oh man that show was stellar last night!!! i was right against the stage, there was NO BARRICADE. my arms could rest on the stage....during grace, gord put my fingers in his MOUTH!!! nibbled them a bit...fuck i was so close, my girl and i drove down on a hot day, it was a great venue, would go again....the average age at this show had to be in the 30's. lots of people sat nobody wanted to be upfront...
gord was on all night i was literally a foot away from him when he started
'birng me back in shackles....."
SO GREAT. we were in heaven....i will never get that close to them again...
..paul seemed a little grumpy.... heres the set i can remember
NO ORDER:
ocean
music at work
grace
lake fever
fully
drop off
container
kids
abac
membership
in view
family band
bobcaygeon
dire wolf
new orleans
nautical disaster
fireworks
little bones
ended with FIRE IN THE HOLE!!! the best ender they have. IMO
that setlist will tide us over until the official is posted. i wish they would play ANYTHING from in between evolution !!!!
see you 3rd row center at GMPLACE tonight!!!!! hoping for
INEVITABILITY OF DEATH.
the sadies rocked too!
Van '98, Sea I+II '00, Sea '01, Sea II '02, Van '03, Gorge, Van, Cal, Edm '05, Bos I+II, Phi I+II, DC, SF II+III, Port, Gorge I+II '06, DC, NY I+II '08, Sea I+II, Van, Ridge , LA III+IV' 09, Indy '10, Cal, Van '11, Lond, Van, Sea '13, Memphis '14, RRHOF '17, Sea I+II '18, Van I+II, Vegas I+II '24
oh man that show was stellar last night!!! i was right against the stage, there was NO BARRICADE. my arms could rest on the stage....during grace, gord put my fingers in his MOUTH!!! nibbled them a bit...fuck i was so close, my girl and i drove down on a hot day, it was a great venue, would go again....the average age at this show had to be in the 30's. lots of people sat nobody wanted to be upfront...
gord was on all night i was literally a foot away from him when he started
'birng me back in shackles....."
SO GREAT. we were in heaven....i will never get that close to them again...
..paul seemed a little grumpy.... heres the set i can remember
NO ORDER:
ocean
music at work
grace
lake fever
fully
drop off
container
kids
abac
membership
in view
family band
bobcaygeon
dire wolf
new orleans
nautical disaster
fireworks
little bones
ended with FIRE IN THE HOLE!!! the best ender they have. IMO
that setlist will tide us over until the official is posted. i wish they would play ANYTHING from in between evolution !!!!
see you 3rd row center at GMPLACE tonight!!!!! hoping for
INEVITABILITY OF DEATH.
the sadies rocked too!
Inevitability of Death is the ticket live man.....forgot how good that tune was live....
The Tragically Hip are playing in front of 1000 people in Saskatoon on the 18th at The Delta...nice garden venue overlooking the South Saskatchewan River...lucky fucking bastards that get to go to that show.....guarantee Wheat Kings is played....but that is a no brainer right....
The Tragically Hip are playing in front of 1000 people in Saskatoon on the 18th at The Delta...nice garden venue overlooking the South Saskatchewan River...lucky fucking bastards that get to go to that show.....guarantee Wheat Kings is played....but that is a no brainer right....
ahhh the ol' stompin grounds... jealous of the lucky few that'll be there
1: Yer Not The Ocean
2: My Music At Work
3: Grace, Too
4: Lake Fever
5: The Drop-Off
6: Bobcaygeon
7: Nautical Disaster
8: In View
9: The Dire Wolf
10: World Container
11: Fireworks
12: New Orleans Is Sinking
13: Ahead By A Century
14: The Kids Don't Get It
15: Fully Completely
16: Little Bones
17: Family Band
18: Membership
19: Fire In The Hole
Van '98, Sea I+II '00, Sea '01, Sea II '02, Van '03, Gorge, Van, Cal, Edm '05, Bos I+II, Phi I+II, DC, SF II+III, Port, Gorge I+II '06, DC, NY I+II '08, Sea I+II, Van, Ridge , LA III+IV' 09, Indy '10, Cal, Van '11, Lond, Van, Sea '13, Memphis '14, RRHOF '17, Sea I+II '18, Van I+II, Vegas I+II '24
oh man that show was stellar last night!!! i was right against the stage, there was NO BARRICADE. my arms could rest on the stage....during grace, gord put my fingers in his MOUTH!!! nibbled them a bit...fuck i was so close, my girl and i drove down on a hot day, it was a great venue, would go again....the average age at this show had to be in the 30's. lots of people sat nobody wanted to be upfront...
gord was on all night i was literally a foot away from him when he started
'birng me back in shackles....."
SO GREAT. we were in heaven....i will never get that close to them again...
..paul seemed a little grumpy....
LMAO!!! whhaaatt?? gordie nibbled your fingers???? how did that happen?? i'm confused....
hahaha.... glad you had a good time... front row is the place to be!!
solid setlist too! high energy! wow!
ok.. i'm getting totally psyched for more Hip shows.... :cool:
~~*~~ ...i surfaced and all of my being was enlightend... ~~*~~
LMAO!!! whhaaatt?? gordie nibbled your fingers???? how did that happen?? i'm confused....
hahaha.... glad you had a good time... front row is the place to be!!
solid setlist too! high energy! wow!
ok.. i'm getting totally psyched for more Hip shows.... :cool:
LOL! I was wondering who it was getting their fingers nibbled. That was definitely a classic Gord moment. And yes, the setlist was perfect. I can't believe I forgot to mention their spot-on performance of The Dire Wolf. It was easily the best version I've ever heard them do. I got chills!
"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."
Nick Lewis, CanWest News Service
Published: Friday, July 13, 2007
In 2005, Canada’s most beloved band, The Tragically Hip, released a two-disc retrospective collection entitled Yer Favourites, a set of the Kingston, Ont., act’s most popular tunes.
Well, those were your favourites. We wanted to know what their favourites were. And so we chatted with lead guitarist Rob Baker and went through each one of The Hip’s 11 studio albums, asking him for a tidbit about each, as well as asking him for his favourite song from them.
Until a new Hip record hits stores sometime around late-2008 (they’re hoping), these records are going to have to satiate you.
The Tragically Hip EP (1987)
Singles: "Last American Bringdown"
About the album: “Ken Greer from Red Rider produced this. It was intended as a demo tape, so we just recorded our five most recent songs, not even realizing we were making a record. When they told us they wanted a record, we went into the studio and recorded 22 songs in two days, just live to two-track. They picked two and stuck them on the end to make an EP. Somewhere out there is a tape with 20 unreleased Hip songs, and damned if we can find it.”
Baker’s favourite: "I’m a Werewolf Baby." “It’s a ripoff of Jimi Hendrix’s 'Blue Suede Shoes,' but it’s a live staple that led to some good theatrical stuff on stage.”
Up To Here (1989)
Singles: "New Orleans is Sinking," "Blow at High Dough," "38 Years Old," "Boots or Hearts," "Trickle Down."
About the album: This features The Hip’s most popular song, "New Orleans is Sinking," which has a famous live version in which singer Gord Downie goes off into an anecdote about working with killer whales. “We never know what Gord is going to say. Never. It’s strictly off the cuff. He’s never worked with killer whales. He never does repeats, and people keep shouting at him to do the ‘killer whale tank’ version live. He repeated it once only.”
Baker’s favourite: "Opiated" or "New Orleans is Sinking." “I’ve spent more time in New Orleans than any other city, and anyone who has, knows that it was sinking. The city is not well taken care of and it’s below sea level. I hate to say it, but anyone could see that (the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina) was going to happen. Just like anyone living in California should know that one day it’s going to be a free-floating island.”
Road Apples (1991)
Singles: "Little Bones," "Twist My Arm," "Cordelia," "Long Time Running," "Three Pistols," "Fiddler’s Green"
About the album: “One of the possible album titles for this was Saskadelphia, but we were signed to an American label at the time, MCA out of Los Angeles, and they didn’t like that. They said, ‘The “delphia” part is okay; what’s “Saska?”’”
Baker’s favourite: "Fiddler’s Green" and "Long Time Running."
Fully Completely (1992)
Singles: "Courage," "Looking for a Place to Happen," "At the Hundredth Meridian," "Fully Completely," "Wheat Kings," "Fifty Mission Cap," "Locked in the Trunk of a Car."
About the album: “For the album cover, we brought a Canon laser colour copier into the studio and photocopied our body parts. We had a Dutch artist (Lieve Prins) come in whose work I had seen. I spoke with her at length about a concept, and away she went at making a collage over a weekend. We actually own the piece, the original life-sized piece, in our studio in Bath (Ont.)”
Baker’s favourite: "Pigeon Camera." “Some of the songs we didn’t have finished by the time we got into the studio, and that one just sprang to life. I had two days to do all my guitar parts on that record. And I had one crack at doing a solo. So when I go back and listen to that, I think, ‘I was pretty good back then. What happened?’”
Day For Night (1994)
Singles: "Grace Too," "Greasy Jungle," "So Hard Done By," "Nautical Disaster," "Scared."
About the album: “My name was Bobby Baker on all the records until this. It was a little dig at my parents who hated the name Bobby. They always called me Robbie or Robert or Rob. So when we put a record out, I had to put ‘Bobby Baker’ down. And people who knew me from my personal life called me Rob and people who knew me from music called me Bobby. For a while, it helped me place in context different people depending on what they called me. But by 1994, it didn’t matter.”
Baker’s favourite: "So Hard Done By." “This was an outtake for Fully Completely. And it was very different-sounding. A lot more chords, a lot more parts, very Midnight Oil-sounding. And we were sitting around late at night with candles and incense, and one of the road guys, Billy Ray, said ‘Why don’t you play 'So Hard Done By?'’ Of course no one could remember what the arrangement went like. So Gord sang the lyrics and we all just faked it. And it’s way better.”
Trouble At The Henhouse (1996)
Singles: "Ahead by a Century," "Gift Shop," "700 Ft. Ceiling," "Flamenco," "Butts Wigglin’."
About the album: “We were leafing through old photography magazines in the studio late one night, and I came across the photo that became the cover and showed it to the guys. And the photo was called ‘Trouble a the Henhouse’. It just seemed fitting.”
Baker’s favourite: "Ahead by a Century." “Halfway through the recording of Henhouse, that song was at the bottom of the pack and probably wouldn’t have made the record. It was a straight-ahead country song and no one was happy with it, except lyrically. Johnny (Fay) and I stayed late one night at the studio and worked out the song, and when we played it for the guys the next day, it jumped up into the contenders batch.”
Phantom Power (1998)
Singles: "Poets," "Something On," "Bobcaygeon," "Fireworks," "Escape is at Hand for the Travellin’ Man."
About the album: “That was a record we did with Steve Berlin from Los Lobos. Los Lobos had toured with us the previous summer, and they were a band we really admired. And we sort of thought, in some ways, that we were like Los Lobos, a rootsy band trying to carve our own niche, operating just out of the spotlight. They were wonderful people, so we enlisted Steve to produce the record.”
Baker’s favourite: "The Rules." “We had invited Bob Egan, the pedal-steel player from Wilco, to play on a couple of tracks. And he found he really loved Canada, and he decided he wanted to stay, and now he’s a charter member of Blue Rodeo. Good on him.”
MusicWork (2000)
Singles: "My Music at Work," "The Completists," "Lake Fever."
About the album: “I come across some people who say this is their favourite Hip record, but I often hear people say it is our weakest effort. I would say the songs on it are strong, but it’s not a focused record. It’s really diverse and eclectic. But personally, I like that. I like that it covers some wider elements than our other records, which may be to its detriment.”
Baker’s favourite: "The Bear." “We’ve never played it live. But I’ve always liked it.”
In Violet Light (2002)
Singles: "It’s a Good Life if You Don’t Weaken," "The Darkest One," "Silver Jet"
About the album: This album was the first after lead singer Gord Downie’s 2001 solo project, Coke Machine Glow. “Were we worried that if Gord was a success that the band would dissolve? Sure. That thought crossed everyone’s mind. I think it crossed Gord’s mind too. ‘What happens if this takes off?’ And, you know, no one really knew. But Gord came back from the experience of a solo record being more focused on the band. Sometimes these things help clean the creative pipes. Like mental Drano. But I would say that In Violet Light is probably the band’s weakest effort. I like some of the songs on it and I enjoyed the process, but I don’t think the timing was right. We were still very much in the writing process. Normally we would write 30 to 40 songs and pare it down to 15 to 17 before going to the studio. And this time, we had 15 to 17 songs, and just went to the studio. There wasn’t much to draw from.”
Baker’s favourite: (None picked).
In Between Evolution (2004)
Singles: "Vaccination Scar," "It Can’t be Nashville Every Night"
About the album: “We wanted to get less of a studio sound on this. You always want the essence of a live record, and Up to Here and Road Apples were basically recorded as live albums. You know, in the studio, playing live. And we set up a studio inSeattle and tried, as much as possible, to record live off the floor. So, like "Gus, the Polar Bear from Central Park," that was all recorded live, all of us playing at the same time.”
Baker’s favourite: "Gus, the Polar Bear From Central Park." Is it about George Bush? “Sure. It’s about a polar bear in Central Park. But if it fits, sure, it seems appropriate.”
World Container (2006)
Singles: "Fly, Pretend," "The Drop-Off," "World Container"
About the album: It’s the best Hip album in a decade, I tell Baker. “Absolutely, I would agree. (Producer) Bob Rock was instrumental on that record, just making us feel confident that The Hip has its own sound, and that we could stretch out and do anything we wanted to do, and still sound like us. He’d say, ‘Imagine this song as if it were The Clash playing Fleetwood Mac.’ And it’s a fun way to be able to draw on your influences and not be afraid to show them. This was coming off the Canada’s Walk of Fame induction, and a greatest hits record, which we never wanted to do, and the Juno Hall of Fame, and all that stuff. It was all retrospective. It made us go, ‘We’ve made 10 records. Let’s make a good one now.’ Everyone felt focused on it."
"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."
The Tragically Hip
October 11th, 2007
Los Angeles
House of Blues- Sunset Strip
Age: 21+
On-Sale: July 14th @ 10am
Ticket Price: : $35
Tickets Available: : http://www.ticketmaster.com
The Tragically Hip
October 13th, 2007
San Diego
4th and B
Age: : 21+
On-Sale: July 14th @ 10am
Ticket Price: : $25.50
Tickets Available: http://www.ticketmaster.com
They're in Canada and Europe for the rest of the summer, so these dates look like they might be the start of a 3rd U.S. leg.
"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."
Where did everybody go? It's gettin' kinda lonely in here.
Setlist- GM Place, Vancouver, BC, 07/12/07:
Rink
NOIS
Music
Good Life
Family Band
ABAC
Ocean
Courage
World C.
Long Time
In View
Springtime
Meridian
Bobcaygeon
Kids
Fully
Blow
Drop off
Grace
Fireworks
And here's a great video of "Ahead By a Century" from the Seattle show. 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."
"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."
And the World Container tour just keeps on going. These guys really are the ultimate road band. They've been on tour since October 2006, and it looks like there's no end in sight. More U.S. dates have just been announced (San Francisco, Aspen, Dallas, Austin). Check it out:
"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."
And the World Container tour just keeps on going. These guys really are the ultimate road band. They've been on tour since October 2006, and it looks like there's no end in sight. More U.S. dates have just been announced (San Francisco, Aspen, Dallas, Ausitn). Check it out:
I have seen the Hip a few times live and just wanted to share the set-list from Election Day 2000 November 27th 2000 Saskatchewan Place...pretty damn good one.....
: My Music At Work
2: Grace, Too
3: Three Pistols
4: Puttin' Down
5: Giftshop
6: Titanic Terrarium
7: Fireworks
8: The Completists
9: Inevitability Of Death
10: Ahead By A Century
11: At The Hundredth Meridian
12: Let's Stay Engaged
13: Nautical Disaster
14: Tiger The Lion
15: Wheat Kings
16: Opiated
17: Train Overnight
18: Thompson Girl
19: Blow At High Dough
20: Lake Fever
21: Daredevil
22: Twist My Arm
23: Long Time Running
24: Poets
25: Flamenco
26: Courage (For Hugh Maclennan)
27: Emperor Penguin
28: New Orleans Is Sinking
29: The Werewithal
30: Bobcaygeon
31: An Inch An Hour
Anybody here heading overseas to see the Hip in Europe? I've always wanted to see them play outside of North America, but I've never had the chance. Ahh, the things I would do if I had boat loads of money and was able to get the time off work...(sigh)
"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."
Rink
Grace
NOIS
Good Life
Family Band
ABAC
Ocean
Courage
World C.
Bobcaygeon
In View
Springtime
Meridian
Escape
Kids
Fully
Gift
Blow
"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."
1: The Lonely End Of The Rink
2: Grace, Too
3: New Orleans Is Sinking
4: It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken
5: Family Band
6: Ahead By A Century
7: Yer Not The Ocean
8: Poets
9: Bobcaygeon
10: In View
11: At The Hundredth Meridian
12: Springtime In Vienna
13: The Kids Don't Get It
14: Fully Completely
15: My Music At Work
so, i guess that's it for setlists until the fall when they head out east, b'y.
~~*~~ ...i surfaced and all of my being was enlightend... ~~*~~
so, i guess that's it for setlists until the fall when they head out east, b'y.
Yup, it looks like they're taking August off, which is well deserved considering they've been on the road steadily since last October. Then it's off to Eastern Canada and Europe in September. It also looks like another U.S. tour is in the works for October, as they've just added a few new California dates as well as shows in Aspen, Boulder, Dallas, and Austin. These guys just don't stop!
And I can't remember where I read it, but Robby Baker recently mentioned in an interview that we can most likely expect a new album sometime in 2008. I freakin' LOVE this band!
"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 seriously need to check out this band it seems. i don't know any of their stuff! sounds like that may be some kind of sin. i need to rectify this quickly then
Athens, Greece: 2006/09/30
"Call me Ishmael. Some years ago- never mind how long precisely- having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world." Herman Melville : Moby Dick
i seriously need to check out this band it seems. i don't know any of their stuff! sounds like that may be some kind of sin. i need to rectify this quickly then
You won't regret it. I'm a a huge fan and I'm probably a bit biased here, but I think these guys are easily one of the best rock bands on the planet. Their live show is second to none. For new fans I always recommend checking out their 2-disc greatest hits collection "Yer Favourites", and then go from there.
Happy listening!
"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."
Nautical Disaster is probably one of the wildest songs ever!!!!
Agreed. It just might be the greatest song ever written by anybody. A brilliant marriage of poetry and rock. Disturbing, haunting, and beautiful. It's pure genius:
"I had this dream where I relished the fray
and the screaming filled my head all day.
It was as though I'd been spit here, settled
in, into the pocket of a lighthouse on some
rocky socket, off the coast of France, dear.
One afternoon, four thousand men died in
the water here and five hundred more were
thrashing madly, as parasites might in your
blood. Now I was in a lifeboat designed for
ten and ten only, anything that systematic
would get you hated. It's not a deal nor a
test nor a love of something fated. The
selection was quick, the crew picked and
those left in the water got kicked off our
pantleg and we headed for home.
Then the dream ends when the phone rings,
you doing alright he said it's out there most
days and nights, but only a fool would
complain. Anyway Susan, if you like, our
conversation is as faint as a sound in my
memory, as those fingernails scratching on
my hull."
"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."
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glad you had a good time!
any pics??
gord was on all night i was literally a foot away from him when he started
'birng me back in shackles....."
SO GREAT. we were in heaven....i will never get that close to them again...
..paul seemed a little grumpy.... heres the set i can remember
NO ORDER:
ocean
music at work
grace
lake fever
fully
drop off
container
kids
abac
membership
in view
family band
bobcaygeon
dire wolf
new orleans
nautical disaster
fireworks
little bones
ended with FIRE IN THE HOLE!!! the best ender they have. IMO
that setlist will tide us over until the official is posted. i wish they would play ANYTHING from in between evolution !!!!
see you 3rd row center at GMPLACE tonight!!!!! hoping for
INEVITABILITY OF DEATH.
the sadies rocked too!
Inevitability of Death is the ticket live man.....forgot how good that tune was live....
ahhh the ol' stompin grounds... jealous of the lucky few that'll be there
08/02/07 - LOLLA!!!
i had them all too!
1: Yer Not The Ocean
2: My Music At Work
3: Grace, Too
4: Lake Fever
5: The Drop-Off
6: Bobcaygeon
7: Nautical Disaster
8: In View
9: The Dire Wolf
10: World Container
11: Fireworks
12: New Orleans Is Sinking
13: Ahead By A Century
14: The Kids Don't Get It
15: Fully Completely
16: Little Bones
17: Family Band
18: Membership
19: Fire In The Hole
Yeah ab=nd a good buddy mine picked up four...said I could have one but I ham stuck up in the fucking bush....only 9 more months till Calgary...lol
LMAO!!! whhaaatt?? gordie nibbled your fingers???? how did that happen?? i'm confused....
hahaha.... glad you had a good time... front row is the place to be!!
solid setlist too! high energy! wow!
ok.. i'm getting totally psyched for more Hip shows.... :cool:
LOL! I was wondering who it was getting their fingers nibbled. That was definitely a classic Gord moment. And yes, the setlist was perfect. I can't believe I forgot to mention their spot-on performance of The Dire Wolf. It was easily the best version I've ever heard them do. I got chills!
-Tom Waits
Nick Lewis, CanWest News Service
Published: Friday, July 13, 2007
In 2005, Canada’s most beloved band, The Tragically Hip, released a two-disc retrospective collection entitled Yer Favourites, a set of the Kingston, Ont., act’s most popular tunes.
Well, those were your favourites. We wanted to know what their favourites were. And so we chatted with lead guitarist Rob Baker and went through each one of The Hip’s 11 studio albums, asking him for a tidbit about each, as well as asking him for his favourite song from them.
Until a new Hip record hits stores sometime around late-2008 (they’re hoping), these records are going to have to satiate you.
The Tragically Hip EP (1987)
Singles: "Last American Bringdown"
About the album: “Ken Greer from Red Rider produced this. It was intended as a demo tape, so we just recorded our five most recent songs, not even realizing we were making a record. When they told us they wanted a record, we went into the studio and recorded 22 songs in two days, just live to two-track. They picked two and stuck them on the end to make an EP. Somewhere out there is a tape with 20 unreleased Hip songs, and damned if we can find it.”
Baker’s favourite: "I’m a Werewolf Baby." “It’s a ripoff of Jimi Hendrix’s 'Blue Suede Shoes,' but it’s a live staple that led to some good theatrical stuff on stage.”
Up To Here (1989)
Singles: "New Orleans is Sinking," "Blow at High Dough," "38 Years Old," "Boots or Hearts," "Trickle Down."
About the album: This features The Hip’s most popular song, "New Orleans is Sinking," which has a famous live version in which singer Gord Downie goes off into an anecdote about working with killer whales. “We never know what Gord is going to say. Never. It’s strictly off the cuff. He’s never worked with killer whales. He never does repeats, and people keep shouting at him to do the ‘killer whale tank’ version live. He repeated it once only.”
Baker’s favourite: "Opiated" or "New Orleans is Sinking." “I’ve spent more time in New Orleans than any other city, and anyone who has, knows that it was sinking. The city is not well taken care of and it’s below sea level. I hate to say it, but anyone could see that (the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina) was going to happen. Just like anyone living in California should know that one day it’s going to be a free-floating island.”
Road Apples (1991)
Singles: "Little Bones," "Twist My Arm," "Cordelia," "Long Time Running," "Three Pistols," "Fiddler’s Green"
About the album: “One of the possible album titles for this was Saskadelphia, but we were signed to an American label at the time, MCA out of Los Angeles, and they didn’t like that. They said, ‘The “delphia” part is okay; what’s “Saska?”’”
Baker’s favourite: "Fiddler’s Green" and "Long Time Running."
Fully Completely (1992)
Singles: "Courage," "Looking for a Place to Happen," "At the Hundredth Meridian," "Fully Completely," "Wheat Kings," "Fifty Mission Cap," "Locked in the Trunk of a Car."
About the album: “For the album cover, we brought a Canon laser colour copier into the studio and photocopied our body parts. We had a Dutch artist (Lieve Prins) come in whose work I had seen. I spoke with her at length about a concept, and away she went at making a collage over a weekend. We actually own the piece, the original life-sized piece, in our studio in Bath (Ont.)”
Baker’s favourite: "Pigeon Camera." “Some of the songs we didn’t have finished by the time we got into the studio, and that one just sprang to life. I had two days to do all my guitar parts on that record. And I had one crack at doing a solo. So when I go back and listen to that, I think, ‘I was pretty good back then. What happened?’”
Day For Night (1994)
Singles: "Grace Too," "Greasy Jungle," "So Hard Done By," "Nautical Disaster," "Scared."
About the album: “My name was Bobby Baker on all the records until this. It was a little dig at my parents who hated the name Bobby. They always called me Robbie or Robert or Rob. So when we put a record out, I had to put ‘Bobby Baker’ down. And people who knew me from my personal life called me Rob and people who knew me from music called me Bobby. For a while, it helped me place in context different people depending on what they called me. But by 1994, it didn’t matter.”
Baker’s favourite: "So Hard Done By." “This was an outtake for Fully Completely. And it was very different-sounding. A lot more chords, a lot more parts, very Midnight Oil-sounding. And we were sitting around late at night with candles and incense, and one of the road guys, Billy Ray, said ‘Why don’t you play 'So Hard Done By?'’ Of course no one could remember what the arrangement went like. So Gord sang the lyrics and we all just faked it. And it’s way better.”
Trouble At The Henhouse (1996)
Singles: "Ahead by a Century," "Gift Shop," "700 Ft. Ceiling," "Flamenco," "Butts Wigglin’."
About the album: “We were leafing through old photography magazines in the studio late one night, and I came across the photo that became the cover and showed it to the guys. And the photo was called ‘Trouble a the Henhouse’. It just seemed fitting.”
Baker’s favourite: "Ahead by a Century." “Halfway through the recording of Henhouse, that song was at the bottom of the pack and probably wouldn’t have made the record. It was a straight-ahead country song and no one was happy with it, except lyrically. Johnny (Fay) and I stayed late one night at the studio and worked out the song, and when we played it for the guys the next day, it jumped up into the contenders batch.”
Phantom Power (1998)
Singles: "Poets," "Something On," "Bobcaygeon," "Fireworks," "Escape is at Hand for the Travellin’ Man."
About the album: “That was a record we did with Steve Berlin from Los Lobos. Los Lobos had toured with us the previous summer, and they were a band we really admired. And we sort of thought, in some ways, that we were like Los Lobos, a rootsy band trying to carve our own niche, operating just out of the spotlight. They were wonderful people, so we enlisted Steve to produce the record.”
Baker’s favourite: "The Rules." “We had invited Bob Egan, the pedal-steel player from Wilco, to play on a couple of tracks. And he found he really loved Canada, and he decided he wanted to stay, and now he’s a charter member of Blue Rodeo. Good on him.”
MusicWork (2000)
Singles: "My Music at Work," "The Completists," "Lake Fever."
About the album: “I come across some people who say this is their favourite Hip record, but I often hear people say it is our weakest effort. I would say the songs on it are strong, but it’s not a focused record. It’s really diverse and eclectic. But personally, I like that. I like that it covers some wider elements than our other records, which may be to its detriment.”
Baker’s favourite: "The Bear." “We’ve never played it live. But I’ve always liked it.”
In Violet Light (2002)
Singles: "It’s a Good Life if You Don’t Weaken," "The Darkest One," "Silver Jet"
About the album: This album was the first after lead singer Gord Downie’s 2001 solo project, Coke Machine Glow. “Were we worried that if Gord was a success that the band would dissolve? Sure. That thought crossed everyone’s mind. I think it crossed Gord’s mind too. ‘What happens if this takes off?’ And, you know, no one really knew. But Gord came back from the experience of a solo record being more focused on the band. Sometimes these things help clean the creative pipes. Like mental Drano. But I would say that In Violet Light is probably the band’s weakest effort. I like some of the songs on it and I enjoyed the process, but I don’t think the timing was right. We were still very much in the writing process. Normally we would write 30 to 40 songs and pare it down to 15 to 17 before going to the studio. And this time, we had 15 to 17 songs, and just went to the studio. There wasn’t much to draw from.”
Baker’s favourite: (None picked).
In Between Evolution (2004)
Singles: "Vaccination Scar," "It Can’t be Nashville Every Night"
About the album: “We wanted to get less of a studio sound on this. You always want the essence of a live record, and Up to Here and Road Apples were basically recorded as live albums. You know, in the studio, playing live. And we set up a studio inSeattle and tried, as much as possible, to record live off the floor. So, like "Gus, the Polar Bear from Central Park," that was all recorded live, all of us playing at the same time.”
Baker’s favourite: "Gus, the Polar Bear From Central Park." Is it about George Bush? “Sure. It’s about a polar bear in Central Park. But if it fits, sure, it seems appropriate.”
World Container (2006)
Singles: "Fly, Pretend," "The Drop-Off," "World Container"
About the album: It’s the best Hip album in a decade, I tell Baker. “Absolutely, I would agree. (Producer) Bob Rock was instrumental on that record, just making us feel confident that The Hip has its own sound, and that we could stretch out and do anything we wanted to do, and still sound like us. He’d say, ‘Imagine this song as if it were The Clash playing Fleetwood Mac.’ And it’s a fun way to be able to draw on your influences and not be afraid to show them. This was coming off the Canada’s Walk of Fame induction, and a greatest hits record, which we never wanted to do, and the Juno Hall of Fame, and all that stuff. It was all retrospective. It made us go, ‘We’ve made 10 records. Let’s make a good one now.’ Everyone felt focused on it."
Baker’s favourite: "The Lonely End of the Rink." “I get off on that song, it’s just a gas to play. It started off as a folky tune, but that’s not how it ended up.”
© CanWest News Service 2007
-Tom Waits
The Tragically Hip
October 11th, 2007
Los Angeles
House of Blues- Sunset Strip
Age: 21+
On-Sale: July 14th @ 10am
Ticket Price: : $35
Tickets Available: : http://www.ticketmaster.com
The Tragically Hip
October 13th, 2007
San Diego
4th and B
Age: : 21+
On-Sale: July 14th @ 10am
Ticket Price: : $25.50
Tickets Available: http://www.ticketmaster.com
They're in Canada and Europe for the rest of the summer, so these dates look like they might be the start of a 3rd U.S. leg.
-Tom Waits
Setlist- GM Place, Vancouver, BC, 07/12/07:
Rink
NOIS
Music
Good Life
Family Band
ABAC
Ocean
Courage
World C.
Long Time
In View
Springtime
Meridian
Bobcaygeon
Kids
Fully
Blow
Drop off
Grace
Fireworks
And here's a great video of "Ahead By a Century" from the Seattle show. Enjoy!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=afKB4yfXbho
-Tom Waits
08/02/07 - LOLLA!!!
http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/T/Tragically_Hip/2007/07/15/4341162-sun.html
-Tom Waits
awesome video!
Paul's hair is looking extra poofy lately... lol..
are the trees in the background on screen? or is that the park itself?
http://thehip.com/touring.html
-Tom Waits
Please, Pleeeeaaaaaaase let there be a date in FL
: My Music At Work
2: Grace, Too
3: Three Pistols
4: Puttin' Down
5: Giftshop
6: Titanic Terrarium
7: Fireworks
8: The Completists
9: Inevitability Of Death
10: Ahead By A Century
11: At The Hundredth Meridian
12: Let's Stay Engaged
13: Nautical Disaster
14: Tiger The Lion
15: Wheat Kings
16: Opiated
17: Train Overnight
18: Thompson Girl
19: Blow At High Dough
20: Lake Fever
21: Daredevil
22: Twist My Arm
23: Long Time Running
24: Poets
25: Flamenco
26: Courage (For Hugh Maclennan)
27: Emperor Penguin
28: New Orleans Is Sinking
29: The Werewithal
30: Bobcaygeon
31: An Inch An Hour
Bump This...
love it
Muddy
"OH Canada...You are so Beautiful when you are Drunk." Eddie
1993-08-14 Gimli Mb Motorsport Park
03-05-30 Vanc;05-09-08 Wpg
05-09-07 Sask Sk;05-09-04 Calg
05-09-05 Edm Alb;05-09-02 Vanc
06-07-02/ 03 Denver 1 + 2;06-10-21/22 Bridge 1 +2
4/3 + 4/2/08 Vanc Vedder ; 6/24+25 MSG /Toronto 09/buffalo 10/EV Chic 1-2
-Tom Waits
Rink
Grace
NOIS
Good Life
Family Band
ABAC
Ocean
Courage
World C.
Bobcaygeon
In View
Springtime
Meridian
Escape
Kids
Fully
Gift
Blow
-Tom Waits
Just thought I'd rescue the thread from page 3.
-Tom Waits
1: The Lonely End Of The Rink
2: Grace, Too
3: New Orleans Is Sinking
4: It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken
5: Family Band
6: Ahead By A Century
7: Yer Not The Ocean
8: Poets
9: Bobcaygeon
10: In View
11: At The Hundredth Meridian
12: Springtime In Vienna
13: The Kids Don't Get It
14: Fully Completely
15: My Music At Work
so, i guess that's it for setlists until the fall when they head out east, b'y.
Yup, it looks like they're taking August off, which is well deserved considering they've been on the road steadily since last October. Then it's off to Eastern Canada and Europe in September. It also looks like another U.S. tour is in the works for October, as they've just added a few new California dates as well as shows in Aspen, Boulder, Dallas, and Austin. These guys just don't stop!
And I can't remember where I read it, but Robby Baker recently mentioned in an interview that we can most likely expect a new album sometime in 2008. I freakin' LOVE this band!
-Tom Waits
"Call me Ishmael. Some years ago- never mind how long precisely- having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world." Herman Melville : Moby Dick
You won't regret it. I'm a a huge fan and I'm probably a bit biased here, but I think these guys are easily one of the best rock bands on the planet. Their live show is second to none. For new fans I always recommend checking out their 2-disc greatest hits collection "Yer Favourites", and then go from there.
Happy listening!
-Tom Waits
Agreed. It just might be the greatest song ever written by anybody. A brilliant marriage of poetry and rock. Disturbing, haunting, and beautiful. It's pure genius:
"I had this dream where I relished the fray
and the screaming filled my head all day.
It was as though I'd been spit here, settled
in, into the pocket of a lighthouse on some
rocky socket, off the coast of France, dear.
One afternoon, four thousand men died in
the water here and five hundred more were
thrashing madly, as parasites might in your
blood. Now I was in a lifeboat designed for
ten and ten only, anything that systematic
would get you hated. It's not a deal nor a
test nor a love of something fated. The
selection was quick, the crew picked and
those left in the water got kicked off our
pantleg and we headed for home.
Then the dream ends when the phone rings,
you doing alright he said it's out there most
days and nights, but only a fool would
complain. Anyway Susan, if you like, our
conversation is as faint as a sound in my
memory, as those fingernails scratching on
my hull."
-Tom Waits
but anyone new to the Hip should put in the CD "Fully Completely" and let the addiction begin...!
EV intro to Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns
10/25/13 Hartford
-Tom Waits