Historical Facts.

May Twenty-Ninth, 2009: Jian Ghomeshi,

Host of popular Canadian Radio Program Q, interviews Gordon Lightfoot,

Canadian songwriting legend. According to the CBC website, One blogger noted that Ghomeshi’s interview with Gordon Lightfoot was “nothing less than seminal,”

Same Day, simultaneously, Sasquatch,

no context needed, intercepts the interview Via low-Fi Backwoods transistor radio. Lightfoot, as we all know, speaks at a frequency which Sasquatch cannot hear. Sasquatch assumes, naturally, that these questions are directed towards himself, and answers with a candor and vulnerability that one blogger describes as the cat’s ass. Happily, a CBC radio technician was in that forest that day, and he captured the moment.  

Excerpts Now, from both interviews

Ghomeshi: You are a legend

Lightfoot: Well now, that’s, that’s an honor, but come on (laughs) I’m still alive, man!

Ghomeshi: So, do you think that there is a unique Canadian Songwriting identity?

Lightfoot: Oh, yes, without questions, I think there is a unique Canadian Songwriting identity

Ghomeshi: Why do you think that is?

Lightfoot: I think it’s because of the Celtic heritage in Canada. Many Canadians have Celtic ancestry- Scottish ancestry and Irish ancestry, and I think that runs in the soul, the soul of our nation.

Ghomeshi: What are the songs, the Lightfoot songs, that you want to remain as your legacy, the ones most closely identified with you?

Lightfoot: Well, there’s, I mean, that’s kind of a weird question to answer about yourself. I guess, you know, If you could read my mind, and Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, but not so much Sundown, you know, because it’s such a seedy, back alley type of song, from a pretty low time in my life.

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Ghomeshi: You are a legend

Sasquatch: uhh, yeah. obviously. What - that was a really stupid thing to say. Like- “you are a radio host.” 

Ghomeshi: So, do you think that there is a unique Canadian Songwriting identity?

Sasquatch: Yes, definitely, there is a unique Canadian songwriting identity

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Ghomeshi: Why do you think that is?

Sasquatch: Well i think it’s because Canada supports the world’s largest remaining Sasquatch population, you know, and also Boreal forests, and the largest surviving wolf and bison populations as well, so it’s only natural that that would run in the soul of our nation. 

Ghomeshi: Anything to do with Celtic populations?

Sasquatch: Oh geez… (laughs), well, Canada certainly has a rich and diverse cultural, uhhh, makeup, and a very interesting history… but as you know, many great songwriters are alcoholics, and one of the cheapest and most common beers in Canada has a picture of a sasquatch on the can, and so, you know, probably a lot of great songwriters had that in their hands, and consequently in their minds, at key moments.

Ghomeshi: So nothing to do with Celtic populations, specifically.

Sasquatch: I got no comment there.

Ghomeshi: What are the songs, the Lightfoot songs, that you want to remain as your legacy, the ones most closely identified with you?

Sasquatch: Wow, that’s a hard question to answer. I love Lightfoot! I guess, gheeze, I gotta say that tune Sundown, you know, because it really… well, you know, I’m not as young as I once was, but every time I hear Sundown, it just puts me in mind of my old Girlfriend, Gloria, and these long, endless sunsets we have in the Canadian north in the summer, and watching the sunsets with her. God, we were so young, and she had such hairy legs, she was so sexy… I think of her whenever i hear that song.