Geddy Lee on The Tragically Hip | A Canadian Band
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- Опубліковано 1 сер 2016
- A candid chat with Geddy Lee on The Tragically Hip, "one of the greatest bands that we've ever produced."
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American Hip fan here (we do exist, even away from the border). I miss Gord. 😢 🇨🇦
The Hip transcended borders! Good you still appreciate The Hip, and we miss Gord with ya, buds!
@@cbcmusic Thanks for the reply, CBC Music team! Folks talk about how The Hip made them proud to be Canadian. Well, The Hip made me wish I WERE Canadian!
Also an American Hip fan. Been one of my favorites since 1994.
I'm a "Hip" fan since 1996.
Boston Hip fan since 1993 ! Blessed to meet and hang out with the band 3 times and they are the kindest people you will ever meet !
This American has loved these guys for 30 yrs as a band that is great where ever they are!
Same here.
nothing more symbolically Canadian than the frontman of one of the greatest Canadian bands of all time explaining why another band is the greatest Canadian band of all time.
I miss you every day, Gordie.
Growing up in the prairies. Bush parties. Football games. Road trips in sketchy cars with my friends. Race to get home after finishing work on Fridays. Just about all the memories of my early adulthood. The Tragically Hip was a living part of my life's soundtrack. They transcend music for me, the Tragically Hip is part of my Canadian DNA.
...and seeing them in/around Saskatoon a half dozen times on their rise to legendary status. Even getting to party with them after an outdoor gig at the Bessborough Gardens. Prairie for life.
Saw them twice myself, and even met Gord S, Bobby, and Paul backstage in red deer. One of the peaks of my life, right up there with meeting Maurice Richard in high school, and seeing Chuck Berry play in Vegas...
Fully completely agree with Geddy that The Hip are not just a great CANADIAN band, but a GREAT BAND period. RIP Gordie 😞
Geddy is such a gem. So proud he’s from my hometown and so proud he speaks from a true artist mindset .... in this case about a remarkable talent.
He eschewed the attention and welcomed the highest artistic challenges. Brave and an explorer. Respect!
I had the privilege to see The Hip open up for Rush many years ago at Maple Leaf Garden. Great night!
American citizen and huge Hip fan, they are more popular here in the 🇺🇸 than Canadians realize 🇨🇦 🎤 🎸 🥁
I find that hard to believe. They’re not Celine dion or beiber, or fake hip hop like drake or the weekend. And thank almighty gawd they weren’t like nickelback. Seems only the worst Canadian bands get popular down there.
@@MrJett1971 Rush is still pretty popular here.
@@MrJett1971 FACT! PUKE, PUKE PUKE.
u can feel it in they're songs. Canadians get it.
They are uniquely Canadian because Gord Downie sings Canadian stories in a language only Canadians can truly understand. Bill Barilko means little in the US and other countries, but in Canada he will always be the player who scored the goal that won the Leafs the cup... only to become immortal on a fishing trip.
The Hip understood such Canadiana and mythologized it like no other band before them. They are the ultimate Canadian rock band, and their music will live on from coast to coast for as long as there are Canadians around to sing along.
Rest assured, Gord, that your musical legacy is now immortal. It will never die! :-)
*****
From one Canuck to another... Thanks! :-)
I can guarantee they'll be no knock on the door. Cause that's what I'm here for.
Ya know how you can read something and you can hear the iconic voice of the person in your head.
R.I.P. Gord and Neil 😢
Both taken by the same cancer. Unbelievably sad.
Both one-of-a-kind lyricists
My Father and I had just seen The Tragically Hip in Edmonton on July 30th, and We were completely blown away. They gave it everything they had and Gord sang his heart out. By the end of the concert we were both speechless, My wife called me and asked how it was and all i could say is it's going to be hard for any other concert I go to by any other band I see to top this. Canada loves The Hip and we love Gord, Thank-You Gord and The Tragically Hip for creating the soundtrack to OUR lives, your uniquely Canadian and our most treasured prize. God Bless!
Hip fan from Buffalo living in Las Vegas, missing Canadian radio. The Tea Party is a favorite Canadian band unknown in the states.
2023. Still screaming. RIP GORD. ❤
Profoundly from Kingston Ontario and our old high school KCVI. Second oldest (1792) HS in Canada 🇨🇦 Sadly closed forever December. 2020
Well said, Geddy, well said
Geddy buddy!! Great to see you again...was privilaged enought to see 2 live shows...Love you guys and miss Neil sooo much!!!!
Gord was a genius. My favorite band of all time on and off the stage. Gord will be missed!!!
Gord took our stories and songs to a whole other level. He wasn’t afraid to show the best and worst of us. He taught us so much about ourselves and each other. Man who walks among the stars you are missed by our entire country. We love you and miss you.
Well said! Thanks for sharing!
RUSH is the greatest band to come out of my beloved Canada!
Aww how about no.haha just a very good band.
They needed more members. J K. They need more cowbell. That's all !
That is the insight of a fellow artist
I think they are just the most loved Canadian band. They are just ours...
The Hip is so uniquely Canadian, I feel, because listening to it we know we are the subjects, the people of their song.
Gord Downie is like the favourite uncle many canadians aren't even aware they had, but who knows you so intimately from the first chord.
When Geddy Lee is praising The Hip, that's very cool. Respect from another legend of the business. They all sound like great, very humble guys too.
Like in the song about new Orleans sinking? Or uniquely opiated? Their songs are about people from everywhere. P.S. I love Canada.....
Geddy speaks the truth
Great bands know no boundaries
You may rank them 1 then 2, or 2 then 1, but Rush and Hip are the two greatest bands from Canada ever. Im glad, even though Im from the states, I lived close enough that my favorite radio station growing up was from Montreal and I got to hear some of the greatness that many Americans miss out on. These two, and others like Blue Rodeo, BNL, 54-40 and The Northern Pikes.
I'm a canadian who like every other canadian, is exposed to a lot of american artists who mention american cities and landmarks (bob dylan, Johnny Cash, bruce spingsteen) in a very romanticized and poetic way. Really good American songs can emphasize importance into pockets of America even if they really aren't. I'm so glad the Hip were able to create a lyrical mystique around places like Bobcaygeon or the "Paris of the Prairies" like so many american greats did.
The Guess Who!!!!
Canadian bands like The Hip are kind of like Canada’s secret sauce. They are not well known elsewhere and Canadians like to hoard them. Rush, The Guess Who, BTO and Triumph are a few of the best known bands (I’m loathe to include Nickelback) outside of Canada (most recently perhaps Arcade Fire) but there’ve been so many others like Chilliwack, April Wine, The Stampeders who deserve mention but never really made it big. The 70s and 80s saw quite a few Canadian groups come on the scene like Loverboy, Honeymoon Suite, Trooper, Glass Tiger, Harlequin, Prism, Platinum Blonde, Streetheart, Toronto plus a host of other quasi one hit wonders.
Don’t forget Big Sugar. They had that cool/rough reggae, bluesy rock jam.
Aussie hip fan here!
If I remember correctly, Rush turned people on to the bands Max Webster and FM. I really like FM.
look for FM Live Retro Active feat Nash doing the whole FM catalog Inc the Ben Mink lps. plus a superb Baba O'Reilly . On FMs "Now See Hear" label
and kim Mitchell's ist EP is now on YT... 5 great tracks
as Canadian as hockey and beer....miss the HIP
Don't miss them at all....cuz I listen 2 them EVERY day! R.I.P Gordie.
Rush was a Mister Big and The Hip was a Crunchie. Both deliciously sweet, and uniquely Canadian.
We love them in the States too.
Yes, the Tragically Hip were so amazing no one outside of Canada knew they existed. Just remember this is the same discriminating global audience that loved Bryan Adams and Celine Dion. Great bands don't need to be propped up by the CRTC.
Sadly we know that but American radio begged to differ. Before Adams and Loverboy, you had to live in L.A. to get noticed. There was no shortage of Canadians there that went onto international fame.
I’ve been an American Hip fan living in Arizona since 1994. Bought every album since At The Hundredth Meridian appeared on a music video subscription and rocked my world.
@@danieldaniels7571 and how many 18000+ arena venues have you seen them play in stateside?
@@HELLH0WND none. Only boring cliche bands play venues like that, and the Hip are neither boring or cliche. At least not in the US.
The Hip opened for Rush at Maple Leaf Gardens Dec. 16, 1991
RUSH and hip are both great Canadian bands....but different sounds... skills and talent and live concert s RUSH us Canada's ultimate band
Rush is a Ferrari...Hip is a Cavalier. 😂
They are ahead by a century....
I THINK OF GORD LIKE A JONI MITCHELL. JUST UNIQUE AND SO MAGNETIC! LOVE ❤️
I love Geddy. Rush have always been the right kind of Canadian. Not overly patriotic like so many others are. Not needing of attention or adulation simply for being Canadian. Well traveled enough to be secure enough in BEING canadian that he doesn't feel the need to flaunt and announce it to everyone within earshot. Never feeling the need to be a "flag waver".
It's a shame so many canadians have turned into everything they used to say they hated about americans.
You mean what YOU hate about Canadians and Americans? What's wrong with being a flag waver??
The only way to describe The Hip I find is to tell a person to think of a popular band from the 80- present. They're like that...only better.
I think Profoundly Canadian would be a more appropriate term to describe the Hip.
Over rated
The TH never hit it all that big in the U.S. -- which is a travesty. They are just a great band, PERIOD.
American Hip fans are die hard fans, though, because how ever we discovered them, we had to seek out their music. I saw them play a smaller venue in Phoenix in ‘96 and the place was packed, and almost everyone there knew every word to every song.
Ironically, I believe Rush is the quintessential Canadian band.
I honestly wish Burton Cummings could tour with The Hip as Tribute to Gord and to the twin guitar Era of Kurt Winter + The Guess Who
God no. There's a time where you have to admit the band is over. The Hip is over.
hope all my fellow Rush colleagues will let me diverge a bit here.
anyone see The Tragically Hip's final Kingston gig on the wkend?
Before then, while I had listened to their live cd (but was not played much)
and knew some of their tunes, it was only both during and after the concert
that i decided to explore their music more fully...and **** me, is so much of it soooo good.
I can't get '50 mission cap' or 'courage' or 'ahead by a century' out of my flippin head.
i've been playing it constantly on Tidal (along with other tunes from the new album).
the Hip's music affects me differently from Rush's...I am still trying to decipher it).
But the Hip hits me more viscerally...maybe it's because of what the lead singer Downie is going
thru, I don't know...I mean did anyone see his meltdown during 'Grace, too'? ...that just gutted me :cry:, seeing his raw vulnerability like that come out: his pain, anger, sadness, his scream against the mean hand dealt to him. Such emotional honesty and courage.
Gord Downie wipes tears from his eyes in the middle of the Tragically Hip's Grace, Too »
and that they ended it with an extended version of 'ahead by a century' so Downie could have fun with the crowd and say goodbye, allowing some fab wailing by the lead guitar, made it all that more poignant.
before I would have arrogantly said that Rush smokes the Hip...not anymore...they both affect me differently...I now endearingly hold the Hip with as much respect as my beloved Rush, just in a different way.
Peace to The Tragically Hip and all those close to them...may they all (and esp Downie) have much TLC in the trying days ahead.
I've been a rush fan since hearing farewell to kings in '77/'78, they may well be canada's finest musical export, my teenage second cousin recommend I buy fully completely in '92 when I visited winnipeg, blown away was an understatement, first saw the hip in february '93 at bradford university in england, ticket cost £2, saw them at ara in winnipeg the same year during my 3 month roadtrip from montreal to vancouver, I've seen them on 7/8 more occasions in england, belgium and holland, they are without doubt the quintessential canadian band, why they were never huge on this side of the atlantic is beyond me, I'll miss going to hip gigs, but at least I've had the pleasure of seeing one of the best bands ever
Well said. Having been a Rush fan for most of my life the Hip does tear at my heartstrings. The poetry and grace that they present our country to us is undeniably raw and real. Gord is missed so much and the Hip tie for top Canadian band with Rush.
As a Rush fan I enjoyed their music and saw a few concerts but the has a soul to them that Rush or most any rock band don't get. I'm a Detroiter so got a lot of Canadian influence from Canada radio. The Hip blows Rush out of the game with the feeling I get from listening to so many many of their songs. Every time I think I know them I find a new/old song I didn't know and a new favorite is here.
Longtime American Hip fan here, since 1994. I bought that concert as soon as it was released on Blu-ray and have watched it many times. It’s still hard to believe Gord is gone.
I would say I am the opposite. Grew up digging The Hip, but only recently started digging deeper into Rush and I truly feel I cheated myself of 40 years of top of the line musicianship, stories etc.
They wrote my favorite rock song lyrically.Locked in the trunk of a car.A song written from the standpoint of the murderer and the victim at the same time.
Love that song and the way Downie goes bonkers in the video.
An awkward spot to put Lee in. Some people feel that the Hip are the best band Canada has ever produced. I'd say they're the best band of "this" generation (the 90s?) while Rush was the best band of the previous generation, and the Guess Who/BTO of the previous decade or generation. They are all amazing - and of course there are lots of other fantastic Canadian bands not being mentioned - but all excel at the type of music they produce. I wouldn't want to say that one is better than the other. But I will say that Canada produces some of the best rock in the world and has clearly been doing so for decades!
Don't forget " Max Webster". I grew up near Detroit and we used to go see them whenever they crossed the border>
The last great Hip record: Day For Night...the rest are mediocre.
Its taken Geddy Lee 43 years to grow that little beard... Better respect it! Lol
"Very affecting" .... Getty making up words like a boss.
affecting
(/əˈfɛktɪŋ/)
adjective
touching the emotions; moving.
Example: "a highly affecting account of her experiences in prison"
It's a shame that during all the time we were getting Rush jammed down our throats (in the US on rock stations) we could have also been given an equal amount of the Hip. Sorry, not a Rush fan but a huge fan of the Hip.
You could same about RUSH..
Depends where in the States regarding popularity. I've met very few in the lower states that have heard them or even heard of them. Most that do worked in record stores or Canadians.
Geddy is being charitable here. Rush is the Wayne Gretzky of rock. The Tragically Hip are 4th line grinders by comparison.
You're being uncharitable. The Hip are the second line- I'll take Ian Thornley on the third
I can't think of a band that sings more about Canada or things only Canadians would pick up on in the lyrics than the Hip so...
I was interviewed by CBC in Vancouver outside the arena pre show, with this exact same question. I hope they don't air it, because I sounded like an idiot. I wish I gave a much more heartfelt answer like the true fan I am. Instead I was very excited and surrounded by other fans with a few drinks in me and didn't really say much with substance. Oh well.
lol fingers crossed it remains buried. What are your sober thoughts on the question?
Never heard of them but if Geddy says they’re great than they must be great!
It's not exactly a straight line from Rush to The Hip - but they are definitely both a part of a Canadian fellowship of great bands.
Clearly you are not Canadian.
CDNMetelHead born and raised my whole life!
@@cdnmetelhead4013 I'm not either, I'm scottish and I've been a rush fan since 77/78 and a huge hip fan since '92 seeing them 8 times on 2 continents in 4 countries, had I not visited winnipeg in '92 I very much doubt I would ever had heard of them, its the luck of the draw
I wonder if Gord will be doing any interviews himself soon?
I’m getting old with my tragically hip replacement
I don't remember subtitles posted for Gary (Geddy's real name) in 40 years of RUSH tours.
a Canadian Phish, they just jam
What's with the subtitles shown in the same language for a clear speaker?
Ciivid
An Ontario band. Sorry, I don't get all the rave reviews. Are we Canadians so distraught to find an identity anymore we run with anything that appears to answer the call?
I never could get into them. Sounds very white bread to me. What am I missing? What would suggest checking out?
Is it really necessary to subtitle Geddy Lee? I can understand him.
I suppose that's for the non-hosers out there who can't understand what he's talking aboot. Or perhaps for those who can't hear him?
@@cbcmusic Wow, good answer. I didn't think of that.
Captioning is an available option on UA-cam. I don't like it as default. It's distracting.
How's she bootin'er Bob? Don't git yer gitch all in a knot! Geddy's giv'n'r his best for sure. Take another sip of yer Timmies double double or grab another brown one from the 2-4 and take off eh? Sorry boot that...just the Canadian coming outta me!
Ya fully agree now how bout Blue Rodeo and Tom Cochrane and Bruce Cockburn and Sir Gord Lightfoot and on and on Canada has so much friggen talent it is the only thing makes me proud to be Canadian anymore.....jus sayin
Cochrane sucks...horrible voice.
What he really wanted to say "good band with average musicians that are unknown outside of Canada".
Sad but true for: Kim Mitchell, David Gogo and others. We are okay with them only being Canadian though. 😜
They're uniquely Canadian because people in rural Saskatchewan want to hear rock and roll and not Drake
The Tragically Hip are a poor man's R.E.M.
Hey the F*** do u put ads on.....14 Billion and counting
watched interview with all time great Canadian getty lee. class act, but who put him on the spot like that, not right. comments please
hummmm.....maybe a tragically rush tour?
How so...they dig up Neil & Gord?
As far as singing about things Canadian, sure, put the Hip top spot. Greatest Canadian band? Not by a long shot in my opinion. Rush, April Wine, Skinny Puppy, Voivod, The Guess Who, Blue Rodeo, Anvil, Annihilator, Strapping Young Lad/Devin Townsend. I may even put Honeymoon Suite above them.
😂😂😂
Gord is The Hip. Take his voice and fantastic lyrics out and there's not much left. Musically, they don't really bring much to the table, they don't have a "unique" or "original" sound. I always thought Gord was held back by an average band.
That may be one of the reasons, they never "made" it outside of Canada.
I'm probably gonna get a ton of hate for saying this.
CarlHH777 While I completely agree with what you said about Gord...I completely disagree with your thoughts on the band. The sign of a great band is one that perfectly compliments the lead singer(One who has great stage presence) and can also perform as a tight unit in a live setting(They succeed at both). Sure...none of them are particularly flashy performers but they each do their job extremely well, which is all you need when you have a Gord Downie at the forefront! Listen to Gord's solo stuff...completely different set of musicians playing behind him, not the same magic!!
CarlHH777 I also disagree with your reasoning behind them not making it outside of Canada. I think the main reason they didn't appeal anywhere else is because of Gord's lyrics. His lyrics are uniquely Canadian which prevents a lot of other countries from truly "getting it".
Take R.E.M for example. They are almost like the U.S counterpart to the Hip. Eccentric lead singer with interesting lyrics and stage presence with a solid serviceable band behind him. None of the musicians in that band get much recognition...yet they were massively popular worldwide!!
Very strange answer from Geddy Leee...
Hip are for sure uniquely Canadian. Rush is not. Both amazing bands!
Never cared for them.They were ok,just not great...overrated.
Sorry you feel that way. IT took me a few years to finally pay attention to them but when I started digging through their catalog I kept finding great songs that moved me. That is what good music should do. During their last tour, they played two shows in Vancouver. Rather than just play the same setlist for many of the same fans, they changed it up completely. I only got tix for the 2nd show. I had tears running down my cheeks while they did Fiddler's Green, partly because I never expected to hear that song played live. Unfortunately the obscure songs played were at the expense of some of their bigger hits and we never got to rock out to Locked In the Trunk of A Car at that show, but I will always remember how emotional I felt listening to Fiddler's Green! Truly a special band who will always be part of my life's soundtrack!
🙄 then you do not know good" music at work" the hip will for ever be the best!☝️❤
All of the albums before Music At Work were great.
Interesting how great musicians can like crap ~
I love Geddy, but i think the Hip were boring, and overrated, pretty much every song they did sounds the same, Gord always gave me the trying too hard to be different for different sake vibe.
The hip is nowhere even close to RUSH..........not even close..
Depends on what you look at,,, Rush is definitely the most skilled band in the world with their instruments but The Hip is much better lyrically.
Lyricism also depends on how you look at it; Rush is more complex and intellectual whereas the Hip are more poetic and folksy. Either way I don't see a need to compare the two, they're both two of the most legendary Canadian bands ever and rightfully so. RIP gordie
I enjoy listening to The Hip way more than Rush.
The Hip are mehhh
People that say "meh" need to be smashed in the melon.
seems jealous and doesn't like gord
I agree. I found this interview awkward and peculiar, and not endearing at all. It seemed forced and ingenuine.
I agree, super awkward, and definitely uncomfortable, luckily Rush is hardly Canadian, so Geddy's opinion questionable at best.
I've actually met Getty through mutual friends many times. This isn't surprising, he has an arrogance about him thats hard to mask. Anyone that knows him would agree.
He's applauding the Hip here without gushing over them like a hardcore fan. Saying that they don't necessarily have to be Canadian and can be from anywhere and still be a great band is a major compliment. Geddy is usually stoic in his interviews. He acted the same way in the movie "I love you man". To say he's jealous here is inaccurate.
Okay Gordie is a complete legend, but keep in mind we are talking about rock god Geddy Lee here. In comparison to Gord there really isn't anything for Geddy to be jealous of. Whether or not he likes him, well I don't have a clue on whether or not he actually liked Gord.
Loved the Hip until they supported Trudeau. Now every time I hear them I puke.
Rush sucks Hip rulez
Rush = Ferrari
Hip = Kia 😂
Geddy is being nice....the most overrated band ever.
Nah that would be Matthew Good or 54-40.
I think they were considered a "Canadian" band because so many of their songs were about Canada, its peoples and places. No band from another Country would write a song about David Milgaard's story or about a town called Bobcaygeon. Those songs and others touched our souls because we understood the stories and could relate to them more than most other music. Also they were typically humble Canadians themselves. They weren't about flash and celebrity, they were about the music.