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Picked up the bluray/CD combo at HMV on the weekend. F'n amazing. They truly lived up to the hype.

I've been trying to tape live concert songs with an Olympus Super Wide HD P&S camera with little success. Despite trying different options all I'm getting is very grainy video with terribly distorted sound. Can anyone share any tips on improving the results?

Not sure if this has been mentioned anywhere else, but I was reading an interview with Rick Mercer from the Grid TO newspaper, and he had a pretty funny quote about Gord Downie and the Hip which stems from something Gord said during one of the Kensington Shows.. here is is the article

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and the quote: My tastes are pretty eclectic. I’m going to go upstairs and download the new Tragically Hip album, with my apologies to Gord [Downie] for not buying it on vinyl. But I don’t have a record player, so I’ll just have to download it from iTunes.

Maybe Rick was there in Kensington, or reads this site. Who knows. Thought it was pretty funny though.

Can anyone comment about the view from the back of the arena at K-Rock? I was thinking of pickup up a pair, but all that is left is at the back (section 107 / 109).

I'm not one to need 'first 5 rows' but I do need a good view and good sound. Will I be happy back there?

Any chance somebody has captured this from thehip.com and wouldn't mind sending it along my way?

Nice interview with Rob Baker in today's Detroit Free Press...

A founding member of the Tragically Hip, the veteran alternative rock band performing Wednesday night at the Fillmore Detroit, guitarist Rob Baker has a down-to-earth attitude about making music. "I find the best things happen when the five of us are in a room together responding in real time," explains Baker during a recent phone interview before a show in upstate New York. "That's how you get the truest representation of what we sound like. There's less ambition in it, and ambition and pretense tend to go hand in hand."

Led by the fiery vocalist and lyricist Gord Downie, the Tragically Hip is also very much a showcase for Baker and fellow guitarist Paul Langlois, but nobody gets overly analytical in the recording studio.

"There is not a lot of preplanning that goes on; it's a very intuitive process," says Baker. "We don't get all touchy-feely. A series of raised eyebrows and rolled eyes is pretty much how we communicate and figure out what to do."

After a three-year break, the Tragically Hip has just released the new studio album "Now for Plan A," returning the Kingston, Ontatio, quintet to the intense, take-no-prisoners sound of earlier work.

QUESTION: In your 30-year-or-so history with Tragically Hip, do you have any idea how many times you've played in Detroit?

ANSWER: Oh my God, I can't begin to guess; it's got to be 30ish or so. I think the first couple times we played in Detroit were at a small conference center, an upstairs room with no stage, around 1987 or '88. Certainly in the very early days, the idea that we might get to somehow play St. Andrew's Hall was a big deal. We did play St. Andrew's near the Fourth of July around 1990, and I remember sitting on the (tour) bus with hundreds of thousands of people walking by us on the way to the fireworks.

We've had some truly awesome gigs there, including the time we played Cobo and recorded a live album (1997's "Live Between Us"). I don't think it's too much to say that the U.S. is still the big enchilada and you've got make it there somewhere, and it makes sense that you should make it in a border town. Detroit has been a huge influence on us musically, massive in our catalog whether it's Motown or Iggy Pop.

Q: How did the writing and recording of your new album come together?

A: After our last album (2009's "We Are the Same"), we decided we were going to take nine months off. During that time, we got into writing songs, which naturally morphed into recording, as we record while we write. Sometimes our demos become finished tracks.

So after months of relaxing and working on demos, we had a cancer scare in the family -- one of our band member's wives. Obviously, that just trumped everything, and fortunately that's had a very happy ending. But there was a period of about six to eight months where Gord Downie wasn't in a mind-set to work (because of wife Laura's illness). But he came back refreshed and ready to go.

We brought in someone (Gavin Brown) we haven't worked with before to produce the album, working together for several months on the demos. Once we finished off the demo process outside of Kingston (at Bathouse Recording Studio), we went to (Noble Street Studios in) Toronto and bashed out the album in 10 days.

The video for the song "At Transformation" is us playing the song live in the studio, but it's not a mock-up; it's actually us recording the final version live off the floor.

Q: Nice to hear fellow Canadian Sarah Harmer singing with you on "Look Ahead" and title track "Now for Plan A." What's your history with her?

A: Strangely enough, Gord and I used to go to Queen's University with Sarah's older sister Mary Harmer. She was our good friend, sang backup with us at times and did some go-go dancing one or two times at shows a long time ago. On one of the Ontario jaunts, she brought her little sister Sarah to one of our gigs. She was 16, shy, quiet and hardly ever spoke, just watched the show wide-eyed from backstage and was taking it all in.

Not too long after that, she decided she wanted to pursue a career in music and we've stayed good friends since then. She also lives in Kingston, came into our studio while we were working on the new album and ending up singing on two songs.

Q: What made you want to become a guitarist?

A: I was listening to Bowie, Free and Led Zeppelin, then all of a sudden the Rolling Stones hit me. There was something about the guitar in the song "Dance Little Sister" (from the album "It's Only Rock 'n Roll") that drove me (profanity) mad. Two days later I had an acoustic guitar and four months later an electric. Those first two years after I discovered the Stones, I'd buy one of their records every other week and would endlessly put on the needle again and again, learning every tune.

After that, it was all about going back and finding the source. So I'm 16 and listening to Slim Harpo, Muddy Waters, reggae, Motown, country and western and more. They opened all these doors to great music.

Q: So how has your band managed to stay together so long?

A: That's an excellent question. I don't know! There haven't been too many fistfights, but there certainly have been disagreements where everyone doesn't see eye to eye. We all have very different tastes, and it can be tricky and fragile at times to keep things together. But we honor the fact that we're a lot better together than we are apart.

We've all done solo things, which are satisfying but it ain't the Hip. We're brothers, we're family, and things have to go pretty far south for you to disavow your family. When you've been off the road for a while, you dread going back on, but then you strike the first chord and you're right back in it.

More Details: The Tragically Hip

7 p.m. Wed.

The Fillmore Detroit

2115 Woodward, Detroit

313-961-5450

$30

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Anyone know of any music stores in Cornwall that will be carrying the Bobcaygeon movie?

Is there a US tour poster being sold at the merch booth? If not, do you think they will combine the US and Canadian tour dates into one poster? They did this with the 2009 poster of the bison/buffalo man. I need a new one for my office!

Anyone "stuck " with a tix they can't get rid of let me know. ASAP. Will meet at show. Thanks alot