calling all Fitz fans

[Whocares]

Did anybody happen to catch the Edmund Fitzgerald Webcast from the Great Lakes Maritime Institute? It's about 2 hours long and is an interview with the captain of the William Clay Ford. I'd type in GLMI, then search, and click on EF Webcast.

Cathy- I saw you in Saratoga 4/26/03. Great show! Will there be another this year?

"Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings
In the rooms of her ice water mansion"

LOVE that line, but am wondering exactly how does the lake sing? The wind? Waves?
Anyone out there have an idea?
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[superiorsings]

Did anybody happen to catch the Edmund Fitzgerald Webcast from the Great Lakes Maritime Institute? It's about 2 hours long and is an interview with the captain of the William Clay Ford. I'd type in GLMI, then search, and click on EF Webcast.

Cathy- I saw you in Saratoga 4/26/03. Great show! Will there be another this year?

"Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings
In the rooms of her ice water mansion"

LOVE that line, but am wondering exactly how does the lake sing? The wind? Waves?
Anyone out there have an idea?

[SomewhereupinMichigan]

quote:Originally posted by superiorsings:
Did anybody happen to catch the Edmund Fitzgerald Webcast from the Great Lakes Maritime Institute? It's about 2 hours long and is an interview with the captain of the William Clay Ford. I'd type in GLMI, then search, and click on EF Webcast.

Cathy- I saw you in Saratoga 4/26/03. Great show! Will there be another this year?

"Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings
In the rooms of her ice water mansion"

LOVE that line, but am wondering exactly how does the lake sing? The wind? Waves?
Anyone out there have an idea?


Merely poetic license, I believe. Like so much of Gord's excellent writing. His imagery is second to none. Another reason I can't believe he is not yet in the Songwriter's H of F. Just confirms for me that the SHOF is as political as every other award show and Hall of Fame! A shame! Gord has not received his "due" because he has never preoccupied himself with playing their silly games!

[Cathy]

quote:Originally posted by superiorsings:
Did anybody happen to catch the Edmund Fitzgerald Webcast from the Great Lakes Maritime Institute? It's about 2 hours long and is an interview with the captain of the William Clay Ford. I'd type in GLMI, then search, and click on EF Webcast.

Cathy- I saw you in Saratoga 4/26/03. Great show! Will there be another this year?

"Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings
In the rooms of her ice water mansion"

LOVE that line, but am wondering exactly how does the lake sing? The wind? Waves?
Anyone out there have an idea?

Hi, and thanks for the kind words. I'm seriously considering doing another one this summer. It's become a bit of a tradition with Caffe Lena, and they love us because all the proceeds go back towards renovating the cafe. Last April, we raised over $1700 for them.
I'm not sure, if we do another, that it will be the same group of people. It's hard to get the four of us together because we're spread out all over the country. But, if any of the other four can't make it, we'll recruit some new musicians. I'm sure there are many around, and probably quite a few right here in Corfidland who are itching to do one of these tributes. There is nothing more fun than getting together to play Lightfoot music!

Did I meet you while in Saratoga? I met so many people that night that it's impossible to remember everyone.

Cathy http://www.cathycowette.com

[Cathy]

quote:Originally posted by SomewhereupinMichigan:

Merely poetic license, I believe. Like so much of Gord's excellent writing. His imagery is second to none. Another reason I can't believe he is not yet in the Songwriter's H of F. Just confirms for me that the SHOF is as political as every other award show and Hall of Fame! A shame! Gord has not received his "due" because he has never preoccupied himself with playing their silly games!

He didn't play their silly games by moving to the USA. He stayed true to his heritage, to being a Canadian. Personally, I respect him for that. But, I think, had he moved to this side of the border, he'd have been inducted long ago. Yes, it's silly, stupid politics.


Cathy http://www.cathycowette.com

[Whocares]

no Cathy we didn't but we sat in the front row, in front of the guy to your left (forgot the name, sorry.) Whoever sang Wreck made my dad shiver, he said. I was there with my brother, niece and father. Three generations of GL fans. We loved it and it was a treat to hear ALL GORD songs!! My family lives really close to Canada and I listened to Canadian AM radio for hours to hear Lightfoot. It was the Fitz that did it for me, I love that song.

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[superiorsings]

no Cathy we didn't but we sat in the front row, in front of the guy to your left (forgot the name, sorry.) Whoever sang Wreck made my dad shiver, he said. I was there with my brother, niece and father. Three generations of GL fans. We loved it and it was a treat to hear ALL GORD songs!! My family lives really close to Canada and I listened to Canadian AM radio for hours to hear Lightfoot. It was the Fitz that did it for me, I love that song.

[Cathy]

quote:Originally posted by superiorsings:
no Cathy we didn't but we sat in the front row, in front of the guy to your left (forgot the name, sorry.) Whoever sang Wreck made my dad shiver, he said. I was there with my brother, niece and father. Three generations of GL fans. We loved it and it was a treat to hear ALL GORD songs!! My family lives really close to Canada and I listened to Canadian AM radio for hours to hear Lightfoot. It was the Fitz that did it for me, I love that song.


Oh, the guy to my left, Derek Kidd, the redheaded guy? My favorite lead guitarist in the entire world? Facing the stage, from left to right, it was Ed Mullen from Alpharetta Georgia, myself from Maine, Derek Kidd from Palo Alto California and Matt Carl from Michigan.

If you go to my website http://www.cathycowette.com there are three songs from the 4/26 Caffe Lena concert and several other songs, some solo and some with Derek. Also on Ed's site at http://www.edmullen.ehost.com/Gord/main.html
there are several concert songs you can download.

I live really close to Canada, too, like one mile from the Maine / New Brunswick border. I listened to a lot of Canadian radio when I was a kid, which probably explains my obsession for Canadian music... Lightfoot, Stan & Garnet Rogers, Ann Murray, fiddle tunes.

Cathy http://www.cathycowette.com


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[This message has been edited by Cathy (edited January 06, 2004). Mr. Carl is no longer a kid. I just aged him by about 35 years.]

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[johnfowles]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Cathy:
[B]
Matt kid from Michigan.

Uh ho Cathy I think you have kid)d)s on the brain I could have sworn that Matt's surname is Carl as in Marx?? Anyway he does a mean rendition of Tattoo

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starts at
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot

[johnfowles]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Cathy:
[B]
Matt kid from Michigan.

Uh ho Cathy I think you have kid)d)s on the brain I could have sworn that Matt's surname is Carl as in Marx?? Anyway he does a mean rendition of Tattoo

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

[Borderstone]

To SuperiorSings:Gordon,in the song,is comparing lake Superior to a woman,making the word Superior a female name. In this case the lake itself. The ice water mansion is also the lake from the surface to the very bottom depth,so "Superior" (she) is singing deep from under the water. The waves,the wind,the life existing beneath etc. Hope that makes sense to you. Later!

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Borderstone,gonna post some lines tonight!:D

[2Much2Lose]

quote:Originally posted by Borderstone:
To SuperiorSings:Gordon,in the song,is comparing lake Superior to a woman,making the word Superior a female name. In this case the lake itself. The ice water mansion is also the lake from the surface to the very bottom depth,so "Superior" (she) is singing deep from under the water. The waves,the wind,the life existing beneath etc. Hope that makes sense to you. Later!



THere was a paperback novel dedicated to Gord that is titled, "Icewater Mansions" by Doug Allyn. It is a mystery novel set around and in the Great Lakes, and about the divers who explored shipwrecks. At one point in the book, a diver feels trapped inside the ruins of a sunken ship and feels like there are ghosts inside the ice water mansion. That's what it has always meant to me, the shipwrecks under the surface with water singing through the rooms instead of the wind.

That one line was the only reference to the song although the book was dedicated to Gord.
Jenney

[Jenney]

quote:Originally posted by Borderstone:
To SuperiorSings:Gordon,in the song,is comparing lake Superior to a woman,making the word Superior a female name. In this case the lake itself. The ice water mansion is also the lake from the surface to the very bottom depth,so "Superior" (she) is singing deep from under the water. The waves,the wind,the life existing beneath etc. Hope that makes sense to you. Later!



THere was a paperback novel dedicated to Gord that is titled, "Icewater Mansions" by Doug Allyn. It is a mystery novel set around and in the Great Lakes, and about the divers who explored shipwrecks. At one point in the book, a diver feels trapped inside the ruins of a sunken ship and feels like there are ghosts inside the ice water mansion. That's what it has always meant to me, the shipwrecks under the surface with water singing through the rooms instead of the wind.

That one line was the only reference to the song although the book was dedicated to Gord.
Jenney

[Whocares]

Thanks Borderstone, that does make sense.
I thought maybe the ice water mansion referred to its (her, if you will) greatness in size and coldness. Superior meant upper, above, in relation to the other lakes (but you knew that I'm sure). And sailors often refer to their boats and the ocean as women. SomewhereupinMichigan is right too, a little poetic license and wonderful imagery, I kept picturing a woman singing inside an ice castle or above the lake. Maybe in a windstorm the lake really does sing!
PS how do you reply to one specific line of the last post? I'm new to this.
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[superiorsings]

Thanks Borderstone, that does make sense.
I thought maybe the ice water mansion referred to its (her, if you will) greatness in size and coldness. Superior meant upper, above, in relation to the other lakes (but you knew that I'm sure). And sailors often refer to their boats and the ocean as women. SomewhereupinMichigan is right too, a little poetic license and wonderful imagery, I kept picturing a woman singing inside an ice castle or above the lake. Maybe in a windstorm the lake really does sing!
PS how do you reply to one specific line of the last post? I'm new to this.

[BILLW]

sings,

click on the icon that looks like a piece of paper with a red arrow pointing left of the response that you want to quote...if you hold your cursor over the icons for a moment they will display the contents of what they stand for..

Bill

[Cathy]

quote:Originally posted by johnfowles:
[B][QUOTE]Originally posted by Cathy:

Matt kid from Michigan.

Uh ho Cathy I think you have kid)d)s on the brain I could have sworn that Matt's surname is Carl as in Marx?? Anyway he does a mean rendition of Tattoo




LOL. I thought I'd get lucky and fix it before anyone noticed! You caught me this time.

Cathy http://www.cathycowette.com

[Whocares]

Thanks everybody!
I heard another one too, the singing is the wind whistling through the ship's rigging.
There's a fountain in Chicago that portrays the Great Lakes as female figures in classical dress. Superior stands above the other four and they all hold shells of water. It's "fountain of the Great Lakes" by Lorado Taft, built in 1913.
Goodnight!
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[superiorsings]

Thanks everybody!
I heard another one too, the singing is the wind whistling through the ship's rigging.
There's a fountain in Chicago that portrays the Great Lakes as female figures in classical dress. Superior stands above the other four and they all hold shells of water. It's "fountain of the Great Lakes" by Lorado Taft, built in 1913.
Goodnight!

Living in Wisconsin, I really think the Wisconsin and Lake Michigan part turned me onto it the most.

Nice connection to the song!

[Porter]

Living in Wisconsin, I really think the Wisconsin and Lake Michigan part turned me onto it the most.

Nice connection to the song!

The Fitz was my first GL song.

The Fitz was my first GL song.

Fitz is one complicated subject which encompasses great mystery hertho.

Fitz is one complicated subject which encompasses great mystery hertho.