Gordon Lightfoot was our Canadian storyteller and will be missed. RIP Gordon.
@sickoftheshit Жыл бұрын
Sounds like Gordon Lightfoot was human like the rest of us. I appreciate him for the beautiful gifts he gave us. His voice, his words, and his music. RIP Gordon Lightfoot, they must be forming one Heck of a band in the afterlife.
@TinJesus-xs3zk11 ай бұрын
I wish I knew you while your book was still a manuscript. I had a one-on-one meeting with Gordon Lightfoot in about 2010 when drunk I wandered into the concert hall late.. and staggeringly drunk. Gordon's band and his stuff packed, he walked off the stage toward me and then gracious as could be aware of my obvious state sat next to me and while I struggled to remain coherent he was SO kind. I am a Christian, and not being drunk, I would have spent an eye opening time with a man I greatly respected as a travis- picking guitarist and singer, but .. alas, it was the first time I had laid eyes on him and all I could blurt was: "my God you're short!' He laughed and sat down on the stage next to me and suddenly, reading his tribute in this video of Nicholas' book "Lightfoot" I can see why he had that humble spirit having suffered as a recovered alcoholic himself. Anyway, I too cleaned up and still pray for my "new hero" even today. Kudos to Gordon, Nicholas and all that shaped this excellent video bio. God bless. tinJesus505
@lin9821 Жыл бұрын
One of my favourite singers, I’ve had a lifelong interest in the Edmund Fitzgerald and her sad loss after hearing his song when I was 12. I first heard him singing Sundown. Thanks radio Luxembourg for introducing me to this great musician. Sleep well Gordon ❤️💙❤️
@metoo9360 Жыл бұрын
My friend and I were 14, on a houseboat, and this song came on the radio. We shared a love of good music, like ELO, Beatles, McCartney and Harrison.
@kathygriffin946511 ай бұрын
Amazing singer, musician & writer. RIP Gordon Lightfoot.
@casrdinks8653 ай бұрын
I grew up with this man!!! I like to think......... Yes!! An amazing influence on my life!!!!!
@kathywright6853 Жыл бұрын
I have always liked Lightfoot but the more I know about him the more I actually like him more
@metoo9360 Жыл бұрын
To know him is to love him.
@tortue236 Жыл бұрын
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@johnbatch9276 Жыл бұрын
Gordon was a complicated man suppose we are all the same our lives are driven by insecurities we all experiment with things that can make the road ahead seem easier but one thing he did find out for sure drink is not the solution to anything he was a troubled young man but in the latter years he mellowed into.a much more relaxed easy going person the rashness of youth to.the wisdom of age getting old does have its benefits
@ricklee5845 Жыл бұрын
All great artists have a troubled history. That's why they can write about things that have actually happened. I can't say what my favourite song was, there are too many good ones. That he had a brush with Scientology is news to me. I reckon he dodged a bullet there!
@steveramsey6562 Жыл бұрын
What about Canadian Railroad Trilogy? It's got Canadian right in the title.
@thomasaversa3899 Жыл бұрын
One of his best!!
@benwallwork74426 ай бұрын
Then there's also alberta bound, long thin dawn, affair on 8th Avenue, and long river
@larrymclarnon-pd8xf10 ай бұрын
We had the wonderful experience of seeing Gordon live in Belfast. What a thrill that was.
@wowbagger3505 Жыл бұрын
Anybody, who says Christian Island is not a Canadian song hasn’t spent much time between Barrie/Orillia and Sudbury. I would argue that with even himself should we meet in the great beyond! I am an American, but I have spent many wonderful summer days paddling in that delightful wilderness.
@marionneary1128 Жыл бұрын
Thank you so very much Grunge for telling theses Story, I absolutely Love 💖 your Channel!
@MLB9000 Жыл бұрын
It’s really hard to listen to the music though because some guy keeps talking over it
@kendrawilton691410 ай бұрын
An amazing singer, songwriter and musician. I listened to his music since I was young. My Dad came home with the single Me And Bobby Magee. He didn’t know I loved Lightfoot’s music. We listened to that record over and over again! It must have drove the rest of the family crazy. We bonded over a Canadian Icon. I’m glad Lightfoot got his life together before the end.
@justin6354 Жыл бұрын
I always wondered where that magical acoustic guitar and voice came from. when I was a little kid . My mom has dementia now but she knows who Bob Dylan and Gordon Lightfoot are....!!!
@johnjennings9693 Жыл бұрын
Do you mean they sold their souls or would you rather not say,
@user-yc6rw2bb3m6 ай бұрын
He lived shortly in Stoney Creek in a trailer park called Pinetops on Highway 8 while he was a dancer. (Behind the Pines Motel) I was 5 at the time. He played around a campfilre and it was the first time I recall hearing a live instument. I play his songs today a long way away from 1960.
@jimwilson43558 ай бұрын
Gord was a "pretty big deal" everywhere. That's a gross understatement. I'm reading and enjoying his book. He is missed.
@stevennix86806 ай бұрын
Gordon Lightfoot is secret hero of mine. when i ws growing up in the '70's his music was telling stories of life as opposed to the then music singing about meaningless romantice encounters and glorifying drug use. i love and miss him.
@robertbruce18878 ай бұрын
Excellent, concise mini-documentry on Gordon Lightfoot. I have the book Lightfoot, Canadian music writer Nicholas Jennings. I can't recommend this book enough if you want to know the late Gordon Lightfoot.
@TewqyTV11 күн бұрын
I liked all of his songs, especially the Lyrics. I was sad when he passed away, but his songs will live a long time!
@sarahberkner Жыл бұрын
In June I had an idea to add a verse to the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald but I knew I would have to look up something newsworthy that happened since 1976, and I just found out that he had unfortunately died a month before. I'll post a cover but here is the verse I wrote (it'll be second to the end): "Now the one who sang this back in '76, was a man that has now passed to glory. The bell that still chimes this it did 30 times for the sailors and he who sang their story"
@jordan-xe2yb9 ай бұрын
Stop it.
@GoolagThemTube5 ай бұрын
God i miss that guy so much already.
@inakasone95646 ай бұрын
Great singer- song writer!!!🌄🙂
@sarahedwards26 ай бұрын
Lightfoot was in the hospital right next door to my middle school; I had just started grade 7 when it happened. My music teacher never mentioned anything about it, though.
@edmanman9 ай бұрын
They should make a movie about him.
@johnsdao39173 ай бұрын
A true canadian legend❤❤❤
@johnsdao39179 күн бұрын
Love him,think of him every day
@hermanmunster7147 ай бұрын
There would be no Jimmy Buffett without a Gordon Lightfoot.
@londonbabe2467Ай бұрын
He’s had the very enviable, perfect life
@allenhardwick752711 ай бұрын
I like his writing style like Bob Dylan he makes him a great story teller
@mjphoto4511 күн бұрын
His music lives on
@scotttaubold4121 Жыл бұрын
What about Canadian Railroad Trilogy?
@waggsish Жыл бұрын
So what is the "unknown truth?"...click bait?
@cak8135 ай бұрын
I have always liked Gordon Lightfoot but I never cared for his song about the Edmund Fitzgerald. My favorite songs of his are “The Last Time I Saw Her” and “Affair On Eighth Avenue”. He had such a beautiful singing voice. A shame he had such a tempestuous personal life. Seems to be the plague of so many musicians.
@brendaf313210 ай бұрын
I listened to Lightfoot for years before I knew he was from Canada. He sounded more like Texas to me.
@daisydomergue90474 ай бұрын
I know that I'm late to the party but I just want to bring up the fact that. Prior to doing The Wreck ......, his defining song was Black Day in July at least to me it was. So much so that I'm going to go listen to it.
@Want0nS0up Жыл бұрын
I liked his songs. Not sure about his personality though. He sounds like a very difficult person to be around, even for a musician.
@John-jd8vx Жыл бұрын
what do you mean exactly?
@Want0nS0up Жыл бұрын
@@John-jd8vx just on videos and interviews, he is an introvert and prefers solitary life. I perceived his body language to be confronting, rather than at ease with people. One would think after his successes, and there were lots of them, he might be a more relaxed, accepting person.
@irazzimmer85 Жыл бұрын
I was fortunate enough once to meet him. He was as nice gentlemen as he could be.
@cindyguillard216 Жыл бұрын
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@tiffismyrealtor Жыл бұрын
Maybe when he was rlly drunk lol but he quit drinking early enough...he was a really wonderful, well-loved guy...BIG heart, big smile and rlly funny
@robertbruce18878 ай бұрын
Meant to say the title of the book is : Lightfoot, by Canadian authour Nicholas Jennings
@rosehudson658316 күн бұрын
Leave him alone and let him rest in peace!
@laudreport3798 Жыл бұрын
I call Gordon lightfoot in Spanish ; “Gordo, pie gordo” 😝😅🤣…
@alyqat45 ай бұрын
please a Gordon Lightfoot movie starring Chris Pratt? they look related.
@Wolfwolveswolf Жыл бұрын
~ GORDON LIGHTFOOT ~
@dr.davidgerstenaminoacidth24215 ай бұрын
This is an annoying video with inaccuracies and the goal of just being negative. Having an experience that can kill you does not make it a near death experience. An artist writes about what they feel and experience. He was a great writer who was extremely disciplined. The only interview I really like was done by a reporter who had known him for decades. That video is the real Lightfoot…without an AI voice!
@danielgoodwin4719 Жыл бұрын
I hate these to be honest because it's a bunch of over-exaggerated stories that lead to paranoia
@acornsucks211122 күн бұрын
The Lord has the last word.
@rogerpeacock6873 ай бұрын
I drove from Fairbanks to Anchorage once to attend a Lightfoot concert. He was so obnoxious and complained so much about how the concert organizers had failed to meet his needs, I decided that I would just enjoy his albums henceforth.
@BUSHY33GRANTHAM16 күн бұрын
Hey Roger, totally agree. I had all his albums until the late 70s. That was when I talked some friends into seeing him live at the old Hordern Pavilion in Sydney. He came on stage late, pissed as, forgot his vocals and when a fan ran up to the stage to shake his hand; he rudely brushed him off. Our whole party got up and walked out (with countless others) and went back to the Bronte Charles pub and played some pool. Never bought another Lightfoot album again. He was a short, arrogant, drunken POS in my memory.
@johnsrabe Жыл бұрын
The untold truth nobody addresses is What the hell happened to his voice around 1980? He suddenly lost all his low end. Listen to a 1979 recording and compare it to “I’ll Tag Along,” and you hear a marked change. Did he blow it out performing? Was it all the cigs and booze? A combination?
@hltvieira635411 ай бұрын
He had emphsema.
@hunterharrell74917 ай бұрын
It's crazy, on the Shadows album from 1982 he sounds like classic Gord with his baritone voice, but a year later on Salute, he sounded completely different! Some say it was the weightloss from quitting his drinking
@johnsrabe7 ай бұрын
@@hunterharrell7491 I don’t hear it too much on Salute (admittedly I could only bear a few samples) but for sure on East of Midnight. There’s no bass left in “I’ll Tag Along,” which is such a lovely song … but I wish he’d recorded it before his voice went.
@hunterharrell74917 ай бұрын
@johnsrabe I feel the same way about Morning Glory on that same album, such a beautiful song thar would have been even better with his baritone voice, my favorite song on the salute album regardless of his voice is "knotty pine"
@jeffreyjacobs3903 ай бұрын
He was an abuser of alcohol for sure .... what else is speculation .... but, his retreat from pressures and harsh light of celebrity would be soothed by hard liqueur and he became abusive when intoxicated as his devils tormented him in private as well as public - socially really. His ability to WRITE, SING a song play it in front of few or many was second to none ..... there under the spotlight .... he was at peace and in confident mindset. Sadly he looked a hundred by his 60th birthday ...... last years his voice betrayed him. A catalog of incredible popular music though - second to none !!! GBjj
@BUSHY33GRANTHAM16 күн бұрын
Hate to rain on you fans parade. I had all his albums until the late 70s. That was when I talked some friends into seeing him live at the old Hordern Pavilion in Sydney. He came on stage late, pissed as, forgot his vocals and when a fan ran up to the stage to shake his hand; he rudely brushed him off. Our whole party got up and walked out (with countless others) and we went back to the Bronte Charles pub and played some pool an got on the piss. Never bought another Lightfoot album again. He was a short, arrogant, drunken POS in my memory.
@madeleinevanwykhon299111 ай бұрын
Wonderful artist..... Xcept for his alcoholism and womanizing.... Children with 4 different wives... That's a pity....
@hltvieira635411 ай бұрын
He was human, as are all of us. He gave up alcohol in 1982. He was married 3x, not 4. He had 6 children - 2 with his 1st wife, 2 with his 2nd wife, and 2 with 2 different women between marriages.
@thelastttt Жыл бұрын
Frist
@toddclean54710 ай бұрын
I have never seen an artist that aged so pathetically. It was scary.
@marcmaschal2897 Жыл бұрын
Why show the old Lightfoot ? He looked terrible
@stevejeffrey1111 ай бұрын
everybody grows old man, it was absolutely incredible he continued singing & playing well into his 80's