When I left your house this morning, / It was a little after nine / It was in Bobcaygeon, I saw the constellations / Reveal themselves, one star at time
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What an amazing show. They captured the perfect energy for a goodbye tour, a true celebration of the strength of their catalogue, the quality of live band that they are, and the relationship they have with their fans. The moments with Gord alone on stage and the roar of the audience was electric. I'll remember this show forever, so glad I got a chance to attend.
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A few weeks after crashing head-first into the boards (denting his helmet and being unable to move for a little while) following a hit from behind by Bob Errey, the Calgary Flames player explains:
"I was like Christ, lying on my back, with my arms outstretched, crucified"
-- Frank Musil - Early January 1994
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A wonderful show. Just a great mix of songs and the energy in the building was palpable. I was overjoyed to hear escape is at hand for the travelling man. Nautical disaster would have been awesome but the show was basically a perfect good bye show.
It was tremendous. There was a much bigger buzz and a way more upbeat mood in Calgary. I'm not saying the Edmonton show was bad, by any means, but Calgary just blew the roof off. Fiddlers Green. Bobcaygeon. Boots Or Hearts. Sigh. It was perfect. Just perfect.
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I was in the pisser when escape came on... Everybody was talking and blathering away and I shouted "Shut up - we can all listen". And it went pin drop silent for a long while. Such a friendly audience
canadehdianman. Bittersweet is correct. I will fell the feels for you on Wednesday.
Ahead by a century tore through me. Too much in my life tied to that song. What a show - what a band.
More thoughts later
August 1 2016 - it happened and I was there.
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So they played:
4 songs from each of: Road Apples, Man Machine Poem, <intermission> World Container, Day For Night, Phantom Power
1st Encore: Trouble At The Henhouse (3 songs)
2nd Encore: Up to Here (2 songs)
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"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
So they played:
4 songs from each of: Road Apples, Man Machine Poem, <intermission> World Container, Day For Night, Phantom Power
1st Encore: Trouble At The Henhouse (3 songs)
2nd Encore: Up to Here (2 songs)
Now that you point that out, that's been the format for all of the shows so far. First, five blocks of four songs each from a single album, in this order:
One of their first three albums
Man Machine Poem
One of their albums released since 2000 (Music @ Work and later)
One of their first six albums (up to and including Phantom Power)
Another of their first six albums
First Encore: 3 songs from one of their first six albums
Second Encore: 2 songs from one of their first six albums
The first show in Victoria swapped the order of 3 & 4, but other than that, they've all followed the same structure.
At each show, they've played songs from 5 of their first 6 albums. Monday was the first show without anything from Fully Completely. So far, they've played songs from Phantom Power every show.
The second set of songs has always been from Man Machine Poem. Besides that, they've only played one set each night from one of their albums released after Phantom Power. In Violet Light is the only album they haven't played anything from yet.
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