Originally posted by Protocol

Hi everyone, I just got off the phone with Barry Harvey (Gord's Manager) really nice guy, just chatting with him,I'm a web designer as well as a songwriter/musician and want to do a wonderful website as a tribute to Gordon Lightfoot! it will also feature the city of Orillia as well! I asked Barry if i could rely on him for resources etc.. he said possibly, see my friends are the owners co-owners of Grant Avenue Studios in Hamilton , they produced Gord's last album "Painter Passing Through" Barry also mentioned that Gordi might be coming out with another album (new material) can't wait for that!! Anyway if anybody wants to help with this website ,please submit your ideas and resources to myself via email. I will also be setting up an ICQ strictly for the topic of Gordon Lightfoot! barry was saying that they cancelled their email account because they were being inindated(did I spell that right?) with personal emails to Gordi. masybe one out of a 100 were relevant and /or business! I would like to incorporate a method of sending mail to Gord via the internet so he can pick and choose the letters he reads with less time consumption. Your comments,views and opinions would be greatly appreciated, none will be ignored!!! I plan to out together eventually a Gordon Lightfoot tribute band,if you can help with this let me know!!!
Thanks Mike "Living on the Summer side of life"

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A member named Protocol posted this in the Testforum on July 28, 2000(the same date my uncle died 2 years later).

Hi everyone, I just got off the phone with Barry Harvey (Gord's Manager) really nice guy, just chatting with him,I'm a web designer as well as a songwriter/musician and want to do a wonderful website as a tribute to Gordon Lightfoot! it will also feature the city of Orillia as well! I asked Barry if i could rely on him for resources etc.. he said possibly, see my friends are the owners co-owners of Grant Avenue Studios in Hamilton , they produced Gord's last album "Painter Passing Through" Barry also mentioned that Gordi might be coming out with another album (new material) can't wait for that!! Anyway if anybody wants to help with this website ,please submit your ideas and resources to myself via email. I will also be setting up an ICQ strictly for the topic of Gordon Lightfoot! barry was saying that they cancelled their email account because they were being inindated(did I spell that right?) with personal emails to Gordi. masybe one out of a 100 were relevant and /or business! I would like to incorporate a method of sending mail to Gord via the internet so he can pick and choose the letters he reads with less time consumption. Your comments,views and opinions would be greatly appreciated, none will be ignored!!! I plan to out together eventually a Gordon Lightfoot tribute band,if you can help with this let me know!!!
Thanks Mike "Living on the Summer side of life"

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A member named Protocol posted this in the Testforum on July 28, 2000(the same date my uncle died 2 years later).

[SomewhereupinMichigan]

And your point, DMD, is...??????

[BILLW]

SUIM,

Over in the Test area, which nobody reads, DMD3 was asked if he would cut and paste and post this in the main forum. He was nice enough to do that. What the point of the whole thing is I can't say. But he was just doing what he was asked.

Bill

[Gaby]

That was me, but I didn’t ask or tell him. I just thought that, although it was old, it was quite interesting and threw up a few points for discussion. Obviously, I was wrong.

[SomewhereupinMichigan]

Gaby: No complaints from me as far as it being posted. I was just trying to figure out why DMD had resurrected it out of the clear blue. Thought maybe there was some overriding, underlying, compelling point that I was missing.

[johnfowles]

For anybody interested (and it took some finding) the relevant topic "gord" in the test forum complete with Gaby's replies is at:- http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000011.html
and SUIM if you had looked at Douglas' reposting a little harder you would possibly have realised the significance of this old item. Firstly it is a little background/explanation for EMP's obvious reluctance to have their own website and/or e-mail address.
Next it was amazing that "protocol"/Mike (who actually bothered to register himself on July 28 2000 as a member (something that far too many current posters fail to do IMHO) and according to his profile posted a total of three times only ( although a search yields but two results both on the 28th)
The other posting is on page 2 of the long thread on favo(u)rite songs
at:- http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000055-2.html
wghich is basically the same posting but with the following additions.
"I would eventually like to put together a Gordon Lightfoot tribute band,"
which was done after the 2001 Massey Hall convention of course and "I work in Toronto as a web designer, this site is great,but I want to add so much more, for example (p)ople will be able to click on a song( not download) and listen to it! They will be able to buy his cd's etc.. online, and anything written about him(Gordon Lightfoot - A Canadian Legacy) for example!"
However his prime intended purpose stated as
"an idea for wonderful Gordon Lightfoot website" was very largely covered already by the trio of existing "wonderful" sites
(Valerie Magee's, Wayne Francis' and this one of course), although interestingly Valerie had planned albeit abortively to offer "Harmony " from her site and has 30-second clips of a very large number of tracks (including all 88 on "Songbook" on her site)
So I surmise that Douglas' object was to agree with Gaby's suggestion to bring this neglected topic to the wider audience.
Anyway that's my take on why this is here now OK


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My Gordon Lightfoot webring
starts at
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot



[This message has been edited by johnfowles (edited April 26, 2004).]

[johnfowles]

For anybody interested (and it took some finding) the relevant topic "gord" in the test forum complete with Gaby's replies is at:- http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000011.html
and SUIM if you had looked at Douglas' reposting a little harder you would possibly have realised the significance of this old item. Firstly it is a little background/explanation for EMP's obvious reluctance to have their own website and/or e-mail address.
Next it was amazing that "protocol"/Mike (who actually bothered to register himself on July 28 2000 as a member (something that far too many current posters fail to do IMHO) and according to his profile posted a total of three times only ( although a search yields but two results both on the 28th)
The other posting is on page 2 of the long thread on favo(u)rite songs
at:- http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000055-2.html
wghich is basically the same posting but with the following additions.
"I would eventually like to put together a Gordon Lightfoot tribute band,"
which was done after the 2001 Massey Hall convention of course and "I work in Toronto as a web designer, this site is great,but I want to add so much more, for example (p)ople will be able to click on a song( not download) and listen to it! They will be able to buy his cd's etc.. online, and anything written about him(Gordon Lightfoot - A Canadian Legacy) for example!"
However his prime intended purpose stated as
"an idea for wonderful Gordon Lightfoot website" was very largely covered already by the trio of existing "wonderful" sites
(Valerie Magee's, Wayne Francis' and this one of course), although interestingly Valerie had planned albeit abortively to offer "Harmony " from her site and has 30-second clips of a very large number of tracks (including all 88 on "Songbook" on her site)
So I surmise that Douglas' object was to agree with Gaby's suggestion to bring this neglected topic to the wider audience.
Anyway that's my take on why this is here now OK


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My Gordon Lightfoot webring
starts at
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot



[This message has been edited by johnfowles (edited April 26, 2004).]