40th Anniversary: Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (1 Viewer)

[larch]

November 10, 2015 is the 40th anniversary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Edmund_Fitzgerald

 

[The General]

May have to fire up some Gordon Lightfoot.

 

[Doctor Detroit]

Thanks Posty!

Seriously...

 

[Doctor Detroit]

Not too many people get up to the UP of Michigan, but if you do...don't miss the Great Lakes Shipwreck museum.

Great stuff.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Remember when she broke glasses with her voice?

 

[bicycle_seat_sniffer]

Not too many people get up to the UP of Michigan, but if you do...don't miss the Great Lakes Shipwreck museum.

Great stuff.

Been there. Its cool.

 

[Galileo]

Remember when she broke glasses with her voice?

I think that was Larry

 

[timschochet]

It really bums me out that with all the great Lightfoot songs out there, this is the one that people seem to remember the best.

 

[Ilov80s]

#Fitz40 on Twitter. Live news updates from various sources covering the weather, details, etc. as the event unfolded in real time 40 years ago.

 

[Doctor Detroit]

It really bums me out that with all the great Lightfoot songs out there, this is the one that people seem to remember the best.

Yeah, don't mess with this song there bub.

 

[Ilov80s]

It really bums me out that with all the great Lightfoot songs out there, this is the one that people seem to remember the best.

Why? It's a very touching tribute to people who tragically lost their lives too soon.

 

[timschochet]

It really bums me out that with all the great Lightfoot songs out there, this is the one that people seem to remember the best.

Why? It's a very touching tribute to people who tragically lost their lives too soon.

It's all right. A bit repetitive, but not a bad song at all. It's just that he has so many better songs (IMO).

 

[otello]

It really bums me out that with all the great Lightfoot songs out there, this is the one that people seem to remember the best.

not true. On and on is a better song.

 

[SWC]

tony rice has a great cover album of gordon lightfoot songs i recommend shadows just googler up youtube tony rice shadows and there you go take that to the bank brohans

 

[SWC]

he also does a great version of shadows with alison krauss who has the voice of an angle take that to the bank bromigos

 

[Galileo]

he also does a great version of shadows with alison krauss who has the voice of an angle take that to the bank bromigos

acute or obtuse?

 

[The General]

It really bums me out that with all the great Lightfoot songs out there, this is the one that people seem to remember the best.

Why? It's a very touching tribute to people who tragically lost their lives too soon.

It's all right. A bit repetitive

Would have thought you would appreciate that.

 

[SWC]

It really bums me out that with all the great Lightfoot songs out there, this is the one that people seem to remember the best.

Why? It's a very touching tribute to people who tragically lost their lives too soon.

It's all right. A bit repetitive

Would have thought you would appreciate that.

tim i can call the hospital if you want because you need to check in to the burn ward bromigo take that to the ban k

 

[Parrothead]

commence the 29 bell chimes as we remember the early gales of November

 

[playin4beer]

Gitche Gumee ain't no joke in November...

I was at the Yooper Dome two years ago watching local High School football playoffs.. After the game, we drove to Mackinaw City where we had a hotel room..

Leaving Marquette we were advised to take 41 South to 2 to get away from a nasty storm blowing in on Lake Superior.. I figured "how bad can it be?"..

I've lived in Michigan my entire life and have driven through some terrible Winter weather.. so we took 28 East out of Marquette towards Munising, along the shores

of Lake Superior.. Let me tell you, I've never driven through anything even close to that before.. Complete whiteouts where it looked like somebody threw a blanket

over the car..had to stop completely. Never passed or saw another car or person.. Thankfully the roads have rumble strips in the center and on the side of the road.

I drove for awhile just by "feel".. drift to the left until I hit the rumble strip, back to the right until I hit the rumble strip and so on..

By the time we got to Mackinaw City, I was whipped.. emotionally and physically.. A normal 3 hour drive took close to 7..

Don't mess with Mother Nature... she always wins..

 

[Mr. Mojo]

commence the 29 bell chimes as we remember the early gales of November

Beat me to it!

 

[Foosball God]

The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead

When the skies of November turn gloomy

 

[Ilov80s]

Approaching the end:

When suppertime came, the old cook came on deck Sayin' "Fellas, it's too rough to feed ya"

At seven PM a main hatchway caved in

He said, "Fellas, it's been good to know ya"

 

[Ilov80s]

https://twitter.com/jfranz88/status/664223268212109312

 

[Binky The Doormat]

Terrible thing that happened.

But really just one of the most schmaltzy pieces of dreck since Bobby Goldsboro's "Honey."

 

[Hoh]

It really bums me out that with all the great Lightfoot songs out there, this is the one that people seem to remember the best.

My dog frolics in plastic pools deeper than you.

 

[Mr. Mojo]

Terrible thing that happened.

But really just one of the most schmaltzy pieces of dreck since Bobby Goldsboro's "Honey."

 

[Das Boot]

The trippy Dandy Warhols version of The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is well worth a listen.

 

[whiskey7]

The legend lives on...

 

[pandora]

41st Anniversary

 

[BroncoFreak_2K3]

Not too many people get up to the UP of Michigan, but if you do...don't miss the Great Lakes Shipwreck museum.

Great stuff.

Whitefish Point is one of the most beautiful places in Michigan.  And you can take in Tahquamenon Falls State Park on the way up. Beautiful.

 

[The General]

Love me some Gordon Lightfoot.