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  • civ_eng_girl
    civ_eng_girl Posts: 2,001
    crap! i forgot about Fully Completely and Nautical!!! :o

    they are 5.5 and 7.5 on my list... :p:D
    ~~*~~ ...i surfaced and all of my being was enlightend... ~~*~~
  • direwolf74
    direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    civ_eng_girl wrote:
    crap! i forgot about Fully Completely and Nautical!!! :o

    they are 5.5 and 7.5 on my list... :p:D

    Fully is such a kick-ass song when they do it live. The album version doesn't even compare. I love how the intensity keeps building and building until it explodes into that final verse/chorus with Downie goin' crazy, and then it all comes crashing back down into that gentle 2-chord riff at the end, almost as if the song is exhausted and needs to rest. I saw them open with that song in San Francisco once, and the audience didn't know what hit them. The way this band plays with dynamics in their music is pure genius. They really are a cut above the rest when it comes to songcraft.
    "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
  • direwolf74
    direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    New show announced:

    Oct. 24
    Philadelphia, PA
    The Fillmore at Theatre of Living Arts

    Tickets: $25
    On-sale: Friday at 12pm.
    "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
  • dolly rocker
    dolly rocker Long Beach NY Posts: 352
    all I have to say is LED ZEPPELIN
  • augustwest
    augustwest Posts: 739
    dolly rocker wrote:
    all I have to say is LED ZEPPELIN


    The kids don't get it
  • direwolf74
    direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    Setlist- Oosterpoort, Groningen, Netherlands, 09/23/07:

    Rink
    New O.
    Fully
    Good life
    Ocean
    Courage
    ABAC
    In view
    Poets
    World
    Springtime
    Meridian
    Kids
    Bob C.
    Fireworks
    Blow
    Family band
    Grace
    Music
    "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
  • bharQ
    bharQ Posts: 1,201
    wow it would be very cool seeing the hip overseas
    09/04/05 - Calgary, AB
    08/02/07 - LOLLA!!!
  • restlesssoul
    restlesssoul Posts: 6,952
    bharQ wrote:
    wow it would be very cool seeing the hip overseas


    exactly what i was thinking, id love to see a crowd react to them that far away from kanata
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  • civ_eng_girl
    civ_eng_girl Posts: 2,001
    so, i watched That Night In Toronto for the first time on the weekend.....
    and i was surprised to hear an early version of Fly during 100th Meridian! :p
    I always find it interesting how long songs or riffs or ideas float around amongst a band before they gets released on an album....
    very cool! :D
    ~~*~~ ...i surfaced and all of my being was enlightend... ~~*~~
  • Soupy
    Soupy Posts: 171
    Saw them on Friday night London. My first Hip show they are a brilliant live and Gord is completely mad :)

    90% (seriously i'm not exagerating) of the crowd were Canadian's which was interesting, it's a sad shame no-one in the UK knows about this band, but on the plus side the canadians at the gig were really nice people and I think they enjoyed seeing the Hip play in a smaller venue than they would in Canada (Astoria holds 2000 and it wasn't full - you could still buy tickets at the door).

    All in all a great night, even if the setlist didn't include any of the songs I really wanted to hear!
  • direwolf74
    direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    Soupy wrote:
    Saw them on Friday night London. My first Hip show they are a brilliant live and Gord is completely mad :)

    90% (seriously i'm not exagerating) of the crowd were Canadian's which was interesting, it's a sad shame no-one in the UK knows about this band

    Glad to hear you enjoyed the show! They really are one of the best live bands out there. I actually find it somewhat surprising they're not more well-known over there, simply due to the fact that the Stereophonics are HUGE Hip fans. Kelly Jones mentions them all the time in interviews, and the 'Phonics even recorded a cover of "Fiddler's Green" as one of their b-sides a few years back. I remember an interview he did with Q Magazine where he mentioned that they used to play Hip covers and pass them off as their own songs back when they were starting out. The last time they played in Canada in 2003, they were one of the Hip's opening acts at the final Molson Park show in Barrie. That would've been a cool 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."

    -Tom Waits
  • Soupy
    Soupy Posts: 171
    You can't buy Tragically Hip albums in the UK they have never released any you can only get them on import. Obvisously the same applies to singles.
  • civ_eng_girl
    civ_eng_girl Posts: 2,001
    direwolf74 wrote:
    The last time they played in Canada in 2003, they were one of the Hip's opening acts at the final Molson Park show in Barrie. That would've been a cool show.

    i was at that show! :)

    i don't remember the Stereophonics though... i don't really know them.

    i think the most memorable part of that night was during the Our Lady Peace set, the audience sang "4 am".... the entire thing.... Raine didn't even sing, he just sat back and listenened... he was almost in tears by the end of it... it was very moving....

    the Hip were pretty good too... :p
    ~~*~~ ...i surfaced and all of my being was enlightend... ~~*~~
  • locked
    locked Boston Posts: 4,048
    OK...game on..

    Top Ten Hip songs.

    1. Locked in the Trunk of the Car (what a surprise!)
    2. Grace, too (any live version, hate the studio version)
    3. 50 Mission Cap (did I mention I have NEVER been to Canada?)
    4. Lionized
    5. Wheat Kings
    6. Dire Wolf (soooo under-rated.. should have been a US single)
    7. Bring it all back
    8. Fiddler's Green (I dare anyone not to cry listening to this song)
    9. Fully Completely (agree with prior post.. must be heard live)..
    10. Opiated

    Albums: (in order of best to least)

    Fully Completely.
    Road Apples
    In Violet Light
    Phantom Power
    Trouble at the Henhouse
    Day For Night
    Up To Here
    In Between Evolutions
    World Container
    Music@Work
    "This here's a REQUEST!"
    EV intro to Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns
    10/25/13 Hartford
  • direwolf74
    direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    Setlist- Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands 09/24/07:

    Ocean
    Music
    Grace
    Good Life
    Drop-Off
    ABAC
    In View
    Poets
    Daredevil
    World
    Springtime
    Meridian
    Rink
    Bob C.
    Family Band
    Bones
    Johnny Appleseed (Joe Strummer)
    Kids
    Verge
    "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
  • direwolf74
    direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    Setlist- Paradiso, Amsterdam (night #2), 09/25/07:

    Rink
    New O.
    Inevitability
    Dire Wolf
    Ocean
    ABAC
    In View
    Courage
    Nautical
    Pretend
    Fireworks
    Locked
    Long Time
    Kids
    Fully
    Blow
    Family Band
    Magnificent Seven (The Clash)
    Fire
    "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
  • direwolf74
    direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    Hey gang! Here's a cool vid of "Grace, Too" from London, England, courtesy of Chris from hipfans.com. Enjoy!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA4ZhGed_7U
    "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
  • bharQ
    bharQ Posts: 1,201
    It's like he's getting more and more insane every year....i love it
    09/04/05 - Calgary, AB
    08/02/07 - LOLLA!!!
  • direwolf74
    direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    bharQ wrote:
    It's like he's getting more and more insane every year....i love it

    Yup. The guy is energy personified. How he can keep that up for 2 hours every night is beyond me. He's easily the most entertaining frontman in the biz.
    "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
  • direwolf74
    direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    Interesting article/review from the Netherlands:

    http://www.theagitator.net/index.php?/archives/818-The-Tragically-Hip-Prove-Energy-Matters.html

    "The Tragically Hip Prove Energy Matters"

    Last night, while the billion+ BBC audience (compare that to CNN's 18 million+) heard and saw the headline news of the 10th day of protests in Burma, I decided to check out of real life and and go to a rock concert.

    So it was off to a performance in Amsterdam by The Tragically Hip, a Canadian rock group that packs tens of thousands into that country's stadiums and tonight put an impressive 1000+ in Amsterdam's Paradiso, one of the great and original international venues of The Rolling Stones, Dylan, and the other big '70s and '80s artists.

    Paradiso was packed as Gord Downie, The Hip's lead singer, dripping sweat onto the front row, mesmerized the largely international audience with a bunch of songs about places which those caught in rapt attention by his performance would never even begin to undrestand. Like his song, “Bobcaygeon”, referring to the lakes-laden, cottage country spot east of Toronto. My guess is that not 1 out of 80 in the audience even recognized Bobcaygeon as a geographical location.

    Nonetheless the audience went wild. Why? Because of the energy.

    Now, believe me, I’m not a frequenter of rock performances. My American/Canadian partner Janice and her best friend MK dragged me to see “The Hip”, as they’re known by their thousands and thousands of Canadian fans. And, of course, I could go on and on about the quaintness of Canada; the fact that it has a population smaller than the Netherlands, etc., etc., not to mention their essential decency and charming naivete.

    But the fact that not only did The Tragically Hip electrify the 85 or so flag-waving Canadians in the audience, it extended its brand beyond the Maple Leaf banner to capture the interest of the 700+ other Dutch, English, French and German folks in Amsterdam audience tonight.

    Why? Energy. Pure and simple.

    The songs were relevant. The performance superb and especially energetic. Contact with the audience was direct and moving.

    It was a charged evening, and got me to thinking how important energy, and being in front of and relevant to your audience is. Not only for rock groups, but also for nonprofits.

    Hey! These guys in The Tragically Hip (which by the way contributes significantly to Canadian and international causes) know how to work and involve an audience. Both live and on their website.

    So... pleased with the concert, and grateful for the break I went home and back to worrying about Burma.

    To see the surprise I found out at home continue below...


    Once home, I went to the BBC website and got an update. (Not good. The military regime about to crush the protesters.)

    Next, I turned to the human rights websites to see if there was anything I could do about it. I clicked on Amnesty International … then Amnesty U.S … then Amnesty Canada ... and, what the hell, Amnesty UK and Human Rights Watch, to boot.

    Nothing. [Well, that’s not entirely correct. Amnesty USA did have a small news piece on Myanmar (the media and most of the rest of the world still refers to it as "Burma") posted on August 31.]

    Maybe I’m missing something. But aren’t human rights crises supposedly a font of energy and interest for those of us in their audience who care?

    Maybe. But judging from the absence of any current information, the policy-deciders and webmasters are still not sure.

    But ... fear not. While Burma may be missing in action, you can buy 1970s music on the Amnesty websites.

    And hour by hour, the tension in Burma builds. The threat of arrest, torture and mass slayings increases.

    Seems to me that it's about time that not only our comrades in the human rights sector, but other good cause sectors as well, learn something about live, real time energy, relevance and connecting to their audiences with immediacy.

    Meanwhile, thank you Tragically Hip. Rock 'n Roll.

    Roger
    "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

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