For the past two weeks, I've been thinking about Gord Rhodes, a man best described as a visionary and legend of the Ottawa music scene. In recent months, Gord has been spit polishing his collection of rock and roll memorabilia and posting the pictures on his Original Barrymore's Facebook site. I was trying to get hold of him to say that Scott and I wanted to help him put together a documentary. We wanted to interview him about the grand old days of Barrymore's. Never heard from him. Today, I heard the news, oh boy. Gord had entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the sky. God bless him. I knew Gord back in the last 70s, when I was a little girl reporter who covered the music scene for the Ottawa Citizen . I got to know him and his business partner, the brawny, colorful Sonny Thomson when they ran Barrymore's and brought some of the greatest acts to the former strip club. Nobody knew how they got B.B. King, or U2 to come to the shabby theatre. I was j...
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