Well, for the fourth time(all in different venues), I saw
the Hip two
nights ago in S'toon. Terrible crowd(typical of Saskatoon--I
can
understand why big acts don't wanna play Saskatchewan at all.
They go
to Saskatoon, see a really subdued crowd, and never come back.),
terrible sound(someone remind me why the Gov't of Sask dished out 20
million to help pay for Sask. Place?), and most of all...terrible band.
Not that I didn't expect it. The Hip came out, played hit after
hit--
but they just stood there; they were so unresponsive, it was like
setting my disc-player on program and letting it play. I could've
looked at a poster for free. I don't want to go to a concert
and hear
just the regular songs they always play--I want to hear muzak--something
different.
If they Hip are going to be Canada's band of the nineties, they're
going to have to do a lot of growing. They had such potential
a few
years back--and they've given it all away for lights, stadium, seating
and bucks. Pitiful...just pitiful...
--
Prarit.....
dudes, i may be a little late, but the affects of the show are just
now
wearing off. sure, i had bad seats. sure, saskatoon fans
suck (i don't want
to start a whole discussion about being hardcore or not though).
sure, the
trag didn't interact a whole lot with the audience. BUT, the
music frickin
rocked!!! i've heard quite a bit of their live stuff, and i can
say that the
versions that they played that most dude night of the 18th of november
1996,
were the ultimate in dudiality. though i have heard 100th meridian
better
(9:30 club in d.c. may 29, 1996), the rest of the songs were pretty
much the
best. three pistols was so dude. that song summed up the
entire concert for
me - dudeness. anyways, i think the reason that the show seemed
kinda tame
and stuff is that the wrong people got the good seats. i personally
was kinda
glad that i hadn't been front row because i would have been going so
insane
that i would have gotten thrown out for sure, hence missing most of
the
concert which would be most undude. but, i saw those fans up
there and no one
was doing barely anything, so i have to come to the conclusion that
they
weren't as hardcore as they could have been. the whole point
is that the
hardcore fans should somehow be allowed to get the better seats and
the people
who come for the atmosphere or whatever should be in the upper level.
the
only problem is distinguishing the hardcore from the rest. if
you've got any
ideas on how to solve this dilemma, i'm open for suggestion.
mike dude.