Lighthouse

I did see Lighthouse....at the Centre of the Arts in Regina...one of the 1st shows I ever saw...my older sister took me. I have pictures from that show......I am going to see Lighthouse at the Casino this Friday......I am expecting a great show!.......you can't deny Skip Prokop!

Very first time hearing Lighthouse live I was on a high school band trip to Toronto. We did a band exchange with Runnymede Collegiate I think that was the school. Suite Feeling had just been released and Pinky and Grant were still in the band. I was Hooked. Next time was at the CNE as part of an all day free festival, Bob Mcbride was in the band then and One Fine Morning was a big hit. Crowbar, DR John and Mashmakhan were all on the bill. HIgh school, Sauble Beach, Beggars Banquet, Massey Hall When I think of it, I don't think I've seen one band more than Lighthouse.

1970 Summer Garden, Port Dover and many more times including Massey Hall.
1849 is one of the best stories put to music ever!

Saw Lighthouse Jan. 2010 Regina and they knocked my socks off! Super tight band, a totally unique sound. I can only describe it as Canada's version of Chicago! I WILL NEVER MISS ANOTHER SHOW. Soulful music, jazz/fusion whatever you call it, it sent me to my happy place. Stay healthy Lighthouse and please come back soon, regards Mike

I first saw the band live in the middle of the day in front of city hall in toronto...at least I think thta was the first time, was in the 70's anyway. Here's a story I've told a few times...Skip...do remember the time you asked me to teach your mom how to play the mandolin? lol...you saw/heard me play it I won't say where...but you came up afterward, said hi and asked me...funny.

Saw Lighthouse 4 times. First in 1972 right after Live album. Absoloutly terrific. Today I'm working with Pinky who shares fond stories from pre-Bob Mcbride days. Thanks for some great music!

I remember standing in a body cast (after back surgery)on the floor of the Sports Complex at the University of Waterloo. Lighthouse blew me away. They became the most popular sound in residence over the next couple of years. Saw them again a year later on the same bill with Evil Knieval at the CNE. It was great to see them as good as ever in The Shwa last year. Really looking forward to the show this Saturday at the QET Toronto.

I don't remember when the "first time" I saw Lighthouse was; nor do I recall the "last time," either. I do recall (or at least I hope I do!) one particular occasion, however.

It was the summer following the 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair - 1970. Several of us had attended Woodstock and we were still very much caught up in the momentum of that memorable summer of '69! I was working part time as a sort of youth worker, out of the Etobicoke YMCA at Bloor and Islington in Etobicoke (I now live in Vancouver, but I think the old "Y" building has since been sacrificed to development pressures). A colleague (or was it the other way around? was I a colleague of his?), Rick Milsom - a transplanted American from somewhere in New York (I have no idea where to find Rick, now) - was also working with the Y, operating a drop-in centre that was located on Albion Road (somewhere; I can't recall exactly where, except for that it was "north" of Bloor Street), aptly called the Albion Road Drop-In Centre.

We decided that we wanted to put together a "festival" to continue the feel and influence of the previous summer's Woodstock. The result was the DAWN Music and Art Fair. It happened on a fine and sunny summer's day, at the base of the cliffs behind Humber College in north end Etobicoke, leading down to the Humber River. I don't know what's there now, but then it was a development free zone of trees, grass (both kinds!), birds and butterflies.

Our stage was two forty-five foot flatdeck trailers, parked end to end. The cliffs were the backdrop. Twenty-five thousand (25,000) people attended -FREE OF CHARGE! We fed twenty-five thousand (25,000) people, as well - again, FREE OF CHARGE! The free food was supplied by two groups - The Humber College Student Council (a somewhat radicalised group at the time, led by someone by the name of "John," with a rather large Afro), and by what I believe may have been the first Hare Krishna Temple located in Canada - on Beverley Street, between Dundas and Queen - where I happened to live at the time.

The lead off group, playing at noon on a beautiful day, was LIGHTHOUSE! They played for two solid hours - and again all of the entertainment was FREE! The other performing groups that I can recall were the Toronto band, Nucleus, and the Toronto Dance Theatre. The entire event was free to everyone and it was filmed in its entirety by Rogers Cablevision (or whatever they were called at the time). I have made one e-mail enquiry since with Rogers to see if the footage is stored in one of their vaults, but I have never received a reply. It would be interesting to look at.

I could go on, describing the activities that were a part of the organising of this event. Some of them were almost "events" in themselves (I recall an appearance on DJ Keith Elshaw's radio program on what was then CKFH, promoting the festival - which was memorable in itself). One of my primary memories, however, of this event was listening to Lighthouse perform "Sunny Days" in front of the twenty-five thousand attendees on a brilliant sunny afternoon - for FREE!! It is one of the memories of my life!

I'd like t' tell Fr. Jerry Gauvreau that I lived in Carnarvon, ON for a time and I had one of the original "Rockliffe Hotel Beer Nuts" t-shirts. I kept it until it finally disintegrated.

Thanks for the memory, Fr. Know where I can get another one??

O. Cabirius: I'm intrigued. What does the "O" stand for?

I was forwarded this site by the above super-fan Firth Bateman. I also was a great fan of Lighthouse Dates and times of shows in those days are vague---very very vague. But somehow, in my sock drawer is a glossy program to "One Fine Weekend" The Lighthouse Reunion at Ontario Place on Sept. 11&12th, 1982 (not that my socks in that drawer are that old.) Earlier, when I was a DJ at CSR, an Opportunities For Youth project radio station at the University of Calgary (circa 1973); once a show I would play "Step Out On The Sea", an incredibly uplifting tune by Lighthouse. That's my story....rbd

First time I saw Lighthouse perform was at the old Palace Theatre In Hamilton. From that nite I was hooked on there music Ive seen them play many times and many different places.Last was At the Sound of Music Festival Burlington. Lighthouse should be declared a Canadian Tresure. Keep up the good work, hope to see you many more times.

Keep that timless music going.

Yes...Kemperfest was absolutely astounding! It was even better than Cornwall. It actually shocked me to see so many men up dancing alone! I am very much looking forward to Kingston.

So...all of you reading, go get 40 Years of Sunny Days at your local record store and don't forget to pick up Paul's book!

See ya!

Jubilee Auditorium Edmonton. 1973? Huge anticipation. My friend and I both owned gold Premier drum sets because that is what Skip Prokop played. But, Bob McBride was not along due to a breakdown, Skip explained at the start. So the band launches into a huge intro (You Girl?), Skip singing. Second verse he says into the mike " No, I can't do that, I forgot the words." Band stops. I remember Ralph Cole sitting down in the middle of the stage cradling his guitar and looking at Skip as if to say "ok, now what?". Someone fed him the line, song starts again, huge intro, and the rest of the night just smoked. Saw them again in Sherwood Park last year. Sounded even better.

I just caught Lighthouse, at the Regent Theater, in Oshawa last night (November 27th, 2010), and, I have to say it brought back so many memories of my youth, I was almost in tears when they played 1849 (my favourite LH tune). Great show!! Dan Clancy's singing was spot on, and some great horn playing. Skip was rock solid on drums, and I loved Paul's vibe playing. Skip joked about being called a "fusion band"....IMO, they take no back seat whatsoever to Chicago, or Blood Sweat,and Tears, or Tower of Power.

The first time I saw LH was at the Peterborough Memorial Center. My very first "rock" concert. I used to have the poster on my wall for many years, at my old farmhouse home, till my parents died, and I sold the farm. I tried to bring it with me, but it was so brittle, it tore when I tried to peel it off the wall. Another reason to sit in my old childhood bedroom, and mourn another loss of youth.

I have a slight connection to LH personally. I worked with Todd Jollimore, Keith's son, with a band called Mama Coco. I did sound, and Todd did the lighting. I met Keith a couple of times before he passed away. Very cool dude, and great sax player. So Todd, if you read this, get in touch.

In 1982 I was one of 80 membersof a world champion drum and baton corp. I twirled flags in the colour guard and Jeff played the conga tri drums. We blew the world away with our rendition of "One Fine Morning". When we returned home from Notre Dame Univ.in Indiana from the Worlds, Jeff asked me to go to a Lighthouse concert "One Fine Weekend". I wasn't quite sure if it was a date as he told me lots of people from the corp were going. The date was Sept 11/82 a beautiful fall evening at Ontario Place. Jeff picked me up with 2 other guys from the corp (I thought there dates were meeting us there, as it turned out they were both stood up). This was the best concert I had ever been to, the performance and music were incredible. The funny thing was the 2 guys with us had matching Fighting Irish jackets and sat on either side of us and slightly behind, they looked like our bodyguards/chaperones. That night turned out to be the FINEST WEEKEND of my life. Twenty-eight years later and three kids, we have just celebrated our 25th anniversary.
At one point we did have this concert on tape but someone accidently erased it. I would love to have a copy of that concert to not only remininsce but to enjoy the specatular music and talent. We are certainly do to see Lighthouse again.

I went to see Lighthouse in 1973. My High school North Park in Brantford ont. put it on at the civic center. The memories will last forever!

Hello! while I was at university I managed to get in touch with the guitarist about his gear. I have since modified my guitar to those specs. However we are coming up to Canada to see Lighthouse live this will be a real highlight for us. It is a pity they never played here in New Zealand so we go there. This should be fun,there will be 8 of us I hope the gig we see will incorporate stuff from the RCA days as well as the GRT days.

Love Lighthouse! Have been following since I was a teenager here in Toronto - now my daughter (20) loves them too.
Still have my old albums, some of them autographed.
Must have seen Lighthouse a couple of dozen times - most recently in Uxbridge three or four years ago, then at Q107 gig at the Polson venue & am looking forward to Canada Day down here at Woodbine Park in the beach
One of the best outdoor/summer bands to enjoy.
Rock on Lighthouse!!!

I saw Lighthouse when I was 15 in Calgary in 1971. They played at the Calgary Stampede "Summertown," an area set aside for music, a coffeehouse, t-shirt stands, etc. A hippy kind of place.
I never really heard Lighthouse before that but they soon became a part of my mid-teens life. They were a staple on the jukebox at this little greasy spoon where my friends and I hung out after school; the DU-EET Cafe in Cardston, Alberta.
The music is a big part of the soundtrack of a great time in my life.

My first and last time I saw Lighthouse was in 1970, in Halifax. It was a free concert to celebrate the opening of the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium at Dalhousie, and the band blew me away. Huge sound, and what I came to recognize in later years as the Canadian sound embodied by other great bands like Dr. Music, Motherlode etc. very distinctive, polished yet earthy with R&B , soul and gospel influences over a big band brass line. Coming to Halifax in 2012 - must get a ticket!

Sudbury Arena, '69 or '70, we Pauper People, Ellis Island refugees, were altered eternally - Luke and the Apostles, Whiskey Howl and the ultimate headliner - Lighthouse. See you again, in Oakville on the 28th.