What a show! Just pulled in from Cleveland and it is now 5:45 am.

Setlist goes as follows:

Silver Jet
New Orleans is Sinking (Just Swim, I got ya covered...Swim)
Fully Completely
The Darkest One
Lake Fever
Fireworks
Courage
Inevitibility Of Death
It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken
100th Meridian (Life is All About Forgetting)
Something On (It's true, it's you and you and you and you)
A Beautiful Thing
50 Mission Cap
Ahead By A Century
The Dire Wolf
Giftshop
Little Bones

Encore:
Thugs
Scared
Three Pistols!!!!!!!

This was an awesome little venue. We pulled up around 6:15, Doors at 8. Met some really cool people before hand. Also heard that a couple without tickets ran into The Hip at the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame earlier in the day and asked if there was anything they could do about getting in. Gord D. says How bout I put you on the guestlist, very nice of him! The wait in line to get in was well worth it, stood front row the whole show. Wayne, the opening band from Alabama was very good. The boys come on around 10:15 just after a little Radiohead house music. Violet Lights come down and it was rockin from here on out. The crowd was unbelievable and were singing along with every tune! Gord was on all night like always, dancing, rambling, smiling, and definitely dripping with sweat from Silver Jet on. Three Pistols was my wish and there it was, last song of the night. My favorite Hip show to date, great holiday weekend!! Caught one of Johnny's beat up drum sticks. Well, would write more but the sun is coming up. I'll
be at Darien Lake for Sunday's show. Don't know if it will top this one but will be good for sure.

Michael Drezek



Rory,

I attended the HIP show on Friday August 30/02 in Cleveland and wanted to give you my comments. I am one of the many Canadians who go to school in Cleveland now and I have attended 3 previous concerts - 1 at DTE/Pine Knob, 1 at Cobo Hall and 1 in Toledo. I had 6 friends make the trip down from Windsor to join me at the concert. The Odeon was a great venue, small, air-conditioned and beer was fairly cheap. The opening band, Wayne were good, we even bought their CD on the way the out and talked to them on the street after the concert. The crowd went crazy when the HIP came out and then we all went blind when those white lights came on during Silver Jet. The set list was great, a little new and a lot more old. The crowd was singing and sweating along with Gord except the people who were sitting in the balcony who I don't think moved the whole night. We met some great people in the crowd from Buffalo (nice homemade shirts), Hamilton (smoking a little weed) and Toronto (thanks for putting our empties on the bar). Everyone was chanting for Wheat Kings during the encore but we could leave with Scared. I wish Gord would play to the crowd more, play the songs people are chanting for or add a little "O Canada" for all us flag-waving Canucks who made
the trip. I feel sorry for all my other friends who passed on the Cleveland show and paid the same price for grass seats the next night in Detroit. Can't wait to show them the pictures. Hopefully we can do it all again next year.

Stuart Bowden



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