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I just posted the signed program that The Hip donated to our fundraising auction: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180220175318">http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie ... 0220175318</a><!-- m -->

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named Little Bones? I received a calico kitten 2 years ago, and the only appropriate name I could come up with was Little Bones. I try to explain the name to people without sounding too obsessed, but I don't think I can.

Yay, the Odds are back!
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I remember seeing them open for the Hip at my first show back in 95/Hamilton. Good band, truth untold and someone who's cool great stuff.

Now if I Mother Earth, The Tea Party and The Watchmen would just follow suit.. (yes ill never let this dream go)



In more even kick ass news Matthew Good is touring again, but with a full rock band this time, wooohoo!

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May 29 Toronto, ON @ Massey Hall
May 30 Montreal, QC @ Club Soda
June 4 Sarnia, ON @ Imperial Theatre
June 5 Kitchener, ON @ Centre In The Square
June 6 Hamilton, ON @ Hamilton Place Theatre
June 16 Winnipeg, MB @ Burton Cummings Centre
June 21 Edmonton, AB @ Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
June 26 Vancouver, BC @ Orpheum Theatre
June 27 Victoria, BC @ Victoria Events Centre

Why no LONDON!!!!

I think I just might have to make the Kitchener or Hamilton show, he's just too good to miss. I hope there will be more dates to follow.

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21Feb08 The Tragically Hip
Brockville Arts Centre - Brockville, ON

Recording:
Neumann KM184s > Lunatec V3 > kimber kable (SPDIF) > Microtrack 24/96

Transfer:
direct to compact flash recording

Freq.: 44.1 kHz
Bitrate: 16-bits
Time: 125:30

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Notes:
centre balcony (front row) (walk pathway in front of row), DIN, clamped to railing

Setlist:
t01 - The Lonely End Of The Rink
t02 - New Orleans Is Sinking
t03 - Fully Completely
t04 - Grace, Too
t05 - It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken
t06 - Ahead By A Century
t07 - In View
t08 - Gift Shop
t09 - Fireworks
t10 - World Container
t11 - Fiddler's Green
t12 - Kids Don't Get It
t13 - Courage
t14 - Poets
t15 - Bobcaygeon
t16 - Nautical Disaster
t17 - Yer Not The ocean
t18 - 38 Years Old
t19 - Family Band
t20 - My Music At Work
t21 - Blow At High Dough
t22 - **encore break**
t23 - Locked In The Trunk Of A Car
t24 - Wheat Kings
t25 - Little Bones

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Rob Baker's third encore

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For more than two hours Saturday night, Tragically Hip guitarist Rob Baker rocked the new K-Rock Centre with his four bandmates.

The Kingston band played not one but two encores.

It was a show that would have been physically and emotionally exhausting for the beloved Canadian band.

They tore through fan favourites such as Courage, Ahead By a Century, Little Bones and Fiddler's Green.

Baker admits playing shows in Kingston is more nerve-wracking than playing anywhere else. When he looks into the audience, he sees friends, family and the diehard fans who have great expectations.

So, one might expect that Baker would be recuperating at home on Sunday, resting with his family, soaking up the praise Kingstonians would be bestowing on him for a job well done.

But, no.

On Sunday, just 15 hours after the show, Baker was at the K-Rock Centre to see the Kingston Frontenacs beat the Peterborough Petes 7-4.

Although the game was just the third event to be held at the new arena, following the opening night hockey game and the Hip concert, there were blocks of empty seats. Just 2,283 people turned out to fill the 5,700 seats.

Baker was there, not in a private box but sitting in the stands, near the Fronts bench, chewing on golden concession stand popcorn and chatting with fans who came up to shake his hand and pat him on the back for a good show.

Baker has been a vocal and longtime supporter of Kingston's new arena.

Rob Baker, the rock star, played two encores on Saturday night.

Rob Baker, the proud and supportive Kingstonian, showed up for a third on Sunday afternoon.

Now that's truly a job well done.

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23Feb08 The Tragically Hip
K-Rock Centre - Kingston, ON

Recording:
Neumann KM184s > Lunatec V3 > Kimber Kable (coax) > Microtrack 24/96

Transfer:
direct to compact flash

Conversion:
Originally recorded at 48.0kHz/24-bits
Dithered down to 16-bits using Sound Forge 8.0
Re-sampled down to 44.1kHz with anti-alias filter using Sound Forge 8.0
Individual tracks cut up using CDWave 1.95 with DirectWAV conversion
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Freq.: 44.1 kHz
Bitrate: 16-bits
Time: 144:29

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Notes:
recorded from FLR2, Row 7, Seat 1+2, 5-1/2 ft high, FOB, DIN
volume boosted 10.5 dB in post production
* with Dan Ackroyd on harmonica

Setlist:
t01 - introduction
t02 - The Lonely End Of The Rink
t03 - New Orleans Is Sinking
t04 - Fully Completely
t05 - Grace, Too
t06 - It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken
t07 - Ahead By A Century
t08 - In View
t09 - Pigeon Camera
t10 - Courage
t11 - World Container
t12 - Fiddler's Green
t13 - Fireworks
t14 - 50 Mission Cap
t15 - Poets
t16 - Bobcaygeon
t17 - Yer Not The Ocean
t18 - At The Hundredth Meridian
t19 - 38 Years Old
t20 - Family Band
t21 - My Music At Work
t22 - Blow At High Dough
t23 - **encore break**
t24 - Locked In The Trunk Of A Car *
t25 - Wheat Kings
t26 - On The Verge
t27 - **encore break**
t28 - Little Bones

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Is it just me or does Keep the Fire by Kenny Loggins sound exactly like Music @ Work?

Maybe I'm just watching to much Yacht Rock

Arena launch a Hip affair
Band christens K-Rock with mix of old and new
Lynn Saxberg, The Ottawa Citizen
Published: Tuesday, February 26, 2008

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For a Tragically Hip fan, Saturday night in Kingston was nirvana. The beloved Canadian rock band played its first hometown arena show since the last millennium, opening the city's mini-stadium with an epic greatest-hits concert that went on for nearly two and a half hours and featured a celebrity appearance by their old friend, Dan Aykroyd.

The actor, vintner and tequila mogul was on hand to welcome the folks on this historic occasion, and introduce his favourite Canadian rock band. Happily for music fans, the Elwood Blues side of him couldn't resist the opportunity to sit in with the band for an encore. More about that later.

First, some background. On paper, Kingston's sparkling new sports complex, newly dubbed the K-Rock Centre, was built as a home for the Frontenacs hockey team, but it was no secret the city also had a dire need for a decent venue for touring bands. At the crumbling old Memorial Centre, the reverb was said to be so fierce that a rock concert might have brought the place down.

Shoehorned onto a prime piece of downtown real estate, the new arena is like a miniaturized version of Scotiabank Place or Toronto's Air Canada Centre, the upper levels lopped off. It's cosy, but because the ice surface is a standard size, the back end of the rink, opposite the stage, could be a far off, lonely place.

Not on Saturday, of course, when every one of the 6,877 seats was filled with a screaming fan, or the offspring of a screaming fan. Lonely End of the Rink, a musical snapshot of a common sight in arenas across the country, made the perfect opening song. The same parents who take their kids to hockey practice were now dragging them along to a Hip concert.

Lonely is a relatively new song from the most recent disc, World Container, and if it didn't grab some of the greyer heads in the crowd, the next stretch of tunes was irresistible. Hitting stride early, the band dove headlong into their anthemic breakthrough hit, New Orleans is Sinking, floored it through another early '90s rocker, Fully Completely, before completing the vintage-Hip trilogy with the magnificent, sprawling Grace, Too.

Eccentric singer Gord Downie appeared thoroughly absorbed with his job of delivering the songs to the people, but at times the music inspired him in ever more bizarre ways. He used the microphone stand as a metal detector (to detect gold in them thar hits?), climbed the monitors along the edge of the stage, writhed around on the stage floor singing, waved a white hanky and eventually broke the defenseless mike stand.

Although some of his antics seemed pretty far out, that's typical on-stage behaviour for Downie. Just when you're starting to wonder if he's missing a few marbles, the performing trance snaps with a totally lucid comment.

"Here's one for Bob Lovelace," Downie declared early in the concert, showing serious support for the Algonquin chief in jail for protesting a uranium mining company's claim on land near Clarendon Station (worrisomely close to the site of the Blue Skies Music Festival). The song was It's a Good Life (if You Don't Weaken).

Through the upbeat Ahead by a Century, the perky In View, the unexpected Pigeon Camera and a glorious singalong on Courage, the pace built again, the barrage of rock created by five guys who have known each other for years. The rhythm section of drummer Johnny Fay and bassist Gord Sinclair played hard, while electric guitarists Rob Baker and Paul Langlois dug into their instruments.

Exactly at the point in the show when the opening-night challenges of missing tickets and long lineups and no parking had been forgotten, Downie brought us back to earth. "What a dump," he said, to a roar of laughter. "I'm kidding -- welcome to your new home."

The last hour or so was an emotional roller-coaster, the pendulum swinging from a teary Fiddler's Green to the sizzling Fireworks, from the contemplative Bobcaygeon to the delirious 100th Meridian. Also included in the home stretch were important early songs such as 38 Years Old, Blow at High Dough, Wheat Kings and the show-closer Little Bones.

Kingston's most famous son, Aykroyd, joined the boys during the encore, honking out some of his greasiest licks on harp, adding an even scarier dimension to Locked in the Trunk of a Car.

The sound was loud and fairly clear, not overpowering for the size of the room, and there were two big screens flanking the stage, an expense that hardly seemed necessary given that every seat is fairly close to the stage. Every seat is also fairly close to every other seat, by the way, so leg room might be an issue at a sit-down performance.

The best thing about the new venue had nothing to do with sightlines or acoustics. It was the location, a short walk from hotels, restaurants, pubs and the waterfront. Instead of spending an hour jockeying to get out of the parking lot at Scotiabank Place after the concert, in Kingston you can migrate a block or so west and nip into a pub.

Because of the size limitations, the U2s and Rolling Stones of the rock world probably aren't going to be playing in Kingston. But acts from Anne Murray to George Thorogood are already booked, and more are expected for the summer. Bring them on -- it's never too early to start planning a road trip.

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I didnt realise STP got back together? Anyone hear about this, do they plan to make an album or is this just a money grab deal?

Not too bad a lineup for a change... Sam Roberts, Linkin Park and STP assuming Scott can stay sober and out of jail. I never got to see STP all those years ago, its one of my concert regrets, I wonder if they still got it.