Wow.....Great show. Great crowd, good sound and of course lots of fun. The show was well mixed with new and old tunes with a woman and a organ on the far left side ( not sure who they are sorry).
I did see two tapers out there last night and if one of you read this post and want to trade some dat/cd please drop a line.
 Thanks hip for playing within walking distance of my pad. peace,
Nate
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Yes the show was stunning. Under the remnants of a full moon, the boys blew the crowd away on their one Texas stop.  And on top of back-to-back 10 hour travel days, to boot.
   It was great to see Chris and Kate with the band. I was afraid that since they weren't opening the shows down here, they wouldn't come along.  The organ was on just about every song, and now I can't imagine what Wheat Kings, Long Time Running, or Gift Shop would sound like without them.
  Even did a very strange thing for me, and hung out at the bus after the show.  Got everyone's autograph on my vinyl EP, and got to talk to everyone in the band. What a great bunch of guys.
-Mike
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austin is a neat little gem in the heart of texas. a beautiful funky city. just before we left dallas i was loading the car up and the ups driver pulls up with a box from my brother in buffalo. a six pack of sleeman's. the weekend was off to a good start. we spent the day walking around austin. checking out the springs. laying on the grass at the capitol. a protest marched by. someone was beating a stick on a plastic bucket. we stopped and played pool and drank fat tires. then headed back to our friends
apartment before the show and drank the sleemans. played some chess.

stubbs.
was like a backyard.
and it was crowded.
we wound our way up some narrow stairs
and into a little room with a bar that was
quiet and ordered some more fat tires and some meat.

went down and stood in what would have been the second row on bobbys side. they walked out onto the stage underneath an austin sky and hello.
music at work
grace too
fully
lake fever
gift shop
the completist
twist my arm
puttin down
ahead by a century
fireworks
wheat kings
long time running
courage
bobcaygeon
nautical disaster
tiger the lion
100th meridian
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freak turbulence
EMPEROR PENGUIN (acoustic)
new orleans is sinking

nice. nice. set. long time running was amazing. gordie and the boys were having a great time. the emperor penguin made my night. after the show we hung out and met the entire band. christine happened to have a roll of pictures of nora and gordie in her bag and we showed gordie the pictures of our little cutie-pies and told him the story about how we met in vermont. he saw gordie and said ahh there's the little scamp. he signed a picture of little gordie and the setlist. writing "grow you."

david
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I attended the show in Austin.  They played about 20 tunes.  Tiger the Lion was my favorite.  It rocked and so did I.  The crowd was a little on the mello side.  It was a great outdoor venue.  Encore, NO sinking, Punguin, and ?( I can't remember the last tune).  Gord was a little more chatty during some of the tunes.  Awsome time.
ts
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The Austin show was a gem indeed. The entire day felt like a holiday-the anticiaption for 8p was killing me.  Got down to Stubbs at 7:30p with just enough time to throw down some great tex-mex and margaritas across the street at Jaime's Spanish Village . The stars were aligned as the boys rocked the outdoor stage at Stubbs  It was good to see a solid turnout for this show.  The ticket salesperson told me 1500 tickets were sold pre-sale and attendance was estimated at about 2000.  This is so
great considering the band is not getting any radio play in this town. There really wasn't much promotion of the show to speak of.   What is wrong with Sire, do they even work the band south of the Canadian border?  Don't get me started on Rolling Stone Magazine's complete lack of coverage.   I did my part, recruiting and introducing co-workers to my favorite band.  And the Hip did not let me down! All these Hip rookies were blown away.  The band gave an inspired  and tight performance and the sound was great.  Music@Work material is really sounding great.  Kate and Chris are a nice accompaniment .

As the band opened up with  My Music @Work, you could tell we had caught them on a good night!.  Gord dressed in Green work shirt and tie, began ranting as the song developed and got the crowd really revved up. At one point he grabbed the microphone like a motorcycle handle and pretended to ride around the stage.  The setlist was  different from the Taste of
Chicago show I caught  in July  . It held a few gems I had not heard live - Wheat Kings and Long Time Running- what a treat.  Gord introduced Twist My Arm  with an exasperated " Let Ralph Debate!"  Giftshop was dedicated to Superdrag. During Nautical Disaster, Gord got loose with another extended tyrade that I couldn't quite decipher, but of course it was passionate. Wouldn't it be great if they set up a section in front of Gord's monitor so you could hear his vocal embellishments! The basswork on Nautical was outstanding. Gortd S. was amazing as usual. Emporer Penguin was strong and Tiger The Lion was great!  I was not a big fan of the song until this show.  At The Hundredth Meridian (Where the real scalping begins!) ended the set.  As the band wrapped it up with a three song encore, the crowd showed their appreciation with a resounding Hip! Hip! Hip! Thanks Hip for a great performance.  Hey tapers,  I am looking for a recording of this show. Can you help me out?

It's too bad we couldn't land the much coveted 2nd Austin show.  Is there any truth to the rumor of a southern U.S. tour in the spring?  I would love to see a Dallas, Houston and of course another Austin.  Now I'm getting greedy!  See you in Chicago on December 1st.
-James W.