On Saturday, June 11, 2016 at 1:04:14 PM UTC-4, Just Walkin' wrote:
> On Saturday, June 11, 2016 at 11:35:11 AM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
> > On Friday, June 10
> > > > > > >>>>> wrote:
> > > > > > >>>>>> On Monday, June 6, 2016 at 12:16:49 AM UTC-4,
>
> > > > > >>>>>>> There are some concerts that you just wish you could've
> > > > > > >>>>>>> been at. (What a rude ass crowd)
> > > > > > >>>>>>>
> > > > > > >>>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z60VU2Nov_0
> > > > > > >>>>>>
> > > > > > >>>>>> Hey luisb,
> > > > > > >>>>>>
> > > > > > >>>>>> I hope this finds you well.
> > > > > > >>>>>>
> > > > > > >>>>>> Let me say this about that.
> > > > > > >>>>>>
> > > > > > >>>>>> Gordon Lightfoot content is dylan related. period.
> > > > > > >>>>>>
> > > > > > >>>>>> (also, i tried watching that NRBQ video, but couldn't)
> > > > > > >>>>>>
> > > > > > >>>>>> First, we have from the Weberman Tapes, when AJ starts
> > > > > > >>>>>> taunting bob as to who writes better songs than him, this
> > > > > > >>>>>> exchange:
> > > > > > >>>>>>
> > > > > > >>>>>> } AW: Gordon Lightfoot ain't bad. BD: Yeah, well, he's all
> > > > > > >>>>>> right. {
> > > > > > >>>>>>
> > > > > > >>>>>> Of course, there is audio at least of Gordon's performances
> > > > > > >>>>>> with the RTR, and perhaps video in R&C.
> > > > > > >>>>>
> > > > > > >>>>> Gordon Lightfoot sang "Ballad In Plain D" in Renaldo and
> > > > > > >>>>> Clara, audio only I think, though.
> > > > > > >>>>>
> > > > > > >>>>>> Then we have it, and who among us will ever forget bob
> > > > > > >>>>>> inducting Gordon into the CMHF:
> > > > > > >>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AKz23pbOFg
> > > > > > >>>>>>
> > > > > > >>>>>> And finally, we have a performance of Trisha Brown's
> > > > > > >>>>>> Spanish Dance, performed to bob's cover of ItEMR: Spanish
> > > > > > >>>>>> Dance (TBDC Alumnae) 4:01
> > > > > > >>>>>> http://www.trishabrowncompany.org/?page=view&nr=1872
> > > > > > >>>>>>
> > > > > > >>>>>> (my personal favourite performance of this piece, perhaps
> > > > > > >>>>>> because of the "ripened on the vine" nature of the
> > > > > > >>>>>> performers)
> > > > > > >>>>>>
> > > > > > >>>>>> Hth, rdd ___
> > > > > > >>>>
> > > > > > >>>> You can go much further back than that for Lightfoot and a
> > > > > > >>>> Dylan song. He released "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" as a
> > > > > > >>>> single in 1965. It didn't do very well but it did bring him to
> > > > > > >>>> the attention of some Americans, myself included.
> > > > > > >>>
> > > > > > >>> I was saddened that Dudley couldn't access the NRBQ vid. It's so
> > > > > > >>> good.
> > > > > > >>
> > > > > > >> I wouldn't have booed, but I probably would have felt like it. If
> > > > > > >> they playing it as a parody, I didn't find it a bit funny. If they
> > > > > > >> were trying to play it straight, it failed pathetically. And I
> > > > > > >> don't care if the singer was having to read all of the words,
> > > > > > >> that's no excuse for whatever it was supposed to be. Now, mind
> > > > > > >> you, I like NRBQ when they play r&r.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > The really funny part is that when they come out for an encore, what
> > > > > > > do they do? Wreck of E. F.! lol
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Odd would be a better word in that case, but funny works, too. However,
> > > > > > that would be the only think I'd find funny; the performance certainly
> > > > > > wasn't.
> > > > >
> > > > > may i ask what wreck of e. f. is?
> > > >
> > > > The Edmond Fitzgerald ship, great song.
> > >
> > > so fitzgerald built ships, too? ;-)
> > >
> > > i guess that song is true, then! (everybody building their big ships and big boats, some are building monuments, others are jotting down notes, everybody's in despair, every girl and boy, but when quinn the eskimo gets here, everybody's gonna jump for joy!)( sorry i couldn't stop, boy do i feel stupid! :-/ :-)?)
> > >
> > > somebody save me from myself!!!
> >
> > I read the story online a while back but I don't remember how the ship came to be called Edmond Fitzgerald.
> Northwestern, the owner of the ship, named the ship after its president and chairman of the board, Edmund Fitzgerald.

Thanks man, sorry it took this long to find this.

Good read about Gordon Lightfoot:

https://www.talkhouse.com/robbie-fulks-dives-headfirst-into-the-strangely-messy-world-of-gordon-lightfoot/