remarkable accuracy and usefulnes of that online OCR website I have selected one of Char's newspaper scans from her "Treasure Vault" here on corfid:-
its URL is:-
http://www.corfid.com/gl/images/char11.jpg
and it looks remarkably like this

this is the report on the disastrous final concert (at the Dominion Theatre London)
of Gordon's last UK Tour on Wedneday May 20 1981
I had seen his brilliant Royal Albert Hall concert two days earlier
see:-
http://www.corfid.com/vbb/showpost.p...89&postcount=1
I believe I am right in saying that a once prolific corfid member who never posts here nowadays was at that Dominion concert and after everyone else had left she and a few other hangers on were invited onto the stage for a delightfully impromptu recital.
Nevertheless word has it that this was the deciding factor behind Gord not doing any more UK tours (not until next years surprise tour)
That fact led directly to my trip to Toronto in November 1999 to see Gord again and to face my chatroom friend with whom I have now spent a most exciting 15 years.
here is the OCR result of this report "as is" (it now requires I reckon about ten easy corrections/tidying up)
If anybody else would like to be so daring as to try another of Char's gems please do so
Tip copy an original image from
http://www.corfid.com/gl/char.htm
to your hard drive (desktop maybe) to upload to
http://onlineocr.net
OK Y'all YerTis
Lightfoot took a boat but didn't get across

A promoter in London Is offering refunds after what one disgruntled ticketholder called an 'awful, Insulting' concert by Gordon Lightfoot before 2100 people at the Dominion Theatre Wednesday night. According to John MacLennan, a Canadian stock-broker who attended the soldout concert, Lightfoot spent just a little over an hour on stage. much of it taken up with complaints about the English, England and its radio stations. "lie said was never coming back, got angry over the fact that concerts in Liverpool and Manchester had not sold out and then walked off just twenty minutes Into his second set saying, "1 don't feel well enough to go on. That's it," said MacLennan. "He walked off to a chorus of boos. What does he expect during a recession when he's charging-six pounds ($15) for a ticket?" Andrew Miller, who produced the show, got on Capital Radio in London yesterday, apologized and said anyone who mailed him their ticket stub would get their money back. Lightfoot's management yesterday confirmed the incident with the explanation that Canada's famed fade was whacked out after having to take a ferry over from France because of a strike at London's Ileathnnw air-port. You know how Gord is," added Dave To!Wigton. publicist at Lightfoot's record company. "He says things that are sometimes misinterpreted by th g public." _
GORDON LIGHTFOOT — only an hour?
PS in searching for Roger I also ended up (I can't remember howI or why I got there) watching a YouTube video my onetime lightfoot concert opener Tom May
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k81OXI_pKzY
At 2:40 he introduces David Rae singing For Lovin' Me
a good thread from when David died is at
http://www.corfid.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=25789
plus there is a fine obituary at
http://oregonmusicnews.com/2011/10/2...ortland-at-65/