[Boreal]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

This is a good cover of a great song

Duhatschek did a write up a few years back of his top 60 concerts at age 60.

His experience with this song is so cool.

"10.# # # Gordon Lightfoot, Massey Hall, Winter of 1976. For the debut of the Wreck Of the Edmond Fitzgerald. I used to go the annual Gordon Lightfoot shows at Massey Hall, and in those days, ticketing was all done by mail order. So you’d call the box office after Christmas, and they’d tell you: tickets are $5.50 $4.40 and $3.30 this year; send a check for the dates you want and usually sometime in January or early February they’d arrive in the mail. That year, I ordered two pairs – I took a friend from university, Cathy Osborne for the first show; and Monica, my sister to the second.
Cathy and I were in the fourth row. Gordon opened with one of his hits and then explained that he was debuting a new song that would be on an album to be released later in the year. He told the story of a freighter that went down in Lake Superior a couple of months earlier and proceeded to sing the song. Nobody’d ever heard it before, but his voice was so clear and the acoustics so good in the hall that you understood every word. It was moving, breathtaking – and of course, no one knew when it was over. You know how usually, the applause starts before the song ends? Here – and I’ve never seen this – there was dead silence for … thousand one, thousand two, thousand three. It seemed endless – and then the place exploded in a standing ovation that lasted longer than any I could remember. Lightfoot seemed genuinely taken aback. I think right there, he knew he had written something special.
Two nights later, I warned Monica what was about to happen and it unfolded in exactly the same fashion. Never forget that moment, for as long as I live, the loudest silence I’ve ever heard."