• Looking for some old Pins
  Forum: Hip Merch Discussion
  Last Post: Summiteer
  05-15-2019, 08:20 PM
  » Replies: 2
  » Views: 2,630
• The Hipbase.com Companion...
  Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
  Last Post: Tthip
  05-15-2019, 03:50 PM
  » Replies: 7
  » Views: 7,887
• Wanted: vinyl box only
  Forum: Hip Merch Discussion
  Last Post: robbroncs
  05-15-2019, 03:31 AM
  » Replies: 3
  » Views: 3,201
• Albums you've recently re...
  Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
  Last Post: redhill
  05-14-2019, 03:37 PM
  » Replies: 455
  » Views: 67,948
• Kingston Penitentiary Con...
  Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
  Last Post: direwolf74
  05-13-2019, 08:18 PM
  » Replies: 4
  » Views: 3,941
• Last Tour/New Thought
  Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
  Last Post: potsie
  05-13-2019, 07:32 PM
  » Replies: 18
  » Views: 7,764
• Hipfans.com DVDs
  Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
  Last Post: mark
  05-13-2019, 10:26 AM
  » Replies: 10
  » Views: 5,723
• Captcha on login page not...
  Forum: FAQ / Getting Started / Forum News
  Last Post: mark
  05-13-2019, 10:24 AM
  » Replies: 5
  » Views: 4,207
• Help With Account Login
  Forum: FAQ / Getting Started / Forum News
  Last Post: thecompletist
  05-13-2019, 08:51 AM
  » Replies: 2
  » Views: 5,093
• How Can I Activate An Old...
  Forum: FAQ / Getting Started / Forum News
  Last Post: thecompletist
  05-13-2019, 08:49 AM
  » Replies: 18
  » Views: 16,131

• Forum posts:91,344
• Forum threads:17,032
• Members:7,551
• Latest member:admin

On the Jumbotron, $20 tickets, all money going to the Sunnybrook foundation. Rogers Centre makes money by having the concessions and beer vendors open.

The Jays are away that day so no conflict. Rogers earns a tiny bit of goodwill. win-win-win

I heard a rumor today the band is talking about refunding the tickets for Kingston, and doing a free outdoor show instead. Don't know how true it is though.

I have 4 extra tickets to the Vancouver Show on July 26 and would love to trade these for 4 on the 24th. I have Section 118 Row 25.

St Catharines station giving up a pair of tickets to the 97th caller at 5pm today

Sorry did not catch which show , but i'm assuming Southern Ontario

good luck

I took my chances with the pre-sale and general sale and NO luck.

This will be my 40th Hip show.

Anyone selling a pair, please let me know

A lot of basers are angry about tickets but I'm curious what percentage actually got shut out.

The deluxe edition of Fully Completely DVD...i have the book, the dvd fell out somewhere and i can't find it

can anyone burn this for me?


any shows from Sudbury from 1999-present

North Bay 2010

Toronto Canada Day 2015

Toronto Dundas Square

Hamilton last show at Ivor Wynne



somebody made me a copy of Sudbury Dec 5th 2000 a while back and i can't find that either, but i know somebody has this one at least...

anyways i'll pay for the cost of the dvd's and shipping or w/e and of course i am willing to compensate for the time and effort as well, but ya, I would love to have any of these on dvd...i know somebody can at least do the fully completely dvd.

Just a guy looking for a single Ottawa :thumb:

I put the two Tragically Hip videos from Saturday Night Live March 25 1995 up on Facebook 2 days ago after re syncing the audio figuring maybe 10 of my friends would like it - in 48h they have collectively been viewed over 600 000 times - this is what one guy who shared it wrote and I thought it was really great.

It's hard to quantify the importance of what The Tragically Hip mean to me and so many of my fellow Canadians. For the last 25 years they've been there, out there always being Canadian even while singing stories about Americans. Kinda like Gordon Lightfoot but without the international appeal. And I think it's partially in that lack of recognition many of us see ourselves in the hip. I love their music. I have sat down many an unimpressed date and mate around this world and pushed an album side upon them. And so few of them have liked it. Gord's crackly voice, relentless guitar and compelling ironic stories about anything but love never were able to win the hearts of my American, British and European friends. And in this universal rejection I wonder if the cement of my love for the hip was formed. As a Canadian, we have always been accused of being America lite, polite but basically the same. Sure we loved hockey, but when's the last time a Canadian team even won the Stanley Cup. But the Hip never got traded to Nashville. They for all intents and purposes were written off the day they arrived in the US. Many accuse Brian Adams manager of having them blackballed because he hated them, but it had to be more than that. Because endless Canadian stars pushed and pushed and met with that same open eyed dull state from their American friends, and the implied message... 'What's so great about this?' Dan Ackroyd and Lorne Michael's two proud Canadians, got The Hip this appearance on SNL, a huge event for most bands, often career changing. Dan came in to announce them himself, and a nation couldn't care less. That's the incredible magic of this band in a way. They are our secret language, our cultural code, the password into the club of Canada. Whenever they played in London or LA I'd go and watch them in a room of basically Canadians. A country that has very few heroes, and poppies, the hip was allowed to flourish due to the very rejection they received on a global platform. Their songs filled with humorous and ironic stories asking deep questions and painted in everyday hues of ordinary people's nuances was not the bombastic lyrical anthems of the US trying to lift a commercial music industries doldrums. It was a musical equivalent of a great interesting friend who you had to know to get it. I've always somewhere in my heart wanted them to blow up around the world. I remember dragging a bunch of friends down to Trafalgar Square a couple years ago to watch them on Canada Day with that anticipation that this time... This time, they'll click. But as the second song started and they asked if I wanted anything at the bar, yet again I felt that isolation. The same isolation when I'm asked what it means to be Canadian. How do I explain? We tended to like people that don't praise themselves, ideas and art that are rallied behind a near reluctant artist who we think is great while they cope with and are riddled with self doubt. We're the country that loves the one legged runner that didn't make it, but never let his hope die. We love the band with the crackly voiced lead singer, who never made it anywhere but here. And god damn it feels good that we saw the beauty they all missed, and for this lone reason we are so lucky to be Canadian. - Pete Johansson

So the horse has left the barn with regard to the tickets. I managed to get a couple honestly because my parents have Amex and that appears to have been the one presale that wasn't completely bot-fucked, but I could easily not have gotten any.

A lot of honest fans got screwed out of tickets. A lot of assholes (or a few really big assholes) are on the verge of making bank on the misfortune of Gord, the band, and us, the fans.

So the band should stream the shows. Not just Kingston airing on CBC (fingers crossed this happens), but all the shows on the tour. Every Stubhub-infested one. It's a win-win: the fans get to see the shows, albeit not in person; the band doesn't lose any money, and gets a shit-ton of goodwill; and the vultures' ticket prices will sink like stones, hopefully back down to close to face value so that people with actual souls might be able to buy them. What's the down side? If there's a stipulation in the venue contracts saying the shows can't be broadcast, shame them into allowing it to happen. There's literally no decent reason for them to prohibit this, and they'd look like dicks if they tried. Make this a matter of the public good, and they'll fall into line.

Anyone with me on this? Should we start a petition?