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Phenway on sunday !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Apparently the guys played a little acoustic set this afternoon - I am not sure what this is but possibly a radio show.

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Wasn't there a kick-ass song about this?

Ticketmaster has GA tickets available as of a couple minutes ago... just grabbed a few.

So I'm sitting in the parking lot of our local Dairy Queen in Kanata last night, windows down, eating my blizzard and listening to WATS. Suddenly two ladies pull up in a car beside me. The Last Recluse was playing at this time, and one of the ladies says, "hey that's a really good song, who sings that" and of course I respond, it's The Hip. She then says, "oh I never heard that one before" and of course, I say it's off their new album that just came out last month. She then proceeds by saying that she didn't know they were still making music. We then get into a whole discussion about how popular they used to be and blah blah blah...Then suddenly it clicked that I had an unopened copy of WATS in my car, so I asked her if she wanted it? I was willing to give it to her for free but she insisted on givimg me 5$, so I took it. I also told her that they were coming to town in September and she said that as soon as she got home she would by tickets. So when all is said and done, we hopefully have a rejuvinated hip fan and I was able to get a free blizzard!!

Here is an article that describes how Alex and the Hip hooked up for the show.

http://www.rush.com/news/mb_news

Someone may have very well posted this before, but I'm not sure how many 'Pegger Hipbasers there are, or if they live around Sturgeon Creek, or if they ever drive down Saskatchewan Avenue by the airport.

So....I'm driving into work today. I'm a biologist so I don't usually go to "the office" but I had to this morning. And down a route that I've driven dozens of times, I was, for some reason looking at the rail line running beside me.

I come up to a small rail bridge over Sturgeon Creek, and what should be graffiti-d on the limestone blocks? Gang tag...no...a pic of a cock? Nah. Some incomprehensible garbage? Nah.

The paint is kind of wearing away so it's prolly been there for quite some time. Never thought of Hip fans as the type that would carry cans of spraypaint around in the middle of the night

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They're Hip, but Canadian

By JIM FUSILLI
TORONTO -- The Tragically Hip has everything you'd want in a rock band: smart, distinctive songs; a sound to call its own; a live show that jolts the audience from its seats; and, in Gordon Downie, a front man who's been compared to Mick Jagger and Michael Stipe. The Hip's only problem: The band is Canadian.

Which isn't much of a problem in Canada, where the quintet is widely acknowledged as the country's best rock band. The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences honored two of their 12 discs with Juno Awards for best rock album of the year; another, 1996's "Trouble at the Henhouse," was voted album of the year, regardless of category. Eight Hip albums reached the No. 1 slot on the Canadian charts the week they launched. The band has a star on the Canadian Walk of Fame and was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.

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But "we can't draw flies in the States," the 45-year-old Mr. Downie said when we spoke earlier this month in a dressing room at Massey Hall, before and after one of the Tragically Hip's six shows here tied to their fine new album, "We Are the Same" (Rounder). Not that the band needs the approval of American fans. But it would like, and deserves, a bigger audience.

It's a mystery to me why the Hip haven't succeeded in the U.S. Many Canadian musicians have: the Arcade Fire, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Rush and Neil Young, to name a few. The Band, which created the prototype for what's known today as Americana music, was 80% Canadian; only drummer Levon Helm was born in the U.S. Further, were live rock a competition, the Hip would bulldoze just about any contemporary group that trod a terrain that accommodates the Smiths and Bruce Springsteen. I'd compare them to the Hold Steady -- but the Hold Steady don't quite measure up. Stand in the audience among the Hip's fans and you sense that they're right: This is a band to believe in, which is about the highest praise a rock group can inspire.

And yet no traction in the U.S., despite repeated touring, an appearance on "Saturday Night Live" back in 1995 and a slot at Woodstock '99. Maybe it is because of their devotion to their homeland: Whereas Mr. Cohen earned his international acclaim as an expat coming out of New York's 1960s folk scene and Ms. Mitchell and Mr. Young for the most part reached a wide audience out of California, the Hip are Canadian born and based, proudly so.

"For 20 years we've been beaten with both sides of the stick," said Mr. Downie, who writes the band's songs. "We're told our success in Canada is due to some nationalistic cheerleading. But I have no interest in perpetuating or galvanizing old myths about this country."

Yet he cites Canada, its cities and natural beauty, with unabashed affection in his songs. "It was considered quite risky to use Canadian place names in songs, especially in commercial pop," he said. "I wasn't the first to do it by any stretch -- and those who did it were considered brave, as if they were eschewing an American brass ring in favor of a Canadian ideal. But music is meant to flow anywhere you want. Music isn't stopped at Customs."

The Hip, which includes Rob Baker and Paul Langlois on guitar, Johnny Fay on drums and Gordon Sinclair on bass, have tried to cultivate an American following since they began their career some 25 years ago. Talk about grinding it out: Mr. Downie recalled a show in Hoboken, N.J., to which the band drew five people. Once a turnout in Harrisburg, Pa., was so tiny that the Hip considered inviting the attendees onto the tour bus. "There were more of us than them," he said. (They're touring the U.S. through mid-June; see thehip.com for dates and locations.)

America is an important market to them, not merely because of size. "We go down there because that's where the music we play came from. It's from the Mississippi Delta by way of England -- the Pretty Things, the Stones. That's our music, maybe with a Canadian coat of paint.

"If we were told we couldn't go to America anymore, we would be heartbroken," he added. "We're not trying to replicate our success up here. We go to America to work. We're not tourists."

During our conversation, Mr. Downie seemed incapable of a thoughtless answer. Had I known him better -- or at all -- I might say he grew melancholy when he pondered the band's relative lack of success in the U.S. How different he seemed on stage the night before. For all the Jagger/Stipe comparisons, he's like no other performer I've ever seen.

While singing with fire and bravado, Mr. Downie prances, staggers, goosesteps, squats and swings his arms like an ape, tries a bit of flamenco dancing and wields the mike stand like a majorette. He dedicated one tune to the pope and referenced Flannery O'Connor in the intro to another. Then there are those white handkerchiefs that he waves, wears as a veil, uses to mop his shaven head, flings into the audience, and trades for cell phones and cameras -- which he returns. The audience seems to cherish those pieces of cloth as if they were spun from gold.

For its part, the band goes about its business with industry: On the night I saw them, Mr. Fay boomed away on the big rock numbers and deftly worked an intriguing collection of hand drums during the unplugged set. Mr. Baker played a few notable solos; one was so enticing, I resented the distraction of Mr. Downie's showmanship. The high points came early and continued, but the reading of "Morning Moon" from the new album was magic, an intense yet tender respite from raging rock. It was the kind of moment no one who loves rock and pop, no matter where they reside, could resist.

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Printed in The Wall Street Journal, page D9

I am looking forward to seeing The Hip once again in Seattle. I am addicted to all things Tragically Hip. I look forward to meeting some Hip fans from the North as they descend on the Pacific Northwest. I would love to see The Hip in Canada. Anyone interested in meeting before the Seattle show to share some stories, laughs and goodies?

Is anyone else getting a private message from a new maybe (who shall remain nameless, for now) with the title "Important Information"? I've got two of them and there is a link to a strange website (which I haven't clicked on).

Perhaps the mods need to know about this, as it seems kind of suspicious?