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Nobody Can Say I Didn’t Pay My Dues In a post I published last year I made reference to a singer I worked with in the late seventies called The Mighty Pope. I said I would go into more detail later. Later is now. This strangely named dude was a large black man from Jamaica.…

Mr. Google It’s Tuesday, August 27, 2024, as I begin writing this post. About two weeks ago, I was on my laptop doing a search for videos of “The Gordon Lightfoot Band.” My name, of course, is associated with this, so along with a gazillion videos (none of which do justice to our sound, having…

Mike’s Law At some point during my 42 years of flying regularly in private jets with the Gordon Lightfoot band, I became the airplane policeman. Not that I wanted to be, In fact, I didn’t want to travel on those airplanes at all. Musicians don’t have a great track record with aviation. Let me make…

Hey Everybody! On May 23rd, we (The Lightfoot Band) participated in a fabulous show at Massey Hall, celebrating Gordon Lightfoot’s memory and music. We had Tom Wilson singing “Cold On The Shoulder”, Meredith Moon (Gord’s daughter) with Serena Ryder doing “If You Could Read My Mind”, Tom Cochrane with “The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald”…

This question was recently asked on quora.com: Do women like guys who play the piano, or is that too feminine of an instrument? I won’t make a call on effeminacy except to say that most “creative” males, whether they paint, write poetry, or play an instrument, are considered to be a little bit left of…

Hi everyone The Lightfoot Band has now performed six shows. Things are going well, in fact, great. The audiences are very receptive, and the band is tightening up. My big sausage fingers are even hitting most of the right notes.  Everyone is rising to the occasion. Story Time We do this thing where Rick introduces…

Can You Pronounce Guelph? This thing is really happening. Our meetings, rehearsals, long-range plans, and the debut at the historic El Mocambo have all been very exciting, but it wasn’t real for me until we stepped on stage at the River Run Theatre in Guelph, Ontario, a week ago Thursday.  This is the kind of…

Back In The Day I grew up in a house with a green roof and eaves. Most of the streets in my neighbourhood had names like Flanagan and Kilkenny. I lived with my father, two sisters and my brother Pat, who was sixteen months older than me. Still is. An Irish Setter ate and slept…

I’ve Got A Lot Of Nerve I’m still pretending to be a successful rock musician …. at my age! What about Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, and Ringo Starr? They’re all still performing. That’s different. Nobody doubts that they do have a lot of nerve and besides, they aren’t pretending. They remind me of…