STEAMER'S BLOG
THE TRAGICALLY HIP!!!!!!!
Sunday, April 22, 2007 8:37 PM
Formula for a Colossally Awesome Night:Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom +
Yer Not the Ocean
New Orleans is Sinking
Fully Completely
The Dire Wolf
Nautical Disaster
Family Band
Bobcaygeon
Pretend
Wheat Kings
The Drop-off
At the Hundredth Meridian
The Lonely End of the Rink (serious Mal/Inara tune there)
Long Time Running
Gift Shop
Ahead By a Century
In View
Little Bones
Thugs
Rudie Can't Fail
Locked In the Trunk of a Car
+ Gordon Downie not disappointing with his usual on-stage performance wilder than a caged animal...
=
BEST
FREAKING
HIP
SHOW
YET.
Man, how I long for those guys to hit New England or upstate NY again soon.
When I first discovered The Tragically Hip, I also discovered that yes, there is such a thing as intelligent rock and roll. Last night, however, what else did I discover?
Inspiration.
For as I was on my way to church this morning, I suddenly found myself thinking in such poetic terms as I haven't known for the past several months. Funniest thing, but I will bet you a crate of Vera-ammo that listening to 20-odd live Tragically Hip tunes - and Gordon Downie's Riverine rambling, both between and during the songs - booted my muse out of her bunk and aimed my own writer's eye back toward the air. Gotta 'scuse me now, I have something to contribute to the Hip Story Project.
(Not to mention the BSR, sooner than I thought!)Who knew that a Hipsy evening could make everything that much shinier?
Ah, but I almost forgot the shiniest part: there were at least two other Browncoats in attendance!!
I wore my Serenity T-shirt just on the off chance. Saw one guy wearing a "Let's Be Bad Guys" shirt, but I didn't get a chance to talk to him. There was then one other fella who, while on his way off to get a drink, pointed straight at me and went, "GREAT SHIRT!" To which I naturally responded, "Shiny - let's be bad guys!" When he came back he asserted that there really should have been at least nine more episodes and/or another movie. Well, let no man say they ain't trying....So. Three Browncoats at one Hip concert. What are the odds??
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