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The Hip at 37000 feet!!!!! - 767F/O - 06-27-2007
There I was at 37000 feet...listening to the Hip!
Last week I was on an Air Canada flight from Toronto to Vancouver.
I am an Air Canada employee and was lucky to get a seat in business class.
This Boeing 767 does not have the upgraded interior so it has a large projection screen for the in flight movie.
The movie was Wild Hogs. Not a great movie and I had seen it a week earlier.
So I fell asleep somewhere near Winnipeg and woke up over Calgary.
As my eyes began to focus I noticed Gord Downie on the screen!
My first thought was that maybe it was an interview or a documentary. But then the screen changed to show the whole band and they were playing!!
I scrambled to get the head phones on and started rocking to Grace Too!
This is amazing!
Here comes the flight attendant...."Could I get a Sleman Cream Ale please". Nothing goes better than the Hip and beer!
It turned out to be a 5 (or more) song excert from the That Night in Toronto dvd. The songs were Grace Too, Courage, Bobcageon, Nautical Disaster and Litlle Bones...maybe more while I was sleeping.
I wanted to head to the back of the full plane to see how many others were rocking to the tunes but I didn't want to leave my seat!
What a great way to pass the time.....Listening to the Hip, drinking beer, and getting paid to do it!!!
Can't wait until next Wednesday night - The Hip and beer in Muskoka!!!
Cheers.
On a side note: The newer aircraft that we have come with a personal entertainment LCD screen in the seatback in front of you.
Until recently, World Container was in the music menu. It had been there for at least the last 4 or 5 months. Unfortunately, it has been removed.
Hopeully we will get it back so that others can enjoy the Hip and others might discover them for the first time!!
- worldpeace - 06-28-2007
Awesome job!
- cferneyh - 06-28-2007
That Night In Toronto was the music video of choice when I flew from Cowtown to Vancouver last week.
- skippy the wonder dog - 06-28-2007
That Night in Toronto is one of the current movie choices on Air Canada flights with the new personal seat-back entertainment system. As of last week, when I flew up to Montreal.
- 767F/O - 06-28-2007
Is it the entire show or is it a short version like I saw??
- skippy, remotely - 06-28-2007
I dunno, I didn't watch it. I was busy sleeping for most of that flight.
But it was under the "movies" selection, so it was probably full length. I have to say that on longer flights, Air Canada's seat back entertainment system is great -- great variety of choices.
- cferneyh - 06-30-2007
767F/O Wrote:Is it the entire show or is it a short version like I saw??
Entire show.
- 767F/O - 07-01-2007
Thanks....I think it's great having the Hip reach such a large audience with the dvd playing onboard!!!
Can't wait until Wednesday!!!
- kulpie - 07-01-2007
I was on that flight - last monday morning the 15th at 10:30...I have no status with AC so I was in the back of the bus. I didn't have headphones for the movie and I look up 3.5 or so hours into the flight and low and behold I see Downie on the tube - my neighbour gave me his (unopened) headphones and it was fantastic!
in all my flights, that was a blast - beat my emergency landing. I'm right now sitting in the Admiral Club in Dallas waiting for my connector to Mexico City and thought I'd drop in and peruse this site.
I just watched Canada lose in soccer on cbc.ca - streaming for freeeee - the nhl could take a lesson there.
Happy Canada Day all!
Edward.
- kulpie - 07-01-2007
pardon me... my flight from TO to Van was the 18th, not the 15th - last week was at home in the beach(es).
Cheers, again!
- craigd - 07-07-2007
Too bad Air Transat doesn't offer it.
It would be cool to listen to it as I fall asleep on the redeye to Amsterdam.
YEAH !!!