The Tragically Hip during Grey Cup Half Time Show

[TimmyB]

I thought the Tragically Hip just put on an amazing performance at the half time show at the Grey Cup in Ottawa.

They have lost me a little bit more each time they've released an album sing "Day for Night" a decade ago.

Though I have seen them several times since. The last time I witnessed them was to bring in the New Year at Copps Coliseum a couple of years ago. It was a great show and I remember enjoying it so much because they performed so many old songs.

I have yet to pick up their newest effort "In Between Evolution" but if that opening song they performed at the Grey Cup today is any indication of what this album is like I just might get it soon. What was the name of that song?

"Courage" was great as well.

[Thorgnor]

I was thinking exactly the opposite ::

[snarfmaster C]

i was wondering what was written on that paper on gords guitar - at one point i thought i saw a WAL MART written at the top of it

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[purple foot]

their new album sucks. the hip died somewhere after day for night/trouble in the hen house.

[ollie]

I thought they should have played one more song but as half-time entertainment goes, they weren't bad. They handed out a two song commemorative CD after the game.

[PhishyK]

their new album sucks. the hip died somewhere after day for night/trouble in the hen house.

Maybe, but you can't deny that Gordon Downie sang with an incredible amount of passion last night.

[purple foot]

if passion is another word for screaming and not signing then yeah he sang with passion all right. buddy needs to do some standup poetry or something cause his singing is brutal. I appreciate he's probably gets tired of singing the same songs and wants to mix it up with the rants and what not but i thought he sounded awful. i don't know. one of the worst shows i've seen was a hip show. they also put on one of the best shows i've ever seen.

[PhishyK]

if passion is another word for screaming and not signing then yeah he sang with passion all right. buddy needs to do some standup poetry or something cause his singing is brutal. I appreciate he's probably gets tired of singing the same songs and wants to mix it up with the rants and what not but i thought he sounded awful.

That's BS. He's a very skilled and talented singer, who also mixes in his own style of spoken word improvisation. Look at his face when he sings. Who else in popular music feels their music so deeply?

[MarcO]

I will say this about Downie: he seems to have given up writing melodies several years ago.

[Freak By Night]

The hip's performance was NOT lip-synched, like Shania Twain's at the Superbowl a couple of years ago!

[purple foot]

He's not that talented a singer. songwriter, yeah his lyrics are great but his singing is not. He hardly opens his mouth when he sings.

[LionLocks]

Downie has been hashing out his own style over the past few. He's one of a kind and I enjoy his stuff, as his singing can bring color and feeling with tone and not words, somtimes in opposits that complement the words and take the song to its inteded state for that night. Sweeeeet ::.

[Tickler]

I think you are on crack saying he is not a talented singer. If you compare him to Jeck Buckley then I see your point, but Gord has his own style that suits him just fine.

The hip put on a great performance last night. I too think their earlier stuff is more enjoyable, but I would never trash a band that had such a huge part of my adolesence.

[Jimmy_Milbury_Esq]

I like Gord's singing,although somtimes its sort of a slur more then singing it seems lately.It was great to see them live yesterday at the super bowl,what a great game.

Party down.

[Jaimoe]

I thought Bobby had some good solos. Good Kingston boys, the whole lot of 'em!