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I think everyone here is yammering the same thing....Dark Canuck is an amazing ass song so why can't we hear it being played?
The Answer is simple.
Its my fault, I love that song, but the Hip obviously hate me. They refuse to play it when I go to the show..
Im sorry guys, I don't know why they hate me, but they do...and now we all have to suffer..
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I disagree with the analysis of the hip's set list here. For a band with 10 studio albums to go on tour to promote a new album and play some of their lesser known songs is almost, to quote Gord, "A physical impossibility"
In the hip's case, do the math: 24 song set, 8 from IBE. We know they completely ignore album #1, so that gives you 16 songs and 8 albums to play with... Meaning, on average, only 2 selections per album. I would find it difficult to believe that they would omit one of the most popular two SINGLES from an album, in favour of playing a track from an album that isn't a single at all, and thus, lesser known. It would be nice to see them mix in the odd one, but it isn't something I expect to see, given the logistics of the thing.
More food for thought: It's difficult enough to remember how to play and have rehearsed 24 songs for a show, never mind 35 or 40 for an entire tour. Even if you've played them all a thousand times before.
But, you could prove me wrong - write a 24 song set list that no one on here would have any qualms with.... or 30, or 40..... it probably won't matter. The hip are so thoroughly loved in this part of the world, that unless you include just about every song in a massive 100+ song set list, you'll probablly leave out someone's favourite.
---sorry about the long-winded defense, just wanted to take another side. ---
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While I wasn't saying that it was completely unlikely to hear some of the other tracks, I was just going on the probability of things. Songs like Fire In The Hole and Daredevil are probably chosen to be included (at rehearsal) because someone enjoys playing it, or to avoid the boredom that comes along with playing the same few songs over and over. Even still, the likelihood of these songs are low. Sure, Daredevil was played in London, but how many times over the rest of the tour was it played? How many times did they omit Grace, Too? I'm going to bet that on the canadian tour, it didn't happen very often.
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Now that I've been listening to my '95 MLG boot, I miss the older forgotten gems like The Wherewithal. But - I have the solution. Convince TTH to do a NYE show in a field somewhere, and play for 6hours like Phish did Dec 31, 1999. Then we'd hear more than half of the catalogue in one shot.
---As if that would happen. ----
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The Hip couldnt do that because they dont jam.
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Maybe not, but the 6-disc Phish set contains quite a number of songs, rather than 55 minute jams of a 2 minute song.... I know NOIS, 100th, and a few others are often extended into the ten minute range, so I think it's plausible sometime... though terribly not likely.
Phish did pull off 45 songs in the show, and the longest was around 15 minutes, which is a track they were notorious for jamming for up to an hour. It's something like 40 minutes long on another live album.....
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When you've got nothing to fight about it's not really combat math.
Either way, I see myself as more of a war artist.
