07/12/07: Vancouver: General Motors Place

Post by **mrlayance** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 7:52 pm

Post your review

bauer · Post by **bauer** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 4:25 pm

Opening band - THE SADIES!! OH YA BABY! Go early and check out some very groovy psychedelic country rock! their double live album is killer!

chris · Post by **chris** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 6:43 am

GM Place, Vancouver, BC

01: The Lonely End Of The Rink
02: New Orleans Is Sinking
03: My Music At Work
04: It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken
05: Family Band
06: Ahead By A Century
07: Yer Not The Ocean
08: Courage
09: World Container
10: Long Time Running
11: In View
12: Springtime In Vienna
13: At The 100th Meridian
14: Bobcaygeon
15: The Kids Don't Get It
16: Fully, Completely
17: Blow At High Dough

Encore
18: The Drop off
19: Grace, Too
20: Fireworks

tfoe · Post by **tfoe** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 11:17 am

Great Show last night as per usual.

tragicallyphish · Post by **tragicallyphish** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 12:36 pm

100th was off the hook.
Robbie was just ripping it. I know he was tossing in a couple teases but I couldn't make them out.
Seeing Grace in the encore was great.

We took my friends girlfriend who is originally from Boston, now working at Vanoc, to the show. She had never really heard the Hip just a couple songs here and there. She said that she had a great time but thought "The Lead Singer is on Crack". Gord was full tilt. Really animated much more than last week at The Kee. He was all over the place. Kept on putting his arm around Paul from behind, singing into Sinclairs mic with him. Fake smoking, fun time with the mic stand as per usual. Unfortunately he didn't do his Chopper driving thing with it, that's my new favorite Gordie/mic dance now.

Can't wait til next tour!

nohochin · Post by **nohochin** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 1:28 pm

That is a great encore (IMO)...

QuizShowChampion · Post by **QuizShowChampion** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 4:44 pm

Grace was my favourite part of the whole show. I would've liked it if the set was a little longer, but I can't really complain as I was in the front row. Also, I like The Sadies and all, it was just a bit strange that it was the same bill as I went to see in Victoria last January. I was hoping it would be Wintersleep or something.

That being said, holy crap did they have their shit together last night. They were going full tilt the whole night. Even LTR had the place moving.

sean.bonner · Post by **sean.bonner** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 5:48 pm

is there still a 50 ft. Gord?
Or different stage set-up?

tragicallyphish · Post by **tragicallyphish** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 5:57 pm

When you first see the stage setup you think wow that's a terrible background. Sortof a sunset ocean scene, and it looks like its just a painted backdrop. The backdrop changes as the show goes on and when the lights hits it, it does look really cool. The encore backdrop was a starry night scene type thing. All sorts of other images but very subtle changes so you don't eve really notice

No video or 50ft Gord, but not the world container logo like in Bala

Spycouple · Post by **Spycouple** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 7:24 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DoEBkU3ZYE

and here's the iPod video version for download...

http://download.yousendit.com/CF9287D67DA5CFA0

NOTE: I might need to update this file as the playback of the MiniDV tape has a number of skips/breaks happening for some reason. Maybe it was a crappy batch of Fuji tapes, since I used a different brand (BigA Brand) of tapes in Seattle with no issues.

sherpahigh · Post by **sherpahigh** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 8:16 pm

Nice work on the videos!

Can't wait for tomorrow night.

sean.bonner · Post by **sean.bonner** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 11:05 pm

I think gord has found a new niche with that jousting.

mark · Post by **mark** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 8:45 pm

notice there was no cover song? i hope they keep doing them on the fall tour.

trevor · Post by **trevor** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:05 am

mark wrote:notice there was no cover song? i hope they keep doing them on the fall tour.

They haven't been doing them for this round of shows.

Wheat_King_Gus · Post by **Wheat_King_Gus** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 9:11 am

trevor wrote:
mark wrote:notice there was no cover song? i hope they keep doing them on the fall tour.
They haven't been doing them for this round of shows.

No, they haven't and I'm not sure quite how how I feel about that. On the one hand, it (usually) means one more Hip original. On the other hand, I always like seeing what they bust out.