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  • newagehippie
    newagehippie Posts: 749
    civ_eng_girl wrote:
    a little PJ/Hip story from yesterday:

    my coworker Brian comes into my office yesterday, and sees the wallpaper on my screen. http://www.pbase.com/efroten/image/49455436

    Brian: "let me guess... Stone?"
    Me: "nope! Mike - but you're close! I'm impressed" :)
    Brian: "i used to be hip once..." :o
    Me: "haha... really?" :rolleyes:
    Brian: "yep... tragically...." :D


    I think he may have been hitting on you......you should go for it.... ;)
    Cheers,
    NEWAGEHIPPIE

    Keep your eyes open, eventually something will happen....
  • civ_eng_girl
    civ_eng_girl Posts: 2,001
    newagehippie wrote:
    I think he may have been hitting on you......you should go for it.... ;)

    he did just split up with his wife... :rolleyes: :p

    ;)
    ~~*~~ ...i surfaced and all of my being was enlightend... ~~*~~
  • Mudfest
    Mudfest Posts: 1,025
    red wrote:
    You know, I've seen the Hip 17 times, met them more times than I could remember, but I still haven't seen "Nautical Disaster" live.

    I saw the hip last week at the U of C...

    They Played Nautical ...it was amazing!!

    Muddy
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  • direwolf74
    direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    Mudfest wrote:
    I saw the hip last week at the U of C...

    They Played Nautical ...it was amazing!!

    Muddy


    My favorite Hip song of all time, and the crowning achievement for the band as songwriters (so far). So much emotion, passion, and dread in that song. And is it just me, or does Robby's guitar sound like it's weeping during the outro? It doesn't really have a verse, it doesn't have a chorus, and there's no bridge. Essentially it's just a verse poem set to a circular bass line and guitar riff. Very simple, really. And yet it's such a powerful song and the imagery in the lyrics is so incredibly vivid, especially that final image of fingernails scratching on the hull of the ship. It's just so damn creepy. I think it's one of the most brilliant pieces of music ever written.

    "I think that song is haunted."

    -Gord Downie
    "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
  • locked
    locked Boston Posts: 4,048
    speaking of Nautical...

    7/1/95 High Sierrra, California (a show so awesome that it should have been picked as their Live album in my opinion)

    my favorite "Gord psycho quote" from that bootleg..

    "I got this cousin , I got this cousin, he's a fuckin' skinhead...
    but he's only doing it for the threads...
    .. You wouldn't band a band from canada without a song about a nautical disaaster... this song is called nautical dis-aster"

    LMAO!

    Gord rules!
    "This here's a REQUEST!"
    EV intro to Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns
    10/25/13 Hartford
  • rcs
    rcs Posts: 711
    direwolf74 wrote:
    My favorite Hip song of all time, and the crowning achievement for the band as songwriters (so far). So much emotion, passion, and dread in that song. And is it just me, or does Robby's guitar sound like it's weeping during the outro? It doesn't really have a verse, it doesn't have a chorus, and there's no bridge. Essentially it's just a verse poem set to a circular bass line and guitar riff. Very simple, really. And yet it's such a powerful song and the imagery in the lyrics is so incredibly vivid, especially that final image of fingernails scratching on the hull of the ship. It's just so damn creepy. I think it's one of the most brilliant pieces of music ever written.

    "I think that song is haunted."

    -Gord Downie

    Once again direwolf you've nailed it on the head. Nautical Disaster is easily the Hip's best song ever! I love that song for every reason you listed! I've seen them play it live many times but back in '96 in Spokane I saw them do it and it actually made me weep. I don't cry easily but the emotion was just so intense. Stunning. God I love that band!!!
    E agora? Faz xixi na mão e deita fora!
  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    "...they're turning this song into a movie
    starring peter o'toole as the curmudgeonly lighthouse keeper,
    and jodie foster in the role of susan
    ...it's called the nurse patient..."



    I had this dream where I relished
    The fray and the screaming that filled my head all day
    It was as though I'd been spit there, settled in, into a pocket
    Of a lighthouse off some rocky socket,
    Off the coast of France, Dear

    One afternoon, four thousand men died in the water here
    Five hundred more were thrashing madly as parasites might in you blood
    Now I was in lifeboat designed for ten and ten and only,
    Anything that systematic would get you hated.
    It's not a deal nor a test nor a love of something fated.
    The selection was quick, the crew was picked and
    those left in the water got kicked off our pant leg and we headed for home.

    Then the dream ends when the phone rings
    You doing alright he said it's out there,most days and nights
    But only a fool would complain
    Anyway Susan if you like our conversation is as faint as the sound in my memory
    As those fingernails scratching on the hull
  • bharQ
    bharQ Posts: 1,201
    rcs wrote:
    Once again direwolf you've nailed it on the head. Nautical Disaster is easily the Hip's best song ever! I love that song for every reason you listed! I've seen them play it live many times but back in '96 in Spokane I saw them do it and it actually made me weep. I don't cry easily but the emotion was just so intense. Stunning. God I love that band!!!

    I totally agree... the performance of this at Sasquatch blew my mind.. along with im sure everyone around me!
    09/04/05 - Calgary, AB
    08/02/07 - LOLLA!!!
  • hodge
    hodge Posts: 519
    i agree^
    seeing it live gave me chills
    ..and you will come to find that we are all one mind, capable of all that's imagined and all conceivable
  • direwolf74
    direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    "Pigeon Camera" from Vancouver, 11/03/06. Enjoy!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0ywdo-93sE
    "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- Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, Nov. 4th:

    Family Band
    Courage
    In View
    Fever
    Drop Off
    Bob C
    Last Night
    Fully
    Pretend
    Boots
    Luv(sic)
    Music
    38
    Kids
    Nautical
    Scared
    Ocean
    Locked
    Rink

    Tiger
    World
    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
  • locked
    locked Boston Posts: 4,048
    direwolf74 wrote:
    Setlist- Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, Nov. 4th:

    Locked
    Tiger
    Verge


    Holy shit!!!
    "This here's a REQUEST!"
    EV intro to Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns
    10/25/13 Hartford
  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    locked wrote:
    Holy shit!!!

    indeed :)
  • locked
    locked Boston Posts: 4,048
    direwolf74 wrote:
    Before Saturday, the song "Fiddler's Green" hadn't been played in 15 years. But on a cold, snowy night in Calgary at MacEwan Hall on the U of C campus in October of 2006, the Hip decided to pull it out of the vault and gave their fans a treat that they would remember forever. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you "Fiddler's Green", live from Calgary:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DzRDGeOgWw


    I was finally able to watch this clip at home (blocked at work)..

    Gord is heavy with emotion (sadness) throughout this performance..
    Brought me to tears..

    Can anyone tell me the backstory about the boy who died..

    I never thought I'd see this played live...ever!

    This is monumental in Hip-story..
    "This here's a REQUEST!"
    EV intro to Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns
    10/25/13 Hartford
  • locked
    locked Boston Posts: 4,048
    Hey, what's the tour merchadise look like?

    Gimme some idea of what the shirts / hoodies / sweatshirts for the World Container tour look like!
    "This here's a REQUEST!"
    EV intro to Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns
    10/25/13 Hartford
  • bharQ
    bharQ Posts: 1,201
    locked wrote:
    I was finally able to watch this clip at home (blocked at work)..

    Gord is heavy with emotion (sadness) throughout this performance..
    Brought me to tears..

    Can anyone tell me the backstory about the boy who died..

    I never thought I'd see this played live...ever!

    This is monumental in Hip-story..

    I was there for Fiddler's Green.. freakin amazing!
    09/04/05 - Calgary, AB
    08/02/07 - LOLLA!!!
  • locked
    locked Boston Posts: 4,048
    bharQ wrote:
    I was there for Fiddler's Green.. freakin amazing!

    I honestly might have fainted if I was there (really!)
    "This here's a REQUEST!"
    EV intro to Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns
    10/25/13 Hartford
  • direwolf74
    direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    locked wrote:
    I was finally able to watch this clip at home (blocked at work)..

    Gord is heavy with emotion (sadness) throughout this performance..
    Brought me to tears..

    Can anyone tell me the backstory about the boy who died..


    Here ya go, courtesy of my good buddy Stephen Dame from Ottawa, who put together arguably the coolest website about the Hip on the Internet:

    http://www.hipmuseum.com/fiddlers.html

    As for merchandise, they've got some pretty cool stuff on this tour. The t-shirt I bought is black and features a drawing of the human heart from the inside sleeve of the World Container lyric booklet, with "The Tragically Hip" written over top of it in white. They also had some cool hoodies and a green army style t-shirt. I didn't see any posters, but they'll probably have some of those once the official tour starts up.
    "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- Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, Nov. 6th:

    Rink
    Twist
    Ocean
    Good Life
    Drop
    Wolf
    Gift
    Fly
    3 Pistols
    Pretend
    Flamenco
    Fireworks
    Kids
    Grace
    Last Night
    Long Time
    In View
    50 MC
    Family Band

    Something On
    World
    Spring
    "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
  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    direwolf74 wrote:
    Setlist- Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, Nov. 6th:

    Rink
    Twist
    Ocean
    Good Life
    Drop
    Wolf
    Gift
    Fly
    3 Pistols
    Pretend
    Flamenco
    Fireworks
    Kids
    Grace
    Last Night
    Long Time
    In View
    50 MC
    Family Band

    Something On
    World
    Spring

    ridiculous!!! :D

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