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  Ottawa Show Sep 26th

Posted by: angusbn
09-27-2009, 08:52 AM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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1. Sound quality was off during the start of NOIS and Depression Suite not so good - great afterwards.
2. Gord was dynamic - twice into the crowd stepping gingerly from seat to seat aided by the crowd. I looked back at the stage and the boys were laughing at his antics. They kept strumming along.
3. Paul must have broken a sweat with all his footwork :>
4. GordS and Johnny were, what can I say, simple outstanding - I don't expect otherwise.
5. Robbie can wail for sure - my wife commented on his guitar sytle - I'm thinking she was looking at his jeans!!

It was a 5 star concert.

My ears are still humming.

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  FS - Ottawa - September 28th - 4th Row - Only 4 Seats Left

Posted by: TTH700FT
09-26-2009, 01:36 PM
Forum: Ticket Exchange
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  Jim Bryson & The Hip - Ottawa Citizen

Posted by: giller
09-26-2009, 10:24 AM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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Learning to be Hip
BY LYNN SAXBERG, THE OTTAWA CITIZEN

Ottawa singer-songwriter Jim Bryson had more than 80 songs to learn to prepare for his gig as keyboard player for the Tragically Hip. He was determined not to come up short.

"My biggest thing going into rehearsal was not knowing stuff," says Bryson, who's spent much of this year touring as a member of the veteran Canadian rock band. They pull into the National Arts Centre today for three concerts, tonight through Monday. "So I worked really hard to make sure that I knew everything that was on a master list. I didn't want to be in scenarios where I was embarrassing myself."

Bryson discovered dozens of great Hip songs he hadn't heard before, and is finding that most of them are getting played. Instead of booking a single gig in each city's biggest arena, the Hip are performing multiple dates in theatres across the country, stretching out with a different setlist every night. Over four recent nights in Edmonton, for example, 58 different songs were played.

From his vantage point in the back corner of the stage, Bryson has a unique perspective of the Kingston-formed quintet. Together for 25 years, Gord Downie, Rob Baker, Gord Sinclair, Paul Langlois and Johnny Fay are like family, Bryson notes. "They all come from the same neighbourhood and they all went to school together. They weren't like a band that was formed by strangers in a city somewhere."

Bryson approaches the job with the same dedicated work ethic he learned while touring with Kathleen Edwards and the Weakerthans.

"There's never a night off with the Hip. Every night they take it like a 15-rounder. All of them, they give everything they have every night, which is inspiring. No shows are mailed in."

During his immersion in the Hip repertoire, Bryson also started writing his own material. Then he spent a week over the summer recording in the Hip's studio near Kingston, with producer Dave Draves and a band that included Ottawa drummer Peter Von Althen and the Hip's Gord Sinclair on bass. The album, so far untitled, is due next year.

Bryson, whose first child was born while he was writing, says his songwriting has changed a lot since his last disc, Northside Benches. "I feel like a 180-degree person than I was there," he says. "I live healthier, I feel like I have a much more positive outlook on the world."

And although it's tough to be away from his wife and daughter, Bryson considers himself lucky to be able to make a living from music. "It's a really fortunate life I get to live and I'm very, very aware of that."

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  Good Story From Ottawa Citizen

Posted by: giller
09-26-2009, 10:22 AM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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Hip Nation
Their music is our mirror
BY PETER SIMPSON, THE OTTAWA CITIZEN

It's an irony that the Tragically Hip, the most Canadian rock band ever, is named after a skit written by an American who found fame by copying the Brits. What could be more Canadian than a foundation of British colonialism coloured by a patina of American cultural imperialism?

It's not just the Tragically Hip's name -- by now well-known to be from a movie by Michael Nesmith, who was one of the Monkees, the prefab U.S. copy of the Beatles -- that makes them so Canadian. You could also argue the guitars are inherently of this country, especially when they are sternly resolute (New Orleans is Sinking, Fifty Mission Cap), or show a laconic patience (Fiddler's Green, or Grace, Too) that seems born of the deep Canadian influence of Neil Young or Joni Mitchell.

Yet, the Canadian-ness of the Hip, who start a three-night run at the National Arts Centre tonight, is rooted elsewhere, deep in a lyrical canon that portrays this nation like nothing else in mainstream rock. Folkies have written distinctly Canadian songs -- Gordon Lightfoot, Stan Rogers -- and there may be worthy but obscure rock bands that write Canadian songs that few people hear. If we're measuring the quality and sheer quantity of Canadiana in songs by rock bands that have etched a place in the general awareness of most Canadians, then nobody beats the Hip.

Canada's current crop of global stars -- Nickelback, Céline Dion, Diana Krall, Avril Lavigne, Arcade Fire -- perform songs that may be good and even grand but are lyrically generic. The Hip have long mined a vein of Canadiana that may not travel so well but earns them reverence at home.

They're in the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, were given a Governor-General's Performing Arts Award, won more than a dozen Junos and sold several million albums.

The Kingston, Ont., band has toured the world and been very popular in some, mostly northern, parts of the United States, but they've never approached the global popularity of Canada's biggest musical commodities, and it's tempting to wonder if the Hip's Canadian stories have dissuaded some international fans. (Not that it seems to matter to the band. "Let's face it baby I'm up and then baby I'm down," Gord Downie sang in their first hit, 1987's Last American Exit. "You'll watch the border offer you fame and watch you drown.")

In pop culture, generic stories often export better, because they're so easily, universally understood: Baywatch is the most-watched TV show in world history not in spite of its insipid morality tales, but because of them. Italian teenagers may not understand what Downie means when he sings, "I hear your voice 'cross a frozen lake/ a voice from the end of a leaf/ saying, 'you won't die of a thousand fakes/ or be beaten by the sweetest of dekes,' " but they capiscono quickly enough when Avril Lavigne sings, "He was a boy/ she was a girl/ can I make it any more obvious?"

Granted, even the most dedicated Canadian Hip fan doesn't always know exactly what Downie is on about. His words routinely veer into the esoteric and the surreal.

"Left alone to get gigantic/ hard, huge and haunted/ a generation so much dumber than its parents/ comes crashing through the window," he sang in At the Hundredth Meridian, from 1993's Fully Completely, which arguably was their greatest album and their most lyrically Canadian. The hundredth meridian is, according to the delightful fansite <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.hipmuseum">www.hipmuseum</a><!-- w -->. com, "the line of longitude that separates much of Western Canada from the Central and Atlantic regions (and) the moist and urban east and the arid and rural west." Those divisions -- east and west, urban and rural -- are the very definition of Canadian life.

Not every Hip song is demonstrably about Canada, but so many are that only a sampling can be quoted here. Fully Completely alone brims with them.

"Twelve men broke loose in'73/ from Millhaven maximum security/ 12 pictures lined up, across the front page/ seems the Mounties had a summertime war to wage," they sing in 38 Years Old.

"Jacques Cartier, right this way/ I'll put your coat up on the bed/ Hey man you've got the real bum's eye for clothes," is from Looking for a Place to Happen. "Sundown in the Paris of the prairies/ Wheat Kings have all their treasures buried/ all you hear are their rusty breezes/ pushing around the weathervane Jesus," Downie sings in Wheat Kings, a wonderful evocation of time and place that calls to any Canadian heart, even one not from the Prairies.

Other examples abound, from their first, eponymous 1987 EP to their newest disc, We Are the Same. "The reactor's down/ I guess for Labour Day today/ it's the first day I ain't seen a great plume of steam/ from across the lake" -- a suggestion that Downie has moved down the road from his hometown to Toronto. How Canadian is that?

Dedicated fans respond to different things in their beloved rock bands -- the epic absurdity of KISS, the ragged edge of Guns N Roses, the soaring grandeur of U2. Hip fans respond to the signposts of Canadiana. There's something primal about singing along to the things we know, the things we've felt, the places we've lived.

Years from now, on summer nights in Tofino and Muskoka and Cavendish, Canadians will still pull out guitars and play Wheat Kings or the exquisite Bobcaygeon. Cover bands in nondescript bars will still rock the joint with Fifty Mission Cap and Blow at High Dough. These are classic songs of our Canada. They are our songs, our mirror, our voice.

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  Sunday September 27 in Ottawa

Posted by: Flame N' Co.
09-26-2009, 08:37 AM
Forum: Ticket Exchange
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I have 1 ticket in row EE (4th row - Seat 11, centre-left facing the stage) for sale for the Sunday September 27th show in Ottawa at the NAC. The ticket price is $100, which is the face value of the ticket or best offer. If interested, please reply to this post.
Thanks Shawn

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  ISO 2 Tickets for Hamilton Fri Oct 2nd

Posted by: ashtrayrock
09-25-2009, 05:18 PM
Forum: Ticket Exchange
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Any tickets would do!

Please pm me.


Thanks

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  My Interview With Gord

Posted by: MattyM
09-25-2009, 03:31 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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I thought I'd share it with all you guys before I give it to the site I write for!

Quote:The Tragically Hip are a household name in your native Canada, but elsewhere you're less well known, does it seem strange to go from the large scale venues at home to the smaller gig venues you play in Europe?[/b]- It's not the size of the venue that matters it's what you do with it. Playing music never seems strange and only seems strange. We could play on the ass of an elephant and make it happen.

For those of our readers who haven't heard you before, how would you describe The Tragically Hip? WhatThe should a new listener expect?- There will be blood...

Your latest album, We Are The Same, has perhaps the most relaxed feel of any of your releases to date. Was this a conscious direction or something that evolved naturally?
- As with the recording of any album, it was a bit of both,. I think we wanted to make sure, more than anything, that we weren't discounting songs for their relaxed feel. As with the recording of any album, you prepare and prepare and prepare so that you are open and ready to go in any direction, from moment to moment with confidence.

The new album is the second time you've worked with Bob Rock, you're obviously very comfortable working with him, what makes him such a good fit for you?
- Bob is a Family Man who loves loves loves music. He is someone to admire with a mindset you wanna emulate. An impressive person you wanna impress

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  FS-Hamilton Single - Row BB - Wednesday Show

Posted by: O.N.
09-25-2009, 10:21 AM
Forum: Ticket Exchange
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Single seat for Wednesday Sept. 30th, Row BB - face value

PM if interested

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  An Open letter to The Tragically Hip

Posted by: Thetraghip
09-25-2009, 01:27 AM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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I have been a fan for over 10 years now. Tonight was the 12 time I have seen you guys live. I felt like I had to some how try to send a message your way to express my feelings as you guys get the chance to do it live and through your music.
At the end of every show, Gord thanks the crowed and music lovers for coming out. I have never missed a chance to say "No, Thank you" every time you drop that line. Speaking on behalf of all Hip Fans, thank you so much for doing what you guys do. You guys never take a night off and every night you bring the absolute best show ever. Ive been to tons of concerts, probably over 60 and the top 12 ive ever seen are you guys.
We appreciate the fact that you dont play single after single. Its nice to hear you belt out "OFF THE COAST OF FRANCE" as much we appreciate hearing you sing "wheather man wet fingers the sky". You ended tonights show with 'Fire in the hole' which no other band would have the courage to do so.

I met you guys one night in Calgary with -25 temps outdoors and you stayed to sign all autographs. Very classy. I pleaded Bobby "to never stop making music" and he responded by saying "I wouldnt know what to do with myself if I did". Seriously. On behalf of everyone who has struggled in life and listened to Fiddlers Green, or to anyone who rocked out to Pigeon Camera in the back of a broken down neon travelling across canada, or to anyone who gets a smile everytime they hear "under pressure, under pressure, COURAGE!!" or to anyone who gets a rush singing "Him? here? now? no!"...please do not ever stop playing music. You might have a clue how happy you make people, but im here to tell you its tenfold.

We all appreciate what you do. I will buy ever seat in the house if it means seeing you guys 1 more time. You represent Canada like no other band. I was in a town of 30 people in Australia, playing Hip by the campfire trying to explain to people what you mean to us as Canadians.

Seeing the Hip live is more comforting then seeing your team score a goal or drinking a double double. Nothing beats looking over to see Sinclair bobbing his head like a turtle, Baker shaking his long hair, and Gord breaking microphones and dancing like a maniac.

So on behalf of ALL music fans and music loves, we thank you. You make life better and we are proud to call you our home and native band.

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  New Website

Posted by: PRINCESS
09-24-2009, 08:12 PM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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Hi Everyone,

So, I wanted to tell you all about a website that I created! It's called My Wee View. http://myweeview.com

I write product reviews and have a new giveaway (or 2) every single day. Everything from clothes, shoes to vacuums <---- yes I have a Dyson coming up as a giveaway shortly.

anyways, I just wanted to pass on the info for all of you, if you like to win things, then check it out. Make sure to subscribe by RRS feed or email so you don't miss any really cool giveaways.

Thanks everyone Smile

Lynette

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