12-15-2005, 09:27 AM
Stephen Dame Wrote:- "The Glove Hand." Gord spoke to us earlier about how he played hockey in the morning... his reflexes came in handy. During the show, the guy beside me asked "does Gord smoke?" I said "Yeah, think so." So right in the middle of a song, this guy hurls a cigarette in Gord's direction. Downie pulls the most incredible Patrick Roy glove save of all time and snatches the cigarette out of mid air between his fingers. Our entire section gave out a cry of "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" like you hear at hockey games... or rap battles on TV (Snap! You got schooled!) and Gord looked right at him, then at me, with a look of "damn right. I caught it with my bare friggin' hands."
Then Gord proceeded to deliver the rest of a killer Flamenco... pretending to take drags off the cigarette like he used to years ago..
...."No one drags me anywhere..."
....finnishing off the song only by walking the cigarette over to the edge of the stage and placing it in my hand as I leaned inward between the 2 stage monitors.....
( - so my wife asks this morning why i had a smoke on my night table....and just shook her head when I told her)