Air Canada Centre, Toronto, Ontario December
31st, 1999
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Hip shows that I've been lucky enough to see live:
Winnipeg Arena, Winnipeg, MB 02/16/95
Assiniboia Downs, Winnipeg, MB 7/18/95
Winnipeg Arena, Winnipeg, MB 11/19/96
Winnipeg Arena, Winnipeg, MB 11/20/96
Assiniboia Downs, Winnipeg, MB 7/23/97
State Theatre, Minneapolis, MN 9/20/98
Winnipeg Arena, Winnipeg, MB 2/26/99
Saskatchewan Place, Saskatoon, SK 02/27/99
Air Canada Centre, Toronto, ON 12/31/99
Air Canada Centre, Toronto, ON 01/01/00
Minnesota Zoo Amphitheatre, Apple Valley, Minnesota
07/07/00
Minnesota Zoo Amphitheatre, Apple Valley, Minnesota
07/08/00
Grandma's Sports Garden, Duluth, Minnesota
07/09/00
War Child Canada benefit, The Forks, Winnipeg,
MB 09/16/00
Saskatchewan Place, Saskatoon, SK 11/27/00
Keystone Centre, Brandon, MB 11/28/00
Citadel Hill, Halifax, NS 06/30/02
Mile One Stadium, St. John's, Newfoundland
07/02/02
Centennial Concert Hall, Winnipeg #1 and 2
Place des Arts, Montreal, Quebec 10/11/02
Place des Arts, Montreal, Quebec 10/12/02
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HSBC Arena, Buffalo, New York December 20th,
2000
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1987-1988
Copper
Penny Restaurant, Kingston, ON 11/09/85 45 min. A "
El Macambot, Toronto, ON 07/02/87 45 min.
A+ "All right. We've got one coming up from our Double Live at Budokan
album. This is called Smalltown Bringdown.
Diamond Club, Toronto, ON 02/??/88 15 min.
A+ "
Grand Central Station, Ottawa, ON 03/02/88 90
min. B"Everyone, including the band, is stark naked tonight."
Call the Office, London, ON 03/03/88 45
min. B+ "We got lots of rock 'n' roll coming up. It gets pretty
hot in here, so I think the only thing to do is dance and sweat like
crazy because you're just gonna end up getting that nervous little perspiration
that's gonna bother you. I mean, I'm not one to ask, because I sweat
tying up my shoes."
Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto, ON 07/15/88 120 min.
A"We're glad you could all make it here this evening. I got my water all
lined up. I think it's going to be an extra-special night. I missed the prom
to be here. I'm gonna try an ice-breaker, Gord. Whaddaya think? Little bit
of an ice-breaker so we all feel a little bit more comfortable."
Barrymore's, Ottawa, ON 10/??/88 90 min. A-
"Yup. Same old song, about the same old a$$hole. This is called Smalltown
Bringdown."
My favorites from 1987-88:
07/15/88 Toronto
10/??/88 Ottawa
1989
234 Club, Brantford, ON ??/??/89 45 min.
A "
Molson Tent, C.N.E., Toronto, ON 09/01/89
45 min. B+ "Sometimes you get caught wanting to make a public service
announcement, but you have no public service to make. So I won't make
any."
Eastern Sound Studio One, Toronto, ON 11/02/89
90 min. A+ "A standard break-up tune, sort of boy-meets-girl, boy-loses-girl,
and then boy-sets-out-to-kill-girl." (Describing Boots or Hearts)
Spectrum, Toronto, ON 12/??/89 45 min
A "Everytime you go, Gord, I shake like a dog sh*ttin' peach pits!"
My favorite from 1989:
09/01/89 Toronto
1990
Key West, Windsor, ON 02/23/90 90 min.
A "Here's a song about a guy we used to know, from where we come from.
This is called Smallclown Bigclown."
Misty Moon, Halifax, NS 04/06/90 60 min. A
"She was inquisitive, she had a mind to wander..."
Spectrum, Montreal, QU 04/11/90 90 min. B+
"Here's a song about a Club Med down the road from where my folks live, in
Kingston, Ontario..."
Axis, Boston, MA 04/19/90 90 min. B- "Yeah,
she was cute. She looked like Bridgit Bardot, except a little bit uglier."
Ontario Place Forum, Toronto, ON 06/22/90 90
min. A "When it's rainin', you can either reflect, or you can ramble...I
say you choose the latter."
Phil's, Waterloo, ON 06/24/90 90 min. A-
"I'll take off the T-shirt that my mother bought me in Sardinia..."
Molson Park, Barrie, ON 07/01/90 45 min. A
"Man, this sounds great up here. Sounds really nice up here. I'd like to thank
the boys working on the crew, this long, this hot sunny day. It's not a birthday
for everyone, you know."
Nighttown, Rotterdam, NETH. 11/13/90 25 min.
A+ "Twist my rubber arm. Make me!"
86th Street, Vancouver, BC ??/??/90 90 min.
A "The one greatest gift for a man set adrift, is to play hockey like
Bobby Orr."
My favorites from 1990:
02/23/90 Windsor
06/22/90 Toronto
07/01/90 Barrie
1991
Road Apples Outtakes, 1991 45 min B
Blues Ferry Boat Cruise, Burlington, ON. ??/??/91 A
"The girls I fall in love with are always getting busted."
Road Apples World Album Premiere, Toronto, ON. 02/18/91
90 min. A+ "
Little Mountain Sound, Vancouver, BC 03/06/91
110 min. A Concert emcee: "I notice you do work up a sweat, don't
you? That's just one tune! What are you going to be like at the end of
the night?" Gord: "I'll be sweaty."
Coyote's, Tucson, AZ 03/08/91 90 min. A "When
he hit 80, every evergreen to him looked like a beautiful young woman..."
Cabaret Metro, Chicago, IL 04/20/91 90 min. A-
"This song is for King Lear's most astute and honest daughter."
Roxy, Los Angeles, CA 05/03/91 45 min. A+
"This song is about delivering pizza to a crack house. This is called Twist
My Arm."
Pink Pop Festival, Galeen, Holland 05/20/91 20
min. A
Tuxedo Bob's, Hengelo, NETH. 05/24/91 90 min.
A "Dave Powell! Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday, Dave! Happy Birthday!"
Concert Hall, Toronto, ON 07/05/91 90 min.
B+ "If Jesus were hung, would everyone bow to a piece of rope?"
Courtcliffe Park, Carlisle, ON 07/06/91 90 min.
B+ "Here's a song for you good folks. The rest of it's for us."
Royal
Theatre, Victoria, BC 07/13/91 90 min. A- "Here's a song
for King Lear's lovely youngest third daughter, who I am now presently
putting the stones to."
Bessborough
Garden, Saskatoon, SK 07/27/91 110 min. B+ "Last time
we were here, it rained like sh*t. I mean not like the rain was brown,
but that it rained a lot, like say you had pizza the night before. How
many of you were there? Well, bless your hearts. I remember that very well,
and I was going to send you all thank-you notes, but you know how it is.
A guy gets busy on the road."
Walker Theater, Winnipeg, MB 07/30/91 90 min.
B+ "There's a foul stench coming from your apartment!"
Walker Theater, Winnipeg, MB 07/31/91 100 min.
B+ "Twist My Arm. I burned your name on my baseball mitt. What the
hell else do you want?"
Ontario Place Forum, Toronto, ON 08/03/91 90
min. B+ "Your ushers here are beautiful, but this seating arrangement,
it does not work."
Ontario Place Forum, Toronto, ON 08/04/91 45
min. B+ "It's sure good to be back in Montreal, I'll tell you!...now,
how'd that make you feel? C'mon, it's just a gag."
Spectrum, Montreal, QU 08/08/91 90 min.
B "We are here to ascertain you this evening..."
Spectrum, Montreal, QU 08/09/91 90 min.
B+ "Nothin' but hits, all day, all the time..."
Fort Henry, Kingston, ON 08/29/91 90 min. A-
"This song is about a job that actually drove me into this job...this is Twist
My Arm."
Paradiso, Amsterdam, NETH. 11/15/91 30 min. A+
"
2 Meter Sessie, VARA Radio, Amsterdam, NETH. 11/16/91
90 min. A+ "
Batschkapp, Frankfurt, Germany 11/24/91 75 min.
A- "Here's a song about a city so beautiful, they named it once.
This is called Montreal."
Congress Centre, Ottawa, ON 12/31/91 90 min.
A "I've just finished taking my last poo of 1991."
My favorites from 1991:
03/08/91 Tucson
07/06/91 Carlisle
07/27/91 Saskatoon
07/31/91 Winnipeg
08/29/91 Kingston
12/31/91 Ottawa
1992
Fully Completely Demos ??/??/92 60 min. B+
Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto, ON 04/18/92 90 min.
A- "If you're 28 and you piss your bed, do you tell anyone?"
JJJ Studios, Sydney, Australia 04/28/92 20
min. A+
Annandale Hotel, Sydney, Australia 04/30/92 90
min. B+ "Gord Sinclair playin' the bass. He makes you think you hear it."
Zuiderpark, Den Haag, NETH 06/28/92 25 min. A+
"
Molson Park, Barrie, ON 07/01/92 20 min. A
"That boot has magical powers!!"
UBC Thunderbird Stadium, Vancouver, BC 07/01/92
90 min. A- "Out at the speedway, same Mordecai Richler thing..."
Fully Completely Album Premiere 10/??/92 90
min. A "It seems like we get songs out of just kinda foolin' around..."
(Paul)
Bobby Baker interview, Moncton, NB 11/10/92 10 min. A
Gord Downie interview, Halifax, NS 11/12/92 10 min. A
Logo, Hamburg, GER. 12/09/92 45 min. A+ "Mr.
Richard Milhouse Nixon, Mr. Richard Dawson, Mr. Richard Chamberlain, Mr.
Richard the Great..."
Swinging on a Star, CBC Studios, Toronto, ON ??/??/92
45 min. A "Yeah, it's really sad when you lose a pet..."
My favorites from 1992:
Fully Completely demos
04/18/92 Toronto
12/09/92 Hamburg
1993
Leidsekade Live, KRO Radio, ??, NETH. 02/06/93
45 min. A+ "
Unknown location, Haldern, Germany 02/07/93 45
min. A- "I feel so positively psychedelic."
Nachtwerk, Munich, Germany 02/08/93 45 min. A
"I'll do the rolling, you do the detail. And that, Bavarians, is how you
paint a room."
Roxy, Los Angeles, CA 04/26/93 90 min.
A "If you've got the money, honey, I'll pay the rent."
UB Stadium, Amherst, NY 05/01/93 90 min. B+
"There was one opportunity to save the world. And the Boston Bruins were it.
Fifty Mission Cap!"
Float-Rite Park, Somerset, WI 05/30/93 30 min.
A "I see that some of my little bunny friends have been throwing
e some peanuts. Daddy likes that."
Recreatiegebied Spaarnwoude, Halfweg, NETH. 06/20/93
90 min. A "Welcome. We are the Tragically Halfweg. This is a song for
America. This is called 'Gun-free Japan.'"
Western
Speedway, Victoria, BC 07/16/93 90 min. A- "You want
water? You see, I can't provide that, but I know someone who can. You
lobby me effectively, I'll see to it."
Markham Fairgrounds, Markham, ON 07/23/93 100
min. B+ "This is called 'Do you think I bow out, 'cause I think
you're right, or 'cause I don't wanna Fight?'...that's Canadian."
Markham Fairgrounds, Markham, ON 07/24/93 90
min. B+ "They do this up in Clayquot Sound. It means consensus.
Your fingers start to wiggle, and landscapes can emerge!"
Parc Therrien, Montreal, QU 07/25/93 90 min.
B+ "Dostoyevsky said beauty would save the world. A little
cat said, 'Meow'."
Landsdowne Park, Ottawa, ON 07/26/93 90 min.
A+ "Here's a song about what I learned growing up. Not about how
to act so much as how not to act."
WXRT Radio, Chicago, IL 09/??/93 25 min. A+ (interview)
Kumbaya Festival, Toronto, ON 09/05/93 45 min.
A- "Here's a song about something similar to Joseph Stalin's purges. This
is called At the Hundredth Meridian."
Bayou, Washington, DC 10/19/93 90 min. A
"These are my pants talking. Will you bow down to the will of my pants?
Will you bow down to the will of a brassiere?"
My favorites from 1993:
05/01/93 Amherst
06/20/93 Halfweg
07/16/93 Victoria
07/25/93 Montreal
09/05/93 Toronto
1994
Day for Night Demos, ??/??/94 45 min. A
Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury, England 06/??/94
A++ 70 min (CD) "
Molson Park, Barrie, ON 07/01/94 90 min. B+
"Here's a song for an a**hole who throws sh*t at musicians. And this is not
Canada Day. This is...Friday."
The Other World, St. Louis, MO 07/12/94 90 min.
C+ "We'd like to do a song for the rockin' guy behind the holocaust..."
Club Met, Harrisburg, PA 08/08/94 90 min. B+
"Shut up, you baby! Shut up, son-in-law!"
First Ave., Minneapolis, MN 09/20/94 90 min.
B+ "Hello, Minneapolites. May you all mate with eagles!"
Roseland Theatre, Portland, OR 10/07/94 90 min.
A- "Here's one for one of the greatest champions of American literature,
I'd say. Mr. Herman Melville. Moby Dick, the sequel to the Bible. And
one of the greatest rowing movies ever made."
Odeon, Cleveland, OH 10/22/94 90 min. B
"Hello, fellow Great Lakers! In this geological zone, we only know love!"
Globe, Norwalk, CT 11/07/94 90 min. B+ "This
is a song about a guy who has to kill his puppy because his wife is allergic
to it."
Orpheum, Boston, MA 11/10/94 45 min. A+ "From
what I can see, I'm a very crass person, but from what I can see, you look
like good people."
Sting, New Britain, CT 11/11/94 90 min.
B+ "Here's a song about nuclear energy, as it applies to the modern love
story."
Tower, Upper Darby, PA 11/12/94 45 min. B
"It's our job to welcome you, so...welcome."
Batschkapp, Frankfurt, Germany 11/22/94 90 min.
A+ "Here's a song for Jesse Helms. He's a freak from the United States."
La
Luna, Brussels, Belgium 12/05/94 35 min. A+ "Thank
you. It's our pleasure to be here in La Bella Luna! But I'd like to
take you to your kitchens now, if I could. Everyone want to go in the
kitchen now? The most erotic place in your entire house?"
Gino, Stockholm, SWE. 12/07/94 90 min. A+
"The love of your country is only surpassed by the volume of your voices."
My favorites from 1994:
07/01/94 Barrie
09/20/94 Minneapolis
11/11/94 New Britain
11/22/94 Frankfurt
1995
Metro Center, Halifax, NS 02/02/95 90 min. B- "I
wanna know...I wanna know who's initiation rights don't require that you eat
your own vomit!"
Bobby Baker interview, Halifax, NS 02/02/95 10 min. A
Forum, Montreal, QU 02/05/95 110 min. B "Here's
a song for Mordecai Richler. A song I'm sure he'd enjoy. This is So Hard
Done By."
Memorial Arena, Kingston, ON 02/06/95 90 min.
B- "Here's a song for the many, many volunteers, our part's easy,
who put this thing together."
Civic Center, Ottawa, ON 02/07/95 135 min. A-
"I just want to get into the same strip clubs as Brian Mulroney!"
Copps Colliseum, Hamilton, ON 02/09/95 135 min.
B+ "I feel a kinship..."
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, ON 02/10/95 110
min. B+ "So this is the navel of the country. Us, and Odds, and Change
of Heart, we've been to the feet, we've been to the knees."
Memorial Gardens, North Bay, ON 02/11/95 110
min. A- "Let's slip into the kitchen, the warmest place in the whole
house. Let me sneak up behind you while you're doing the dishes."
Winnipeg Arena, Winnipeg, MB 02/16/95 90 min.
B+ "Have your pet spayed or neutered!"
NBC Studios, New York, NY 03/25/95 10 min. (SNL)
A "He said I'm Tragically Hip! C'mon, just let's go!"
Ranch Bowl, Omaha, NE 03/28/95 90 min. A-
"Volleyball has been cancelled for tonight."
Cabaret Metro, Chicago, IL 04/01/95 90 min. A-
"Here's a song for les filles du roi. Daughters of the King. Brought over
from France by Hugh Hefner four centuries ago to help populate the new continent."
Asylum, Toledo, OH 04/07/95 90 min. B+ "Stop
throwing your shit!!!"
Odeon, Cleveland, OH 04/08/95 90 min. B+
"Here's a song for the women that were brought over in ships many centuries
ago to help populate the new land...and also work at Hooters."
Club Met, Harrisburg, PA 04/19/95 90 min. B+
"Bring on the pork. That's what you're saying: bring on the pork. We've got
a nice vegetable medley here for you."
Theater of the Living Arts, Philadelphia, PA 04/20/95
45 min. A- (INC.) "Everybody's got basketball diaries, but we don't all
make money off them."
Club Chameleon, Syracuse, NY 04/27/95 90 min.
B "Is everyone OK down here? There are a lot of people down here
up front. What it's all about is restraint. What it's all about is respect.
You love each other, right?"
Memorial Arena, Rochester, NY 04/28/95 100 min.
B "Picture yourself in a cold, musty basement..."
Memorial Auditorium, Buffalo, NY 04/29/95 110
min. B+ "Hello.We've been all over your state, and you're all
just flesh shells with chili centres!"
Bradley Center, Milwaukee, WI 05/01/95 45 min.
B+ "You can't be a band from Canada without a song about a nautical
disaster. This song is called Nautical Disaster."
Target Center, Minneapolis, MN 05/02/95 45 min.
B+ "We'd like to do a Salman Rushdie tune now. It's called Bob Dylan."
House of Blues, Los Angeles, CA 05/18/95
100 min. A- "I'm just like you people. I don't want Tom Hanks to die,
either."
Tacoma Dome, Tacoma, WA 05/25/95 45 min. A
"I know this fear, is fear, because it's too big, and it's too clear."
Pink Pop Festival, Landgraaf, Holland 06/05/95
20 min. A+
Pink Pop Festival, Landgraaf, Holland 06/05/95
50 min. A "This song is for anyone who is into Jesus....and Bon Jovi."
High Sierra Music Fest., Bear Valley, CA (radio show)
07/01/95 10 min. A+ (When asked the population of Kingston): "60000.
Not including the freaks."
High Sierra Music Fest., Bear Valley, CA (full concert)
07/01/95 90 min. A+ "At the hundredth meridian, where Newt Gingrich
begins! Ha ha ha!"
Assiniboia Downs, Winnipeg, MB 07/18/95 100 min.
B+ "You look like the Burmese airport!"
Cayuga Speedway, Haggarsville, ON ARA 07/20/95 110
min. B- "We'd like to do a song now, about the population explosion.
WOO! I'm doin' my part!"
Fairgrounds, Markham, ON 07/22/95 110 min. B
"Summerside of life. Makes you think doesn't it?...what's next?"
Capital City Speedway, Ottawa, ON 07/23/95 100
min. B- "Picture yourself in a land of opportunity. All right...right.
Don't have to!"
Sapphire's, Orlando, FL 08/05/95 90 min. B
"Tonight we are all working for the mouse."
Fitzgerald's, Houston, TX 08/10/95 90 min. A
"Right now, I'm thinking of Jerry Garcia..."
Liberty Lunch, Austin, TX 08/11/95 90 min. B+
"The last time that I put on a hat that a fan threw up on stage, I got conjuctivitis."
Trees, Dallas, TX 08/12/95 110 min. A "This
is a song about the benefits of maggots in your life. They're actually
very clean, and they'll fix up a cut faster than Neosporin, or any band-aid
on the market presently."
Fiddler's Green, Boulder, CO 09/30/95 45 min.
A "For all the sailors this evening, a song for your lover, who hates
the sea...you know?"
Irvine Meadows, Irvine, CA 10/03/95 45 min. A-
"It's a concept set this evening. We're following the strict doctrine of
a concept. Our circumstance is changing our process."
9:30 Club, Washington, DC 10/19/95 90 min. A-
"This for anyone that, any cynical bastard, who cares what Alanis did before
this record, be it polka, or dance, or what have you!"
9:30 Club, Washington, DC 10/20/95 90 min. B+
"This is a song about La Belle Province. That being Quebec. This is about
getting high with a gas attendant."
Civic Center, Hartford, CT 10/21/95 45 min. A
"I had hopes that coming to Hartford, everything was gonna be all right."
Fleet Center, Boston, MA 10/23/95 45 min. A
"Here's a song we're sure you'll enjoy. It's called the Inevitability of Death.
You're safe in here, though."
Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA 10/24/95 45 min. B
"All man's misery stems from a single cause, in our inability to remain quietly."
Madison Square Garden, New York, NY 10/27/95
45 min. B "We'd like to do a song about starting a new country."
Irving Plaza, New York, NY 10/28/95 110 min.
B+ "This one's a real barn-burner. It's called 'Nationalism Kills.'"
My Favorites from 1995:
02/07/95 Ottawa
03/28/95 Omaha
05/18/95 Los Angeles
06/05/95 Landgraff
07/18/95 Winnipeg
08/12/95 Dallas
10/28/95 New York
Winnipeg Arena, Winnipeg,
MB February 26th, 1999
1996
Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto, ON 05/06/96 90 min.
A- "This is a collection of love letters sent home from Somalia.
I love ya, baby. When all this killing's done, I'm comin' home to you."
Horseshoe Tavern soundcheck, Toronto, ON 05/07/96
45 min. A- "
Rockradio Network, Trouble at the Henhouse album premiere
05/10/96 100 min. A+ "That's what fatherhood will be like for me.
Even when I'm twenty years hence, I'll look back on this period and feel
very proud of the fact that, you know, you could be needed a hundred percent,
you know, beyond anything anyone ever needed from you before, and you
did ok. It's good to be really absolutely and totally needed. I really
thank my baby for all that stuff. Wow, I'm getting kind of misty here."
Buzzard Festival, Cleveland, OH 05/18/96 45 min.
A "This is the most prettiest and beautifulest song we've got. We'd like
to send it out to these people running this festival. Thank you very much
for having us."
The Music Farm, Charleston, SC 05/25/96 90 min.
A- "This is an old Civil War song. It's called 'If New Orleans is
Sinkin', then I don't Wanna Swim.'"
9:30 Club, Washington, DC 05/29/96 90 min. A+
"When I was in the military, I was peacekeeping over in Somalia, escaping
all of these crazy rules, impossible to remember. So I just tried to
get laid a lot."
9:30 Club, Washington, DC 05/29/96 20 min. A
(missing songs from radio broadcast)
Irving Plaza, New York, NY 05/31/96 110 min.
A "I was just using this as a prop. I can gesticulate with the best
of them."
Irving Plaza, New York, NY 06/01/96 90 min.
B+ "This first one's for Clarissa, from Chapel Hill, who understand that
if you comfort the baby, you comfort the man."
Auditorium Theater, Rochester, NY 06/11/96 110
min. B+ "We owe somebody down here an apology...yeah, the main speakers
were down there for awhile, I guess, eh? It's too bad, 'cause it was
really something, but we'll do something special here."
Metropol, Pittsburgh, PA 06/13/96 90 min. A
"At the hundredth meridian, where the real tax begins..."
Trees, Dallas, TX 06/21/96 120 min. A "We
wrote this next song during this past winter, up in Canada. If you're
from Canada, then you understand...then you'll know that there's really
not a whole lot to do for a few months there in the year. Uh, really not
a whole lot to do. And, so like the Swedes, you know, we contemplate throwing
ourselves from windows, but ultimately the lull of drunken patriotism
lulls us back. This is 700 Ft. Ceiling."
Zoo Amphitheatre, Toledo, OH 06/29/96 110 min.
A- "This song always reminds me of when I was a kid. And I'm pretty
sure when I was a kid, all I wanted to be was older. Ahead by a Century."
High Sierra Music Fest., Bear Valley, CA 07/04/96
90 min. A- "This is a Kiss song. It's about Gene Simmons' favorite tree
as a boy growing up."
Showplace Theatre, Buffalo, NY 07/11/96 100 min.
B "We're going to do a Summer song now, which is kind of ironic, because
is was written solely and totally about Winter, about it's crushing affects,
and it's limitations, and how it makes the imagination soar..."
Edenfest, Clarington, ON 07/13/96 135 min. A
"There's a lot of smack out there, man! ...My name is Pierre Elliot Trudeau."
The Outback, Tucson, AZ 07/17/96 90 min. A-
"It's nice to be here. Thought we'd tell you a little bit about what's coming
up on the Hip calendar. We'll play some more songs, uh, we're gonna,
you know, go home, relax and watch TV, then probably read a book, and then
we're gonna go to sleep. All right. Thanks for listening."
Fox Theatre, Boulder, CO 07/20/96 90 min. A
"We don't know what you're doing as you listen to this. We can only hope you're
doing it sincerely and compassionately."
Moore Theater, Seattle, WA 07/28/96 90 min. A
"Don't tell me what the poets are doin', don't tell me that they can't compete.
Don't tell me what the poets are doin', don't tell me that they're athletes..."
Odeon, Cleveland, OH 08/17/96 110 min. A
"Some kids from grade six wrote the Hip a letter, asking us what Daredevil
was about...the whole class. This is called Giftshop. This is sort of
what we wrote them back."
Performing Arts Center, Saratoga, NY 08/18/96
50 min. A "I feel absolutely vain. The stage has slipped away. Thank you
very much."
Club
Bene, Morgan, NJ 08/22/96 100 min. A- "We'd like to
open up with a song of abject terror. Speak from the road and straight
off the board. This is Springtime in Vienna."
Music Hall, Portsmouth, NH 08/23/96 100 min.
(Collectors only!) C "I'm getting tired, of wasting time, with you."
HORDEfest, Manassas, VA 08/25/96 45 min. A
"This is a song for the crew. Kill the crew before the crew kills you. I don't
know what else to do. I'm joining up, I think you should, too."
Rockafellas, Columbia, SC 08/28/96 100 min. B
"This is a song for all the girls in the house. All the girls who think like
girls. All the girls who think like porpoises, who think like humans."
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, NC 08/29/96 90 min. B+
"I am Jesse Helms' middle-aged Japanese son, over during the service, in
WW 2, is what you see before you."
Brick by Brick, San Diego, CA 09/10/96 90 min.
C+ "This is our song. Swept the MTV Music Awards. It's called Every
Irrelevance."
40 Watt Club, Athens, GA 09/23/96 100 min. B-
"This is a song called Penguin. Male Emperor Penguin. Forced to sit on an
egg...for as long as five or six months."
Be Here Now, Asheville, NC 09/24/96 90 min. B+
"This is kind of a song about, uh...you know, you can't really know someone
until you really get your hands in their sink."
Tremont Music Hall, Charlotte, NC 09/26/96 100
min. B "This is a song that really makes me think of Willem Dafoe.
I don't know why. It just does."
Music Farm, Charleston, SC 09/28/96 100 min.
B "So I guess we are the children of the Canada Fitness Program..."
9:30 Club, Washington, DC 09/30/96 90 min. B+
"We've had a wonderful summer, touring around your entire country, since May.
Now it's time to go home and explore the realms within our fingertips. Play
with somebody else for awhile. You know, like besides myself."
Chameleon Club, Lancaster, PA 10/01/96 90 min.
A- "We couldn't decide what to wear at Club Chameleon, so we decided
to kind of blend in. Ha ha! Whoo!...yeah...whatever."
WNEW Radio, New York, NY 10/02/96 30 min. B+
"OK, this is called Flamenco. I don't know whether it's the weather, or Willie
Nelson, because you've got me under your spell."
Irving Plaza, New York, NY 10/02/96 90 min. B+
"This one is for the boys in the crew. Been cartin' us all over the country
since early May. Twelve men in a submarine. Seein' things you've never seen."
Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver, BC 11/08/96 135
min. B+ "This is for the Rheostatics...and the old P.N.E...."
Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver, BC 11/09/96 135
min. A- "The grizzly came through the back door, like it was a garden
shed. And he took me up in his giant claw, his giant paws. He flipped
me over like a salmon, as if to say, 'Get the f*ck outside and DO something!'"
Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver, BC 11/10/96 135
min. A- "The inevitability of death. Don't count on it."
Canadian Airlines Saddledome, Calgary, AB 11/15/96
135 min. B "It's 27 below outside, and down at the Grand Canyon, they're
still thinkin' about jumping."
Canadian Airlines Saddledome, Calgary, AB 11/16/96
135 min. B- "I'm standing here. Just standing here. Can you feel it?"
Saskatchewan Place, Saskatoon, SK 11/18/96
135 min. B+ "
Winnipeg Arena, Winnipeg, MB 11/19/96 135 min.
A- "You, and me, are happy as can be...just like two pre-adolescents,
up there in the tree!"
Winnipeg Arena, Winnipeg, MB 11/20/96 135 min.
A "There are certain types of sex, that a particular book does not
want you to knowabout...Maclean's magazine..."
Cobo Hall, Detroit, MI 11/23/96 135 min. B+
"Sometimes, you can feel a sense of confinement, that is so crushing, that
it actually starts to feel good..."
Marine Midland Arena, Buffalo, NY 11/26/96 135
min. B+ "Yeah, I know you're feelin' good. But you're gonna have
to reflect on bad times, so you can feel better. Trust me."
Corel Center, Kanata, ON 11/28/96 135 min. A-
"This is a Celine Dion number...this is Springtime in Vienna."
Corel Center, Kanata, ON 11/29/96 135 min. A
"Jean Chretien will be here tonight. President Jean Chretien. Just got back
from kissing some major ass."
Le Colisee, Quebec City, QU 11/30/96 135 min.
A- "We've got a lot of friends in this city. Paul and I used to help
teach English as a Second Language, if you can believe that. So this
is for all our students."
Harbour Station, Saint John, NB 12/08/96 90 min.
B+ "Sorry, uh, the boats...the trucks got stuck in Newfoundland. So it's
just thrust us all into an adventure for the last three or four days, yourselves
included, and anyone who got a sitter for last night and couldn't get one
for tonight, we're very sorry. Any of you people got kids? If you do, don't
say anything."
Molson Centre, Montreal, QU 12/09/96 135
min. B+ "No, I can't speak French, but I wish I could. But that in
of itself won't do no good."
Copps Colliseum, Hamilton, ON 12/11/96 135 min.
B+ "I'd like to thank Don from the Rheostatics for giving me some
cream for my thumb when I hurt it."
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, ON 12/12/96
135 min. B "It's good to see that our old friends, the Canadian and American
flags, have made an appearance..."
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, ON 12/13/96
145 min. B+ "We're the Tragically Hip..."
My favorites from 1996:
05/18/96 Cleveland
05/31/96 New York
06/29/96 Toledo
07/13/96 Clarington
07/28/96 Seattle
10/01/96 Lancaster
11/09/96 Vancouver
11/20/96 Winnipeg
11/26/96 Buffalo
11/29/96 Kanata
12/13/96 Toronto
1997
CBC Realtime Special, Gord Downie w/ Rheostatics 03/08/97
20 min. A "This is a Margaret O'Hara song...but...everyone knows
who she is."
Shepherd's Bush Empire, London, ENG. 05/01/97
110 min. B+ "Good evening. We're here to celebrate your victories and
counsel your defeats."
Ancienne Belgique, Brussells, BELG. 05/03/97
110 min. A- "We were in Dublin awhile ago, trying to help out the peace
process. And all we got was a cold."
Liberation Festival, Haarlem, NETH. 05/05/97
90 min. A "Hello, and good night. Insomniacs...insomniacs of the world,
good night. Glorious dead, to our glorious dead: wake up! Wake up! It's
time to dance!"
2 Meter Sessie, VARA Radio, Amsterdam, NETH. 05/07/97
45 min. A+ "
Oosterpoort, Groningen, NETH. 05/10/97 135 min.
A "Ronald Reagan was a good President, and his wife had nothing to
do with it."
Tivoli, Utrecht, NETH. 05/11/97 135 min. A-
"I'm a fool for love, not a soldier of fortune."
Tivoli, Utrecht, NETH. 05/12/97 135 min. A-
"Here's a song about a window-washer, who saw a corporate executive boffing
his secretary. He saw too much! The corporate executive leans out the
window, snips the wires. He plunges 48 stories to his death on the way,
with a massive erection. With the time he had left, the split second, the
fractions of seconds he had left on the face of this planet, he chose to
fantasize about a woman. And had the most incredible orgasm of his entire
life as he hit the ground."
Roadside Radio, 05/21/97 120 min. A+ (Master)
"If we had sort of sifted through the mountains of the like, 900 versions
of New Orleans is Sinking, you wouldn't have a band sitting in front
of you at this point. We would have been broken up."
Concert Hall, Toronto, ON 06/09/97 135 min. B+
"We were just over in Europe. We played a festival in Nuremburg. Whoo, yeah,
rockin' place."
Saskatchewan Place Festival
Site, Saskatoon, SK 07/21/97 110 min. B+ "It's nice to be
back in the birthplace of the RCMP."
Assiniboia Downs, Winnipeg, MB ARA 07/23/97 110
min. C (Master) "Hey man, I'm a f*ckin' musician, not a target! Just like
your woman, is a woman, not a prize!"
Franklin County Field, Highgate, VT ARA 07/26/97
100 min. B+ "OK, some peoples' favorite Summertime pastime, is layin'
on your back in the cool grass, gathering your sweetnesses and counting
up vapour trails, and wishin' on the neverstar."
Rideau Carleton Raceway, Ottawa, ON ARA 07/28/97
110 min. A "We come from Kingston, where more good bands have had bad
gigs."
Darien Lake P.A.C., Darien Lake, NY ARA 07/30/97
100 min. A "This next song is about a river, that runs into Darien Lakes,
feeds into the Darien Lakes system, and hippopotamuses used to bathe
there...HEY! Arnold Shwarzennegger!"
Molson Park, Barrie, ON ARA 08/02/97 100 min.
A- "This is a song called 'Good thing you don't have Capital punishment.'"
Roadside Radio, 08/03/97 120 min. A+ (Master)
My favorites from 1997:
05/11/97 Utrecht
05/12/97 Utrecht
07/28/97 Ottawa
07/30/97 Darien Lake
08/03/97 Roadside Radio
1998
Antares (Written for Kurt
Browning), ??/??/98 10 min. A
Phantom Power Demos, 01/??/98 45 min. A-
Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto, ON 02/04/98 5 min. A- (Gord Downie
performing with the Skydiggers)
Hip Half Hour #1-5, Muchmusic, 06/24/98-06/30/98 100
min. A+ (Master) "Someone said once for a gig to be great,
something has to happen. So you certainly can't predict that, but, you
know, all of a sudden things are kind of going no where, and a ceiling
tile falls out and brains you."
Hamilton Place, Hamilton, ON 07/04/98 110 min.
B "Here's a song about a town I've never been to, but I hear it's
nice."
Centennial Hall, London, ON. 07/07/98 90 min. A+
(Master) "Crowd-surfing went out with acid-wash. Crowd-surfing went out with
'Don't go there!' C'mon! Strictly passe. Even I know that."
Phantom Radio, Phantom Power Album Premiere, 07/10/98
120 min. A+ (Master) "Stay away from those cover bands."
Wetlands, New York, NY 07/21/98 100 min. A
"What a magical place."
Wetlands, New York, NY 07/22/98 100 min. A(Coming
back on stage for the encore after the fans chant "Go Leafs Go"): "You
know, being a Bruins fan, I find that chant entirely repulsive."
Wetlands, New York, NY 07/23/98 100 min. A
"This is for Winston Churchill, King of Antarctica."
Wetlands, New York, NY 07/24/98 100 min. A
"This song is about a river. It's called 'Death of the Sex Trade.'"
Wetlands, New York, NY 07/25/98 100 min. A
"Save Tom Hanks! Save Tom Hanks, somebody!"
Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco, CA 07/27/98
100 min. A "This song is a, sort of a peace-keeping mission gone horribly
awry. Led by Marlon Brando, a rag-tag group of peace-keepers, decide
to stay behind enemy lines. Open up a gated community of their own, with
their Polynesian...Vietnamese princesses. 'Who's in charge here? Ain't
you?'"
Plant Studios, Sausalito, CA 07/29/98 40 min. A+ "Yeah,
small town, umm..lots of stars, you know. You could use any town, really,
you want. Bobcaygeon rhymes with constellation. Sort of."
Fireplace Room, Redmond,
WA 07/31/98 45 min. B+ (interview)
WOMAD Music Festival, Redmond, WA 07/31/98 90
min. B- "OK, go to your favorite tree. Climb it. Sit there. Close
your eyes."
Buttermilk Mountain, Aspen, CO 08/01/98 90 min.
A "White supremacists and bra-less women. We're looking for both.
Something about the day just made me say that."
WXRT Radio, Chicago, IL 08/06/98 25 min. A- (broadcast
from Martyr's) "No more comedy, no more jokes."
Martyr's, Chicago, IL 08/06/98 90 min. A+
(radio broadcast, incomplete) "For Bill Clinton. Courage. It couldn't come
at a worse time."
Grape Jam, Wattsburg, PA 08/08/98 90 min. A
"This is a little ditty about Jack and Diane. Of course, they have their Canadian
counterpart, Barb and Doug. A little ditty about Barb and Doug."
Bill's Bar, Boston, MA 08/10/98 90 min. A+
"This is a song, not so much about a car, but about the bonanza that bought
it."
Bill's Bar, Boston, MA 08/11/98 100 min. A
"This is about the worst poem you'll ever hear."
River
Music Hall, Haverhill, MA 08/12/98 30 min. A "
Bill's Bar, Boston, MA 08/12/98 90 min. A+
"I don't wanna stay over at your house anymore. I don't wanna stay over at
your place anymore. Your old man's too cranky."
Bill's Bar, Boston, MA 08/13/98 90 min. A-
"I was driving a tank in Tiananmen Square. 'Run 'em over,' they said. 'Run
'em over!"
Zoo Amphitheatre, Toledo, OH 08/22/98 110 min.
A "I see the Canadian flags, I see the American flag. We got about
two American flags and about fifteen Canadian flags. With the exchange
rate, that makes it about even."
Hampton Beach Casino, Hampton Beach, NH 08/27/98 100
min. A- "This is a song I wrote looking over the ocean this morning.
This is called Save the Planet."
State Theater, Portland, Maine 08/28/98 100 min. A-
"Shuffle your feet in a general commotion, so snakes and scorpions don't get
any notions."
Sugarbush Summerstage, Warren, Vermont 08/29/98 100
min. B+ "Hello, Sugarbush. I've always wanted to say that."
Mill Point Park, Hampton, VA 09/02/98 100 min.
A "For any really young kids that tend to swear a little bit, and
um...you know, you'll just remember it later on in life for no apparent
reason at all."
Birch Hill Nightclub, Old Bridge, NJ 09/04/98
90 min. B+ "Well thank you. I don't know whether to laugh or cry."
Bicentennial Park, Columbus, OH 09/05/98 90 min.
A "Glad to be asked to play here today, at the Grand Canyon of Ohio."
Bohager's, Baltimore, MD 09/09/98 100 min. A
"Don't let the sun catch you cryin'."
Chameleon Club, Lancaster, PA 09/10/98 90 min.
A- "I was alone in the zoo after dark, and the camera really captures
what goes on after dark..."
Bottle and Cork, Dewey Beach, DE 09/11/98 100
min. A "
Reiley Center, St. Bonaventure University, Olean, NY
09/12/98 90 min. A "I went rollerblading around the five-mile perimeter.
Uh, it's nice. You're lucky."
State Theatre, Minneapolis, MN 09/22/98 100 min.
B (Master) "I feel all sexy and tittilated."
Orbit Room, Grand Rapids, MI 09/24/98 100 min.
A "Thanks for taking care of each other. I don't think anyone got
hurt. Did anyone get hurt?"
Agora Theater, Cleveland, OH 09/26/98 100 min.
A "I thought this was more of a lovin' crowd. Crap! You are a lovin'
crowd. You are lovers, not fighters."
WXPN Radio, Philadelphia, PA 10/01/98 45 min.
A+ "This is called Thompson Girl...for obvious reasons."
Metropol, Pittsburgh, PA 10/02/98 90 min. A
"This is a song called 'The Millenium Took my Baby.'"
9:30 Club, Washington, DC 10/03/98 90 min. A
"This is a song about the Grand Canyon. It's supposed to bring you to your
knees in the liquor store."
WCMF Radio, Rochester, NY 10/08/98 20 min. A
"The crowd plays a big part in the song-writing process, and I think they
know that."
Dome Arena, Henrietta, NY 10/08/98 110 min. A
"Thank you very much. So what are you all in for?"
Palace Theater, Albany, NY 10/09/98 90 min. A
"This is not a soccer song..."
Landmark Theater, Syracuse, NY 10/10/98 110 min.
A "It's a misty night, and it's after dark. I'm not thinking about much,
just thinking about you."
Stafford Lake Park, Novato, CA (High Sierra Music Fest.)
10/17/98 90 min. A- "I believe in endorsements. This is good stuff,
but it makes you burp a lot. Like constantly. A little saxophone rising
up from your belly. Actually, I don't believe in endorsements unless you're
allowed to swear. Good fuckin' drink! I've had a lot of pop. That's a
helluva pop!"
House of Blues, Los Angeles, CA 10/19/98 100
min. B+ "Crowd-surfing went out with that haircut."
4th & B, San Diego, CA 10/20/98 100 min.
A "Baseball's just a tool of oppression. You know that, right? Civic
pride, my ass."
Cajun
House, Scottsdale, AZ 10/21/98 135 min. A "
New West Auditorium, Tucson, AZ 10/22/98 100
min. A "Save the Planet...at your leisure."
Lodo Music Hall, Denver, CO 10/24/98 45 min.
B+ (INC.) "
Trees, Dallas, TX 10/27/98 90 min. A "Do
you think you could turn that high-powered perception of yours, on yourself?
Save the Planet."
Austin Music Hall, Austin, TX 10/29/98 90 min.
A "I'll uh...I'll spend the millenium in a tree."
House of Blues, New Orleans, LA 10/30/98 90 min.
A- "This is not the first sign of dementia. Speaking of yourself in the
third person, that's the first sign of dementia. So me and Mussolini, we
are gonna shake this banana...until it makes a sound."
Roxy Theater, Atlanta, GA 10/31/98 100 min. A
"It's a good thing I put on my vanishing cream."
40 Watt Club, Athens, GA 11/02/98 90 min. A
"This is a beer-spittin' song. This is called Lionized."
Music Farm, Charleston, SC 11/06/98 100 min.
A "Don't forget, at the end of the night, you get to dunk the t-shirt
girl on your way out."
Tremont Music Hall, Charlotte, NC 11/07/98 90
min. A- "Shake it. You won't break it!"
Ziggy's, Winston-Salem, NC 11/16/98 100 min.
A "Thanks for the gourd."
Crowbar, State College, PA 11/17/98 90 min. A
"No matter what happens, it's just you and me, drifting away on the purple
paint..."
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 11/21/98
60 min. A- "No pearls were hurt or injured in any part of the making of
that song. How's it goin'?"
WNEW Radio, New York, NY 11/25/98 45 min. A+
"
Theater of the Living Arts, Philadelphia, PA 11/27/98
100 min. A "We rode the burrows, asses,donkeys, whatever you want to call
them. We got to the floor of the canyon around 5:30. We sat around the fire
and the fire went out. So we gutted the burrows, the asses or the donkeys
and pulled their innards out, and Jon Krakauer made another million dollers
and we ate sand..."
Hammerstein Ballroom, New York, NY 11/28/98 110
min. A "OK, this is called 'Wriggle Out of Your Pants.'"
WBOS Radio, Boston, MA 12/05/98 45 min. A
"We use the shows themselves as sort of, almost workshops. So the fans are
basically standing at the window watching the bakers make bread. The
kids like that."
Orpheum, Boston, MA 12/05/98 100 min. A "This
is a love song. It's called Sunday Bloody Sunday."
Ryan's, Combined Locks, WI 12/11/98 100 min.
A "That was the essence of Bob Seger, there. But it's really good
to get ideas across."
Modjeska Theatre, Milwaukee, WI 12/12/98 100
min. A "At the hundredth meridian, where the real impeachment begins."
My favorites from 1998:
01/??/98 Phantom Power demos
07/04/98 Hamilton
07/25/98 New York
08/01/98 Aspen
08/22/98 Toledo
09/05/98 Columbus
10/03/98 Washington
10/10/98 Syracuse
10/31/98 Atlanta
11/07/98 Charlotte
11/28/98 New York
12/12/98 Milwaukee
1999
On the Arts with Laurie
Brown, CBC interview with Gord Downie 01/29/99 10 min. A
Harbour Station, Saint John, NB 01/29/99 135
min. A- "She can't hear me above the rising surf: 'Did you throw
away the rudder?!'"
Moncton Coliseum, Moncton, New Brunswick 01/31/99
135 min. A- "Is that you, Rye and Ginger?"
CKVI The Cave, Kingston,
ON 02/??/99 20 min. A (Rob Baker interview)
Metro Centre, Halifax, NS 02/01/99 135 min. B+
"On the Citadel Hill, it kind of looks like a lion today."
Metro Centre, Halifax, NS 02/02/99 135 min. B+
"You don't need to be from Manitoba to know this one, but it helps. Thompson
Girl."
Molson Centre, Montreal, QU 02/05/99 135 min.
A "This is Springtime in Vienna, y'all."
Le Colisee, Quebec City, QU 02/06/99 135 min.
A- "This is Bobcaygeon, for any lovers in the house."
Corel Center, Kanata, ON 02/07/99 135 min. A-
"Instead of goodbye, let's stay engaged."
Corel Center, Kanata, ON 02/08/99 135 min. A
"We'd like to start off with a song about the Canadian star system. This is
called Lionized."
Marine Midland Arena, Buffalo, NY 02/10/99 135
min. A "Just let your trousers do the talkin'."
Overture Sound Studios, Novi, MI 02/11/99 45
min. A+ "This is a song about being in love with a cop."
Palace of Auburn Hills, Auburn Hills, MI 02/12/99
135 min. A- "I really love the Palace. Everything seems to fall together
perfectly here."
Copps Coliseum, Hamilton, ON 02/17/99 135 min.
A "Well, Hamilton. You're good people. Everyone knows."
Copps Coliseum, Hamilton, ON 02/18/99 135 min.
A- "I'd have something to say if they tore THIS place down!"
Hershey Centre, Mississauga, ON 02/19/99 135
min. A- "This is called 'Long May Your Big Jib Draw'."
A History of the Hip, 102.1
Edge Radio 02/22/99 90 min. A+ (misc. live songs,
info tidbits on the Hip)
Air Canada Centre, Toronto, ON 02/22/99 135 min.
A- "
Air Canada Centre, Toronto, ON 02/23/99 135 min.
A "This is called 'We're Gonna Party Like it's 1999.'"
Rob Baker interview by Todd McDonald, Winnipeg Arena, Winnipeg, MB 02/26/99
25 min. A "
Winnipeg Arena, Winnipeg, MB 02/26/99 135 min.
A (Master) "Keep your cigarettes, keep your toques. You're gonna
need 'em."
Saskatchewan Place, Saskatoon, SK 02/27/99 135
min. A- (Master) "This is for your girlfriend." (ABAC)
Agridome, Regina, SK 03/02/99 135 min. A-
"This is called 'They saw him struggle, then they saw him cease to struggle.'
Membership."
Canadian Airlines Saddledome, Calgary, AB 03/04/99
135 min. A- "...and lower me slowly and sadly and properly, and get Lanny
McDonald to sing my eulogy..."
Canadian Airlines Saddledome, Calgary, AB 03/05/99
135 min. A- "Life's too short if it ain't workin'."
Centrium, Red Deer, AB 03/06/99 110 min. A-
"This is a song by Hank Williams, so it must be good."
Riverside Coliseum, Kamloops, BC 03/09/99 135
min. A- "Somewhere, this song is happening." (Chagrin Falls)
General Motors Place, Vancouver, BC 03/11/99
135 min. A- "We'd like to thank Bruce Allen for making us famous."
General Motors Place, Vancouver, BC 03/12/99
135 min. A- "I wanted to call this song 'Port Moody', but it didn't work."
KMTT Radio, Seattle, WA 03/30/99 45 min. A+
"
Paramount Theater, Seattle, WA 03/30/99 110 min.
A- "The first thing I noticed about you was your scent...you know."
WOW Hall, Eugene, OR 03/31/99 110 min. A
"Save the planet, one burrow at a time."
Roseland Theater, Portland, OR 04/01/99 110 min.
A- "This is what the mother burrow said to the baby burrow at the Grand
Canyon: 'It's a good life if you don't weaken.'"
105.7 The Peak, Spokane, WA 04/03/99 45 min.
A+ "We could play on the ass of an elephant, if we had to, so humility
doesn't enter into it."
Opera House, Spokane, WA 04/03/99 110 min. A-
"This is another simple pleasure. This is called Fireworks."
Colorado Music Hall, Colorado Springs, CO 04/16/99
90 min. A- "This is kind of a boy-meets-girl, boy-loses-girl story, with
a really good salad bar. Chagrin Falls Ohio Holiday Inn."
Boulder Theatre, Boulder, CO 04/17/99 90 min.
A- "Nothing but heartache in my social life..."
Memorial Auditorium, Burlington, VT 04/29/99
110 min. A "Lionized. At top speed. Create comfort, enlightenment, beauty.
Top speed. Lionized. Lionized, like the wind."
Webster
Theatre, Hartford, CT 04/30/99 100 min. A- "
Inter-Media Arts Center, Huntington, NY 05/01/99
110 min. A "This is a song about the Woodstock era. It's called 'Don't
Trust Anyone Over Twenty.'"
Fieldhouse Gym, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan
05/05/99 100 min. A- "Thanks a lot. We've been working real hard
at Hip HQ to re-invent to woman at the Hip show. You can help by not
crowd surfing. This crowd surfing stuff is a real drag. Sorry to be an
asshole, but crowd surfing seriously went out of style a long time ago.
Like the Rubik's Cube and Tickle Me Elmo."
Agora Theatre, Cleveland, OH 05/07/99 120 min.
B "This song is dedicated to the newest inductee into the Rock 'N
Roll Hall of Fame, Joe Chithalen."
IC Light Tent, Pittsburgh, PA 05/08/99 110 min.
A "Hello, all of you. It's some kind of regulation under the big
top. That there are no shadows out there in the crowd. It's regulation.
A new circus rule. Number one: no shadows in the crowd, not one."
9:30
Club, Washington, DC 05/14/99 110 min. A "OK, if you
could just stay with me through this witness-protection program, I promise
you, it'll be different after that. I promise. Please. Thompson Girl."
9:30 Club, Washington, DC 05/15/99 110 min. A-
"You folks seem like the kind of audience that would appreciate a river song.
This song is on K-Tel's 18 River Songs."
Cat's
Cradle, Carrboro, NC 05/18/99 110 min. A- "Here's a song
about the woman what killed the bar, what killed me. Thompson Girl."
Riverfront Park, Nashville, TN 05/20/99 90 min.
A "Courage? Courage, what's that got to do with it? Courage? C'mon
in, I was just kidding! What'll you have, rye and ginger? Come on! Gentlemen!"
House
of Blues, North Myrtle Beach, SC 05/21/99 110 min. A
"This is called Save the Planet...or...leave the planet."
Tremont Music Hall, Charlotte, NC 05/22/99 110
min. A "Something On. I can feel it. It's hot. Let's gather 'round
the fan."
Minnesota Zoo Amphitheatre, Apple Valley, MN 07/09/99
100 min. A- "Thank you. Pleasure to be here. Here's a song for the animals.
With their kind indulgence, they've allowed us to park tonight."
Woodstock '99, Rome, NY 07/24/99 60 min. A+
(Master) "Hello there, good morning. I feel Woodstockeriffic! Of course, we've
come here to study you. Of course, it's us that gains the most. Right? It's
us that really benefits. I'm getting a message from beyond. We crossed when
the lake was frozen. Like exiles, from the Canadas of your soul."
Pine
Knob Music Theatre, Clarkston, MI 07/31/99 135 min. A "Never
mind them purple Italians. Never mind that pool in the mountains."
Limestone
Blues Festival, Kingston, ON 08/27/99 20 min. B "What
the heck are the blues, and how do I get them?"
Air
Canada Centre, Toronto, ON 12/31/99 135 min. A- "This
is not rock and roll. This is genocide."'
My favorites from 1999:
01/31/99 Moncton
02/08/99 Kanata
02/10/99 Buffalo
02/12/99 Auburn Hills
02/17/99 Hamilton
02/26/99 Winnipeg
02/27/99 Saskatoon
03/09/99 Kamloops
03/11/99 Vancouver
03/31/99 Eugene
04/30/99 Hartford
05/05/99 Grand Rapids
05/08/99 Pittsburgh
07/31/99 Clarkston
12/31/99 Toronto
Air Canada
Centre, Toronto, ON 01/01/00 135 min. A "Thank you, but do
you know this one? Different building, same death."
Grunspan,
Hamburg, Germany 06/03/00 90 min. A "I won't tell you
about the curfew, but disco dancing starts in fifteen minutes. It was
my idea, all right? OK? I thought it would be good...for you."
Ancienne
Belgique, Brussels, Belgium 06/06/00 110 min. A "This
is about the time Bruce Springsteen quit gambling."
Shepherd's
Bush Empire, London, England 06/08/00 110 min. A "Ahead
by a Century, for all you young lovers. And after all, we are all fourteen
inside. I know this 85-year old woman. She got boy trouble. She's got
boy trouble. In her head, she's laying on a beach, thinking about touching
him."
Music@Work
Album Premiere, Bath, Ontario 06/12/00 90 min. A+ "The
people (fans) on the internet are a very vocal group. They get a lot
of attention."-Rob Baker
Park
West, Chicago, IL 06/13/00 90 min. A+ (WXRT broadcast)
"This is a song about a making love during a cholera epidemic. They put
yellow flags up and down the shore, in Kingston, to tell all the boats
not to come ashore. Just keep pushing on. The voyage of the damned. First
sex, then the story."
Water
Street Music Hall, Rochester, NY 06/16/00 100 min. B+
"This was was inspired by a walk through the San Diego Museum. This is the
Bastard."
Higher
Ground, Winooski, VT 06/17/00 90 min. A "Freedom of
expression is a wonderful thing, and I think it started here in Burlington,
Vermont. It's just an idle plug for your liberal politics. Good on ya.
They do primaries here? Is this a litmus test? Is this a sounding board?
Is this a testing ground? Sorry. I got the answer before the question."
Theatre
St. Denis, Montreal, QU 06/20/00 110 min. A "Here's a
song about an avalanche. Avalanche victims: we got any in the house? If
you've been caught in an avalanche, don't say anything at all."
Musiqueplus
Studios, Montreal, QU 06/21/00 90 min. A- "Any fans got
anything to say?"
Massey
Hall, Toronto, ON 06/23/00 110 min. A- "Lake Fever,
all right? This summer, do yourself a favour. Go look at the stars."
Muchmusic
Studios, Toronto, ON 06/24/00 90 min. A+ "Nothing came
but silence and it was brought home to me that a poem will never really
buy a beer, or a flower, or a goddamn thing, and I was sad, for I am a
sensitive man."
VH1
Radio @ Work, New York, NY 06/27/00 35 min. A+ "Small
clubs are wonderful. Playing anywhere, any stage... I don't think we've
ever tried to assess a crowd by their size. You certainly wouldn't blame
a crowd for being small."
Somerville
Theater, Boston, MA 06/29/00 110 min. A "How many of
you are into infidelility? If you are, say nothing at all"
Somerville
Theater, Boston, MA 06/30/00 110 min. A "I write poems
like a spider spins its webs."
Central
Park Summerstage, New York, NY 07/01/00 90 min. A "I need
a belt. Somebody give me a f*cking belt. I want your belt. I want the
thing that keeps your pants up. I want a belt. I need a belt. Somebody give
me a belt."
Petrillo
Music Shell- Grant Park, Chicago, IL 07/04/00 90 min. A-
"I feel like I'm at the edge of a precipice, a very long drop. I'll sing
my way out of it."
Minnesota
Zoo Amphitheatre, Apple Valley, MN 07/07/00 45 min. A
"Hello. Welcome to the zoo. This is a song about an animal they tried to
make more ferocious. This is Tiger the Lion."
Minnesota
Zoo Amphitheatre, Apple Valley, MN 07/08/00 110 min. A
"This is a song about an animal that was given a key to the cage, opened
the cage, let the door swing open, and in a moment of conscience, turned
around, closed the cage, and threw the key outside. This is called Stay."
Soundcheck,
Grandma's Sports Garden, Duluth, MN 45 min. A- "
Grandma's
Sports Garden, Duluth, MN 07/09/00 110 min. A- "Hello.
Welcome to Duluth. That's the truth. Now here's a lie."
Orbit
Room, Grand Rapids, MI 07/12/00 110 min. A- "Sitting
on flowerseats, listening to the radio. Going into the kitchen, washing
up to do the dishes. Kids at the drive-in, listening to music in between
the movies. This song is about kids playing dumb rules, and sitting on
the front porch eating a Burger King cheeseburger."
Orbit
Room, Grand Rapids, MI 07/13/00 110 min. A- "Please don't
hurt each other down here. That moshing went out in 1996. Moshing went
out with 'You go, girl.'"
Nautica
Stage, Cleveland, OH 07/14/00 100 min. A+ "This is a
song about a travelling bible salesman, in the age of CD-ROM. This is not
a Creed song."
Pine
Knob Music Theatre, Clarkston, MI 07/15/00 110 min. A
"This is for you people up there in the grass. Alright, the closest to
the sky up there. This is called Stay with your bottoms on the incline."
Metropol,
Pittsburgh, PA 07/19/00 100 min. A "Thank you. You having
a good time? Well, you've got a banner. You've got a placard. Placard
alert. Um, in the end I think there's really only...well, you know, I
don't know. But, I think it's holding hands, in the end, and all the rest
is gravy. Nice one."
Piere's
Entertainment Center, Ft. Wayne, IN 07/21/00 110 min. A
"Thanks a lot. How y'all doin'? Is Larry Bird here?"
Theater
of the Living Arts, Philadelphia, PA 07/26/00 110 min. A+
"Good ol' TLA. This looks very nice in here."
9:30
Club, Washington, DC 07/27/00 90 min. A "There's just
too much water, in DC. There's just too much f*ckin' water here. Why
don't you need any more? It's just a bit salty. It's come from up above
through the volcano of my body, and ravaged across the canyon floor. The
birdhouse is full of water, for chrissakes."
9:30
Club, Washington, DC 07/28/00 110 min. B+ "That dog
is mine. That darn dog is mine."
Darien
Lakes Performing Arts Center, Buffalo, NY 07/29/00 110 min.
A- "It's nice to be here. It's a beautiful night."
WNNK
Radio, Harrisburg, PA 08/02/00 45 min. A "I'm sorry.
I was watching your lips move. (Can you say that) Again?"
Sunoco
Performance Theatre, Whitaker Center, Harrisburg, PA 08/02/00
110 min. A- "This song is about a car you can live in. Pull the Eldo
'round back."
Mulcahy's,
Wantagh, NY 08/03/00 110 min. A- "This is a song, written
in the form of a letter. At Oktoberfest."
Webster
Theater, Hartford, CT 08/04/00 110 min. A- "It's OK,
kids. It's just Courage. Go back to bed."
Bolton
Valley Amphitheatre, Burlington, VT 08/05/00 110 min. A
"OK. This song is called Ahead by a Century, and I'll dedicate it to your
vigilance to making sure that everyone takes care of each other, all
right? I don't want to harp on about this, but...this is Ahead by a Century,
for you. Thank you."
Scotiabank
Stage, The Forks, Winnipeg, MB 09/16/00 110 min. A+
"It's been a pleasure, the thrill of our career, to play here today."
Auditorium
Center, Rochester, NY 10/02/00 165 min. A "Thank you,
but do you know this one? Espionage on the homefront. Or the bungalow,
The vinyl frontier. That's my room, that's my sister's. Pigeon Camera.
We've hired the best. We get a bird's-eye-view of a bird's-eye-view. Pigeon
Camera, for Ralph Nader."
Landmark
Theatre, Syracuse, NY 10/03/00 165 min. A "Is there
some kind of unrest in the pit? Is there some kind of problem with the
- your view? What's wrong? Please, I want to know. Because you can't keep
giving me the finger and expect me to go on with the show. It has an effect.
How could it not? I could try to ignore you, but, that's not the ticket
you bought. And what about your friend, young Castro? Where'd he go? That's
how Milosevic started."
Town
Hall, New York, NY 10/06/00 180 min. A "We live to survive
our Slobodan's. Ahead by a Century. About a difficult relationship."
Warner
Theatre, Erie, PA 10/08/00 165 min. A "Wonderment,
it gives way to delays. Just hold on."
Stubb's
BBQ, Austin, TX 10/14/00 110 min. A "Here's a song, I
think, it was written in a hotel room in Nashville. But, like so many songs
written in Nashville, it's all about New York.
Rialto
Theatre, Tucson, AZ 10/19/00 165 min. A "This is a
song about a fight between a mother and a son at a union hall."
House
of Blues, Los Angeles, CA 10/20/00 165 min. A "Hi. Welcome
back. This is a Slobodan Milosevic tune."
Fillmore,
San Francisco, CA 10/24/00 165 min. A "Too much acquiescence
got me into a whole heap of trouble. This song is still reverberating
down the hall. This is Fully and Completely."
Fillmore,
San Francisco, CA 10/25/00 165 min. A "Any avalanche
victims in the house? You have good friends. They're good dogs. Good boy."
Aggie
Theatre, Ft. Collins, CO 10/27/00 165 min. A "I got myself
an eight hour liberty, and I just could not stop. And then I ran out
onto the wharf as the ship was leavin' town. I jumped into your murky
water and I swam that big destroyer down. I climbed up the rope and ladder
and plugged myself into my bunk. I was drunk. I was drunk. I was drunk."
Paramount
Theatre, Denver, CO 10/28/00 165 min. A "Hello. Thanks
for coming. Let's start with my time in 'Nam."
Moore
Theatre, Seattle, WA 11/01/00 165 min. B+ "All right,
what I was trying to establish there at the end was a litany of voices,
just different diversity of voices of people singing 'Sing to end all songs
to end all songs', and I thought I'd try to do an Eddie Vedder imitation,
and then I got stuck on that 'cuz I didn't quite get it right."
Moore
Theatre, Seattle, WA 11/02/00 165 min. A "You came back,
like you said you would. Except...you want to sell me something."
Aladdin
Theatre, Portland, OR 11/04/00 165 min. A "See you in
twenty minutes. You guys get to know each other."
Pacific
Coliseum, Vancouver, BC 11/15/00 165 min. A "That's right.
I've bought all my tapes and CD's. It's my music at work. I've got it
stored in a vast memory."
Pacific
Coliseum, Vancouver, BC 11/16/00 165 min. A- "This song
was shot right here in Vancouver. It's called Blow at High Dough."
Enmax
Centre, Lethbridge, AB 11/25/00 165 min. A- "And the cop
said, 'Will you marry me? I'm not kidding.'"
Saskatchewan
Place, Saskatoon, SK 11/27/00 165 min. A- "Here's a
song for the crew, our crew, who won seats in Ontario, and Quebec, and
British Columbia tonight."
Soundcheck,
Keystone Centre, Brandon, MB 11/28/00 55 min. A
Keystone
Centre, Brandon, MB 11/28/00 165 min. A "Here's one reason
to look forward to the winter anyway. No more of that god-damn lake
fever for another four of five months. Reprieve."
UIC
Pavilion, Chicago, IL 12/01/00 180 min. B+ "This is called
Don't Wake Daddy, because he's a f*ckin' bastard."
Cobo
Arena, Detroit, MI 12/02/00 165 min. A "This song is
about the importance of generalizations during periods of crisis"
Air
Canada Centre, Toronto, ON 12/03/00 165 min. A "You're
all good Canadians, but do you know this one?"
Sudbury
Arena, Sudbury, ON 12/05/00 165 min. A- "
Corel
Centre, Kanata, ON 12/06/00 165 min. A+ "OK, even a priest
would say this: 'If New Orleans is sinking, then I don't wanna swim.'"
Molson
Centre, Montreal, QU 12/07/00 165 min. A "This song
is for Zachary, my assistant at the salon, lo these fifteen years. I
would elevate you from the status of shampoo boy if I thought that's what
you wanted."
Harbour
Station, Saint John, NB 12/09/00 165 min. B+ "
Moncton
Coliseum, Moncton, NB 12/10/00 165 min. A- "I'm gonna
tell you once, I'll tell you again. If you wake the old man up, there's
nothing I can do to defend."
Metro
Centre, Halifax, NS 12/12/00 165 min. A- "Twist me. Cajole
me. Twist My Arm."
HSBC
Arena, Buffalo, NY 12/20/00 165 min. A "Everytime you
go, you are all I see, you little rascal. Everytime you go, I lose my
mind."
Copps
Coliseum, Hamilton, ON 12/21/00 165 min. A- "Are we workin',
or are we f*ckin' around?"
Air
Canada Centre, Toronto, ON 12/23/00 165 min. A- "
My favorites from 2000:
01/01/00 Toronto
06/17/00 Winooski
06/20/00 Montreal
06/24/00 Toronto
07/08/00 Apple Valley
07/26/00 Philadelphia
08/03/00 Wantagh
10/03/00 Syracuse
11/27/00 Saskatoon
12/09/00 Saint John
Muchmusic Studios, Music Without
Borders, Toronto, ON (Gord Downie w/Julie Doiron and Dinner is Ruined) 09/23/01
15 min. A "
Air
Canada Centre, Toronto, ON 10/21/01 55 min. A+ "Hello.
Put your hands in your pockets. You people at home, dig out your wallets.
Go into Mommy's purse, bring out her wallet. It's a new war! It's a new
war, what are you waiting for?"
Lee's Palace, Toronto, ON 02/20/02
90 min. A- "Well, folks, we'd like to do a tune in honour of the Canadian
Olympic Team, and I know you're going to want to race outta here, to
watch the great white game."
University
of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 02/23/02 20 min. A+ "
Rob Baker and Paul Langlois
interview, Muchmusic Studios, Toronto, ON 06/12/02 15 min.
A+
Hard
Rock Cafe, Toronto, ON 06/12/02 70 min. A+ (master MD)
"
Audio
Magic, Buffalo, NY 06/13/02 55 min. A "
Soup
Can Studios, Detroit, MI 06/14/02 74 min. A "
Irving
Plaza, New York, NY 06/27/02 90 min. B+ "There's only
one time to be in New York, and that's when it's really, really hot. That's
what I've heard."
Irving
Plaza, New York, NY 06/28/02 90 min. A "
Citadel
Hill, Halifax, NS 06/30/02 90 min. A (master) "This is
for all the fishermen in the house. Fisherwomen never sounds right. If I
were a woman, I'd want to be called a fisherman."
Soundcheck,
Mile One Stadium, St. John's, NF 07/02/02 30 min. B+
Mile
One Stadium, St. John's, NF 07/02/02 90 min. A- (master)
"I gotta say, I gotta talk to Jake about live G.A."
Festival
Plaza, Bluesfest, Ottawa, ON 07/11/02 90 min. A- "I
think there was a plane flying over, uh, not too long ago, advertising
a, uh, porn site. And I'm cool with that. But I think I know who did
it."
Soundcheck,
Bayfest, Sarnia, ON 07/12/02 25 min. B+
Bayfest,
Sarnia, ON 07/12/02 90 min. A "It's all well and good.
Are you ready? Are you ready? Don't make me say it again."
House
of Blues, Chicago, IL 07/16/02 90 min. A "
House
of Blues, Chicago, IL 07/17/02 90 min. A "
House
of Blues, Chicago, IL 07/18/02 90 min. A "
House
of Blues, Chicago, IL 07/19/02 90 min. A "
First
Ave., Minneapolis, MN 07/20/02 90 min. A "
The
River Music Hall, Haverhill, MA 07/25/02 25 min. A+ "
Somerville
Theater, Somerville, MA 07/26/02 90 min. A- "Any available
light in the building, you can now shine on me. I'll take the heat.
I will take the heat. The goddam laser guided weird things. It makes
me feel too much like a bullseye, baby!"
Somerville
Theater, Somerville, MA 07/27/02 90 min. A "You may
have been asked to answer this question already: why is the world so
creepy?"
Somerville
Theater, Somerville, MA 07/28/02 90 min. A "Sir, do
you have a kitten in your trunk? I'm hearing a mewing sound..."
Molson
Amphitheatre, Toronto, ON 08/01/02 100 min. A- "Have
we got any seafaring people in the house? Do you know where your boat
is?"
Molson
Amphitheatre, Toronto, ON 08/02/02 100 min. B+ "Thank
you very much. You're a wonderful crowd. You're like a beautiful thing."
Gothic Theatre, Englewood, CO 08/07/02 100
min. B+ "
Fillmore, San Francisco, CA 08/17/02 100
min. A "
Fillmore, San Francisco, CA 08/18/02 100
min. A "
Aladdin Theatre, Portland, OR 08/22/02 100
min. A "
Aladdin Theatre, Portland, OR 08/23/02 100
min. A "
Pier
62/63, Seattle,WA 08/24/02 90 min. A "Thanks for doing
that. That last little car-driving pantomime at the end with me at the
wheel, and Paul by my side. And I know what you're thinking to yourself:
'How come Paul's not driving?'"
Odeon,
Cleveland, OH 08/29/02 90 min. A- "
Soundcheck, Odeon, Cleveland, OH 08/30/02
25 min A-
Odeon,
Cleveland, OH 08/30/02 90 min. A "
DTE
Energy Music Theater, Clarkston, MI 08/31/02 90 min. A
"Don't tell me. OK. Do. I knew it. I knew it."
Darien
Lakes Performing Arts Center, Buffalo, NY 09/01/02 100 min.
A- "
Community
Ball Diamonds, Walkerton, ON 09/02/02 90 min. A- "
Royal
Theatre, Victoria, BC 09/15/02 100 min. A "
Royal
Theatre, Victoria, BC 09/16/02 110 min. A "
Queen
Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver, BC 09/19/02 100 min. A
"
Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver, BC 09/20/02
100 min. A- "
Multiplex, Vernon, BC 09/21/02 100 min.
A- "This is called 'A Man's Microphone Stand.'"
Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, Calgary, AB 09/23/02
100 min. A- "
Southern
Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, Calgary, AB 09/23/02 100 min.
A- "
Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, Edmonton,
AB 09/26/02 100 min. A "
Centre
for the Arts, Regina, SK 09/29/02 100 min. A "
Centre
for the Arts, Regina, SK 09/30/02 100 min. A "
Centennial
Concert Hall, Winnipeg, MB 10/01/02 100 min. A "I got
into it after awhile. I got into it. I enjoy the old rifle on my back
and the seven pound backpack, traipsing from here to there. Always traipsing.
Always traipsing. Traipsing everywhere. Oh, I love a good traipse, and
I know you do too."
Centennial
Concert Hall, Winnipeg, MB 10/02/02 100 min. A "Cape
Spear! Anybody? Anybody, Morse code, in the house? It says, it's Marconi.
He's saying, 'Just because we can talk to each other, doesn't mean we
have anything to say'. That's an auspicious first sentence, man!"
Massey
Hall, Toronto, ON 10/04/02 20 min. A- "
Landmark
Theatre, Syracuse, NY 10/05/02 100 min. A "
Roy
Thomson Hall, Toronto, ON 10/10/02 10 min. A+ "
Salle
Wilfred-Pelletier, Place des Arts, Montreal, QU 10/11/02
100 min. A "If you're not good looking, Courage, the least you could
do is be on time."
Salle
Wilfred-Pelletier, Place des Arts, Montreal, QU 10/12/02
100 min. A- "
Hummingbird
Centre, Toronto, ON 10/15/02 100 min. A "Beware the boy
who stamps on too many ants."
Ancienne Belgique, Brusells, BEL. 11/05/02 100
min. A- "
Paradiso, Amsterdam, NETH. 11/06/02 100
min. A "
Paradiso, Amsterdam, NETH. 11/07/02
100 min. A- "
Oosterpoort, Groningen, NETH. 11/09/02 100
min. A "
Tivoli, Utrecht, HOL. 11/10/02 100
min. A "
013 Popcentrum, Tilburg, HOL. 11/11/02 100
min. A "
Kantine, Cologne, GER. 11/15/02 80 min.
A (INC.) "
Copps Coliseum, Hamilton, ON 12/30/02
100 min. A- "
Copps Coliseum, Hamilton, ON 12/31/02
100 min. A "
Roxy and Elsewhere, A+, Los Angeles, CA 05/03/91
and 04/26/93
Eat Me Completely, A-B, various live from 88-94
Videos(Note: I have no means of dubbing these videos for trade. I have obtained them in trade for my audios. These are listed in case you have a video that I don't and you wish to trade for an audio on the list. Thanks!)
Misty Moon, Halifax, NS 04/06/90
Road Apples release promo
video, 1991
Full-Fledged Vanity, CBC
1992
UBC Thunderbird Stadium,
Vancouver, BC 07/01/92
Markham Fairgrounds, Markham,
ON (ARA) 07/23/93
Markham Fairgrounds, Markham,
ON (ARA) 07/24/93
Ontario Place Forum, Toronto,
ON (Kumbaya Festival) 09/05/93
Haldern, Germany 1993
Copps Coliseum, Hamilton,
ON 02/09/95
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto,
ON 02/10/95
Saturday Night Live, New
York, NY 03/25/95
ParkPop, Landgraff, Holland
06/05/95
Cayuga Speedway, Cayuga,
ON (ARA) 07/20/95
Markham Fairgrounds, Markham,
ON (ARA) 07/22/95
9:30 Club, Washington, DC
10/20/95
Spectrum, Philadelphia,
PA 10/24/95
Madison Square Garden, New
York, NY 10/27/95
Egos and Icons, Muchmusic
1996
Auditorium Theater, Rochester,
NY 06/11/96
Edenfest, Clarington, ON
07/13/96
Copps Coliseum, Hamilton,
ON 12/11/96
Concert Hall, Toronto, ON
(NxNE Festival) 06/09/97
Hip Half Hours, Muchmusic,
June 24th-30th, 1998
Something On the Tragically
Hip (Muchmusic), London, ON 07/07/98
Wetlands Preserve, New York,
NY 07/23/98
Grape Jam Festival, Erie,
PA 08/08/98
Corel Centre, Kanata, ON
02/08/99
Copps Coliseum, Hamilton,
ON 02/17/99
Hershey Centre, Mississauga,
ON 02/19/99
Air Canada Centre, Toronto,
ON 02/23/99
9:30 Club, Washington, DC
05/15/99
Woodstock '99, Rome, NY
07/24/99
Limestone Blues Fest, Kingston,
ON 08/27/99
Air Canada Centre, Toronto,
ON 12/31/99
Air Canada Centre, Toronto,
ON 01/01/00
Theatre St. Denis, Montreal,
QU 06/20/00
MusiquePlus Studios, Montreal,
QU 06/21/00
Muchmusic Intimate &
Interactive, Toronto, ON 06/24/00
Somerville Theatre, Boston,
MA 06/29/00
Somerville Theatre, Boston,
MA 06/30/00
Minnesota Zoo Amphitheatre,
Apple Valley, MN 07/08/00
Darien Lakes Performing
Arts Center, Buffalo, NY 07/29/00
Auditorium Center, Rochester,
NY 10/02/00
Landmark Theatre, Syracuse,
NY 10/03/00
Warner Theatre, Erie, PA
10/08/00
Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver,
BC 11/15/00
Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver,
BC 11/16/00
Saskatchewan Place, Saskatoon,
SK 11/27/00
Keystone Centre, Brandon,
MB 11/28/00
Air Canada Centre, Toronto,
ON 12/03/00
Sudbury Arena, Sudbury,
ON 12/05/00
Corel Centre, Kanata, ON
12/06/00
Molson Centre, Montreal,
QU 12/07/00
Copps Coliseum, Hamilton,
ON 12/21/00
Gord Downie w/ Julie Doiron
and Dinner is Ruined, Iota Cafe, Arlington, VA 08/04/01
Gord Downie, Music Without
Borders, Muchmusic Toronto, ON 09/23/01
Air Canada Centre, Toronto,
ON 10/21/01
University of Utah, Salt
Lake City, Utah 02/23/02 (CBC broadcast)
Bluesfest, Ottawa, ON
07/11/02
Somerville Theater, Somerville,
MA 07/27/02
Somerville Theater, Somerville,
MA 07/28/02 (VCD, can copy this for trade)
Molson Amphitheatre, Toronto,
ON 08/01/02
Molson Amphitheatre, Toronto,
ON 08/02/02
Darien Lakes, NY 09/01/02
Victoria, BC 09/15/02
Victoria, BC 09/16/02
Vancouver, BC 09/19/02
Calgary, AB 09/23/02
Calgary, AB 09/24/02
Regina, SK 09/29/02
Regina, SK 09/30/02
Canadian Airlines Saddledome, Calgary, Alberta
November 23rd, 2000
(pic by Jacques Blanchard)
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