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  FS: Hip VINYL

Posted by: Dire Wolf
09-16-2012, 05:00 PM
Forum: Hip Merch Discussion
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I've decided to move some excess Hip vinyl. Here's the first one...

Road Apples LP
First German pressing (rainbow label)
Vinyl: visually EX- due to some hairlines. Play grade is EX+
Cover: Laminated cover is EX- due to some minor edge creasing, here and there.
Overall, very nice copy
$60 plus actual shipping

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  The Tea Party- Live in Australia 2012

Posted by: direwolf74
09-16-2012, 03:41 PM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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Just had a listen to this album, and it freakin' rocks. I can't say I was the biggest fan of these guys back in the day; mostly because Jeff Martin's awful, cringe-worthy lyrics were always a bit of a turn-off for me. But as a live band, they were a force to be reckoned with. I think I saw them 4 or 5 times throughout the 90s, and they never failed to kick my ass with their powerful show and insane musicianship. While I may not be a fan of his songwriting, Martin is a hell of a guitar player. I remember he would constantly pull out all these weird non-traditional instruments from various parts of the world, and the dude was fluent at playing all of them. Very impressive stuff.

Anyways, if you're a Tea Party fan, I recommend checking this album out. As a live act, they've still got it.

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  Great article:

Posted by: ikky99
09-16-2012, 05:52 AM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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I'm embarrassed to admit I had no idea Road Apples was to be titled Saskadelphia.

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EDMONTON, AB, Sep 15, 2012/ Troy Media/ – To this day, the years spent at my new company in Saskatoon and travelling to Regina to “guest” bar tend at my best friend’s live music club stand out as among the best of my life.

My developing business and personal relationships, which often intertwined, greatly influenced my business and life, attitudes and strategies.

Each night, before Bob and John Vancise and I went to open The Venue and prepare the club for the evening’s “events”, we would always start the evening “strategizing” at the North Keg, which was kitty-corner to The Venue. While the staff at the Keg was really good to us, and even though I thoroughly enjoyed the hour or two there before we opened the club, I often wondered why we would spend time and money there when we could be doing the same at the club they owned. One night I asked Bob that very question.

His response was simple: Aside from the fact that they really were good people, The Keg closed a couple of hours earlier than The Venue. Often its guests, whether in the restaurant or lounge, would ask where they could go next, and Bob wanted to always make sure that his club was front and centre of their response.

And it was. You could always tell when the Keg closed, because everyone headed over to our place. Brilliant. Lesson number one – in any type of retail business, know your neighbours, and know your competition. Both can actually do you a world of good, and often be a great ally.

The second key lesson came from all of the time we spent with The Tragically Hip. We got to know them through the club shortly after the release of their first independent album, and then even more after their landmark first and second full-length, major release albums, which sent them firmly down the path of Canadian rock stardom.

They loved playing The Venue, spending as much time there as they possibly could while developing a large and tremendously loyal fan base throughout Canada.


Gord Downie
First, a bit of Tragically Hip trivia, which very few people know. The Hip’s second full length release, Road Apples, was originally titled Saskadelphia for their two favourite spots at that time – Saskatchewan (mainly because of Bob and John and The Venue), and, of course, Philadelphia. The record company ultimately nixed the title as they thought it might affect the band’s image and album sales. The band responded to this bit of nonsense with the title Road Apples. But maybe the record company was right because the album went on to sell millions of copies.

The second piece of trivia concerns the opening line of their huge hit, Wheat Kings. I often used to give the band a hard time about playing in Regina so much, and not Saskatoon – which I always referred to as The Paris of the Prairies. Front man Gord Downie thought the reference was great and asked if he could use it in a future song. Of course I said yes, and I couldn’t have been more proud than when it became part of the opening line of Wheat Kings, which has a direct reference to a major event that occurred in Saskatoon a long time ago.

Aside from many, many awesome nights spent with Gord and the rest of the band, I didn’t realize until years later the number of valuable lessons I would learn from them, about business in general, and most certainly about being in a business partnership.

Although Gordie wrote the majority of all Hip lyrics, and even though he was the enigmatic front man of the band, it was always at his insistence that each member of the band share in all earnings equally. It was his belief that no one person was greater than the whole of the object, and that they all won, or lost, equally.

The second was the importance of sticking together, through all of the tough times. For anyone not exposed to the music industry, the road to stardom is almost always a long and hard one. Playing small clubs in the middle of nowhere, often flat-broke, cold and hungry, it’s a long, hard, tough grind. Add to that any other multitude things that happen with the band and living on the road and it’s easy to throw in the towel when times are tough. Especially when there really doesn’t appear to be any light at the end of the tunnel at all.

The Hip experienced all of that and more. And through it all, they believed in themselves, what they were doing. And where they were ultimately headed. I didn’t know at the time how important those lessons would be.

Shawn Brown is the Founder and President of Forest For the Trees, a boutique business advisory service headquartered in Edmonton, AB. <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.forestnow.com/">http://www.forestnow.com/</a><!-- m -->

This column is FREE to use on your websites or in your publications. However, Troy Media, with a link to its web site, MUST be credited.

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  blow at high dough

Posted by: eatmecompletely
09-14-2012, 12:27 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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is about expensive coke?

Whoo, baby, I feel fine, I'm pretty sure it's genuine

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  Hip Stickers or Decals for car

Posted by: chuckm
09-14-2012, 06:03 AM
Forum: Hip Merch Discussion
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Does anyone know where to acquire Tragically Hip decals or stickers for cars?

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  Bacon Number - Google

Posted by: Tthip
09-13-2012, 01:06 PM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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Can you tell I am EXTREMELY bored at work?

Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon - now Google helps.
To use it, type in the words ‘Bacon number’ (without quotes), followed by an actor or actresses name. Google will come back with how closely he/she has been to Kevin Bacon.

Gordon Downie's Bacon number is 3
Gordon Downie and Nichole Hiltz appeared in Trailer Park Boys: The Movie.
Nichole Hiltz and Greg Grunberg appeared in Austin Powers: Goldmember.
Greg Grunberg and Kevin Bacon appeared in Hollow Man.

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  recording with iphone

Posted by: bauer
09-13-2012, 10:52 AM
Forum: Tapers Talk
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Hey gang, anyone done any recording with iphone apps? I am thinkin of upgrading my phone and might get an iphone if I can record with it.

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  Jim Bryson And "The Songs Of Nick Drake"

Posted by: Tthip
09-13-2012, 10:45 AM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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I very much like Nick Drake - and this sounds pretty damn cool:

JIM BRYSON AND “THE SONGS OF NICK DRAKE”
Jim is joining a host of Canada’s finest musicians to perform ” The Songs of Nick Drake” in a special concert series orchestrated by Luke Jackson.

11/06 – Peterborough, ON @ St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church
Special guests: Rick Fines, Jim Bryson, Wyatt Burton (The Silver Hearts)

11/07 – Kingston, ON @ Chalmers United Church
Special guests: Jeremy Fisher, Jim Bryson

11/09 – Ottawa, ON @ First Baptist Church
Special guests: Jim Bryson, Marie-Jo Therio, Marc Robert Nelson

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  Loads 'o mondy?

Posted by: andrew sharpe
09-13-2012, 07:43 AM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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Spinning Road Apples today and noticed in the jacket there is a misprint in the lyrics for The Luxury:

"If I had loads o' mondy to make me tame and sour"

This typo also seems to have made its way to all the internet lyric sites as well as thehip.com!

Call me stupid...:oops:...but this is a typo...right? "Mondy" isn't some 13th century term for something that GD read in some dusty book?

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  www.thehiptracker.com is now www.hipfans.com/shows

Posted by: chris
09-12-2012, 08:25 PM
Forum: Download & Trading Central
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<!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.thehiptracker.com">www.thehiptracker.com</a><!-- w --> is now <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.hipfans.com/shows">www.hipfans.com/shows</a><!-- w -->

Check it out and be amazed!

If you're looking for a specific show please let me know and I'll see what I can do to get it posted.

The Tracker is not 100% dead but for now this is what we've got.

As well if there's anyone out there who can write a snappy little bit of site code to create a search field and a sexier looking index I'd appreciate it.

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