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re: 46 years ago today the gales of November came early...
Posted on 11/10/22 at 11:39 am to Ace Midnight
Posted on 11/10/22 at 11:39 am to Ace Midnight
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Why did the big ship go down? Negligence? McSorley pushing too hard? A "three sisters" rogue wave? Did they bounce off the six fathom shoal? Defective hatch covers?
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Rogue waves may form even in lakes, via a phenomenon known as the "Three Sisters," in which three large waves form at the same time, and can strike a vessel in quick succession, creating a large backwash and overloading a ship's deck with water.
I watched several videos on YT about the EF recently. I think it had to be a version of the Three Sisters that destroyed the vessel.
The stark damage to the bow and the clean split-in-two of the ship indicates the EF went down in a vertical position, and fast. I think the rogue waves lifted it up and then slammed it against the bottom bow-first.
The crew had no chance to survive, or even to launch lifeboats, which had been sheared from their racks because of the impact. They were heavily damaged.
Only one body was ever sighted, near the hull of the bow half of the ship. It lay face up on the bottom of the lake.
The wreck was declared to be a burial monument and will not be disturbed.
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Posted on 11/10/22 at 11:44 am to La Place Mike
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What's even more eerie is that Gordon Lightfoot know what the old cook said.
Exact same comment a year ago in this thread...still not that funny
Posted on 11/10/22 at 11:46 am to CaptainsWafer
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The song reads more like a poem in that it doesn’t have a chorus and tells a story. Is that what you’re getting at?
I get it. The poetry of the lyrics flow. The chorus itself is the haunting melody that is between some of the versus and at the end of the song. Anyone who's ever heard the song knows the melody I'm talking of and it's instantly identifiable with this masterpiece.
The good ones, the really good ones, come fast and almost write themselves.
Posted on 11/10/22 at 11:51 am to stratman
Posted on 11/10/22 at 12:01 pm to jchamil
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Exact same comment a year ago in this thread...still not that funny
Tough crowd.
Posted on 11/10/22 at 12:02 pm to Kcrad
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Like 'The Rectum of Ella Fitzgerald'.
Thanks for that. I haven’t laughed that hard for a long time.
Posted on 11/10/22 at 12:33 pm to La Place Mike
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Tough crowd.
No. Stupid comment.
Posted on 11/10/22 at 12:38 pm to FearlessFreep
Does it show my age that I know more songs on that random weekly Billboard top 100 than I know of all songs written over the past 10 years combined?
Posted on 11/10/22 at 1:39 pm to fr33manator
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When something is inspired it just flows. There’s no agonizing over this word or that rhyme.
You just write, as if possessed, and when you are finished you look back and say “damn…I wrote this?” It’s like a dream state.
Well stated and true.
However I would be lying if I said that some of my best work didn't come while sitting on the shitter....
Posted on 11/10/22 at 5:19 pm to Kentucker
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This post was edited on 3/17/23 at 12:18 am
Posted on 11/10/22 at 6:59 pm to FearlessFreep
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Billboard Hot 100 for 11/19/1976
That is a pretty good playlist right there.
Posted on 11/10/22 at 8:08 pm to FredBear
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Yeah, Gordon Lightfoot did a really good job of capturing the feel and tone of that event with that song. It was well done
Every Sunday on one of the local radio in B’ham stations (96.5) they play classic American Top 40 from this week I’m 1980something. Every Sunday I’ll listen to it while I work at my model desk. This past Sunday was from 1985 I think. On that episode Casey Kasim played this song as a tribute for the anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. I’d forgot how much I love that song. I had to immediately go and add it to my Spotify playlist.
This post was edited on 11/10/22 at 8:09 pm
Posted on 11/10/22 at 8:35 pm to stratman
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get it. The poetry of the lyrics flow. The chorus itself is the haunting melody that is between some of the versus and at the end of the song. Anyone who's ever heard the song knows the melody I'm talking of and it's instantly identifiable with this masterpiece. The good ones, the really good ones, come fast and almost write themselves.
Agreed. I’ve got a good buddy who is amazing on the guitar and he’ll come over sometimes and we’ll jam.
He plays a version of this when I’m doing the lines, it’s good stuff.
Need to get with him again soon.
There’s just something about that chord progression, the melody…it just FEELS like stormy waters on the Great Lakes, it’s got a cadence that rocks back and forth like a ship on the water.
You are right, the chorus, in a sense, is the name of the ship, the Edmund Fitzgerald, and the stanzas are the waves and the water repeatedly breaking on it. Kind of an endless rhythm,
Posted on 11/10/22 at 8:59 pm to Gaggle
We sometimes refer to "Lake Michigan" as the "Michigan Ocean". You can't see the other side, you can detect the curvature of the Earth.
They don't call them the "Great Lakes" for nothin'.
They don't call them the "Great Lakes" for nothin'.
Posted on 11/10/22 at 9:16 pm to VernonPLSUfan
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Were weather stations forecast behind time in the late 70's?
I’ll say! A herd of sheep on the side of a mountain was as good as weather forecasting technology in the 70’s.
Posted on 11/11/22 at 7:10 pm to BuckyCheese
fricker is a freshwater ocean
Posted on 11/11/22 at 7:18 pm to East Coast Band
Such a haunting, yet great song about that tragedy.
Posted on 11/11/22 at 7:52 pm to BuckyCheese
I've stood under that bridge when a huge freighter sounded her horn. It was one of the loudest noises I ever heard.
I had my 18 month old daughter in my arms. She screamed her head off.
I had my 18 month old daughter in my arms. She screamed her head off.
Posted on 11/11/22 at 8:19 pm to East Coast Band
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