Tragically Hip ...

Red Lukin

What a great way to sell tickets. I love the hip for that. Let the true fans get the great seats.

I wish more bands would follow.

hodge

their hometown show in a few weeks is gonna be tits

Red Lukin

DriftingByTheStorm wrote:

Newfie Joe was trying to get me to like The Hip back in '05 when i met him ....

... i bought a couple of CDs on the spot in St. Johns ... i just never really got in to it as much as i hoped ...

i think they have a good sound, but i don't get that "hooked" feeling that i was hoping for ...

The only two songs that consistently grab me, i'll probably get laughed at, but sue me for having excessive-POP-sensibility ...

Yer Not The Ocean
and

My Music At Work

Given that,
anyone got a recommendation that may make me more of a convert?

(BTW i'm consistently amazed at how long this thread sticks around, and how LONG it is. You Hip fans are BEYOND FANATICAL. )

Click on "Holiday Download" http://www.thehip.com/ There's some good stuff there (5 songs).

Here's a couple others - if you don't like them the hip probably aren't for you
Locked In The Trunk Of A Car - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S2NAZ6otps

Fully Completely - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEGyKECUh80

Grace Too - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEC0qru9MJE (not the whole song - but great energy)

direwolf74

Red Lukin wrote:

Grace Too - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEC0qru9MJE (not the whole song - but great energy)

That short little 2 1/2 minute clip proves beyond a doubt that Gord Downie is the best frontman in rock. No one else even comes close in my opinion.

direwolf74

Just for fun, here's a couple more clips of Gord doing his thing:

Sperm whale rant:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vfDsAlVgSKI

Lecturing the fans on fighting:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5kWnjFkH1Ys

direwolf74

Song of the day at thehip.com: "Escape is at Hand for the Travellin' Man" from Irving Plaza in NY. What a beautiful song.

direwolf74

*bump*

Just rescuing the thread. It's pretty quiet in here when the boys aren't touring, but remember people, we'll most likely have a new Hip album in our hands before 2008 is up. In the meantime just hang in there and listen to plenty of Wintersleep.

civ_eng_girl

direwolf74 wrote:

*bump*

Just rescuing the thread. It's pretty quiet in here when the boys aren't touring, but remember people, we'll most likely have a new Hip album in our hands before 2008 is up. In the meantime just hang in there and listen to plenty of Wintersleep.

:D

just listening to Opiated from the Hip Holiday Download right now!



ok... i have a topic of Hip conversation: killlerwhaletank.

which show is this from? did it only happen once? how did it get caught on tape? did someone just happen to bootleg it?

restlesssoul

direwolf74 wrote:

*bump*

Just rescuing the thread. It's pretty quiet in here when the boys aren't touring, but remember people, we'll most likely have a new Hip album in our hands before 2008 is up. In the meantime just hang in there and listen to plenty of Wintersleep.

before 2008? you really think so? that would be incredible.

wintersleep on saturday!

direwolf74

Setlist- Brockville Arts Centre, Brockville, ON 02/21/08:

Rink
NOIS
Fully
Grace
Good Life
ABAC
In View
Gift
Fireworks
World
Fiddler's
Kids
Courage
Poets
Bob C.
Nautical
Ocean
38 Years
Family B.
Music
Blow

---

Locked
Wheat
Bones

Up next- the big hometown show in Kingston! Damn, I wish I could be there.

restlesssoul

i hope they throw some crazy shit in the kingston setlist...

greasy jungle or

ANYTHING

off in between evolution would be nice

direwolf74

Setlist- Kingston, ON, 02/23/08:

Rink
NOIS
Fully
Grace
Good Life
ABAC
In View
Pigeon
Courage
World
Fiddler's
Fireworks
50 MC
Poets
Bob C.
Ocean
Meridian
38 Years
Family B.
Music
Blow

---

Locked (w/ Dan Aykroyd on harmonica)
Wheat
Verge

---

Bones


Very similar to the Brockville setlist, but it's great seeing Pigeon Camera, 50 Mission Cap, and On the Verge in there. Must have been a killer show!

restlesssoul

yeah 50 mission cap! nice....looks like a good one....bring on more shows.

HIP HIP HIP HIP HIP!

direwolf74

Before the Kingston show, Robby did a short interview with the Kingston Whig-Standard and mentioned that they're working with Bob Rock again for the next album. He said it'll most likely be out before the end of the year. These guys just never stop working, and that's why I love 'em. Can't wait to hear some new material.

bharQ

wow that kingston setlist is nice! need to get the boot of that

civ_eng_girl

restlesssoul wrote:

yeah 50 mission cap! nice....looks like a good one....bring on more shows.

HIP HIP HIP HIP HIP!

ditto what restlesssoul said!!

hodge

kingston was indeed awesome
it was pretty much a greatest hits show

never seen so many old people at a show before haha

only way it would have been perfect was if they played nautical disaster :(

direwolf74

hodge wrote:

kingston was indeed awesome
it was pretty much a greatest hits show

never seen so many old people at a show before haha

only way it would have been perfect was if they played nautical disaster :(

The Hip's fans are typically people in their late 20s/early 30s, but at some shows I've noticed that their fanbase actually spans all different ages, which is pretty cool. At the Seattle show last summer the crowd was a mix of 40-somethings, 30-somethings, a bunch of college kids, and even a few teenagers.

restlesssoul

direwolf74 wrote:

The Hip's fans are typically people in their late 20s/early 30s, but at some shows I've noticed that their fanbase actually spans all different ages, which is pretty cool. At the Seattle show last summer the crowd was a mix of 40-somethings, 30-somethings, a bunch of college kids, and even a few teenagers.

at the marymoor show it was a much older crowd.....

direwolf74

Arena launch a Hip affair
Band christens K-Rock with mix of old and new
Lynn Saxberg, The Ottawa Citizen
Published: Tuesday, February 26, 2008

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/arts/story.html?id=c202b378-f6fa-4a4f-8560-a79f3042d93b

For a Tragically Hip fan, Saturday night in Kingston was nirvana. The beloved Canadian rock band played its first hometown arena show since the last millennium, opening the city's mini-stadium with an epic greatest-hits concert that went on for nearly two and a half hours and featured a celebrity appearance by their old friend, Dan Aykroyd.

The actor, vintner and tequila mogul was on hand to welcome the folks on this historic occasion, and introduce his favourite Canadian rock band. Happily for music fans, the Elwood Blues side of him couldn't resist the opportunity to sit in with the band for an encore. More about that later.

First, some background. On paper, Kingston's sparkling new sports complex, newly dubbed the K-Rock Centre, was built as a home for the Frontenacs hockey team, but it was no secret the city also had a dire need for a decent venue for touring bands. At the crumbling old Memorial Centre, the reverb was said to be so fierce that a rock concert might have brought the place down.

Shoehorned onto a prime piece of downtown real estate, the new arena is like a miniaturized version of Scotiabank Place or Toronto's Air Canada Centre, the upper levels lopped off. It's cosy, but because the ice surface is a standard size, the back end of the rink, opposite the stage, could be a far off, lonely place.

Not on Saturday, of course, when every one of the 6,877 seats was filled with a screaming fan, or the offspring of a screaming fan. Lonely End of the Rink, a musical snapshot of a common sight in arenas across the country, made the perfect opening song. The same parents who take their kids to hockey practice were now dragging them along to a Hip concert.

Lonely is a relatively new song from the most recent disc, World Container, and if it didn't grab some of the greyer heads in the crowd, the next stretch of tunes was irresistible. Hitting stride early, the band dove headlong into their anthemic breakthrough hit, New Orleans is Sinking, floored it through another early '90s rocker, Fully Completely, before completing the vintage-Hip trilogy with the magnificent, sprawling Grace, Too.

Eccentric singer Gord Downie appeared thoroughly absorbed with his job of delivering the songs to the people, but at times the music inspired him in ever more bizarre ways. He used the microphone stand as a metal detector (to detect gold in them thar hits?), climbed the monitors along the edge of the stage, writhed around on the stage floor singing, waved a white hanky and eventually broke the defenseless mike stand.

Although some of his antics seemed pretty far out, that's typical on-stage behaviour for Downie. Just when you're starting to wonder if he's missing a few marbles, the performing trance snaps with a totally lucid comment.

"Here's one for Bob Lovelace," Downie declared early in the concert, showing serious support for the Algonquin chief in jail for protesting a uranium mining company's claim on land near Clarendon Station (worrisomely close to the site of the Blue Skies Music Festival). The song was It's a Good Life (if You Don't Weaken).

Through the upbeat Ahead by a Century, the perky In View, the unexpected Pigeon Camera and a glorious singalong on Courage, the pace built again, the barrage of rock created by five guys who have known each other for years. The rhythm section of drummer Johnny Fay and bassist Gord Sinclair played hard, while electric guitarists Rob Baker and Paul Langlois dug into their instruments.

Exactly at the point in the show when the opening-night challenges of missing tickets and long lineups and no parking had been forgotten, Downie brought us back to earth. "What a dump," he said, to a roar of laughter. "I'm kidding -- welcome to your new home."

The last hour or so was an emotional roller-coaster, the pendulum swinging from a teary Fiddler's Green to the sizzling Fireworks, from the contemplative Bobcaygeon to the delirious 100th Meridian. Also included in the home stretch were important early songs such as 38 Years Old, Blow at High Dough, Wheat Kings and the show-closer Little Bones.

Kingston's most famous son, Aykroyd, joined the boys during the encore, honking out some of his greasiest licks on harp, adding an even scarier dimension to Locked in the Trunk of a Car.

The sound was loud and fairly clear, not overpowering for the size of the room, and there were two big screens flanking the stage, an expense that hardly seemed necessary given that every seat is fairly close to the stage. Every seat is also fairly close to every other seat, by the way, so leg room might be an issue at a sit-down performance.

The best thing about the new venue had nothing to do with sightlines or acoustics. It was the location, a short walk from hotels, restaurants, pubs and the waterfront. Instead of spending an hour jockeying to get out of the parking lot at Scotiabank Place after the concert, in Kingston you can migrate a block or so west and nip into a pub.

Because of the size limitations, the U2s and Rolling Stones of the rock world probably aren't going to be playing in Kingston. But acts from Anne Murray to George Thorogood are already booked, and more are expected for the summer. Bring them on -- it's never too early to start planning a road trip.