Tragically Hip ...

civ_eng_girl

direwolf74 wrote:

As it got darker, we could literally see the constellations revealing themselves one star at a time.

^


glad you had a good time!

any pics??

restlesssoul

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!

RockinInCanada

restlesssoul wrote:

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....

RockinInCanada

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....

bharQ

Rockin'InCanada wrote:

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

restlesssoul

already up:

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

RockinInCanada

bharQ wrote:

ahhh the ol' stompin grounds... jealous of the lucky few that'll be there

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

civ_eng_girl

restlesssoul wrote:

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:

direwolf74

civ_eng_girl wrote:

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!

direwolf74

Canada.Com- Guitarist picks fave Hip tracks

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

direwolf74

Two more U.S. shows announced:

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.

direwolf74

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

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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

bharQ

i know someone with 6 tickets up for grabs for tonights show at the dome if anyones interested!

direwolf74

Article from the Calgary Sun. Enjoy!

http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/T/Tragically_Hip/2007/07/15/4341162-sun.html

civ_eng_girl

direwolf74 wrote:

And here's a great video of "Ahead By a Century" from the Seattle show. Enjoy!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=afKB4yfXbho

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?

direwolf74

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:

http://thehip.com/touring.html

lukin321

direwolf74 wrote:

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:

http://thehip.com/touring.html

Please, Pleeeeaaaaaaase let there be a date in FL

RockinInCanada

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

Mudfest

direwolf74 wrote:

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

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

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Muddy

direwolf74

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)