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The back story: I'm looking for a shirt that John Samson of the Weakerthans has sported on multiple occations. Black tee with the words "Rock and Roll Never Forgets" in white on the front. It could be an iron on for all I know, but I was looking anyway.

I came across this. <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://home.austin.rr.com/reeves78729/tragicallyhip.htm">http://home.austin.rr.com/reeves78729/tragicallyhip.htm</a><!-- m -->

Enjoy the ramblings and some "good" pictures.

Cheers

Pat

So back in September I stumbled upon the specs for this movie at IMDB.com and learned who starred in it, when it was shot, etc. As we all know, The Hip scored this movie but nobody's ever been able to track it down to snatch the audio.

In the IMDB description, CTV was mentioned somewhere so I contacted their archive department through ctv.ca about maybe somehow getting a copy. They quickly referred me to Alliance-Atlantis, as they were the original producers and CTV just aired it as a movie-of-the-week.

So I sent the same request off to Alliance in mid-September but never heard back whatsoever.....until today.

For those who are interested, here was their response:

"Good morning Tony ~ unfortunately at this time it is not available to the public either on DVD or VHS… We did produce the MOW but have yet enough response to release it in the home entertainment field. Please try back in 6 months is see if this status has changed. Thank-you for writing to us.
Home Entertainment Dept"

So I guess we need to start peppering them with requests if we ever want to see the movie.

Psst... just between us. I noticed "fear" has been coming up in the other political threads, so I figured I'd put this here.

I'll be working on a Liberal campaign beginning later today. I hope the Liberals win a majority government. I hope a Liberal PM is in place when the next Quebec referendum happens. I think Paul Martin's same-sex legislation, his stance on missle-defence, his action on Aboriginal and Health commitments and his economic stewardship have earned him re-election.

I don't fear Stephen Harper. I have confidence in the Constitution and the Charter. I think Canada's institutions and national ethic, or "values" as the papers say, are stronger than any one man. Harper would only be as radical as Canadians would let him, and that's not very much.

The idea of Jason Kenney and Stockwell Day in government angers me to no end, and I'll work my ass off through countless blizzards to make sure it doesn't happen, but it doesn't scare me.

And here's another secret: If Harper gets away from the "THEY'RE EVIL I TELLS YA!!" and sticks with a message of "I'm like you, I'm middle class, and I want to pay less taxes" he'll probably win. We're not running against Stephen Harper, we're running against "Throw the bums out/Time for a change."

I won't like Stephen Harper as PM, but I won't flee the country either. In fact, a new generation is needed. A new dynamic Liberal leader needs to emerge... and a brief spell in opposition may be just what the doctor ordered for us.

But that's just between you and me.

This was sent to me by a reader of the website. He went to the trouble of organizing Hip lyrics by album and song and putting them in this .rar file for ipod download.

As most of you know, I have no clue what's going on here, so if this doesn't work, please feel free to help out.

Shane Gryzko (<!-- e --><a href="mailtogryzko@yahoo.ca">sgryzko@yahoo.ca</a><!-- e -->) is the guy who went to all the hard work.

I needed to download WinRAR to see it.

THE TRAGICALLY HIP

“There’s this fuckin’ band you’ve gotta see, They used to scare the livin’ shit outta me!” An Inch An Hour

In March1988, The Tragically Hip was a band you had to see. The Kingston quintet’s reputation had preceded it to Winnipeg, first stop on its inaugural cross-Canada tour. Having spent the previous two years barnstorming the pubs, clubs and beer halls of Ontario, the group had released an eight-song, eponymous mini-album. Smalltown Bringdown and Last American Exit were being played at local radio and a television feature on The New Music had prepped Prairie audiences for a young band that played no-frills rock ‘n’ roll. Rob Baker, Gordon Downie, Johnny Fay, Paul Langlois and Gord Sinclair looked lean and mean, like a gang ‹ they were a T-shirts and jeans act in an age of teased hair and spandex. Their sound was an improbable roar that left mouths agape.

When The Hip were booked into Winnipeg’s Diamond Club, a nightspot that usually showcased Top 40 bands, I called the local agent to ask if he knew what he’d done. He said the Diamond’s owners, an ambitious family of hoteliers, didn’t want anyone else to have’ The Hip, the biggest buzz band from out East.

On Monday, March 14, 1988, John Cougar Mellencamp’s Lonesome Jubilee tour played the Winnipeg Arena, a much-anticipated show that had sold-out the old hockey rink in record time. Just about every rock fan in Winnipeg was at that concert that night, meaning those interested in the Hip didn’t get across town to the Diamond Club until 11:30 p.m. By the time they arrived, The Hip were done.

“Over? We were fired!”

Seventeen years later, Gordon Downie still rankles at the thought. The Diamond Club’s manager had been horrified by the band’s first set, their bum’s eye for clothes and by Downie’s performance, which included singing one tune while lying on his back.

A day later, the band was homeless, as they’d lost their hotel rooms with the firing. They faced a week in Winnipeg without a gig. I hadn’t been at the show the night before but I’d heard what had happened, and I spoke to Rob Baker on the phone. The band was low, he said, consulting with the musicians’ union and considering its options. Within hours, free hotel rooms had been procured at the Osborne Village Motor Inn and gas-money gigs were booked at Corner Boys, a rec-room-cum-lounge co-owned by boxer Donnie Lalonde, the WBF light heavyweight champ.

That Friday, my nightspots column in The Winnipeg Sun told The Hip’s unlucky story. It was given the provocative headline “Tragically gypped!” Less than a month later, as the band worked its way back East, it played a weekend at The Junkyard, a thank-you gig to the hotel owners who had provided rooms in March.

When I arrived at the club, there was a lineup out the door. The room was heaving. The rest is a familiar tale.


From his Toronto home in the autumn of 2005, Gordon Downie recalls the days of discovery and wonder that were the late ‘80s for The Tragically Hip.

“We didn’t have a lot of guile, and some say we still don’t,” he says. “Our needs were few. That was our first tour across the country. Like any rock band going across the country, everything was brand new and everything was possible. Every whiff of interest or approval distilled itself into confidence, and anything that wasn’t confidence was just well disguised insecurity. We also had a very self-deprecating sense of humour, collectively, so we turned all those kinds of sad-sack stories into tales of triumph,” he says.

“I don’t think you can do that if you have an ounce of ambition or aspiration beyond just having fun. You’re just blown away by the fact you’re actually doing this. You’re putting another load of gas in the tank to take you further away from home on a mission that is totally undefined and potentially endless, perhaps resulting in death or disfigurement ‹ emotionally speaking, spiritually speaking and philosophically speaking,” he says.

“Heading onto the stage then, we were grateful for every friend we had.”

* * *

On Saturday, April 2, 2005, The Tragically Hip were inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame at the Winnipeg Convention Centre during Juno Weekend celebrations.

As an acceptance speech, Gordon Downie read an impassioned poem, We Are the Next Us, with his bandmates standing beside him. In it, he described the preparations for an imaginary gig, invoking visions of the disparate community that comes together to create a show by The Tragically Hip.

Accepting a Hall of Fame induction, he said, was a way of honouring the Hip’s families, friends, co-workers and their fans.

This band is still grateful to every friend it’s ever had.

Hipeponymous, The Tragically Hip’s 37-song, two-CD-and-two-DVD, limited edition boxed set is another thank you, a gift to the band’s fans that includes two new tracks, No Threat and The New Maybe, 35 of the group’s most popular songs, a full-length concert DVD entitled That Night in Toronto and a bonus DVD featuring all 23 of the band’s videos, a 50-minute backstage film entitled Macromedia, and The Right Whale, a collection of11 visual vignettes featuring scores from the group.

The two audio discs are pointedly titled Yer Favourites because the songs they contain were selected by Hip fans via an on-line poll. Because of this, the set is almost a gift from fans to the band, as it enabled the group to organize and put together a boxed set without the albatross of Career-retrospective collection’ haunting their every thought. It also enables The Hip to continue moving forward, as they are in the midst of a productive period, which should yield a new studio album, the bands 11th, in 2006.

“It really is a gift to the fans because they chose the songs,” Downie says. “It’s an abdication on our part which some may say is contravening the laws of art because you’re supposed to give the people what you want, not what they want" at least according to Bono.

“To do a real career retrospective you really need a lot of time, energy and psychic currency and you need to have a knock-down, drag-’em-out to decide how to tell the story. We’re not avoiding it; that’s an essential thing and ultimately it will be very good for us when we go to do it - and good for the people that are interested because there is a literal mountain of tapes.”

Downie says the band had an intimate hand in the making of That Night in Toronto and the new visual material on the bonus DVD because it wanted the package to be as current and as representative of the band’s present and future as the Yer Favourites discs are representative of the band’s past.

“Why is that? I think the reasons are obvious. It’s art and in making art you want to be of the future, of the now.”

If anything, that is the message of Hipeponymous. The collection gives fans pause to reflect and revel in the band’s 18 -year recording while at the same it gives Baker, Downie, Fay, Langlois and Sinclair a boost for continuing the uncharted journey it began almost 20 years ago.

For Downie, much of that journey has been an exploration of his views on what it means to be Canadian.

“I definitely wasn’t aware of it until recently" which may just be selective memory "but I’ve just sort of watched it evolve in terms of the lyrics. As a young writer from small-town, middle-class Canada I think I started writing about, in my limited scope, Canada, and in a weird way, I guess what I’m thinking about is how it all unfolded and how a lot of people might attribute the band’s popularity to a blatant nationalism.

“I think what I was trying to do (was say) I didn’t have a Œrah-rah,’ patriotic view of Canada,” he says. “In a weird way I actually started to question that a bitŠ and if I’ve failed in that regard it’s because I didn’t commit enough.

“It would be my goal to really go further and I’ve never even come close to achieving it. We’re still on that road that isn’t even on the map and it’s difficult to go down and it’s at night and there’s no lights.”

But it must be nice to know there will be friends along the way.

John Kendle
Winnipeg,
October 2005

Hipbase
The Hip Tracker
A Museum After Dark
Liveponymous

All get a nice mention on the new site.

I think this was mentioned by Mav in a post that was lost to our now infamous black-hole...
but let me try and re-spark the thought:

:lol:

So here I was this morning, driving in to work & of course listening to the hip...and the thought came into my head, I wonder if the Hip would ever play a Hipbase members only show. I know years back Pearljam did this in Seattle for their fanbase - quite flawlessly I might add.

I really don't think it would be that hard to do.

First, they'd need to find a club in Toronto/or wherever - somewhere relatively small - big enough to accomodate us - lets say the limit would be - one member can buy only 2 tickets. Then they'd list the show as already sold out under a unknown name. The trick is this, we'd need MAv, of course, to figure out a way to have only the current members actually have access to this - bc once the word got out - people would join hipbase just to buy the tickets. Anyway, I digress.

I know I would fly out from Portland in a heartbeat to see & be a part of the show. Something meant only for us - a chance for us all to finally let loose together & truly enjoy the thing which brought us all together.

Tell me your thoughts people - The other thing is this, for people like me who would need to grab a plane ticket on short notice (which on short notice is sooooo much money) - I'd need ample time. I'm talking, at least a month.

Seriously though, I would flip out if it worked. Can you imagine it...all of us there - together?!!!! Faces to the names of people we've been in daily contact with for so long. Okay, I'm starting to get way too excited. Gonna go relax now.

TTYL all.
Sarah


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Any takers? Make me an offer. New, sealed in box. I have no use for it. Hope this is not out of line.

Rory
Halifax

I just uploaded a new concert on the tracker: 2000.08.02 - Harrisburgh, Pennsylvania. Here's the track listing:

Disc One
1. Puttin' Down
2. Fireworks
3. Fully Completely
4. Stay
5. Grace, Too
6. Escape Is At Hand For The Travellin' Man
7. Gift Shop
8. Greasy Jungle
9. Poets
10. Toronto #4
11. Courage
12. Lake Fever
13. Scared
14. Chagrin Falls
Disc Two
1. Nautical Disaster
2. My Music At Work
3. Eldorado
4. The Completists
5. At The Hundredth Meridian
6. Fire In The Hole

Transferred/Upped by: Sean Bonner
Tell me what ya think!

Hey, I just wondering if somebody could either post or send to my email ( <!-- e --><a href="mailto:buzz882@hotmail.com">buzz882@hotmail.com</a><!-- e --> ) the professional artwork that was done for this show (the one that came with the Hengelo torrent). Your help is much appreciated!