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  • nautical_disaster
    nautical_disaster Posts: 348
    watching it this week!!

    (2000) Mansfield I, Mansfield II (2003) Montreal (2005) Montreal, Ottawa (2006) Albany (2008) Montreal I + II (EV) (2022) Québec City


  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,449
    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. 
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  • nautical_disaster
    nautical_disaster Posts: 348
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    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


  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,449
    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. 
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  • nautical_disaster
    nautical_disaster Posts: 348
    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


  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,449
    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
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  • nautical_disaster
    nautical_disaster Posts: 348
    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


  • May 30th
    May 30th Posts: 1,888
    I love We Are The Same. Funny watching the documentary now that the band essentially had no part in that album. 

    Finished the documentary last night and have to say it again, what an awesome documentary and band. 
  • Zod
    Zod Posts: 10,889
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    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.

  • BR2428
    BR2428 Posts: 138
    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.
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,449
    wicked !!! ^^^^
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  • ekwipt
    ekwipt Vancouver Posts: 1,030
    I held off watching the new doc as I had tix to the Vancouver Film Fest presentation last night with the band and Gord’s bro in attendance. Went to find a restroom before the show and stumbled right into a red carpet photo shoot. They did a Q&A afterwards too. Very cool experience!

  • May 30th
    May 30th Posts: 1,888
    ekwipt said:
    I held off watching the new doc as I had tix to the Vancouver Film Fest presentation last night with the band and Gord’s bro in attendance. Went to find a restroom before the show and stumbled right into a red carpet photo shoot. They did a Q&A afterwards too. Very cool experience!

    Wicked!!! Did they show all four episodes??
  • ekwipt
    ekwipt Vancouver Posts: 1,030
    Showed the first 2 parts and then about an hour of discussion. Gonna watch the rest at home tonight. 
  • Parksy
    Parksy Posts: 1,849
    Finished episode 2 last night...  absolutely fantastic!! 
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  • JeBurkhardt
    JeBurkhardt Posts: 5,321
    They weren’t on my radar at all during their heyday. When I went to the Hamilton and Toronto PJ shows in 22 I saw a lot of Hip shirts and it got me curious about them. I started listening to them on streaming services and was really impressed. I really missed out. I have learned a lot watching the documentary. 
  • nautical_disaster
    nautical_disaster Posts: 348
    Finished episode 1 last night. I had no idea they had a sax player!

    (2000) Mansfield I, Mansfield II (2003) Montreal (2005) Montreal, Ottawa (2006) Albany (2008) Montreal I + II (EV) (2022) Québec City


  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,449
    nautical_disaster said:
    Finished episode 1 last night. I had no idea they had a sax player!
    isn't that wild? I remember learning that years and years ago,and thought, wow, what could have been. Touring with Huey Lewis, collaborations with Kenny G, lol
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  • nautical_disaster
    nautical_disaster Posts: 348
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    nautical_disaster said:
    Finished episode 1 last night. I had no idea they had a sax player!
    isn't that wild? I remember learning that years and years ago,and thought, wow, what could have been. Touring with Huey Lewis, collaborations with Kenny G, lol
    Haha!! The way they edited that in the episode was funny...they show 4 of the guys.....and then zoom right to the sax player haha. I'm glad Robbie got to connect and hug his old friend before he passed. 

    (2000) Mansfield I, Mansfield II (2003) Montreal (2005) Montreal, Ottawa (2006) Albany (2008) Montreal I + II (EV) (2022) Québec City


  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,449
    and he was so out of place. he looked like a chiseled old new yorker. 
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