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  Best Intro Lines To a Hip Live Song ...

Posted by: thebends
03-18-2012, 06:40 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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Here is one of mine ... name that song.

"Didn't they tell you when you came in? No throwing brazziers at the monkeys, it just makes them crazy ..."

Whats yours ....

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  Any Lucero Fans?

Posted by: joshwayy
03-17-2012, 04:23 PM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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Just picked up Women & Work and have had the chance to put it through its paces this week. Not bad. I'm drawn more to their earlier stripped down stuff, but there are some really great songs on this album.

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  The Rural Alberta Advantage

Posted by: fingernailsonhull
03-16-2012, 02:58 PM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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So, a friend of mine has been bugging me to check out RAA for a while. After buying my ticket to the show in NOTL this summer, I decided to check them out. I bought Departing earlier this week. Man, I'm really liking it. The Breakup is a personal favourite so far. I'm also detecting some serious Billy Corgan in Nils Edenloff's voice. Any other fans of RAA out there?

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  Wanted: Neil Young 2011 massey hall poster

Posted by: tigerthelion88
03-15-2012, 06:56 PM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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I've been searching for this miracle poster for a while now, I went to both shows with the father and got lost in the live hysteria that I missed my shot to buy one. I figure I take shot in the base - If anyone picked up an extra or one they'd like to sale. I would passionately buy / trade / endow for it. Thanks for considering

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  The Boss- Wrecking Ball

Posted by: direwolf74
03-09-2012, 10:24 PM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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Just picked this up on Tuesday. Excellent return to form! Much better than the boring dud that was "Working on a Dream". The first 8 tracks are fantastic, and "Land of Hope and Dreams" is vintage E-Street Band, complete with a powerful sax solo from the late Clarence Clemons (his final performance on a Springsteen album). This is solid stuff, and probably the angriest Bruce has ever sounded.

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  Live Between Us

Posted by: Dire Wolf
03-09-2012, 02:13 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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With some live dates finally on the calendar for 2012 and a full tour surely to follow in the fall, I decided to spin the Live Between Us record on my new table, for the first time. Wow, what an amazing performance and recording. I was reviewing Gord Sinclair's album notes and noticed something that I hadn't realized previously.

"We decided to send the tapes to our old friend Don Smith who, along with producing our first two records, happens to be one the world's greatest live recording and mixing engineers. He had a hole in his schedule and started to work. Mark, who has mixed the band every night for seven years now, sat in with Don to ensure that it was as close to the real thing as we could get"

No coincidense, that the 3 Hip albums Don was involved with are easily the best sounding. LBU deserves a re-release in it's entirety, that includes 700ft Ceiling, Daredevil, Flamenco and the encores.

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  Langlois interview about new album release and NOTL

Posted by: Dark Canuck17
03-08-2012, 01:52 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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Tragically Hip
Happiness is The Hip 'Enjoy yourself' is the band's message for Canada Day weekend show

Angela Scappatura/Standard Staff

Wednesday, March 7, 2012 6:26 PM EST

The Tragically Hip has performed in hundreds of venues through the past 29 years: Arenas, music festivals, bars. And on June 30, the iconic Canadian rock band will add Butler’s Barracks in Niagara-on-the-Lake to that list.

The Hip hasn’t performed in Niagara much and its members are looking forward to the opportunity, said guitarist Paul Langlois. On its website, the band says the event is meant to commemorate the bicentennial of the War of 1812.

“This kind of concept was appealing to us right away,” said Langlois, speaking from a busy street in downtown Toronto. “We enjoy playing places we haven’t played before and creating events that haven’t been done before.”

The concert, which also boasts performances by Death Cab for Cutie, The New Pornographers and The Rural Alberta Advantage, is a boon for the region. The Canada Day weekend concert could bring an economic spinoff of up to 20,000 fans, Walter Sendzik, chief executive officer of the St. Catharines-Thorold Chamber of Commerce, recently told the Standard.

While there is buzz about the economic benefits and potential flood of tourists to the region, Langlois said the band is focused on making sure everyone has a good time.

“In a live show the message is, enjoy yourself. Be nice to your neighbour,” he said. “Certainly on a sunny day on Canada Day weekend even more so. It’s a celebration of music and live music.”

That mentality is what has led to the band’s longevity, said Langlois. The Tragically Hip formed in Kingston in 1983 — Langlois joined in ‘86 — and has released 14 albums.

Last month, after a sometimes heated debate, Kingston’s city council voted to rename a portion of downtown Barrack St. as Tragically Hip Way.

“We still have fun together and really like each other. It’s probably a bit unnatural for the same five guys to be together, and we still work at it,” he said, adding the band has stayed on the same page as far as the intensity of their schedule and the venues they play. “Everyone wants to stay happy. We felt this way even when we started. No one knew who we were and we owed money. I think it’s our biggest achievement that we’re friends and we can hang out 12 hours a day and still have laughs like any old buddies would.”

Langlois is currently in Toronto with the band working on their forthcoming album with Juno-award winning producer Gavin Brown (Three Days Grace, Billy Talent). It’s the first time in several years the band is recording somewhere other than their own studio in Bath, just outside of Kingston.

And they’ve given themselves two weeks to record the album’s 13 tracks.

“The key is knowing the songs,” said Langlois.

So far, the project marks a slight departure from the band’s past recordings. Recent albums were “fully realized” in the studio with “chorusy” backups bordering on choral, he added. “This is going to be more bare bones, a little more raw, a little simpler.”

The recording style is also changing. It isn’t unusual for a band to build recorded songs one track, one instrument at a time.

And at first, the Tragically Hip considered doing that for their current recording. But as the band wrote and rehearsed, “the more it became clear we’re better when we’re all playing together at the same time,” he said.

“It seems like we’ve gotten into playing at the same time which isn’t a crazy new idea, playing as a band and trying to lay the track down all five of us together,” he said. “It’s been a process to get to this point.”

Langlois hopes the album will be released in September.

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  Look what this guy is selling.

Posted by: WesleyC.
03-07-2012, 04:17 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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I dont think he is supposed to be selling that.

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  Governor's Award for RUSH

Posted by: thebends
03-06-2012, 01:53 PM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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Rush may be perennially overlooked by the U.S. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but the band is getting an award for lifetime achievement at home.

The rock power trio has won a Governor General’s Performing Arts Award. The band members are among the laureates announced Tuesday in Calgary.

The other winners are:
Janina Fialkowska, a classical concert pianist with a 35-year career as an international star.
Paul-André Fortier, a dancer and choreographer who has created 49 original works, including Loin, très loin for dancer Peggy Baker and Cabane for his own company Fortier-Danse-Création.
Denis Marleau, a Quebec theatre director, stage designer and artistic director who is regularly featured at Montreal’s Festival TransAmériques and at festivals around the world, including the Avignon Festival.
Deepa Mehta, the film director and screenwriter who created Oscar-nominee Water and is to release Midnight’s Children later this year.
Mary Walsh, the Newfoundland-born writer and comedian, who starred in CBC’s This Hour Has 22 Minutes and is soon to give a solo show in Toronto.

Each laureate receives a cash award of $25,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts and a commemorative medallion struck by the Royal Canadian Mint.

Walsh is famous for her “Warrior Princess” character, who ambushes politicians and public figures for a frank talk, among them new RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson and Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, who famously called 911 when she turned up outside his house last year.

Rush, made up of Alex Lifeson, Neil Peart and Geddy Lee, is one of rock’s most influential bands with remarkable longevity and a track record that includes selling more than 40 million albums since 1974.

There’s been an ongoing campaign by Rush fans to have them inducted into the Cleveland-based Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. But each year when the nominees are announced, the Canadian trio known for hits such as Closer to the Heart and Fly by Night, is overlooked. The three have been members of the Canadian Music Hall of Fame since 1994.

Two more awards were announced in Calgary on Tuesday:
Earlaine Collins, a supporter of the performing arts for 45 years, won the Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award for Voluntarism in the Performing Arts. She has donated time, talent and capital to organizations such as the Canadian Opera Company (COC), the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and the Calgary Philharmonic.
Des McAnuff, Stratford Shakespeare Festival’s artistic director and a Tony winner for his production of Jersey Boys, won the National Arts Centre Award, presented for exceptional achievement over the past year. McAnuff helmed the acclaimed Stratford production of Jesus Christ Superstar that went on to San Diego and New York.

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  Dad, sons go on Hip adventure:

Posted by: ikky99
03-05-2012, 06:49 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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Dad, sons go on Hip adventure

MAGNETAWAN – Snowmobiling to the James Bay Coast is not entirely uncommon for Ray Boyden, but heading that far north to check out the Tragically Hip was an adventure.

Boyden, who lives in Ahmic Harbour, and his sons 19-year-old Mackenzie and 13-year-old Jack drove north to Cochrane, hopped on their snowmobiles and headed about 400 kilometres north to Fort Albany.

According to Ray, the 800-km round trip by sled was worth it.

“We’ve done the trip quite a few times before because a good friend of ours is a hunting guide, fishing guide and snowmobile guide,” he said.

That friend, William Tozer, has a camp on the Moose River.

The reason for this particular trip was to see his brother Joseph Boyden, author of award-winning literature including Through Black Spruce and Three Day Road, as keynote speaker at The Great Moon Gathering.

“The chief of that town knew Joseph and knows Joseph is friends with Gord Downie. So the chief asked Joseph if the Tragically Hip would go up there and do a show,” he said.

So Joseph placed a call to his friend and the rest is history.

There was some additional excitement en route.

They enjoyed great weather and easygoing travel, with temperatures well above the normal -40 to -50 degrees range.

During a stop in Moosonee, Ray and the boys helped Tozer bring in his trap lines that were filled with marten as Tozer regaled them with the story of his recent adventure.

“There was a crazy but very rare animal, actually no one had ever seen one up there, a wolverine. William trapped a wolverine about a week before so that was pretty much the talk of the town — this crazy wolverine,” he said.

Ray said there is no doubt that the trek to the Far North is worth the trip.

“They are a little bit out of civilization in some ways,” he said. “A nice part of that concert was to build up and promote their actual way of life, which is pretty impressive.”

He said much of the media coverage of the James Bay Coast is very negative but the reality is that the people who live in the area are proud and hard-working.

“Most southerners only see that negative aspect of it. It’s a different way of life. They revolve around the weather,” he said. “It’s a totally different way of life but it’s just the opposite. They love where they live and for the most part they have a good life up there.”

Ray said the Tragically Hip went over well with the population, but it was Joseph who was the star.

“They think he’s the greatest thing since sliced bread up there. He’s a huge star. There were lineups to get pictures with him and to get their books signed,” he said. “They absolutely love him. That was pretty neat to see too.”

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