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  • neartodeath
    neartodeath Posts: 167
    c u in belleville(the peaceful village)

    this show is being shot in multi camera video

    expect GOOD things, and they will happen ;)
  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    bumping for someone in another thread looking for reviews of the new songs...provided, of course, by direwolf :)
  • hodge
    hodge Posts: 519
    toronto tickets arrived today
    woot
    ..and you will come to find that we are all one mind, capable of all that's imagined and all conceivable
  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    canada day weekend approaches...HIP! :)
  • direwolf74
    direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    *bump*

    Hey folks! Just for fun, I thought I'd post the setlists from some of the recent shows. Here ya go:

    date: June 16 2006
    city: Pittsburgh, PA
    venue: Three Rivers Arts Festival

    The Lonely End Of The Rink
    Fully Completely
    Gus: The Polar Bear From Central Park
    Poets
    Lake Fever
    Heaven Is A Better Place Today
    Ahead By A Century
    Gift Shop
    The Last Of The Unplucked Gems
    Fly
    At The Hundredth Meridian
    Bobcaygeon
    Fireworks
    Escape Is At Hand For The Travellin' Man
    Grace, Too
    My Music At Work

    (encore)
    The Drop Off
    Sherpa
    Fire In The Hole


    date: June 17, 2006
    city: Lewiston, NY
    venue: Artpark

    Click this link and scroll down to the 5th post. There's an actual photo of Gord Sinclair's hand-written setlist:

    http://hipbase.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8921



    date: June 16, 2006
    city: Guelph, ON
    venue: Grand River Conservation Authority

    Don't wake daddy
    Courage
    The Drop Off
    Are you Ready
    Ahead by a Century
    Gift Shop
    Fly
    Lionized
    Last of the Unplucked Gems
    No Threat
    Its a good life if you don't weaken
    100th Meridian
    Poets
    My Music at Work
    Eldorado
    Fire in the Hole

    (encore)
    The Lonely End of the Rink
    The Rules
    New Orleans is Sinking
    "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
    last of the unplucked gems on both setlists! nice!

    i would love to see a show where they ended with fire in the hole :)

    thanks again direwolf! :D
  • direwolf74
    direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    mookie blaylock 10 wrote:
    last of the unplucked gems on both setlists! nice!

    i would love to see a show where they ended with fire in the hole :)

    thanks again direwolf! :D


    If there's one song that has the ability to scare the hell out of people, it's Fire in the Hole. I've seen them end with that song a couple of times, and it's an absolute monster of a song. The album version doesn't do it justice at all. Usually the band will play a nice long jam-style intro while Gord Downie goes off on some crazy rant, and then when the mood strikes him, he'll bark out the first line in an angry growl: "You triumphed over will, you had immunity to kill..." And then once the full band kicks in for the chorus, it's so freakin' loud and heavy, it feels like you've been hit by a train. I love it!
    "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
  • Edge34
    Edge34 Ottawa Posts: 233
    It's gotta be either Road Apples or Day For Night.
  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    direwolf74 wrote:
    If there's one song that has the ability to scare the hell out of people, it's Fire in the Hole. I've seen them end with that song a couple of times, and it's an absolute monster of a song. The album version doesn't do it justice at all. Usually the band will play a nice long jam-style intro while Gord Downie goes off on some crazy rant, and then when the mood strikes him, he'll bark out the first line in an angry growl: "You triumphed over will, you had immunity to kill..." And then once the full band kicks in for the chorus, it's so freakin' loud and heavy, it feels like you've been hit by a train. I love it!

    very well said! great description. i've only seen them do it live once, during the main set i think...it kicked me in the arse! :D
  • civ_eng_girl
    civ_eng_girl Posts: 2,001
    ok, you guys are offically making me excited for Friday night!! ;):p

    as of now, i am in Hip Warm-up mode.... :D
    ~~*~~ ...i surfaced and all of my being was enlightend... ~~*~~
  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    civ_eng_girl wrote:
    ok, you guys are offically making me excited for Friday night!! ;):p

    as of now, i am in Hip Warm-up mode.... :D

    awesome, awesome!!! enjoy the show ceg! :) listen to some flamenco to prepare...:D
  • civ_eng_girl
    civ_eng_girl Posts: 2,001
    mookie blaylock 10 wrote:
    awesome, awesome!!! enjoy the show ceg! :) listen to some flamenco to prepare...:D

    i don't have any flamenco music - but i do have some belly dancing music! that's a good way to warm up the hips.... among other things... ;):o:D
    ~~*~~ ...i surfaced and all of my being was enlightend... ~~*~~
  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    civ_eng_girl wrote:
    i don't have any flamenco music - but i do have some belly dancing music! that's a good way to warm up the hips.... among other things... ;):o:D

    always the silly goose! ;) i meant trouble at the henhouse...flamenco...you knew what i meant! maybe some wheat kings too...emperor penguin...just some tunes i've been listening to to warm up for some HIP! :D
  • civ_eng_girl
    civ_eng_girl Posts: 2,001
    mookie blaylock 10 wrote:
    always the silly goose! ;) i meant trouble at the henhouse...flamenco...you knew what i meant! maybe some wheat kings too...emperor penguin...just some tunes i've been listening to to warm up for some HIP! :D

    sorry mook... all that talk of warmth, and hips, and dancing, made my mind wander... ;) tee hee! :p

    wheat kings is a fav of mine... it'd be great to hear it live again! :)

    *currently playing*
    It's a Good Life If You Don't Weaken (another great slow dancing song... ;))
    ~~*~~ ...i surfaced and all of my being was enlightend... ~~*~~
  • direwolf74
    direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    civ_eng_girl wrote:

    *currently playing*
    It's a Good Life If You Don't Weaken (another great slow dancing song... ;))


    One of my all-time favorite Hip songs! The first time I heard it I was absolutely blown away. Gord's lyrics are so beautiful, and that magnificent chorus gets me every time, especially when they do it live. Gordie sings it so forcefully and passionately that he always looks like he's gonna burst a blood vessel during the final chorus. This song also features one of the coolest lines he's ever written:

    "In the forget-yer-skates dream full of countervailing woes,
    in diverse-as-ever scenes proceeding on a need to know."
    "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
  • civ_eng_girl
    civ_eng_girl Posts: 2,001
    direwolf74 wrote:
    One of my all-time favorite Hip songs! The first time I heard it I was absolutely blown away. Gord's lyrics are so beautiful, and that magnificent chorus gets me every time, especially when they do it live. Gordie sings it so forcefully and passionately that he always looks like he's gonna burst a blood vessel during the final chorus. This song also features one of the coolest lines he's ever written:

    "In the forget-yer-skates dream full of countervailing woes,
    in diverse-as-ever scenes proceeding on a need to know."

    there you go, getting me excited again!! :)

    great description of It's a Good Life, direwolf - this song makes me feel similar to when I hear PJ's Black.... this'll be the one that if they play it live, I'll have my eyes closed, my head back, swaying to the beautiful rhythm.... (but that's usally when I lose my balance and fall over... hahaha... :o)

    i'm not really a Hip expert - but i've got a lot of faves, and i hope they play 'em for me! :D
    ~~*~~ ...i surfaced and all of my being was enlightend... ~~*~~
  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    enjoy the show ceg, you lucky so-and-so! :D try to stay upright when they play it's a good life...it's so awesome live!!! :)
  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    direwolf74 wrote:
    One of my all-time favorite Hip songs! The first time I heard it I was absolutely blown away. Gord's lyrics are so beautiful, and that magnificent chorus gets me every time, especially when they do it live. Gordie sings it so forcefully and passionately that he always looks like he's gonna burst a blood vessel during the final chorus. This song also features one of the coolest lines he's ever written:

    "In the forget-yer-skates dream full of countervailing woes,
    in diverse-as-ever scenes proceeding on a need to know."

    agreed. :)

    i was listening to "problem bears" earlier...i think i may have mentioned this before but it has a couple of fave lines for me too...


    "Shakespeare, you're a drunken savage
    Well, you're a sober and green-eyed Voltaire
    It almost sounds funny like two tough-talking goalies really going at it upstairs"
  • reditalian
    reditalian Posts: 329
    Going to see The Hip for the 9th time in Stratford Ontario on Sept 9. Hands down the best Canadian band of all-time. No other band has captured what Canada is all about and then sell it to the rest of the world. They make you proud to be a Canadian. My favorite album is Fully Completely, man do I love Wheat Kings.
    There's no I in team, but there's me.

    "0035 EVENFLOW PSYCHOS

    "I'm George Bush and my son's an asshole" 08/03/2000

    Don't stop wen you're tired, stop when you're done
  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    reditalian wrote:
    Going to see The Hip for the 9th time in Stratford Ontario on Sept 9. Hands down the best Canadian band of all-time. No other band has captured what Canada is all about and then sell it to the rest of the world. They make you proud to be a Canadian. My favorite album is Fully Completely, man do I love Wheat Kings.

    i'd be inclined to agree :)

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