Tragically Hip ...

smarchee

civ_eng_girl wrote:

Those melodies come back to me
in times beyond our heartbeat

I guess I'm too slow, yes I'm too, yes I'm too slow
but you said anytime of the day was fine
you said anytime of the night was also fine
our heartbeat, our heartbeat our hearbeat

long conversation idle chit-chat
maybe dive in or maybe hang back

My 2nd favourite Hip song after Nautical Disaster...........awesome

mookie blaylock 10

civ_eng_girl wrote:

Those melodies come back to me
in times beyond our heartbeat

I guess I'm too slow, yes I'm too, yes I'm too slow
but you said anytime of the day was fine
you said anytime of the night was also fine
our heartbeat, our heartbeat our hearbeat

long conversation idle chit-chat
maybe dive in or maybe hang back

this was the first song that came on my MP3 player this morning....
after such a busy and stressful work-week last week, it was exactly what i needed to hear...

is it possible for a song to be soothing and uplifting at the same time?

...that is all....

direwolf74

King Nothing wrote:

I fucking love the Hip, but I was pretty disappointed when I saw them earlier this year. Everyone talks about how they are one of the greatest live acts, but I don't see it.

That's because you're clearly insane. (just kidding) Maybe you just caught them on an off night. I've seen them 23 times, and they've never failed to kick my ass. I'd easily put them up there with Pearl Jam and U2 for best live show I've ever seen.

direwolf74

Setlist- Higher Ground, South Burlington, VT, 04/17/07:

rink
fully
ocean
dire wolf
in view
abac
luv sic
poets
thugs
pretend
puttin down
grace too
bobcaygeaon
gift shop
long time running
family band
blow

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greasy jungle
taxman (Beatles)
fireworks

civ_eng_girl

mookie blaylock 10 wrote:

...that is all....

.... right back at 'ya!....


there's just something about the echo and the melody of the last few lines,

"idle conversation or idle chit-chat, maybe dive in or maybe hang back..."

that makes me imagine little cartoon music notes escaping Gord's mouth, and floating up into the sky...

hearing this played outdoors at Fort York last summer was awesome... it's like the music just left the stage and flew away...

locked

2 days to Boston..

2 days to Boston...

(last Hip show here was 9/21/04.. same venue.. Avalon)

Yankees vs. Sox will literally be playing on the other sidewalk across from the club.. (The green monster wall is directly opposite Avalon)

Talk about a great tailgating scene!

PS:

How great is the addition of covers tunes to the encores..

That is gonna make one great bootleg compilation I tell you...!!!!

direwolf74

Hey gang! Here's a cool little review of "World Container" from USA Today. Nice to finally see the Hip getting some much deserved props from a major American publication. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

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The Tragically Hip, World Container * * * 1/2 Contents may explode while playing

Canada’s most consistently brilliant rock band (consistently overlooked south of its border) enlisted Metallica producer Bob Rock for this effort, a pairing that might have meant a tragic buffing of Hip’s edges but instead resulted in a tighter, more accessible record that finally captures the punch of the band’s live sound. Arena anthems and a romantic piano ballad, a rarity in the Hip catalog, lean toward mainstream tastes, but the Ontario band keeps close to the slightly bent, lyrically smart, blues-clued organic rock that in-the-know fans have been hip to for ages.

Download: high-energy In View, rocking The Drop-Off, rough-hewn The Kids Don’t Get It

Consider: reggae-tinged The Lonely End of the Rink

civ_eng_girl

direwolf74 wrote:

Consider: reggae-tinged The Lonely End of the Rink

hee hee! i wouldn't have ever considered TLEOTR as reggae-tinged....

I can just hear the next set of music being played at the Sandals Resort swim-up bar...

Stir It Up
Red Red Wine
The Lonely End of the Rink
Twice My Age

LOL!

locked

civ_eng_girl wrote:

hee hee! i wouldn't have ever considered TLEOTR as reggae-tinged....

I can just hear the next set of music being played at the Sandals Resort swim-up bar...

Stir It Up
Red Red Wine
The Lonely End of the Rink
Twice My Age

LOL!

LMAO!
I can see the look in the pool drunks faces with that song blaring..

like .. WTF?

too funny!

Thanks for sharing..

teflonsteve

seeing the hip in september. It will be my 3rd show and I cant wait.

anyone have a copy of either halifax 02 (july30) or saint john 04 (dec. 3)

locked

show time!...

My predictions for tonight's setlist:

Gems
Direwolf
Fiddler's green
Everytime you go

(I can dream!)

mookie blaylock 10

locked wrote:

show time!...

My predictions for tonight's setlist:

Gems
Direwolf
Fiddler's green
Everytime you go

(I can dream!)

good luck & enjoy!!!

rcs

direwolf74 wrote:

I'd easily put them up there with Pearl Jam and U2 for best live show I've ever seen.

What he said!

direwolf74

Locked! How was the show, dude? Ya gotta give us a review!

Here's an article from the Burlington Free Press. Enjoy!


Tragically Hip returns for two sold-out shows

Published: Monday, April 16, 2007
By Brent Hallenbeck
Free Press Staff Writer

Why is it, Gord Sinclair, that The Tragically Hip is so popular around these parts?

“It’s a credit to the good taste of the people of Burlington,” according to the band’s bass player. That was his half-joking response. His serious answer attributes the Canadian rock band’s tendency to play sold-out shows in Vermont — as it’s doing tonight and Tuesday at Higher Ground — to a mix of geography and adventurousness.

The geography relates to the band’s roots in Kingston, Ontario, which, Sinclair pointed out, is about 20 kilometers (that’s a little more than a dozen miles to us metrically challenged Americans) from Watertown, N.Y., placing The Tragically Hip’s home base closer to a host of U.S. burgs than to Canadian cities such as Vancouver. When the band’s vocalist, Gordon Downie, sings about intrigue on the ice on “The Lonely End of the Rink” from the new Hip album “World Container,” fans in hockey-absorbed communities like Burlington just nod at their neighbors to the north and say, “I hear ya.”

Sinclair, speaking recently by phone during a tour stop in Seattle, also suspects the Vermont way of thinking has something to do with his band being a consistently big draw here. “Generally speaking, people in your neck of the woods are more open-minded to things that are not from America,” he said, noting that local fans also seem more accepting of music that’s not spoon-fed to them by radio. “We’ve never had the benefit of a stateside single. With a group like ours, all you have to do is get us in front of people.”

That live show Sinclair referred to is The Tragically Hip’s trademark. Downie’s dervish-like persona and the band’s musical intensity in a live setting are legendary, even if they haven’t always transferred that power into the studio.

They come close with “World Container,” the 12th Tragically Hip album. The band leaned on producer Bob Rock, known for his work with hard rockers Metallica and Motley Crue and not so much with anthemic pop-rockers like The Tragically Hip.

“What he brought to us was a real focus on each individual song,” according to Sinclair. Rock helped refine the arrangement of “The Lonely End of the Rink,” Sinclair said, turning the track into a Who/U2/Midnight Oil-styled rampage that’s one of the disc’s highlights. His contributions weren’t all about frenzied moments, though; Sinclair said Rock also steered the band toward an elegant piano texture on the track “Pretend.”

“He just has a really focused ear,” Sinclair said. “He became the ersatz sixth member of the group.”

Speaking of The Who, an obvious influence on the band, The Tragically Hip recently played several opening dates for the legendary British rockers. The Tragically Hip has been around more than 20 years and the band members are in their 40s, but they still feel a rush of teenage hero worship around Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend.

“It’s impossible to divorce yourself from when you’re 15 years old,” Sinclair said. “We grew up with that group.

“Opportunities like that make you a better band. You have to get up and you have to entertain these rabid Who fans,” according to Sinclair. “In terms of a dream come true, that’s right up there.”

The Tragically Hip might be aiming toward a little of their own Who-like longevity. It’s already rare for a band to have the same five members it started out with more than two decades earlier. Sinclair said there are moments when they get together after time away and find themselves saying, “How can we do this again?” Yet they always manage.

“We’ve grown up together, put the band together as young men doing this. It’s based around our friendship and the bond we have as a group. It’s a collective experience, a shared experience,” Sinclair said.

“It is a lifelong bond.”

Contact Brent Hallenbeck at 660-1844 or bhallenb@bfp.burlingtonfreepress.com

direwolf74

Setlist- Avalon, Boston, 04/20/07:

In View
My Music At Work
Grace, Too
It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken
Family Band
Ahead By A Century
Yer Not The Ocean
Courage
Bobcaygeon
World Container
At The Hundredth Meridian
Boots Or Hearts
The Kids Don't Get It
Springtime In Vienna
Scared
The Lonely End Of The Rink
New Orleans Is Sinking

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Escape Is At Hand For The Travellin' Man
Is This Love (Bob Marley & The Wailers)
Blow At High Dough


Escape AND Scared?? Locked, you're a lucky bastard!

smarchee

I just recently started listening to World Container, the impetus being I was at the first Detroit show last week. Besides the great songs In View, Yer Not The Ocean, and Lonely End Of The Rink, The Drop Off is a fricken phenomenal Hip song. So unlike any other Hip song to compare it to. It was great live, and really left an impression on me

civ_eng_girl

direwolf74 wrote:

Escape AND Scared?? Locked, you're a lucky bastard!

what he said!

lezcuff

all I can say about that is YES, B'Y

locked

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Just have a couple of minutes to put my thoughts down..
pre-show met Paul Langlois by the tour bus, said its tough to remeber venues but he will never forget Bill's Bar (right next to avalon)..
I alos put in a request for "fiddlers green" and he said he'd be sure to mention it to Gord S. (no such luck)

Then out walks Robby Baker with his body guard, walked over to an awesome "hole in the wall" mexican taco place two doors down..
So I need to eat too, right?
Its me , Robby and his body guard in this tiney little take -out section..
talked to him for over 30 minutes (they make the taco from scratch, amazing)
he told me:
1) Robby picks all the cover tunes, no repeats..
2) They will be coming back to Boston in the fall to play the Orpheum

Quick Review:
Band / Gord as tight as I have ever seen them.
someone had two external mike's on stands by the SBD so i know there is a bootleg to come..

In View (great)
My Music At Work (perfect)
Grace, Too (gordie's intro hilarious.. "i'm signing up, I'm going to help fight the war,...NO I'M NOT!)
It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken(perfect, but i miss the light show they used to have..)
Family Band
Ahead By A Century (new extended electric guitar solo by Paul!)
Yer Not The Ocean (love this song)
Courage (more great Gordie Rants.. first time I've ever seen him give the entire "There's no simple explanantion" part to the crowd.."
Bobcaygeon (perfect)
World Container
At The Hundredth Meridian (Holy god, no mid-song rant, just Gordie wrapping the microphone cord around him, attached "execution style" to the mike stand .. blindfolded.. this visual was th entire mid-set.. ran a little too long IMO)
Boots Or Hearts (first live performance I have ever thought worked without sounding hokey, really great)
The Kids Don't Get It
Springtime In Vienna
Scared (perfect)
The Lonely End Of The Rink
New Orleans Is Sinking (short version)

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Escape Is At Hand For The Travellin' Man (you gonna say I'm crazy but I HATE THIS SONG.. its like easy listening music)
Is This Love (Bob Marley & The Wailers) it just didn't sound right with a white canadian guy singing it..(just my opnion)
Blow At High Dough (exhaustingly good with Gord at the top of the stage stairs ending the song "same tragically Hip thing" I still miss the light show from 2004 though..

Over all I give the show a B/ B+..
the setlist really brought the grade down , almost identical to the previous show, and no real "gems".. I was worried this woukld happen with all the epic setlists you Canadians got (really some of the best setlists of ANY tour)..
The band's light show was vitrually non-existant but that may be the limitations of Avalon..
On the postive side.. this was one of the most animated Gord D. perofmances i have seen in some time.. and his voice was in fine shape.. not as "growly" as he can get after too many shows..

PS:
If it weren't for you canadian's , the crowd would have been very lame..
THANK YOU for kicking it up a notch..

The tour merchadise was really lame, most had designs on the front, none on the back and only one shirt had 2007 tour dates..
I LOVED the skull t-shirt but you could hardly tell it was a Hip t-shirt unless you looked at the words on the sleeve..
again, nothing on the back..
Look, the band can HAVE my money, no problem, just design some shirts that show:
1) it's a tragically hip shirt on the back
2) its the 2007 tour (dates man! dates!)

Hoping for better at the Orpheum in the fall..

locked out!

locked

direwolf74 wrote:

"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" live in Cleveland. Enjoy!

http://www.thehundredthmeridian.com/downloads/tth2007-04-14-Cleveland-EdmundFitzgerald.mp3

i was siked to listen to this..
but does anyone else think Gord sounds horrible?
misses alot of lyrics too..