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  Match up #50

Posted by: Shane Kroeker
04-30-2007, 06:15 PM
Forum: [Hip 64] - The Great Match Up
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Match-up #50 - Three Pistols Vs. It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken
I ask you to listen to the two songs in the match-up Back to Back, and consider the lyrics of the song. Feel free to post an unbiased analysis of both songs in this thread, but please refrain from cheerleading or making predictions for your favourites.

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  Atlantic Canada Tour setlist wishlists

Posted by: mark
04-30-2007, 05:42 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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ok. i have seen almost all my favorite songs over the last 11 years. songs like

50 mission cap
thugs
titantic terrarium
we'll go too
emperor penguin

...

so i REALLY REALLY REALLY want to hear So Hard Done By.

MAv, dude, make it happen :lol:

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  Old show reviews.

Posted by: WesleyC.
04-30-2007, 05:30 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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I think it might be cool to hear what people remember about older shows before 2002. I was describing a show on another thread and I thought I did a wonderful job from a crowd prespective of what I experienced from it without the music side of the review. ( we all know the hip music is always good at worst and great at best) There are no reviews from before 2002 so here is mine for ARA 1993 2nd night at Markham fairgrounds. This is how I experienced the crowd feel.

I call it "Controlled Chaos" it was chaos but it was surrounded by a fence around the fairgrounds. I love a crazy crowd and the feel of it. Pushing agianst you and moving you against your will, till you have to look up to the sky to try to suck down some cool air and hope you dont pass out. The projectiles all around you the bodies landing on top of you. The orgasmic scream of the crowd as a new song begins it all over agian. The screams form those around you trying to escape and get out, forward, backward to the sides , anywhere just out. Those were the days. Those were the shows. about 30,000 people and they all wanted our spot front and center.

For the 1995 show we started out in front again but my sister in law was with us and had a problem being able to breath so we got lifted over the front rail and started in at the back and got to the light stage in the middle. From here we were able to get cool air to breath due to the light stage allowing air flow down. The crowd surged backwards and right over the (snow fence) that they had around the light stage. I found myself in the middle of this area and there was 1 yup thats 1 guy in there telling everybody to " get out" amazingly they did as they wanted to get back closer to the stage but I jumped ontop of my little area of snow fence and bent it down farther and stood on it , it gave me about a foot more in height. I got my wife and sister in law on it and we were a head above everybody else. The "security" guy came up to me and told me to get off. I told him that its down all around and there is no harm. he just looked at me and i guessed realized I was right. I asked him if he was the only guy around this area and he said there was only 5 guys for the sides and back and light stage area, the rest were up front. Can you imagine? I remember we would venture about 100 feet up thru the crowd again and my sister in law would complain that " its to hot" " i cant breath" " I cant move" " too many people" bla bla bla. My wife and i said to each other NEVER AGAIN. We jumped , screamed, sang at the top of our lungs, and yes threw empty plastic bottles too. When it was all over everybody just seemed to turn around and start a march to the exit, in the parking lot it was a standstill as people waited for friends, drank, smoked, partied, slept, we rolled down our windows lay back put a hip cassett on and fell asleep, I woke up around 330am to a mostly empty parking lot littered with beer bottles and cans and other junk, a girl approached my car from my side and proceeded to pull her pants down and pee right beside my window as she did not know I was sitting in my car, ( we had the seats laying down) I was gonna reach out and pinch her ass but thought better of it. She left I woke up Suzanne and we drove home to Cambridge. Next day we woke up and had showers, after the showers went into our room and it STANK of sweat and dirt. Later we went out to drive somewhere and wholly crap we had to open the windows and keep them open all day as the dirty sweat from our bodies had soaked onto the seats.
Long winded I know but what the hell I felt like writing something today.
I am gonna write about the other shows or what I remember of them.
I do know that the Molson park shows were dissapointing crowd wise for me. I actaully got yelled at by some girls for dancing and jumping around. Everybody around me was just standing still and showing NO EMOTION whatsoever. You would not even know if they liked a song or not. Or even if it was a fav or not. Just NOTHING.
More on that later.
Wesley.

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  In View on American radio?

Posted by: knightrider
04-30-2007, 08:35 AM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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I had Sirius channel 18 "The Spectrum" on most of the afternoon Sunday while my wife & I worked around the house & yard. I literally stopped in my tracks when I realized the DJ had just said "Tragically Hip" & I heard the opening bars to In View. For anyone familiar with The Spectrum, this channel is basically light popular rock, not some indy, Canadian or specialized genre channel - it's pop (Fleetwood Mac, Sheryl Crow, DMB). So I was really stunned (and pleased) to hear the boys getting that kind of national exposure.

Is this song getting other airplay in the states? Is it somewhere on the pop charts? I rarely listen to free commercial radio anymore but I can count on one hand the number of times I've heard them in the past except in cities near the border.

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  Hip on Muchmusic

Posted by: giller10
04-29-2007, 11:11 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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It was just a fluke that I caught this but...

On the Muchmusic show "Going Coastal" (Sunday night) The Hip were featured as part of their SXSW coverage. It was about ten minutes, which included an interview with Gord D. and some concert footage that was pretty cool. At the end of the segment the video for Yer Not The Ocean was played.

Anyway, if you're up late or want to set the VCR they're replaying it again at 4am EST - 1am PST, according to the MM website.

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  Round 3: Match up #49

Posted by: Shane Kroeker
04-29-2007, 06:27 PM
Forum: [Hip 64] - The Great Match Up
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Match-up #49 - Don't Wake Daddy Vs. Family Band Vs. Blow At High DoughI ask you to listen to the three songs in the match-up Back to Back to Back, and consider the lyrics of the song. Feel free to post an unbiased analysis of all songs in this thread, but please refrain from cheerleading or making predictions for your favourites.

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  The Magnificent Seven...

Posted by: The Heron Outside
04-29-2007, 06:18 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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Posted the vid I shot at the second night of the Irving Plaza gigs...

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The sound kinda sucks as I shot it with my camera, but t'see Rob sing back-up makes up for it...Enjoy all...

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  Erie PA. show

Posted by: WesleyC.
04-29-2007, 03:18 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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Is anybody from here going to the Erie PA. show on the 18th?
We are going to go down mid afternoon and hang out and check the place out. We are taking our kids to the show also. (10 and 7) This will be their 3rd hip show. Their 8th concert in total. If ya want to hang out and have a few drinks before the show or find a place with something to eat let me know.
Wesley.
After the show were off to Gettysburg PA. for a long weekend of Cival War stuff.

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  The Boston Globe- For transplanted Canadians, Up close

Posted by: NegPhil
04-29-2007, 01:27 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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April 29, 2007

For transplanted Canadians, magically, up close with the Hip


As they strolled down Lansdowne Street on a recent Friday night, saluting their own red-and-white kind and announcing their avidity to strangers, they appeared at first glance to be members of Red Sox Nation. But their oversized jerseys pledged allegiance to Team Canada and their voices revealed the occasional "Eh?" Soon they passed Fenway's gates and headed straight to Avalon, members of a subculture of Canadian transplants found in these and other south-of-the-border climes. These were fans not of the Sox, but of the Hip.

The Tragically Hip, that is, an indie-leaning rock band formed in Winnipeg 20 years ago which has achieved mega-success up north and a much smaller following here. "Hands down the best and most consistent Canadian rock band since The Guess Who," declared Randy Boback , 44, a Quebec native who has lived in Boston six years. "This isn't so much a concert as a Canadian reunion."

"At home a Hip show can draw more fans than the Rolling Stones," said Graeme Grant , 36, a Toronto native living in Brookline. "My friends back home are always awed and jealous that I get to see the band in a club this size." He pointed to Avalon. "That's not the Air Canada Centre ."

"Somehow the songs of Celine Dion have appealed to the American ear, but the Hip's haven't," said Chris Hobson, 36, another Toronto native. "That's the tragic irony of the Tragically Hip." Sox fans pouring out of the centerfield exit of Fenway caught Hobson's eye. "That," he said, "is what a concert back home looks like."

After the show, Hip lead singer Gord Downie considered the enthusiasm of the transplanted Canucks. "Alcohol and nostalgia," said Downey. "Now that's a potent mix."

RON FLETCHER
© Copyright 2007 Globe Newspaper Company.
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  Hip- Their own lights?

Posted by: Ballgame
04-29-2007, 11:34 AM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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Was at the Philly show and meet some nice people. Mostly people from Canada that now live in Philly.

Anyway Ive seen 13 some odd Hip shows now and this one was good but they used the house lights. All but one show Ive seen they have had their own lights. The ones that shoot beam of colored lights and when Rob would do a solo it would blaze on him.
These tickets were around $40 with all the stupid service charges. So the show was good but I was expecting to see their light show. After all this is a "show".

So my long winded question is have they used their own lights so far on the tour? Did they have them in Atlantic City? My buddy thought maybe the venue stage wasnt big enough for them

Highlights to the show were Locked and Thugs

But no Grace, Poets, or Membership

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