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hey guys, there has been a couple reviews of the toronto shows that said gord wasn't really on time with the crowd and not in sync with band at times?? I was at the peterborough and toronto shows and would agree but he has been doing this for a while now going back to about 2004. Don't get me wrong, i do like some of his interpretations to old songs and i know at live shows you gotta change things up a bit, but gord must know that some of the songs he sings half his way and half the original way. Best examples I think would probably be Little Bones, Blow at High Dough, Ahead by a Century, Courage, Giftshop, 100th Meridian, Escape is at hand and New Orleans. I am just wondering if it bothers anyone else or that is what is fun for people when seeing live shows compared to albums. Until 2004, pretty much all songs were sung the same as on the album except for rants and extended jams. Maybe gord doesn't even know he is changin stuff around?
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A few friends of mine noticed this at the Canada Day show and they thought he was doing this intentionally because so many people were singing along with the songs and he was singing 'around' them.
Who knows.
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yes but he has been doing this for a while, if it pisses him off that everyone sings the songs is that really fair?
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Sometimes I think he's just changing things up for the heck of it, other times he forgets the lyrics entirely. He totally botched 100th Meridian in Windsor, to the point where it was more or less an instrumental with mumbling.
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it's so funny how he forgets the words, you wonder how he can when he has perform songs thousands of times but hey it just happens!!
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pars9393 Wrote:it's so funny how he forgets the words, you wonder how he can when he has perform songs thousands of times but hey it just happens!!
Well think how many lyrics are in his head...all The Hip catalog, his solo stuff, new material he is learning and all of the songs that have never been released...I don't know how these guys do it
want to be a nobody without peer
want to be a thought that's never done
want to shake your faith in human nature
want to break the hearts of everyone
want to be your wheezing screen door
want to be your stars of Algonquin
want to be your roaring floorboard
want to break the hearts of everyone
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The last time they were in Winnipeg (when they did the 4 shows), Gord forgot the words to a song part way through (may have been Fully), so he started singing Neils Young's Cinnamon Girl but with "Synonym Girl" as the main lyric, he ranted pretty good then said "from the top of verse 2 boys" and back on que with the original song. When the song ended he said 'That's what happens when you rehearse too much"...it was classic.
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I dont mind when he strays off, It makes it different. The only time it bugs me is when im singing along full speed and I feel like im the one fuckin up. Untill I notice it was him.
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Happens to the best of them. I saw and interview with John Cleese once and he said the Python's were doing a live show, the Dead Parrot Sketch, he forgot the next line but the first 5 rows of the audience just yelled it out.
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screw_ball Wrote:Haircut-Rabbit Wrote:A few friends of mine noticed this at the Canada Day show and they thought he was doing this intentionally because so many people were singing along with the songs and he was singing 'around' them.
Who knows.
I love it when he does that!
Gord caught the entire crowd in Winnipeg during Courage. Right at the delayed "Could not come at a worst.....time", he let the crowd say 'time' then teasingly said "i was going to sing that but I didn't"..it was pretty funny.
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He did this a lot in the 2007 tours. Every show I saw was killer, especially the London one. Going back and listening to the CDs years later, not as fun. He did a lot of screaming and screeching in '07 as well. 2009 seem to had seen a return to less screaming and syncopation and more true singing. Gord's is own man, and to each their own. I myself prefer the signing to time...
