09-25-2002, 06:36 PM
OK, here is one... I'll keep it short.
Vancouver, Henhouse tour - beginning of the tour.
The night before the tour, I was asked to go to The Old Arena to deliver a BNC cable ( I had an A/V bizz at the time), my friend came up from Seattle for the weekend shows, so we went together. Went in and talked to the road manger...he told us to stick around...met Johnny - tested his new "shaker", talked to Gord S. at the sound board for a while, went to a dressing room - met the rest of the band, chatted for 20 minutes, and thought that was it. We were then told again to stick around. Went to the van, got some beer, phoned everyone we could think of, NOBODY home. Came back in and went around on the floor and sat in our seats that we had for the up coming shows. So eventually settled in at ROW 2 centre, and waited. There were a dozen other people milling about in this huge arena. Before you know it, lights out, FULL ON sound and lights, a private Hip show/sound check for over an hour. We phoned everybody again, this time leaving songs on answering machines. We just rocked as Gord asked us what songs we wanted to hear - my buddy says - "FreeBird" - idiot! However, Gord thought that was pretty funny. He saved Nautical for me until the end, ranted to us forever - classic.
I'll tell you - what a time - we ended up meeting a whole bunch of our buds after, and of course words could not describe it.
Anywho, that's one of many. Keep posted for - "Football with The Hip", "Blind date with Alanis and backstage with the Hip", "Private Hollywood party with The Hip" etc. etc.
Bry AKA Mats.
Vancouver, Henhouse tour - beginning of the tour.
The night before the tour, I was asked to go to The Old Arena to deliver a BNC cable ( I had an A/V bizz at the time), my friend came up from Seattle for the weekend shows, so we went together. Went in and talked to the road manger...he told us to stick around...met Johnny - tested his new "shaker", talked to Gord S. at the sound board for a while, went to a dressing room - met the rest of the band, chatted for 20 minutes, and thought that was it. We were then told again to stick around. Went to the van, got some beer, phoned everyone we could think of, NOBODY home. Came back in and went around on the floor and sat in our seats that we had for the up coming shows. So eventually settled in at ROW 2 centre, and waited. There were a dozen other people milling about in this huge arena. Before you know it, lights out, FULL ON sound and lights, a private Hip show/sound check for over an hour. We phoned everybody again, this time leaving songs on answering machines. We just rocked as Gord asked us what songs we wanted to hear - my buddy says - "FreeBird" - idiot! However, Gord thought that was pretty funny. He saved Nautical for me until the end, ranted to us forever - classic.
I'll tell you - what a time - we ended up meeting a whole bunch of our buds after, and of course words could not describe it.
Anywho, that's one of many. Keep posted for - "Football with The Hip", "Blind date with Alanis and backstage with the Hip", "Private Hollywood party with The Hip" etc. etc.
Bry AKA Mats.