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I downloaded this from the old Hundredth Meridian and can't remember where it was from. I think it may have been a Montreal show but all of the Montreal bootlegs I've downloaded since haven't been of any help. This was obviously recorded by some guy one a tape recorder. The band is barely audible over him and his buddies singing along and the cheering of the crowd. It was possibly the worst non-cell phone cam bootleg I have ever heard and, yet, it had this amazing charm to it. You could just feel how much fun these guys were having and how the taper had no clue how to tape a show but decided that he wanted to do it anyway, to preserve the feelings he was experiencing at the time more than the music itself and even if that wasn't intent (it probably wasn't; he probably just didn't know anything about taping) it's how it ends up sounding to me. It may sound like ass and be a horrible recording of the band, but it's the closest I've come to a real concert experience with an audio bootleg. Most bootlegs are recorded at a distance to avoid distortion or to get a good view of a stage and all of that but they end up sounding so... distant. This is negligible, though, if the music is clear because that's usually the point of listening to a bootleg: the music. Still, there's just something special about this one, and it isn't the music.

...or maybe it really just sucks and I'm making all of this up based on something I heard once, ages ago. Does anyone have this?

Must've been a dream, turned into a nightmare!!

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Gonzo - The Hunter S. Thompson Documentary:
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I'm not a big rap fan...perhaps TDC can make me a mixed tape or something to bring me over to the dark side but I thought this was pretty damn funny.

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I've not heard a Hip song sung by a woman before so...

V Fest Calgary...or How Gord Downie Taught A City To Move

Much Music.Com
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One thing's for sure: Calgary's festival organizers know how to pick headliners who are true performers. This Gord Downie character sure knows how to work a stage.

But first, let's backtrack a second. I'm no Tragically Hip connoisseur by any means; I know Poets is the video with the cats and Ahead By A Century is that one that Much played a lot the year it came out (yes children, there was a time when we played videos by The Hip). Alas, there are few other Hip songs I can name or recite - but that doesn't mean I can't enjoy the legendary Canadian band when they're mere feet in front of me. Aaaaaaand I did.

Sometimes a performer is a PERFORM-AIRE. Sometimes they just give it to you in all facets of stage prowess. And sometimes Gord Downie comes along and chews on a kleenex and acts like a primate right in front of your face. No, seriously - he played monkey for a short while. And he twirled and jumped and kicked his mic stand; he posed and skulked and jammed and saaaaaaang. When you've got a camera in your hand, this kind of stage presence is gold. I was laughing and snapping away, grinning ear to ear.





Alas, I cannot tell you their set list, on account of the aforementioned lack of Hip knowledge - but if you were there, leave a comment relaying what you remember, and I'll share it with the peoples. Alls I knows is that the open venue was more packed than I had seen it all weekend; all eyes and ears were glued to a band that truly knows how to put on a show. And Gord is a maniac (in the best possible way)!

Calgary V-Fest wraps up. Organizers and fans praise the prowess of Canadian bands as our nation's greatest entertained 18,000 fans
By LISA WILTON

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Gord Downie, lead singer of the Tragically Hip, showed why they're still Canada's biggest band. (STUART DRYDEN/SUN MEDIA)

There were a few more clouds in the sky and the temperature was cooler, but the second day of Virgin Fest still attracted 18,000 local music fans to Fort Calgary yesterday.

Calgary's inaugural Virgin Music Festival wrapped up with the cream of Canada's music crop making up the bill.

"The music depth here is so rich and so diverse, it's wonderful" said Virgin chief marketing officer Nathan Rosenberg about the line up.

"Canadian bands can really hold their own against the best of Britain and U.S."

Though the festival ran smoothly for the most part, there were a few issues.

Festival-goers complained about the lack of toilets and the long lineups to get into the beer gardens.


"There are lots of toilets, but people miss some of them," countered Virgin Festivals director Andrew Bridge.

"But that is something we will have make people better aware of next year."

Bridge said Fort Calgary's hilly, riverside location posed some logistical dilemmas, but felt they had done a good job of addressing the problems.

High beer and food prices were another bone of contention with some music fans.

"I think $7 for a hi-ball or beer is kind of excessive," said 22-year-old Michael Rodgers. "What can I do? It's a festival."

But Rosenberg said that food prices were on par with how much it costs for take out and Bridge noted that the beer gardens were always packed with people.

There were very few medical or police emergencies during the weekend. Heat stroke hit a number of people on Saturday, but Rosenberg said festival staff made sure people were keeping hydrated.

"There were a handful of people thrown out for being drunk and disorderly," said Bridge.

"But I think the number was something like 15. A really small percentage."

While there was more of a buzz around the site for Saturday's headliners The Flaming Lips and Stone Temple Pilots, the hype was still strong for a number of yesterday's acts, including The New Pornographers and The Tragically Hip.

Thirty-five-year-old Melissa Halaska brought her daughter Arianna to the festival. It was the 12-year-old's first concert and she was thrilled to be able to see some of her favourite bands.

"She's here to see The Spades, 10 Second Epic and City & Colour," Halaska explained.

"I'm here to see Matthew Good."

Halaska said the $150 she spent on the day passes for her and her daughter was well worth it.

"Definitely. It's been pretty good so far so I think it's a great deal."

Local bands The Summerlad and Chixdiggit were the first acts of the day.

Chixdiggit nabbed the main Virgin Mobile Stage and while there wasn't a large crowd that early in the afternoon, they made sure each and every person was singing along to their catchy pop-punk.

Smart-aleck singer KJ Jansen called-out those who didn't comply and accused those who were sitting on picnic blankets of being from Edmonton.

The Constantines took the stage next and treated the audience to a surprise appearance by Hip frontman Gord Downie during their final song, Do What You Can, from their latest release, Kensington Heights.

Montreal's Stars snappy pop music was lot on many of the rock fans in the crowd. But those who 'got it' couldn't help but fall in love with Amy Milian's sugary sweet vocals and Torquil Campbell's Morrissey-esque belting.

City & Colour fit in perfectly with yesterday afternoon's laid-back vibe, but was dull as dishwasher. Singer and songwriter Dallas Green has an incredible voice but his stage presence is about as exciting as a civic election.

By the time Matthew Good hit the stage last night, the entire crowd was on its feet for the first time that day.

Those who had taken in both days of the festival for were no doubt tired by the time The Tragically Hip hit the stage last night. But the Hip faithful danced, yelled and sang at the top of their lungs as the band kicked off their set with Yer Not the Ocean from their latest release, 2006's World Container.

The Tragically Hip were sleek, professional and maybe a little predictable. But they showed exactly why they are still this country's biggest band.

If Calgary music fans were thrilled with this weekend's V-Fest, festival organizers were just as ecstatic and were already considering bringing the festival back to the city next year.

"We always say that if we can get the talent and we can get the venue and get all the pieces working together we'll do it," Bridge said. "We're not going to put on a sub-standard festival. We want to make sure we can give festival-goers the best experience they deserve."

Big Music Fest 'awesome'
16,000 well-behaved fans pack East Zwicks Park

THE INTELLIGENCER
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The verdict is in.

Awesome was the word of choice to describe Big Music Fest, which drew 16,000 screaming fans to Belleville's East Zwicks Park to see acts such as The Tragically Hip, the Sam Roberts Band and Sarah Harmer.

"This is awesome," said Jeanie Metcalfe, of Trenton, who was on the edge of the stage with friends Gerri Coulthard and Sharon Fairman of Trenton. "We want more rock 'n roll in Belleville."

Coulthard said she is amazed at how the city has drawn major acts in recent years.

"The Empire Theatre's doing excellent," she said. "We don't have to go to Toronto or Montreal to see a show anymore. It's great."

Added Fairman, "I went to Toronto to see The Hip once. To see them here is cool."

Their sentiments were shared by other fans.

"I think it's awesome," said Rick Dowdall of Wellington, who was at the show with his wife, Tracy, friend Debbie Skalba and two other friends who had travelled from Quebec to see the show. "It helps Belleville, it helps tourism, it helps everything."

Added Skalba, "I'm having a great time with my friends. A big name like The Tragically Hip brings not only Belleville together but the surrounding community."

Concert-goers were not alone in their enthusiasm.

Site manager and organizer David Joyce was nearly dancing with joy Sunday.

"We made a point that we wanted to have a good ... evening and that's what we accomplished," he said, adding the bands played for "an appreciative crowd not being stupid."

The show started just before 4 p. m. with Five Star Trailer park, followed by Attack in Black. By the time Harmer took the stage, at 6 p. m., the crowd was so large it ascended all the way to the top of the Zwicks Park hill.

Sam Roberts followed with an energetic set that got the crowd ready for The Hip, who played a two-hour set, wrapping up the evening between 10:30 and 11 p. m.

Joyce said although there was a concern that 16,000 concert-goers could turn out to be a nightmare for police, there were only a few arrests for public intoxication.

"Things stayed quiet as The Tragically Hip took the stage around 9 p. m.," said Belleville police Staff Sgt. Al Portt. "The large crowd of approximately 16,000 people dispersed peacefully between 10:30 p. m. and 11:30 p. m. once the Hip was finished."

A 44-year-old Wellington man was arrested and charged under the Liquor Licence Act. The same charges were laid against a 26- year-old Muskoka man, a 20-year-old Stirling man and a 26-year-old Lakefield man, police said.

Safety was a key component of the seven-hour concert concert, Joyce said.

"(There were) 75 to 80 security and then approximately 30 police."

Sunday morning, workers were busy cleaning up the site. The hill at Zwicks was littered with water bottles. Two sizable trucks full of the containers were brought in for concert-goers and only about a half-truck of water remained, said a security official.

Two bottles of water sold for $5, and canned beer sold for $5 each, Joyce said. He heard few complaints about price-gouging -- concert-goers could not bring in anything with them for security reasons.

Some naysayers knocked the show beforehand, fearing what was probably the largest single-event crowd gathered in one spot at one time in Belleville's history could get out of hand.

"Don't judge us until it's over," Joyce responded at the time.

Joyce, a Belleville resident who has been on the Waterfront committee and was its chairman in 1999, said because the crowd was so well behaved, the event could well return next year.

"The intent is if the city ... and the citizens of Belleville want it."

I was just watching a rerun of Joan Of Arcadia on HDNET and they were throwing a party at the house. Sam Roberts Don't Walk Away Eileen was the song playing in the background.
That is all - carry on...

sad sad news...

OBIT-George-Carlin, 3rd Writethru
code:3
INDEX: International, Entertainment
HL:Comedian George Carlin dead at age 71
By Keith St. Clair
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES, Calif. _ George Carlin, the dean of counterculture comedians whose biting insights on life and language were immortalized in his ``Seven Words You Can Never Say On TV'' routine, died of heart failure Sunday.
He was 71.
Carlin, who had a history of heart trouble, went into St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica on Sunday afternoon complaining of chest pain and died later that evening, said his publicist, Jeff Abraham. He had performed as recently as last weekend at the Orleans Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas.
``He was a genius and I will miss him dearly,'' Jack Burns, who was the other half of a comedy duo with Carlin in the early 1960s, said.
Carlin's jokes constantly pushed accepted boundaries of comedy and language, particularly with his routine on the ``Seven Words'' _ all of which are more or taboo on broadcast TV and radio to this day. When he uttered all seven at a show in Milwaukee in 1972, he was arrested on charges of disturbing the peace, freed on $150 bail _ and typically unapologetic on his release.
A Wisconsin judge dismissed the case, saying the language was indecent but citing free speech and the lack of any disturbance.
When the words were later played on a New York City radio station, they resulted in a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 1978 upholding the government's authority to sanction stations for broadcasting offensive language during hours when children might be listening.
``So my name is a footnote in American legal history, which I'm perversely kind of proud of,'' Carlin said earlier this year.
Carlin served as host of the first epidsode of ``Saturday Night Live'' in 1975 and appeared some 130 times on ``The Tonight Show.''
He produced 23 comedy albums, 14 HBO specials, three books, a couple of TV shows and appeared in several movies. Carlin hosted the first broadcast of ``Saturday Night Live'' and noted on his website that he was ``loaded on cocaine all week long.''
He won four Grammy Awards, each for best spoken comedy album, and was nominated for five Emmy awards. On Tuesday, it was announced Carlin was being awarded the 11th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
When asked about the fallout from the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show that ended with Janet Jackson's breast-baring ``wardrobe malfunction,'' Carlin said: ``What are we, surprised?''
``There's an idea that the human body is somehow evil and bad and there are parts of it that are especially evil and bad and we should be ashamed. Fear, guilt and shame are built into the attitude toward sex and the body,'' he said.
``It's reflected in these prohibitions and these taboos that we have.''
Carlin was born May 12, 1937 and grew up in the Morningside Heights section of Manhattan, raised by a single mother. After dropping out of high school in Grade 9, he joined the U.S. air force in 1954. He received three courts-martial and numerous disciplinary punishments, his official website says.
While in the air force he started working as an off-base disc jockey at a radio station in Shreveport, La., and after receiving a general discharge in 1957, took an announcing job at WEZE in Boston.
``Fired after three months for driving mobile news van to New York to buy pot,'' his website says.
From there, he went on to a job on the night shift as a deejay at a radio station in Forth Worth, Texas. Carlin also worked variety of temporary jobs, including a carnival organist and a marketing director for a peanut brittle.
In 1960, he left with Texas radio buddy Jack Burns for Hollywood to pursue a nightclub career as comedy team Burns & Carlin. He left with $300 but his first break came just months later when the duo appeared on the Tonight Show with Jack Paar. Carlin said he hoped to would emulate his childhood hero, Danny Kaye, the kindly, rubber-faced comedian who ruled over the decade that Carlin grew up in _ the 1950s _ with a clever but gentle humour reflective of its times.
Only problem was, it didn't work for him.
``I was doing superficial comedy entertaining people who didn't really care: businessmen, people in nightclubs, conservative people. And I had been doing that for the better part of 10 years when it finally dawned on me that I was in the wrong place doing the wrong things for the wrong people,'' Carlin reflected recently as he prepared for his 14th HBO special, ``It's Bad For Ya.''
Carlin's first wife, Brenda, died in 1997. He is survived by wife Sally Wade; daughter Kelly Carlin McCall; son-in-law Bob McCall; brother Patrick Carlin and sister-in-law Marlene Carlin.