| The Tragically Hip – Blow At High Dough Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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there's nothing about porn here - a movie was shot in the area - there were a bunch of big names/big money floating around for a while - the locals got excited about the commotion - something happening in a small place - some got good paying, although temporary, jobs, alot of extras were needed (crowd scenes) - the money didn't last long for most people - they had a good time - a big, but temporary, party scene after all Dan Akroyd also comes from Kingston & returns every summer - parties ensue - he often promotes events, concerts & he has even made movies here like one of the Blue Brothers movies |
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| The Tragically Hip – 38 Years Old Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| The Hip's recording studio "the Bathouse" is also located right there, on the edge of Bath & Lake Ontario. | |
| The Tragically Hip – Three Pistols Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| so what's the 3 pistols part about? | |
| The Tragically Hip – The Lonely End of the Rink Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Gord's team won the championship one year while he played net, so most of the action was at the other end of the rink. Every period the teams would switch ends, & when you were at the far end end, away from the main entrance in a small rink, he would turn around & sometimes it was just his dad, standing there on the other side of the glass. | |
| The Tragically Hip – Something On Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| absolutely | |
| The Tragically Hip – Little Bones Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| This song is about New Orleans - a favourite hang out & recording location for the hip. | |
| The Tragically Hip – The Depression Suite Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| arctic has 2 c's | |
| The Tragically Hip – Fifty-Mission Cap Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Bill Barilko had gone on a fishing trip to James Bay, in a float plane with a friend from Timmins, Ontario (his hometown) a dentist named Henry Hudson (who was the pilot). Another Henry Hudson, the explorer (Hudson Bay is named after him) also died in James Bay. I just had this conversation about this song with writter Joseph Boyden who has taken Gord Downie fishing, up in James Bay, a few times. There is an article on Barilko in the Beaver magazine August/Sept, 2001 issue. Some of the lyrics are directly off a "PRO SET" hockey card. The 50 mission cap is a separate thread woven into the Barilko story that I had assumed was a cap picked after so many tour dates... |
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| The Tragically Hip – Fifty-Mission Cap Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Bill Barilko wasn't Russian - he was born in Timmins, Ontario | |
| The Tragically Hip – Locked In The Trunk Of A Car Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Like all hip songs, there are multiple threads or ideas woven into the song, not always strongly related, but in this case they all focus around bodies. The song starts off, quite plainly with an archaeological, or other type of dig, where a skeleton has been found - there's lots of archaeology going on around Kingston all the time - that's what I do. In fact I have have worked in McBurney Park in Kingston that used to be a graveyard & is commonly called "Skeleton Park". There is a summer music festival there (Skeleton Park Music Festival) & the Hip have recorded a song called "Skeleton Park" that hasn't been on an album, but was available as a specal download for a wireless company. The 'chronologically fucked-up' section (an archaeological term) happened decades ago in a village NW of K-town whre a pot-hunter/looter was trying to sell a red ocher burial mound skeleton out of the trunk of his car. The cool, sweet, dark, rotted section refers to an incident that took place in the late 80's or early 90's north of Kingston (Barry's Bay) just south of Algonquin Park, where a guy took a girl in the summer, killed her & hid her body in the woods & went to visit it & have sex with it, for a while. Of course Gordie's not going to talk about this in interviews. kinda bad PR - he usually justs makes up stuff on the spot for his own intertainment - a mystery is also good. The last section is about the mental anguish of committing a crime where a body has been dummped in a wooded rural area outside of a city & finnaly the screams of a kidnapped victum locked in the trunk of a car. I don't see any link to the FLQ incident - the body was never dumped. |
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