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#340: A Tribute to Jeff Woods
When you meet someone who has some sort of “celebrity” status, you almost expect them to be stand-off ish with you. A few years ago Tom and I won the chance as per a radio contest to see an intimate-type interview with Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson of Rush, which was conducted by Legends of Classic Rock/Q107 radio personality Jeff Woods. We met Geddy and Alex very briefly and had a quick picture taken. However the true joy of this experience was our meeting afterwards with Jeff Woods.
He was extremely accommodating to our request of a sound byte for our Sausagefest recordings. He has continued to participate for a few years now and I thought I would post this to show just for appreciation to the man.
After a first try, he himself offers to “take it from the top”. He had known us for all of 30 seconds. He excused himself to leave to get a pen, and come back and record so he could get it right.
Important side note…became Facebook friends with Mr. Woods a week after this was done. Looking over his timeline, I noticed a post he put up days before we met him. It read, “Integrity is how you treat people that can do nothing for you”. Good to know someone out there practices what he preaches.



Fun fact: in 2013 they met Munenori Kawasaki of the Toronto Blue Jays and tried to get a similar quote from him, “Always pay your rock and roll taxes.” But his English wasn’t very good and he didn’t understand. Also a cool guy though!
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Wow. Great entry! Jeff has a cool voice, and I have heard him do all the bumpers for the Q franchise – including Q 92 in Sudbury. Love the tats. Interesting to see the face to the voice!
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Thanks Sarca!
Jeff has returned to Ontario now and he has an open invitation to attend Sausagefest. He has said he wants to hang out with us “crazy bastards” some time…I hope next year it happens!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBwuj0neegw&feature=youtu.be Sorry i was late on this. Jeff Woods is the man.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBwuj0neegw&feature=youtu.be
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Thanks for posting the video 2 more times! Lol
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