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  Book 7

Posted by: joshwayy
07-21-2007, 11:14 AM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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Who's reading?

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  Piano for In View?

Posted by: toaster
07-20-2007, 04:27 PM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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My daughter is learning piano, and she wants to try "In View." Anyone have any bits of In View figured out on keys? Even just the intro would be fine. Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyone?

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  TTH @ La Zona Rosa - Oct 18th

Posted by: Jimmy Crowe
07-20-2007, 10:29 AM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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I just scored tickets for the Austin TX La Zona Rosa show on October 18th.

Is anyone else planning and going down to this gig?

Has anyone been to this venue before? What is is like??

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  The StarPhoenix- Hip heat up hot July night

Posted by: NegPhil
07-19-2007, 06:30 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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Hip heat up hot July night
Bill Robertson, The StarPhoenix
Published: Thursday, July 19, 2007

What better way to cool off on a hot July night than in the Delta Bessborough Gardens and the warm groove of the cool cats from Kingston, the Tragically Hip?

Yes, on Wednesday evening it was party time behind the Bess with the Hip and party time beside and around it with the Taste of Saskatchewan Festival. And you thought parking was tough before the Hip hit town?

The Hip hit hard with Yer Not the Ocean from their most recent album, last year's World Container. Messrs. Gord Downie, Rob Baker, Paul Langlois, Gord Sinclair and Johnny Fay lined up across the stage and dedicated that first one to the Bessborough Gardens.
SASKATOON A HIP TOWN: Gord Downie of the Tragically Hip sings in front of a sold out crowd Wednesday night during an outdoor concert at the Delta Bessborough Gardens.View Larger Image View Larger Image
SASKATOON A HIP TOWN: Gord Downie of the Tragically Hip sings in front of a sold out crowd Wednesday night during an outdoor concert at the Delta Bessborough Gardens.

The crowd, mostly on their feet and screaming, then went wild for lead vocalist Downie's crazy legs introduction to the ominous and very familiar Grace, too. He climbed across the monitors and leaned down into the crowd, howling this old favourite.

And if that display of manic energy wasn't enough, the band launched into another gem, My Music at Work, with drummer Johnny Fay hammering that rock solid beat and the rest of the band struggling with a muddy sound mix.

Contortionist Downie called out to the people in the trees, wiped his roadie's face with a towel, got the crowd singing along to the anthemic Courage, and screamed, whispered and moaned his way through a good chunk of World Container, including the title waltz, the bouncily melodic In View, the hard-rocking Luv (sic), and the easily autobiographical Family Band.

Then there were the old favourites.

The band led a cheering audience through their lengthy catalogue of what have come to be Canadian folk songs: rock and roll songs played loudly to hot and happy folk.

There was the prophetic chestnut New Orleans is Sinking, the wonderful hockey boy meets girl and hockey loses story of Fireworks, the Paris of the Prairies meditation of Wheat Kings, the memory-infused Ahead by a Century, and the lovely acoustic guitar-led Bobcaygeon, to which many of those happy folk danced and pointed at the stars.

By press time a cool breeze was blowing across the Gardens and the Hip had given their audience Fully Completely and were hammering the much-loved Blow at High Dough. The Hip may be tragic, but the huge crowd was anything but -- comic, antic, wild, and a little drunk, maybe -- and they were loving their long-lived and reliable, hard-rocking band. The Tragically Hip keep coming back to Saskatoon, and Saskatoon keeps sending capacity crowds to see them.

The opening act was The Sadies. The Toronto foursome cranked up a mix of alternative country and retro-British invasion rock, all channeled through the twangin' guitar styles of Duane Eddy and Dick Dale.


© The StarPhoenix (Saskatoon) 2007

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  What to expect

Posted by: Cookie.factory_West.Wind
07-19-2007, 07:46 AM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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I'm planning on attending my first Hip concert this september (2007/9/11). I own Fully Completely plus Phantom Power and all the albums following it. I also have That Night in Toronto.
Those albums have made my appreciate the hip's recordings greatly, but I'm unsure about their live appearances. The adage "Great Band, Lousy Crowd" is making me a wee bit nervous, too.
In short, what should I expect at a hip concert?

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  Brothers Of A Feather - Chris & Rich Robinson - New CD

Posted by: Jimmy Crowe
07-19-2007, 07:18 AM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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Has anyone checked out the new CD from Chris & Rich Robinson of The Black Crowes "Brothers of a Feather"?

Damn... I love this disk... There are some really good acoustic tracks on this disk... and if you are a Black Crowes fan, there is some new material on the disk as well (Cold Boy Smile & Magic Rooster Blues). Great Songs.

My favorite songs on this disk have to be Driving Wheel (Tom Rush song) and Over The Hill (John Martyn song). Really good tracks.

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  Thankyou and goodnight...

Posted by: The Heron Outside
07-19-2007, 03:38 AM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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Oi!

So what have been yer faves, or, the best g'night's you've ever heard Gord give the crowd at the end of a show? I've been a big fan of the "Robby, Johnny, Paul, Gord" whatever goodnight, but any other picks from you guys? My favourite, as recent as it's been...

"Rhythm and blues, rock and roll, nighty night..."

Let's hear 'em dudes...

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  TTH Dallas TX @ HOB Oct 19th

Posted by: Jimmy Crowe
07-18-2007, 10:29 AM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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First of all, I am new to this message board, so I would like to say HELLO!

Anyway.... I just scored tickets for the Dallas TX HOB show on October 19th. This should be a GREAT venue to see the Hip!

The HOB presale is on now if anyone is interested?

http://store.hob.com/signin/login.aspx

Is anyone else planning and going down to this gig??

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  Michael Vick

Posted by: thedarkcanuck
07-18-2007, 08:47 AM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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what an ass. when he is found guilty, his punishment should be to be thrown in the ring with a frothing at the mouth pitbull(or 2) for a fight to the death

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  Vancouver Sun- All-Canadian band rocks the Garage

Posted by: NegPhil
07-18-2007, 01:15 AM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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All-Canadian band rocks the Garage
Crowd drinks up classics, Downie's antics at Tragically Hip concert
Amy O'Brian, Vancouver Sun
Published: Saturday, July 14, 2007

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If it weren't for the massive roof over our heads, the Tragically Hip's Thursday night concert at GM Place would have been the perfect summer show.

The band's unique brand of Canadian rock has been a staple on the soundtracks of lakeside barbecues, summer road trips and late-night cottage parties for the better part of the past two decades. It's music that's best appreciated under an open sky -- preferably one of those uniquely pink or orange 10 p.m. northern sunsets.

So it somehow seemed wrong to be inside a stadium, listening to the Hip's summer anthems when the sun was still hanging low in the sky outside.

But the nearly sold-out crowd didn't seem to mind. And, if anything, the heat outside had worked them into a beer-swilling frenzy that had many of them double-fisting plastic cups of over-priced draught and swaying unsteadily in their seats by the time the Hip took the stage (which was suitably adorned with a summer sky backdrop).

Spontaneous cheers had been breaking out throughout the stadium for half an hour before Gord Downie and the band strode out at 8:45 p.m., greeted the crowd and began the set with The Lonely End of the Rink, off their latest album, World Container.

Downie undoubtedly said something cryptic and wonderfully confusing to open the show, but I didn't catch it because I had one of the band's younger fans yelling something in my face about having a great time. (The hot sour smell of a man who's had way too much beer, yelling in my face was intermittently distracting until he was eventually removed by security).

The audience politely welcomed the opening song, but their reactions to nearly all the band's new material was noticeably less enthusiastic throughout the show -- proving it's the classics off Road Apples, Fully Completely and Up to Here that still draw the crowds.

But while the fans love to sing along to the classics, another component of the Hip's magnetic draw is the astoundingly energetic show the band delivers -- or, more precisely, that Downie delivers.

The rest of the band -- Paul Langlois, Gord Sinclair, Rob Baker and Johnny Fay -- are unquestionably talented, but Downie's superbly eccentric, uninhibited antics and charades make up the entertainment portion of the show. The 43-year-old strode and mimed and leapt across the stage, while his boyishly expressive face was magnified on the giant screens above.

The audience's initially cool reception immediately warmed with the first notes of New Orleans is Sinking, which -- with four guitars going strong -- is one of the band's best bluesy rock numbers. Heads were bobbing strong and fists punched the air down on the crowded floor.

The slowed-down thoughtfulness and poetic lyrics to Ahead by a Century were beautiful and by the time the band reached Courage, their eighth song, everyone was singing along and Downie's pants were beginning to show the first of what would be a not-so-slow creep of unfortunate sweat patterns.

The band kept the pacing smooth with a deliberate spacing of new material among the older hits. The pared-down instrumentation and slow blues beat of 1991's Long Time Running was juxtaposed with In View, the fast-paced first single off World Container.

In the middle of At the Hundredth Meridian, Downie sat and rocked in the cradle of his mic stand, put a white handkerchief over his face and let the guitars maintain the energy. At other times he imitated an ape or went through the motions of treading water, reminding the thousands in the audience that if they ever end up at a charades party with Downie, they must fight to get on his team.

The crowd's energy hit a new level when the band blasted through three old favourites -- going from Bobcaygeon, to Fully Completely and then seamlessly launching into Blow at High Dough -- which had nearly everyone screaming, clapping, and stomping.

A large part of the success of the show was that Downie didn't always stick to the lyrics and the band often strayed into refreshing improvisations. Combined with his theatrics, it made for a truly engaging performance that could never be called predictable or dull.

Downie's oddities, combined with his poetic lyrics, might explain why the Hip have yet to break out in the States. His musical honesty and complete lack of inhibition might make some Americans very uncomfortable.

But on the other hand, if the Hip were to break out down south, I can't help but wonder if they might lose some of their fiercely patriotic Canadian fans -- the ones who like to think of the Hip as some kind of Canadian secret, the ones who could still be heard cheering "Hip, Hip, Hip" well after they'd left the stage.

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© The Vancouver Sun 2007

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