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  • jamainiac
    jamainiac Posts: 429
    oh and pardon me for the 'purists' in the crowd...

    'THAT' Night In Toronto!

    I'm sure you'll find it in your hearts to forgive me :D
    Exercising her will to lose control...
    she lets go
  • direwolf74
    direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    mookie blaylock 10 wrote:
    direwolf, do you use the same handle at hipbase?

    Yep. Sure do.
    "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."

    -Tom Waits
  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    in anticipation of jamaniac's gord story...i threw on some hip...any excuse, eh? :D

    ...bill barilko disappeared...that summer...(in 1951)...he was on a fishing trip...(in a plane)...the last goal he ever scored...(in overtime)...won the leafs the cup, they didn't win another 'til 1962...the year he was discovered...

    oh hip yeah!
  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    direwolf74 wrote:
    Yep. Sure do.

    right on, i just registered as let me out. i saw the name over there and put 2 + 2 together...:)
  • direwolf74
    direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    jamainiac wrote:
    oh and pardon me for the 'purists' in the crowd...

    'THAT' Night In Toronto!

    I'm sure you'll find it in your hearts to forgive me :D


    Of course we forgive you, you're a Hip fan! Welcome to the thread. It's always great to meet fellow Hipheads on another band's forum. I know a few of you post over at hipbase.com as well, but for those who don't know about it, please feel free to stop by and introduce yourself.

    http://www.hipbase.com/forum/
    "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."

    -Tom Waits
  • jamainiac
    jamainiac Posts: 429
    okay...

    teaser...

    was anyone here at the show at The Regent... Summerside PEI... winter 90/91?
    Exercising her will to lose control...
    she lets go
  • jamainiac
    jamainiac Posts: 429
    haha... I thought I could save time and say 'that was me on stage'...

    :p
    Exercising her will to lose control...
    she lets go
  • mariposa
    mariposa Posts: 2,523
    Oh just great....I now have a lot of catching up to do, thanks to you guys! :D

    Alright here's my favorite HIP albums from 1-10!

    1. Trouble At the Henhouse
    2. Fully Completely
    3. Phantom Power
    4. Day For Night
    5. Road Apples
    6. Up To Here
    7. The Tragically Hip
    8. In Violet Light
    9. In Between Evolution
    10. Music @ Work

    Edit: My username over at the HipBase is pearlgem. I never posted there, I've just been lurking around. :)
    "All the strength that you might think would disappear, resolving..."
  • mariposa
    mariposa Posts: 2,523
    Meanwhile....back in 1985 @ the Copperpenny show (without Paul Langlois)...

    anyone heard of Psychedelic Ramblings of Rich Kids and their sweet cover of Sweet Jane? :D:D:D

    I also have a song called Susie Q from '88. Man this is some funky and rockin' out tune!
    "All the strength that you might think would disappear, resolving..."
  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    jamainiac wrote:
    haha... I thought I could save time and say 'that was me on stage'...

    :p

    tell us the story!!! :D
  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    mariposa wrote:
    Meanwhile....back in 1985 @ the Copperpenny show (without Paul Langlois)...

    anyone heard of Psychedelic Ramblings of Rich Kids and their sweet cover of Sweet Jane? :D:D:D

    I also have a song called Susie Q from '88. Man this is some funky and rockin' out tune!


    i've heard the cover of sweet jane. it's phenomenal! i wish i had a better version of it...sound quality i mean...still a great tune, though.

    i also like the bob dylan cover of seven days..same story, poor sound quality, but what a cover! it starts out with gord wishing bob dylan a happy birthday, i think.
  • mariposa
    mariposa Posts: 2,523
    mookie blaylock 10 wrote:
    i've heard the cover of sweet jane. it's phenomenal! i wish i had a better version of it...sound quality i mean...still a great tune, though.

    i also like the bob dylan cover of seven days..same story, poor sound quality, but what a cover! it starts out with gord wishing bob dylan a happy birthday, i think.

    The saxophone was too awesome in that song! I just love it! God I wish the guys would release a compilation of some of their old shows from back in the day....

    I haven't heard of the Dylan cover yet!
    "All the strength that you might think would disappear, resolving..."
  • mariposa
    mariposa Posts: 2,523
    I was gonna leave this out until tomorrow...but I just couldn't help bumping up this Hip thread. :)

    But no one has mentioned about Rob Baker's side project with Craig Northey yet!

    Stripper's Union Local 518! Come on....any love for it?
    "All the strength that you might think would disappear, resolving..."
  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    heard of it, but haven't heard it yet...there's a board over at hipbase to discuss the project, but i haven't gotten around to checking it out yet.
  • Lost_Clay
    Lost_Clay Posts: 1,085
    jamainiac wrote:
    okay...

    teaser...

    was anyone here at the show at The Regent... Summerside PEI... winter 90/91?

    i remember seeing the newspaper add for this gig but was still 4 years under bar age to get in, but my cousin did land a gig driving em around with his limo service

    very interested on why you posted this, hmmm =)

    i read an interview w/ Gord D somewhere about them bein in summerside (my town!) and bein so drunk they were pouring pitchers of beer over themselves hehe
    "ah fuck it get in trouble"

    06/29/03 09/22/05 09/24/05 09/25/05 05/09/06 05/10/06
  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    sharks don't attack the irish...it's mostly australians...:)

    jamaniac is teasing us...holding out on the story, LC ! :D
  • mariposa
    mariposa Posts: 2,523
    mookie blaylock 10 wrote:
    heard of it, but haven't heard it yet...there's a board over at hipbase to discuss the project, but i haven't gotten around to checking it out yet.

    It's pretty good stuff, good vocals, lyrics...love the guitar work especially. It's quite funky and bluesy. I just got the album as of late...so it still need some more spinnin'.

    http://www.strippersunion.ca

    ***

    Come on jamaniac...the suspense is killin' us. I wanna hear about it too. :D
    "All the strength that you might think would disappear, resolving..."
  • Lost_Clay
    Lost_Clay Posts: 1,085
    yes please spill dem hip beans!!!

    found that interview i mentioned, perhaps i was wrong and the pouring of beer occured in charlottetown?

    Downie: Yeah, Charlottetown. Never played there. A big oversight. We got drunk there on St. Patrick's Day once… The St. Patrick's Day Massacre, we call it. We had played Summerside and had a layover on St. Patrick's Day in Charlottetown. We were pouring beer on each other's heads in a bar. It was awesome. What a night! One for the books.

    http://www.chartattack.com/features/99/hip/

    they have since played ch'town, back in 1999

    i havent heard stripper's union yet, but i met greg at a 'kids in the hall' autograph signing back in 2002 and caught him with 'THE ODDS' openin for the hip during my first show back in 95 Moncton (change of heart also played)
    "ah fuck it get in trouble"

    06/29/03 09/22/05 09/24/05 09/25/05 05/09/06 05/10/06
  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    change of heart - one of the greatest canadian bands no one has heard of!...they were only around for 20 years or so!!! :D

    they opened for the hip several times here in the maritimes.

    sorry to hear they haven't made their way to the island in a while LC...thanks for the interview, though.
  • jamainiac
    jamainiac Posts: 429
    haha... sorry... not that big a story... just didn't have time to tell it!

    We drove up from Charlottetown and it seems going anywhere was a 'huge roadtrip'! (I think that comes from 'small town mentality'?) None of us had been to the Regent in Summerside nor had seen the Hip! The venue was very cool, very tiny used to be a movie theartre and was all slanted... that's okay... so were we :p

    Many cocktails later the band takes the stage... we were blown away! Lots of room on the dance floor to actually 'dance'... I couldn't believe there were people staying in their seats?! I think a lot of people didn't make the show because the weather was bad?

    Anyhoo... there was a lull between songs and in my drunken stupor I figured it'd be a good time to 'say hello' to the band :p I'm sure I was very attractive! Off I went double fisting rum & cokes and dragging on a cigarette. When I got to the stage the band just started the lead in to 'Long Time Running' ... that's what I was going to ask for! Gord came over to me and of course I was all 'ooohh... that's just what I wanted to hear... I LoVE it!'... He asked my name... asked if he could have a drag of my smoke... told me to 'hang on to my drinks' and picked me up and put me on the stage. I was of course... beaming... :D He sat me on an amp... gave me the cig back and took one of the cocktails... walked over to the mic... started singing the song... and turned and sang to ME! About half way through the song a big black bouncer came side stage and pointed at me and yelled "Get the Fuck off the Stage!" Gord stopped mid verse... looked at the guy and said "Fuck off man... that's my Wife!" :p and the crowd cheered... and in the tiny town of Summerside... I was famous :p

    It really was a kick... I had people coming up to me for weeks saying... Hey... was that you on stage at the Hip show?

    I moved to Calgary in March of '91 and saw them that spring at The Silver Dollar Action Center... I couldn't believe Gord didn't recognize me :p
    haha...
    Exercising her will to lose control...
    she lets go

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