10-17-2002, 01:11 AM
One of the best I've seen as well!!! Here's my story.....
Get off the train and meet my friend at Union and we make our way down to the Hummer. It's 7pm now as we stop and hang out near the corner where the scalpers were selling. My friends go and talk to a cop about something interesting and I start to talk to another guy beside me smoking. We start a conversation and I ask him how many shows he's been to in his lifetime, he said "600, maybe a 1000."
I assumed with a number like that, he's been to a lot of shows but not 600. I told him it was my 5th show and I laughed. He then told me he was the Hip's tour manager or something like that I forget......IT'S JAKE GOLD!!!! I was in shock!
We talk for a little while longer now about stuff and he asked me if I got "first-in-line" ticket sales through the Hip Club. I told him I did but I was with two other friends and they didn't want to pay a lot for our seats (my seats were up in row Z, left of centre in the balcony). He said, "oh alright, here take these...." He reaches in his pocket and pulls out two complmentary tickets in row G, centre!!!! Now I was really shocked!!
I was literally speachless. I said thanks so much and he left. So I told my friends and they were speachless but only one could sit with me. So my one friend attends U of T and he goes off to find two more friends who wanted to go.
7:20pm - So me and my friend go into the Hummer to look around and we go to our seats and wait for Sam Roberts to appear.
7:32pm - Sam hits the stage. He did a terrific job encouraging a good size crowd to stand and sing along. Sam and his band played some really good jams that got the crowd moving a bit more. Great performance!
8:17pm - Sam Roberts finishes up and we leave to find my other friend with another girl. My original seats were way up where the spotlight was shining, far from the stage. We then head down to the lobby and hang out there. On my way back to my seat, I look at the sound/light board and the hip's setlist is sitting right on the table. I force myself not to look as I wanted to be surprised with each song. I sit down and start talking with some fellow hipsters and ask how they got their tickets. One of them said he got it free from Gord Sinclair! It turns out that they both went to high school with the Hip back in Kingston! I was speachless again!! He wasn't very talkative so I decided to mind my own business.
8:39pm - The crowd is getting excited and chanting "Hip Hip Hip Hip" here and there. Suddenly the lights go out and everyone jumps to their feet as the Hip enter!
My review from what I remember:
The band walks on stage as Gord is wearing his green shirt and a Bruin hat.
They start off with Use It Up and right away I'm dancing on the spot waving my hands in the air (by the way, I was the one in the white hip jersey and orange hat).
M@W was next and they had an extended version to the song that blew me away!
NOIS was played at its best with Paul's stellar guitar riff at the start. Also when gord sang, "Looked up to the lord above and said hey Paul Langlois thanks....." (look at Eags' quote's from the show).
Grace, Too "he said I'm Tragically Hip!" Gord sits on one of the speakers.
Escape is at hand was one of my fav's from the night and I was really happy to hear it. Great jam at the start.
Great lighting as well for the whole show.....IOD, escape, weaken, meridian, locked....
Nice little rant before and in the middle of 100th meridian as well but didn't catch it and Robby's nice "picking" of his guitar in the middle too (you know what I mean?). Also when gord sang "....an american myth" and looked at the crowd maybe trying to see our reaction to him not saying canadian myth, that was a good laugh. Gord sitting down on the stage talking with the crowd during Poets about his ssssssssssound.
By the way, anyone know who was filming down in row DD I think, he was right near GD when he sat on the stage.
The Gems/Dire Wolf feature was well played with them blending into dire wolf.
And hearing Little Bones for the first time since the Phantom Power 1999 tour was a treat with gord's dancing.
What was really funny during Bones was near the end of the song when gord would sing "baby eat this chicken slow....", he decided to save it for later in his rant I think. But Gord Sinclair missed that and did the backup to where GD would have sung it, you know. Right away I looked at Paul and he had a big smile on his face, then when GD finally sang the words, Paul and GSinclair looked at each other and laughed. Anyone else see that?
During the break before the encore, it was awesome to hear the entire crowd chant HIP HIP HIP HIP.....that was great! I waved my hat in circles when the hip came back for the encore.
I agree that the encore was kinda disappointing but it was still awesome!
When gord said 1,2,3 Are You Ready!!! to the crowd.
Gord lying on the stage at the end of fire in the hole.
Anyways, superb show guys thanks a lot. Also thanx to Jake for the tickets, awesome!!! Can't wait to hear how the recording sounded like!
(Wow is it already "3 o'clock in the morning") hehe
Get off the train and meet my friend at Union and we make our way down to the Hummer. It's 7pm now as we stop and hang out near the corner where the scalpers were selling. My friends go and talk to a cop about something interesting and I start to talk to another guy beside me smoking. We start a conversation and I ask him how many shows he's been to in his lifetime, he said "600, maybe a 1000."
I assumed with a number like that, he's been to a lot of shows but not 600. I told him it was my 5th show and I laughed. He then told me he was the Hip's tour manager or something like that I forget......IT'S JAKE GOLD!!!! I was in shock!
We talk for a little while longer now about stuff and he asked me if I got "first-in-line" ticket sales through the Hip Club. I told him I did but I was with two other friends and they didn't want to pay a lot for our seats (my seats were up in row Z, left of centre in the balcony). He said, "oh alright, here take these...." He reaches in his pocket and pulls out two complmentary tickets in row G, centre!!!! Now I was really shocked!!
I was literally speachless. I said thanks so much and he left. So I told my friends and they were speachless but only one could sit with me. So my one friend attends U of T and he goes off to find two more friends who wanted to go.
7:20pm - So me and my friend go into the Hummer to look around and we go to our seats and wait for Sam Roberts to appear.
7:32pm - Sam hits the stage. He did a terrific job encouraging a good size crowd to stand and sing along. Sam and his band played some really good jams that got the crowd moving a bit more. Great performance!
8:17pm - Sam Roberts finishes up and we leave to find my other friend with another girl. My original seats were way up where the spotlight was shining, far from the stage. We then head down to the lobby and hang out there. On my way back to my seat, I look at the sound/light board and the hip's setlist is sitting right on the table. I force myself not to look as I wanted to be surprised with each song. I sit down and start talking with some fellow hipsters and ask how they got their tickets. One of them said he got it free from Gord Sinclair! It turns out that they both went to high school with the Hip back in Kingston! I was speachless again!! He wasn't very talkative so I decided to mind my own business.
8:39pm - The crowd is getting excited and chanting "Hip Hip Hip Hip" here and there. Suddenly the lights go out and everyone jumps to their feet as the Hip enter!
My review from what I remember:
The band walks on stage as Gord is wearing his green shirt and a Bruin hat.
They start off with Use It Up and right away I'm dancing on the spot waving my hands in the air (by the way, I was the one in the white hip jersey and orange hat).
M@W was next and they had an extended version to the song that blew me away!
NOIS was played at its best with Paul's stellar guitar riff at the start. Also when gord sang, "Looked up to the lord above and said hey Paul Langlois thanks....." (look at Eags' quote's from the show).
Grace, Too "he said I'm Tragically Hip!" Gord sits on one of the speakers.
Escape is at hand was one of my fav's from the night and I was really happy to hear it. Great jam at the start.
Great lighting as well for the whole show.....IOD, escape, weaken, meridian, locked....
Nice little rant before and in the middle of 100th meridian as well but didn't catch it and Robby's nice "picking" of his guitar in the middle too (you know what I mean?). Also when gord sang "....an american myth" and looked at the crowd maybe trying to see our reaction to him not saying canadian myth, that was a good laugh. Gord sitting down on the stage talking with the crowd during Poets about his ssssssssssound.
By the way, anyone know who was filming down in row DD I think, he was right near GD when he sat on the stage.
The Gems/Dire Wolf feature was well played with them blending into dire wolf.
And hearing Little Bones for the first time since the Phantom Power 1999 tour was a treat with gord's dancing.
What was really funny during Bones was near the end of the song when gord would sing "baby eat this chicken slow....", he decided to save it for later in his rant I think. But Gord Sinclair missed that and did the backup to where GD would have sung it, you know. Right away I looked at Paul and he had a big smile on his face, then when GD finally sang the words, Paul and GSinclair looked at each other and laughed. Anyone else see that?
During the break before the encore, it was awesome to hear the entire crowd chant HIP HIP HIP HIP.....that was great! I waved my hat in circles when the hip came back for the encore.
I agree that the encore was kinda disappointing but it was still awesome!
When gord said 1,2,3 Are You Ready!!! to the crowd.
Gord lying on the stage at the end of fire in the hole.
Anyways, superb show guys thanks a lot. Also thanx to Jake for the tickets, awesome!!! Can't wait to hear how the recording sounded like!
(Wow is it already "3 o'clock in the morning") hehe