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  Auction - Autographed Gord Downie Guitar

Posted by: Tthip
06-10-2010, 10:38 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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The War Child Rockin Auction

War Child has joined forces with 102.1 The Edge to bring you a weekly online auction of amazing memorabilia, tickets, and unique experiences, while helping children in war zones. New auction items will be announced each week on 102.1 The Edge as part of Thursday 30 with Dave Bookman. The items will be listed on our eBay page and will be accessible through this site, and at <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.edge.ca">http://www.edge.ca</a><!-- m -->.

The debut War Child auction item featured this week includes 2 tickets to see Gord Downie and The Country of Miracles live in concert at The Kee To Bala on July 15th, 2010, PLUS an Epiphone DR-100 Acoustic Sunburst guitar autographed by Gord Downie himself. Bid quickly as this item will only be up for one week.

Legendary singer, songwriter, and poet, Gord Downie is one of Canada’s most revered artists. The frontman and lyricist of one of Canada’s most influential rock bands, The Tragically Hip, will release his third solo album, The Grand Bounce, on Tuesday, June 8th, 2010. The album was produced by Death Cab For Cutie’s Chris Walla, and features a group of musicians known as The Country of Miracles, including Julie Doiron, Dave Clark, Josh Finlayson, John Press and Dale Morningstar. The Grand Bounce was recorded at The Hip’s Bath House studio in Kingston and includes the hit radio single “The East Wind” and the track “The Hard Canadian,” which Gord performed live in Toronto last February during a performance with Gordon Lightfoot. <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.gorddownie.com">http://www.gorddownie.com</a><!-- m -->


All auction items have been generously donated and all money raised will go towards helping children whose lives have been devastated by war. A new item will be offered each week, so keep checking the site for updates.
To bid on this week’s auction click here.

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  Help Finding Grand Bounce

Posted by: Ballgame
06-10-2010, 07:00 PM
Forum: Hip Solo Discussion
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Sorry if this was brought up. Don't have a home pc, can't use work computer for this stuff...... So all I have is my iPhone.
Hard to search site for this info on an iPhone.

Ok iTunes in US doesn't have it. No stores in Philly have it. Best buy.com is a no go.
amazon has it but for $26 which I can't afford (3 kids under age of 5).
Gord Downie. Com doesnt seem to be selling it, says out June 8th and it's past that.
Where did you others here from the US get it? Where did you hard canadians get it?

Help and sorry if this has been addressed.

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  threadless mix?

Posted by: catechism
06-09-2010, 02:27 PM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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Any Threadless fans around? They are having a thing where people are invited to submit a mix of 8+ songs, and then the warehouse workers vote for their favorite mix and the winner gets a $50 gift certificate. I work at Threadless now, and --like all new employees -- I started in the warehouse, and they need to listen to something that isn't the Ramones. (Not that I dislike the Ramones, and they are good Working In A Warehouse music, but twice a day, really?) Anyway, I think some hipbasers should put together some awesome canrock mixes for them! I'd do it myself if I were eligible.

Here's the link if anyone's interested: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.threadless.com/news/597423/Make_a_June_mix_for_the_Threadless_warehouse">http://www.threadless.com/news/597423/M ... _warehouse</a><!-- m -->

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  Chords for "Retrace"

Posted by: tigerthelion
06-09-2010, 05:02 AM
Forum: Hip Solo Discussion
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Ok, I'm a hack who likes to have a bit of fun on the guitar every once in a while. I have been listening to "Retrace" for a little bit and think that I have the gist of the song as far as the chords. Could one of the respectable guitar players correct me where I err:

intro: (hammer on with the index finger while strumming on C chord)
C F
C F
C F
C


F C
High as an elephant’s eye before we even left,
F C
and when the party had died, and as we drank the rest,
G Am
I retrace my steps.

(intro)

F C
Snowy basketball court, cross the cold courthouse steps,
F C
hanging on every word, hearing everything you say

G Am
as I retrace my steps.
C G Am
as I retrace my steps.
F C Am F
I retrace my steps, I wear a lonely path,
F C Am
I retrace my steps and back.

(intro)

F C
Woke up this afternoon, a pale sun in the west.
F C
I haven’t left my room. I haven’t taken a step,
G Am
as I retrace my steps.
C G Am
as i retrace my steps
F C Am F
I retrace my steps until no trace remains
F C Am
and I’ll retrace my steps again.
F C Am F
I’ll retrace my steps though I know we’re all saying ‘Goodbye’.
F C Am
You know, I’“ll retrace my steps again, tonight. Tonight.
(intro )

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  Throwing Off Glass

Posted by: BIGVDOGG
06-08-2010, 11:21 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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Tell me you dont love this song?
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  Daniel Lanois in hospital

Posted by: let_me_out
06-08-2010, 01:26 PM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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Just saw this on the globe and mail website.

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He seems to be ok. Broken bones and such.

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  Toronto Zoo

Posted by: Smokey
06-07-2010, 09:32 AM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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Folks,
Morning. heading from BUF up to the T.O Zoo this weekend with the little ones.

Any pointers out there? Never been there before.

Anything information will be welcomed.

Thanks in advance

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  Stereophonics drummer found dead at his home

Posted by: EPenguin10
06-07-2010, 07:21 AM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts...le1594478/

Stereophonics drummer found dead at his home
Stuart Cable, founding member of Welsh rock group, dead at age 40

Former Stereophonics drummer Stuart Cable was found dead at his home in Wales on Monday.

Cable was a founding member of the Welsh rock band, which rose to fame in the 1990s, but left in 2003 and pursued a career in media, presenting a weekend rock show on BBC Radio Wales, as well as forming a new band, Killing for Company.

“Rest peacefully. Stuart Cable 19 May 1970 - 7 June 2010. You will be missed,” read a message on Killing for Company's website.

South Wales Police confirmed the sudden death of a 40-year-old man at a house in the town of Aberdare at 4:30 a.m. (GMT) on Monday morning.

“Cause of death has not yet been established, however there are no suspicious circumstances at this stage. Next of kin have been informed,” police said in a statement.

Cable grew up in the same Welsh village as the band's frontman Kelly Jones. The group released their first album Word Gets Around in 1997, and won a Brit award for best British newcomer a year later.

“Stuart has travelled all over the world with the band and I have worried myself silly,” his mother Mabel, 79, told the Western Mail newspaper in Cardiff. “He is now settled down and then this has happens. It has not sunk in yet.”

Cable's brother Paul said the family had no further comment to make at this stage as the death was a matter for the police.

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  Gord Canadian Press interview

Posted by: bow_of_defeat
06-06-2010, 06:17 PM
Forum: Hip Solo Discussion
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By Nick Patch
THE CANADIAN PRESS
TORONTO — When asked how his family influences his music, Gord Downie is uncharacteristically grand in his response.
“They inspire everything,” says the father of four over coffee in Toronto’s east end. “Everything I do, everything I eat, everything I don’t eat.”
“You settle into the fact that you let these kids affect you in their great and positive ways, and that can only affect your work in great and positive ways.”
And, in the case of Downie’s new solo record, “The Grand Bounce,” his kids, who range in age from four to 14, affected the music in more tangible ways, too.
As the album disappears into its swirling closer “Pinned,” Downie whispers softly over a simple piano melody while ambient sounds of a train hum gently in the background.
Downie says most of the track was, in fact, recorded with his laptop while on a train ride home from a funeral. And the guest pianist was none other than his daughter, whom he’d recorded while she was “tinkling away at the piano.”
“She was appalled that I’d done that,” Downie said with a smile. “And I liked it. I kept it with me.”
Downie expanded kernels of inspiration like that one over and over for “The Grand Bounce.”
Its driving opener and first single, “The East Wind” — where swiftly strummed acoustic guitars provide an infectious accompaniment to Downie’s oft-repeated howl: “It doesn’t go around you, it goes right through” — was inspired by some idle chatter between Downie and his neighbour, Todd.
The brooding “The Drowning Machine,” meanwhile, was inspired by a newspaper clipping Downie spotted that reported on a deadly wave caused by a low-head dam in Alberta’s Bow River, while “The Hard Canadian” grew from a comment video director Mike Clattenburg made to Downie that one of his projects was “hard Canadian and dope.”
These moments add up to a record in which Downie clearly takes significant pride. He says that, in a way, he’s even going to be a little sad when the album hits store shelves on Tuesday.
“It’s been a real labour of love — I’m sorry to see it go, in fact,” said Downie, who recorded the new disc in August with producer Chris Walla (Death Cab for Cutie, Tegan and Sara).
“To sort of measure the depths of my affection for it, you probably don’t have to look much further than the fact that yeah, I’m a little heartsick to see it go.
“Putting it all together has conjured up every aspect of what I love about music and creating music and recording music for repetition and playback.”
And its release comes after a seven-year break in Downie’s solo career (2003’s “Battle of the Nudes” had been the most recent record to bear Downie’s name).
He said he was simply too busy with the last two Tragically Hip records — 2006’s “World Container” and last year’s “We are the Same” — to work on another solo album.
“We made two records in fairly quick succession, and I remember saying to my wife that I was really going to commit to that and try to do as good a job as possible,” he said.
“There was just no time.”
He found himself in a similar situation on this day, when — running late for his interviews — Downie had to hurtle through town atop his forest-green Batavus bicycle, a Dutch import that he clearly cherishes (he jokes that he’s informed his wife that he wants to be buried with it).
Just before sitting down to chat, he reluctantly peels off the hoodie he’s wearing only after checking to ensure the long-sleeved green T-shirt he has on underneath isn’t still soaked with sweat.
But despite the harried morning, he was friendly and relaxed as he chatted in-depth about his new album — even if he still feels a bit uncomfortable being interviewed.
“As you get older, you mellow, but there’s a natural propensity to watch what you say, ’cause you learn that you want more time and space to craft what you want to say because you’re less likely to want to say impetuous things, or things that aren’t thought-out properly,” he explains.
“That is the tricky part, and the nerve-making thing about interviews.”
Downie has mellowed with age, yes. It’s in that space that much of “The Grand Bounce” dwells, as Downie expresses himself with a clarity and eloquence he has only recently mastered.
And he is the first to acknowledge that the past years have marked a period of growth in his life.
“I’ve changed like crazy,” he said. “I know I have, ’cause I work at it. I work at being a better member of my family. So I know that that affects and drifts and soaks into my work, and my art.
“I’m very comfortable with my name on this record and that’s probably changed since seven years ago. For some reason, I was less so then. And probably, I’m more comfortable with that because I’ve just grown into it.”

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  In View vs. Cinnamon...

Posted by: Lizard King
06-06-2010, 05:13 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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Lawsuit worthy perhaps?? :lol:

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