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Originally posted by charlene:
I figured he'd be at the ACC tonight to see Dylan...
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I wonder if Gord did attend that Dylan concert on Tuesday the 7th??
Apropos the subject of this topic I am now going to mention the
"Okom Missionaries"
and at the bottom of the following you can read the "Wherefores and Whys"
Well Jessie-Joe has been busy posting this Montreal Gazette interview on other boards including the Newsgroup and the sadly ridiculous GL: Fan club Yahoo Group at:-(
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thegor...htfootfanclub/).Nothing wrong with J-J doing that that but that group is IMHO ridiculous because J-J's message was but one of the very few recent relevent postings there despite the claimed group membership of 373 who seem to have managed a paltry total of 1042 postings in about the same time as corfid's 30,000+ postings All other messages are either spam from a deaf and/or blind robot calling itself Todd Philips or messages from "bikers" and ladies of doubtful virtue and a number of completely ineffectual ripostes by myself hoping that David Sim's whose group it is would take notice and do something about it.I have however noticed that the one of the more consistent posters who ever have anything worthwhile to say is a Torontonian called Ray Murray
who has just thanked J-J as follows:-
Great interview, thanks for posting it.
It was Lightfoot who inspired me to take up the guitar again.
I began taking guitar lessons way back in 1957. I hated learning how to read notes that played the melody.All I wanted to do was sing the melody and strum along on the chords. My music teacher didn't agree with me and we parted company.
When Lightfoot came on the music scene many years later here in Toronto, I took up the guitar again.
This time Lightfoot was my teacher. I bought his records, and I bought his music books that followed every album he put out. I'd put the records on and I'd open up his songbooks and I'd just strum/play along. Oh, what a big time on Indian Rd. just lovin' those songs of Lighfoot and pushin' myselve to follow along on that Early Morning Rain, and Sundown songs were lessons that were easy and fun to learn.
I credit Gordon Lightfoot as the one who taught me how to play guitar, even though I never met the man. I wrote a tribute song to the man who taught me how to play, and It's simply entitled, Lighfootin'........I play it live here in Toronto on Thursday nights and Saturday afternoons.
God Bless Gordon Lightfoot who inspired many more like me to play,
Ray
http://yahoogroups.com/group/okommissionaries
hence my reference to the "Okom Missionaries"
and where you can read:-
"we are friends who like to get together here in downtown T.O. and play our kind of music wherever in the city."
which is part of that group's heading written by
Ray Bianca (aka Ray Murray),
But to read any actual messages or find out where they play you have to become a subscriber to the group
I will reply to his Fan club message and tell him that I have posted this here
[ November 09, 2006, 19:10: Message edited by: johnfowles ]