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Hadn't used the term for years, but one of my oldest friends was a fan, not SO much of all of Gordon's work, but of "Rainy Day People." Years later, his brother passed away WAY too young from cancer, and in my stupidity of not knowing what to say, I avoided talking with him. It took a while, but I finally did connect; he was understandably hurt. I profusely apologized, and said later that I wanted to be one of his Rainy Day People, he meant that much to me and my family. He did forgive me, we both shed some tears that night, and we of course are still close to this day.

Couldn't pick an album - so just the playlist of all. etc.

^ During college I was in an on and off relationship that ultimately was impossible. Lots of emotion, heartbreak, great times, etc. It was a bit too much to bear, so we decided, we needed to not see each other for a bit to get over our feelings, so that we could just be friends. After not seeing each other for awhile, we decided to go out for some coffee. I remember how strange and awkward it felt compared to being around her before. The excitement and connection was no longer there. It felt empty in a way. So, just us in a small coffee shop kind of quiet, then If You Could Read My Mind, came on. At the part, "I don't know where we went wrong, but the feeling is gone, and I just can't get it back", I couldn't help but laugh out loud. She asked what was funny. I decided to just say "nothing" and take in the moment.

Doing Gord's Gold vol's 1 and 2 myself.....

Here is a decent overview from a lifetime achievement award a couple years back. EDIT: How ‘The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald’ Defied Top 40 Logic

There are a lot of great falling in love songs, but I can't think of a better falling out of love song than If You Could Read My Mind. Edit: Just bought the Rhino four disc box set. First CDs purchased in I don’t how many years.

Gordon Lightfoot was very important to me in my formative college years. I spent the summer of 1976 at Forestry summer camp at Cloquet and Isabella MN with “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” playing on the local radio stations a bit before it hit the national airwaves. But “Don Quixote” was and is my favorite song of his as it seemed to tell a story I was very familiar with. Luckily, I was able to see him in concert twice. The first time at Ravinia (Highland Park, IL) in 1983 and the second at Chastain Park (Atlanta, GA) in 1995. This one hits real hard. I will leave with the following excerpt from Nicholas Jennings biography, Lightfoot . Like many great artists, he was a complex person.

Gordon was a complex one for me. I grew up during the age of angry punks and metalheads who were reacting against "boomer rock." His style of music was the least hip thing imaginable around the time I got my first Walkman. In spite of that environment, I always liked his songwriting and his incredibly distinctive singing voice. As is often the case, Gordon Lightfoot wasn't actually a boomer (1938, Silent Generation.) I remember hearing "Sundown" on the radio when I was quite young and finding it captivating. It was many years (which are big ones when one is so small) before I had an artist song title I could attach to it. It's apocryphal/not proven, but the lyrics to the song are often described as referring to the woman who indirectly killed John Belushi. That adds a whole additional weight to an already quite dark song. Also I've noticed that younger generations (later Millennials and Zoomers) seem to unironically (as they say) like "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." I remember a few years ago someone posted a graphic illustrating how lake Superior had its own weather systems to reddit and a bunch of users there wrote out the entire lyrics to the song, one comment at a time. That's some lasting impact right there.

Aww man. Same here and did a ton of relistening during the pandemic. Thanks and RIP.

Love him, so much great music. Incredible writing and musically so wonderful. RIP to yet another legend! 😥

And we cheerfully eat these clearly sentient creatures? Discuss.

Wrapped up the tea box. Used the Shaper for joints/hinge/mortises/tea cup. Quartersawn Oak, Sapele and Bubinga.

It's strange how some celebrities/artists/whatever passing affects you versus others. Just one more vid. This one by Rick Beato. Bob Dylan, Randy Newman, and Tom Waits, please eat healthy.

RIP Gordon Lightfoot. One of the great story tellers. I can't imagine the 70s without his music playing in the background.

Gordon Lightfoot was one of the great singer songwriters. Kristofferson, Chapin, Lightfoot... R.I.P. Gordon.

Heavy Metal Soundtrack Various Artists 1981 https://album.link/i/320264810 Example: Truly still one of the great movie soundtracks made, with only 3 of the 16 tracks not being directly written for the movie. Had to share the Felder track with one the great bass lines by Abraham Laboriel. And just for fun I found the score. I didn't see it on the streaming platforms.

We do know the entire amp topology and those relays are to switch signals, nothing else. You can accuse me of hating Chinese products but yet I buy everything I can from China to test out... weird that... I have every electrostatic amp or headphones I can get from China. It can't be that you are just a retarded Topping fanboy, is it? Have you tried this thing or even measured it? I just wonder what anybody at Topping was thinking about when designing this thing, how was a roughly 1W+1W amp supposed to drive electrostatics? I mean they could have put in a simple Class D unit (while not ideal) with far more power and get a better result. You only need to understand the basics with regards to electrostatics to know you just need more power for them to behave. Now that is far more interesting though I'll have to call into question any specs they publish... or even think they can reach. The parts are available to make a fully discrete amp with excellent specs, hell it is possible to make it all SMD if you can figure out the heatsinking issues. Also reading ASR's evaluation of R2R dacs just hurts my brain. There is so much stupidity there it is simply painful...

I built and have a GRLV that I use for my DynaFET configured for +/-30V and have used it ever since I got the DynaFET running, so probably 4 years or so (would have to look at the thread). I'm pretty sure the tantalums are 35V and never had any problem with them. I'll look later today to confirm. I never tested the MJFs or MJEs (would have to look also to see), but bought them from Mouser as I do almost all of my parts. In process of casing it so it is torn apart right now.

RIP Gordon Lightfoot at age 84. Much of his music defined the 70's, certainly for me.