I wouldn't say dissatisfied, exactly, but remember these started as demos that the guys in the band built on while Gord was in hospital. So HARMONY doesn't have the same polish from rehearsals and re-recording to perfection that he's accustomed to doing. But they were, to his ears, the best of the bunch he had to work with at the time. Working on it kept his mind off his surgeries and focused on the future.
He did three songs from HARMONY on Saturday night, the title track, Clouds of Loneliness and Couchiching. He likes to mix old with new, and with so many to choose from over 40 years, 3 out of 27 or 28 from the new album is about right. At other venues he may add another from Harmony and drop something. I think he keeps 60-70 songs in active rotation, though some of the biggies like Wreck and CRT, Beautiful, Early Morning Rain, If You Could Read My Mind and Sundown turn up in most concerts. So you've got a half dozen standards, two or three from the latest album, and a whole slew of other fan favorites to pack into two hours. Nobody ever gets everything they want to hear - or he'd be onstage for months at a time, LOL.
He did say somewhere he had another ten songs so far for the next album, and there has been talk of another live album culled from past concerts, so maybe after this tour winds up and before he starts again in 2006 he might be in the studio working on another.
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