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  Calgary filmed

Posted by: commedimus
11-21-2004, 03:41 PM
Forum: Download & Trading Central
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I can't say it was easy but Calgary was filmed. I'll save the story on the troubles because it makes me too mad. If anyone else filmed the show, let me know and I can do a multicam version. If anyone else that has filmed a show wants to trade, please let me know.

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  Trading Newbie's Fourth Post

Posted by: DrDada
11-21-2004, 02:54 PM
Forum: Download & Trading Central
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Hi,

I am VERY new to hipbase and am pleased to be here.

I have no Hip to trade at the moment, but would love to acquire some.

I have much other stuff to trade.

I do not 'do' BitTorrent - my e-mail runs through my work and I cannot access downloading networks.

Was wondering what the story is in terms of trading WAV-sourced shows via snail mail, etc.

Thanks for any advice and all responses.

I hope this post was not too 'forward' for a newbie like me.

Cheers,
Colin

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  Grey Cup Performance Songs

Posted by: lampshade29
11-21-2004, 02:35 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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I have a good friend in Ottawa and she snuck into the Hip's rehearsal yesterday.
They played: New Oreleans is Sinking, Vaccination Scar, Nautical Disaster.

Could be a pretty cool show! I hope they do Nautical. That would be amazing.

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  They played Gus at soundcheck this morning

Posted by: prz
11-21-2004, 01:33 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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When I was watching CBC newsworld this morning, they were interveiwing people on the field at the Staduim, you could hear the Hip kicking out Gus during soundcheck.

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  Rob and Gord S. on CKNW

Posted by: bigA
11-20-2004, 09:32 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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There was a recorded interview on CKNW this afternoon at 4:45pm.

check the archives. Rob has a couple of good things to say about the NHL strike and the way the music industry works in the US.

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Go to 4pm and fast forward to 4:45. You need to use IE for this.

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  Speaking of Dismantling An Atomic Bomb...

Posted by: grooveless touque
11-20-2004, 08:00 PM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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Here's a kinda clever article I picked up off CNN. I've always thought a lot about album titles and I'm always thankful I don't record music, which would require reducing a collection of my hardest work to be reduced to its barest essences by a three word title.

(CNN) -- The title of the new U2 album is "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb."

Now, you can't tell a book by its cover, the old saying goes, and that's usually true. By the same token, you can't tell an album by its title -- usually.

But "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb"? It's clunky, overlong and doesn't quite say anything. (Yes, I know it was inspired by a riddle: Q. How do you dismantle an atomic bomb? A. Don't build one. That's no excuse.)

The best album titles somehow manage to capture the spirit of the artist and the work in a few words: "Bringing It All Back Home" by Bob Dylan, which heralded his turn to electric rock 'n' roll, and "Blood on the Tracks," about his divorce. "Rubber Soul" by the Beatles -- a nice pun and a classic record. "Exile on Main Street" by the Rolling Stones. "Murmur" by R.E.M.

Nick Lowe managed to come up with two great titles for the same record -- "Jesus of Cool," which was known as "Pure Pop for Now People" in the United States. Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention said it all with their 1968 opus, "We're Only In It for the Money." Along the same lines: "The Who Sell Out," which cleverly lives up to its title for its first two-thirds or so.

And I can't help but smile at "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back" by Public Enemy, "One Nation Under a Groove" by Funkadelic, "Double Nickels on the Dime" by the Minutemen and "Ruin Jonny's Bar Mitzvah" by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes.

But bad album titles are like a stick in the eye.

Yes -- not the greatest of band names, either -- has albums called "Tales from Topographic Oceans" and "Tormato." Huh?

The Grateful Dead, no doubt inspired by a drug-fueled fondness for made-up palindromes, has an album called "Aoxomoxoa," which sounds like an intestinal tract parasite. (Ed. note: I've since been informed that "Aoxomoxoa," or "-oA," is not invented, but a term for the blissful state of mind reached by kite flyers. However, it still sounds like an intestinal tract parasite to me. I admit it: I just don't get the Dead, never have.)

Fiona Apple gave one of her albums a really long title usually abbreviated "When the Pawn ..." The whole thing reads like the doodle of a high school girl attempting to channel old Dylan liner notes. Not a good idea.

A friend of mine nominates a large portion of the Journey oeuvre: "Infinity," "Evolution," "Departure," "Captured" and "Escape" (all of which have dreadful album covers to match).

And that reminds me of the tedious list of Chicago LPs, starting with "Chicago II" and continuing ad infinitum up the number line. (In Mark Shipper's book "Paperback Writer," a character notes that the band's albums still go gold because people believe they should own the complete set, "like encyclopedia annuals.") When Chicago did give an album a real title, the band called it "Hot Streets," which is about as bland as it comes.

Genesis once called an album "Abacab," after a rhyme scheme. Of course, the band's drummer, Phil Collins, wrote a song called "Sussudio," which was a nonsense word from the dummy lyrics. Both are a long way down from "Selling England by the Pound."

And then there's Van Halen, which has given giggles to 10-year-olds everywhere with the titles "OU812" and "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge."

Well, the title will only take you so far -- and, often, a good album makes a title seem much better. (Would we still remember "Rubber Soul" if it had been done by Freddie and the Dreamers?)

Which brings us back to the U2 album. Is it any good?

Eye on Entertainment hits the "play" button.
Eye-opener

U2 has been one of the biggest bands in the world since the "Joshua Tree" days, but the group has never rested on its laurels.

After "Joshua Tree," the band took off in search of American music and came out with "Rattle and Hum," with nods to B.B. King, Bo Diddley, Billie Holiday and haunted Appalachian ballads. "Achtung Baby" burrowed into electronic music. "Zooropa" and "Pop" offered forays into the avant-garde.

"All That You Can't Leave Behind," which won a handful of Grammys, was heralded as a return to "classic" U2, but Bono, Edge, Larry Mullen Jr. and Adam Clayton would probably tell you there is no such thing. Is "classic" U2 "I Will Follow"? "New Year's Day"? "One Tree Hill"? "The Fly"? The band has grown and changed.

Still, even they're more than pleased with "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb." Bono has called it the group's best since "Achtung," which is usually ranked first or second in the U2 pantheon.

The album explores a number of themes. Some songs, most notably "One Step Closer," look at the relationship between fathers and sons (and life and death); Bono's father died three years ago.

The group's political activism comes out in "Love and Peace or Else" and "City of Blinding Lights." And then there's the single "Vertigo," which just blasts away.

Most reviewers agree with Bono's assessment. Rolling Stone gave the album four stars (out of five); Newsweek said the band was "at the top of its game."

Those who dislike the record, such as a number of contributors to the UK review site <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.albumvote.co.uk">www.albumvote.co.uk</a><!-- w -->, disapprove of the soft sound on several songs. One person said "Dismantle" was "hardly rocking." Another suggested Rick Rubin should be producing the band (Steve Lillywhite and Brian Eno handled the production on "Dismantle"), which sounds like a great idea regardless of what you think of "Dismantle."

If Rubin does take the reins for a future U2 CD, I hope he suggests a better title.

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  Yet another reason to do away with the Royal Family...

Posted by: grooveless touque
11-20-2004, 06:56 PM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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Before anybody gets their knickers in a twist, I was born in England and partly raised there (which explains a lot... :roll: :lol: ) so I do have the right to talk frankly about this. Oh, and by "do away with", I don't mean the way the Russians did away with their last Czar in 1918...I mean kick these people out on the street and tell them to lose the accents and get real jobs.

By PAUL MAJENDIE, REUTERS

With one gruff memo about not all men being equal, the heir to the throne has tarnished his populist credentials.

In a battle of aristocracy versus meritocracy, the "philosopher prince" is being pilloried as a bastion of outdated privilege by a Labour government whose Holy Grail is equal opportunity.

From organic food to alternative medicine, the prince is an environmental crusader who has even admitted talking to the plants in his garden.

The Prince's Trust, one of the projects dearest to his heart, has won plaudits for giving young entrepreneurs a start in business.

Once eclipsed by his glamorous young wife Diana and pilloried for his affair with Camilla Parker Bowles, Charles had been winning over his doubting subjects as a caring single parent after Diana's 1997 death in a Paris car crash.

But now his spin doctors are in a spin themselves over a row that has highlighted social divisions in this class-conscious land.

In the true blue corner stands Charles, exasperated by a suggestion from one of his personal assistants that she and people like her should be trained for more senior positions in his household.

"What is wrong with everyone nowadays? Why do they all seem to think they are qualified to do things beyond their capabilities," he asked in the memo read out as evidence at an employment tribunal.

"This is to do with the learning culture in schools as a consequence of a child-centred system which admits no failure."

"People think they can all be pop stars, high court judges, brilliant TV personalities ... without even putting in the necessary work or having natural ability."

Roaring out of the red corner came Labour's blunt-spoken Education Secretary Charles Clarke.

"To be quite frank, I think he is very old-fashioned and out of time and he doesn't understand what is going on in the British education system," Clarke said. "We can't all be born to be king..."

The spat has provoked debate across Britain.

Millionaire businessman Alan Sugar had no doubt: "Everybody should have ambition so I don't see where Prince Charles is coming from."

Television writer Jimmy McGovern, brought up in a cockroach-infested Liverpool slum, complained: "In theory I can aspire to any position in the land except his -- so how dare he say that?"

Former BBC royal correspondent Jennie Bond said "It was pretty rich coming from his extraordinarily privileged background."

But she did have a sneaking admiration for the prince who has been a king-in-waiting for decades and once freely admitted: "My great problem is that I really don't know what my role in life is."

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  looking for a seeder for the portland DVD

Posted by: j_espo1
11-20-2004, 04:38 PM
Forum: Download & Trading Central
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looking for a seeder for the portland DVD, please. thanks in advance.

p.s. im 78% complete with it.

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  Pistons - Pacers Brawl

Posted by: prz
11-20-2004, 02:41 PM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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Anyone else see this? Totally out of control. Some of the punches they landed on fans were nuts.

Why on earth would the Indiana players rush into the crowd? So dumb and I guess they will have lots of time to think about during their long suspensions.

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  New Orleans Beat?

Posted by: Jasper
11-20-2004, 01:37 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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Has anyone's noticed this song has been played at any of the shows?? Would love to hear it here (Halifax) but haven't seen it on any setlists. :oops:

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