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  • HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 37,345
    if anyone wants Hip live show bootlegs, go to www.hipbase.com. it is similar to pjbootlegs.com. dozens and dozens of live shows there spanning their entire career. @Thirty Bills Unpaid I'm assuming you know about this site?
    "Oh Canada...you're beautiful when you're drunk"
    -EV  8/14/93




  • if anyone wants Hip live show bootlegs, go to www.hipbase.com. it is similar to pjbootlegs.com. dozens and dozens of live shows there spanning their entire career. @Thirty Bills Unpaid I'm assuming you know about this site?

    I know of it, but don't access it (I just snooped around a bit).

    While in the business of spreading information... in my stocking this year, I got a Gord Downie tribute magazine by Macleans. I've only skimmed through it, but the edition is certainly worth having for anyone interested.

    Link: http://www.macleans.ca/culture/presenting-our-gord-downie-special-commemorative-issue/
    "My brain's a good brain!"
  • HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 37,345
    if anyone wants Hip live show bootlegs, go to www.hipbase.com. it is similar to pjbootlegs.com. dozens and dozens of live shows there spanning their entire career. @Thirty Bills Unpaid I'm assuming you know about this site?

    I know of it, but don't access it (I just snooped around a bit).

    While in the business of spreading information... in my stocking this year, I got a Gord Downie tribute magazine by Macleans. I've only skimmed through it, but the edition is certainly worth having for anyone interested.

    Link: http://www.macleans.ca/culture/presenting-our-gord-downie-special-commemorative-issue/
    thanks. Will check chapters to see if they still have it in stock. 
    "Oh Canada...you're beautiful when you're drunk"
    -EV  8/14/93




  • HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 37,345
    what's the matter with you people? how can you people not like The Hip???
    "Oh Canada...you're beautiful when you're drunk"
    -EV  8/14/93




  • what's the matter with you people? how can you people not like The Hip???

    They're not cool.

    Pure and simple.

    Not. Freaking. Cool. At. All.

    These people... they probably plug their nostrils when they sip beer too.
    "My brain's a good brain!"
  • RoeDawg13RoeDawg13 Posts: 255
    what's the matter with you people? how can you people not like The Hip???

    I'm with you on that.

    As a side note, back when you were looking for those Ian Thornley demos I wasn't a 10club member (had been for years, dropped it for a few and am back now) I tried to catch you on the hipbase forums.
    I am wired and fading...
  • HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 37,345
    RoeDawg13 said:
    what's the matter with you people? how can you people not like The Hip???

    I'm with you on that.

    As a side note, back when you were looking for those Ian Thornley demos I wasn't a 10club member (had been for years, dropped it for a few and am back now) I tried to catch you on the hipbase forums.
    cool. do you happen to have those two alternate gord solo tracks? 11th fret (alternate) and christmastime in toronto. 
    "Oh Canada...you're beautiful when you're drunk"
    -EV  8/14/93




  • RoeDawg13RoeDawg13 Posts: 255
    RoeDawg13 said:
    what's the matter with you people? how can you people not like The Hip???

    I'm with you on that.

    As a side note, back when you were looking for those Ian Thornley demos I wasn't a 10club member (had been for years, dropped it for a few and am back now) I tried to catch you on the hipbase forums.
    cool. do you happen to have those two alternate gord solo tracks? 11th fret (alternate) and christmastime in toronto. 
    I'll look around when I get home from work. I know I used to, think I still may. Only mp3 if I do though
    I am wired and fading...
  • RoeDawg13RoeDawg13 Posts: 255
    I must have lost the mp3 files on the last hard drive crash years ago. I did some looking around and was able to find a friend who has the "Comes With a Smile" compilation so I can probably get a version of Christmastime in Toronto.
    I am wired and fading...
  • HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 37,345
    I don't watch music award shows anymore, but I saw online this morning that Gord, to my surprise, was part of the Grammy's In Memoriam last night.

    Nicely done. 
    "Oh Canada...you're beautiful when you're drunk"
    -EV  8/14/93




  • NWOntarioNWOntario Toronto Posts: 828
    I saw Miss Emily in Toronto last week. Her latest album, which she recorded with Robbie and Gord S, came out in October. Her band here included Robbie, and damn, was it great seeing him on stage again. Great suit, too.
    Minneapolis 1998 | Jones Beach I & II, Montreal, and Toronto 2000 | Buffalo, State College, Toronto, Montreal and Hershey 2003 | Boston I & II 2004 | Thunder Bay, Kitchener, London, Hamilton, Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto 2005 | Toronto I & II 2006 | The Vic and Lollapalooza 2007 | Calgary and Toronto 2009 | PJ20 I & II, Toronto I & II, Ottawa, Calgary and Edmonton 2011 | London, Chicago, Spokane, Calgary, Vancouver and Seattle 2013 | Ottawa and Toronto I & II 2016 | Chicago I & II 2018 | Ottawa, Hamilton and Toronto 2022
  • RoeDawg13RoeDawg13 Posts: 255
    RoeDawg13 said:
    what's the matter with you people? how can you people not like The Hip???

    I'm with you on that.

    As a side note, back when you were looking for those Ian Thornley demos I wasn't a 10club member (had been for years, dropped it for a few and am back now) I tried to catch you on the hipbase forums.
    cool. do you happen to have those two alternate gord solo tracks? 11th fret (alternate) and christmastime in toronto. 
    Got my hands on the compilation CD today. I usually rip to FLAC these days as opposed to mp3 but I can do either. You have a preference?
    I am wired and fading...
  • DarthMaeglinDarthMaeglin Toronto Posts: 2,641
    Thanks for the above link to hipbase, finally dug into it a bit, and think I found a copy of the show I was at for the Road Apples tour!  I'm now up to 6 "ticket shows"!
    "The world is full of idiots and I am but one of them."

    10-30-1991 Toronto, Toronto 1 & 2 2016, Toronto 2022
  • HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 37,345
    RoeDawg13 said:
    RoeDawg13 said:
    what's the matter with you people? how can you people not like The Hip???

    I'm with you on that.

    As a side note, back when you were looking for those Ian Thornley demos I wasn't a 10club member (had been for years, dropped it for a few and am back now) I tried to catch you on the hipbase forums.
    cool. do you happen to have those two alternate gord solo tracks? 11th fret (alternate) and christmastime in toronto. 
    Got my hands on the compilation CD today. I usually rip to FLAC these days as opposed to mp3 but I can do either. You have a preference?
    pm'd. 
    "Oh Canada...you're beautiful when you're drunk"
    -EV  8/14/93




  • Walking the milesWalking the miles Toronto Posts: 548
    I just gotta say,  Gord Downie's "Introduce Yerself" is sooo f*ckin' good!  It is an instant classic.  I really do not understand how it gets vitually no air play in Canada.  My guess is the stations don't feel the audience can handle the emotions or something.  Radio is sooo bland.  They played the Hip hits for days after Gord's passing, and then that was it.  No delving into anything new, or deeper.  I'm not surprised, just disappointed.  A Canadian Icon.
    "Feel the path of everyday....which road you taking?"

    Barrie, ON '98
    Toronto, ON '00/'03/'06/'09/'11/'16(x2)
    Hamilton, ON '05/'11
    Newark, NJ '10
    London, ON '13
    Buffalo, NY '13
    Detroit, MI '14
    Ottawa, ON '16
  • HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 37,345
    I just gotta say,  Gord Downie's "Introduce Yerself" is sooo f*ckin' good!  It is an instant classic.  I really do not understand how it gets vitually no air play in Canada.  My guess is the stations don't feel the audience can handle the emotions or something.  Radio is sooo bland.  They played the Hip hits for days after Gord's passing, and then that was it.  No delving into anything new, or deeper.  I'm not surprised, just disappointed.  A Canadian Icon.
    those songs don't fit the generic format of popular radio. you might hear it on cbc or something like that, but nothing mainstream. 

    as Hugh Dillon sang in Binthiswayforyears, "do yourself a favour, turn off your radio"
    "Oh Canada...you're beautiful when you're drunk"
    -EV  8/14/93




  • Walking the milesWalking the miles Toronto Posts: 548
    I hear that! I do seem to be turning more and more things off as I get older.  CBC radio did do a decent tribute to Gord I seem to remember.
    "Feel the path of everyday....which road you taking?"

    Barrie, ON '98
    Toronto, ON '00/'03/'06/'09/'11/'16(x2)
    Hamilton, ON '05/'11
    Newark, NJ '10
    London, ON '13
    Buffalo, NY '13
    Detroit, MI '14
    Ottawa, ON '16
  • NWOntarioNWOntario Toronto Posts: 828
    I just gotta say,  Gord Downie's "Introduce Yerself" is sooo f*ckin' good!  It is an instant classic.  I really do not understand how it gets vitually no air play in Canada.  My guess is the stations don't feel the audience can handle the emotions or something.  Radio is sooo bland.  They played the Hip hits for days after Gord's passing, and then that was it.  No delving into anything new, or deeper.  I'm not surprised, just disappointed.  A Canadian Icon.
    those songs don't fit the generic format of popular radio. you might hear it on cbc or something like that, but nothing mainstream. 

    as Hugh Dillon sang in Binthiswayforyears, "do yourself a favour, turn off your radio"
    I still haven't listened to all of it. Hurts too much.
    Minneapolis 1998 | Jones Beach I & II, Montreal, and Toronto 2000 | Buffalo, State College, Toronto, Montreal and Hershey 2003 | Boston I & II 2004 | Thunder Bay, Kitchener, London, Hamilton, Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto 2005 | Toronto I & II 2006 | The Vic and Lollapalooza 2007 | Calgary and Toronto 2009 | PJ20 I & II, Toronto I & II, Ottawa, Calgary and Edmonton 2011 | London, Chicago, Spokane, Calgary, Vancouver and Seattle 2013 | Ottawa and Toronto I & II 2016 | Chicago I & II 2018 | Ottawa, Hamilton and Toronto 2022
  • HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 37,345
    NWOntario said:
    I just gotta say,  Gord Downie's "Introduce Yerself" is sooo f*ckin' good!  It is an instant classic.  I really do not understand how it gets vitually no air play in Canada.  My guess is the stations don't feel the audience can handle the emotions or something.  Radio is sooo bland.  They played the Hip hits for days after Gord's passing, and then that was it.  No delving into anything new, or deeper.  I'm not surprised, just disappointed.  A Canadian Icon.
    those songs don't fit the generic format of popular radio. you might hear it on cbc or something like that, but nothing mainstream. 

    as Hugh Dillon sang in Binthiswayforyears, "do yourself a favour, turn off your radio"
    I still haven't listened to all of it. Hurts too much.
    I've been listening to more hip and Gord than ever. all depends how you process grief I suppose. 
    "Oh Canada...you're beautiful when you're drunk"
    -EV  8/14/93




  • Walking the milesWalking the miles Toronto Posts: 548
    On the album "bedtime" nearly breaks me down everytime.  Hits home as I have three kids.  What a beautifully written song.  But it makes me appreciate my kids all the more, reminds me how precious they are (because sometimes its tough having kids).  And then "My First Girlfriend" is a funny touching memory.  Your right, it does depend how you process grief.  For me it's cathartic.  
    "Feel the path of everyday....which road you taking?"

    Barrie, ON '98
    Toronto, ON '00/'03/'06/'09/'11/'16(x2)
    Hamilton, ON '05/'11
    Newark, NJ '10
    London, ON '13
    Buffalo, NY '13
    Detroit, MI '14
    Ottawa, ON '16
  • NWOntario said:
    I just gotta say,  Gord Downie's "Introduce Yerself" is sooo f*ckin' good!  It is an instant classic.  I really do not understand how it gets vitually no air play in Canada.  My guess is the stations don't feel the audience can handle the emotions or something.  Radio is sooo bland.  They played the Hip hits for days after Gord's passing, and then that was it.  No delving into anything new, or deeper.  I'm not surprised, just disappointed.  A Canadian Icon.
    those songs don't fit the generic format of popular radio. you might hear it on cbc or something like that, but nothing mainstream. 

    as Hugh Dillon sang in Binthiswayforyears, "do yourself a favour, turn off your radio"
    I still haven't listened to all of it. Hurts too much.
    I've been listening to more hip and Gord than ever. all depends how you process grief I suppose. 

    NWOntario said:
    I just gotta say,  Gord Downie's "Introduce Yerself" is sooo f*ckin' good!  It is an instant classic.  I really do not understand how it gets vitually no air play in Canada.  My guess is the stations don't feel the audience can handle the emotions or something.  Radio is sooo bland.  They played the Hip hits for days after Gord's passing, and then that was it.  No delving into anything new, or deeper.  I'm not surprised, just disappointed.  A Canadian Icon.
    those songs don't fit the generic format of popular radio. you might hear it on cbc or something like that, but nothing mainstream. 

    as Hugh Dillon sang in Binthiswayforyears, "do yourself a favour, turn off your radio"
    I still haven't listened to all of it. Hurts too much.
    I've been listening to more hip and Gord than ever. all depends how you process grief I suppose. 
    I've been listening to a ton of the Hip and Gord as well but haven't listened to the new album yet. There's that thought that I'd like to have something new to listen to at some point and this could be the last chance for that. I'm not ready to give in yet.
    I am wired and fading...
  • HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 37,345
    RoeDawg13 said:
    NWOntario said:
    I just gotta say,  Gord Downie's "Introduce Yerself" is sooo f*ckin' good!  It is an instant classic.  I really do not understand how it gets vitually no air play in Canada.  My guess is the stations don't feel the audience can handle the emotions or something.  Radio is sooo bland.  They played the Hip hits for days after Gord's passing, and then that was it.  No delving into anything new, or deeper.  I'm not surprised, just disappointed.  A Canadian Icon.
    those songs don't fit the generic format of popular radio. you might hear it on cbc or something like that, but nothing mainstream. 

    as Hugh Dillon sang in Binthiswayforyears, "do yourself a favour, turn off your radio"
    I still haven't listened to all of it. Hurts too much.
    I've been listening to more hip and Gord than ever. all depends how you process grief I suppose. 

    NWOntario said:
    I just gotta say,  Gord Downie's "Introduce Yerself" is sooo f*ckin' good!  It is an instant classic.  I really do not understand how it gets vitually no air play in Canada.  My guess is the stations don't feel the audience can handle the emotions or something.  Radio is sooo bland.  They played the Hip hits for days after Gord's passing, and then that was it.  No delving into anything new, or deeper.  I'm not surprised, just disappointed.  A Canadian Icon.
    those songs don't fit the generic format of popular radio. you might hear it on cbc or something like that, but nothing mainstream. 

    as Hugh Dillon sang in Binthiswayforyears, "do yourself a favour, turn off your radio"
    I still haven't listened to all of it. Hurts too much.
    I've been listening to more hip and Gord than ever. all depends how you process grief I suppose. 
    I've been listening to a ton of the Hip and Gord as well but haven't listened to the new album yet. There's that thought that I'd like to have something new to listen to at some point and this could be the last chance for that. I'm not ready to give in yet.
    they have nearly 4 albums worth of unreleased material that will see the light of day when it's the right time. The Hip aren't done yet. 
    "Oh Canada...you're beautiful when you're drunk"
    -EV  8/14/93




  • NWOntarioNWOntario Toronto Posts: 828
    I'm listenening to a ton of Hip and non-Introduce Yerself Gord - it's just the final album that hurts too much.
    I'm congenitally unable to go more than a week without listening to Day for Night in its entirety. I could be alive without "Thugs," but, why?
    Minneapolis 1998 | Jones Beach I & II, Montreal, and Toronto 2000 | Buffalo, State College, Toronto, Montreal and Hershey 2003 | Boston I & II 2004 | Thunder Bay, Kitchener, London, Hamilton, Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto 2005 | Toronto I & II 2006 | The Vic and Lollapalooza 2007 | Calgary and Toronto 2009 | PJ20 I & II, Toronto I & II, Ottawa, Calgary and Edmonton 2011 | London, Chicago, Spokane, Calgary, Vancouver and Seattle 2013 | Ottawa and Toronto I & II 2016 | Chicago I & II 2018 | Ottawa, Hamilton and Toronto 2022
  • HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 37,345
    NWOntario said:
    I'm listenening to a ton of Hip and non-Introduce Yerself Gord - it's just the final album that hurts too much.
    I'm congenitally unable to go more than a week without listening to Day for Night in its entirety. I could be alive without "Thugs," but, why?
    i'm with you. @Thirty Bills Unpaid and I disagree on this. his choice is Fully. I say that Fully is a commercial masterpiece, but DFN is a creative masterpiece. I spun the shit out of that cd when it came out, the likes of which have only been compared with Ten and Nevermind. 
    "Oh Canada...you're beautiful when you're drunk"
    -EV  8/14/93




  • NWOntarioNWOntario Toronto Posts: 828
    NWOntario said:
    I'm listenening to a ton of Hip and non-Introduce Yerself Gord - it's just the final album that hurts too much.
    I'm congenitally unable to go more than a week without listening to Day for Night in its entirety. I could be alive without "Thugs," but, why?
    i'm with you. @Thirty Bills Unpaid and I disagree on this. his choice is Fully. I say that Fully is a commercial masterpiece, but DFN is a creative masterpiece. I spun the shit out of that cd when it came out, the likes of which have only been compared with Ten and Nevermind. 
    I'll take this one controversial step further and argue that Fully Completely's overrated and one of the band's weaker albums. It's good, but (imo) doesn't hold a candle to Road Apples, Trouble at the Henhouse, Phantom Power, World Container, Now for Plan A, or Man Machine Poem. Of those, I'd only put Phantom Power anywhere close to Day for Night.
    I'm not knocking Fully Completely, but it's the Hip's Ten: good album, lotta hits, nowhere near their best. COME AT ME.
    Minneapolis 1998 | Jones Beach I & II, Montreal, and Toronto 2000 | Buffalo, State College, Toronto, Montreal and Hershey 2003 | Boston I & II 2004 | Thunder Bay, Kitchener, London, Hamilton, Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto 2005 | Toronto I & II 2006 | The Vic and Lollapalooza 2007 | Calgary and Toronto 2009 | PJ20 I & II, Toronto I & II, Ottawa, Calgary and Edmonton 2011 | London, Chicago, Spokane, Calgary, Vancouver and Seattle 2013 | Ottawa and Toronto I & II 2016 | Chicago I & II 2018 | Ottawa, Hamilton and Toronto 2022
  • HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 37,345
    NWOntario said:
    NWOntario said:
    I'm listenening to a ton of Hip and non-Introduce Yerself Gord - it's just the final album that hurts too much.
    I'm congenitally unable to go more than a week without listening to Day for Night in its entirety. I could be alive without "Thugs," but, why?
    i'm with you. @Thirty Bills Unpaid and I disagree on this. his choice is Fully. I say that Fully is a commercial masterpiece, but DFN is a creative masterpiece. I spun the shit out of that cd when it came out, the likes of which have only been compared with Ten and Nevermind. 
    I'll take this one controversial step further and argue that Fully Completely's overrated and one of the band's weaker albums. It's good, but (imo) doesn't hold a candle to Road Apples, Trouble at the Henhouse, Phantom Power, World Container, Now for Plan A, or Man Machine Poem. Of those, I'd only put Phantom Power anywhere close to Day for Night.
    I'm not knocking Fully Completely, but it's the Hip's Ten: good album, lotta hits, nowhere near their best. COME AT ME.
    hoooo boy. I do actually spin all of the others more than I do FC, but I think that's more of an overexposure thing than anything else. I really do think it is #2 for me. 

    I actually find I'm listening to more of their live shows than studio work. Really digging the vocal improvs. 
    "Oh Canada...you're beautiful when you're drunk"
    -EV  8/14/93




  • You buggers.

    FC is awesome. It has commercial appeal because it is that good. It is Hip from start to finish.

    That being said, Day For Night is a wicked album. They played So Hard Done By in Kamloops and it was delightful. Nautical Disaster might be my favourite Hip tune (I draw such imagery with those lyrics).
    "My brain's a good brain!"
  • NWOntarioNWOntario Toronto Posts: 828
    You buggers.

    FC is awesome. It has commercial appeal because it is that good. It is Hip from start to finish.

    That being said, Day For Night is a wicked album. They played So Hard Done By in Kamloops and it was delightful. Nautical Disaster might be my favourite Hip tune (I draw such imagery with those lyrics).
    I think that was my hottest ever take. ;)
    The one thing that drives me nuts about Fully Completely: "Courage" and "At the Hundredth Meridian" are basically the same song. They're structured almost identically. And while I loved hearing both of them live, it feels as though the Hip retired having never really figured out how to transition back into the "Meridian" chorus. 
    Also, on a personal note, in 2004 I sang in public for the one and only time; I sang "Wheat Kings," walked off the stage, and ended a 2+ year relationship (which, in retrospect, should've ended about two years earlier). It's a weird association.
    Minneapolis 1998 | Jones Beach I & II, Montreal, and Toronto 2000 | Buffalo, State College, Toronto, Montreal and Hershey 2003 | Boston I & II 2004 | Thunder Bay, Kitchener, London, Hamilton, Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto 2005 | Toronto I & II 2006 | The Vic and Lollapalooza 2007 | Calgary and Toronto 2009 | PJ20 I & II, Toronto I & II, Ottawa, Calgary and Edmonton 2011 | London, Chicago, Spokane, Calgary, Vancouver and Seattle 2013 | Ottawa and Toronto I & II 2016 | Chicago I & II 2018 | Ottawa, Hamilton and Toronto 2022
  • NWOntario said:
    You buggers.

    FC is awesome. It has commercial appeal because it is that good. It is Hip from start to finish.

    That being said, Day For Night is a wicked album. They played So Hard Done By in Kamloops and it was delightful. Nautical Disaster might be my favourite Hip tune (I draw such imagery with those lyrics).
    I think that was my hottest ever take. ;)
    The one thing that drives me nuts about Fully Completely: "Courage" and "At the Hundredth Meridian" are basically the same song. They're structured almost identically. And while I loved hearing both of them live, it feels as though the Hip retired having never really figured out how to transition back into the "Meridian" chorus. 
    Also, on a personal note, in 2004 I sang in public for the one and only time; I sang "Wheat Kings," walked off the stage, and ended a 2+ year relationship (which, in retrospect, should've ended about two years earlier). It's a weird association.
    The "weird association' thing is legitimate. Most of the time... songs evoke a oositive memory of some sort. When a song does the opposite... it loses its luster somewhat.
    "My brain's a good brain!"
  • HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 37,345
    just found a DFN promo disc that has live versions of fifty mission and pigeon camera in germany and new orleans from another roadside attraction 93. bought it. 

    https://www.discogs.com/The-Tragically-Hip-The-Tragically-Hip/release/5475645
    "Oh Canada...you're beautiful when you're drunk"
    -EV  8/14/93




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