Esau.

CRedit to my taxi driver who had Gipsy Kings cranked the entire ride home tonight, this was the song playing as we pulled into my parking lot. Had to listen to the whole thning, so we enjoyed a finely rolled number I had and silently listened to this at the loudest his stereo could go. Sometimes humans kick ass.

You got a few days DaveyBoy 2.0
 

Watch the video above because you've got one week DaveyBoy 2.0

Jesus...is it your birthday already?

This is pretty epic
 

Looks like I know what I am going to be doing, simply have to figure out where......................
https://www.jambase.com/article/john-mclaughlin-jimmy-herring-announce-free-webcast-featuring-4th-show-tour

Are we really so old and out of touch that NO ONE has mentioned that Kamasi Washington jammed on some Dead tunes?
Head to the 13 minute part and forget this show is at Red Rocks and buddy is jamming on Wolf along with Melvin Seals.................
 
 

Fuck you Davey Boy 2.0 - fucku
 

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/see-bob-dylan-cover-tom-pettys-learning-to-fly-in-concert-w509872
 
 
 
 

Figured this was the best thread to share this.
 

Didn't realize it at the time it would be such a great memory, but seeing them on Canada day 89 in a park in London, ON. There was about 50 people hanging around, though the videos circulating appear to show even less. That was the first time I saw the Hip I believe.
Another Roadside Atrraction Markham, 93. My girlfriend and I got mistaken for other people (I think it was her moreso than me) by someone on MIdnight OIls crew and were invited back stage, by the time it was realized we weren't the right folks, we were told, "well, your here now, enjoy the show" The Hip came on about 15 minutes or so later. Watched the entire show side stage, and Gord was in prime form that day.  Unfortunatley didn't get to meet anyone, from any band that played that day but still an awesome time.

Figured this was the best thread to share this.
 

https://nowtoronto.com/music/massey-hall-renovations-new-venues/
 

Figured this was the best thread to share this.
 

https://nowtoronto.com/music/massey-hall-renovations-new-venues/
 

I made it to one local impromptu gig at a pub in kingston but only caught the tail-end.    
I still remember the cheap promotional posters around our highschool promoting The Tragically Hip for one of our dances.  The one cover that is still fresh in my mind was their cover of "Money" which I knew as a Beatles song.
I volunteered to work at Another Roadside Attraction in kingston at richardson stadium in 1993.  I was assigned to mind the artist gate and had to verify credentials.  Gord came to the gate to enter and I acted like I had no idea who he was. 
"I'm in the band. I'm playing." 
I asked for credentials and said I couldn't let him in without proof.
Then I laughed, he laughed.  Chatted briefly and I asked for a smoke.  He gave me one but didn't have a lighter.  He then tore off to the stage at the center of the field.  5 minutes later, I noticed him running back my way.  He returned to light the smoke with a lighter that he'd borrowed.
Swell guy.
 

I spent many days for night travelling the US in search of the smallest, coolest club in which to see them and that I could get in to at that time (I was 16 through 18). Although The Hip didn't spend much time hanging around the clubs in the late afternoons following sound checks, The Rheostatics did and they were oh so cool and kind to us wayward hosers. There were more than a few afternoons that we hung around that old Delta 88, scarfing down the remains of the deli trays and cookie platters. I learned about life on those trips, I learned about heroes and I learned about friendship. 
My favourite memory of Gord is from the REM show in 1995 at the Molson Ampitheater. Long after REM had left the stage and the crowd thinned out, I was walking with my brother up through the 200s when I heard my name called out. To this day I still cannot believe that Gord had remembered me, especially amidst a crowd of 1000s, and was saying hello and introducing me to his wife and to Mike Myers (!). That was near the peak of the popularity and he had recalled my name and I will never forget that moment. Neither will my little brother who was 14 at the time. At that moment I had ascended into legendary older brother territory and he got more than a few miles out of that story over the years.
This shot is from the Chameleon Club in Syracuse on Apr 27, 1995:

 
To paraphrase the man himself: We are all richer for having known him.