Hip Tour: July 2011

07/30/2011 - Erie Harbor, Buffalo, NY

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The Tragically Hip
Erie Harbor
Buffalo, NY
07/30/2011

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Song #4 is mislabeled as Stay and should be Streets Ahead.

Buffalo News Concert Review

Set I:
Blow At High Dough, Grace Too, Love Is A First, Streets Ahead, Gift Shop, Poets, Ahead By A Century, In View, We Want To Be It, At The Hundredth Meridian, Fiddler's Green, At Transformation, Fully Completely, Courage, Bobcaygeon, New Orleans is Sinking > Nautical Disaster > New Orleans is Sinking, Little Bones

Encore:
The Lonely End of the Rink, Wheat Kings, My Music At Work

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2011/07/15 Burnaby, BC AUD Recording

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The Hip Tracker now has the 2011/07/15 Burnaby, BC available for download. You will need to sign up with them or log-in to access the download link for the torrent. If you're new to torrent downloads there is an FAQ section to guide you and a fairly active user group that should be able to answer any direct questions that you may have.

I Do Not Freebase Cocaine

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Since we're in some down time between shows here's a PSA for ya...

07/15/2011 - Deer Lake Park, Burnaby, BC

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The Tragically Hip
Deer Lake Park
Burnaby, BC
07/15/2011

Set I:
Blow at High Dough
Grace, Too
Streets Ahead
Poets
Ahead By A Century
In View
Drip Drip Drip
At the Hundredth Meridian
Gift Shop
Fiddler's Green
Transformation
Fully Completely
Courage
Bobcaygeon
New Orleans Is Sinking > Nautical Disaster > New Orleans Is Sinking
Little Bones

Encore:
The Lonely End of the Rink
Wheat Kings
My Music at Work

2011/07/14: Northlands Festival Site - Edmonton, AB

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The Tragically Hip
Northlands Festival Site
Edmonton, AB
07/14/2011

Set I:
Blow at High Dough
Grace, Too
Love Is A First
Streets Ahead
Gift Shop
Ahead By A Century
In View
Poets
At the Hundredth Meridian
Wheat Kings
Drip Drip Drip
Fully Completely
Courage
Bobcaygeon
NOIS > Nautical Disaster > NOIS
Little Bones

Encore:
Kids Don't Get It
My Music at Work

Theme: Edmonton Oilers

07/12/2011 - Dawson Creek, BC

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The Tragically Hip
EnCana Events Centre
Dawson Creek, BC
07/12/2011

Dawson Creek Rage... Literally.

Set I:
The Lonely End of the Rink
Grace, Too
Love Is A First
Streets Ahead
Gift Shop
Ahead By A Century
In View
Poets
At the Hundredth Meridian
Fiddler's Green
Drip Drip Drip
Fully Completely
Courage
Bobcaygeon
New Orleans is Sinking > Nautical Disaster > New Orleans is Sinking
Little Bones

Encore:
Blow at High Dough
Wheat Kings
My Music at Work

Wide Eyed & Alive in '95

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"A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God singing solo and Holy Ghost on drums." --Hunter S Thompson

Time it right and you can also hear The Tragically Hip in their youthful prime in a field just east of the Mighty Canadian Rockies and just south of Calgary. In the summer of 1995 High River, AB was one of the stops on the now defunct Another Roadside Attraction tour that was put on by The Tragically Hip. It was a summer of Canadiana, Adventure, Friendship and a bit of lost naivety. It was for me at least.

Buy the Ticket. Take the Ride.

That concert was 16 years ago. July 15, 1995. It was my 6th Hip show and first outside of the friendly confines of Ontario. My first Road Game.

This is how I remember it going down....

This was a period of firsts for me. I had just completed my first year of college and I found myself in Alberta and on my first work-term for credit. I was embedded in Kananaskis working for Canadian Pacific Hotels (now Fairmont). This was an area with the scenery of Banff but not the notoriety. K-Country flew way under the radar. There was no town site, just the resort(s) where we worked. This was a hospitality gig. My first of course.

The Lodge @ Kananaskis

I specialized in the fast-paced world of Mini-Bars. Every day was an adrenaline rush. I was entrusted with a Master Key which is a pretty powerful fucking device. I had the Power to open any room I wanted after knocking politely and saying, "Mini-Bar". I'd check the fridge for missing items and I'd do the same to the little snack basket as well.

"Oh, I see you enjoyed some cashews last night, eh?"

I mark it down.

"That's $9.95 Sucka. A domestic beer to wash it down too? Sounds yummy. Bam! Another check-mark on the bill and another $5.95 coming our way from you."

(Looking back, I think the Japanese wish they had saved a bit more of their cash. Man they spent a lot out west. They didn't even finish their full cigarettes. It’s a status thing. No shit. We North Americans will be eating the same shit sandwich soon enough. Maybe we are already.)

Then I'd replace these items like a hunter replaces his bait. What a rush! The trap is set again! Who's next?

Sometimes the guests would leave their own extra beer or liquor. I know. Crazy. We had to really control our urges. Couldn't just plop down and crack a cold one. No. There was a certain level of professionalism involved. Protocol if you will.

These items were gently placed in a milk crate inside the Mini-Bar ~~Office~~ Closet. We would have to sign them out at a later date. I only mention this because it is somewhat relevant to the ensuing story.

Our department consisted of three Mini-Bar Men. Two of us went to The Hip that year. The other got screwed working a solo mission on a Sunday. Did I mention we had walkie-talkies too? My first. We were fuckin' Hooked-up. Dang yo.

Time & Space

I think about this being 16 years ago and it's like, "Holy shit. Where did the time go?"

As I sit here running the math, that's almost half my life. I remember when an entire lifetime was 16 years on its own. I got my license on my 16th birthday and I waited for that moment literally forever.

Never climb with just a warm 12-pack & no water.

So a lot has happened in my life since this Hip concert. And a lot has happened to everyone who shared that experience with me. Of course it has. I can say this with certainty even thought today I no longer know these people. I knew them and now I know of them. But I no longer know know them. And that's just life taking us all down our individual paths. The beauty of it is though, that we were able to intersect at that moment in time (and I'm talking over a period of a couple of years not just this weekend portrayed here) and that that was part of our collective journey which has brought us to where we find ourselves today. A common shared experience that becomes a binding tie down the road.

It's hard to know it when it's happening, that this is what's being created. You're unaware that down the road a random thought or memory will pop into your head about a particular time and make you smile. Maybe just when it's most needed. This is how the "Sound Track To Our Lives" is created. It's what make music so powerful. Ingrained triggers are created.

So The Hip during this period are huge. Just fucking huge. Everyone and their grandmother's a fan. Their concerts were events. They changed a bit going forward from this point. 1995 is when Day For Night was being toured and their setlists still contained B-sides from Up to Here and Road Apples. And of course everything was in play off of Fully Completely and Day for Night. Beyond this with the emergence of Trouble at the Henhouse and Ahead By A Century they became a little more arty and lost some of their bar band edge. This was just a natural maturing process. That's not a knock by-the-way. Just an observation.

RVs > Moving Vans

I'm not what you would call a natural leader. I'm more of a behind the scenes tactician. My wife likes to use the term manipulator during our tense times. I don't really concur. That sounds so devious and that's never been my angle at all. I usually plant ideas that help move things along and I swear to god that 99 times out of 100 it's to create fun times. Epic fun times. Now I am not going to sit here and take credit for putting everything together, because I certainly didn't. This operation took a lot from everyone to pull off.

We ended up being a group of about 20 I would say. There or about. I believe that it was just I and my Mini-Bar compatriot who, of the entire group, knew everyone. You see, we had a couple other groups of people joining us from Banff. We knew them through school as they were completing their own work terms at The Banff Springs Hotel. We were also going with staff/friends we had made that summer working at Kananaskis.

A lot of the planning for this (and other confidential missions) was done in the room of our Head Shipper/Receiver inside of our Staff Accommodations. Let's call this place the Social Hub, alright? After our Mini-Bar duty we'd normally head over to Woody's Pub to purchase some off-sale beers and then converge for a pow-wow.

This is the room where the idea of going to The Hip would have been tossed out there and of course everyone was 'down'. The idea of taking RVs to the show was a home-run right off the bat. Everyone loved it. Of course. Who the fuck wouldn't? Someone had a connection with an RV place in Calgary. Phone calls were made and we were locked in. Tables, seating, couches, beds, fridges, TVs and toilets even. It was palatial. It was so simple too. Too simple.

The RV dream died right before we were supposed to go. Like a day before. Maybe two. I remember a feeling of utter desperation. Similar to what one might feel when their VW Van breaks down in the northern reaches of Maine in the complete middle of nowhere on the way to see a Phish Festival. Like a punch to the solar-plexus.

So what could we do? Basically no one going to the show had cars of their own and we had some serious gear to bring along as well. I want to say that it was one of the Social Hub roommates who saved the day by procuring us a couple of Budget moving trucks. Yeah, that's right. Budget Fucking Moving Trucks!

Um...perfect. Couldn't have been any more perfect. They had roll up back doors and a sliding door between the cargo hold and the driver's cab. There's no way we would have gotten our deposit back if we had taken those RVs. No way. Maybe the RV place knew what was up too? Short of burning these bad boys to the ground it was going to be pretty hard to do any sort of significant damage to them. Just sweep or spray 'em out when we're done.

We ended up tossing 3 mattresses from our dorm beds into the back of each truck. Pillows, blankets, sleeping bags, coolers, food, chairs. I think we even had a couch. One guys won a keg of beer at a staff event so that came along. We also had the Mini-Bar stash box of booze I mentioned earlier and of course everyone had their own personal supply of libations.

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It's Just Another Roadside Attraction

The show took place on a Saturday. We rolled out on the Friday evening after the Banff crew met us down in Kananaskis. In all we were 2 trucks and 2 cars. I think one car was a Volvo Wagon and the other make/model eludes me but I'm pretty sure it was a rental. The plan was to back-road it from K-Country to somewhere a little closer to the concert site, park and chill. Overall it really wasn't that far to go. We were just having fun being 'on the road' and enjoying the novelty of having some drinks in the back of a moving truck as we rolled down the road. Half the fun is getting there. True statement.

My memories of this first night are vague. I don't remember where we stopped. Was it on the side of some back-road? Did we find a spot in a field? I don't remember everyone getting out of the vehicles and mingling/drinking/eating etc. I don't remember if there were tents or if everyone just herded into the trucks.

What I do remember clear as the screen I'm looking at right now is discovering the next morning that I'd misplaced the tickets. It's such a gross feeling. And getting 'The look of Death', that doesn't help. It just adds to the anxiety because now you start to doubt yourself. Of course I didn't forget the tickets. There was zero fucking chance of that. Zero. I had just tucked them away good. Too good. In trying to make sure I didn't lose the tickets I lost the tickets. Briefly. Meaning it just wasn't popping into my head where I had put them. And for the record, "Looks of Death' do not help in these situations. A joint would have helped. Even a small bowl. I eventually found them of course. They were in my kit-bag > side zipper. Right where I put them!

Turns out that wasn't the biggest drama/drag of the day. I think as we were getting close to entering with traffic getting thicker, bumper-to-bumper style, you know, the rental car that was with us ran into the back of the truck I was riding in. This would have been a routine minor fender bender except for that our bumper was much higher and interacted instead with their radiator. I actually thought the sound was broken beer cans. Phew!

If you're not into having a cool engine this is no big deal. Most people (and cars) are though. I believe they had to go and get it fixed in town and ended up missing a good portion of 'Lot Time'.

Alice D Millionaire - Owsley 'Bear' Stanley - RIP

I didn't know it at the time, but hanging out in the lot like this was a prelude of things to come for me. At this point in my life I hadn't taken any interest in Jerry Garcia and his band the Grateful Dead. I had no idea that one of my favorite musicians today and one of the greatest to ever strap on a guitar was at that point living out his final month. I didn't know what 'Shakedown Street' was, the pre-show carnival in the Grateful Dead lot and later to be carried over into the Phish scene. I couldn't yet imagine the cooking & vending & meeting & dosing & colours & smells & sounds that would soon become so routine to me. This was like my spring training. It was a bunch of Canadians, mostly hicks (aren't we all?) dinking beer, listening to tunes, BBQing, maybe chucking a baseball or flinging a Frisbee.

I don't remember where the LSD came from, but yep.

Is there anything better than a Day Trip with friends? Rhetorical question > Don't bother. I seemed to do this a lot at Hip shows back then. It was everywhere and it was good. Esquire recently wrote an article called, "Can you even buy acid anymore?" Yes you can. It's just a bit harder. I met a guy in Thailand from Colorado who came over with a Visine bottle of liquid. I have a great picture of Sunrise 2000, but the one in my head is always a bit better. It also helps if you're in say Upstate NY attending a Dead related concert. The past couple of summers have been quite enjoyable in that regard. When you can see the trees breathe it's a good reminder that they are alive. Take from that what you will. I'm not here to preach. Just saying that an alternative perception of things from time to time never killed anyone.

Back to High River...

This video is from 10 days before this concert. Gives you a good idea of the state of things at that time.

Not everyone took the psychedelics. In fact I believe there were only 3 of us who did. I had spent a night of my Spring Break '95 in a Daytona Beach hotel communal laundry room tripping balls with these 2, so we had walked the walk together before. There's usually a period from about hours 1-3 that you gotta survive the madness. I've always found that the best way to do this is to 'Embrace the Madness'. You can't fight it. You can't stop it. You can't press pause. This is the ride. It's not real. It WILL end. You will come down. Go with it. Remember to smile. Aaaaaah.

The most vivid memory that I have is sitting up on a grassy hill right in front of where we had parked and looking down on our spot and watching people walk by as they made their way into the concert venue. There were cement tunnels that led under the road to the other side where the show was being held. We sat on high during the Peak Out, taking turns going down the hill to reload on beers. Alcohol couldn't hurt us now.

I could see the mountains far off to the west, but what stood out to me were the equally spaced out Puff Ball clouds that stretched on forever in all other directions. A Sky Like Forever. It was just row after row of puffy cloud > blue sky > puffy cloud > blue sky, etc. There's a part in the movie KOYAANISQATSI that always takes me back to this moment. The wind would sweep across the grass causing the individual blades to flip back and forth and change colour making it look like ocean waves. Sometimes the grass looked like falling dominoes. Prolific stuff I know. But this makes up the entirety of My experience.

This period needed to be spent away from the masses least we scare them off. That's what we thought anyway. Youthful drug induced paranoia. I learned later in life that no one knows you're tripping unless you tell them so I've been rolling that way ever since.

We merged back into the group later on in the afternoon and from that point forward the cloud cover got thicker and thicker. Word came down that our Budget Trucks had garnered a mention on the local rock station covering the event.

Confirmation that these were in fact the proper vehicles for our odyssey and hopefully serving as inspiration to others who may have heard the message - Why fuck up a perfectly good RV when you can just throw all your shit in the back of a moving van and have no worries? It never hurts to bring a piece of knowledge and spread it around a bit. I feel that's what we did. I was in space and feeling good about most things to be honest.

I don't remember much interest from anyone in wanting to go in early to see other bands. We may have been waiting for the group in the busted car or maybe we were all just there for The Hip? One of our crew did not make it in for The Hip. He was the guy that won the keg. Maybe he didn't share enough. Maybe he should have dropped some Alice D too? I don't recall if he was asked to leave the venue or just never made it in. It's just something you never like to see. It's just so un-Hip.

We entered the venue while the last act prior to The Hip was still on the stage. I remember buying a lot of shirts and giving some away??????? I had a fairly extensive Tragically Hip wardrobe at that time in my life. I had a proper 50 Mission Cap too... With Bill Barilko #5 on the back. Man, I wore the shit out of that thing.

Magic Just Happens

You know, sometimes crazy shit happens and everything makes sense or falls into place or was just meant to be. This stuff can be real and legit. Or it can be made to appear this way based on your focus or angle or what-have-you. It was cloudy and raining and as The Hip walked out on stage, at that precise moment, the sun breaks through. I swear to god it did. It happened as if on cue like it was a rigged special effect just for this concert. The clouds just all went away and we were treated to a sunset dancing into darkness.

[ Original 1995 ARA Website... I guess it looks quite primitive... ]

I have 2 phantom shows in my collection and this is one of them. I define a Phantom Show as being a show where I do not have a complete setlist of what was played. My other Phantom is 1993/09/03 Kingston, ON. The 1993 show bugs me more because I'm pretty sure they played Fiddler's Green. Official records show that the song was not played live until 2006, but I dispute this. Anyway, I can put together a pretty good assumption of what they might have played based on other known setlists from the 1995 Another Roadside Attraction Tour. I know they played Wheat Kings. That I know. That song was a big deal for us at the time.

We stayed parked in the lot overnight. I think. We were there for a while anyway. We may have been asked to leave. I really don't recall. I do remember sitting on top of one of the trucks with a bottle of Southern Comfort and just staying there for a while because I wasn't sure how I'd be getting down. I do appreciate a good vantage point. Always have.

So this crazy adventure happened 16 years ago. Wow. I look back on this period, with a lot of fondness. In high school you are usually friends with a bunch of people from the same place and the same class who have generally the same experiences and the same outlook. The people on this adventure, in this story (along with many others) were my first friends who came from other provinces, different backgrounds and sometimes even different ways of life. I met people out west who had never been to Ontario. People who didn't even know what euchre was. This baffled me. My 2 roommates that summer were a couple of rock climbers from Quebec. I didn't even know Newfoundlander's had accents before I headed out to college & beyond.

[ My pics from this time. I wish I had more... It was real film back then folks. Please send/upload if you have any.]

We were all able to create new experiences with new people. Memories, lessons and perspectives that would last a lifetime. For me, this was a jumping off point to many more great adventures. I eventually saw my own country and went on to see many others making more & more experiences and friends along the way. I think I was able to do a lot of what I did because of the positive experiences I had with people during this period of my life. If things would have been total shit during this time I may not have explored as much as I did.

Despite the time and the distance and the water-under-the-bridge, if you were there for this road-trip or at any point during this time in my life, I hope you remember it with fondness too. We never knew Freedom like we did back then. Anything was possible. Still is, but you know...

If you weren't there -as most reading this were not - I hope this helps you to recall some of your own First Adventures with friends who may not be as active in your life today as they once were - Hip related experiences or not.

We only get to walk this road once. One and done. Did you have fun?

Health and Happiness to All.

Darren

07/07/2011 Winnipeg, MB AUD Recording

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Hey All,

I believe this is the first torrent available for download from this tour. It's available over at The Hip Tracker. You will need to log in or sign up if you haven't already. You will also need a torrent client to help with the download and upload for others. I use uTorrent myself, but there are others available too.

The Hip Tracker has lots of info on completing the process over on their site and the guys are always available to answer any technical questions.

Obviously this is a great chance to capture a memory if you were there and a great chance to hear their new tunes if you haven't been able to make it to a show yet. Like say if you live in Las Vegas :)

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The Tragically Hip
Shaw Park
Winnipeg Manitoba Canada
July 07 2011

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Disc1
101. The Lonely End Of The Rink
102. Grace, Too
103. Love Is A First
104. Streets Ahead
105. It’s A Good Life (If You Don't Weaken)
106. In View
107. Drip Drip
108. Gift Shop
109. Poets
110. Ahead By A Century
111. Transformation

Disc2
201. At The Hundredth Meridian >Tokyo > At The Hundredth Meridian
202. Fiddler's Green
203. Fully Completely
204. Courage (For Hugh Maclennan)
205. Bobcaygeon
206. New Orleans is Sinking > Nautical Disaster > New Orleans is Sinking
207. Little Bones
208. encore break
209. Blow At High Dough
210. Wheat Kings
211. My Music At Work

121 Minutes

07/10/2011 Bayfest - Sarnia, ON

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The Tragically Hip
Bayfest
Sarnia, On
07/10/2011

07/10/2011 Sarnia, ON

Set I:
Blow at High Dough
Grace, Too
Love is a First
Streets Ahead
Gift Shop
Ahead By a Century
In View
Poets
At the Hundredth Meridian
Drip Drip
Fiddler's Green
Fully Completely
Courage
Bobcaygeon
New Orleans is Sinking > Nautical Disaster > New Orleans is Sinking
Little Bones

Encore:
The Lonely End of the Rink
Wheat Kings
My Music at Work

Theme: Sarnia Sting (OHL)

07/09/2011 - Ottawa Bluesfest

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The Tragically Hip
Ottawa Bluesfest
Ottawa, ON
07/09/2011

Set I:
Blow At High Dough
Grace, Too
Streets Ahead
Gift Shop
Ahead By A Century
In View
Poets
At the Hundredth Meridian
Fiddler's Green
Drip Drip
Fully Completely
Courage
Bobcaygeon
NOIS > Nautical Disaster > NOIS
Little Bones

Encore:
Locked In The Trunk Of A Car

Theme: Ottawa Senators

07/07/2011 - Shaw Park, Winnipeg, MB

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The Tragically Hip
Shaw Park
Winnipeg, MB
07/07/2011

Set I:
The Lonely End of the Rink
Grace, Too
Love is a First
Streets Ahead
It’s a Good Life (If You Don't Weaken)
In View
Drip Drip
Gift Shop
Poets
Ahead By a Century
Transformation
At the Hundredth Meridian
Fiddler's Green
Fully Completely
Courage (For Hugh Maclennan)
Bobcaygeon
New Orleans is Sinking > Nautical Disaster > New Orleans is Sinking
Little Bones

Encore:
Blow at High Dough
Wheat Kings
My Music at Work

Winnipeg Sun Review

Setlist courtesy of @vtragicallyhip. Do yourself a favour and follow her...

Are You Ready - Lyrics

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Last played: 2006/07/03 Chicago, IL
Debut: 2002/06/12 Toronto, ON

Notes: Played just 7 times since the 2002 'In Violet Light Tour'. Kinda strange for a 1st track. History shows those ones usually have more (setlist) staying power than this.

Hear the ol' whistle blowin'
they're pulling the plug
we got to get goin'
they got our hole dug
are you ready? are you ready, are you ready to love?
And are you ready? ready, are you ready to love?

the Devils in the Blues
smoke it to the stub
never accept
then accept with a shrug
are you ready? are you ready, are you ready to love?
And are you ready? ready, are you ready to love?

to love
to love
to love
to love
they got safety fifth
and they take the world straight
whatever it is
they'll just have to wait
to get pretend back
who wants to be tough
to be permanent
permanent enough
are you ready? are you ready, are you ready to love?
and are you ready? are you ready, are you ready to love?
and are you ready? ready, are you ready to love?
and are you ready? ready, are you ready to love?
to love
to love
to love
to love
to love

Next song: Use It Up

Use It Up - Lyrics

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Last played: 2006/10/28 Calgary, AB
Debut: 2002/02/20 Toronto, ON

Notes: Use It Up got heavy play on the 2002 IVL tour. Since then, not so much. Once in '03, once in '04 and twice in '06. Not to be a smart ass but maybe they're saving it for later.

Use it up
use it all up
don't save a thing for later
if there's music out there laying in wait
to pounce and drain every ounce if you
wait or hesitate
and music that'll help you be tough
and come together on more than Springsteen
though most days it's been enough
then there's music that can take you away
away
away
away

so use it up
use it all up
don't save a thing for later
use it up
use it all up
don't save a thing for later

if there's music out there staying away
to cry and drain every eye until
hatred's eliminated
and music that can help you feel great
and come together in 'the fictive dream'
with a kinda Randy Newman take
there's music that can take you away
away
away
away
Where we can jump to our feet, agape
cause nothing is cruel

and even if it is or way
indefeasibly cruel
we don't care because....
yer a fool
I'm a fool
yer a fool
and I'm a fool...
for music that can take you away
for music that can take you away
for music that can take you away
music that can take you away

so use it up
use it all up
don't save a thing for later

Next song: The Darkest One
Previous song: Are You Ready

The Darkest One - Lyrics

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Last played: 2003/08/01 Kelowna, BC
Debut: 2002/02/20 Toronto, ON

Notes: The Hip made a video for this song. I believe the Trailer Park Boys were in it. This song also appeared on Hipeponymous, a Greatest Hits/Fan's Choice release. I only mention this because they've only played the song 29 times live. Very similar to another song that's a fan fav and also on that compilation, Looking For A Place to Happen which itself has only appeared 25 times live. Weird.

Come in, come in, come in, come in
from under these darling skies come in
it's warm and it's safe here and almost harkening
off to a time and place now lost in our imagination

where you don't complain - but you still do
and you don't explain - but you still want to - explain
where you believe what you say without shame, 'I just do'
to say what you mean you don't mean what you say
- or you do

where the wild are strong
and the strong are the darkest ones
and you're the darkest one

Come in, come in, come in, come in
from thin and wicked prairie winds, come in
it's warm and it's safe here and almost heartening
here in a time and place not lost in our imagination

where you don't explain - but you still do
and you can complain - if you want to - complain
where you're real instrumental or supple
or sexy as hell
where you say 'I believe' or say without shame
'I can't tell'

where the wild are strong
and the strong are the darkest ones
and you're the darkest one
O' and you're the darkest one
and if that's what you want
O' then you're the darkest one

Next song: It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken
Previous song: Use It Up

It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken - Lyrics

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Last played: 2013/01/25 Regina, SK
Debut: 2002/06/12 Toronto, ON

Notes: The first release off of In Violet Light, IAGLIYDW as it's commonly known among fans is a regular concert staple.

When the colour of the night
and all the smoke for one life
gives way to shaky movements,
improvisational skills,
a forest of whispering speakers
let's swear that we will
get with the times,
in a current health to stay
let's get friendship right
get life day-to-day
in the forget-yer-skates dream
full of countervailing woes
in diverse-as-ever scenes
proceeding on a need-to-know
in a face so full of meaning
as to almost make it glow

O' for a good life, we just might have to weaken
and find somewhere to go
go somewhere we're needed
find somewhere to grow
grow somewhere we're needed.

when the colour of the night
and all the smoke in one life
gives way to shaky movements,
improvisational skills
in the forest of whispering speakers
let's swear that we will
get with the times
in a current health to stay
and let's get friendship right
get life day-to-day
in the forget-yer-skates dream
full of countervailing woes
in diverse-as-ever scenes
proceeding on a need-to-know
in a face so full of meaning
as to almost make it glow

O' for a good life, we just might have to weaken
and find somewhere to go

and find somewhere to go
go somewhere we're needed
find some where to grow
grow somewhere we're needed
find somewhere to go
let's go somewhere we're needed
find somewhere to grow
We grow where we are needed

Next song: Silver Jet
Previous song: The Darkest One

Silver Jet - Lyrics

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2004...So far off already...

Last played: 2004/11/26 Toronto, ON
Debut: 2002/06/12 Toronto, ON

Notes: Pretty soon we're going to be sitting around saying, "Holy shit! The Hip haven't played Silver Jet in almost 10 years! This one baffles me in kinda the same way Thirty-Eight Years Old did (and still does actually) when it went on hiatus for a decade. C'est la vie, eh?

There's a still in the night
a tuneless moonlight
just the I-need-you-and-here's-whys of
snoring Gords and Cheryls
there's a heron outside
inviolate light
there's an urge to go, a shadow
a heightened air of peril
your heart jumps to
and my heart jumps too
I think, to myself "I don't really know my heart"
and as you whisper 'me too'
a silver jet roars overhead
rocks the nocturne all everglade
n' grey sheers
silver jet, so far off already
ya fought the hot spurs off all the way
to Cape Spear

it's quiet again
when a car like Big Ben
it's radio dopplerin' '...'and for all you Gregory Peck fans...
- Let Us Now Praise Famous Men -
to take some pressure off all the wondrous
to fight' and
your heart jumps to
and my heart jumps too
as if the Wolves of Northhumberland themselves
were rumoured to be en route
silver jet, way overhead
yer an archipelago, a satellite,
a green star
silver jet, so far off already
with your I-need-you-and-here's-why
flying to the next part

your heart jumps to
and my heart jumps too
I'm thinking, to myself, 'packing, is a secret heart'
and as you whisper, 'me too'
silver jet roars overhead
silver jet flying to the next part
silver jet so far off already
silver jet, a satellite, a green star
silver jet way overhead
silver jet evergladed grey sheers
silver jet, so far off already
silver jet Clayqout sound to Cape Spear

Next song: Throwing Off Glass
Previous song: It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken

Throwing Off Glass - Lyrics

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Last played: 2009/11/25 Groningen, NED
Debut: 2002/06/12 Toronto, ON

Notes: By my count Throwing Off Glass has been played 20 times in concert. 13 of those came on the 2009 'We Are The Same Tour' with the other 7 all being from 2002. Hopefully it sticks around. The Hip are a much better band when they carry many songs around with them. Especially this one. It's exquisite. Give it a listen if you haven't in a while. I mean a Real listen.

'Why is the world so creepy?' she asked
after a car full of haircuts drove past
a backseat full of 'the boys'

I told her that 'It isn't...
that...that it's exquisite
but like love, it has it's barbarous threats

still in spite of the cads
and the stoop-shouldered teens
I know I'm losing you
I know what that means, yea

I told her that it isn't
that it's real exquisite
but like love, it can have it's
stubbed-toe effects

and just like after she heard
the word 'iridescent'
and everything was iridescent for awhile,
it wasn't long
before she exalted out of nowhere,
'Isn't this exquisite?'

Once you've said 'mmm' in unison
and 'oh' in double surprise
and shared relief with a mutual 'phew'
and a look in each others' eyes

I tell her that is isn't
insisted that it isn't
because like love
it has too-cunning effects
I told her that it isn't
that it's just exquisite
because like love it has
it's barbarous threats

'Why is the world so creepy?' she asked
after a car full of haircuts drove past
a backseat full of the boys
breaking glass
throwing off glass.

Next song: All Tore Up
Previous song: Silver Jet

All Tore Up - Lyrics

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Last played: 2002/11/20 London, ENG
Debut: 2002/02/20 Toronto, ON

Notes: All Tore Up was in the setlist rotation for exactly 9 months and was played 43 times which is quite prolific for that short of a stretch. It has never been heard from again. If I ever find out why I'll let you know. Right here. On this page. In this spot. Here. Promise.

we were a blow-out of wicked proportions
an accidental company
if we said, 'We're gonna go out
and get all tore-up tonight
then we did
we got a little happenin'

play yer Tonight's-The-Nights right
and don't clear the place
sweep up a little on your way out
we might make it

with Dottie, the bluegrass singer
baring her local breast
singing, "You want an open concept!?
- I'll give ya open concepts!"

ya play yer Fuck-Off-Nows right
and don't clear the place
wreak some havoc on the way out
you might make it

"drink up folks it's getting' on time to close"

they said, "we don't even like you."
'I'm with you,' I said,
but perhaps you think the road
is a means to have an end
where it's a living in the end,
the living end
the living image of the end

play yer Tonight's The Nights right
don't clear the place
sweep up a little on your way out
you might make it
if yer Tonight's The Nights right
ya don't clear the place
sweep up a little on your way out
you might make it

tonight's the night
tonight's the night, tonight
tonight the night
tonight
tonight tonight tonight
tonight's the night
tonight
tonight tonight tonight
tonight's the night
tonight

tonight tonight tonight

Next song: Leave
Previous song: Throwing Off Glass

Leave - Lyrics

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Last played: 2002/06/27 New York, NY
Debut: 2002/06/12 Toronto, ON

Notes: Showed up in a concert setlist 3 times and it's been on permanent LEAVE ever since. Sorry. I couldn't help myself.

'Do you mean the attack is routine?'
a bird asked of a bird
'In this context, a concave nest,
how do we learn to hurt?'

'do you mean there's no variation?'
watching a dog charge a flock
of birds exploding in congregation
Why plan; when we stop?" '

I dunno....but why suppose it's not the way it should be?
when you can fly above the great waiting list,
as the crow implies; we won't be missed, we can
leave
we can
leave
we can
leave.

It's a routine flight for this bird tonight
there's more worms than earth
in the Afterlife
where the blind feed the blind,
whispering things like;
'On the money' and 'Bulls-eye'
she picks up the little leaves
where human wrecks are left to seed
left to repaint their deities
and plaster away at their villainies
where there's love
there's hope

'and do you hope those earthbound poets
could learn to sing as good as us?
so we can sit back and enjoy our illusions
and our quietus?'

'Well I don't know....but why suppose it's not the way it should be?
when you can squawk and wait for word from above
and change yourself into something you love
when you
leave
you
leave
you
leave.?

Next song: A Beautiful Thing
Previous song: All Tore Up

A Beautiful Thing - Lyrics

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Last played: 2002/11/11 Tilburg, NED
Debut: 2002/06/12 Toronto, ON

Notes: Tilburg, Holland --- Where songs go to die. 21 concert appearances. There was also 2 studio appearances, but those don't fuckin' count. So Blackjack it is.

In the ulcerating silence
perspective comes
the way it always does - for it's ransom
so randomly...somebody calls...
the phone rings and it brings Niagara Falls
and 3 o'clock in the morning
'You'd better be dyin'- and you were
- So we talked about time
and where it went,
unremarkable events,
and how one day took two days
and they got spent.
how you'd continue, careful, in degrees
trying to do one true beautiful thing

and your beautiful thing
it'd be
a beautiful thing
to see
that beautiful thing
continuing

'I don't live there, I just commute'
secretly cradling a joint and I might puke.
a-fumble with the keys, under duress
the point is, this is, practice duress
at 3 o'clock in the morning -
'you'd better be dying'- and you were
-so we talked about things and where they went
big remarkable events
and how each day's a new day
and they get spent
how you'd continue, artfully, like the breeze
trying to do one true beautiful thing

your beautiful thing
it'd be
a beautiful thing
to see
that beautiful thing
continuing
your beautiful thing
continuing

your beautiful thing
will be

a beautiful thing
to me

that beautiful thing
continuing.

your beautiful thing
continuing

Next song: The Dire Wolf
Previous song: Leave

The Dire Wolf - Lyrics

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Don't Murder Me, I beg of you Don't Murder Me...

Last played: 2009/09/28 Ottawa, ON
Debut: 2002/06/12 Toronto, ON

Notes: Though never played as much as it was in its first year, The Dire Wolf has remained in the rotation. Sightings are becoming rare however. This song is Pure Hip....

in that September off
Isle aux Morts
the desultory sea
grew more so through the night

and made one think of
tawny ports,
as aspen tremblin'
in tomorrow's thorough light

and of Tallulah Bankhead
and Canada Lee
somewhere far-off, peaceful, sleeping
and done with acting

past the Dire Wolf's lair
on a Newfoundland's paws
close to nowhere
and halfway across

but never more 'here'
expanse getting broader
though bigger boats been
done by less water
tho better boats been done by this water
tho better boats been done by less water

in that September off
Isle aux Morts
colourable seas
grew more to through the night

And made one think of
yawnin' shores
Gambier-bleached
in tomorrow's thorough light

and the Tallulah Bankhead
and Canada Lee
somewhere far-off, peaceful, sleeping
they learned to love sleep

at the Dire Wolf's crest
the Newfoundland paused
desolate's best
was gotten across

we were never more 'here'
expanse getting broader
when better boats been
done by this water

at the Dire Wolf's best
the Newfoundland paused
so desperate as
to be a lost cause

you were never more hear
expanse getting broader
when better boats been
done by this water
where bigger boats been done by less water
and better boats been done by this water
when bigger boats been done by less water
and better boats been done by this water

Next song: The Dark Canuck
Previous song: A Beautiful Thing

The Dark Canuck - Lyrics

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Last played: 2009/10/15 Albany, NY
Debut: 2002/06/12 Toronto, ON

Notes: Shelved for 5 years after the 2002 'In Violet Light Tour'; The Dark Canuck made one appearance in 2007 and then was sprinkled throughout 2009's setlists much to the delight of many fans I'm sure.

This one is for you
and it goes on and on and on
when nothing seems to do
for when the doubtless and the wrong
ask; 'can I help you?'
in that way that says, 'I can't'
or claim we're all the same
just inconsistent
or pretend all understanding
turned out to be pretense
then pretend the pretense of understanding
How long does it take depends

You can cast your doubts
Turn em inside-out
Hang em upside-down
Til their art falls out - the short answer's; forty-eight hours
Let your heart all out - the short answer's; forty-eight hours
Til your art falls out - the short answer's; forty-eight hours
Let your heart all out
Summon up your power

If you need a good connection for drugs
or a strong tolerance for alcohol
Too little religious education
Some pain threshold
If from the outside
There's no demand for what you do
And inside there's an army waiting
For their marching orders for you
Come sit on my swing-seat
Come sit on my porch
After Ten at night, smoke your cigarettes if you like, of course

You can cast your doubts
Turn em inside-out
Hang em upside-down
Til their art falls out - the short answer's; forty-eight hours
let your heart all out - the short answer's; forty-eight hours
Til their art falls out - the short answer's; forty-eight hours
Let your heart all out
Summon up all your power

And it does on and on and on

If we ever get home
let's don't compare
let's relinquish all our holidays
and Drive-In Premieres

if we ever get home
gonna have me three children
Apple, Zippo, and Metronome
that's what I'm gonna name them

and get celebrity skin
the illusion of tough
I'm gonna talk about nothing
til nothing's enough

if we ever get home
and the subject comes up
this War isn't for children
War is nothing's enough

O' in the clouds of blood at the end of JAWS
in the misted cars honking their applause
at the Drive-In Double Feature
at the heart of dark enough
O' it's JAWS and The Dark Canuck
should we stay for The Dark Canuck?
yea. Everyone, hands up!?
Who's for 'The Dark Canuck'?

I think we relinquished enough
and it's still dark enough
and it goes on and on and on

Previous song: The Dire Wolf

07/02/2011 - The Colosseum at Caesars, Windsor, ON

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The Tragically Hip
The Colosseum at Caesars
Windsor, ON
07/02/2011

07/02/2011 Windsor, ON

Scared makes its 2011 debut. Whoa.

Set I: The Lonely End of the Rink, Grace Too, Love is a First, Streets Ahead, It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken, In View, Drip Drip, Gift Shop, Poets, Ahead By a Century, Transformation, At the Hundredth Meridian, Fiddler's Green, Fully Completely, Courage, Bobcaygeon, NOIS > Nautical Disaster > NOIS, Little Bones

Encore: Blow At High Dough, Scared, My Music at Work

Theme: Detroit Tigers

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07/01/2011 - Downsview Park, Toronto, ON

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Downsview Park
Toronto, ON
07/01/2011

From @_alieb On the Ground...

"Sorry for the lack of updates at Downsview, there was no cell reception in the venue. This made is impossible to find friends. I have never been a big fan of this venue, its always so unorganized. One beer tent for over 30,000 people with 2 hour waits. Rude. However, once I embraced all these obstacles and just went with it, the night shaped up OK. The Hip took the stage and the vibe in the whole place immediately changed! It was one giant party as they jammed out hit after hit. No big surprises to the setlist...

Set I: Grace Too, Blow At High Dough, Love Is A First, It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken, Streets Ahead, Poets, Ahead By A Century, In View, Drip Drip, At the Hundredth Meridian, Gift Shop, Fiddler's Green, Transformation, Fully Completely, Courage, Bobcaygeon, New Orleans Is Sinking > Nautical Disaster > New Orleans Is Sinking, Little Bones

Encore: The Kids Don't Get It, Wheat Kings, My Music At Work

The night closed out with fireworks and the whole crowd singing the national anthem was pretty awesome."

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