Kristofferson is 80 - Gordon sings ME AND BOBBY MCGEE

[charlene]

Kris Kristofferson, a long time friend and peer of Gordon's is 80 today!! In 1971 Gordon recorded a TV show in the UK which was aired on BBC TV in 1972 and performed the Kristofferson tune "Me and Bobby McGee." Not included in this clip is when Gordon mentions that his friend from Nashville, Kris Kristofferson wrote it and we'd be hearing aobut him if we already hadn't. Just recently in Peterborough, Ontario, Gordon and Kris met up with their pal Rompin' Ronnie Hawkins (The Band) at his home in Peterborough, Ontario, about 90 minutes east of Toronto and re-recorded it! (a post about this event was made on May 5th or so) The new recording will be posted when completed. Happy Birthday Kris!

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TOTAL CONCERT: and at 45 minutes you can view Gordon speaking about Kris:

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[johnfowles]

Originally Posted by charlene

Not included in this clip is when Gordon mentions that his friend from Nashville, Kris Kristofferson wrote it and we'd be hearing aobut him if we already hadn't.

Or as I previously reported in my posting at
http://www.corfid.com/vbb//showpost.php?p=116444&postcount=8
in which I included my transcription from the superb 1969 bootleg of Gord's 1969 Charlottetown (note that is not Charlenetown!!!!)Summer Festival
Gord's introduction that early public rendition of the song was:-
"the opening remark was as so often with Gord's stage pronouncements somewhat indistinct but the gist of what he said is
"the .....song Me and Bobby Magee.......
I'm gonna tell you I'm gonna "pump?" (could be push) that song. I love that song so much. I did the Johnny Cash show we got an all night picking session with the writers in Nashville and we were swapping songs. This guy's name is Kris Kristofferson he's the son of General Kristofferson of the Air Force. Anyway he's a West Point drop-out.He's living in Nashville writing songs.
I heard Roger Miller had taken it and murdered it so we'd like to do it the way it should have been done. After he lays a big enough egg with it, I might even record it myself. (Gord laughs nervously).
This seems to prove that Gord had not at that time (summer 1969) actually recorded it but of course he included it in his next album IYCRMM/Sit Down Young Stranger recorded in LA in Sept Nov and Dec 1969"

[johnfowles]

Anybody who has not heard that great (albeit necessarily monaural) bootleg can find it by opening
http://www.guitars101.com/forums/f14...hn-166078.html
the third download link accesses a still functional download from the filefactory storage website
use patience and the slow download link to get after a half hour or so a 308MB zip file containing 18 losslesly compressed files (in the older shorten format (*.shn)) unzip that file then use the freeware burning program burrrn (yes3 "r"s). that program should not only burn the requisite audio CD from the shn files but as I recently discovered by default burns it "gapless"so that the continuous playback of a concert or that radio broadcast is rectreated as also is the effect of the streaming files on sugarmegs at
http://tela.sugarmegs.org/_asxtela/G...townCanada.asx
From sugarmegs you can also download a single file of the complete broadcast, which will of necessity be gapless as either a small (16.2MB) low quality *.wma format file (sampled at 40.6KBPS) or a larger (83.1MB) medium quality *.mp3 format file (sampled at an overall rate of 203KBPS). Whilst the mp3 could well produce a reasonable sounding audio CD the use of a lossless source such as *.shn files would be a better bet (besides which both mp3 and wma files would ideally require splitting into individual song files before burning the audio CD (which whilst that is not hard to do using the free Audacity program) it is more tedious than waiting for the zip file to download from guitars101's File Factory link.