09-25-2002, 10:38 PM
oops... "Trouble at the Henhouse".
How you got interested in The Hip
09-26-2002, 08:34 PM
Woke up one morning and flipped on MuchMusic. The music and video of "Ahead by a century" blew my mind. Bought 'Henhouse', and was impressed. Every CD before, I purchased a few weeks later and was most impressed with Day for Night. Being only 17 I never had the opportunity to witness them during the ARA years, but the boots I own are impressive. Best band in the world.
09-29-2002, 06:26 PM
I would have to say day for night girlfriend made me listen to it and she gave me a night and a reason to love them forever!!!!
Bear
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10-22-2002, 04:50 PM
I was given a free ticket to see them at Darien lake a few years back..I didn't know much about them. Well, a few years later and all their discs in our collection...well I can't get enough :lol:
11-16-2002, 09:56 AM
I used to hear "New Orleans" on the radio, but I never gave any thought to buying their CD. When I lived in North Dakota I remember watching them on SNL when they performed "Nautical Disaster" and "Grace,too" (1996?). That was the best live performance I have seen prior to that. I then bought every CD by them that I could.
For some reason I never met another hip fan until I finally went to one of their concerts on the 14th of November in Berlin. I would tell my friends or coworkers who I was going to see and they would say "who?" It boggles my mind that most Americans have never heard of them. They're missing out. IMO, I would rather watch the hip than any other band out there.
For some reason I never met another hip fan until I finally went to one of their concerts on the 14th of November in Berlin. I would tell my friends or coworkers who I was going to see and they would say "who?" It boggles my mind that most Americans have never heard of them. They're missing out. IMO, I would rather watch the hip than any other band out there.
12-06-2002, 06:05 PM
I always liked them a bit during high school, because so many other people did. But what sold me was ARA in 1997 at Molson Park. It was a great concert. Still one of best Hip shows I have seen. After that I really got into them...
01-17-2003, 12:06 AM
It all started back in something like 1996. I was on my way with my brother and a some of his friends to a speedway in southwestern ontario, and someone just happened to have the up to here tape, and when I heard blow at high dough I was hooked for life. I think the majority of people became hip fans through this tape.
01-17-2003, 10:47 PM
A total newbie here..(to the forum, love it)...but being a music lover the only video station that played videos here in Cleveland a few years back was Muchmusic. One evening...I saw the video for Poets and I just love it...loved the cats...loved the music even more... bought Phantom Power...just like that this band is coming to Nautica in the Flats in Cleveland. I bought a ticket..took a friend and had the frickin time of my life at that very rainy, stormy night here.. been hooked ever since..yikes boring story...not alot of Hip fans around here.....so nice to share
thanks
ajjay
01-18-2003, 02:15 PM
Saturday Night Live.
Not long after Jerry Garcia died I was watching SNL and the Hip came on. From the first notes of "Grace Too" I knew they were good.
Went to see them at Irving Plaza in NYC...only a few short block from my Dojo on 23rd Street. Was front and center for Gordo...Blew me the fuck away...and that is coming from a person who has seen Miles Davis, BB King, The Grateful Dead and The Allman Brothers front row center.
Gordo's sweat was falling on me at Irving Plaza. The Tragically Hip are the BEST live band to grace modern music in the last 10 years.
In July of 1999 (or was it 2000?) I went to Central Park to see the Hip...my daughter was on my shoulders and we moved up the center aisle. She loved them. Her favorite line is "And don't wipe you asses with you sleaves". She is 12 now. she was 10 when we saw the Hip in Central Park.
Not long after Jerry Garcia died I was watching SNL and the Hip came on. From the first notes of "Grace Too" I knew they were good.
Went to see them at Irving Plaza in NYC...only a few short block from my Dojo on 23rd Street. Was front and center for Gordo...Blew me the fuck away...and that is coming from a person who has seen Miles Davis, BB King, The Grateful Dead and The Allman Brothers front row center.
Gordo's sweat was falling on me at Irving Plaza. The Tragically Hip are the BEST live band to grace modern music in the last 10 years.
In July of 1999 (or was it 2000?) I went to Central Park to see the Hip...my daughter was on my shoulders and we moved up the center aisle. She loved them. Her favorite line is "And don't wipe you asses with you sleaves". She is 12 now. she was 10 when we saw the Hip in Central Park.
01-23-2003, 11:59 PM
It was April 6 1991 , my 19th birthday (drinking age in B.C). My parents took me to a local pub and outside I could hear this awesome riff playing.I was dying to find out who it was , so we wen't inside and when the cover band was finished playing I wen't up and asked them what they were playing. Then came the reply "The Tragically Hip - New Orleans Is Sinking" I later bought "Up To Here" and loved it. A two year alcoholic daze seperated myself from the Hip. I fell in love with the Hip once again when I heard a little tune called Nautical Disaster.Day For Night and Fully Completely became a part of my identity as a proud Canadian. Shamefully I abandonded all logic and decency and did not purchase another Hip album until Music At Work. Shortly after that I started rediscovering the Hip on Napster.Two years later bootlegs have become a passion . I now own all but one album. I got to see them play live for the first time in Vernon on the IVL tour. It was f-ing awesome. I am rediscovering songs of the past such as -THE BASTARD,SPRINGTIME,OPIATED,WILDMOUNTAIN HONEY,GET BACK AGAIN etc. Lyrics-Music-Integrity-Passion=The Tragically Hip. Thanks for the time.
01-27-2003, 02:19 AM
So Canuck...
You clean and sober now?
Not that it matters to me...
But from one brother to another...
Sometimes it's the way to be...
Good luck and be well friend.
You clean and sober now?
Not that it matters to me...
But from one brother to another...
Sometimes it's the way to be...
Good luck and be well friend.
01-27-2003, 11:50 PM
Good to see Hip fans looking out for each other. My problems with the bottle ended in 94. Life's too good to waste. Checked out some Government Mule tunes.Pretty cool! Jesus Just Left Chicago is wicked.
01-28-2003, 12:23 PM
Bought Road Apples, not sure why, I must have heard a tune on the radio. Was in love immediately with Little Bones, Cordelia and Fiddlers Green. Then I started picking up albums as they were released and their previous ones. Have them all now, except their latest :oops: . They have played Edmonton numerous times but I've been scared off by the small venues and mosh-pit approach of the crowd (I'm kinda middle-aged 
). In lieu of reality, I'd love to get a few good live shows of theirs.
As a fellow Canuck their songs have a resonance with me. A lot of Downey's lyrics evoke enough of the familiar that they catch me. They sing about -50 temperatures, Bobcaygeon, The Wheat Kings (Brandon, Manitoba), Thompson Girl (again Manitoba), and hockey. Gotta be Canucks, who else would have that background.
). In lieu of reality, I'd love to get a few good live shows of theirs.As a fellow Canuck their songs have a resonance with me. A lot of Downey's lyrics evoke enough of the familiar that they catch me. They sing about -50 temperatures, Bobcaygeon, The Wheat Kings (Brandon, Manitoba), Thompson Girl (again Manitoba), and hockey. Gotta be Canucks, who else would have that background.
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