Tragically Hip ...

Setlist- Roseland Theatre, Portland, OR 03/28/07:

In View
New Orleans Is Sinking
Drop Off
It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken
Family Band
Ahead By A Century
Yer Not The Ocean
Music @ Work
World Container
Escape Is At Hand For The Travellin' Man
Putting Down
At The Hundredth Meridian (featuring Steve Berlin of Los Lobos on Saxophone)
Bobcaygeon
The Kids Don't Get It
Springtime In Vienna
Wheat Kings
The Lonely End Of The Rink
Blow at high Dough

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So Hard Done By (w/ Steve Berlin)
Don't Worry Baby (Los Lobos cover, w/ Steve Berlin)
http://www.thehundredthmeridian.com/downloads/tth2007-03-28-Portland-DontWorryBaby.mp3
Poets

civ_eng_girl wrote:

hehehe... Timbits...

oh... wait... you're talking about Horton's, aren't you?

teeheehee

locked wrote:

what happened to this being the "greatest setlist" tour?

Gord S.'s selection for the Canadian shows was unmatched...IMO..
By far the best collection of Hip songs ever performed in a live setting..

But I have have to admit, I'm selfish... the latest US setlists are lame, lame , lame...

WTF?

I agree the last few setlists have been pretty average, but at least we got Escape is at Hand, Long Time Running, Wheat Kings, Sherpa, Nautical, So Hard Done By, and On The Verge...not to mention all the cool cover tunes. But I definitely hope they mix it up a little more when the tour resumes in Detroit. The setlists out east were much better than the west coast shows.

Saw them last night in Seattle with Jamainiac......good times!

Amazing version of Daredevil.... song of the day today from vancouver 96 !

sennin wrote:

Saw them last night in Seattle with Jamainiac......good times!

right on!

direwolf74 wrote:

Anybody catch the Junos last night? I usually can't stand award shows, but I wanted to see the Hip and K-OS. The boys played a killer version of "Yer Not the Ocean", and Gord's induction speech/poem for Bob Rock was both unique and touching. Here's the poem:

Mercifully, as in love, so it is in music
We're all fourteen inside.
With this in mind, thank you for allowing me this moment to be ample and grateful to a great friend of mine,
And to one of the greatest music lovers of all time.
Bob Rock, the rock-and-roller, the fan-start, the sound-tiger, the self-imposed rock-and-roll exile, the warm and interesting, interested and alive man of world beyond guile.
He occurs deeply to people, he has good people in his life, and people hold him dear.
He trusts his eyes, his ears, his feelings, and it shows in his eyes, in his feelings and to our ears.
He really says with everything he does, life is feeling, and you can do it, and if you can't, I'm here.
He hauls entertainment to the people, to everyone's everyday life
He makes those good records and chances are everyone here has heard a tune or two from one or two of 'em and probably most of you, twice
Bob Rock's a quadruple-threat, player, writer, producer, painter
In his manners, his deeds, in his art.
His work ethic is surpassed only by his curiosity, his ear, only by his heart
He is an old world master, since before the cost of sound
He still stands before the doing-of-the-thing, then walks, then runs, then bounds,
Headlong into that rush of sensation that comes when what's lost is found
He makes you want to sing your punk-rock heart out and play your drums into the ground.
Of course to be in Bob Rock's orbit is to never want to leave
Bob's no picture, he's the event.
He's free, not migratory-free
He's not horse-famous famous
He's no tightrope devotee
He can't recite the rights of the newly inducted inductee
Bob is just authentic, fully actualized man, who still fully can't believe he makes records for a living when he feels fourteen inside.
He remembers what he loves and loves remembers and he has a generous memory.
He has an encyclopedic knowledge of his entire and vast esteem.
He can tell you exactly what he was wearing the day he bought Exile on Main Street.
But mostly Bob's a family man, he loves his family
And, ya know, it is just as Clint Eastwood said,
Bob Rock is a family-man, and a family-man's about the best a man can hope to be.

And here's the performance of "Yer Not the Ocean". In case you're all wondering who the old guy is on guitar and piano, it's none other than the aforementioned Bob Rock. Enjoy!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=r8_hWZuUbbM

thanks again direwolf! i completely forgot about the junos!

hipfans.com strikes again!

jumpin jack flash from seattle, i cant get enough of this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5Ygn4Qvpkc

Here's a review of the Seattle show from the Post Intelligencer:

MUSIC REVIEW

THE TRAGICALLY HIP with the Sadies

WHEN: Thursday night

WHERE: Moore Theatre

Twenty years in and The Tragically Hip are playing like they're just getting started. For the first 10 years, the Kingston, Ontario, five-piece played it cool as blues rockers. Gradually, the band edged toward country-rock before eventually settling into a straight-up rock persona that culminated in the seminal records "Day for Night" and "Fully Completely," from '94 and '92, respectively.

For the next 10 years, the Hip steadily released albums driven as much by their guitar work as Gordon Downie's maverick lyrics. Though he likes to focus on the Canadian experience, the singer's stories run the gamut of possibility. In fact, his microscope seems to know no bounds, a feat matched only by his ability to subsume big, polysyllabic words into songs (pendulum, biosphere, vaccination), many of which have never seen a song before and probably never will again.

Yet, for Hip-heads, and particularly the lesser-known American variety, this was a frustrating time. Each of the five albums from this era suffered a professional malaise that belabored the Hip. It seemed that Canada's Greatest Rock Band was going through the motions. The root of the problem was drummer Johnny Fay who, for nearly 10 years, would do little more than keep the beat; his lack of excitement and general laziness haunted the band, keeping their songs locked in 4/4 time.

Thank God for Bob Rock, the studio impresario best known for his work with Motley Crue ("Dr. Feelgood") and Metallica ("Load," "Reload" and "St. Anger"), not to mention David Lee Roth and Bon Jovi. Rock not only reawakened the Hip but he pushed them to new levels. The resulting "World Container" is the greatest Hip album ever recorded. The proof was seen in their concert Thursday night at the Moore, a spellbinding, energetic and triumphant display of prowess, expertise and most certainly, an absolute love of rock 'n' roll.

Quintessential entertainer and dynamic frontman Downie was soaked with perspiration by about the fifth song. By the 18th (an explosive rendition of the bluesy "Blow at High Dough"), he looked as if he had just stepped out of the shower. His aerobic interpretive dances have always made a Hip show into a spectacle, one to be seen as well as heard, but Thursday night Downie was on fire. Not even his microphone stands could handle his vivacity; he went through two and almost maimed a third.

Rarely do the Hip play songs by other bands; in fact, according to my sources, "Sweet Jane" has been the only exception, but add to the list "Jumping Jack Flash," an apropos encore song, if not a summation of the new era for the Hip: "It's a gas! Gas! Gas!"

Shawn Telford is a Seattle-based freelance writer who can be reached at eyeheartmusic@yahoo.com.


I gotta say, I totally disagree with his ignorant and idiotic assessment of Johnny Fay's drumming. Anybody who has seen the Hip live knows that the dude is an absolute monster in concert. As for his work on the studio albums, the drumming perfectly suits the material. Johnny doesn't use a lot of odd-ball time signatures, but in no way does that mean he's a "lazy" or "boring" drummer. Probably 95% of all rock n' roll is played in 4/4 time. To quote the Rheostatics' Dave Bidini:

"Johnny plays with an unflagging confidence and even touch, with propulsion rather than flair. His arrangements are spare, yet poignant. Since many of the Hip's songs can veer off into exploratory jams, I suppose it makes sense that someone steer."

*bump*

"The Kids Don't Get It", live from the Moore Theatre in Seattle. Enjoy!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Zr8XRBHt7iE