In the grand tradition of a proper Bob & Kathy visit, it is obligatory to proceed at once to the stove and put the kettle on to boil. Brew the tea properly careful not to bruise it and ease yourself in to this week's episode of The GXO Podcast focusing on everything Robert Ironside & Family...
Robert Ironside: The Big Reveal
Now this story may have begun in 1983, when, on one fateful Halloween, two star crossed lovers first met...
Or it may have begun August 16, 1983 when a 119 pound Toronto bound Blitz Kid stepped off a train at Union Station and into the skin of a 17 year bleach blonde alternative school educated punk calling himself Damien Emez...
Or it may have started years earlier in the 1930s on the unforgiving streets of Depression era Toronto where a sullied homeless boy with holes in his pants never combed his hair...
Or it may have started before World War 1 on Thorah Island with Bessie Big Canoe Emes, her husband William (referred to from here on is as Old Man Passmore) and their golden boy Joseph William Preston Passmore, who came into the world with so much promise in 1911, only to perish at the tender age of 7 in 1918 while his father William was fighting overseas in the muddied bombed out trenches of Europe...
Thorah island, 60 miles northeast of Toronto, was under strict quarantine at the time due to the global Spanish flu epidemic. Alone with no one to help her, Bessie, our grandmother, was tasked with preparing her son's final resting place and committing his remains to the earth...
Years later on her deathbed, Bessie turned to her youngest surviving son, my father, Bill Passmore, and made him vow that the family land on Thorah Island, southeast on Lake Simcoe, two and a half miles west of Beaverton, Ontario, never fall out of family hands...
As of this writing, the land on Thorah Island and Bessie's precious son, still rest easy in family hands.
*THE MUSIC
The Ballad Of Mad Dogs And Englishmen https://music.apple.com/ca/album/the-ballad-of-mad-dogs-and-englishmen/723595944?i=723596282 by Leon Russell from his 1971 album Leon Russell & The Shelter People. Robbie Ironside was just 10 years old when this record came out
The two other recordings heard in this podcast, "My Street" and "Vision Of Loveliness" were both composed by Robert Ironside and are the sole property of The Estate of Robert Ironside.
It should also be noted that every instrument heard on both of these recordings was played by Robert Ironside himself, written, recorded, engineered, produced and performed by the one man band himself known as Robert Ironside.
A special thank you for this episode goes out to the great Grand Matriarch of our family, the perpetually stunning, perpetually beautiful, moral center and guiding light, the one, the only Kathy Aitkens, the other half of sky. Bob's girl.
Do you have a burning desire to send us an email? Please do! info@gxopodcast.com
Want on our mailing list? Only one weekly email update, we promise! We're far too lazy to do any more. Wanna leave a comment? Need to contact us? Visit the Official Generation X Offender GXO website at www.gxopodcast.com
*Please Note: Audio portions of this podcast have been reproduced under the "Fair Use" doctrine. This use is intended to be transformative, adding perspective to the original work, serving an educational purpose rather than commercial gain. This use is intended academically and does not serve as a substitute for the original.
Copyright Disclaimer - Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "Fair Use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. "Fair Use" is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.
...
