In View
NOIS
Ocean
Good Life
Family Band
ABAC
Fly
Courage
Pretend
Long Time
Springtime
Meridian
Sherpa
Kids
Grace
Wheat
Rink
Bones
Mr. Soul (Neil Young)
Nautical
Music
"I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer. I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument."
Setlist- El Rey Theatre, Los Angeles, CA 03/24/07:
In View
New Orleans Is Sinking
The Drop Off
It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken
Family Band
Ahead By A Century
Yer Not The Ocean
Poets
World Container
Boots or Hearts
Springtime In Vienna
At The Hundredth Meridian
Bobcaygeon
The Kids Don't Get It
Fully Completely
Scared
Lonely End Of The Rink
Blow at high Dough
Still in Hollywood (Concrete Blonde)
Grace, Too
Fire in the Hole
"I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer. I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument."
"I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer. I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument."
In View
New Orleans Is Sinking
The Drop Off
It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken
Family Band
Ahead By A Century
Yer Not The Ocean
Music @ Work
World Container
Long Time Running
Springtime In Vienna
At The Hundredth Meridian
Bobcaygeon
The Kids Don't Get It
Fully Completely
Scared
The Lonely End Of The Rink
Blow at high Dough
If You Gotta Go, Go Now (Bob Dylan)
Courage
On the Verge
"I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer. I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument."
I'm sure they will. According to the band, this current U.S. tour is only the first leg. I wouldn't be surprised if they're touring down there again later this summer or fall.
I sure hope so, the one time I did see them was amazing and i've been waiting impatiently to see them again!
Hey gang! I just heard that the boys will be doing an interview/acoustic set on KMTT radio in Seattle tomorrow. It airs at 3:15 pm (pacific time). You can hear it online here:
"I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer. I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument."
In View
New Orleans Is Sinking
Drop Off
It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken
Family Band
Ahead By A Century
Yer Not The Ocean
Music @ Work
World Container
Escape Is At Hand For The Travellin' Man
Putting Down
At The Hundredth Meridian (featuring Steve Berlin of Los Lobos on Saxophone)
Bobcaygeon
The Kids Don't Get It
Springtime In Vienna
Wheat Kings
The Lonely End Of The Rink
Blow at high Dough
So Hard Done By (w/ Steve Berlin)
Don't Worry Baby (Los Lobos cover, w/ Steve Berlin) http://www.thehundredthmeridian.com/downloads/tth2007-03-28-Portland-DontWorryBaby.mp3
Poets
"I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer. I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument."
what happened to this being the "greatest setlist" tour?
Gord S.'s selection for the Canadian shows was unmatched...IMO..
By far the best collection of Hip songs ever performed in a live setting..
But I have have to admit, I'm selfish... the latest US setlists are lame, lame , lame...
WTF?
I agree the last few setlists have been pretty average, but at least we got Escape is at Hand, Long Time Running, Wheat Kings, Sherpa, Nautical, So Hard Done By, and On The Verge...not to mention all the cool cover tunes. But I definitely hope they mix it up a little more when the tour resumes in Detroit. The setlists out east were much better than the west coast shows.
"I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer. I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument."
to quote our Hip leader on this board:
Setlist- Brandt Centre, Regina, 01/19/07:
Rink
Blow
Fully
Pigeon
Family Band
ABAC
In View
Gift
Gems
W.C.
Fireworks
Meridian
38 Years Old
Kids
Poets
Wheat
Ocean
Locked
Fire in the Hole
Drop Off
Powderfinger (Neil Young cover)
New Orleans
Now THAT'S a f**kin setlist!
__________________
Nuf said..
"This here's a REQUEST!"
EV intro to Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns
10/25/13 Hartford
Anybody catch the Junos last night? I usually can't stand award shows, but I wanted to see the Hip and K-OS. The boys played a killer version of "Yer Not the Ocean", and Gord's induction speech/poem for Bob Rock was both unique and touching. Here's the poem:
Mercifully, as in love, so it is in music
We're all fourteen inside.
With this in mind, thank you for allowing me this moment to be ample and grateful to a great friend of mine,
And to one of the greatest music lovers of all time.
Bob Rock, the rock-and-roller, the fan-start, the sound-tiger, the self-imposed rock-and-roll exile, the warm and interesting, interested and alive man of world beyond guile.
He occurs deeply to people, he has good people in his life, and people hold him dear.
He trusts his eyes, his ears, his feelings, and it shows in his eyes, in his feelings and to our ears.
He really says with everything he does, life is feeling, and you can do it, and if you can't, I'm here.
He hauls entertainment to the people, to everyone's everyday life
He makes those good records and chances are everyone here has heard a tune or two from one or two of 'em and probably most of you, twice
Bob Rock's a quadruple-threat, player, writer, producer, painter
In his manners, his deeds, in his art.
His work ethic is surpassed only by his curiosity, his ear, only by his heart
He is an old world master, since before the cost of sound
He still stands before the doing-of-the-thing, then walks, then runs, then bounds,
Headlong into that rush of sensation that comes when what's lost is found
He makes you want to sing your punk-rock heart out and play your drums into the ground.
Of course to be in Bob Rock's orbit is to never want to leave
Bob's no picture, he's the event.
He's free, not migratory-free
He's not horse-famous famous
He's no tightrope devotee
He can't recite the rights of the newly inducted inductee
Bob is just authentic, fully actualized man, who still fully can't believe he makes records for a living when he feels fourteen inside.
He remembers what he loves and loves remembers and he has a generous memory.
He has an encyclopedic knowledge of his entire and vast esteem.
He can tell you exactly what he was wearing the day he bought Exile on Main Street.
But mostly Bob's a family man, he loves his family
And, ya know, it is just as Clint Eastwood said,
Bob Rock is a family-man, and a family-man's about the best a man can hope to be.
And here's the performance of "Yer Not the Ocean". In case you're all wondering who the old guy is on guitar and piano, it's none other than the aforementioned Bob Rock. Enjoy!
"I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer. I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument."
to quote our Hip leader on this board:
Setlist- Brandt Centre, Regina, 01/19/07:
Rink
Blow
Fully
Pigeon
Family Band
ABAC
In View
Gift
Gems
W.C.
Fireworks
Meridian
38 Years Old
Kids
Poets
Wheat
Ocean
Locked
Fire in the Hole
Drop Off
Powderfinger (Neil Young cover)
New Orleans
Anybody catch the Junos last night? I usually can't stand award shows, but I wanted to see the Hip and K-OS. The boys played a killer version of "Yer Not the Ocean", and Gord's induction speech/poem for Bob Rock was both unique and touching. Here's the poem:
Mercifully, as in love, so it is in music
We're all fourteen inside.
With this in mind, thank you for allowing me this moment to be ample and grateful to a great friend of mine,
And to one of the greatest music lovers of all time.
Bob Rock, the rock-and-roller, the fan-start, the sound-tiger, the self-imposed rock-and-roll exile, the warm and interesting, interested and alive man of world beyond guile.
He occurs deeply to people, he has good people in his life, and people hold him dear.
He trusts his eyes, his ears, his feelings, and it shows in his eyes, in his feelings and to our ears.
He really says with everything he does, life is feeling, and you can do it, and if you can't, I'm here.
He hauls entertainment to the people, to everyone's everyday life
He makes those good records and chances are everyone here has heard a tune or two from one or two of 'em and probably most of you, twice
Bob Rock's a quadruple-threat, player, writer, producer, painter
In his manners, his deeds, in his art.
His work ethic is surpassed only by his curiosity, his ear, only by his heart
He is an old world master, since before the cost of sound
He still stands before the doing-of-the-thing, then walks, then runs, then bounds,
Headlong into that rush of sensation that comes when what's lost is found
He makes you want to sing your punk-rock heart out and play your drums into the ground.
Of course to be in Bob Rock's orbit is to never want to leave
Bob's no picture, he's the event.
He's free, not migratory-free
He's not horse-famous famous
He's no tightrope devotee
He can't recite the rights of the newly inducted inductee
Bob is just authentic, fully actualized man, who still fully can't believe he makes records for a living when he feels fourteen inside.
He remembers what he loves and loves remembers and he has a generous memory.
He has an encyclopedic knowledge of his entire and vast esteem.
He can tell you exactly what he was wearing the day he bought Exile on Main Street.
But mostly Bob's a family man, he loves his family
And, ya know, it is just as Clint Eastwood said,
Bob Rock is a family-man, and a family-man's about the best a man can hope to be.
And here's the performance of "Yer Not the Ocean". In case you're all wondering who the old guy is on guitar and piano, it's none other than the aforementioned Bob Rock. Enjoy!
"I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer. I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument."
Awesome vid! Thanks! The band looks like they're having a blast.
"I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer. I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument."
Here's a review of the Seattle show from the Post Intelligencer:
MUSIC REVIEW
THE TRAGICALLY HIP with the Sadies
WHEN: Thursday night
WHERE: Moore Theatre
Twenty years in and The Tragically Hip are playing like they're just getting started. For the first 10 years, the Kingston, Ontario, five-piece played it cool as blues rockers. Gradually, the band edged toward country-rock before eventually settling into a straight-up rock persona that culminated in the seminal records "Day for Night" and "Fully Completely," from '94 and '92, respectively.
For the next 10 years, the Hip steadily released albums driven as much by their guitar work as Gordon Downie's maverick lyrics. Though he likes to focus on the Canadian experience, the singer's stories run the gamut of possibility. In fact, his microscope seems to know no bounds, a feat matched only by his ability to subsume big, polysyllabic words into songs (pendulum, biosphere, vaccination), many of which have never seen a song before and probably never will again.
Yet, for Hip-heads, and particularly the lesser-known American variety, this was a frustrating time. Each of the five albums from this era suffered a professional malaise that belabored the Hip. It seemed that Canada's Greatest Rock Band was going through the motions. The root of the problem was drummer Johnny Fay who, for nearly 10 years, would do little more than keep the beat; his lack of excitement and general laziness haunted the band, keeping their songs locked in 4/4 time.
Thank God for Bob Rock, the studio impresario best known for his work with Motley Crue ("Dr. Feelgood") and Metallica ("Load," "Reload" and "St. Anger"), not to mention David Lee Roth and Bon Jovi. Rock not only reawakened the Hip but he pushed them to new levels. The resulting "World Container" is the greatest Hip album ever recorded. The proof was seen in their concert Thursday night at the Moore, a spellbinding, energetic and triumphant display of prowess, expertise and most certainly, an absolute love of rock 'n' roll.
Quintessential entertainer and dynamic frontman Downie was soaked with perspiration by about the fifth song. By the 18th (an explosive rendition of the bluesy "Blow at High Dough"), he looked as if he had just stepped out of the shower. His aerobic interpretive dances have always made a Hip show into a spectacle, one to be seen as well as heard, but Thursday night Downie was on fire. Not even his microphone stands could handle his vivacity; he went through two and almost maimed a third.
Rarely do the Hip play songs by other bands; in fact, according to my sources, "Sweet Jane" has been the only exception, but add to the list "Jumping Jack Flash," an apropos encore song, if not a summation of the new era for the Hip: "It's a gas! Gas! Gas!"
Shawn Telford is a Seattle-based freelance writer who can be reached at eyeheartmusic@yahoo.com.
I gotta say, I totally disagree with his ignorant and idiotic assessment of Johnny Fay's drumming. Anybody who has seen the Hip live knows that the dude is an absolute monster in concert. As for his work on the studio albums, the drumming perfectly suits the material. Johnny doesn't use a lot of odd-ball time signatures, but in no way does that mean he's a "lazy" or "boring" drummer. Probably 95% of all rock n' roll is played in 4/4 time. To quote the Rheostatics' Dave Bidini:
"Johnny plays with an unflagging confidence and even touch, with propulsion rather than flair. His arrangements are spare, yet poignant. Since many of the Hip's songs can veer off into exploratory jams, I suppose it makes sense that someone steer."
"I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer. I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument."
thanks for posting gordo's speech inducting bob rock...gordo is f'n brilliant when it comes to WORDS...truely one of the best there is...and i don't say that lightly.
i was BLOWN AWAY by bob rock's piano solo in yur not the ocean...i've seen plenty of brilliance on stage live, before, but that solo was beyond anything i've seen in quite sometime...i knew bob rock was a brilliant producer but knew very little about his abilities as a player...is it NO WONDER why world container is the hip's best cd in 10yrs(since henhouse-imho)
"I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer. I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument."
Having seen every Boston tour stop the Hip has made since 1994, and been privy to a few "bootleg" videos, I was equally appalled at any allegation that Johnny Fay is "lazy"..
Quite the opposite really..
very similar in style to Larry Mullen (U2), Johhnny is a working man's drummer.. not much flash but deep-bottom bedrock for which the Hip's sound builds upon.
He hits his drumkit very hard, wincing throughout each performance in (apparent?) pain despite an undending resource of energy..
"This here's a REQUEST!"
EV intro to Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns
10/25/13 Hartford
Comments
In View
NOIS
Ocean
Good Life
Family Band
ABAC
Fly
Courage
Pretend
Long Time
Springtime
Meridian
Sherpa
Kids
Grace
Wheat
Rink
Bones
Mr. Soul (Neil Young)
Nautical
Music
-Tom Waits
wow one of my favourite neil songs ever.... i love how their covering so much this tour
08/02/07 - LOLLA!!!
on the solo tour for coke machine glow, i saw gord do "when you dance" which was also pretty sweet. the covers are good. more neil, please!
In View
New Orleans Is Sinking
The Drop Off
It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken
Family Band
Ahead By A Century
Yer Not The Ocean
Poets
World Container
Boots or Hearts
Springtime In Vienna
At The Hundredth Meridian
Bobcaygeon
The Kids Don't Get It
Fully Completely
Scared
Lonely End Of The Rink
Blow at high Dough
Still in Hollywood (Concrete Blonde)
Grace, Too
Fire in the Hole
-Tom Waits
Mr. Soul (Uncle Neil):
http://www.thehundredthmeridian.com/downloads/tth2007-03-23-Anaheim-MrSoul.mp3
Still In Hollywood (Concrete Blonde):
http://www.thehundredthmeridian.com/downloads/tth2007-03-24-LosAngeles-StllInHollywood.mp3
Enjoy!
-Tom Waits
direwolf, we all owe you a timmy's and a box of timbits.
"you know, usually when a brassiere flies up on stage i look down at that brassiere and and say yeah, you know, i can do a couple more..."
hip!
hehehe... Timbits...
oh... wait... you're talking about Horton's, aren't you?
In View
New Orleans Is Sinking
The Drop Off
It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken
Family Band
Ahead By A Century
Yer Not The Ocean
Music @ Work
World Container
Long Time Running
Springtime In Vienna
At The Hundredth Meridian
Bobcaygeon
The Kids Don't Get It
Fully Completely
Scared
The Lonely End Of The Rink
Blow at high Dough
If You Gotta Go, Go Now (Bob Dylan)
Courage
On the Verge
-Tom Waits
I sure hope so, the one time I did see them was amazing and i've been waiting impatiently to see them again!
http://www.kmtt.com
-Tom Waits
In View
New Orleans Is Sinking
Drop Off
It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken
Family Band
Ahead By A Century
Yer Not The Ocean
Music @ Work
World Container
Escape Is At Hand For The Travellin' Man
Putting Down
At The Hundredth Meridian (featuring Steve Berlin of Los Lobos on Saxophone)
Bobcaygeon
The Kids Don't Get It
Springtime In Vienna
Wheat Kings
The Lonely End Of The Rink
Blow at high Dough
So Hard Done By (w/ Steve Berlin)
Don't Worry Baby (Los Lobos cover, w/ Steve Berlin)
http://www.thehundredthmeridian.com/downloads/tth2007-03-28-Portland-DontWorryBaby.mp3
Poets
-Tom Waits
Gord S.'s selection for the Canadian shows was unmatched...IMO..
By far the best collection of Hip songs ever performed in a live setting..
But I have have to admit, I'm selfish... the latest US setlists are lame, lame , lame...
WTF?
EV intro to Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns
10/25/13 Hartford
teeheehee
I agree the last few setlists have been pretty average, but at least we got Escape is at Hand, Long Time Running, Wheat Kings, Sherpa, Nautical, So Hard Done By, and On The Verge...not to mention all the cool cover tunes. But I definitely hope they mix it up a little more when the tour resumes in Detroit. The setlists out east were much better than the west coast shows.
-Tom Waits
Setlist- Brandt Centre, Regina, 01/19/07:
Rink
Blow
Fully
Pigeon
Family Band
ABAC
In View
Gift
Gems
W.C.
Fireworks
Meridian
38 Years Old
Kids
Poets
Wheat
Ocean
Locked
Fire in the Hole
Drop Off
Powderfinger (Neil Young cover)
New Orleans
Now THAT'S a f**kin setlist!
__________________
Nuf said..
EV intro to Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns
10/25/13 Hartford
wasted on Regina....pffff
08/02/07 - LOLLA!!!
08/02/07 - LOLLA!!!
Mercifully, as in love, so it is in music
We're all fourteen inside.
With this in mind, thank you for allowing me this moment to be ample and grateful to a great friend of mine,
And to one of the greatest music lovers of all time.
Bob Rock, the rock-and-roller, the fan-start, the sound-tiger, the self-imposed rock-and-roll exile, the warm and interesting, interested and alive man of world beyond guile.
He occurs deeply to people, he has good people in his life, and people hold him dear.
He trusts his eyes, his ears, his feelings, and it shows in his eyes, in his feelings and to our ears.
He really says with everything he does, life is feeling, and you can do it, and if you can't, I'm here.
He hauls entertainment to the people, to everyone's everyday life
He makes those good records and chances are everyone here has heard a tune or two from one or two of 'em and probably most of you, twice
Bob Rock's a quadruple-threat, player, writer, producer, painter
In his manners, his deeds, in his art.
His work ethic is surpassed only by his curiosity, his ear, only by his heart
He is an old world master, since before the cost of sound
He still stands before the doing-of-the-thing, then walks, then runs, then bounds,
Headlong into that rush of sensation that comes when what's lost is found
He makes you want to sing your punk-rock heart out and play your drums into the ground.
Of course to be in Bob Rock's orbit is to never want to leave
Bob's no picture, he's the event.
He's free, not migratory-free
He's not horse-famous famous
He's no tightrope devotee
He can't recite the rights of the newly inducted inductee
Bob is just authentic, fully actualized man, who still fully can't believe he makes records for a living when he feels fourteen inside.
He remembers what he loves and loves remembers and he has a generous memory.
He has an encyclopedic knowledge of his entire and vast esteem.
He can tell you exactly what he was wearing the day he bought Exile on Main Street.
But mostly Bob's a family man, he loves his family
And, ya know, it is just as Clint Eastwood said,
Bob Rock is a family-man, and a family-man's about the best a man can hope to be.
And here's the performance of "Yer Not the Ocean". In case you're all wondering who the old guy is on guitar and piano, it's none other than the aforementioned Bob Rock. Enjoy!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=r8_hWZuUbbM
-Tom Waits
right on!
powderfinger!!! wow! what a setlist!
thanks again direwolf!
http://www.towerpod.com/channels.html?id=82
-Tom Waits
jumpin jack flash from seattle, i cant get enough of this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5Ygn4Qvpkc
06/29/03 09/22/05 09/24/05 09/25/05 05/09/06 05/10/06
-Tom Waits
MUSIC REVIEW
THE TRAGICALLY HIP with the Sadies
WHEN: Thursday night
WHERE: Moore Theatre
Twenty years in and The Tragically Hip are playing like they're just getting started. For the first 10 years, the Kingston, Ontario, five-piece played it cool as blues rockers. Gradually, the band edged toward country-rock before eventually settling into a straight-up rock persona that culminated in the seminal records "Day for Night" and "Fully Completely," from '94 and '92, respectively.
For the next 10 years, the Hip steadily released albums driven as much by their guitar work as Gordon Downie's maverick lyrics. Though he likes to focus on the Canadian experience, the singer's stories run the gamut of possibility. In fact, his microscope seems to know no bounds, a feat matched only by his ability to subsume big, polysyllabic words into songs (pendulum, biosphere, vaccination), many of which have never seen a song before and probably never will again.
Yet, for Hip-heads, and particularly the lesser-known American variety, this was a frustrating time. Each of the five albums from this era suffered a professional malaise that belabored the Hip. It seemed that Canada's Greatest Rock Band was going through the motions. The root of the problem was drummer Johnny Fay who, for nearly 10 years, would do little more than keep the beat; his lack of excitement and general laziness haunted the band, keeping their songs locked in 4/4 time.
Thank God for Bob Rock, the studio impresario best known for his work with Motley Crue ("Dr. Feelgood") and Metallica ("Load," "Reload" and "St. Anger"), not to mention David Lee Roth and Bon Jovi. Rock not only reawakened the Hip but he pushed them to new levels. The resulting "World Container" is the greatest Hip album ever recorded. The proof was seen in their concert Thursday night at the Moore, a spellbinding, energetic and triumphant display of prowess, expertise and most certainly, an absolute love of rock 'n' roll.
Quintessential entertainer and dynamic frontman Downie was soaked with perspiration by about the fifth song. By the 18th (an explosive rendition of the bluesy "Blow at High Dough"), he looked as if he had just stepped out of the shower. His aerobic interpretive dances have always made a Hip show into a spectacle, one to be seen as well as heard, but Thursday night Downie was on fire. Not even his microphone stands could handle his vivacity; he went through two and almost maimed a third.
Rarely do the Hip play songs by other bands; in fact, according to my sources, "Sweet Jane" has been the only exception, but add to the list "Jumping Jack Flash," an apropos encore song, if not a summation of the new era for the Hip: "It's a gas! Gas! Gas!"
Shawn Telford is a Seattle-based freelance writer who can be reached at eyeheartmusic@yahoo.com.
I gotta say, I totally disagree with his ignorant and idiotic assessment of Johnny Fay's drumming. Anybody who has seen the Hip live knows that the dude is an absolute monster in concert. As for his work on the studio albums, the drumming perfectly suits the material. Johnny doesn't use a lot of odd-ball time signatures, but in no way does that mean he's a "lazy" or "boring" drummer. Probably 95% of all rock n' roll is played in 4/4 time. To quote the Rheostatics' Dave Bidini:
"Johnny plays with an unflagging confidence and even touch, with propulsion rather than flair. His arrangements are spare, yet poignant. Since many of the Hip's songs can veer off into exploratory jams, I suppose it makes sense that someone steer."
-Tom Waits
i was BLOWN AWAY by bob rock's piano solo in yur not the ocean...i've seen plenty of brilliance on stage live, before, but that solo was beyond anything i've seen in quite sometime...i knew bob rock was a brilliant producer but knew very little about his abilities as a player...is it NO WONDER why world container is the hip's best cd in 10yrs(since henhouse-imho)
"The Kids Don't Get It", live from the Moore Theatre in Seattle. Enjoy!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Zr8XRBHt7iE
-Tom Waits
Having seen every Boston tour stop the Hip has made since 1994, and been privy to a few "bootleg" videos, I was equally appalled at any allegation that Johnny Fay is "lazy"..
Quite the opposite really..
very similar in style to Larry Mullen (U2), Johhnny is a working man's drummer.. not much flash but deep-bottom bedrock for which the Hip's sound builds upon.
He hits his drumkit very hard, wincing throughout each performance in (apparent?) pain despite an undending resource of energy..
EV intro to Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns
10/25/13 Hartford