Gift Shop
Madison Square Garden
New York, NY
1995/10/27
Back in 1995, at arguably the height of their 'live powers', The Hip opened for Plant & Page at a number of their arena shows in the U.S. Since the boys are back in The Big Apple tonight, I thought we'd revisit this.
Setlist: Nautical Disaster, At The Hundredth Meridian, Gift Shop, Grace Too, Locked In The Trunk Of A Car
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The Tragically Hip
Beacon Theater
New York, NY
2015/01/23
Setlist:
Grace Too, My Music At Work, Escape Is At Hand For The Travellin' Man, At Transformation, New Orleans Is Sinking
*****
Courage, Looking For A Place To Happen, At The Hundredth Meridian, Pigeon Camera, Lionized, Locked In The Trunk Of A Car, We'll Go Too, Fully Completely, Fifty-Mission Cap, Wheat Kings, The Wherewithal, Eldorado
*****
In View, Man Machine Poem, Scared, Poets, Blow At High Dough
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Gus, yes that Gus has passed away joining Jim, Janis & Jimi among other entertainers in the "27 Club".
Gus: The Polar Bear From Central Park
Here's an excerpt from the New York Times...
There are not a huge number of ways to become famous as a polar bear. Gus somehow managed to do it by behaving like a perfectly ordinary New Yorker: he was neurotic. He became the Neurotic Polar Bear.
To be sure, it was his own particular neurosis. Back in the mid-1990s, he began swimming obsessively for hours through his watery habitat in the Central Park Zoo, as if prepping for the Polar Bear Olympics, something he had never done back in his hometown, Toledo, Ohio. The world took notice. Expensive therapy was ordered. Improvement occurred. A furry white celebrity was born.
Long the popular face of the zoo, even as his lap swimming became less obsessive, Gus began exhibiting a loss of appetite in recent days. He was having trouble chewing. Zoo veterinarians hoped it might be just a bad toothache. But when they examined him on Tuesday afternoon, they found a large inoperable tumor in his thyroid region and decided to euthanize him.
Gus was 27. (The Association of Zoos and Aquariums puts the median life expectancy for a male polar bear living in a zoo at 20.7 years.) He came to New York in 1988, three years after being born at the zoo in Toledo. His parents, Nanook and Snowball, died in 1996. Nanook was from the Bronx and was sent to Toledo for breeding, with the expectation that a cub would go to New York.
Two years ago, Gus lost Ida, the last of his two female companions. She died from liver disease at the age of 25. His other companion, Lily, died at 17 in 2004 after an abdominal mass was discovered. Despite two women in his life, Gus had no offspring.
“He was the iconic image for Central Park,” said Jim Breheny, the general director for zoos and aquariums for the Wildlife Conservation Society, which runs the city’s zoos. “Some of my favorite images were seeing Gus in his exhibit with the New York cityscape behind him. It was surreal.”
Gus’s death leaves the city with a single polar bear, Tundra, who is 22 and resides at the Bronx Zoo.
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The Tragically Hip
Terminal 5
New York, NY
2012/11/10
Setlist:
At Transformation, Grace Too, Escape Is At Hand For The Travellin' Man, The Kids Don't Get It, Man Machine Poem, Gift Shop, Streets Ahead, Eldorado, Ahead By A Century, Poets, The Lookahead, In View, We Want To Be It, Springtime In Vienna, Fully Completely, Fire In The Hole, Goodnight Attawapiskat
Encore:
At The Hundredth Meridian, Bobacygeon, Nautical Disaster, Fiddler's Green, Courage, Blow At High Dough
Theme: Brooklyn Nets
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The Tragically Hip
Saturday Night Live
Studio 8H
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY
1995/03/25
Have you watched Saturday Night Live lately? My wife loves it and as such I end up watching it with her. We don't usually catch it 'Live', but rather we will watch it from their website sometime during the week when we have the time. It's been so good lately - except for the musical acts... This current cast is very talented and they've been together for a while which helps. SNL has always went through highs & lows. They are definitely in a High right now. Comedy-wise anyway.
Musically, it's a different story. It's just a record promo these days. Or a singles promo, right? WTF was that Lana Del Rey performance from earlier this year? The next episode airs on April 7, 2012 and features 'One Direction'. Who? I know, I know. I had to look them up. On this legendary stage that has been home to such performers as Jimmy Cliff, Gordon Lightfoot, The Band, Brian Wilson, Santana, Paul Simon, Willie Nelson, The Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Talking Heads, James Taylor, Paul McCartney, Aretha Franklin, Prince, The Allman Brothers Band, Elton John, Queen, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Stevie Wonder, Bryan Adams, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Neville Brothers, George Clinton, Run-DMC, Roy Orbison, Sting, Elvis Costello, Little Feat, Neil Young, Billy Joel, Aerosmith, Eric Clapton, The Black Crowes, R.E.M., Public Enemy, Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Garth Brooks, Pearl Jam, Bruce Springsteen, Morrissey, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Green Day, Beastie Boys, Bon Jovi, Dave Matthews Band, Rod Stewart, Foo Fighters, Blues Traveler, David Bowie, Tina Turner, Whitney Houston, Metallica, Sarah McLachlan, Mariah Carey, Luciano Pavarotti, The Roots, Eminem, Radiohead, U2, Phish, Justin Timberlake, Queen Latifah, Arcade Fire and of course The Tragically Hip.
'One Direction' has been around since 2010. Yep. I guess they have a new single out and need some good face-time with the public. Look, I know that The Hip weren't the biggest thing going in the US when they were featured and getting them on the show probably never would have happened without the influence of their friend Danny Aykroyd, but at least they had a track record before they got there. They were arguably the number 1 act in Canada despite going head-to-head with the likes of Rush, Bryan Adams, etc... They had put out 4 solid albums front to back. I know that The Hip deserved this honour much more than 'One Direction' & most of this year's line-up have. It really used to mean something to make it up there on that stage. Now it's Money for Nothin'...
So, let me take you back to March 25, 1995. I was so excited to see the boys on this great show. John Goodman was the host, but Dan Aykroyd was there and so too was George Wendt (Norm from Cheers). They reprised the "Da Bears' skit... The Hip performed Grace, too and Nautical Disaster off of their recently released album Day for Night. Gord had hair. I had hair.
This was the origin of the "Tragically Hip' lyric being inserted into Grace, too's opening line. Gord had his mind on giving he nephew a signal for his 11th birthday with 2 fingers and well, you can check it out for yourself...
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The Tragically Hip
Nokia Theater
05/08/2009
New York, NY
Set I
The Depression Suite
New Orleans Is Sinking
Escape Is At Hand For The Travelin' Man
Now The Struggle Has A Name
In View
Ahead By A Century
Morning Moon
Frozen In My Tracks
Courage
The Drop Off
Love Is A First
Set II
The Rules @
Flamenco @
Bobcaygeon @
The Exact Feeling
Fully Completely Long Time Running
Coffee Girl
Poets
Fireworks
The Last Recluse
Family Band
Locked In The Trunk Of A Car
Encore
Tiger The Lion
Blow At High Dough
Tour breakouts tonight: Long Time Running, The Rules.
Predictable = Flamenco played in NY. Unpredictible = The Rules. Call it even :)
I still can't figure out why Country Day and Queen of the Furrows are getting no love this tour (2 plays each in 9 shows). Courage is on a 4 show run after going 1 for 5 to start the tour. Love Is A First has only appeared in 1st sets so far while Music@Work has yet to appear in a first set this tour.
