Florian,
Thanks, I couldn't figure out how I could edit. Honest, I didn't intend to post it twice. FOr those of you who care the set list follows:
14 Karat Gold
Prove My Love
In My Fashion
The House You Live In
Sundown
Carefree Highwy
Restless
Beautiful
Painter...
Blackberry Wine
(I think the intermission came here, but I can't swear to it...)
For Lovin Me/Did She Mention My Name
Wreck
Never Too Close
Waiting For you
Fading Away
CHerokee Bend
Rainy Day People
If You Could Read...
Shadows
Don Quixote
Early Morning Rain
Song for a Winters Night
Baby Step Back
Canadian Rail. Trio.
Encore
(Introductio of Band)
Old Dan's REcords
Final Bow from GL
Before Cherokee Bend, he said how he had read a story in Reader's Digest Condensed Books (!) and the song is a sort of continuation of that story.
Before Wreck, he stated how he had seen the story on the evening news (I'd always heard he read a story in Newsweek) and decided to write a story about it. Related how all the men perished and no bodies were ever recovered. He was about to start and then stopped and said he wanted to say one more thing-- that there had been other terrible wrecks on the Great Lakes -- that there had been a terrible storm in the 1920s where 11 (?) ships went down and over 200 men died.
THen before Shadows, related how he had been fooling around with a C chord and came up with with an interesting variation (can't remember the word he used) and he said when you only know 5 chords like him that's pretty big stuff.
THen before APPT, he said that he could play this next song with just one finger -- sometimes he uses the middle finger and then sometimes he uses the next finger and sometimes he even uses the little finger (demonstrating on the guitar as he says this) -- and closed with "Pretty soft way to make a livin, eh?" The crowd liked that.
Of course all of this was said in that very distinctive speaking style of his -- which in and of itself is worth the price of admission.
Only one other thing, before the concert my husband and I met with a few newsgroupers from alt.music.lightfoot for dinner. It was great to sit and share concert stories and ruminate about how misunderstood we are. It was an opportunity for my husband to see there really are other people like me! One of them had gone to the Massey concerts in November and had pictures to share. She said it was great and would do it again in a minute. So, everyone keep the month of May 2001 open, as that is when Massey should happen again.
chris
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"It took most of my time to do what never was done" -- GL
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