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I thought I would open up a new Forum just to post the lowest prices that the album is being advertised at. This isn't meant to rub salt in the wounds of all you Americans who can't get your hands on the album for a few more weeks!

Future Shop is offering it at $9.99 on Tuesday only.

I don't normally like giving business to FS since they havent given me the greatest customer service over the years, but I have to stretch the student budget as far as I can.

EDIT:

I remember when Hipeponymous launched there were coupons in a bunch of the papers, so if anyone notices some this time around post them here too!

I don't know..i don't want to ruin the surprise of having it my hand, putting it in for the first...trust me, its hard to not to click on that streaming link....but I love that moment when you buy the CD, and Play it for the first time, not knowing whats in store....anyone?

Gord talks about World Container and his daughter's love of The Killers:

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I noticed that Locked In the Trunk of a Car from 11/23/96 is available as part of Live 10, Vol 3. What are the chances that the complete version of this show might finally be made available? A lot of things have changed (live downloads) since 1997, when the decision was made to release it as a single CD. It's time we had this show in it entirety.

The Drop-off
Tabbed by Steve Proulx (<!-- e --><a href="mailtoteveproulx5@msn.com">steveproulx5@msn.com</a><!-- e -->)



Chords:
D5 - X577XX
A5 - 577XXX
F#5 - 244XXX
E5 - X799XX


Riff A:
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|-4-----4-----4-----0-----|
|-2-0-0-2-0-0-2-0-0---0-0-|

Riff B:
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|-4-----4-----4-----2-----|
|-2-0-0-2-0-0-2-0-0-0-0-0-|
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Riff A
When the summer is young, and nobody has the prizes
Riff B
No one is no one
Riff A
and nobody in a crisis

D5 A5 F#5
There's no swimming past the drop off
D5 A5 F#5
oh, feelin' summer for yourself
D5 A5 F#5
you don't go swimming past the drop off
D5 A5 Riff A
or else

Riff A
You're a pistol you're a gun, and suddenly i have no prices
Riff B
I'm like a friend at Dylan's
Riff A
or shovels meeting in some crisis

D5 A5 F#5
there's no swimming past the drop off
D5 A5 F#5
yeah we don't replace ourselves
D5 A5 F#5
there's no swimming past the drop off
D5 E5
or else

Riff A A5
The best part of life is by measured by gut and the past is meant to please us
Riff A A5 E5
johnny's been murdered, the kids are like shit saying 'holy fuck it's Jesus'
Riff A A5
The surface is green and the dark and the weeds and the lonely irredecence
Riff A A5 E5
terribly deep and the cold is complete and only lacks your presence and nothing else

Riff A
when the summer's done and nobody sympathizes
Riff B
You're no freind of Dylan's
Riff A
yeah you won't see another crisis


D5 A5 F#5
There's no swimming past the drop off
D5 A5 F#5
I feel as though I lost out
D5 A5 F#5
there's no swimming past the drop off
D5 E5
or else

F#5 A5
Personal stakes get raised and you're raised 'til you're strongly discompelling
F#5 A5 E5
deep like the sense of the willfully dead says 'forever in the telling'
F#5 A5
The surface is green in the dark and the weeds and the lonely irredecence
Riff A A5 E5
it's terribly deep and the cold is complete and it only lacks your presence and nothing else

I have two tickets for the Wednesday night show (October 25) at the Phoenix in Toronto. My boss has me booked to fly out to Calgary that morning.
Any chance anyone has Sunday night or Tuesday night tickets they'd be willing to switch with me?

Much appreciated.

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To Lance and any applicable mods,

The current time settings and members now online settings have both been very off today.

I have not changed anything on my end and just want to alert you to a few details:

1) The time is about a day and a half off.

2) I'm getting two lists of members online. The upper one is large, including members who have not logged in for hours. The lower list seems more accurate.

-Jenna

check it out, lots of live vids, and torrents.

[/url]www.worldcontainer.com

On stinking CJAY 92. It's so sad listening to Forbes suck up and ask such earth shattering questions as, you used to be sort of grungy, then a little more melodic, and this new album has both!!!!

Sorry Gord, Calgary radio sucks, you would've been better off on the FAN 960 with Mike Richards

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Bob Rock on Recording with The Tragically Hip...
Current mood: chipper
Category: Music
This just in... The new HIP bio penned by Bob Rock:


A surprising call from Bruce Allen started it all. On his advice, I scheduled a meeting with Gord. I believe it was the summer of 2005. It was agreed that Gord would make the very long trip from Toronto to the little town of Paia, on the north shore of Maui, where I live. We met for lunch at The Fish Market for one of their famous fish burgers and had a great conversation about life, kids, surfing and the hip. He gave me the first book (always a good sign) and a cd of some ideas the hip had been throwing around. He had asked me about "Jaws", the famous tow-in surfbreak, so we took a drive to Huelo to stare out at the famous wave that really gets big, maybe 6 times a year ( the north swells don't come til the winter).

Later that evening, I visited the ohana he was staying at, on the east side of Paia Bay. Gord sang and played some other ideas and we continued our conversation. It became clear that this was going to be a very different record for The Hip. The songs were very personal and one in particular, "Fly", got to me right away. I had never heard a song like that from The Hip, It was so direct and pop-like. Visions of making "The Great Canadian Record" (a secret goal of mine, that I had been ranting to Gord about) seemed all laid in front of me. We agreed that a trial session, in the fall, would be in order, to see if we could work as a team.

In September 2005, we all assembled, in Vancouver, at the Warehouse Studio and cut the first four songs. On the first day, we rehearsed in the vast main studio with a monitor system, just throwing around ideas, trying to find the first tracks to cut. We were also in the process of feeling each other out. Was I the metal head as rumoured? Were they stubborn and fixed in their musical ways? The first thing you notice about The Hip is that remarkable trait that all great bands have; the bands music is not carried by one persons individual talent. Like The Stones, Led Zep, the Beatles and the Who, it is the collective that gives the band it's sound and feel. This is my best case scenario for making a record; a band that is open to ideas but is also entrenched in it's sound. You can go anywhere and it sounds like them. We settled on the songs to try the next day.

"Family Band", I believe, was cut first. "Last Night I Dreamed", "Kids" and "Fly" followed. All came with ease. I really tried to get to know the boys in the first session and was constantly surprised by their surfacing influences; The Clash, Bowie, Pink Floyd, Gang Of Four. (they even said they listened to and enjoyed the 'Dr.Feelgood' album, that I had done in the 80's with Motley Crue! Wow!!!!) But, once again, like all great bands; they have influences but they never impersonate. Gord's ability to, constantly, perform keep-able performances, while cutting tracks, kept Jamey Koch (the engineer) and myself in disbelief. This was an extraordinary session. One that I will always remember, as the beginning of a very special musical and personal friendship. The sessions, that fall, led us to try and make a new hip record together.

The new year (February of 2006) brought us to Toronto and Phase One Studios. As crazy as it may seem, Toronto in the winter sounded like a great adventure to me; a chance to re-live my Canadian winter childhood (I grew up in Winnipeg). Man, it was cold! Looking back on it, the songs we cut; "Ocean", "Drop-Off", "Luv(sic)" and "Rink", all seem like they were the rock(!!!) tracks.

"Yer Not The Ocean" was first. It had all the elements of a classic, TheWho-type, rock song. It took a bit to get every one to hear where I wanted to take it, but then, it, finally, just fell into place when Johnny took charge and beat the crap out of his drums. When I hear the track today, I smile, thinking about him, flailing away at the back of the studio, taking off into rock and roll bliss.

"The Rink" was a challenge for me, feel-wise. I was trying to get the choruses (with their driving, modern feel) and the verses (with their reggae, calypso feel) to flow. I was trying to find the song's 'home. It turned out to be one of my favorite tracks. The standout vocal, by Gord, tied it together. I think it matches the power they have live.

"The Drop-Off", is a classic Hip track with that 'band feel' I was talking about earlier. The bass is badass(!!!!) on that one.

The band played me, "Luv(sic)", a song they had cut before, but never used. We ran it down a couple of times, added the hook line supplied by Robbie, added a bridge - bingo - done. I was freaking out!!!!! This song was a bomb. It showed me The Hip in a new light. "Luv(sic)" is as current as anything out there. They were reborn.

In March, we had a couple of songs to go and I thought we could use a bit of an 'ambience change'. We went back to Vancouver, this time, setting up at Armoury Studios. These would be the last tracks; the ones that really 'finished' the record. To really try and get to their core, I brought in Jamie Edwards on piano.

The song,"World Container", probably, has the most production. It is a song that, really, could be just an acoustic guitar track and a vocal. I thought it could be something much bigger sounding. We built the track around a piano performance by Jamie that really inspired some great playing and a vocal performance that is a journey in itself. Dig those guitars!!!!!

"Pretend" was just a magical track that was cut live, in the evening, after dinner. You can just feel the night in that one.

The first single; "In View" was cut last. Going into it, I don't think anyone really expected it to be a single, but the bass and drum tracks, along with a mini moog part by Jamie, really drove it to another place. After cutting it we couldn't stop listening to it.

We knew there was something special there.

All that was left to do, were the finishing musical touches and a few vocals - oh yes - we had to mix it as well. In April, we went back to the north shore, to the little town of Paia, where my studio is, to finish the record. My very good, Icelandic friend, JENS, came in from Winnipeg to mix it. My engineer, Eric Helmkamp and I, with the band and Gord's son, Tarzan, spent a month, singing and playing the rest of the album and enjoying everything the north shore offers for vibe.

I am very proud of this record. I hope I get the chance to work with them again.

Now, did I record "The Great Canadian Album"? Time will tell.

Me? I will always call it 'my great canadian album'

Aloha, bob