The Final Hip tour and reminiscing about Gord Downie

[Peanut]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

Last night at the opening for Scared they played the first couple of chords to Nautical Disaster.

I thought I dreamt it, but after speaking to some other people at the show, I believe it was the opening chords.

I heard it too! I also brushed it off assuming I heard wrong. But perhaps not.

[Yamer]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

I honestly had no idea that your could record on 8 tracks.

Today I learnt something.

Chances are I'm mis-remembering something. As distinct as the memory is, there is something that doesn't jive.

Either way, I KNOW 100th Meridian was the first Hip song I ever heard. I was obsessed with it as a kid.

[Kipper is King]

Man, every time I listen to Ocean Next now, I just get a shiver down my spine.

Also, today I found out the Hip did a cover of a Gordon Lightfoot song entitled "Black Day in July."



Hearing a song from The Hip I haven't heard before makes me feel even more crushed.

[Buff]

Were the ushers diligently looking for people to kick out? The guy in section 205 sure was. It felt like he wanted to kick somebody out. I walked into the bowl and he stopped me and gave me crap for not having my ticket out. I knew where my seat was but apparently I'm not allowed to access the seating area without showing the usher my ticket... Umm, dude. I'm in the second level behind the stage... Why would I want to sneak into that section from any other section in the building?

Throughout the show he would stand in the aisle and watch the crowd and then write down the row number and count seats down to people he was watching. Then he would bring another usher and point to the people he was watching and the other usher would shrug and walk away.

Anyway, it didn't detract from my enjoyment of the show but it was something I noticed and since I haven't been to a concert for a few years and this was my first time to a concert in the Dome, I thought I would see what other people experienced at the show on Wednesday.

[gordo67]

Both shows were awesome, I think I liked the second show a wee bit more than the first. My sons first concert, and he is hooked. I told him this concert was special, and try to soak in the atmosphere. I don't own any CDs (no idea where they went), but I still have cassettes which he immediately scooped up when he got home.

[Yamer]

And here's one for you nostalgia fans. This is a letter written to Mike Greggs from the Students' Association of Red Deer College in 1988 requesting that the Hip do a gig at the Far Side Bar (the College bar).

Spoiler!

This was slightly before my time, but evidently the Hip played at the Far Side in Red Deer quite often before they really took off. Our Executive Director (then Admin Assistant/Accountant) recalls one winter night in the late 80s that the band was due to go on in an hour but they were nowhere to be found. Their manager explained that the boys liked to get in a game or two of pond hockey before they went on stage, but he wasn't familiar with Red Deer so he had no idea where they might be.

In a time before cell phones, the then Admin Assistant/Accountant had to get in her car and drive around Red Deer to all the outdoor rinks to look for the Tragically Hip so they didn't miss their gig. She found them lost in the game at the Bower rink.

They made the set.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Yamer

And here's one for you nostalgia fans. This is a letter written to Mike Greggs from the Students' Association of Red Deer College in 1988 requesting that the Hip do a gig at the Far Side Bar (the College bar).

Spoiler!

This was slightly before my time, but evidently the Hip played at the Far Side in Red Deer quite often before they really took off. Our Executive Director (then Admin Assistant/Accountant) recalls one winter night in the late 80s that the band was due to go on in an hour but they were nowhere to be found. Their manager explained that the boys liked to get in a game or two of pond hockey before they went on stage, but he wasn't familiar with Red Deer so he had no idea where they might be.

In a time before cell phones, the then Admin Assistant/Accountant had to get in her car and drive around Red Deer to all the outdoor rinks to look for the Tragically Hip so they didn't miss their gig. She found them lost in the game at the Bower rink.

They made the set.

So you work at RDC. We are walking distance from each other.

Great Story, BTW.

[troutman]

SNL performance here (sometimes hard to find in Canada because of NBC policy):

http://rock95.com/watch-the-tragical...l-performance/

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by troutman

SNL performance here (sometimes hard to find in Canada because of NBC policy):

http://rock95.com/watch-the-tragical...l-performance/

I remember they also played Nautical Disaster on SNL


http://www.downvids.net/nautical-dis...95-815808.html


At the end he sings a line from a Sky Diggers song I believe.

[14]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

I remember they also played Nautical Disaster on SNL


http://www.downvids.net/nautical-dis...95-815808.html


At the end he sings a line from a Sky Diggers song I believe.

Thanks for this. Forgot about that last line. Think it is a Beatles reference. In the song "In my life" by The Beatles, they say:

"But of all these friends and lovers,
there is no one compares with you"

Great Memory. Thanks.

[14]

Originally Posted by troutman

SNL performance here (sometimes hard to find in Canada because of NBC policy):

http://rock95.com/watch-the-tragical...l-performance/

Thanks. In Gord's one hour long q interview in 2009 he references that the two fingers he puts up are for his nephews 11th birthday. It was that day and he promised to do it. He was so nervous to remember to do it he repeated Ackroyd's intro and first line and then frose when he forgot the second line. The chord hit and he remembeed it. There is surprise in his face after the second line.

It is an amazing retrospective interview of their career to that point. It is on youtube. I recommend it.

Thanks for posting. Very hard to find.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by 14

Thanks for this. Forgot about that last line. Think it is a Beatles reference. In the song "In my life" by The Beatles, they say:

"But of all these friends and lovers,
there is no one compares with you"

Great Memory. Thanks.

Good ear, you might be correct.

[MRCboicgy]

Originally Posted by 14

Thanks. In Gord's one hour long q interview in 2009 he references that the two fingers he puts up are for his nephews 11th birthday. It was that day and he promised to do it. He was so nervous to remember to do it he repeated Ackroyd's intro and first line and then frose when he forgot the second line. The chord hit and he remembeed it. There is surprise in his face after the second line.

It is an amazing retrospective interview of their career to that point. It is on youtube. I recommend it.

Thanks for posting. Very hard to find.

So when he opens with that instead of Fabulously Rich, it's a shout out to that flub? Cool. I've always wondered why once in a while he throws that in at shows.

[FLAMESRULE]

Ok. Mind = blown. I always thought that Nautical Disaster (perhaps my most favourite song of all time) was an ode to Dieppe. Nope, it was for the sinking of the Bismarck..."Gord Downie told the authors of the Can-Rock tome Have Not Been The Same that the songs nautical theme is in fact based on the doomed German battleship Bismarck." http://www.hipmuseum.com/nautical.html


This is a pretty rad site that I've just started going through...they detail the meaning/inspiration behind a bunch of their songs. There's also a whole bunch of unreleased material apparently. http://www.hipmuseum.com/

[Magnum PEI]

Still waiting for the movie. Peter O'Toole is gone but Jodie Foster isn't doing much these days.

[14]

Originally Posted by FLAMESRULE

Ok. Mind = blown. I always thought that Nautical Disaster (perhaps my most favourite song of all time) was an ode to Dieppe. Nope, it was for the sinking of the Bismarck..."Gord Downie told the authors of the Can-Rock tome Have Not Been The Same that the songs nautical theme is in fact based on the doomed German battleship Bismarck." http://www.hipmuseum.com/nautical.html


This is a pretty rad site that I've just started going through...they detail the meaning/inspiration behind a bunch of their songs. There's also a whole bunch of unreleased material apparently. http://www.hipmuseum.com/

Back in mid 90's Amongst my Uni buds we had always heard the song is about dreams he had off of his viewing of the painting 'Sinking of the Bismark' that was, and may still be, at The National Naval Museum. Google the painting. The whole song is there. Very cool.

I am positive they are keeping it for the last show in Kingston.

[corporatejay]

Originally Posted by Magnum PEI

Still waiting for the movie. Peter O'Toole is gone but Jodie Foster isn't doing much these days.

I have a script called the Nurse Patient if anyone wants to read it.

[getbak]

Appropriately, they opened the show in Winnipeg with At the Hundredth Meridian.

[Reaper]

Originally Posted by getbak

Appropriately, they opened the show in Winnipeg with At the Hundredth Meridian.

Perfect.

[surferguy]

No grace too in Winnipeg... suckers