Re: (TV) Whammy bars, leases, etc

[Michael <michael@recordsnyc.com>]

    I can't remember exactly where we played, I d recall that it was
outside. A beautiful summer day. The singer was just the wildest on-stage
persona I've ever witnessed. His analogies and descriptions of songs were
sorta surreal at times. He was definitely the drawing point for me. When I
saw them there were guitar solos, mostly slide stuff as I recall. M T C

> From: g grant <grntg@yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: tv@obbard.com
> Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 13:38:17 -0700 (PDT)
> To: tv@obbard.com
> Subject: Re: (TV) Whammy bars, leases, etc
> 
> Where were you guys playing?
> 
> The Hip are huge in Canada and have consistently
> released an album every second year.  Each release has
> me saying "this sucks" on first listen but pulls me
> back for a second, third time, etc.  Then it becomes
> an obsessive pleasure where it is the only thing I
> will listen to for a couple of months.  Other Hip fans
> have had the same experience.  They also re-invent
> there sound for each release so it is always fresh.
> I'm surprised to hear they never made it in the States
> (especially their album Fully Completly or Trouble at
> the Henhouse) as they were quite popular in North
> Dakota the two years I lived there but then again,
> North Dakota isn't New York, LA or any of the major
> centres and they pick up Canadian radio so perhaps
> that is where the popularity came from.
> 
> Two last Hip comments then I will shut-up: Live,
> despite having two guitarists, they rarely have a
> guitar solo.  The singer has a running commentary
> about God knows what in place of the solo.  It sounds
> stupid in print but live, his commentary is phrased so
> well that it is like hearing a killer guitar solo.  A
> fairy unique use of spoken word.
> 
> Two: They played at the last Woodstock so I figured
> they were pretty popular.  Perhaps they were on a
> secondary stage but the radio that broadcast it up
> here made it sound like they were the headliners :-)
> 
> Has anyone heard of Matthew Good from Canada.
> Excellent hard rock musician but he feels he is far
> too talented to play to us "praire folk" in
> Saskatchewan (5 minutes after saying this someone
> pelted him in the head with a shoe and he walked off
> the stage.  Despite a lot of arrogance, he may be
> right.
> 
> Greg
> --- Michael <michael@recordsnyc.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> Anyone into the Tragically Hip?
>>> 
>>> Greg
>> 
>> I can't say that I'm into them in the sense that
>> I own their records,
>> but I will say that we had the privelege of sharing
>> the same bill with them
>> in Washington D.C. in 1990. I'm
>> happy to hear that the T.H. are still active though,
>> that's quite a feat to
>> play together that length of time without having any
>> major success. M T C
>> 
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