Keep Oppo Hip

"CB" (jrcb) 08/24/2016 at 12:41 • Filed to: musiclopnik, The Tragically Hip

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This is now a Tragically Hip thread.

Haven’t seen their final concert, but I have it recorded, so I’ll probably end up watching it this weekend.

Mid Engine > CB 08/24/2016 at 12:50

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The concert was terrific, Gord held it together pretty well (except for a minute when they were in the middle of Grace, Too). I sure hope they sell the DVD

Wacko > Mid Engine 08/24/2016 at 12:58

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looks like he had trouble with the lyrics of Blow at high Dough too.

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > CB 08/24/2016 at 13:00

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One nation under Gord. that is all.

Mid Engine > Wacko 08/24/2016 at 14:44

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Yeah, but I’ve seen the Hip live a dozen times and Gord always screws up some lyrics, it’s just part of the experience. Saw them here in Seattle last year and he totally messed up Nautical Disaster, for this show they wanted to give him some help and there was a teleprompter on the stage, but in true Gord fashion he made a mess of things all the same. God love him.

someassemblyrequired > Mid Engine 08/24/2016 at 15:13

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Yep I saw them at the Moore back in the day, you could tell he was tired, but as always a good show. I figure the people kvetching had never seen a live Hip show - they are a band that has to be seen live and in person to be appreciated. Might have been the reason they never made it big in the U.S., outside of the border states.

Mid Engine > someassemblyrequired 08/24/2016 at 15:40

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Montrealer here (saw The Hip in Montreal at least eight times), moved to the U.S. west coast six years ago. I saw the band in Boston (met the entire band during load-in behind the venue), Seattle, and San Francisco and the demographics were ~ 95% Canadian expats. Fun shows mostly because the venues held about 2000 people so it was quite different from the Bell Centre. The band has a workman like approach to their work and put 100% out whether they’re playing for 1000 or 20,000 people.

someassemblyrequired > Mid Engine 08/24/2016 at 16:50

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Yeah it was electric in a smaller venue. I used to live around the corner from Rob Baker, but that was in the era that the Hip were too big for Kingston. You’d often hear him jam on his front porch when he was in town, but never saw them live other than that until I moved to Seattle. We had a school in back of the place we were living in Kingston, and was quite the thing to watch him coach kids soccer back when his hair was way longer.

Nothing > CB 08/24/2016 at 23:43

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I’ve seen them a few times. In Virginia, they played a $3 concert in a random park near downtown Hampton. I walked up and literally sat on the stage, there were maybe 20, 30 people there, and most probably by accident. This was mid-late 90s.

I got mad at them in 2009. They canceled a show in Denver basically because they had too much fun in Vegas on Halloween night, and were scheduled to play here on Nov 1. They never came back to Denver after that.

Still love them though. Watched the concert on YouTube on Saturday. I listened to them in the late 80s, early 90s, on Montreal and Ottawa radio stations we could get in northern NY.