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Re: The Tragically Hip - Live and Intimate from the Bathouse Stu - chris - 04-07-2009
hefner Wrote:It was also too bad that the video was not full screen as I'd anticipated. There was approximately 35% of the screen around the edges that went unused and the image was slightly crooked. Was this the same at all theaters?Queensway was not full screen - but it didn't really detract from the event. It was maybe 85% full screen.
Did many read through the credits and notice that Billy Ray was thanked multiple times? For a guy who wrote a note to the band, in Crayon no less, it looks like things have worked out pretty well for him.
Or that it was written by Gord Downie? This credit confused me because it listed Bob Mackowycz as writer of the interviewer dialogue. (Bob is Strombo's partner in just about everything...) And the fans asked the fan questions. So were the answers from the band scripted?
Re: The Tragically Hip - Live and Intimate from the Bathouse Stu - inchanhourtragicallyhip - 04-07-2009
I was @ Silver City Ancaster,ON last night for the show and I loved it. I am really looking forward to hearing more of this album live @ Massey Hall (Toronto) in May. I really enjoyed Love is a first, Thompson Girl, Music @ Work, and Escape was awesome!!
2 more shows @ Hamilton Place. Looks like I will be going to 1 of them...
Re: The Tragically Hip - Live and Intimate from the Bathouse Stu - spottrax - 04-07-2009
chris Wrote:hefner Wrote:It was also too bad that the video was not full screen as I'd anticipated. There was approximately 35% of the screen around the edges that went unused and the image was slightly crooked. Was this the same at all theaters?Queensway was not full screen - but it didn't really detract from the event. It was maybe 85% full screen.
Did many read through the credits and notice that Billy Ray was thanked multiple times? For a guy who wrote a note to the band, in Crayon no less, it looks like things have worked out pretty well for him.
Or that it was written by Gord Downie? This credit confused me because it listed Bob Mackowycz as writer of the interviewer dialogue. (Bob is Strombo's partner in just about everything...) And the fans asked the fan questions. So were the answers from the band scripted?
I am getting the feeling the way they laid out the show (logistically) might have been Billy Ray's idea... very challenging but a super-cool format to do the Q&A and songs....
:thumb:
Re: The Tragically Hip - Live and Intimate from the Bathouse Stu - thehip11 - 04-07-2009
That indeed was me (THEHIP11) with the the plate.
Good to see you Aaron. I still have the card you gave me when you worked at the Dearborn Inn in Michigan.
Awesome event. I sat almost in the front row to make it feel like I was at a front row concert. I found myself gazing around at all of the cool memorabilia. I loved the Fully Completely on the wall, wish I had that above my mantle.
Depression Suite and Escape were favourites of mine.
Actually the best part of the day was coming home and my wife suprising me that she got 9th row for the Hamilton show on September 30th. Best wife ever.
Downloaded hush this moring on itunes....this song will for sure need some listening.
Re: The Tragically Hip - Live and Intimate from the Bathouse Stu - Sam - 04-07-2009
Edward_K Wrote:...during the pool-room scene, I couldn't help but crack up at the King Kong poster - if any others noticed, the bottom half of King Kong, was some 70's or 80's album cover (of some (super)dude wearing tight jeans), over top of King Kong's bottom half ...
That was the Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers cover over the bottom half of King Kong. My friend and I were snickering about it too.
My only complaint was that the broadcast wasn't longer. I was just settling in and suddenly it was over.
Re: The Tragically Hip - Live and Intimate from the Bathouse Stu - longseason - 04-07-2009
Cool. My buddy and I were seated a few rows behind you, methinks. After that show, I'm so pumped for Massey Hall on May 16!
Re: The Tragically Hip - Live and Intimate from the Bathouse Stu - redhill - 04-07-2009
Great night out , other than the snow
Nice to meet you Dana , it was good to tip a few pints... cheers
Re: The Tragically Hip - Live and Intimate from the Bathouse Stu - blacksox12 - 04-07-2009
Fantastic effort by the Hip tonight. Great way to deliver the goods to all of us. Ottawa Coliseum was a little more than half full. Not too much clapping after the songs. That was the weirdest thing for me - that lack of a connection with the band live and in person. Still a great night out and a great show. Thompson Girl and MAW blew me away - imagine the possibilities for a mini-acoustic set during a show on this tour... Good to see hear some fresh takes on past hits... The banter between Strombo and the band was great, especially Bobcaygeon. Can't believe Gord sang, played snooker and kept score! This was the first time I heard any of the new tunes aside from Morning Moon and LIAF and I was very pleased. Can't wait for the CD to arrive in the mail.
Re: The Tragically Hip - Live and Intimate from the Bathouse Stu - tragicallysteve - 04-07-2009
I wish I could have gone last night. It sounds like it was amazing! My wife has a class on Monday nights and we have 6 month old twins at home.
I really hope this video finds the light of day again. Perhaps bundled with a concert DVD. I don't know. Either way, I hope I'll get to see this some day.
Re: The Tragically Hip - Live and Intimate from the Bathouse Stu - cfrancis - 04-07-2009
I was at Silvercity in Ottawa. Under half full, good time, good show. Wished it could have been longer but I understand how hard it is to do live things like that.
Be nice if they could do this again
Re: The Tragically Hip - Live and Intimate from the Bathouse Stu - northern wave - 04-07-2009
I got the impression from it that Gord wrote the concept of the whole night and how it would flow, and not
the answers or interaction with George.
Re: The Tragically Hip - Live and Intimate from the Bathouse Stu - Jimmy Crowe - 04-07-2009
chris Wrote:hefner Wrote:It was also too bad that the video was not full screen as I'd anticipated. There was approximately 35% of the screen around the edges that went unused and the image was slightly crooked. Was this the same at all theaters?Queensway was not full screen - but it didn't really detract from the event. It was maybe 85% full screen.
Did many read through the credits and notice that Billy Ray was thanked multiple times? For a guy who wrote a note to the band, in Crayon no less, it looks like things have worked out pretty well for him.
Or that it was written by Gord Downie? This credit confused me because it listed Bob Mackowycz as writer of the interviewer dialogue. (Bob is Strombo's partner in just about everything...) And the fans asked the fan questions. So were the answers from the band scripted?
You know... I thought that some of it was scripted... Very well done mind ya... Like when George was in the Kitchen asking Johnny about his mini drum kit and drums...
Also... at the beginning, it seemed as though everyone was a little nervous during the first interview in the mixing room.
Re: The Tragically Hip - Live and Intimate from the Bathouse Stu - redhill - 04-07-2009
Jimmy Crowe Wrote:chris Wrote:hefner Wrote:It was also too bad that the video was not full screen as I'd anticipated. There was approximately 35% of the screen around the edges that went unused and the image was slightly crooked. Was this the same at all theaters?Queensway was not full screen - but it didn't really detract from the event. It was maybe 85% full screen.
Did many read through the credits and notice that Billy Ray was thanked multiple times? For a guy who wrote a note to the band, in Crayon no less, it looks like things have worked out pretty well for him.
Or that it was written by Gord Downie? This credit confused me because it listed Bob Mackowycz as writer of the interviewer dialogue. (Bob is Strombo's partner in just about everything...) And the fans asked the fan questions. So were the answers from the band scripted?
You know... I thought that some of it was scripted... Very well done mind ya... Like when George was in the Kitchen asking Johnny about his mini drum kit and drums...
Also... at the beginning, it seemed as though everyone was a little nervous during the first interview in the mixing room.
absolutely... too big of a production to just wing it
Re: The Tragically Hip - Live and Intimate from the Bathouse Stu - Tthip - 04-07-2009
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There's nothing like getting up close and personal with your favourite band in their favourite place.
And that is exactly what all in attendance at any Cineplex location broadcasting the Tragically Hip's intimate and interactive hang from the band's Bathouse studio got Monday night.
Part showcase for We Are the Same, the band's 11th full length — yes, there was the first EP too, so some may say 12th release — and also apres-tour shout out to fans, the 90-minute event was also part interview; albeit a very loose one that included a losing round of snooker for The Hour's George Stroumboulopoulos.
Heading right into the old stone house that holds the studio's many jam spaces, we were treated to "Don't You Want to See How it Ends."
Easily one of the best tracks on the new disc, the tune packs all the same punch as the beautifully produced Bob Rock studio track played live.
Add in the fact that Downie noted of "this being where all of our college furniture came to die," and you've some idea of the backdrop to this performance.
"Hello all of you in the movie-atres," saluted Downie. "This is like coming home for us."
The loose atmosphere extended to some of the acoustic moments during the show too.
When Downie momentarily struggled for a lyric opening in "Thompson Girl," the earlier question about feeling vulnerable with a new album and the event came home to roost.
It was the kind of moment that fans far too rarely get with their heroes and not the last of the night.
As the band and sizable camera crew — obvious from the dazzling array of camera angles and such — moved about the studio confines, fans texted in questions and requests.
Strombo also did his part in the interviewing, mainly concentrating on the band's longevity and how it had held together so long, still being creative and active.
"Like any long-term relationship, you really have to work at it. And to make a cake like we do every few years, you have to break some eggs," says Downie.
"We came to realize that we did what we do better together than apart," chimes in Paul Langlois.
Then the group whips out "Bobcaygeon" while Downie whips the interviewer's butt at snooker. Very funny.
Less amusing, some of the weaker tunes from We Are the Same.
Whether it was inspired by Prime Minister Harper's apology to First Nations peoples for the horrors of residential schools or not, "Now the Struggle Has a Name" is a dud.
Ditto "The Last Recluse." If this is the kind of results that all the members' much-discussed songwriting process can yield up, stick to the oldies but goodies guys.
Bassist Gord Sinclair says that the coming tour with its multi-night stands in smaller theatres rather than arenas will feature setlists tailored for fans and the band, bringing out a real range of both the new album and past glories.
Yes, even covers. But don't expect the band to release any of its many live cover versions on a package any time soon.
While learning a new cover a night is big fun for the band and each show's audience:
"Out of 80 or 90 we did last tour, only three or four really made it out of the park."
Eternally shaggy guitarist Robbie Baker puts it more bluntly: "There are too many new songs waiting to be written to go do all the work needed to truly own a cover tune."
This certainly holds true for the whole group, and working with legendary producer Bob Rock appears to be a very positive experience.
That said, nothing in the broadcast made me change my mind that this latest Hip joint is not one of the band's finest. In the end, We Are the Same, pretty much says it.
A bit different owing to the studio results.
But much heard before. If that is your thing, it's sure not to offend.
And I doubt that this is a group expecting to change anyone's minds about it this long into its career.
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Re: The Tragically Hip - Live and Intimate from the Bathouse Stu - ashtrayrock - 04-07-2009
i think this is one of the coolest album releases ever
i now own 3 copies of the new cd...damn those ticket presales!
anyhoo for $25 i got a copy of the new cd and a movie ticket...working it out it's a hellofa deal
the theater i saw it in had killer sound/picture...you could tell it was HD
multiple camera angles was A++
escape was a highlight and every new song(of course)
must say that gordo was in fine form. he's so on it. incredible front man.