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Tragically Hip week: Kings of this town

Is there any other band today that screams Canadiana so much as The Tragically Hip? The Kingston-brewed rockers kick off their summer touring season June 28, and to mark the occasion we’re spending this week in Arts & Life looking at all things Hip. Today: Jesse Kinos-Goodin on how Kingston, Ont., embraces its hometown heroes.

When Gord Downie sings “12 men broke loose in ‘73, from Millhaven maximum security,” during a Kingston, Ont., performance, the hometown crowd loses its collective mind. After the initial yells, glowing cellphones and lighters normally fill the air as The Tragically 
Hip frontman continues to tell the fictional story of a jailbreak from a prison in Bath, the small town just outside Kingston where The Hip also have a recording studio.

Despite lyrics saying that “one of the dozen was a hometown shame,” 38 Years Old, from the 1989 album Up to Here, is still a local favourite, says Doug Elliot, who worked with the band countless times over the years when he was music director at Kingston’s K-Rock radio station. Elliot, who is now program director of Oshawa’s The Rock 94.9, calls the five-piece band, consisting of Downie, guitarists Paul Langlois and Rob Baker, bassist Gord Sinclair and drummer Johnny Fay, “part of the fabric” of Kingston, and while he means that figuratively, it could also be taken quite literally.

This past February, the City of Kingston officially renamed a section of street that passes by the K-Rock Centre, a 5,700-seat arena in the downtown core, Tragically Hip Way, joining the ranks of many Canadian cities that pay homage to famous locals, such as Timmins’ Shania Twain Drive and Ottawa’s Paul Anka Drive. For members of The Tragically Hip, the love goes both ways. Not only do the band members evoke images of Kingston in their set lists, three of the five members (Langlois, Baker and Sinclair) still call the city home. In fact, since their self-titled debut in 1987, the Hip and “the limestone city” have always been associated with one another.

“They are an absolute integral part of our community, representing everything Kingston strives to be,” says Kingston Mayor Mark 
Gerretsen, who counts his favourite Hip song as New Orleans Is Sinking. “Not only did we name a street after the Hip, but we named the street in front of our large-scale entertainment centre after them. The address for the K-Rock Centre is actually No. 1 Tragically Hip Way.”

They are an absolute integral part of our community, representing everything Kingston strives to be
It seems fitting considering the rockers not only played the inaugural concert at the arena in 2008, but donated 100% of the proceeds to charity.

“A lot of people don’t know this about the Hip,” says Gerretsen, “but since they became big in the ’90s, they’ve never charged for a concert in Kingston. It’s always gone back to one charity or another.”

Bernie Breen, the group’s long-time manager, is hard-pressed when asked if knows of any other Canadian band linked so closely to their hometown.

“I don’t think there is one,” he says. “It would be tough to find a city and a band that has grown with each other the way Kingston and the Hip has. And it all started with their generosity out of the gate. Once they had any measure of success, they turned every Kingston gig into a benefit, giving millions of dollars back over the last 20 years.”

Once such gig was for Glenn 
Williams, K-Rock’s first employee when the radio station launched in 2001.

“It was the coolest thing they could do,” Elliot says. “After they opened the K-Rock Centre for free, they followed that up with another K-Rock Centre concert for Glenn, who had ALS [Lou Gehrig’s Disease], and donated 100% of the proceeds to his family.”

Unlike the “hometown shame” Downie sings about in 38 Years Old, the Hip seem to epitomize what it means to be a successful ambassador for their city.

Gerretsen agrees, adding that a street named in the band’s honour was far overdue.

“They’re a bunch of great guys who are down to earth and just love the city they’re from,” he says. “Kingston is very fortunate to have such great unofficial spokespeople.”

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2 for sale, tickets in hand, 150 for the pair

Very good article:

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After The Tragically Hip play a concert, there’s a tradition they’ve followed since the band became big enough — or perhaps, being honest, old enough — to worry about such things. They don’t disperse and head off separately to their hotel rooms or their families, and they don’t hang out all night with their fans. Instead, they hop on the bus and spend the post-gig rush together privately, as friends.

"It keeps us as a band instead of as five guys trying to make a living on the road,” says guitarist Rob Baker, who formed the group with singer Gord Downie, guitarist Paul Langlois, bassist Gord Sinclair and drummer Johnny Fay in Kingston, Ont., in 1983. “While everyone’s sweaty and in an up mood, we laugh, crack a beer and argue about sports. It’s like what five brothers would do at the cottage, except our cottage has wheels.”

This week, The Tragically Hip are taking their show on the road, as they’ve done every summer since 1993. The group recently wrapped their 13th studio album, Now for Plan A, which will be out in September, but the band’s popularity allows them to hold summer festivals across the country without new music to promote.

In Toronto, where musicians and concert-goers alike are still reeling from the Radiohead/Downsview Park tragedy — drum technician Scott Johnson was killed June 16 in a pre-concert accident onstage — Langlois says it’s important for the outdoor show to go on.

“Reading about Scott, it’s like I can picture him, and we were also in Ottawa on that stage a week before a storm blew it down during Bluesfest,” he says, referring to last year’s near-disaster during Cheap Trick’s set, in which strong winds up to 96 kilometres per hour brought the stage down and sent several people to hospital. “It’s horrible and sad and everyone’s got to be more careful, but the outdoor festival is an important tradition. Seeing bands and being outside, for me, it’s better than Christmas Day.”

Langlois says that it was in 1993 at Another Roadside Attraction, the group’s version of Lollapalooza, when The Tragically Hip earned their festival stripes. Back then, The Hip were tasked with following the red-hot Australian group Midnight Oil. It was their first big headlining show.

“They were so powerful that we were like, ‘How do we go on after that?’ We were close to sick, but you can’t stop it — the show was coming,” Langlois says. “Then we went on and, you know, the audience responded. It felt like an arrival of sorts.”

The Tragically Hip have won 14 Junos and a Governor General’s Award for the Performing Arts. They’ve been inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and played the very first show at the Air Canada Centre in February 1999. For better or worse, they’ve struck a particular chord of the Canadian rock sound for the past 30 years. And it all stems from an attitude, says Baker, that they picked up from Neil Young.

“Here’s a guy who walks up on stage in the clothes he’d walk down the street in and gets up and lays it down,” Baker says. “He tries to make it hard and he tries to make it honest and I think that’s been an influence on us and a lot of Canadian bands.”

Downie, the group’s enigmatic lead singer, was unavailable for comment, but ultimately any opinion of the band begins with your feelings for the frontman. Confounding, outspoken and unpredictable live, Langlois says that Downie’s always been a natural performer.

“When I first saw him play in high school, I could tell he was something special,” says Langlois, who adds that for every song like New Orleans is Sinking that feature an impromptu Downie jam, plenty of other tunes are played (more or less) straight. “Sometimes he cracks me up and sometimes I think, ‘that’s pretty cool,’ but it’s always a tightrope. That’s what’s fun about being in this band.”

The Hip have been together for nearly 30 years and, as they prepare for their summertime performances, they show no signs of slowing. Indeed, ask Baker how the band has changed over the past three decades, and he says they’ve only gotten tighter, which enables them to take more risks.

“There’s a trust between the five of us after being together for so long,” he says. “You can walk out to the edge and know you’re not alone out there — if someone’s hanging out, we’ll go grab him, forever.”

Just curious how the values of something signed by the band (non-personalized) compare to something not signed.

I have a copy of Hipeponymous in my office that is signed by all 5 members of the band with a nice silver sharpie that likely isn't worth much, but I was wondering, if this was one of those rare vinyls would it be worth more as is or autographed?

For instance, I dont think an autographed Gretzky rookie card is worth any more than an unsigned one...in fact, its probably worth less right?

As collectors what would you prefer?

Can anyone tell me the EXACT date (or where to look for a legitimate answer) that Day For Night was released on vinyl? On a Google search it gives a multitude of answers, but I know already it was in Sept. 1994. I'm pretty sure it was the 24th, but the dates of 19th and the 1st are also out there. Any help here would be greatly appreciated... Thanks.

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HEY HEY, comin up to the NIagara on the Lake show. Have no idea were Im going, what Im doing. Myself and my older brother. Anybody have any advice? We want to come up and party a bit then hit the show. We are we going? What do we look for? Is there a party anwhere? Were should we park? Is it within walking distance of the actual down town Niagara on the Lake? Are there bars within walking distance? House party close by willing to invite 2 Americans?

HIT ME UP, GETTING EXCITED

Hi, missed out on the sale, want to go and record show. Anyone have a partner who can't make it and want to take me instead?



Will pay of course...

So I'm walking in Kingston and I see Johnny on the street helping unloading gear. Say hello and move on and go see Prometheus (epic btw). Now I'm outside an old bank in Kingston and I can hear the faint sound of drums inside... me thinks I may have stumbled on some rehearsals. But how do I get inside!? Haha... just kidding... (except not really... let me in dammit!) Guess I'll continue onward and settle for seeing them on the 30th.

I have Gords Coke Machine Glow unopened wrapped up with the poetry book and the stickers still attatched. I ordered this from Maple Music when it came out. What do you figure the money bags guys on ebay will give me for it. Im thinkin it would go for $100.