The Final Hip tour and reminiscing about Gord Downie

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Originally Posted by annasuave

I was lucky enough to score some tickets in the presale. The terms and conditions clearly state that the tickets are non transferrable and that I must show up in person with my credit card receipt to get into the show.

How do scalpers or resellers get around that?

I stated this earlier in the thread. Not all price levels are CC mandatory. I have a pair of lower priced ones that I can print right now. The other ones I got on the floor I have to show my card at the door.

[getbak]

CBC will be broadcasting the final concert from Kingston, live and commercial free: http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/tragical...-cbc-1.3639948

Coverage on CBC-TV, Radio One, Radio 2, cbcmusic.ca and YouTube.

[KootenayFlamesFan]

Fantastic! Good job CBC.

[Igottago]

That's great. Hopefully its released on Blu-ray at some point as well.

[jayswin]

Not to get greedy but as amazing as that small show will be it would also be amazing to see the last concert in Toronto. That will be a really special night with a huge emotional crowd.

[corporatejay]

Man.Machine.Poem. is on itunes.

[Buff]

Well, I went to HMV here in Lethbridge and I bought the CD for Man Machine Poem...

sadly my "collection" has been completed.

Can't bring myself to listen to it yet.

[corporatejay]

Maybe I'm being sentimental but I really like it. Pretty grungy and stripped. Some misses but overall pretty good. Still doesn't compare to their Encarnacion like streak in the 90s

[MRCboicgy]

So, the show won't have an opening act, and will start at 8:30 now.

[SeeGeeWhy]

Really dig the album. Ocean next is a great track

[getbak]

It looks like they've released a few blocks of tickets for both shows. They're also selling seats in the first three rows of the 300 level for under $30.

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by getbak

It looks like they've released a few blocks of tickets for both shows. They're also selling seats in the first three rows of the 300 level for under $30.

Wow, have 300 level tickets ever been sold for a concert at the Dome? Definitely none that I've been to.

[getbak]

Yes, when the Eagles came here 3 years ago, I sat up in the 300 level.

[jayswin]

Weird, it's hard enough to watch a hockey game on the whole ice surface from up there, it would seem near pointless to watch 5 guys on a stage if you were at the wrong end of the 300's.

[surferguy]

I wrote this last night as I reflected on what we are embarking on:
For the Ticket Holders


It is Thursday July 21, 2016. In approximately 24 hrs the first chords will be struck and as the finger starts to wiggle the landscape of a nation in transition will emerge.


We sit on the eve a tour under a pleasant summer sky looking forward to the next month and the lasting memories our lucky tickets will bring. A group of five artists along with their families and crew will set out to visit 10 cities and the highways that link them to deliver 17 performances. Tomorrow evening, The Tragically Hip and their Man Machine Poem tour – tagged as their last – begins with eager yet sadden anticipation in Victoria, BC.


We must reflect on what this concert series will mean to our country. An entire generation of music lovers grew up under the umbrella of their melodies. From some the introduction came via a scratchy version of Last American Exit on an old Rowe AMI jukebox in the corner of bar. Others found them via underground bootlegs cassettes of their first years as a touring band. These bootlegs commonly found them belting out covers of Gloria and going into deep rants about the D train rumbling overhead. For myself I found them in my middle teens watching video clips of Locked in the Trunk of a Car on Much Music. I then waited for four hours to watch the same rotation again…. so I could hear them again.


What was common for most people who came into contact with this band was that it stuck with them. We globed onto their music as their catalogue grew. Everybody has their story of Ahead by a Century or Three Pistols. We all know somebody who can play Wheat Kings on a guitar. We watched them on Saturday Night Live. We listened to them as they subtlety provided the soundtrack to our youth. We grew with them.


Now 30 some years later we are handed a rarity, a band supposedly going out on its own terms. For some this will be the first opportunity to see the most enigmatic front man in rock history. For others it will like shaking hands with an old friend. I have no idea what is in store for these shows. Will it be a barn burner? Acoustic sets? A catalogue blown wide open with anything on the table? An entire night of unplucked gems? The curtain will be pulled back on this mystery as this wave rolls across the provinces.



The biggest take away to state is that we – the ticket holders- are the lucky ones. We get to see our band one more time. We get to hear the classics one more time. We get to cross our fingers that “The Bear” is written in sharpie on that sheet of paper at their feet, one more time. We get to watch a man deliver his swan song while fighting with his mic stand. We get to watch as these men pass from living to legend before our eyes over the next 30 days. No dress rehearsal. Be excited and be sad, cheer and cry, sing along and whistle. But mostly remember…remember to feel lucky.


You get to go, You get to be part of it. The supposed final tour from a band that has given us their life’s work, their art. Now it is our turn to give. We must show The Man, The Machine, The Poem that he is appreciated and adored for all that he has poured into our lives. We get to show our love for Gord. For Magnificent Gord. Because as the lights go up in Kingston on August 20th our lives will be a little less full and a little less complete.


August 1 is the date printed on my stub. I’ve bought the ticket and I’ll take the ride. I have no idea of what that evening with The Tragically Hip will hold. But I can assure you of this. I will be richer for having seen them.

[Matata]

The closer it gets the more I realize I'm going to ####ing cry at this concert.

[troutman]

CP member has two tickets for sale:

http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthr...45#post5847145

[annasuave]

Originally Posted by Matata

The closer it gets the more I realize I'm going to ####ing cry at this concert.

The husband and I watched a video of The Hip's "That Night In Toronto" show recently. "How?" I wondered out loud. "How will the band even play? How can everyone not just bawl their f*#%ing eyes out at the show?"

"We will all be rocking out too hard to cry." He said.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

[socalwingfan]

^ I watched that again recently and lost it during Bobcaygeon. I have never been affected emotionally by a non-family member like this ever. I wish I could see them one last time

[annasuave]

Originally Posted by socalwingfan

^ I watched that again recently and lost it during Bobcaygeon. I have never been affected emotionally by a non-family member like this ever. I wish I could see them one last time

Yeah... it was Bobcaygeon when I burst into tears and started to worry the concert will be a giant tear-fest. But so what if it is? We're moved. We're saying thank-you and good bye. It will be what it needs to be.