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  New Show New Video New Live Tracks

Posted by: Tthip
09-28-2005, 08:47 AM
Forum: Hip Solo Discussion
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New Show New Video

Yesterday we accepted a kind offer to appear with "Our Lady Peace" at Winnipeg's MTS Center. November 4th 2005. Its a great facility and a great hockey town. Go Moose.

We've started to figure out "myspace" and as of today have septupled our friend enrolment -- we now have 7 friends. We'll post a video up there, and on this site, that was shot by Max Montalvo, Kingston's own documentary filmaker, goalkeeper and MD. Max is perhaps a man with the most attractive package of assets -- artist, athlete and doctor. He will undoubtedly have a TV show based on his life coming out soon. For now we will steal his spotlight. The footage comes from our Toronto Mod Club performance.

We will also be putting some live tracks up on myspace as soon as we grind all this wheat in our windmill.

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  who is part of the 19?

Posted by: Cpt. Trips
09-27-2005, 10:21 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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Post if you won a toque.

Just curious how many hipbasers are part of the 19.

I'm one, 18 to go...

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  Saw II

Posted by: Drez7
09-27-2005, 08:15 PM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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I know there was a lot of buzz before the first one and the new one comes out late October. I had no idea that they were doing another but the way they ended the last movie certainly left the option open.

I personally enjoyed the first one. Yes the acting itself was pretty rough but overall it was entertaining.

Jigsaw is back. The brilliant, disturbed mastermind who wreaked havoc on his victims in last year’s SAW is back for another round of horrifying life-or-death games. When a new murder victim is discovered with all the signs of Jigsaw’s hand, Detective Eric Mason (Donnie Wahlberg) begins a full investigation and apprehends Jigsaw with little effort. But for Jigsaw, getting caught is just another part of his nefarious plan. Eight more of his victims are already fighting for their lives – and now it’s time for Mason to join the game…

Not sure what to make of the next Saw but here is a little bit of info:

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Anybody planning on seeing it?

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  my radio stations radiothon

Posted by: opiated
09-27-2005, 03:34 PM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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I donated 100 bucks earlier today..it's such a great cause, and such a joy to actually be a part of it..after my donation, i issued an on-air challenge to all hip fans to make a donation as well...five bucks..ten...100..whatever...just thought i'd leave it out there for everybody...i know times are tough..here's a blurb about what it's all about...





(Kamloops, BC) – Kamloops, BC is a community with a heart. From 6 AM to 6 PM on September 27 and 28, Kamloops’ own B100 Radio will host the B100 Variety Children’s Radiothon for a third consecutive year. This successful fundraising event is held in support of Variety – The Children’s Charity, and has raised almost $65,000 for Variety’s projects in the Kamloops area.

“B100 is pleased to be involved with Variety for a third year,” stated Doug Collins, operations manager for the station. “We’re a company that believes very strongly in family and children, and the staff of the radio station are a great team that look for opportunities to help their community.“

Greg Shannon and Cheryl Blackwell from the B100 Morning Buzz, along with announcers Daniel Earl,Steve Ayres, Rick Chapman, and the whole team at B100 give all they have, personally and professionally, to help Variety raise money for children with special needs in the Kamloops area.

“We’re so happy to have B100 host this event for us again,” said Anne Crittenden, president/chief barker of Variety - The Children's Charity of BC. “Kamloops is a wonderful community and we couldn’t do this event without the help of the volunteers that live here and the B100 staff.” Variety is also pleased to have the support of the Kamloops Daily News and CFJC TV7.


Variety – The Children’s Charity is a non-profit charitable organization dedicated to raising funds to inspire hope, enrich lives, and build a better future for BC’s children. Since 1965, Variety – The Children’s Charity has raised more than $120 million for BC’s children with special needs. In Kamloops, Variety has helped more than 80 individual children and their families as well as funded project at the Variety Special Care Nursery at the Royal Inland Hospital, Kamloops District Society for People In Motion and the Kamloops Therapeutic Riding Association.

On September 27 and 28, support the work of Variety – The Children’s Charity and make a donation to the B100 Variety Children’s Radiothon by calling 250-372-0100. or 250-571-2100

feel free to say you're hip fans!!!

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  Hip Order of Canada update. Wanna help?

Posted by: Stephen Dame
09-27-2005, 12:44 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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Heard from the new Secretary to the GG today about the Hip and the Order. While groups or organizations are honoured as such only in rare circumstances (think Doctors Without Borders level circumstances) it's a real long shot to get The Tragically Hip awarded. However, I was told that it might be wise to nominate each of the five guys for cultural and charity work they've done as part of the band.

So, in order to make it official, I need three persons who would support each nomination. i.e. three people to back me on Gord, Bobby etc.

All it requires is your personal info (phone #, address etc) to prove you're a Canadian resident. If you have an organization behind you, even better. Camp Trillium will back the nomination, but I figure if I can have 14 other regular citizens from all over the country, why not?

Anyway, if you're willing to suport the nomination, please drop me a line. <!-- e --><a href="mailtoConfusedtephendame@rogers.com">stephendame@rogers.com</a><!-- e -->

Here again is the schpiel I'm using, so you know what you're supporting. I've heard personal appeals work best, hence all the "I" crap in the early part:

The Order for Canada’s band


"The Canadiana references became guide posts into a song's depths, the resulting marriage of language and music became an invigorating experience that had never been so directly aimed at young Canadians."
- Have Not Been The Same, by Michael Barclay et al, 2001

"They are the musical chroniclers of our times"
-Peter Mansbridge, ‘Music Without Borders,’ October 21, 2001

Cultural Impact

During the summer and fall of 2002, inside one of the National Gallery of Canada’s airy and track-lit display rooms, rock and roll lyrics had been scrawled across an otherwise picture perfect wall.

Now, the gallery isn’t exactly a magnet for rambunctious teens. It’s not the sort of place young lovers document their affections in spray-paint. In fact, the writing wasn’t graffiti at all. It was part of a tribute to one of Canada’s greatest cultural enigmas, Tom Thompson. The lyrics, which simply read “Tom Thompson came paddling past/I’m pretty sure it was him,” were from Three Pistols, a song by Canada’s band The Tragically Hip.

Most folks breezed by the lyrics. They looked up, they moved on. You can’t blame them really; ‘The Jack Pine’ was waiting in the next room. But for me, seeing those lyrics was reason to smile. I’ve been a Hip fan for many years, and have long appreciated their music, generosity and commitment to Canada.

The music of The Tragically Hip goes beyond the recycled rebellion of pop rock. Their songs have an intriguing depth. They are full of terms and references that stand out and ask to be examined. The Hip write about me, about you, about Canada, about culture and community. They also write about history, politics and the education that is everyday life. Believe it or not, I was learning things from their music, and I wanted to learn more. When Peter Mansbridge called them ‘the musical chroniclers of our time’ I knew exactly what he meant.

Other Hip Heads have told me about their experiences with radio recognition. After hearing a line in a song, identifiable images or recollections emerge. This happens with many fans of various bands across different radio waves each day. But there is something undeniably ours, some collective knowing nod, at the mention of the “forget your skates dream” or a “bemused Trudeau.”

The Tragically Hip invite their fans to indulge. Beyond the riffs and crashing symbols stands a museum of citation, saga and society. From the stage, references to Cape Spear and Paul Henderson flow into reminisces of the wrongly convicted and First Nations. Questions of our crumbling common-bond mix with melodic movements of pounding bass and ringing rhythm. The Hip provide their fans with the type of blues and roots rock which appeal to both the adrenaline and academic junky.
This song writing style gently pushes rather than pokes. Personally, it nudged me to go further, to investigate. I’ve found myself reading Hugh Maclennan and listening to Eric’s Trip after hearing their names in respective Hip tunes. In my teens, The Hip’s music opened my eyes to aspects of culture that I knew little about. It brought me the horror of the Montreal Massacre and the unpolished realities of Jacques Cartier. In my twenties, the band continues to broaden my horizons.

With each trip to the dictionary or a history website, I continue to pick up new definitions and details. There’s something satisfying about listening to a Hip song after unlocking a particularly mysterious metaphor or reference.

Once you’ve realized that the Hip are Canucks who write layered songs dealing often with their homeland, you’re only just getting started. It’s at this point where the band and their front man step right into their greatest paradox: nationalism. It is both a souvenir and a suffering for The Tragically Hip.

Simply put, the band writes what it knows. They invoke images of Northern landscapes and legends. They’ve left, and continue to leave, a trail of exhausting and exciting live shows from The Rock to The Left Coast. This is how The Tragically Hip earned the reputation as “Canada’s Band.’

One of the realities of existing next to a cultural Leviathan is that your media, your schools and your role models can lack any in-depth reference to home. While the Canadian majority values our neighbour to the south and recognizes our intricate relationship, there is still a genuine appreciation for the recognition of little things Canadian, perhaps anything Canadian, within our mainstream culture.

There is of course a fine line between pride, patriotism and the divisive dirge of nationalism. By demonstrating their respect and awareness of Canada, The Hip were easy targets for those searching for a negative nationalist icon. Those who wished to define Canadian as ‘anything not American’ had found an unwilling patsy in the public domain.

Rather than cater to this increasingly accepted idea of ignorance, the Hip have stayed far away from fist-pumping comparisons and clichés. They don’t bluntly write hockey or Prairie songs for their own sake, or for their non-Yankee factor. The band acknowledges such aspects of the Canadian fact using historical reference and allusion. These winks to Canadian culture are found within songs that often carry a deeper message, or many messages intertwined.

These songs touch on events and individuals who represent both the positive and negative marks on our history. There is not a sterilized Dudley Do-Right impression of Canada within the music, but a reflection of a diverse and dispersed nation. The band invites the listener to discover that yes; there are truths and myths and magical aspects of Canada that don’t begin with “compared to them.” No, we’re not a cultural empire, but we are a rich cultural community.

The late novelist Pierre Berton, a fierce nationalist in his own right, said “a country has to have a mythology. There has to be a rich fabric and background that tells us what kind of people we are.” John Raulston Saul wrote that in Canadian culture “there is constant re-balancing between victimization and self-confidence.” The Tragically Hip remind us that we shouldn’t be afraid to examine this culture, not by balancing it opposite other national mythologies, but by allowing it to stand capably on its own. Like Berton, The Hip have successfully spun such tales onto the public record. And like Saul, they’ve done it with a confident stride that feels no need to diminish anyone else.

Community And Charity Work

The Tragically Hip are also committed philanthropists. For more than fifteen years they have supported Camp Trillium, an Ontario based summer camp for children with cancer. The Hip have performed numerous charity concerts, held benefit auctions, and participated in public events ranging from runs to golf tournaments in support of various causes.

In 1999, they christened Mississauga, Ontario’s new Hershey Centre arena with a concert benefiting Camp Trillium and Rose Cherry’s House. The band performed on behalf of Afghan Aid in 2001, and headlined a sold out concert at Toronto’s SkyDome after SARS had wounded the city's reputation in 2003. As recently as 2004, The Tragically Hip returned home to the shores of Lake Ontario and helped raise over $300,000 for the Community Foundation of Greater Kingston.

Their signatures and memorabilia are never scarce when there is a cause in need. Their collective or individual work has appeared on benefit albums for projects such as The 30 Hour Famine and The Buried Heart Project for the women of Vancouver’s Downtown East Side. Their most recent North American tour included an association with waterkeepers.ca, an organization committed to the conservation and protection of public waterways and natural resources.

The Order For Canada’s Band

The Tragically Hip are celebrating their twentieth anniversary this year. Over those two decades, they have greatly contributed to Canadian culture while consistently entertaining their passionate and devoted following. While touring the globe, they have proudly shown Canada; her heroes, stories and sufferings: to the world. They’ve allowed a generation of Canadian youth to share in a proud and accomplished culture that is all too often obscured. Their charity work is commendable and continuing.
The Tragically Hip are hard working, generous, caring, committed, prolific, profound and patriotic. Their work is intelligent and melodic, inspiring and illuminating. They are deserving recipients of the Order of Canada, and as “Canada’s Band,” they will undoubtedly continue to prove their merit and honour the Order.

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  Misplaced songs

Posted by: Problem Bear
09-27-2005, 12:16 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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Which Hip songs do you think have had their impact blunted because of where they were in the track listing?

It's less of an issue now because of iPods and such, but there are a few songs that it took me a while to appreciate because of where they were on albums. Specifically, Are We Family gets lost a bit in between Copenhagen and Joe, while Music@Work wheezes to such an overlong end that I had to hear The Bear separately to realize was a great, moody, night-time driving sort of song it is.

By the way, I think DFN has the best track order - it's so coherent, and my favourite tracks are perfectly spaced (1, 4, 7, 10, 12). However, I don't care for the track order of IVL (the three best songs are on the last four tracks) or IBE (I like the whole disc, but my least favourite songs are the first six, save for Gus.)

Anyway, just my two cents. It must be a tricky thing to decide upon. I've seen other posts on this site complaining about where The Rules is on Phantom Power, and others lauding the one-song feel of DFN.

Any other thoughts?

Cheers,
John

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  NHL Radio

Posted by: chicagoblackhawks77
09-27-2005, 11:41 AM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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Guys,

Unfortunately I am currently living in hockey siberia for the fore-seeable future; Kansas City. What is up with NHL Radio? Do you have to use XM or Sirius? Or is there something you can log into from the nhl website? Anyone else do this?

Mick

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  "I never saw someone say that before.."

Posted by: AndGraceToo
09-27-2005, 10:45 AM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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Knowing Gords command of language.. what do you think he was trying to acheive by using this incorrect usage of saying "saw" and not "heard"..

It always made me wonder.

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  Hipeponymous on Ebay

Posted by: Tthip
09-27-2005, 08:07 AM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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This is one of those buy now/ship when it comes in things.
But it is only $40.

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  Annual Hipbase Hockey Pool?

Posted by: TLB
09-27-2005, 12:20 AM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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Lance or anyone, are we doing a 12-team Yahoo pool again?

I want to defend my title Tongue

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