In 2024 we’re looking back on the decades that shaped our career as we celebrate 40 years of The Tragically Hip. We’ve heard your requests for more live video recordings, so from now on we’ll be releasing a new live video to YouTube every week. The shows will reflect the different eras of the band, from 1990 to 2016.
Stay tuned every Thursday (unless we tell you otherwise) for a new upload, and make sure to tap the bell icon so you never miss a video.
To kick off the May 24 weekend, we are starting off this series with “Bobcaygeon” - live from Woodstock ‘99. Watch the full video at https://youtu.be/IVwNdB-4G3k
Cheers!
"This here's a REQUEST!"
EV intro to Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns
10/25/13 Hartford
so, they announce the Up To Here box set now. Like I keep predicting, this band (or their management) just keeps screwing over their most loyal fans. A few months ago, they announce the pre-orders to their book, and the deluxe version comes signed by the 4 surviving members and "an exclusive 7" record of unreleased song Get Back Again". They made it sound like this would be the only place to get this song.
Well, guess what? Get Back Again is going to be released in the box set and was released digitally today. They keep giving fans the impression that these things are going to be exclusive to whatever current release, and after they get enough sales, they add it to something else. It's really shady. Like Saskadelphia. And Live at the Roxy. Fooled me once. Shame on you. Fooled me twice. Won't get fooled again.
"Oh Canada...you're beautiful when you're drunk" -EV 8/14/93
I kind of wait now. The Saskadelphia one bugged me, because if I'd knownit was going to be in the box, I wouldn't of bought the standalone one. Then I bought the box, just to get the Roxy vinyl, and then it got released standalone a while later. I'd got triple dipped.
I suppose they haven't repeated that since that set though.
I've developed a new system for Hip Boxsets. Be patient and wait. Generally I do this with a lot of boxsets. They often come out later in the year. By the time you get to Black Friday a year or so later, they're on discount. It also gives time to see if they release any of the content separately.
The new set has a lot of things I'd like. Live Vinyl, unreleased tracks and a bluray of a live performance. I'll probably buy it at some point.
Still need to buy last years (Phantom Power). Maybe there will be a good deal on one during Black Friday sales.
All of these live show releases and their unreleased tracks have shown up on Youtube Music over the past four years in official releases not bootlegs. Nothing has been exclusive to The Hip's store. I'm waiting for the what feels inevitable Indigo or Amazon Black Friday / Holiday Season sale pricing for their This is Our Life autobiography. Enjoy the music
All of these live show releases and their unreleased tracks have shown up on Youtube Music over the past four years in official releases not bootlegs. Nothing has been exclusive to The Hip's store. I'm waiting for the what feels inevitable Indigo or Amazon Black Friday / Holiday Season sale pricing for their This is Our Life autobiography. Enjoy the music
This is the correct strategy. 6 months ago I scored a Fully Completely vinyl box set for $70 USD (prev $165) from Amazon. At the same time, record stores were selling the studio album (not even the deluxe) for $50.
The only semi-frustrating part about the Up to Here box is that this is the first release that has anything that I've never heard before: Rain, Hearts, and Fire, Wait So Long, Hailstone Hands Of God (1988 Demo)
1998: Barrie 2000: Toronto 2005: Kitchener, London, Hamilton, Toronto 2006: Toronto 1&2, Paris, Milan, Torino, Pistoia 2009: Calgary, Vancouver 2011: Canada 2013: London, Wrigley, Philly 1&2 2014: St. Louis, ACL 1, Detroit 2016: Lexington, Quebec, Ottawa, Toronto 1&2, Fenway 1&2, Wrigley 1&2 2017: EV - Louisville 2018: London1&2, Milan, Padova, Rome, Prague, Krakow, Berlin, Wrigley 1&2, Fenway 1&2 2020: Toronto, Ottawa, Hamilton2021: London 1&22022: Hamilton, Toronto 2023: Chicago 1&2, Noblesville2024: Seattle 1&2, Noblesville, Wrigley 1&2
All of these live show releases and their unreleased tracks have shown up on Youtube Music over the past four years in official releases not bootlegs. Nothing has been exclusive to The Hip's store. I'm waiting for the what feels inevitable Indigo or Amazon Black Friday / Holiday Season sale pricing for their This is Our Life autobiography. Enjoy the music
This is the correct strategy. 6 months ago I scored a Fully Completely vinyl box set for $70 USD (prev $165) from Amazon. At the same time, record stores were selling the studio album (not even the deluxe) for $50.
The only semi-frustrating part about the Up to Here box is that this is the first release that has anything that I've never heard before: Rain, Hearts, and Fire, Wait So Long, Hailstone Hands Of God (1988 Demo)
Hopefully those tracks will be available digitally when it's released and then it won't be too bad to wait it out.
This will probably pass Tom Petty’s Running Down A Dream as my favourite documentary!
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Definitely some heavy moments, but I thought the documentary was really well done. There were tears shed. I learned a lot of things I had no idea about, those guys went through so much. I love them even more than I already did!
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3 episodes in. Didn't realize they struggled so much in the 2000s. I've seen them 4 times. Another Roadside Attraction in Victoria in 93? Royal Theatre in Victoria in '02, Edmonton in '07 at Rexall Place, and the Victoria date on the final tour in 2016.
That show in Edmonton wasn't quite as good as the other 3. Only one I ever took my wife too. The other ones were all amazing. I guess the Edmonton one must of been while they were struggling.
I was also at that Edmonton show. Wasn’t as good as when I saw them in 2002 at the Jubilee.
Finished episode 2 last night. Loved the fiddlers green part, wheat kings loon segment and the another roadside attraction part. And the 50 mission cap part about the hockey card. Loved the entire episode actually!
I admittedly took the Hip for granted later on. I saw them in 95, 97 (ARSA), 00 (War Child), 04, 05, 07, and then not again until 16 (final tour). I just found that they never dove deep enough into their catalogue, so I'd skip a show if I wasn't super jazzed about the new record. Unfortunately, some of their middle records to me now are like what No Code was to me at the time; didn't care much at the time but now love it.
The 2004 show was mind blowing. I was 6th row floor. The experience that close is SO much different than everywhere else in the crowd.
"Oh Canada...you're beautiful when you're drunk" -EV 8/14/93
I admittedly took the Hip for granted later on. I saw them in 95, 97 (ARSA), 00 (War Child), 04, 05, 07, and then not again until 16 (final tour). I just found that they never dove deep enough into their catalogue, so I'd skip a show if I wasn't super jazzed about the new record. Unfortunately, some of their middle records to me now are like what No Code was to me at the time; didn't care much at the time but now love it.
The 2004 show was mind blowing. I was 6th row floor. The experience that close is SO much different than everywhere else in the crowd.
I'm in the Maritimes, so i saw them every time they played Saint John for a good stretch...96, 98, 00, 02 and then Fredericton in....07 i think? Don't quote me on the years, i could be off a little bit lol. The 90s shows were pure madness, i feel like that was the Hip at their absolute peak in popularity. The few tours after were not as hopping as the 90s ones. Ahh the memories
(2000) Mansfield I, Mansfield II (2003) Montreal (2005) Montreal, Ottawa (2006) Albany (2008) Montreal I + II (EV) (2022) Québec City
the 2000 show for War Child was at the Forks in Winnipeg and was supposedly attended by 80,000. It was insane. But I guess when Rob mentioned the biggest Hip show they'd ever played was something like 50,000, it wasn't the War Child show since it wasn't technically a Hip show. But that's exactly who every single one of those people were there to see.
"Oh Canada...you're beautiful when you're drunk" -EV 8/14/93
It's crazy when you think about the stretch of amazing and hugely popular albums they had in the 90s...Fully Completely-Day for Night-Trouble at the Henhouse-Phantom Power....i mean...damn.
(2000) Mansfield I, Mansfield II (2003) Montreal (2005) Montreal, Ottawa (2006) Albany (2008) Montreal I + II (EV) (2022) Québec City
It really is eye opening now knowing the turbulence in the band and at the precise time period. It really makes you look back and go "yep, could totally see that". The next two albums just didn't gel as much. I loved IVL, but I didn't know anyone else who bought it. I really, really loved World Container too. They lost me at We Are The Same (which was funny hearing Rob say "or, as we call it, We AREN'T The Same"), I didn't pay any attention to Plan A, which is too bad, cuz now I love it. I begged my buddy to go see them at First Avenue in Minneapolis for the Fully Completely anniversary; we're used to seeing them with 15,000 other people, MINIMUM, but a 6 hour drive south and they play a 700 capacity club. He wouldn't go for it. I will NEVER forgive him. haha
"Oh Canada...you're beautiful when you're drunk" -EV 8/14/93
I also missed out on the Fully Completely anniversary tour! I should have gone to the show in Moncton at the casino, it would have been the most intimate venue to date for me.
(2000) Mansfield I, Mansfield II (2003) Montreal (2005) Montreal, Ottawa (2006) Albany (2008) Montreal I + II (EV) (2022) Québec City
It really is eye opening now knowing the turbulence in the band and at the precise time period. It really makes you look back and go "yep, could totally see that". The next two albums didn't gel as much. I loved IVL, but I didn't know anyone else who bought it. I really, really loved World Container too. They lost me at We Are The Same (which was funny hearing Rob say "or, as we call it, We AREN'T The Same"), I didn't pay any attention to Plan A, which is too bad, cuz now I love it. I begged my buddy to go see them at First Avenue in Minneapolis for the Fully Completely anniversary; we're used to seeing them with 15,000 other people, MINIMUM, but a 6 hour drive south and they play a 700 capacity club. He wouldn't go for it. I will NEVER forgive him. haha
Same thing with me. During that stretch they were doing a show at the Showbox in Seattle (2012?). I couldn't talk anyone into going because they play Victoria often. Would of been epic.
In 2000, I was living in the Metro Detroit area. The Hip had a pretty huge following there being so close to Canada. On release day for Music @ Work, I left work and headed to the nearest record store to pick it up. After I paid for the cd, the cashier handed me a ticket to see The Hip at a small 500? capacity venue. They were playing arenas at the time, so this was a pretty awesome event.
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EV intro to Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns
10/25/13 Hartford
-EV 8/14/93
Well, guess what? Get Back Again is going to be released in the box set and was released digitally today. They keep giving fans the impression that these things are going to be exclusive to whatever current release, and after they get enough sales, they add it to something else. It's really shady. Like Saskadelphia. And Live at the Roxy. Fooled me once. Shame on you. Fooled me twice. Won't get fooled again.
-EV 8/14/93
I suppose they haven't repeated that since that set though.
I've developed a new system for Hip Boxsets. Be patient and wait. Generally I do this with a lot of boxsets. They often come out later in the year. By the time you get to Black Friday a year or so later, they're on discount. It also gives time to see if they release any of the content separately.
The new set has a lot of things I'd like. Live Vinyl, unreleased tracks and a bluray of a live performance. I'll probably buy it at some point.
Still need to buy last years (Phantom Power). Maybe there will be a good deal on one during Black Friday sales.
-EV 8/14/93
The only semi-frustrating part about the Up to Here box is that this is the first release that has anything that I've never heard before: Rain, Hearts, and Fire, Wait So Long, Hailstone Hands Of God (1988 Demo)
-EV 8/14/93
Vancouver, BC - 2009
Vancouver, BC - 2011
Vancouver, BC - 2013
Mountain View, CA - 2014
Mountain View, CA - 2014
Quebec City, QC - 2016
Ottawa, ON - 2016
Pemberton, BC - 2016
Seattle, WA 1 - 2018
Seattle, WA 2 - 2018
-EV 8/14/93
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Vancouver, BC - 2009
Vancouver, BC - 2011
Vancouver, BC - 2013
Mountain View, CA - 2014
Mountain View, CA - 2014
Quebec City, QC - 2016
Ottawa, ON - 2016
Pemberton, BC - 2016
Seattle, WA 1 - 2018
Seattle, WA 2 - 2018
-EV 8/14/93
(2000) Mansfield I, Mansfield II (2003) Montreal (2005) Montreal, Ottawa (2006) Albany (2008) Montreal I + II (EV) (2022) Québec City
The 2004 show was mind blowing. I was 6th row floor. The experience that close is SO much different than everywhere else in the crowd.
-EV 8/14/93
I'm in the Maritimes, so i saw them every time they played Saint John for a good stretch...96, 98, 00, 02 and then Fredericton in....07 i think? Don't quote me on the years, i could be off a little bit lol. The 90s shows were pure madness, i feel like that was the Hip at their absolute peak in popularity. The few tours after were not as hopping as the 90s ones. Ahh the memories
(2000) Mansfield I, Mansfield II (2003) Montreal (2005) Montreal, Ottawa (2006) Albany (2008) Montreal I + II (EV) (2022) Québec City
-EV 8/14/93
(2000) Mansfield I, Mansfield II (2003) Montreal (2005) Montreal, Ottawa (2006) Albany (2008) Montreal I + II (EV) (2022) Québec City
-EV 8/14/93
(2000) Mansfield I, Mansfield II (2003) Montreal (2005) Montreal, Ottawa (2006) Albany (2008) Montreal I + II (EV) (2022) Québec City