Sweetness! I wasn't sure if the boys were going to hit Cowtown this summer. Day 2 definitely has the better lineup.
I'm pretty stoked on day one too man... i missed out seeing STP back in the day and used to love them. Also Flaming Lips put on great shows... looks like we got the best lineup of the V-fests!
I'm pretty stoked on day one too man... i missed out seeing STP back in the day and used to love them. Also Flaming Lips put on great shows... looks like we got the best lineup of the V-fests!
Agreed! I just blew a bunch of money booking my upcoming vacation, so unfortunately I won't be able to go to both days, so I'm picking day 2 just for the Hip, the Constantines, and the New Pornos. I'd like to see STP as well, but ya gotta make sacrifices sometimes.
"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."
Got my Virgin Fest tix this morning for the June 22nd show. What a lineup! Never thought I'd get to see the Hip, the Constantines, and the New Pornographers at the same show. This thing is gonna rock! Anybody else get tickets yet?
"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 2008 Bluesfest line-up has been announced and will feature The Tragically Hip, James Taylor, Feist, Widespread Panic, Steely Dan, Fergie, Brian Wilson, The Black Crowes, AKON, Three Days Grace, Dr.John, Metric, Sam Roberts, Donna Summer, Calexico, Wyclef, Kathleen Edwards, Tokyo Police Club, Hayden, Sean Kingston, Zappa plays Zappa, Matthew Good, Cassandra Wilson, Great Big Sea, Boz Scaggs, and many more. The festival runs from July 3rd through until the 13th.
The Hip will perform on the opening day of the festival - Thursday July 3rd.
Tickets go onsale to the general public Saturday April 26, 2008 at 10 a.m.
As a registered user of thehip.com you have access to a special pre-sale offer starting this Wednesday April 23rd. You can buy an 11-day full festival non-transferable passport for a discounted price of $175 (down from $195) or an 11-day full festival transferable passport for a discounted price of $180 (down from $200).
Or, you can purchase a General Admission day ticket for The Hip's show day - July 3rd - before anyone else.
This offer begins on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 at 10 a.m. and expires at midnight on Friday, April 25, 2008.
What the hell is Fergie doing on that bill? And Donna Summer?? Weird. Other than that, this looks like a killer lineup.
"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."
Got my Virgin Fest tix this morning for the June 22nd show. What a lineup! Never thought I'd get to see the Hip, the Constantines, and the New Pornographers at the same show. This thing is gonna rock! Anybody else get tickets yet?
you canadians all suck..
I hate you... (not!)
Jealous in Boston....
(PS: we need more Live 10 series releases!)
"This here's a REQUEST!"
EV intro to Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns
10/25/13 Hartford
Believe me, when I was growin up, I thought the worst thing you could turn out to be was normal, So I say freaks in the most complementary way. Here's a song by a fellow freak - E.V
I have the same version on a bootleg CD called "Roxy & Elsewhere". Bought it years ago for about $20, back in the days before the Internet when used record stores sold live bootlegs and charged ridiculous prices for them. Man, do I ever feel old.
"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."
It sucks that we get more shows, but you get little club shows while we get stadium shows... It all evens out in the end, I think.
The Americans have it much better than we do. As fun as the big stadium/arena/festival shows are, I definitely prefer to see the boys in smaller venues. Some of the best Hip shows I've ever seen were in small clubs down in the U.S. Also, the crowds are generally more laid back and well behaved, which always makes for a better show.
"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 have the same version on a bootleg CD called "Roxy & Elsewhere". Bought it years ago for about $20, back in the days before the Internet when used record stores sold live bootlegs and charged ridiculous prices for them. Man, do I ever feel old.
Nice! Thanks for the info direwolf..always wondered about that. It'll probably take me my whole life (and maybe tons of cash if anything) to collect all/some of their live rare stuff...so many goodies, I've only heard so little and collected a few. http://www.hipmuseum.com/unreleased.html
LOL!...The good thing though is that you've been listening to the band for a long time right? and I'm sure you've heard most of the rare stuff...especially tons of those sweet rants by Gord, probably you heard of the early rare rants too! So don't feel bad about feeling old!
I've heard 'Double Suicide' Highway Girl...is another excellent track on that bootleg.
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Hoping for a suprise small club show in the summer! Yeah...right..wishful thinking! Damn Americans.
The Blues Fest gig should be awesome though, can't wait!
"All the strength that you might think would disappear, resolving..."
Haha! Well, it was because of the festival; apparently it has a history of being pretty rough? But I figure I'm a farm girl and I survived various mosh pits, including Rage Against the Machine, so I should be okay...
Only 24 more sleeps until Virgin Fest in Calgary! Woohoo!!!
"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."
For sure ... I wonder if they'll play anything new?
They've been working on a new album over the past couple of months, so I wouldn't be surprised if they road-tested some new material this summer.
"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."
Anybody ever seen this before? It may have been posted way back in the thread somewhere, but I wasn't about to go through 125 pages to find it. So here ya go. 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."
Anybody ever seen this before? It may have been posted way back in the thread somewhere, but I wasn't about to go through 125 pages to find it. So here ya go. Enjoy!
I haven't seen it in a while, thanks for the post! Gord's perfect in that video and to add Al Purdy's poetry in there...whoa it's simply awesome I think!
AT THE QUINTE HOTEL by Al Purdy
I am drinking
I am drinking beer with yellow flowers
in underground sunlight
and you can see that I am a sensitive man
And I notice that the bartender is a sensitive man too
so I tell him about his beer
I tell him the beer he draws
is half fart and half yellow horse piss
and all wonderful yellow flowers
But the bartender is not quite
so sensitive as I supposed he was
the way he looks at me now
and does not appreciate my exquisite analogy
Over in one corner two guys
are quietly making love
in the brief prelude to infinity
Opposite them a peculiar fight
enables the drinkers to lay aside
their comic books and watch with interest
as I watch with interest
A wiry little man slugs another guy
then tracks him bleeding into the toilet
and slugs him to the floor again
with ugly red flowers on the tile
three minutes later he roosters over
to the table where his drunk friend sits
with another friend and slugs both
of em ass-over-electric-kettle
so I have to walk around
on my way for a piss
Now I am a sensitive man
so I say to him mildly as hell
“You shouldn’ta knocked over that good beer
with them beautiful flowers in it”
So he says to me “Come on.”
So I Come On
like a rabbit with weak kidneys I guess
like a yellow streak charging
on flower power I suppose
and knock the shit outa him & sit on him
(he is a little guy)
and say reprovingly
“Violence will get you nowhere this time chum
Now you take me
I am a sensitive man
and would you believe I write poems?”
But I could see the doubt in his upside down face
in fact in all the faces
“What kind of poems?”
“Flower poems”
“So tell us a poem”
I got off the little guy reluctantly
for he was comfortable
and told them this poem
They crowded around me with tears
in their eyes and wrung my hands feelingly
for my pockets for
it was a heart-warming moment for Literature
and moved by the demonstrable effect
of great Art and the brotherhood of people I remarked
“— the poem oughta be worth some beer”
It was a mistake of terminology
for silence came
and it was brought home to me in the tavern
that poems will not really buy beers or flowers
or a goddam thing
and I was sad
for I am a sensitive man.
"All the strength that you might think would disappear, resolving..."
So I recently purchased a brand new computer, and now that I finally have a decent system I've been dowloading music and burning discs like crazy over the last few days. Today I logged onto iTunes and spent $30 getting the Hip's "Live 10" series. There's some fantastic stuff on there, particularly a killer version of "Apartment Song" from 1996. One of their most underrated songs in my opinion.
"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."
3 more sleeps 'til Virgin Fest!!! This is gonna be a great day of music. The weather is looking like it's going to be gorgeous, and there are some fantastic bands on the bill: Constantines, New Pornographers, Matthew Good, Stars, and a bunch of others I can't remember at the moment. City & Colour might be worth checking out as well, if only for the possibility that Gord might make an appearance on stage with Dallas Green to sing "Sleeping Sickness":
"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."
Belleville tomorrow!!! It hasn't quite hit me yet! :eek:
I really hope to be able to see Sam Roberts and Sarah Harmer too... will depend on our arrival time...
also, i noticed this cool new feature on http://www.thehip.com where you can create your own show history! it calculates all your song stats and everything... very cool... check it out!
New Site Features
Posted on: 05/25/2008
Registered users can now enter the shows they have seen via the website to create a personal concert history. Go to the touring section and view the individual set lists of the shows you have attended. Click on the "I was there" button to add it to your concert History.
We're on the lookout for missing setlists for our archive. If we are missing the setlist for a show you were at, and you have a copy of the setlist. Please take the time to enter it into our new set list submission system.
Thanks.
MAv.
~~*~~ ...i surfaced and all of my being was enlightend... ~~*~~
Great show yesterday! The Hip were awesome as usual. The setlist was a little too 'greatest hits' for my liking, but hey, it's a festival gig, so I'm not complaining. "The Drop Off" is my new favorite live song. They really went balls-to-the-wall on that one. Gord was breaking mic stands like crazy. By my count he destroyed at least 5 of them, and handed one to a lucky girl in the front row. My favorite part of the show was when Gord took someone's hotdog bun and put both halves on his ears like they were headphones. Hilarious! As for the other bands: The Constantines were amazing, and City & Colour were better than expected. Stars bored me to tears, which was somewhat disappointing as I've always heard good things about them. Matthew Good on the other hand was excellent. It had been a long time since I'd seen him live, and I thought he was very good. Not to mention his band was top-notch. Looks like he's put on a little weight, but it suits him fine. I also caught a bit of the New Pornographers' set over on the B-stage and they were in fine form as well. Mr. Downie came out on stage twice earlier in the day. First with the Constantines to sing "Do What You Can Do", and then later with City & Colour for "Sleeping Sickness". The crowd went absolutely bananas each time he came out, causing Dallas Green to say "Maybe we should've saved that for the last song." All in all it was a fantastic day of music, the weather was beautiful, and the crowd was surprisingly well-behaved for a festival show. A couple of idiots tried to crowd surf during Matt Good and the Hip, but that didn't last too long. Needless to say, a great time was had by all.
Setlist:
Yer Not the Ocean
My Music at Work
Grace, Too
The Drop-Off
It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken
Ahead by a Century
In View
Gift Shop
Courage
World Container
Long Time Running
Poets
Bobcaygeon
Springtime in Vienna
Nautical Disaster
Fully Completely
Family Band
New Orleans is Sinking
Lonely End of the Rink
Wheat Kings
At the Hundredth Meridian
Almost identical to the Belleville setlist the night before, except for a couple of songs.
"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."
Almost identical to the Belleville setlist the night before, except for a couple of songs.
yep! just switch out 100th Meridian for Blow at High Dough....
Belleville was a blast as well!! The crowd was great, eveyone was having a great time.
Gord came out and sang one song with Sarah Harmer, which I got a great video of.
Gord only sacrificed one mic stand, which he also gave to a person in the front row, after wrapping the sharp end in a hanky and giving them a stern warning not to hurt anyone!
I'll get my pics from the show posted soon..... i got some great ones!
~~*~~ ...i surfaced and all of my being was enlightend... ~~*~~
"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 don't really get the thing with that city and color guy. The music is really bad. Well maybe not bad, but terribly mediocre. Seems like an odd choice for a guy of Gord Downie's calibur to do a song with. I heard he did a song with the Constantines, which is more like it, they are actually a decent band.
Believe me, when I was growin up, I thought the worst thing you could turn out to be was normal, So I say freaks in the most complementary way. Here's a song by a fellow freak - E.V
I don't really get the thing with that city and color guy. The music is really bad. Well maybe not bad, but terribly mediocre. Seems like an odd choice for a guy of Gord Downie's calibur to do a song with. I heard he did a song with the Constantines, which is more like it, they are actually a decent band.
agreed. i guess one good thing that came out of city & colour was it got me front row for ladyhawk on the other stage.... a much better band
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I'm pretty stoked on day one too man... i missed out seeing STP back in the day and used to love them. Also Flaming Lips put on great shows... looks like we got the best lineup of the V-fests!
08/02/07 - LOLLA!!!
Agreed! I just blew a bunch of money booking my upcoming vacation, so unfortunately I won't be able to go to both days, so I'm picking day 2 just for the Hip, the Constantines, and the New Pornos. I'd like to see STP as well, but ya gotta make sacrifices sometimes.
-Tom Waits
Another habit says its long overdue
Another habit like an unwanted friend
I'm so happy with my righteous self
-Tom Waits
JULY 3rd - Ottawa Bluesfest
The 2008 Bluesfest line-up has been announced and will feature The Tragically Hip, James Taylor, Feist, Widespread Panic, Steely Dan, Fergie, Brian Wilson, The Black Crowes, AKON, Three Days Grace, Dr.John, Metric, Sam Roberts, Donna Summer, Calexico, Wyclef, Kathleen Edwards, Tokyo Police Club, Hayden, Sean Kingston, Zappa plays Zappa, Matthew Good, Cassandra Wilson, Great Big Sea, Boz Scaggs, and many more. The festival runs from July 3rd through until the 13th.
The Hip will perform on the opening day of the festival - Thursday July 3rd.
Tickets go onsale to the general public Saturday April 26, 2008 at 10 a.m.
As a registered user of thehip.com you have access to a special pre-sale offer starting this Wednesday April 23rd. You can buy an 11-day full festival non-transferable passport for a discounted price of $175 (down from $195) or an 11-day full festival transferable passport for a discounted price of $180 (down from $200).
Or, you can purchase a General Admission day ticket for The Hip's show day - July 3rd - before anyone else.
This offer begins on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 at 10 a.m. and expires at midnight on Friday, April 25, 2008.
For more information about the festival, go to http://www.ottawabluesfest.ca/en/
What the hell is Fergie doing on that bill? And Donna Summer?? Weird. Other than that, this looks like a killer lineup.
-Tom Waits
Look what I found...
New Orleans is Sinking/Killer Whale Tank rant!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=L8CvMDkwqfQ
you canadians all suck..
I hate you... (not!)
Jealous in Boston....
(PS: we need more Live 10 series releases!)
EV intro to Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns
10/25/13 Hartford
I have the same version on a bootleg CD called "Roxy & Elsewhere". Bought it years ago for about $20, back in the days before the Internet when used record stores sold live bootlegs and charged ridiculous prices for them. Man, do I ever feel old.
-Tom Waits
Me too!
It sucks that we get more shows, but you get little club shows while we get stadium shows... It all evens out in the end, I think.
The Americans have it much better than we do. As fun as the big stadium/arena/festival shows are, I definitely prefer to see the boys in smaller venues. Some of the best Hip shows I've ever seen were in small clubs down in the U.S. Also, the crowds are generally more laid back and well behaved, which always makes for a better show.
-Tom Waits
Nice! Thanks for the info direwolf..always wondered about that. It'll probably take me my whole life (and maybe tons of cash if anything) to collect all/some of their live rare stuff...so many goodies, I've only heard so little and collected a few. http://www.hipmuseum.com/unreleased.html
LOL!...The good thing though is that you've been listening to the band for a long time right? and I'm sure you've heard most of the rare stuff...especially tons of those sweet rants by Gord, probably you heard of the early rare rants too! So don't feel bad about feeling old!
I've heard 'Double Suicide' Highway Girl...is another excellent track on that bootleg.
---
Hoping for a suprise small club show in the summer! Yeah...right..wishful thinking! Damn Americans.
The Blues Fest gig should be awesome though, can't wait!
whoa! that's quite a combination! :eek:
be tough, and keep your knees closed.
Haha! Well, it was because of the festival; apparently it has a history of being pretty rough? But I figure I'm a farm girl and I survived various mosh pits, including Rage Against the Machine, so I should be okay...
Only 24 more sleeps until Virgin Fest in Calgary! Woohoo!!!
-Tom Waits
For sure ... I wonder if they'll play anything new?
They've been working on a new album over the past couple of months, so I wouldn't be surprised if they road-tested some new material this summer.
-Tom Waits
Anybody ever seen this before? It may have been posted way back in the thread somewhere, but I wasn't about to go through 125 pages to find it. So here ya go. Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPKeczB3wrg
-Tom Waits
I haven't seen it in a while, thanks for the post! Gord's perfect in that video and to add Al Purdy's poetry in there...whoa it's simply awesome I think!
AT THE QUINTE HOTEL by Al Purdy
I am drinking
I am drinking beer with yellow flowers
in underground sunlight
and you can see that I am a sensitive man
And I notice that the bartender is a sensitive man too
so I tell him about his beer
I tell him the beer he draws
is half fart and half yellow horse piss
and all wonderful yellow flowers
But the bartender is not quite
so sensitive as I supposed he was
the way he looks at me now
and does not appreciate my exquisite analogy
Over in one corner two guys
are quietly making love
in the brief prelude to infinity
Opposite them a peculiar fight
enables the drinkers to lay aside
their comic books and watch with interest
as I watch with interest
A wiry little man slugs another guy
then tracks him bleeding into the toilet
and slugs him to the floor again
with ugly red flowers on the tile
three minutes later he roosters over
to the table where his drunk friend sits
with another friend and slugs both
of em ass-over-electric-kettle
so I have to walk around
on my way for a piss
Now I am a sensitive man
so I say to him mildly as hell
“You shouldn’ta knocked over that good beer
with them beautiful flowers in it”
So he says to me “Come on.”
So I Come On
like a rabbit with weak kidneys I guess
like a yellow streak charging
on flower power I suppose
and knock the shit outa him & sit on him
(he is a little guy)
and say reprovingly
“Violence will get you nowhere this time chum
Now you take me
I am a sensitive man
and would you believe I write poems?”
But I could see the doubt in his upside down face
in fact in all the faces
“What kind of poems?”
“Flower poems”
“So tell us a poem”
I got off the little guy reluctantly
for he was comfortable
and told them this poem
They crowded around me with tears
in their eyes and wrung my hands feelingly
for my pockets for
it was a heart-warming moment for Literature
and moved by the demonstrable effect
of great Art and the brotherhood of people I remarked
“— the poem oughta be worth some beer”
It was a mistake of terminology
for silence came
and it was brought home to me in the tavern
that poems will not really buy beers or flowers
or a goddam thing
and I was sad
for I am a sensitive man.
-Tom Waits
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0hQl2rsxQg
-Tom Waits
I really hope to be able to see Sam Roberts and Sarah Harmer too... will depend on our arrival time...
also, i noticed this cool new feature on http://www.thehip.com where you can create your own show history! it calculates all your song stats and everything... very cool... check it out!
Setlist:
Yer Not the Ocean
My Music at Work
Grace, Too
The Drop-Off
It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken
Ahead by a Century
In View
Gift Shop
Courage
World Container
Long Time Running
Poets
Bobcaygeon
Springtime in Vienna
Nautical Disaster
Fully Completely
Family Band
New Orleans is Sinking
Lonely End of the Rink
Wheat Kings
At the Hundredth Meridian
Almost identical to the Belleville setlist the night before, except for a couple of songs.
-Tom Waits
yep! just switch out 100th Meridian for Blow at High Dough....
Belleville was a blast as well!! The crowd was great, eveyone was having a great time.
Gord came out and sang one song with Sarah Harmer, which I got a great video of.
Gord only sacrificed one mic stand, which he also gave to a person in the front row, after wrapping the sharp end in a hanky and giving them a stern warning not to hurt anyone!
I'll get my pics from the show posted soon..... i got some great ones!
I'm too lazy to go through the thread, sorry.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_v_0yCjd9I
And here's one of the Hip performing "Poets".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGAKjJaCGoA
-Tom Waits
agreed. i guess one good thing that came out of city & colour was it got me front row for ladyhawk on the other stage.... a much better band
08/02/07 - LOLLA!!!