82 Replies to “May 2, 2023: Reader Tips”

  1. Thank you, Gordon, for making many hours of my life so pleasant with your music. Rest in peace.

    Don Quixote is a masterpiece, one of his best. Give it a listen if you have not already.

  2. As with most other artists, I found that some of Gordon Lightfoot’s best work resided a bit away from the top hits. In this light, I highly recomend “The Circle is Small’, a soulful piece about some real life infidelity he experienced. Fantastic melody carries it so well.

    1. One of my favourites. “Song for a Winter’s Night” is tops on my Christmas playlist.

  3. “Smoke rings rising till they disappear, in the sky above” – From “I’ll Tag Along” the greatest Lightfoot song you’ve never heard, better than some of the famous ones. Canada would be a lesser place without his music.

  4. Lightfoot’s “Cotton Jenny” got a good ride by Anne Murray, but Gordon’s original beats it for the fine guitar symphony that it is.

  5. I first heard him at the Steeles Tavern in the early 60’s.

    He played great songs that we had never heard but never mentioned that he had written them. He had no ‘patter’ and simply played full sets regardless of the number of people in the audience. One of the times I saw him, the total crowd was all of three very appreciative people!

  6. Electric vehicles R tha future….

    “EV startup Lordstown Motors warned that it may file for bankruptcy after partner Foxconn Technology Group threatened to withhold funding.”

    “Only 31 Endurance trucks had been made for sale as of February 2023, and only six of those have been delivered so far. Lordstown stock plunged 27 percent to 38 cents in morning trading in New York.”

    https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/topstories/lordstown-warns-of-bankruptcy-as-foxconn-threatens-to-cut-funding/ar-AA1aB7zr?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=85a7a9c6962c41088eee51e165355cb1&ei=53

  7. If you want a good look at Gordon Lightfoot, I recommend the well done 2019 documentary “Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind”. It is a look at his long career with his late life thoughts as well as input from many in the industry.

    Available on Amazon Prime, I believe.

  8. I’m a huge Rick Beatto fan … and in this clip, not only does he pay homage to Gordon Lightfoot … but he also explains WHY I so LOVE music … audio excellence … tubes … British speakers … and esp. vinyl

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X33YyowZZxQ

    It’s because of the detail, the musical fills … the richness in a well crafted song. My own personal McIntosh based system pulls out ALL the detail of an lp. Every note and nuance. Rick Beatto pays homage to: “If you could read my mind” as one of the greatest layered pieces of music ever recorded. And boy howdy! It is.

    I hope Lightfoot’s record companies think about hiring the TOP vinyl engineers and companies like Analogue Productions in Salina, KS … to reissue the best of Lightfoot’s catalog in 45 rpm lp’s … I’d pay whatever they asked. RIP Gordon … your music touched my soul.

    1. LOL…I am with you on setup, but not as keen, Quad amp/pre-amp, big Monsoons. But, being old and hearing fading rather faster than is ideal, I content myself with Sonos input. Yes, I know. But vinyl is wasted on me.

      Meanwhile, my 19 year old is recollecting my 19 year old record collection on vinyl. Decent, but beginner, system. Small room. I yell down the stairs, “Turn it up”. Victoria is a great place for vintage audiophile equipment. I suspect he’ll upgrade a lot.

    2. Kenji – glad to hear that in addition to SDA, you’ve discovered Rick Beato. He’s awesome

  12. These bastards need to swing.

    ‘The greatest crime against humanity’ in history: Naomi Wolf’s 11 revelations from Pfizer vaccine documents

    https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/the-greatest-crime-against-humanity-in-history-naomi-wolfs-11-revelations-from-pfizer-vaccine-documents/

    “In an extraordinary speech synthesizing several “headline” discoveries from analyses of thousands of Pfizer documents, Dr. Naomi Wolf presented how the COVID “vaccine” enterprise intentionally sought to not only “disrupt and impair human reproduction” but “attack” and “kill” large numbers of people, particularly in the West.”

    1. I tried talking to a thrice Goo endowed work companion and all he could do is bleat baa, baa, baa.
      Main talking point I tried was an example of how new this Warp Speed shite was , much like buying a first Gen anything and having bugs in the product, that it was better to wait until the shakeout and buy a 2nd or 3rd Gen.
      He agreed with that premise but not on the Jabba Jabba cause baaaaaa.
      Just absolutely refuses to do the investigative work to find out.
      His relatives are dying of suddenly and just accepts it as normal.
      The stupid is great with that sheep.

  13. The Alberta Election could come down to a few HUNDRED votes spread over a handful of ridings…

    “Small swings in the vote share can therefore translate into large seat swings. A uniform two-point swing towards the UCP, for example, results in potentially 54 seats going UCP compared to 32 for the NDP. That’s a comfortable majority. In contrast, the same two-point swing in favour of the NDP could result in 44 seats going their way compared to 43 for the UCP.”

    https://thehub.ca/2023-05-01/trevor-tombe-as-the-alberta-election-kicks-off-the-race-between-danielle-smith-and-rachel-notley-is-razor-thin/

    1. Lethbridge West Commie Shannon Phillips got elected by less than a couple hunnert votes last time.

  14. I think his best lyrics are in Minstrel of The Dawn – “Listen to the pictures flow, Across the room into your mind they go”. I often wonder if he was describing himself in that song.
    I also love Don Quixote and Circle of Steel. The fact that Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan and other acclaimed songwriters chose to sing his songs is the highest praise possible.

  15. Meh. I never liked Gordon Lightfoot’s music. Call me a traitor.
    There were so many who were so much better.

    1. LynnePassivelyAggressivelyHasHadIt, What did you gain by trying to diminish Lightfoot’s life’s work? You are similar to a person who stands by the casket, glued to his cell phone.

      1. As a pallbearer for a cribbage playing aunt i called my second mom, at the cemetery i almost slide into the grave while carrying her casket.
        The pastor afterwards offered this gem, he fell into a grave during a ceremony.

    2. I think you are in a very small minority. Most people loved his music. I did. He was one of my favourites,

  16. RIP Gordon, he’s hit the old Carefree Highway and Jesus stopped to pick him up!
    Have always liked his music, Canadian Railroad Trilogy, Sundown..
    Some good covers out there by the Rheostatics and the Headstones, his music transcended genres..

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8LBkYjniTU

  17. Saw him three times in the Seventies when I was in college in the Finger Lakes region of NY. Played his albums so much you could see through the vinyl. He has left us an incredible body of work. I have never met anyone who didn’t enjoy Gordon’s music. The ultimate in accessibility.

  18. Wow, Gordon Lightfoot was made of music. Bob Dylan said there wasn’t a Gordon Lightfoot song he didn’t like.

    One of the very few mega pop artists whose career was carried purely by his music, not celebrity.

    It was very decent of him to withdraw his plagiarism lawsuit against Whitney Houston on The Greatest Love of All’s melodic similarity to “If you could read my mind”, as she was not it’s “ writer “

  19. The Liberals want all the guns. Sure, they’ll let the Indians keep theirs, sort of for the most part, but they want the citizenry disarmed.

    https://cssa-cila.org/mendicino-to-ban-most-semi-auto-rifles-and-shotguns/

    “A firearm that is not a handgun and that
    Discharges centre fire ammunition;
    In a semi-automatic manner; and
    Was originally designed with a detachable magazine with a capacity of six cartridges or more”

    Pistol caliber carbines (10 rds) come to mind.
    You can get pistol mags that are .223/5.56 that hold 10 rounds so…
    But notice the magazine description. Are they referencing weapons that hold Stanag mags or just the magazine?

    1. And after the liberals disarm everyone, Buddy, guess who’ll be the only people with guns?

      “We’re taking Canada back! Everyone else… OUT!”

      I love it when a long-term plan comes together.

  22. Like many, I got into playing guitar from listening to Lightfoot. I was never much into the folk acoustic sound, but he had some powerful songs. Maybe it’s time to buy a 12 string in his honor. At the very least, it’s a great excuse for gear.

  23. I was a part-time janitor at the Le Hibou coffeehouse, in Ottawa, in the late 1960s, as a financially struggling university student. Mr. Lightfoot would play there, and my impression of him was that he was all business as to performance. I only got to see him move about after his two-set performances (from 12 midnight on), and there he was more relaxed. But the managers would tell me that during set-up times in the afternoons he was a very demanding person, wanting everything just so. This has the 1960s/1970s hippie era, but there was nothing hippie about him.

    Murray McLaughlin was another folkie who was 100% business.

    1. Dave; I find this funny, I lived and went to school in Ottawa back in the 60’s too. I did a short stint at Le Hibou as a server as well. It was a fun time back then, music , friends and food and drink was great. The music was the best. I remember Gord Lightfoot playing there and then going out for a beer with him between sets…..He will be missed…Steve O

    2. He used to play at the Riverboat coffee house in Yorkville. I think I remember the right name. Man, that seems like such a long time ago.

      1. Yikes! $75 a person for bacon, eggs, pancakes, OJ, and coffee?!?

        And here I thought Starbucks charged too much for their coffee, David.

        1. Holy mouse ear pancakes! It takes a second mortgage to eat “the happiest pancakes on earth”

  26. Meh, I enjoy young and upcoming artists. Take A-yeon, great cover drummer, and real easy on the eyes, she also plays other instruments. Just doesn’t speak english, so no singing. And there is out Canadian song bird, Jadyn Rylee. And Mia Morris, Charlotte Summers, and a plethora of others. The old dogs are gone, as they should be, new crop should be supported.

      1. Hmmm, just how would one say beat the crap out of them without getting censored?

  33. Beer-quality review of Bud Light:
    https://www.nj.com/opinion/2023/04/under-the-influence-its-lights-out-for-bud-mulshine.html

    My anecdote on Bud Light: my wife and I spent three nights at our cabin on the Miramichi. We stopped at a general store in Boisetown, NB, and she came out with a six-pack of Bud Light. I didn’t say anything (since I acquiesce to sll of her wishes), but her grown son brought the topic up at dinner, where he said people at his lumber mill and fire station had given up on Bud Light. He explained the situation to my wife, so now she’s swearing off the beer.

  34. On the topic of musicians.

    KISS Co-Founder Paul Stanley Calls Normalizing Child Sex Changes A ‘Sad And Dangerous Fad’

    https://www.dailywire.com/news/kiss-co-founder-paul-stanley-calls-normalizing-child-sex-changes-a-sad-and-dangerous-fad

    “There is a BIG difference between teaching acceptance and normalizing and even encouraging participation in a lifestyle that confuses young children into questioning their sexual identification as though some sort of game and then parents in some cases allow it,” he wrote in a statement under the title “My Thoughts On What I’m Seeing.”

    Of course, the Progs blew a gasket.

    Yet, despite critics pointing out a man who trademarked his career wearing flamboyant makeup and clothing, supporters of Stanley’s statement applauded him for speaking out against the transgender culture’s push for children.

    Typical. The Progs can’t tell the difference between dressing up for a stage act and irreversibly mutilating one’s body due to mental illness.

  35. One year my husband took me out for a surprise “dinner” for my birthday. I found myself sitting in front row seats for Lightfoot in Winnipeg for what was billed as his Farewell Tour. I cried and Lightfoot was great. At one point he looked right at me and mouthed “Happy Birthday!”. I have no idea how my husband managed this. I have been a huge fan of Lightfoot since I was a child.

    I first became aware of him as a child because my father worked for Air Canada and I loved the song Early Morning Rain because it was about the ‘silver bird on high.’

    1. I’d like to testify to that one, DB.

      I needed a tow vehicle and got ‘stuck’ with buying a 2021 RAM 3500 dually diesel, Laramie trim so had almost all the toys. Thankfully it didn’t have GPS. (‘stuck’ is a long story)

      The dealership ran me through all the things it did through the touch screen. AMAZING! Everything but rinse and blow-dry my bottom.

      I had it 3 or 4 weeks and absolutely hated the touch screen. One day, after tying to hit icons on the screen, I noticed a knob that looked like it would do what I was trying and failing badly to do on the screen. Hey! It worked.

      Then I got to noticing that for everything on the screen, there was a corresponding knob or button for the same function.

      Oh joy! Oh rapture! RAM got it right for those of us who hate touch screens. Now I don’t have to take my eyes off the road for the various functions. It hasn’t taken too long for me to learn where to reach for the right mechanical analog to the screen icons.

  39. I was just listening to Canadian Railroad Trilogy Sunday evening, picked up a CD version of Gord’s Gold last year at a Sally Ann. Didn’t hear the news yesterday.
    Massive talent and a real icon.

  42. A reluctant A-lister who battled his demons, often in public, like so many, while producing a plethora of amazing songs. RIP sir.
    My very first CD was his greatest hits.

    1. Why cant it be the politians and not the old rockers.
      Drinking the Goolaid never is healthy.

  49. I’ll leave it up to you whether you want to click on the MSN link inside.

    Censorious Liberal attempt to block news article shows why they want to control the internet

    https://blazingcatfur.ca/2023/05/01/jamie-sarkonak-censorious-liberal-attempt-to-block-news-article-shows-why-they-want-to-control-the-internet/

    This is especially concerning given the Liberals’ attempts to gain more control over the internet.

    Anybody who doesn’t think the Progs will immediately move to censor the internet is a, well, Prog.

  50. Cockroach attends MET Gala.

    Video, first few seconds is all you really need and I really don’t suggest watching the rest.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-65454201 (may have to click on another link depending on your search engine)

    But then again, you will see why the cockroach felt it belonged. Considering the rest of the video, it was the “smartest thing in the room”.

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