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Gord tragically hip9/12/2023 ![]() ![]() The love between Hip Fans and the band is altogether different then that of a more recognizable Justin Beaber type. ![]() But for me, Credit is the way in which they touch their fans, and the response that their music invokes from them. If "Credit" is a matter of Global recognition, then it is fair to say that The Hip has not had enough of it. Had the American Commercial Machine taken up The Hip, I am afraid that they would have been corrupted and made into something PoPish, fake and dismal. ![]() And in my estimation, both the band and their fans (that border on fanatical) profited greatly for it. The Hip always felt natural, true to their art, passionate about their music. The hip did not succumb to the degradations of commercialization that so many bands get tied up in. And although It makes me sad that this amazing group of performers never caught on in the greater United States, over all I'm actually happy this should be the case. Of all the concerts I have been to, I count each of these experiences among my most treasured. I've seen them play at the Corel Center, at a small bar in Ottawa and at the Sugar Bush. And although my fascination with their music began to fade with Phantom Power, I still count them among my favorite bands and know all the words to the majority of their songs by heart from having listen to them all many hundreds of times over the years. It's the kind of music that makes every young boy want to learn how to play guitar and drums if only just to jam your heart out along with the prolific number of tracks this band has put out. We grew up with their music, the Quintessential bar music, bonfire party music and all around good timin music. I remember as a young teenager when The Hip first came on the scene. ![]() The hip has a (Relatively speaking) huge following along the boarder towns near to Kingston and all along the St. I just want to say as an American that grew up on the Canadian border, and one who has spent a fair amount of time in Kingston, Ottawa, Cornwall, Toronto an Ontario, Not all Americans are complete jack off's. You're right, the Hip don't get enough credit, its cuz the huge world of consumers live in America. Many Years ago at this point, MadScooter said: Cavalry song:Īre the souls of all dead troopers camped It was coopted by landlubbers and appears in an old post-Civil-War U.S. Where the grub is good and the bunks are cleanīut the traditional idea of Fiddler's Green is much older than that. Then I'll make the haven and the Fiddler's Green In her rusty hold, where the breakers sound Then there's "Final Trawl" by folk singer Archie Fisher: Where the weather is fair and the dolphins do playĪnd the cold coast of Greenland is far, far away Where fishermen go when they don't go to Hell Now Fiddler's Green is a place I've heard tell There's not much else to say about what this "means."įolk singer John connolly did a song called "Fiddler's Green" in 1970, which includes these lines: Downie sticks with the nautical metaphor by suggesting that the child has "gone alee" (downwind) and comparing his heart failure with the sinking of a wooden ship. Fiddler's Green is a kind of "sailor's heaven," where sailors go when they die. ![]()
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