Posts by mheff

Hi everyoneThis is going to be a short one.Beginning October 25, we did three shows within nine days: Burlington, Orillia, and Hamilton. As part of “Lightfoot Days” in Orillia, we hosted two workshops and participated in a panel discussion.Before I review those shows, allow me to do a bit of a preamble.I got into the…

Get ready, folks; I’m about to make another one of those “let’s pretend I’m a genius” generalizations. Context Is Everything No situation, idea, or statement can be understood in isolation. The larger the context, the clearer and less ambiguous the meaning. Chronology is a great tool for giving meaning to events. Timelines are an effective…

On Sunday, Andy rode with me from Charlottetown PEI to St. John NB. Andy is a great guy. He overflows with ideas, observations and humorous anecdotes. His verbosity, however, is in direct proportion to his exuberance. Also, there’s a speech technique he uses, subconsciously I’m sure, to give more import to his words. He lessens…

Hi Everyone I had resolved to write a post for each day of this remarkable tour of Atlantic Canada. It’s now six days into it and we’re in Charlottetown PEI having already played in Fredericton, Halifax and Moncton. So much for resolutions.  I didn’t get any sleep Sunday night before the trip. I left my…

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…