08-08-2004, 08:32 PM
Foxfires:
In that short story, sweetly and incitefully told I might add, you summed up everything there is to being a Hip fan. They truly are more than just music coming out of a couple of speakers. Thanx for the anecdote, oh, and by the way, your husband, he's a very smart guy.....let's give him a little credit to eh?
And if we're on the subject of Hip epiphanys.....I remember way back in the "old days", 19 something, something......I was sitting on the couch watching Much Music when they suddenly announced that up next was the "world premiere" of a video from a new band out of Kingston called the "Tragically Hip" and their song "New Orleans Is Sinking" Instead of leaving the tube and getting another beer, I sat and watched, utterly mesmerized as some guy eventually drank down his pet goldfish, and listened, for the first time, to what would become a true Canadian classic. I don't know what is was about it, Gord's voice?, the lyrics?, the hooky guitar?, their name?, but, I was reeled in for life from that moment on and to this day I often wonder if I would have discovered the magic of The Hip if I hadn't turned on the TV at that moment, on that day, at that time. Later, in the afternoon, I made my way down to the nearest music store, bought a little CD entitled "Up To Here" and haven't looked back since. The Hip's music, The Hip's words, their intangible mystique, is a big part of my life and will be so until the day I die, I'm sure. Like Foxfires says....."That band ROCKS!" In many more ways than one, I might add.
In that short story, sweetly and incitefully told I might add, you summed up everything there is to being a Hip fan. They truly are more than just music coming out of a couple of speakers. Thanx for the anecdote, oh, and by the way, your husband, he's a very smart guy.....let's give him a little credit to eh?
And if we're on the subject of Hip epiphanys.....I remember way back in the "old days", 19 something, something......I was sitting on the couch watching Much Music when they suddenly announced that up next was the "world premiere" of a video from a new band out of Kingston called the "Tragically Hip" and their song "New Orleans Is Sinking" Instead of leaving the tube and getting another beer, I sat and watched, utterly mesmerized as some guy eventually drank down his pet goldfish, and listened, for the first time, to what would become a true Canadian classic. I don't know what is was about it, Gord's voice?, the lyrics?, the hooky guitar?, their name?, but, I was reeled in for life from that moment on and to this day I often wonder if I would have discovered the magic of The Hip if I hadn't turned on the TV at that moment, on that day, at that time. Later, in the afternoon, I made my way down to the nearest music store, bought a little CD entitled "Up To Here" and haven't looked back since. The Hip's music, The Hip's words, their intangible mystique, is a big part of my life and will be so until the day I die, I'm sure. Like Foxfires says....."That band ROCKS!" In many more ways than one, I might add.