The woman is reborn and alive again in the front row, and that’s good, ’cause I was getting a little tired of the sea of testosterone and regretting the fact that the girls were getting muscled out.” –July 2, 1995 “We’re witnessing the rebirth of the girl at the Tragically Hip show. I mean, I thought it would be funny imagining radio deejays cueing it up and announcing it as people are driving off to work.” –-January 18, 1995 “Even ‘The Inevitability of Death’ is kind of a funny song more than anything. “I’m a music fan-I love meeting other musicians, I love talking to other musicians-and what greater opportunity to take advantage of whatever standing we might have to try and attract people? To say ‘We don’t know you, but we love you, and will you come play with us?’ Sometimes they actually do.” – -January 18, 1995 It’s an interesting thing for me, and…yeah, special to me.” –November 4, 1992 ![]() ![]() “Generally, when the band is feeling good and the music is feeling good, I go in and out. “On this album, especially, I basically let the music do the talkin’, let the music evoke images, and then tried to capture those images on paper before I could ruin them with too much thought.” –November 4, 1992 I mean, we’re certainly doing our part.” –November 4, 1992 Maybe there’s some kind of resurgence in Canadiana. “I think a lot of people in Canada are moving towards some kind of things that identify us. You have tiffs with someone when he has smelly feet in the touring van, but we all respect each other as friends first.” –-September 28, 1989 “If we weren’t in this band, some of us wouldn’t be playing at all. “If you’re aiming for a hole in one, and you get one, you feel lucky–but at the same time you can justifiably say, ‘Well, I was aiming for the hole anyway.’ ” –September 28, 1989 “When we finish a track in the studio, we might say, ‘That was great that gave me a good feeling,’ but it’s not like ‘This will appeal to the under-16-female-white-audience.’ I mean, you leave that to the deejays and the people who write bios.” –September 28, 1989 He was always an interesting guy to chat with. In advance of tomorrow’s historic gig I figured I’d throw together some of the best quotes I’ve gotten from Downie during the course of my five interviews with the Canuck rock legend. I’ve got a feeling it won’t be the last Hip gig ever, but I’m gonna check it out anyway.īesides, they might do “Nautical Disaster”. It’s the final date on the band’s sold-out, cross-Canada Man Machine Poem tour, and some are saying it will be their last show ever, considering frontman Gord Downie’s terminal brain-cancer diagnosis. I might not be back from opening day at the PNE in time to watch the gig unfold live, but I sure as shit plan to record it. ![]() The big Tragically Hip show in their hometown of Kingston, Ontario, is happening tomorrow, broadcast live on the CBC starting at 5:30 pm Vancouver time.
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