Wow, it appears that some may have misread the initial poster's question (or maybe I did). The person never said they didn't like the CD - the question was not what changes would make it better - he/she even implied that some changes would make it not as good. The question was, what do you think *Gord* might have done differently that would have affected the end result if the circumstances of recording the CD were different?
Personally, I think it would have been a completely different sounding CD had Gord not fallen ill and the CD was put together in the "usual fashion". We'll never know if those differences would have enhanced the songs or not. To be honest, I haven't listened to the CD all the way through often enough to site specific possible differences except that, as a perfectionist, Gord would have recorded the vocals, re-recorded again and again until they were "perfect" where as the vocals on the CD couldn't be re-recorded or "perfected" in any way - which is one of the things that some of you find so endearing about the CD whether you realize it or not. That's not to say that I don't think the vocals are perfect as they are, that's to say that Gord may not have found them perfect as they are if he had the ability to re-record them for the CD.
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