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THE TRAGICALLY HIP He can play the true-blue Canadian card all he wants, but surely there must be days when Gordon Downie rolls out of bed at his palatial Kingston mansion to wonder what might have been. After all, if those goddamn geldings the Barenaked Ladies got their 15 minutes stateside, why did the Hip never click south of the 49th parallel? Like igloos, tuques, and Tim Hortons double-doubles, Downie and company remain a strictly Canuck phenomenon. And no, that doesn’t make “New Orleans Is Sinking” any less a stone-cold classic. When and where: July 12 at GM Place. Suggested retail price: $75.50/55.50/39.50 plus service charges. What we’d be willing to trade tickets for: A one-way ticket to Hogtown. Fan profile: Unrepentant hosers who—no doubt to the horror of Gordon Downie—wouldn’t know the Group of Seven from The Magnificent Seven. Appropriate attire: Hockey jerseys, preferably blue with white trim. What you’ll walk away with: The smug conviction that you are indeed superior to our American neighbours.

The Group of Seven was a group of Canadian landscape painters in the 1920s, originally consisting of Franklin Carmichael, Lawren Harris, A. Y. Jackson, Frank Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J. E. H. MacDonald, and Frederick Varley. Tom Thomson was also associated with the Group, but was never an official member, since he died before the Group was formed.

Of course most of us knew that anyways.

The "unrepentant hosers" tag was more than likely directed at us Canadian fans for not knowing our own Country's royal family of painting.

The fact that you know it and most likely 99% of us here on the base know it, speaks to the unfortunate generalization of Tragically Hip fans being a bunch of drunken, unruly College/Frat Boy jagoffs...and having been to a number of shows now I can easily see where that stigma comes from.

have a peek at this..

Tribute to Canadian Group of Seven Artists in Google Earth
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That's pretty cool.

Before i was a hip fan, i didn't know who the Group of Seven were. I found out who they were because of the Hip. (I was also ten years old, though.)