sean.bonner wrote:You guys are crazy.
At my 18th Hip show, I got to see six songs I've never seen before... An album front-to-back, and the lesser played Something On and Escape is at Hand.
Pigeon Camera, Looking For A Place to Happen, The Wherewithal, Lionized, We'll Go Too, Eldorado and The Wherewithal are RARELY played, and I somehow managed 17 shows without seeing Fifty-Mission Cap, so it can't be that common.
Seems like people will find a reason to complain if the show is anything short of a live-by-request at their private summer cottage.
"Live-by-request" at my "summer cottage"? Haha...no need for hyperbole, Sean.
I've witnessed ALL of the following at LEAST 15 times apiece -- some 25, and some 40 or even 50 times:
Blow
NOIS
Bones
Twist
Pistols
Courage
Meridian
Fully
Wheat
Grace
Nautical
Scared
Gift
Springtime
ABAC
Poets
BobC
Fireworks
Escape
M@W
I live on the frickin Ohio River, for Gord sakes. I've seen them play venues from South Carolina to California to Chicago to Las Vegas to New York to Onta-ri-ari-o. It's not 'crazy' to ask that they take this opportunity -- where they are presenting no new material whatsoever -- to treat us all to some tunes
that some Cincinnati guy hasn't already seen them them do thirty-five times. Other established, veteran bands mix up their sets far, far more than this band does.
I want to think that there's some other explanation besides them just getting accustomed to making their coffer-filling rounds at minimal effort, but I can't think of any.
Perhaps I will muse upon it over a glass of 'Tragically Hip Grand Reserve Red'.