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Not so good news out of Canada - Gord Downie terminal cancer

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Despite their initially clear imitations of REM, Tragically Hip became a creative force worthy of a huge following. I know I love them and have many of their albums. Amazing band!

Sad news, indeed.
 
Re: Not so good news out of Canada - Gord Downie terminal ca

"Thugs" by The Tragically Hip just came on in my random playlist on my phone. Turned it up!!!
 
Re: Not so good news out of Canada - Gord Downie terminal ca

I was not home at the time but my brother called and left a message about the news!! Sad indeed. My first thought , he should see if he can get on the clinical trial at Duke that is using polio to treat glioblastoma. Was on 60 minutes a few weeks back.
Mike
 
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Tour dates have just been announced.

They're playing Ottawa on Thursday, August 18th. Tickets go on sale June 3rd at 1000 hours.

If anyone wants to attend this concert, you are welcome to come and stay at my place.

I suggest that you try to buy the tickets online yourself and if successful (they will sell out within minutes!) contact me to let me know you are coming.

I'm going to try to buy four tickets for my own use. Not sure what the maximum allowed buy will be.

It goes without saying that this is almost certainly your last chance to see The Tragically Hip live - ever! Given the circumstances, this might also be the most memorable concert you will ever attend.

Jeff
 
Re: Not so good news out of Canada - Gord Downie terminal ca

I was hoping they would go out in style and hit every province on their ten tour dates(sorry territories). I can understand skipping Quebec I guess but nothing in the maritimes?? I don't get it?
 
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How do I watch that?
 
Reminder: the live final concert broadcast is this Saturday, 8:30pm eastern.

This could end up being THE most watched live event in Canadian history.

Jeff
 
JeffMackwood said:
Reminder: the live final concert broadcast is this Saturday, 8:30pm eastern.

This could end up being THE most watched live event in Canadian history.

Jeff
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Whoa, hold the phone there my countryman!! It's a concert NOT a hockey game for goodness sakes!!
 
mcad64 said:
Whoa, hold the phone there my countryman!! It's a concert NOT a hockey game for goodness sakes!!
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You make a great point Mike!

On a side note, my main HT's projector has been in the shop for nearly two months for a new colour wheel, power supply ballast, and lamp. Consequently I've been limited to watching the Olympics in the family room HT (Oh the horror of it all!). Anyhow, with The Hip's final concert broadcast looming I contacted the shop earlier this week and said I didn't mind missing using it for the Olympics so much, but that I really needed it for The Hip on Saturday night. "Why didn't you say so before!" was the reply. They contacted all the suppliers who they were waiting for parts from and last night at midnight the owner sent me a message saying it was ready for pick up. It's now installed and calibrated - with just hours to go before the concert! :thumbsup:

Jeff

ps. Read this fantastic Globe And Mail editorial about Gord Downie yesterday. It should be read in its entirety but the last paragraph nails it.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opin...-and-his-gift-to-the-country/article31459988/

Thank you, Gord Downie, for giving our country something that is at once shared with the rest of the world but ours alone to understand fully. Your words will always resonate the most deeply with a Canadian audience. To get them, to feel them, you have to be from here. And that is a hell of a good reason to be Canadian.​
 
I have it cued on the PVR in the man cave.

You said you didn't give a fuck about hockey
And I never saw someone say that before
You held my hand and we walked home the long way
You were loosening my grip on Bobby Orr


Doesn`t get much more Canadian then that does it!!
 
An amazing concert! 'Nuff said.

For those who missed it, here's the set list:

50 Mission Cap
Courage
Wheat Kings
At the Hundredth Meridian
In a World Possessed By the Human Mind
What Blue
Tired as Fuck
Machine
My Music at Work
Lake Fever
Toronto #4
Puttin’ Down
Twist My Arm
Three Pistols
Fiddler’s Green
Little Bones
Last of the Unplucked Gems
Something On
Poets
Bobcaygeon
Fireworks
New Orleans Is Sinking
Boots or Hearts
Blow at High Dough
Nautical Disaster
Scared
Grace, Too
Locked in the Trunk of a Car
Gift Shop
Ahead By a Century
 
Crap Jeff, I have been sitting at my computer trying to post something eloquent for the last 10 minutes!! I concur!!!
 
mcad64 said:
Whoa, hold the phone there my countryman!! It's a concert NOT a hockey game for goodness sakes!!
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Mike's right again. Numbers released today:

11.7 million Canadians tuned in to the concert. That's about 1/3 of all Canadians!

However the gold medal Olympic hockey game in 2010 drew the still-record number of 16.6 million viewers. Half the country!

Still...

Jeff
 
So, how can those of us in the US see this concert? There was actually a (favorable but lacking detail) blurb in the local Baltimore paper today about it...
 
PaulyT said:
So, how can those of us in the US see this concert? There was actually a (favorable but lacking detail) blurb in the local Baltimore paper today about it...
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I would expect (hope) that it will eventually be released as a full-feature Blu-ray.

Failing that, I recorded it on my PVR and i) am prepared to bring the whole machine to the next GTG so that anyone there can see the whole shebang in HD and 5.1 ii) I'm just in the process of making it into a burnable-to-DVD-R. If that works out I'd be happy to mail out a few copies to anyone who wants it. Will know how it turns out later today.

Jeff
 
The DVD-R turned out quite good. Very watchable picture and very good 2.0 sound (which expands quite well with PLIIx (music)).

If anyone would like a copy mailed to them, PM me your mailing address. I'd like to get all requests by the end of this week (so that I can buy sufficient mailers all at once) and will aim to have them all in the mail by Monday at the latest.

Jeff

ps. The DVD-R was made from the original CBC 720p HD/5.1 surround broadcast recorded on my HD PVR. It was then transferred to 480p on my DVD recorder's hard drive. I edited the start and end cuts (it was commercial-free so no other editing needed) and from there I can burn standard 480i DVD-R copies. As a result of this process when you play it in your home HT (say Blu-ray player connected to 1080p display via HDMI) if your Blu-ray player outputs the 480i direct to your HD display, you may need to select "zoom" (or equivalent) on the display's aspect ratio control in order to get the image to properly fill a 16:9 display.
 
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