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  ALL U.S. FANS EXPECT HUGE BRIDGE DELAYS TODAY

Posted by: rich3677
07-01-2004, 08:12 AM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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The rainbow and peace bridge are supposed to be incredibly backed up today, due to extra security and holiday traffic. My friend literally just called me (9:21 a.m. EST) to say he just spent an hour on the rainbow bridge, so make sure to leave extra early if you're heading to Toronto.

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  Toronto Rocks DVD set

Posted by: april_wino1
07-01-2004, 07:27 AM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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Say, does this bug anyone else here? The Toronto Rocks DVD set is going to be released as two discs in Canada - but only one disc elsewhere. As soon as I heard that, I already feared that I knew what was going to be released on the Canada-only disc. That's right, it's the SARS Stock performances that were performed by the Canadian acts that are barely known outside of Canada - while the only Canadian acts that are on the international disc are the very well-known ones of Rush and the Guess Who. This just isn't fair!! I don't know who came up with the idea - but to whomever did, I would just love to give these people the riot act!! What do you think about this? These industry people really piss me off - like they think that non-Canadians are somehow unworthy of listening to the Canadian acts that are only known in Canada.

:nooooo

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  Are we family

Posted by: Roy-at-tth
06-30-2004, 03:01 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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I'm fidning it rather ineteresting how some people REALLY dislike this song, and other absolutely love it.

Now i'm one who absolutely loves it.

Just, trying to figure out what it is about the song that makes there be such split feelings towards it.

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  Toronto Star article

Posted by: kari
06-30-2004, 02:31 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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Incase anyone didn't catch it in the paper yesterday...

Any size fits Tragically Hip
Band flips from arenas to clubs large and small

New album taps into roughshod charms of old


BEN RAYNER
POP MUSIC CRITIC

BATH, ONT.—The atmosphere at the Tragically Hip's invitingly lived-in studio, a cottage-y old farmhouse on the Lake Ontario shore just outside Kingston, is so relaxed and aimless that one wonders how the band has managed to get any work done there over the years.

The level of comfort at the Bathhouse, as the space is known, is in fact enough of a drag on the creative process that the Hip has taken to moving afield to workshop and record songs for a new album. It's certainly a great place to come back to, though, so it's not surprising that longtime friends and partners-in-rock Gord Downie, Paul Langlois and Gord Sinclair — minus drummer Johnny Fay and guitarist Bobby Baker — have picked the spot as the pleasant locale for a day of yakking with the Canadian press about their latest recorded offering, In Between Evolution.

The album is the finest and fiercest rock 'n' roll missive the Tragically Hip has issued since, perhaps, 1993's roiling Fully Completely — the disc that In Between Evolution's gruff mix of brains and brawn most closely mirrors. It also stands as testament to the rewards of shaking off the routine that can set in as a successful band enters middle age.

How the Hip rekindled the raggedy-assed spark that seemed too tightly constrained and sanitized on its last two, somewhat disconsolately received albums, Music@Work and In Violet Light, might seem a rather obvious move to admirers, mind you: It bashed the songs into shape onstage and then recorded them quickly and with a minimum of fuss in mostly live-off-the-floor takes. Which is, one is tempted to point out, what a band whose live performances are held in such near-religious renown, should be doing way more often.

"When you're young, that's all you do," Downie dryly comments. "In the middle part, you get more into taking your time."

Credit for some of In Between Evolution's roughshod charms goes to producer Adam Kasper, who has coaxed similarly vibrant performances from folks like the Weakerthans and Queens of the Stone Age in recent years. But the album's feel and thrust — "Just great songs to be performed," says Sinclair — really developed during a run of jam sessions and low-key club gigs in Whistler, B.C. (two benefits for the families of the Rutherford flood victims among them) leading up to the final recording sessions in Seattle early this year.

It's not like the Hip, who have always maintained a strong working-musician's ethic, have neglected the stage over the years. Downie alone — who dropped a pair of solo albums, 2001's Coke Machine Glow and last year's underrated Battle Of The Nudes, during downtime from the group — points out that "I'm on my fifth album in five years" and he has been hitting the road accordingly. Nevertheless, something evidently clicked back into place for the Hip during the run-up to the new album.

"It's still fun, which is the main thing," says Langlois. "It's pretty rewarding and it's a lot of work. I think that's where we really work the hardest, when we get together and stay motivated to improve the songs and weed out the ones that aren't making it and filter all these decisions as a five-piece."

In Between Evolution's release is being heralded this week by a pair of Toronto gigs, an up-close-and-personal club show last night at the Mod Club Theatre and another, more typically scaled performance at the Molson Amphitheatre on Canada Day.

The move from clubs to larger venues and back is, by now, old hat for the Hip, which is still in the odd position of a being a band whose audience sizes fluctuate wildly depending on where it lands. The disparity between the group's multi-platinum success at home and its cult status in the States — Rounder Records will handle the new disc south of the border, as it did In Violet Light — is standard Hip lore. The lads find themselves playing shows "small, large and in between" on a city-by-city basis in the U.S.

"We've got a good thing going in all the cities down there, and a very particular history in each one of them of how it's gone and what kind of club we're at," says Langlois.

Touring the States "takes a lot more time — there's a lot more cities. So the norm for us becomes a varied existence of (shifting nightly) from small clubs to big clubs to theatres. And then we come up to Canada and we're in the arena. Years ago, that's where the big adjustment was. But we've managed to get comfortable in any kind of venue."

"I think we have a really unique sort of career, a unique ability to do that," says Sinclair. "It kind of guided the way we wrote this last record. A little bit of this, a little bit of that ... It's actually more difficult to step up in front of 450 people, I find. To me, that's the real challenge. It's a lot harder making them stay than getting them in the door."

"We're punctual," quips Downie. "Pay us or don't. That's what we do."

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  Darien Lake question

Posted by: kari
06-30-2004, 02:03 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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Okay...I already have great 10th row tix for the Darien Lake show...

But my hubby's work colleague in Rochester gave him four VIP tickets for the show as well - apparently it includes seats to the show, parking, and a waitress.

My question is...the tickets say they are for the box seats. I didn't realise Darien Lake had box seats. Can anyone clarify????

Kari

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  The Official Canada Day with The Hip DVD thread

Posted by: chris
06-30-2004, 12:28 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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1. Who's taping?
2. Where will you be situated?
3. What gear are you using?
4. Will you be willing to share?

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1. Chris
2. Sitting on the lawn, hopefully near the centre.
3. Panasonic MiniDV digital video and Nikon CoolPix 3500 digital still camera
4. Of course.

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  GD Covers

Posted by: kgray
06-30-2004, 11:43 AM
Forum: Hip Solo Discussion
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Does anyone know where I can find a copy of the cover Gord did of Sarah Harmer's 'Hideout'? I've looked all over the 100th, but can't find it there.

Thanks
Kevin

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  Wedding Test (joke)

Posted by: highlander
06-30-2004, 11:34 AM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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THE WEDDING TEST

My girlfriend and I had been dating for over a year when we decided to get married. My parents helped us in every way, and my friends encouraged me.

My girlfriend? She was a dream! There was only one thing bothering me. That one thing was her younger sister.

My prospective sister-in-law was twenty years of age, wore tight miniskirts, and low cut blouses. She would regularly bend down when near me, and I got many a pleasant view of her underwear. It had
to be deliberate. She never did it when she was near anyone else.

One day little sister calls and asked me to come over to check the wedding invitations. She was alone when I arrived.

She whispered to me that soon I was to be married, and she had feelings and desires for me that she could not overcome and did not really want to overcome. She told me that she wanted to make love to me just once before I got married and committed my life to her sister.

I was in total shock and could not say a word. She said, "I'm going upstairs to my bedroom, and if you want to go ahead with it just come up and get me."

I was stunned. I was frozen in shock as I watched her go up the stairs.

When she reached the top, she pulled down her panties and threw them down the stairs at me.

I stood there for a moment, then turned and went straight to the front
door.I opened the door and stepped out of the house and walked straight toward my car.

My future father-in-law was standing outside. With tears in his eyes he
hugged me and said, "We are very happy that you have passed our little test. We could not ask for a better man for our daughter. Welcome to the family!"

And the moral of this story is:


Always keep your condoms in your car. Smile


High

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  Site Update...

Posted by: LoftyPines
06-30-2004, 10:24 AM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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From thehip.com:

Wednesday, June 30, 2004
The Tragically Hip completed their mini club tour in front of a packed house last night at The Mod Club (Toronto). Hopefully, you had a chance to hear the performance simulcast live on your local rock radio station. If you missed it, be sure to watch the entire concert including the 30 minute post live to air performance on sympatico.msn.com! Sympatico will air the webcast, which was shot entirely on HD on July 22nd. The band's latest recording IN BETWEEN EVOLUTION is now available in stores. We hope you're enjoying it.

posted by TheHip | 10:38 AM

We're pleased to inform you that Gord Downie is confirmed to sing the Canadian National Anthem at this year's MLB All-Star Game in Houston, TX on July 13.

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  All about Gus...

Posted by: MikeS
06-30-2004, 09:14 AM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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From yesterday's Chartattack (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.chartattack.com/damn/2004/06/2910.cfm">http://www.chartattack.com/damn/2004/06/2910.cfm</a><!-- m --> )...note the bold... :roll: :lol:

Quote:The Tragically Hip want you to know about the plight of depressed polar bears.

One of the most compelling songs from The Hip's new album, In Between Evolution, is an earnest ode called "Gus: The Polar Bear From Central Park." Gus, for those of you not up on your cults of animal appreciation, is one of the main attractions of the Central Park Zoo in New York. The giant bear was diagnosed with depression and obsessive-compulsive behavior back in '94, largely caused by the fact that tight zoo quarters tend to wreak havoc on the well-being of polar bears used to roaming 25 kilometres per day in the wild.

"Any time you've ever seen any animal in captivity — especially big guys like that — there's a behavior that becomes pretty easy to spot. A dementia is what they call it," says Hip frontman Gord Downie. "They have other names for it. Depression. So that's sort of what we're paying money to go see."

To the Zoo's credit, they paid $25,000 to an animal behaviorist to help find ways to get Gus out of his funk, which resulted in extensive activation programs to help his illness. And a few years ago they gave Gus's quarters a massive expansion as well as providing him with some company in the form of two female companions, Ida and Lily.

All this has made Gus and his girlfriends quite the media stars. In addition to The Hip's sonic salute, numerous news stories have been written about Gus. He's also been the subject of a children's book and a short film as well as inspiring performance art and fringe plays. His own "art" (chunks of log he has scratched up and chewed up rubber balls) will soon be available for sale on eBay.

Downie says the inspiration for the song came from a headline he read in the newspaper during a visit to New York. In the song, Gus is too down to feel like killing anything, which is a symptom of his depression.

"I know for a fact that polar bears, as a rule, and not even as a rule, unequivocally, want to kill anything that moves and eat it," he says. "So there's no sort of, I don't think there's any really taming them, really. And I think it's one of those things where, yeah, if you're up there in the tundra and you're moving around, the only reason it's not going to kill and eat you is because it's already full. There's something about that that's kind of compelling to me.

"And we needn't look much further than our own lives, I guess. I guess you can expand upon those feelings and thoughts as much as you like when you see that. Which I guess is also about what we pay money to see or do."

M.

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