SNL and the Hip

Greg · Sun Mar 27, 2005 8:48 pm

Does anyone know where I can get a copy on VHS of the Hip playing Saturday Night Live a while back?

Greg · Sun Mar 27, 2005 8:55 pm

Sorry, just to add to that last post. I was pretty young when they played that gig and remember very little of it. I'm an absolute huge fan now and thought it would be so cool to see that recording again, to see grace and nautical played in that setting.

farmerdan · Sun Mar 27, 2005 9:08 pm

i dont know about a vhs copy buy check out http://www.hipbase.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=106 and go to the first link and you should be able to download it

direwolf74 · Sun Mar 27, 2005 10:12 pm

That was a great performance. As a Hip fan it was definitely an event. Some friends and I gathered at my house to watch the show live that night, and everyone brought over food and beer. It was great. I remember Gord going absolutely nuts during the "him? Here? Now? Nooooo!!!!" part. Also the little Skydiggers tag at the end of Nautical was pretty cool too. Anybody watching that HAD to have been impressed. To this day I'm still amazed that the SNL gig didn't do anything for them in the U.S. That was back in the Adam Sandler/Chris Farley days too, so there must have been at least a few million people watching. This was also at the tail-end of the "grunge" heydey, and intelligent rock was still dominating the airwaves at the time. It really boggles the mind why they never got the attention they deserved from that performance.

Stephen Dame · Mon Mar 28, 2005 1:07 am

direwolf74 wrote:That was a great performance. As a Hip fan it was definitely an event. Some friends and I gathered at my house to watch the show live that night, and everyone brought over food and beer. It was great. I remember Gord going absolutely nuts during the "him? Here? Now? Nooooo!!!!" part. Also the little Skydiggers tag at the end of Nautical was pretty cool too. Anybody watching that HAD to have been impressed. To this day I'm still amazed that the SNL gig didn't do anything for them in the U.S. That was back in the Adam Sandler/Chris Farley days too, so there must have been at least a few million people watching. This was also at the tail-end of the "grunge" heydey, and intelligent rock was still dominating the airwaves at the time. It really boggles the mind why they never got the attention they deserved from that performance.

Van Gough didn't sell a damn thing till he was dead. I was surprised it didn't boost them either, but matserpieces and pop usually don't mix.

SNL was a rock 'n roll TV show until about '80 when Lorne Michaels left the first time: it's been pop ever since and not up to the Hip.

thipfan73 · Mon Mar 28, 2005 10:25 am

If you go to blockbuster.com you can find it in the search but you can't rent it and I don't know if you can buy it,

barny0055 · Mon Mar 28, 2005 11:19 am

Here's a guy selling masters of all the SNL episodes he's taped.

http://p075.ezboard.com/fsnltranscripts ... =201.topic

cochise · Mon Mar 28, 2005 1:18 pm

I have a copy of it at home on VHS, not just the Hip but the entire episode. Only have one VCR, but I imagine I can borrow a friends if you want a copy.

theAryanTwang · Mon Mar 28, 2005 7:00 pm

you can download the performances from the hundredth meridian ftp

joshwayy · Mon Mar 28, 2005 8:54 pm

It had an impact on me and the 1,000 people I told about it....But that's another story.

fiscap · Fri Apr 01, 2005 10:16 am

Actually - it's pretty funny that you asked and I happened across this post this morning.

I pulled out my VCR and my SNL VHS recording last night to re-encode the performances. I was only going to encode the clips, but if you want the whole show I can encode it for you.

Let me know -
Paul

sonofdad · Wed Apr 06, 2005 7:11 pm

If I'm not mistaken, it was the first time that Gord opened Grace, Too with "He said I'm Tragically Hip".... And he kind of smirked when he sang it....like it just sorta came out.

sonofdad

kelman66 · Thu Apr 07, 2005 10:17 pm

direwolf74 wrote: To this day I'm still amazed that the SNL gig didn't do anything for them in the U.S. That was back in the Adam Sandler/Chris Farley days too, so there must have been at least a few million people watching.

Actually, if my memory serves me, the show was almost about to be cancelled due to ratings.
Dan Akroyd put together a big effort to save the show from cancellation, and raised a lot of 'awareness' and it was him that got The Hip on as the musical guest to showcase the band on the very show that was intended to resurrect it from near-death.

the show did not get cancelled.