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^ that's what I meant. I just couldn't write the fog out of myself. Thank you,
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I thought it was clear that nobody knows yet.
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Lets keep up hope...another tour and another new album in a year followed by another tour...that will keep him going!
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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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I think the reason this hit me is that The Hip have been a constant in my life for, now, 23 years - whether I didn't listen to them for a short while or had the latest album on repeat, they have always been a constant - something I know I can always go back to and enjoy, drop a couple of tracks on, listen or watch some live shows and they're there, making new music, touring, and I suppose when something becomes that, it never really occurs to you that constants too can end. When it becomes a possibility its hard to know what to do - so my thoughts are with all the other Hip fans.
I'd hoped they'd do the Fully Completely tour in London (UK) as that was the album that got me into them and is my favourite for both its studio and live versions. I kinda figured maybe they'd come back over here and Id get to feel the same feeling of euphoria I did when I saw them again in '09 in London. Looking at flights, costs, tickets etc I doubt I can afford the £1000 or so it would take to get to Vancouver for a 4 day round trip. Such a shame as the atmosphere would be beyond words.
One thing I've always loved about the hip is their attitude to live recordings and I take comfort in the fact there's such a good community (such as this one) that have archived so many of their shows, so whatever happens and I hope Gord beats this as much as the next guy, we will always have those live moments to relive over and over what the Hip have given us, which is excellent musicianship, lyrics with an intelligence and insight that is sorely lacking nowadays and most of all, Gord Downie, the best damn front man to have ever picked up a mic (and of course rode his mic stand like a horse!)
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basically have thought of nothing else since getting this news in bed yesterday morning.
im just very sad.
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sean.bonner Wrote:I thought it was clear that nobody knows yet.
My thought as well, even his doctor at the press conference was non committal about his long term prognosis. Everything from here on out depends on only one thing: what Gord is able/wants to do.
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thecompletist Wrote:fingernailsonhull Wrote:Did you know you were the rock plug for all of us
Did you know in the conduit of Vesuvius
You were far more unifying than you know
I'm not a judge of suitable
But you almost had it all
Now you'll have to tell me when
Tell me when it's imminent
So you won't have to rise and fall alone
Or endure the wonder of survival
The wipe out loss
The elation of free fall
The rock bottom
The sweet betrayal
Alone
Alone
Alone
Alone
Alone
HELLO?
I've always heard those last images as euphemisms or analogies for death, and the friends' request that the subject of the song not go through it alone but with his friends at his side. Seemed fitting to me.
Jeff
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Lizard King Wrote:sean.bonner Wrote:I thought it was clear that nobody knows yet.
My thought as well, even his doctor at the press conference was non committal about his long term prognosis. Everything from here on out depends on only one thing: what Gord is able/wants to do.
A good prognosis for this kind of tumour is 12 to 15 months. My grandfather had the same kind. He had surgery and radiation therapy and he lived for a little under a year.
Jeff
June 21, 2003 Toronto, ON: SkyDome
July 1, 2004 Toronto, ON: Molson Amphitheatre
November 26, 2004 Toronto, ON: Air Canada Centre
June 24, 2006 Toronto, ON: Historic Fort York
May 10, 2007 Indianapolis, IN: The Vogue
July 14, 2011 Edmonton, AB: Northlands Festival Site
June 30, 2012 Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON: The Commons at Butler's Barracks
January 23, 2013 Edmonton, AB: Rexall Place
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....Davis Manning plays the saxophone. If she's 17 from the Copper Penny just came on random. Thanks Dana.
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