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  Five strains, all named after Hip songs, were unveiled...

Posted by: ikky99
07-04-2018, 09:52 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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http://torontosun.com/entertainment/musi...es-passing

"Five strains, all named after Hip songs — Eldorado, Morning Moon, Grace, Gems, and 50MC (Mission Cap) — were unveiled Tuesday"

CREEMORE, Ont. — The Hip still hurts.

Gord Downie’s Tragically Hip bandmates — guitarists Rob Baker and Paul Langlois, and bassist Gord Sinclair — say they continue to mourn the loss of their long-time friend and frontman as they slowly step back into the spotlight.

“A chocolatey mess,” is how Baker described still feeling after Downie passed from brain cancer on Oct. 17.

“It’s still really fresh,” added Sinclair, while the trio did their first interviews at a lavish country gathering at The New Farm — about 125 km northwest of Toronto — to celebrate their Up Cannabis partnership.

“It’s been only eight months after 30 years. We’re really good friends. We’re a family. We have great support networks,” said Sinclair. “People go through different things. Personally, I have really sad days and I have really good days. And that’s a long process. And it doesn’t just include the five of us, or the four of us — see, there you go — I still think of it, in terms of a unit. But it’s just the people we’ve worked with, you know, since the early ’90s. Speak to them, see how everybody’s doing. It’s not the end of a career. It’s the loss of a good friend of all of ours.”

With the Oct. 17 date for legalized pot looming, the three Hip musicians, minus drummer Johnny Fay, were part of a large gathering to celebrate their partnership with Up Cannabis as both investors and brand ambassadors.

“Gord would have loved that,” said Baker of the first anniversary of his death coinciding with the date that weed becomes legal for recreational use in Canada.

Five strains, all named after Hip songs — Eldorado, Morning Moon, Grace, Gems, and 50MC (Mission Cap) — were unveiled Tuesday while food from five celebrity chefs was provided on two long banquet tables with seating for 260 people. Kingston rockers, The Glorious Sons and Toronto’s Dallas Green performed inside a barn, and a nearby watering hole provided a refreshing cool down in the middle of southern Ontario’s heatwave.

“He would have insisted that we played,” said Baker when asked what Downie would have thought of the event.

“He would have loved today,” added Langlois.

Interestingly, despite being long thought of as one of Canada’s most passionate frontmen, his bandmates say he wasn’t entirely comfortable as a public speaker.

“Gord would stand in front of 25,000 people and sing his heart out and go stream-of- consciousness until the cows come home, but if you got him to speak in front of 10 people about water rights, he hated it,” said Sinclair.

Added Baker: “The whole persona he developed on stage was stage fright. It’s not a natural thing to stand in front of an audience and bare your soul or to speak to a crowd of people. I guess it’s natural for some people. It’s not natural for most people. But, for Gord, I think it was hard. And I think every tour he would say, ‘I’m not going to do the dancing bear! I’m not going to do that anymore! I’m going to stand there and sing the songs!’ And as soon as he got out there in front of the crowd, like after about 20 seconds, it would just take over because he needed to do that.”

But when the Hip last toured together in 2016 — culminating in a nationwide broadcast of the last show on Aug. 20 in their hometown of Kingston – Sinclair says Downie fed on the fans reactions.

“He got stronger and stronger because of the love that he was getting back from them,” he said. “That’s what really struck me about the whole thing. He was really sick when we started. He was still really sick when we finished but he was better. It was all about love.”

HIP HAPPENINGS:

According to guitarist Rob Baker:

No more new Hip music: “We’re not actively creating music as The Hip. I don’t see it happening really.”

Maybe unreleased Hip music: “We’ll have to talk about what we do with that at some point. There’s probably like three albums worth. But I’m not sure what any of it means yet.”

Other side projects: “We’re still musicians. We’re still songwriters. It’s what we all love – being musically creative. We’re creative in other ways too so I don’t see that changing.”

— Read part two of Jane Stevenson’s interview on The Hip’s Up Cannabis deal in this weekend’s Toronto Sun.

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  The Weakest Link - Lead Single - Round 8

Posted by: gsmacleod
07-03-2018, 08:17 AM
Forum: The Weakest Link
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Hope everyone had a great long weekend as we say goodbye to IAGLIYDW.

7 - It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken
8 - At Transformation
8 - Vaccination Scar
10 - In A World Possessed By The Human Mind
11 - My Music At Work
12 - In View
13 - Love is a First
14 - Small Town Bringdown

Vote for the song you believe is weakest from the lead singles and after 48 hours, we'll eliminate the song with the most votes and move on to round 9. In the event of a tie, both songs will be eliminated.

Voting will end on Thursday at 9:17am Eastern.

Happy voting,

Shane

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  EP Pressing Clarification

Posted by: cantoms
07-02-2018, 10:02 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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I was hoping to get confirmation about the origins of this particular pressing of the EP. Based on what I've seen online, it may be a German version or maybe totally unofficial. It looks too old to be a recent repress. The only versions that I've seen occasionally for sale in the area have been the lighter blue covers. Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks.

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  looking for 1 radiohead july 20th

Posted by: kleh
06-28-2018, 10:48 PM
Forum: Ticket Exchange
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just happen to be in the gta that week and its long sold out and cheapest ticket on stubuhub is 220 ! worse case ill wait out them sellers and hope they panic the closer the date gets and lower a bit

i seen them live in 2001 and it was one of the most uplifting shows ive ever seen

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  The Weakest Link - Lead Single - Round 7

Posted by: gsmacleod
06-28-2018, 10:39 AM
Forum: The Weakest Link
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A double elimination of At Transformation and Vaccination Scar.

8 - At Transformation
8 - Vaccination Scar
10 - In A World Possessed By The Human Mind
11 - My Music At Work
12 - In View
13 - Love is a First
14 - Small Town Bringdown

Vote for the song you believe is weakest from the lead singles and after 48 hours, we'll eliminate the song with the most votes and move on to round 8. In the event of a tie, both songs will be eliminated.

Voting will end on Saturday at 11:39am Eastern.

Happy voting,

Shane

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  The Weakest Link - Lead Single - Round 6

Posted by: gsmacleod
06-27-2018, 10:38 AM
Forum: The Weakest Link
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Goodbye In A World Possessed By The Human Mind.

10 - In A World Possessed By The Human Mind
11 - My Music At Work
12 - In View
13 - Love is a First
14 - Small Town Bringdown

Vote for the song you believe is weakest from the lead singles and after 24 hours, we'll eliminate the song with the most votes and move on to round 7. In the event of a tie, both songs will be eliminated.

Voting will end on Thursday at 11:39am Eastern.

Happy voting,

Shane

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  Arkells Rally in Hamilton

Posted by: edgoffin
06-26-2018, 09:40 AM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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Drove down from Ottawa to Hamilton for the weekend show at Ivor Wynne (or I guess Tim Horton's Field...corporate naming rights sort of take the charm out of buildings). My 12 year old really likes the Arkells after seeing them open for Frank Turner, so this was a "end of the school year" trip.

Really great show. I came across Arkells years ago when they were playing bars, saw a couple of shows with maybe 100 people. Was pretty impressive to see them come pretty close to selling out a football stadium -- 24,000 -- only top corners farthest from stage has visible open seats. I maybe slightly prefer their older material, but as a live band they're really hitting another level and pulled off a "stadium show". One of the best crowds I've ever been in, in terms of really getting in to the show while respecting each other.

Hip related, besides name checking the band in Kiss Cam ("the hip have only wrote so many songs") Max did a short microphone stand battle that I suspect was likely in memory of Gord -- IMO was a big career break for the Arkells to open for the Hip.

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  The Weakest Link - First Single - Round 5

Posted by: gsmacleod
06-26-2018, 09:19 AM
Forum: The Weakest Link
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Goodbye My Music At Work; have loved you live but the studio version always falls short for me.

11 - My Music At Work
12 - In View
13 - Love is a First
14 - Small Town Bringdown

Vote for the song you believe is weakest from the lead singles and after 24 hours, we'll eliminate the song with the most votes and move on to round 6. In the event of a tie, both songs will be eliminated.

Voting will end on Wednesday at 10:20am Eastern.

Happy voting,

Shane

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  The Weakest Link - First Single - Round 4

Posted by: gsmacleod
06-24-2018, 09:25 AM
Forum: The Weakest Link
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Farewell In View and onto Round 4.

12 - In View
13 - Love is a First
14 - Small Town Bringdown

Vote for the song you believe is weakest from the lead singles and after 48 hours, we'll eliminate the song with the most votes and move on to round 5. In the event of a tie, both songs will be eliminated.

Voting will end on Tuesday at 10:25am Eastern.

Happy voting,

Shane

Edit - changed to 48 hours with low voting over the weekend.

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  The Weakest Link - First Single - Round 3

Posted by: gsmacleod
06-22-2018, 09:07 AM
Forum: The Weakest Link
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Love is a First is the second to leave; bring on round 3.

13 - Love is a First
14 - Small Town Bringdown

Vote for the song you believe is weakest from the lead singles and after 24 hours, we'll eliminate the song with the most votes and move on to round 4. In the event of a tie, both songs will be eliminated.

Voting will end on Saturday at 10:08am Eastern.

Happy voting,

Shane

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