i loved getting those newsletters...they were really well done, and the shirts as well..classic hip t's!!
And they gave you the feeling that the fans were getting some respect. Kind of like The Hip Club...for about five minutes.
What was tales from the hip?
chicagoblackhawks77 Wrote:What was tales from the hip?
"Tales" was a hardcopy paper newsletter that was mailed out every five or six months when you singed up for their mailing list. It was always a treat opening the mailbox and reading the latest happenings in the Hip camp. It was very similar to Pearl Jam's Ten Club newsletter (which they still send out to their fans). Man, I miss that stuff.
I still have a bunch of them.
If I paid all postage, do you think you could make me a copy of one?
Mick
joanie Wrote:And they gave you the feeling that the fans were getting some respect. Kind of like The Hip Club...for about five minutes.
Ouch. But truer words were never spoken.
You can got to archive.org and go to the wayback machine and type in thehip.com, and you should be able to access some old "Tales" issues along with the old dead hip.com sites.
> From: Tales from the Hip, Winter 94-95 No.1:
>
> Here are a few pointers:
>
> "The inspiration for my lyrics? I couldn't even
> hazard a guess. It seems observations have become a
> bit of a hobby, and I am fortunate to have the luxury
> of time to hammer these things into songs" (G. Downie)
> "I am not too comfortable with the lyrics being
> separated from the music. I'm not a poet, I'm a lyric
> writer and I just want to make them fit or sound
> right." (G. Downie)
> "I think the whole band is kind of ambiguous
> anyway... I think the same with lyrics, there are a
> lot of snippets and mini stories within bigger ones. I
> think Gord likes to leave it ambiguous and I think we
> all prefer it that way too..." (P. Langlois)
> "People never used to ask me about the lyrics...
> No accountability, it was a great luxury" (G. Downie)
> - The Tragically Hip
Tthip Wrote:I'm not a poet, I'm a lyric writer." (G. Downie)
You filthy, filthy liar.
the best tales from the hip was the one that had the words to Gord's sonnet:
"Ascetic thin, coveted by vultures
And rendered childlike by the road ..." etc.
Or was it "Insomniacs"? Either way, I saved that one.
Man, that was a long time ago.
CT
i miss the Tales From The Hip t-shirts, they need to get back to making those bad boys, my cousin had a sweet one where there was a woman crying and a man walking out the door on it, and she was saying something along the lines of "why do you have to be so fucking hip?", i wish i could locate one of those.
Checking out archive.org........
The first hip web page was much cooler than the one that exists today. <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://web.archive.org/web/19970117063505/http://www.thehip.com/">http://web.archive.org/web/199701170635 ... hehip.com/</a><!-- m -->
thanks for the flashback, I was reading some of the Tales From the Hip, those were so cool, I wish they would do that again. I liked this one from Feb.95, the travel tips are funny: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://web.archive.org/web/19970117071621/www.thehip.com/tfh2.htm">http://web.archive.org/web/199701170716 ... m/tfh2.htm</a><!-- m -->
i kind of wish i hadn't brought this up, because now i miss it more than ever..
