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  Avatar Problem

Posted by: Zenith
07-14-2007, 05:30 PM
Forum: FAQ / Getting Started / Forum News
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Hi Lance,

I've just been trying to change my avatar, but when I submit it, I get this message:


You have added too many images in your signature. You can only add 0 images in your signature.

I'm not trying to change anything in my sig. Granted I have an image in there (which I want to keep). Have you changed the permissions since I last added the image? It looks like I can't do anything else unless I remove it which I don't want to do.

Any help would be appriciated. Smile

Thanks
-Ben

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  Buffalo Tom- Three Easy Pieces

Posted by: direwolf74
07-14-2007, 11:40 AM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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Fantastic record! Their first new album in 9 years and it's like they never left. Two thumbs up. Go buy it!

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  Ultimate-gutar.com- Tragically Hip Review 7.12 Vancouver

Posted by: NegPhil
07-14-2007, 01:52 AM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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Ultimate-gutar.com- Tragically Hip Review Vancouber 7.12.07
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Sound: The sound was just pure awesome. It was the Tragically Hip show and there name really gives away Who they are and how they would sound Live they really did sound Tragically Hip. After the opening band finished the roadies came on the stage and made sure evrything was in perfect tune, then next thing I knew the stadium went pitch black Gordy and the guys came out and did there thing. Nothing was over distorted or anything, you could here everything well, it was such a smooth sound. The bass was really good, the drums were awesome, both guitars were perfect together and with Gordons vocals that just topped it off. One of the guitar players and the bassist were doing back up vocals and they both sounded great. Especially on 'Grace, Too'. So overall I give the sound and singing a 100% it was one of the best sounding concerts I've ever been too. // 10

Perfomance: The audience along with me loved them. Everyone was freaking out, out of there minds. As soon as the lights turned off in the stadium everyone was screaming at the top of there lungs it was wild. Then they came out on the stage and Gordy said Hi Vancouver music lovers! and everyone was going wild. They opened with 'The lonely end of the rink' this was a good opening song they played it along with the rest of the show full of energy, and then at the end of that song he said Vancouver you know what? Everyone says What? He said Well, New Orleans is sinking and everyone went wild as they played New Orleans is sinking, then after that he said, 'hey everyone lets go to work' and they played 'My music at work' then the rest of the set is, it's a good life if you don't weaken, Family band, Ahead by a century(lots of major freaking out and everyone sang it), Yer not the ocean, Courage(for Hugh Mclennon), World Container, Long time running, In view, Springtime in Vienna, At the hundredth Meridean, Bobcaygeon(another big sing along one), The kids don't get it, Fully Completely(I lost my mind on this song), Blow at high dough(the big hit everyone was crazy) then they said thank you very very much everyone, music lovers of Vancouver music lovers! Thanks on behalf of Gm Place Well see you again! And left the stage and everyone screamed Hip Hip Hip Hip Hip! over and over again and they came out for an Encore. They said thank you so much everyone, and played The drop off, Grace, too(a big sing along), and ended the night with one of my favourites 'Fireworks' that's a really good song. Then they left the stage for good. The lead singer was doing really odd, wierd but hilarious things throughout the whole show every now and then he would take a towel and wipe off every members face while they were playing songs it was funny. In the middle of the show he said, 'Hey I remember everyone here, I remember you and pointed out to random spots in the crowd and said I remember you Steve hey Steve I remember you Amber I remember you John And plenty more names it was funny because he just started yelling out random popular names and he was like see I remember all of you. Just before they went into 'Fully Completely' the lead singer said 'do you all want half? and everyone said no! Do you want a portion and everyone screamed No! Do you want a fraction everyone said No! Do you want a piece everyone said No! Then he said do you want fully? and a lot of people said YA!!, including me then he said do you want completely and everyone said Ya!! including me but half of the people including me screamed No I want fully and completely!! And then he said or do you want Fully and Completely And Everyone screamed Ya! So it was a great show overall. // 10

Impression: The show was in Canada, Vancouver, B.C, on July 12, 2007. The Sadies opened for them. Unmfortunately not many people liked the Sadies. I wasn't a huge fan. They were a bluegrass type band. The hip should have got someone more like them to open. The tickets were about 90 bucks a ticket well worth it. The most unforgettable moments of the show were these 3 guys were stoned out of there minds running around the floor where your not allowed and waving there arms everywhere. And the very most unforgettable moment was the entire damn show. I loved everything about it I just wished they could have played 'Three Pistols' and 'Boots or Hearts'. That's what I really wanted. But it was freakin awesome. // 9

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  Guitarist picks fave Hip tracks

Posted by: NegPhil
07-14-2007, 01:46 AM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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Canada.Com- Guitarist picks fave Hip tracks

Nick Lewis, CanWest News Service
Published: Friday, July 13, 2007

In 2005, Canada’s most beloved band, The Tragically Hip, released a two-disc retrospective collection entitled Yer Favourites, a set of the Kingston, Ont., act’s most popular tunes.

Well, those were your favourites. We wanted to know what their favourites were. And so we chatted with lead guitarist Rob Baker and went through each one of The Hip’s 11 studio albums, asking him for a tidbit about each, as well as asking him for his favourite song from them.

Until a new Hip record hits stores sometime around late-2008 (they’re hoping), these records are going to have to satiate you.

The Tragically Hip EP (1987)
Singles: "Last American Bringdown"
About the album: “Ken Greer from Red Rider produced this. It was intended as a demo tape, so we just recorded our five most recent songs, not even realizing we were making a record. When they told us they wanted a record, we went into the studio and recorded 22 songs in two days, just live to two-track. They picked two and stuck them on the end to make an EP. Somewhere out there is a tape with 20 unreleased Hip songs, and damned if we can find it.”
Baker’s favourite: "I’m a Werewolf Baby." “It’s a ripoff of Jimi Hendrix’s 'Blue Suede Shoes,' but it’s a live staple that led to some good theatrical stuff on stage.”

Up To Here (1989)
Singles: "New Orleans is Sinking," "Blow at High Dough," "38 Years Old," "Boots or Hearts," "Trickle Down."
About the album: This features The Hip’s most popular song, "New Orleans is Sinking," which has a famous live version in which singer Gord Downie goes off into an anecdote about working with killer whales. “We never know what Gord is going to say. Never. It’s strictly off the cuff. He’s never worked with killer whales. He never does repeats, and people keep shouting at him to do the ‘killer whale tank’ version live. He repeated it once only.”
Baker’s favourite: "Opiated" or "New Orleans is Sinking." “I’ve spent more time in New Orleans than any other city, and anyone who has, knows that it was sinking. The city is not well taken care of and it’s below sea level. I hate to say it, but anyone could see that (the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina) was going to happen. Just like anyone living in California should know that one day it’s going to be a free-floating island.”

Road Apples (1991)
Singles: "Little Bones," "Twist My Arm," "Cordelia," "Long Time Running," "Three Pistols," "Fiddler’s Green"
About the album: “One of the possible album titles for this was Saskadelphia, but we were signed to an American label at the time, MCA out of Los Angeles, and they didn’t like that. They said, ‘The “delphia” part is okay; what’s “Saska?”’”
Baker’s favourite: "Fiddler’s Green" and "Long Time Running."

Fully Completely (1992)
Singles: "Courage," "Looking for a Place to Happen," "At the Hundredth Meridian," "Fully Completely," "Wheat Kings," "Fifty Mission Cap," "Locked in the Trunk of a Car."
About the album: “For the album cover, we brought a Canon laser colour copier into the studio and photocopied our body parts. We had a Dutch artist (Lieve Prins) come in whose work I had seen. I spoke with her at length about a concept, and away she went at making a collage over a weekend. We actually own the piece, the original life-sized piece, in our studio in Bath (Ont.)”
Baker’s favourite: "Pigeon Camera." “Some of the songs we didn’t have finished by the time we got into the studio, and that one just sprang to life. I had two days to do all my guitar parts on that record. And I had one crack at doing a solo. So when I go back and listen to that, I think, ‘I was pretty good back then. What happened?’”

Day For Night (1994)
Singles: "Grace Too," "Greasy Jungle," "So Hard Done By," "Nautical Disaster," "Scared."
About the album: “My name was Bobby Baker on all the records until this. It was a little dig at my parents who hated the name Bobby. They always called me Robbie or Robert or Rob. So when we put a record out, I had to put ‘Bobby Baker’ down. And people who knew me from my personal life called me Rob and people who knew me from music called me Bobby. For a while, it helped me place in context different people depending on what they called me. But by 1994, it didn’t matter.”
Baker’s favourite: "So Hard Done By." “This was an outtake for Fully Completely. And it was very different-sounding. A lot more chords, a lot more parts, very Midnight Oil-sounding. And we were sitting around late at night with candles and incense, and one of the road guys, Billy Ray, said ‘Why don’t you play 'So Hard Done By?'’ Of course no one could remember what the arrangement went like. So Gord sang the lyrics and we all just faked it. And it’s way better.”

Trouble At The Henhouse (1996)
Singles: "Ahead by a Century," "Gift Shop," "700 Ft. Ceiling," "Flamenco," "Butts Wigglin’."
About the album: “We were leafing through old photography magazines in the studio late one night, and I came across the photo that became the cover and showed it to the guys. And the photo was called ‘Trouble a the Henhouse’. It just seemed fitting.”
Baker’s favourite: "Ahead by a Century." “Halfway through the recording of Henhouse, that song was at the bottom of the pack and probably wouldn’t have made the record. It was a straight-ahead country song and no one was happy with it, except lyrically. Johnny (Fay) and I stayed late one night at the studio and worked out the song, and when we played it for the guys the next day, it jumped up into the contenders batch.”

Phantom Power (1998)
Singles: "Poets," "Something On," "Bobcaygeon," "Fireworks," "Escape is at Hand for the Travellin’ Man."
About the album: “That was a record we did with Steve Berlin from Los Lobos. Los Lobos had toured with us the previous summer, and they were a band we really admired. And we sort of thought, in some ways, that we were like Los Lobos, a rootsy band trying to carve our own niche, operating just out of the spotlight. They were wonderful people, so we enlisted Steve to produce the record.”
Baker’s favourite: "The Rules." “We had invited Bob Egan, the pedal-steel player from Wilco, to play on a couple of tracks. And he found he really loved Canada, and he decided he wanted to stay, and now he’s a charter member of Blue Rodeo. Good on him.”

MusicWork (2000)
Singles: "My Music at Work," "The Completists," "Lake Fever."
About the album: “I come across some people who say this is their favourite Hip record, but I often hear people say it is our weakest effort. I would say the songs on it are strong, but it’s not a focused record. It’s really diverse and eclectic. But personally, I like that. I like that it covers some wider elements than our other records, which may be to its detriment.”
Baker’s favourite: "The Bear." “We’ve never played it live. But I’ve always liked it.”

In Violet Light (2002)
Singles: "It’s a Good Life if You Don’t Weaken," "The Darkest One," "Silver Jet"
About the album: This album was the first after lead singer Gord Downie’s 2001 solo project, Coke Machine Glow. “Were we worried that if Gord was a success that the band would dissolve? Sure. That thought crossed everyone’s mind. I think it crossed Gord’s mind too. ‘What happens if this takes off?’ And, you know, no one really knew. But Gord came back from the experience of a solo record being more focused on the band. Sometimes these things help clean the creative pipes. Like mental Drano. But I would say that In Violet Light is probably the band’s weakest effort. I like some of the songs on it and I enjoyed the process, but I don’t think the timing was right. We were still very much in the writing process. Normally we would write 30 to 40 songs and pare it down to 15 to 17 before going to the studio. And this time, we had 15 to 17 songs, and just went to the studio. There wasn’t much to draw from.”
Baker’s favourite: (None picked).

In Between Evolution (2004)
Singles: "Vaccination Scar," "It Can’t be Nashville Every Night"
About the album: “We wanted to get less of a studio sound on this. You always want the essence of a live record, and Up to Here and Road Apples were basically recorded as live albums. You know, in the studio, playing live. And we set up a studio inSeattle and tried, as much as possible, to record live off the floor. So, like "Gus, the Polar Bear from Central Park," that was all recorded live, all of us playing at the same time.”
Baker’s favourite: "Gus, the Polar Bear From Central Park." Is it about George Bush? “Sure. It’s about a polar bear in Central Park. But if it fits, sure, it seems appropriate.”

World Container (2006)
Singles: "Fly, Pretend," "The Drop-Off," "World Container"
About the album: It’s the best Hip album in a decade, I tell Baker. “Absolutely, I would agree. (Producer) Bob Rock was instrumental on that record, just making us feel confident that The Hip has its own sound, and that we could stretch out and do anything we wanted to do, and still sound like us. He’d say, ‘Imagine this song as if it were The Clash playing Fleetwood Mac.’ And it’s a fun way to be able to draw on your influences and not be afraid to show them. This was coming off the Canada’s Walk of Fame induction, and a greatest hits record, which we never wanted to do, and the Juno Hall of Fame, and all that stuff. It was all retrospective. It made us go, ‘We’ve made 10 records. Let’s make a good one now.’ Everyone felt focused on it."

Baker’s favourite: "The Lonely End of the Rink." “I get off on that song, it’s just a gas to play. It started off as a folky tune, but that’s not how it ended up.”
© CanWest News Service 2007

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  Hip Tracker Upload: 2007-07-12 - Vancouver, BC

Posted by: chris
07-13-2007, 08:03 PM
Forum: Hipfans.com Tracker
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A new torrent has been uploaded.

Name: TTH: 2007-07-12 - Vancouver, BC
Size: 590.39 MB
Category: SHN/FLAC - Full Concerts
Uploaded by: chris

Description:
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The Tragically Hip
GM Place, Vancouver, BC
July 12, 2007
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MICS Used: SP-CMC-2->
Pre Amp Used: SP-PREAMP-9->
Recording Device: Edirol R9 @ 48khz/24bit
Seat : Section 117 - Row 11 - Seat 5

Source: R9->Computer->track/downsample (44.1khz/16bit) in Cool Edit Pro->Flac->You
Recorded By: Adrian Burden (bigA)

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01: The Lonely End Of The Rink
02: New Orleans Is Sinking
03: My Music At Work
04: Itís A Good Life If You Donít Weaken
05: Family Band
06: Ahead By A Century
07: Yer Not The Ocean
08: Courage
09: World Container
10: Long Time Running
11: In View
12: Springtime In Vienna
13: At The 100th Meridian
14: Bobcaygeon
15: The Kids Donít Get It
16: Fully, Completely
17: Blow At High Dough

Encore
18: The Drop off
19: Grace, Too
20: Fireworks


Enjoy!



*******DO NOT SELL!!! Convert these files to MP3 if you must for your own listening
needs but please don't distribute them in a lossy format **************************

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You can use the URL below to download the torrent (you may have to login).

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  Bills Fans

Posted by: Andre Cardinal
07-13-2007, 01:22 PM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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Does anyone have the "Bills Backer" password?

Please P.M. me if you do.

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  North America Tour Maps (1998-2007)

Posted by: laliber
07-13-2007, 12:16 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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Thought I would post map snapshots of places visited by the Hip over the last ten years of touring North America. I got the locations from thehip.com (if I missed anything let me know)

I will be adding pre 1998 tours soon and will put them all together (including Europe) as a Google Earth file once the Hip take a well deserved break at the end of 2007.

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Looks like a 100th Meridian Tour is in order to visit some of the Hip-Deficit States like N/S Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma…

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  Hump at the pump - to win Hip Tickets

Posted by: Tthip
07-13-2007, 10:54 AM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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This has some Hip content - but I figured it best to put it in the non-hip section anyway.
A radio station sponsored contest for Hip Tickets and free gas:

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  Tragically Hip happily reinvigorated

Posted by: NegPhil
07-12-2007, 10:31 AM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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Tragically Hip happily reinvigorated
Producer Bob Rock helped to freshen and update their sound
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Tom Harrison, The Province
Published: Thursday, July 12, 2007

Almost 10 months after the release of World Container, the Tragically Hip are still praising Bob Rock. Produced by Rock, World Container achieved several things. It affirmed a turnaround the Kingston, Ont., band undertook in 2004 with its In Between Evolution album, it freshened the band's sound by subtly introducing such things as new wave-styled keyboards and, most importantly, returned them to the forefront of Canadian bands.

The Tragically Hip is not alone. While they were jamming and experimenting on previous albums, bands from Nickelback to Arcade Fire to Broken Social Scene to Billy Talent and others were forcing a reappraisal of Canadian rock and becoming successful in the process.

The Hip was in danger of being taken for granted. Something had to be done.

That something started with In Between Evolution. The songs were more concise and better than they'd recently been. Then Rock entered their lives and took them further.

"I'm loving it," exclaims bassist Gord Sinclair now that the band has played the World Container songs live. "When we first sat down to do this, I was a little trepidatious, but the great thing about the material is that the essence of the songs has been retained. We're still playing seven songs each night. We rotate them all."

The hipstory should be well known. Gord Downie, Bobby Baker, Johnny Fay, Paul Langlois and Sinclair formed the band in Kingston in 1983, became extremely popular in Canada, made movie and TV appearances, for a while headlined a travelling rock festival, Another Roadside Attraction, opened its own recording studio in Bath, won a truckload of Junos, were inducted into the Canadian Hall Of Fame, released a boxed set, Hipeponymous, that was broken down into a greatest hits CD and a DVD.

Hipeponymous might have been the end of one stage and signalled the beginning of another. The band had families now, some had moved to Toronto, a few had records made apart from the band, they had new managers (Macklam/Feldman, handlers of Diana Krall, Norah Jones, Elvis Costello, Joni Mitchell) and their popularity had tapered.

"We knew we were at a stage where we had to come back really strong," recalls Sinclair. "We've been very fortunate in that we've had support from all levels of the media, but after a while you run out of things to say and you're competing with your own history. When you're in a creative environment you don't want to be looking backward. You want to be looking forward.

"I don't think reinvention is what was on our mind," he continues. "All this is to say, we had to make something really special.

"I think, given what our ambitions were, we needed a guy like Bob."

How was Rock able to make a difference? "He challenged us," Sinclair replies. "He pushed us really, really hard. As a result, we knew exactly what was expected and this became the easiest session to do.

"He had a great feel for texture and kept coming up with ideas. And he has such an encyclopedic knowledge. We'd sit around and talk about the Gang of Four or Simple Minds and he'd know their records. Once we turned the reins over to Bob, it was easy."

Part of The Tragically Hip's rebirth was finding new management.

"Very much so," says Sinclair. "A change of management is a significant process. It's a chance to ask yourself who you think you are. But one thing that doesn't change is the affection you have for each other. This was inspiring. We actually told each other how much we loved them and that was great."

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  Heading down East

Posted by: cochise
07-12-2007, 07:29 AM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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So, to all you Eastern Hipbasers............

I am taking my two kids camping in PEI in a few week. This will be my first time down there since I was 10 myself............ugh, time flies buy to fast.....

So, any suggestions of "got to see" places to go?? Intentions are to basically stay in PEI for the week, but do have plans to stay in New Brunswick for a couple days, probably go to Bay of Fundy. Would love to do the Cabot trail also, but we are only staying a week, I think that may be trying to fit too much in.........

Any other thoughts, where to go, where to stay away from..........

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