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  • bharQ
    bharQ Posts: 1,201
    direwolf74 wrote:
    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!
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  • direwolf74
    direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    bharQ wrote:
    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."

    -Tom Waits
  • The Waiting Trophy Man
    The Waiting Trophy Man Niagara region, Ontario, Canada Posts: 12,158
    Ijust picked up Live Between Us for 3.99....I love this cd, it's the one that made me a fan of the HIP
    Another habit says it's in love with you
    Another habit says its long overdue
    Another habit like an unwanted friend
    I'm so happy with my righteous self
  • direwolf74
    direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    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."

    -Tom Waits
  • direwolf74
    direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    New show announcement!

    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.
    "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
  • Omega47
    Omega47 Posts: 43
    Ooh. Looks like I'm gonna get beaten to death on this one. I love Day for Night, and I also like Music @ Work.
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  • mariposa
    mariposa Posts: 2,523
    Bump-ity hip hip


    Look what I found...

    New Orleans is Sinking/Killer Whale Tank rant! :D

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=L8CvMDkwqfQ
    "All the strength that you might think would disappear, resolving..."
  • locked
    locked Boston Posts: 4,048
    direwolf74 wrote:
    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!)
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  • keeponrockin
    keeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    SOO pumped for the bluesfest show!
    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
  • direwolf74
    direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    mariposa wrote:
    Bump-ity hip hip


    Look what I found...

    New Orleans is Sinking/Killer Whale Tank rant! :D

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=L8CvMDkwqfQ


    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."

    -Tom Waits
  • mert
    mert Posts: 167
    civ_eng_girl wrote:
    i be goin' to belleville....

    Me too! :D Although my brother and his wife seem to think that I'm going to get beat up and pregnant in the crowd, lol.

    locked wrote:
    you canadians all suck..

    I hate you... (not!)

    Jealous in Boston....

    (PS: we need more Live 10 series releases!)

    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. ;)
  • direwolf74
    direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    mert wrote:
    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."

    -Tom Waits
  • mariposa
    mariposa Posts: 2,523
    direwolf74 wrote:
    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. :D
    The Blues Fest gig should be awesome though, can't wait!
    "All the strength that you might think would disappear, resolving..."
  • civ_eng_girl
    civ_eng_girl Posts: 2,001
    mert wrote:
    Me too! :D Although my brother and his wife seem to think that I'm going to get beat up and pregnant in the crowd, lol.

    whoa! that's quite a combination! :eek:

    be tough, and keep your knees closed. :p
    ~~*~~ ...i surfaced and all of my being was enlightend... ~~*~~
  • mert
    mert Posts: 167
    civ_eng_girl wrote:
    whoa! that's quite a combination! :eek:

    be tough, and keep your knees closed. :p

    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... ;)
  • direwolf74
    direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    *bump*

    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."

    -Tom Waits
  • rebornFixer
    rebornFixer Posts: 4,901
    direwolf74 wrote:
    *bump*

    Only 24 more sleeps until Virgin Fest in Calgary! Woohoo!!!

    For sure ... I wonder if they'll play anything new?
  • direwolf74
    direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    reborncareerist wrote:
    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."

    -Tom Waits
  • direwolf74
    direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    Gord Downie- At the Quinte Hotel

    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
    "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
  • mariposa
    mariposa Posts: 2,523
    direwolf74 wrote:
    Gord Downie- At the Quinte Hotel

    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

    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..."

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