[TonyZZZ]

Hypothetically speaking, if the Hip announced they were hanging it up and asked for your help in deciding what their final project should be; which would you choose?

[Stephen Dame]

I'd prefer them to live for six months in an 1860's frontier cabin, with cameras present to catch every "Must See TV" moment of course.

[fingernailsonhull]

I'd prefer them to live for six months in an 1860's frontier cabin, with cameras present to catch every "Must See TV" moment of course.

"The Real World" with The Hip.

One of the best ideas I've ever heard.

[Coneycat]

I have a feeling the resulting movie would not exactly look like Metallica: Some Kind of Monster.

Not that I'm saying that's a bad thing.

[Stephen Dame]

I have a feeling the resulting movie would not exactly look like Metallica: Some Kind of Monster.

Not that I'm saying that's a bad thing.

I haven't seen that, heard a lot of buzz though, any good?

[LaminarFlow]

I hate this poll. I don't want to think about it. I want more new albums, I want a greatest hits box set, and I want more tours. Do all three if you're gonna retire!

[ron]

what ever they want to do and i would be happy thanking them for making the soundtrack for my life is enough ,


ron

[Coneycat]

I have a feeling the resulting movie would not exactly look like Metallica: Some Kind of Monster.

Not that I'm saying that's a bad thing.

I haven't seen that, heard a lot of buzz though, any good?

It's really good. Some of it makes for uncomfortable viewing, though. And a friend of mine is convinced Metallica could have saved themselves a lot of money on therapy if they'd gone out on the road with the Hip for a few weeks and taken notes. (Of course, after hearing the story of how Paul was originally asked to join because everyone got along with him and he could always learn to play guitar, this same friend now characterizes anyone who's difficult with, "He'd never be asked to join the Hip.")

Incidentally, Dave Mustaine (who appears briefly)? Would never be asked to join the Hip.

Topic: In a perfect world, beautiful things would last forever. But since they don't I voted for the option that gathers together a lot of mementos in a package and lets me keep them.

[joshwayy]

Good topic.

After much deliberation I chose the DVD with unreleased live stuff...but it was a hard decision.

what ever they want to do and i would be happy thanking them for making the soundtrack for my life is enough ,


ron

My feelings exactly...

[thehip11]

I hate this topic too but I voted for a full length tour.

When the hip retire (probably in about 10 - 15 more years), we'll have at least 6 or 7 more albums by then. That's a lot of hip music to listen to. We're getting a dvd soon so that's taken care of.

I'd rather take a month off and travel to as many places as I could to see them. We'd rent a bus; maybe even 2 buses and all us hipbasers would follow their tour bus for the final month of shows making sure we saw them as much as possible before they hung them up. Now that would be a kick ass party!

[Lizard King]

I had to pick a full tour, just so I know when the last show ever is gonna be, so I could be there and go down in history with 30,000 others. But who knows when they will stop? We could say 10 years, but what if someone got ill? Or (god forbid) someone died? There's nooo way the rest of the band would go on if someone left, I just cant see it. Lets hope for the best, Id love to see them rock on for about 10 more years and go out on a high.

[The Horrible Esthete]

You, my brethren, my fellow Hipheads, never cease to perplex me. As of now, only four of us (13%) voted for a final studio release. If these early returns prove to be indicative of the sentiments across Hip Nation, then color me utterly dumbfounded.

Let me set one thing straight - live performance is the way music is meant to be heard. Never has a mere recording been able to elicit as wide a spectrum of mental, physical, and emotional response in me as the concert experience has, whether it be The Hip, a local rag-tag bluegrass band, or a string quartet. I can’t be sure why this is, but simply bearing witness to the personal expression of art must certainly figure prominently in the explanation.

Yet, this “presentation” only becomes possible subsequent to the artist’s conception, at least for most everything aside from improvisational performances (which Hip shows are ‘anything but’) - without the previously-written and rehearsed songs, there is no concert. What’s more, the concert itself is only a temporary engagement - it’s a one-time proposition in the here and now, and once it’s over, it’s committed to the annals of history and to personal memory. And while those memories are dear, they cannot be cued-up and replayed from end to end with any sense of continuity whatsoever- they play at will in our minds and hearts, intermittently and unintentionally, indeed “at times beyond our heartbeat”.

I wouldn’t trade my memories of The Tragically Hip In Concert for anything - except, of course, for the creation of the art itself. When all is said and done, that’s all that’s left behind - the art. It is preserved for ourselves and for posterity in the form of these “albums”, and is the source - the origin - of our fanaticism, our fellowship, and our admiration. Thus, the art accompanies us wherever we go in life, both physically and figuratively, and is even present in the memories made throughout our own private lives.

So how could any of us wish for anything but more of the entity which bore this magnificent love affair we have with The Hip, which is the art of the music itself?

[skippy the wonder dog]

I think the explanation may be the relative weakness of the band's studio releases and the wide availability of boots. They've often taken critical and fan flak for studio albums that fail to capture their live energy. Can you listen to Hundredth Meridian off FC when you've got a dozen live boots of it?

If the band was taper-unfriendly and their studio releases were better executed, I think we'd get a different preference.

[The Darkest Canuck]

you're nuts if you don't vote for the tour!!!!!!!!!!!!!!