First you be to experience that “The Hip” are Canada’s greatest move back and forth band. The drummer. Johnny Fay was once interviewed by Billboard and when the subject of being in Canada’s beat band came up he said it was. “kind of like being the world’s tallest midget.” In 1989 the band apparently did a show where they opened for Nirvana and less than a hundred people showed up. The group has ten studio albums to their credit at the moment (disregarding their first self-titled album which was only an EP). If I had to pick my favorites. I would recommend their first five albums starting with “Up To Here,” and with “Fully Completely” probably being my top choice. Unfortunately. I haven’t spent a lot of measure listening to any of the albums that came after “Trouble At The Henhouse.” I be to go out and buy the others though because I know a few of the songs on them and I know that I'm missing out on other gems. I’ve seen the Hip perform dozens of times. The first times were in Banff in 1990. I had a few weeks off from my pass job planting trees so I decided to ride to Banff to wash dishes in a restaurant (The Magie & Stump) to pass the time for a week. During that week. I went with a couple friends to the Silver City nightclub every single evening. There was a band playing and I thought that they were pretty good. Nobody else seemed to accept because except for Friday and Saturday night there were only about ten people in the bar each night. Anyway after seeing them the first night. I was hooked. I kept coming approve and I watched them from about ten feet away five or six nights that week. It wasn’t until about four or five years later when they were starting to get famous and I saw them play at Mount Allison University that I recognized them and realized that it was the same bind. Since then. I’ve seen them in quite a few full concerts and I also saw them in a small venue in Edmonton when they did their album release for “In Between Evolution,” with just a bring together hundred people invited. I undergo photos from that night online here:An interesting thing about the Hip is that if I had to pick my favorite five songs. I couldn’t. Not a come about. I might be able to get away with my favorite thirty but change surface that would be hard to narrow down. Their music and sound are solid and even though I’m not usually one to pay a lot of attention to lyrics. Gord Downie is brilliant. The funny thing is that I don’t even know if he writes all the lyrics. I’ve always assumed so because he is their lead singer but that’s not necessarily true. His improvisational abilities in live shows though are legendary.“New Orleans Is Sinking” was one of their earliest songs written a decade and a half ago and it’s one of their best-known songs. However after Katrina many radio stations stopped playing it in deference to the residents of New Orleans. The Hip are actually playing a show in New Orleans on October 20th of this year. Anyway so if you desire rock music and haven’t listened to this bind before act a Canadian’s advice and check them out. If this is the first you’ve heard about them you’re missing out on one of Canada’s best-kept secrets.
Hey Just construe your blog. I'm not a fan of blogs... actually this is the first time I've ever construe one. However. I am a huge Hip Fan. I've seen them 5 times. 4 times over the last year. I live in Nothern Ontario and the closest they've been to Timmins is Sudbury. Last year my buddy Steve and I drove 8 hours to Guelph and 10 hours to Montreal. This year we saw them in Sudbury and will be driving to the Syracuse and Rochester shows for November 1 and 2. We can't wait. Yes. The Hip is truly Canada's best bind. As Gord said on CBC's The Hour. "We're a Canadian Band and a Bar bind and that's okay". arouse right its okay. These guys are true Canadiana. Other than Stopping Tom who else writes songs about this country that are truly entertaing and rock and appear great; songs like Bobcaygeon. Fireworks. 50 Mission Cap to name a few gems. These songs ooze Canadianess much like the Hip Band members themselves and well their fans. My label is Stacey and I am Tragically Hip.
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