We knew this day was coming, but we weren't ever going to be ready for it. They've been a constant presence in my life, always playing in the car, at home, on my ipod when I was traveling. I was lucky enough to see them a couple times in Philadelphia at some rather small venues and made time to stream their last show live on my big-screen at home. I had never heard of this band, but I really liked this song, and back in that day, if you liked a song, you bought an album so I did.Ģ5 years and every album later, here we are. I asked the clerk what CD was playing and he pointed it out to me. I walked in and 'At the Hundredth Meridian' was playing. The local video rental store had a little music section, and they were always playing the latest CD's that were out.
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I was a 13 year old boy in central Pennsylvania, had recently saved up enough money to buy one of the first 'Discman' portable CD players so I could start my own music collection and not have to try to commandeer dad's audio rack when I wanted to listen to what I liked. This has never happened to me before so I'll have to look up what Gold means. RIP Gord DownieĮDIT: Gilded! Thanks so much. He was an absolute one of a kind artist, essential to several generations’ conception of the last few decades’ culture and I feel fortunate to have met him at several stops along the way. In addition to producing 2006’s World Container and 2009’s We Are The Same, it’s long been rumored that Rock recorded work with the Hip’s late frontman Gord Downie, who passed away in 2017. Gord’s terminal cancer diagnosis was a shock to say the least but the toughest thing about it is feeling that light go out.
And that is part of what makes this death sting so much: they were always around, making art in a realible clip that makes it easy to take for granted. They never seemed to not have something on. An endless flurry of creativity from the band and Gord himself, working as a solo artist and working class poet and advocate. Over the 20 years since there were more shows, more albums, more transcendent moments. In fact that night, the band (minus Downie) piled into my Renault and came to our apartment and played UNO with my roommates while waiting for weed from our downstairs dealer. In a mid-90s cluttered with mediocre bands going double-platinum and becoming the kind of inescapable that breeds contempt, The Hip were mercifully left (for us down here anyway) as a cool kind of secret, massive elsewhere, but more manageably “ours” to fans here. We’d see them again two years later on the Day For Night tour at the same venue on the cusp of an American breakout that it’s probably for the best never really materialized. I’d never seen anything like it and became a fan that night. And of course there was Gord, playing the 500-cap bar with the dynamic sweep of an arena show and the intimacy of a poetry open mic. It was very much like a bar band punching above their weight and taking it some place artier, like you always hear about R.E.M.’s earliest years. I didn’t want to give them a chance because the band name made me think they were a joke band (and joke bands leave me cold). Was dragged to the Omaha stop of the Fully Completely tour in 93. In December of 2016, Gord was given the Lakota Spirit Name, Wicapi Omani, which can be translated as “Man who walks among the stars” for his reconciliACTIONs.American here. In August of 2016, Gord asked all Canadians to look at the state of Indigenous-settler relations in this country and to “Do something” to change them for the better. In 2014, Gord and his brothers, Mike and Patrick, along with Patrick Sambrook, started the production company Edgarland Films. Gord directed music videos, narrated the Waterlife and National Parks Project documentaries, and appeared in a number of films including director Michael McGowan’s One Week and director Mike Clattenburg’s Trailer Park Boys: The Movie. He released six albums, including Secret Path Gord also enjoyed a career as a solo artist. The group released their first album, The Tragically Hip, in 1987 and have since released thirteen studio albums, including their final album, Man Machine Poem (2016). Gord Downie was the lead singer, songwriter and driving creative force behind The Tragically Hip, who brought their energetic, live performances to audiences around the world for over three decades.
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