10-26-2005, 11:14 AM
SRK Wrote:I was at the Ottawa show, and have a boot of it with weird digital clicking all the way through the last 4 or 5 tracks...decent sound for the corel centre, though.
I'd recommend the one from the next night in Montreal (considering it's the only other one I have from that tour), though...where they actually *play* Montreal, which is a pretty cool story in and of itself (as I recall...)
(speaking of evil things clicking in... watch as Steve's mind won't let this opportunity pass without plugging his work)
A cool story you say? Why shucks, I just happen to have written about it:
"Montreal" played live in Montreal
On December 7, 2000, the day after the 11th anniversary of the massacre, The Tragically Hip played "Montreal" for the first time in nearly a decade inside Montreal's Bell Centre. The song had been slated to appear on 1991's "Road Apples," but was never released. In what is now perhaps one of the most famous stories in Hip lore, the band accessed this website backstage so that Downie could re-acquaint himself with the lyrics before heading out before the crowd.
That 2000 version contains the line "She didn't care for... sending men to electric chairs" for added political bite. The bootleg of that recording remains one of the more sought after online, and the song itself remains the greatest piece of Canadian rock never released.