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Story on Paul's solo album indicates that there will be few shows this summer.

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Hip plans on summer shows

Tragically Hip guitarist Paul Langlois said the band is going to do some summer shows before releasing their next studio disc, which they are currently writing and recording at their Bathouse Studio in Kingston, Ont.

"We just thought, 'Well, why don't we do a few shows for fun and get together and play and we'll record a record as we go and try and get a record done by the end of the year.' That's the hope," he told QMI Agency.

I'm planning on going to this, this year. The lineup is one of the best lineups for a festival I've ever seen. Has anyone been before, and can pass along any tips? What's it like? What are my chances of getting tickets?

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New Album, Collider, May 10, 2011
First single, "I Feel You" - request it.

This is a pretty cool project - there is a great overview of it here: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.nationalparksproject.ca/static/NPP-Synopsis.pdf">http://www.nationalparksproject.ca/stat ... nopsis.pdf</a><!-- m -->

From May to October, 2010, the project sent groups comprised of one !lmmaker and three musicians to a
park in each province and territory, to capture their experience in a short !lm and soundtrack. Each quartet
was selected from the best Canadian talent, with the aim of putting together people that had never worked
together before, in the spirit of exploring unfamiliar ground. Musicians and !lmmakers from across the artistic
spectrum were selected – arena rockers are represented beside avant-garde experimentalists, and directors
range from 30-year veterans to young !lmmakers releasing their first feature film.

***A 13-part half-hour documentary series on the making of the shorts and music in the National Parks Project, narrated by Gord Downie of The Tragically Hip, starts airing on Discovery World March 19. They’ll also screen online at <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.nationalparksproject.ca">http://www.nationalparksproject.ca</a><!-- m -->.



The following list includes 39 musicians and 13 filmmakers:

GWAII HAANAS NATIONAL PARK & HAIDA HERITAGE SITE (BC)
Filmmaker: Scott Smith (Falling Angels)
Musicians: Sarah Harmer, Jim Guthrie, Bry Webb (Constantines)

SIRMILIK NATIONAL PARK (NU)
Filmmaker: Zacharias Kunuk (Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner)
Musicians: Andrew Whiteman (Broken Social Scene) & Dean Stone (Apostle of Hustle), Tanya Tagaq

WATERTON LAKES NATIONAL PARK (AB)
Filmmaker: Peter Lynch (Project Grizzly)
Musicians: Laura Barrett, Rollie “Cadence Weapon” Pemberton, Mark Hamilton (Woodpigeon)

GROS MORNE NATIONAL PARK (NL)
Filmmaker: Sturla Gunnarsson (Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie)
Musicians: Melissa Auf der Maur (former Hole, Smashing Pumpkins), Jamie Fleming (Catl), Sam Shalabi

NAHANNI NATIONAL PARK (NWT)
Filmmaker: Kevin McMahon (Waterlife)
Musicians: Shad, Olge Goreas & Jace Lasek (The Besnard Lakes)

KLUANE NATIONAL PARK (YU)
Filmmaker: Louise Archambault (Familia)
Musicians: Ian D’sa (Billy Talent), Mishka Stein (Patrick Watson), Graham Van Pelt (Miracle Fortress, Think
About Life)

WAPUSK NATIONAL PARK (MN)
Filmmaker: Hubert Davis (Hardwood)
Musicians: Sam Roberts, Kathleen Edwards, Matt Mays

MINGAN ARCHIPELAGO NATIONAL PARK RESERVE (QC)
Filmmaker: Catherine Martin (Ocean)
Musicians: Jennifer Castle (Castlemusic), Sebastien Grainger (ex-DFA1979), Dan Werb (Woodhands)

BRUCE PENINSULA NATIONAL PARK & FATHOM FIVE NATIONAL MARINE PARK (ON)
Filmmaker: Daniel Cockburn (You Are Here)
Musicians: Christine Fellows, John K. Samson (The Weakerthans), Sandro Perri
5

PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND NATIONAL PARK (PEI)
Filmmaker: John Walker (A Drummer’s Dream)
Musicians: Dale Morningstar (The Dinner Is Ruined, Gord Downie), Chad Ross (Quest For Fire, Deadly Snakes,
Nordic Nomadic), Sophie Trudeau (Godspeed You Black Emperor, A Silver Mt. Zion)

KOUCHIBOUGUAC NATIONAL PARK (NB)
Filmmaker: Jamie Travis (The Armoire)
Musicians: Ohad Benchitrit (Do Make Say Think), Don Kerr, Casey Mecija (Ohbijou)

PRINCE ALBERT NATIONAL PARK (SK)
Filmmaker: Stephane La"eur (Continental: A Film Without Guns)
Musicians: Mathieu Charbonneau (Torngat), Andre Ethier, Becky Foon (A Silver Mt. Zion)

CAPE BRETON HIGHLANDS NATIONAL PARK (NS)
Filmmaker: Keith Behrman (Flower and Garnet)
Musicians: Tony Dekker (Great Lake Swimmers), Daniela Gesundheit (Snowblink), Chris ‘Old Man’ Luedecke

This just came in through a text message from thehip.com:

"What would you want on a mobile version of thehip.com?"

Personally I would like to see an app where we can update live show setlists in real time, as well as something like TTH Radio. Being able to stream portions of a show in real time would be cool as well.

I have for sale 2 tickets to see Joel Plaskett in Hamilton on March 10th.

Face value $70 for the pair. They are 1st row balcony seats at the Hamilton Convention Centre.

Let me know if you want them. I'll ship for free.

PM if interested.

Thanks,
Jamie

1. Music@Work
2. Fully, Completely
3. We are the Same
4. Phantom Power
5. In Violet Light

"and that's my story, and i'm stickin' to it"

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Rob Baker, musician-songwriter
“Getting to make a living out of your own creativity… You can’t really ask for much more than that.”


It’s ironic that I’m in a position to be detailing Rob Baker’s career, because I’m tragically unhip when it comes to music. I haven’t exposed myself to the eclectic music some of my friends seem to find, and am largely at the mercy of radio, movies and the occasional happy accident online when it comes to discovering artists.
I am, however, exposed to a lot of interview subjects, and I feel qualified to say that Rob is one of the finest. As guitarist for The Tragically Hip, he’s easily one of Canada’s most successful musicians. Yet he was more than willing to take an unexpected phone call from a stranger and fit in our interview on a Saturday morning before taking his two huskies dogsledding.

Rob was recommended as a Kickass Canadian by two of his compatriots, Ian and Jill Hodkinson. The couple lives in Gananoque, Ontario, not far from Rob’s hometown of Kingston, and was quick to boast about his generosity with local causes and charities.

That was enough for me. I picked up the phone, and the next thing I knew, I was getting a firsthand account of the history of a band that has lasted nearly 30 years, touring the world and picking up countless awards along the way.
It all started on a couch.


Playing by ear

As a youngster growing up in Kingston, Rob didn’t have a guitar. But that didn’t stop him from playing. He’d leap off the living room furniture, strumming hard on the strings of a tennis racket, rocking out to Diamond Dogs and Led Zeppelin. “I’d get so into the music, I’d pretend that I was playing all the instruments with all my body parts,” he says. “I’d just become a gigantic, spastic mess on the floor.”

When he was 12, he finally started learning on the real thing. Before long, he was playing guitar in a band with some of his high school buddies at Kingston Collegiate & Vocational Institute (KCVI). After high school, Rob took a year off and played in a more focused band that travelled around Eastern Ontario, playing up to five nights a week. It was a great learning experience for Rob, but the long hours on the road took their toll. By the end of the 12-month stretch, he was ready for a change.
Rob and bandmate Gord Downie were about to begin their studies at Queen’s University and couldn’t keep touring through the school year. “We decided we’d leave that band and form our own band and just play for fun,” says Rob. “That turned out to be The Tragically Hip.”


The Tragically Hip

With Gord Downie on lead vocals, the pair picked up fellow Kingstonites Gord Sinclair on bass, Johnny Fay on drums and Paul Langlois as a second guitarist. Throughout the 1980s, The Hip played all over Kingston, hitting up everything from biker bars and Sweet Sixteen parties, to health clubs and strip clubs. But eventually, the time came to cast a wider net.
Rob says there wasn’t one defining moment when the band had clearly arrived. He describes it as more of a slow outward spread. “And at a certain point, you’ve played everywhere you can in Kingston and you have to start looking elsewhere,” he says.
At first, ‘elsewhere’ meant nearby cities, such as London, Ontario. Before long, it extended across the border to the United States, and eventually over the pond. Rob says one of the band’s most memorable moments was opening for The Rolling Stones in Cologne, Germany. Rob and The Hip saw The Stones as a throwback to the early days of English R&B, and tried to mold themselves somewhat in that image. Having the opportunity to win over a crowd that had come to see The Stones was something of a milestone for the Canadian band.


Playing nice

Today, 28 years since forming, The Hip is still going strong. With five artists working closely over nearly three decades, it’s a wonder they’re still making beautiful music together. I asked Rob about the songwriting process and how he and his band mates resolve their differences.
“We certainly do clash over the creative process and I think that’s a good thing,” he says. “Generally when we’re writing together, we sit down in a circle and toss ideas out. Everyone throws their ideas in and they don’t become hit songs until everyone puts their stamp on them.”
They rarely resort to a ‘majority rules’ approach, even if it’s four against one. “We don’t leave anyone outside,” says Rob. “On some level, I think (that process has) slowed our progress as a band, but it’s kept us together as a working unit.”
These days, The Hip is logging hours in the studio writing for their next album, which they plan to release in late 2011 or early 2012. They’re also gearing up to play a few shows this summer. In the meantime, each of the men is enjoying the break from touring by focusing on their solo projects.


Stripper’s Union

For Rob, that solo project is a second band called Stripper’s Union, which he formed in collaboration with Craig Northey of the Odds. Its first album, Stripper’s Union Local 518, was released in 2004, and its second, The Deuce, will be out in March 2011.
Rob describes Stripper’s Union as “what The Hip would sound like if I had my way.” He says it’s a little heavier on the R&B side, with more of an Otis Redding feel. The band’s latest album will feature a cover of Gordon Lightfoot’s The Circle is Small, to which Rob added a darker, edgier slant.
The band provides a much-needed creative release for Rob, due largely to what he calls the “communist songwriting collective” observed by The Hip. “I write 15 or 20 songs a year that I think are complete songs,” he says. “Maybe two or three or four of those will end up on The Hip record, and the rest sit on a shelf… You need to get these songs out somehow.”


Jim Bryson and The Hip

Playing in a second band also offers Rob the opportunity to collaborate with different artists, which is something he welcomes with open arms.
When Kathleen Edwards featured a new keyboardist in one of her opening acts for The Hip, Rob took notice. It turned out the musician was none other than Jim Bryson, better known as singer-songwriter and guitarist for Jim Bryson & The Weakerthans, than as a keyboardist.
“I’m a huge fan (of Jim’s),” says Rob. “(He wrote) The Occasionals and I absolutely love that album. I went up to him and I salivated all over him and told him how much I loved him.”
Once Rob came down from his star-struck high, he told Jim that The Hip was developing a lot of material that would benefit from a keyboardist, and opened the door for the Ottawa-based musician to join his band on the road. In 2009, Jim spent seven months touring with The Hip.


Playing for others

That kind of generosity of spirit is something every member of The Hip regularly practises. For starters, there’s the Hen House—the bank of prime seats at every concert they play. That section is reserved for ticket holders who bring in the most contributions to Food Banks Canada. “We set up big bins and people bring food,” says Rob. “People who come with (a lot) of food get their tickets upgraded.”
Then, there’s the rotating donation policy, whereby one band member per show donates 10% of his profits to a charity of his choice. Rob’s focus of late has been on music programs in Kingston elementary schools; his share of the proceeds goes toward buying new instruments for the students. The band members also make a point of donating to the Joe Chithalen Memorial Musical Instrument Lending Library (Joe’s M.I.L.L.), established in honour of the late Kingston bass player Joe Chithalen.
But The Hip’s generosity dates back to the band’s earliest days. Since the late 1980s, every show they’ve played in their hometown has been held as a benefit, with all of the proceeds going back to various Kingston charities.
Most of that money has gone to pediatric initiatives, largely as a tribute to Gord Downie’s late nephew who passed away from a heart condition at only five years of age. The impact of that experience is reflected in The Hip’s song Fiddler’s Green, which they played for CTV’s 2010 telethon Canada for Haiti.


Playing by heart

The success of The Hip is undeniable. They’ve won countless Juno Awards, including Most Promising Group of the Year in 1990, Group of the Year in 1995 and 1997, and Best Single (Bobcaygeon) in 2000. They were inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame in 2002, and the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 2005.
But awards and accolades aren’t why The Hip came together. This is, after all, a band that was formed so its members could “play for fun.” The five are a decidedly grounded bunch. Most of them still live in their hometown. Rob has been married to Leslie Galbraith for nearly 22 years, and together they’re raising their 16-year-old son Boris.
Rob cautions budding musicians that they shouldn’t go into the business for fame or fortune. “There’s only one reason to do it, and that’s because you really love what you’re doing,” he says. In light of today’s technology, he says it’s harder than ever to earn a living as a musician. “Very few people make money.”
That’s not to say it isn’t possible; he’s living proof that it is, and he appreciates the privileged position he’s in. “Getting to make a living out of your own creativity,” says Rob. “You can’t really ask for much more than that.”
But money is never the motivation behind his music. Rob’s songs comes from the heart of an inspired little boy who loved the guitar so much that he didn’t wait to get one before he started strumming.

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As every good Canadian knows, there’s three important ingredients necessary for retaining citizenship in the Great White North:

1) A love for ice hockey
2) A love for snow
3) A love for Tim Horton & his coffee
4) A love for the Tragically Hip

Okay, so that’s 4, but as you notice, math isn’t on the list. And that last ingredient, a love for Gord Downie and the gang in the Tragically Hip, may be what really separates us from our freedom loving friends south of the CAN/AM border. Cause I’ve been there before, and there’s lots of people there that like coffee, snow, and hockey, but have never heard of the song “New Orleans is Sinking” – and New Orleans is in America, for pete’s sake!


Important historical sources
So I thought that in light of this, if I were ever to teach a course on Canadian history, the best and most accessible way to do it would be in Tragically Hip song form. Here’s my top 5 favourite songs to teach Canadian history with:




One of the great things about Tragically Hip songs is how layered they are. A brilliant instructor, seizing upon the opportunities these songs offer, could really make a lecture fun – AND dare-i-say, perhaps even make Canadian history kinda interesting:

#1 “Nautical Disaster”

This song could act as a gateway to Canada’s traditional links to Britain, the role Canada played in WWII, and the brutality of wartime atrocities committed…even by the hands of the Allies.



#2 “Fifty Mission Cap”

Not only could this song tie into a lecture on Canada in wartime just as “Nautical Disaster” would, but it also immerses itself in sport history with the story of Bill Barilko & a time when the Toronto Maple Leafs could win, not to mention Canadian culture AND most importantly: hockey cards.



#3 “(At the) Hundredth Meridian”

The line that runs through Manitoba, this would be a fantastic start to a lecture of Canada east/west relations. And buffalo. Also, it would be a good way to introduce students to Ry Cooder.



#4 “Wheat Kings”

Holy moly where to start with this one – you’ve got crime, punishment, and an innocent man – Western Canadian culture, and a story that transfixed the entire nation.



#5 “38 Years Old”

Maybe not a song based on a true story, but the song traces life in small town Canada, and what tragedy can do to a community. The tale told in the song could have come from anywhere in the country.



#6 “Fireworks”

This could be the song that brings the whole course together. You’ve got ice hockey, you’ve got the Cold War, and you’ve got an event that anyone alive at the time would remember. If only it mentioned coffee it could be our new national anthem.



So I know there’s 6 songs, but you’ll notice not one of the songs mentions math. There’s heaps more songs that could be added to this list, so feel free to include them below. Also, in the course of my “research” for this post I stumbled upon a great website called: A Museum After Dark: The Myth and Mystery of the Tragically Hip. It’s awesome, and goes into way more depth about songs and the band than I do.

Long time no talk.

I have some plans for the base in the future. I will probably start work when the new album (fingers crossed) is announced.

Between everything else I have started a new project.

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