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Hello fellow Hip fans,

My name is Andrew and I hail from the place Gord Downie affectionately calls “the Paris of the Maritimes”. The Hip first became a music staple for me in the early 1990’s after I bought a Road Apples cassette. My love of the band was cemented after the release of Fully Completely, which subsequently became the soundtrack to most of the parties in my last year of high school. September 1994 found me waiting for the record store to open on release day morning so I could get a copy of Day for Night. I continued this tradition for every album thereafter, although the tradition will end this week when the new one comes courtesy of Amazon.

My first Hip concert experience was in Saint John, where I saw them on the Day for Night tour. My future wife and I had upper bowl seats for the show but jumped the security barrier to get down into the mosh pit (a term that now seems dated to the 1990’s) in front of the stage. The goose-bump feeling that I had when they took first took to the stage that night has never since been replicated for me at a concert. I remember a fight breaking out in the pit and Gord stopping the show to chastise the combatants. I’m not sure if a live recording exists of this show, but I believe Gord said “For every punch you throw I’m going to rip a stitch out of your mother’s caeserian scar.”

I’m a big music fan. The bands currently getting the most play on my iPod are My Morning Jacket, Kings of Leon, the National, Neko Case, and Ryan Adams and the Cardinals. I also like to watch sports and play them poorly. I’ve lived and died with the Oilers for years and it looks like I’m going to have to suffer through another spring without any meaningful playoff hockey.

I’m looking forward to checking out the site and getting to know more about my favourite band. Cheers.

Welcome!

That comment by Gord was either made multiple times, or a recording of that show is in my collection. I'll look into it.

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