2012-10-06 - Hamilton, Ontario

[mintgreenbird]

Goodnight ivor whyne http://360.io/7ZZNG8 goodnight

[mintgreenbird]

I have mixed feelings about this. The setup was good but the people were disorganised. if u had floor u received an email tellin you to enter at the stage right gate. you the had to walk the legnth of the feild and stand in que in front of the regular entrance to receive a wrist band. the bartenders we awesome... i was straight wisky to keep warm and they gave me full cups every time. The food was ok and the wait wasent bad but nowhere to eat once you got food. A true VIP. The 250 price tag dident keep out the drunk kids where I Was. Wasent bad untill about halfway thru row 1 turned into 4 People deep. :-/ the show itself was good but predictable. They def did not mail it in despite playing in the cold. I had fun and enjoyed the show but 250 was a bit steep. Could have learned one gem in the last week or broke out a cover or acoustic or something. Sam Roberts was awesome. I think the hip came out faster than usual from the switch.... Could be The cold I don't know. New songs were awesome and did fit in we'll. still haven't heard n f p a. Weird. Nothing from w a t s if I remember right. Cheers and onto Cleveland d

[thebends]

SRB set was awesome!

[ashtrayrock]

so glad sam had his sax player on board for this show
was hoping for mind flood to close the set, but still love them kids
i think i heard right...it was sam's 79th time opening up for the hip
the hip introduced me to sam many years ago, and that ride has been incredible+
thanks to the hip for that!

setlist
detroit 67
fixed to ruin
let it in
hard road
streets of heaven
last crusade
bridge to nowhere
graveyard shift
brother down
them kids

[BakersBrew]

So for 250 bucks as a VIP you get 19 songs? Are people going to keep defending this band? Completely unacceptable....the true greats...Springsteen, Young, etc, would never do this to their fans. But..love is blind I guess.

[thebends]

Paid similar amount for Springteen at Fenway and got the hits +. Never been much into Bruce and band but they absoloutely killed, loved the hits we all know. Moral of the story is if you have to bitch about the essentials move on to the next band and shut the f*** up.

[The Heron Outside]

So for 250 bucks as a VIP you get 19 songs? Are people going to keep defending this band? Completely unacceptable....the true greats...Springsteen, Young, etc, would never do this to their fans. But..love is blind I guess.

As painful as it is to admit, he's got a point. The way they're going, this band may be best suited for casinos.

[BakersBrew]

Hey Bends go f**k your mother

[The Heron Outside]

Paid similar amount for Springteen at Fenway and got the hits +. Never been much into Bruce and band but they absoloutely killed, loved the hits we all know. Moral of the story is if you have to bitch about the essentials move on to the next band and shut the f*** up.

I think his point is that The Hip aren't playing enough songs. The hits have nothing to do with it.

[Rye]

I live in Winnipeg and have tickets for the Fargo show. If this setlist sticks all tour I will strongly consider skipping the Winnipeg show when the eventually come to Canada (especially if it's at the Arena and especially if tickets are $80+ as they have been the past few tours). Take note of this Hip, this is coming from someone that has been seeing your shows and buying your albums on the release date since I was 13 yrs old in 1996.

And this is why the Hip couldn't give less of a shit about this sentiment....

After all of the NFPA stuff this week, I actually was surprised that they played so many "hits", but I guess they knew what this crowd was there for - I was asking a couple of girls what they thought of the new album, and they said they've never heard it, and hoped they didn't play any of it tonight.

In Canada 95% of the people who attend Hip shows, and still attend enough to sell out almost every show they play in this country, ONLY want to hear 10 or 11 certain songs. As a result that's what will always be played in addition to a hand full from the newest album. Die hards be damned. I can guarantee the setlists will be more diverse in the States because they know the diehards will make the trip down there so there's a little appeasement, and most of the Americans in the crowd will have no idea what most of the songs are anyways.

Sounds like the show was still highly entertaining though, which most shows usually are. You can always count on the energy level being full bore.

And this is exactly my problem with Hip shows the last couple years; they'd rather cater to people that have no interest in supporting their new work as opposed to those of us who have supported them for years.

[thecompletist]

Listen this was likely a one off, I doubt we will see $250 Ticket again. Was it worth it? The food was decent and 5 drink tickets and then $2 after that...still doesn't add up to $250 for the 19 or so songs. Given this type of show it would be a bit easier to swallow if there was in the 23-25 range of songs. That extra 3-4 song set of a couple older gems would have been nice. I took my business partner who hadn't seen them since the 90's... I mean I really took him... FRONT ROW, he used all his drink tickets and most of mine, he loved that Gord came out of his shoes-crazy and ended up with Johnny's drumstick in the end. So we bought the tix out of the company and really enjoyed the night! If I was still 24 and couldnt afford to go I be more pissy about it...but I'm not, I have the cash and had a mission and it went well us.

In the end the price was still ridiculous and I am a tad surprised that TTH attached their name to that type of pricing... and to pay $100 for those stands? also pretty steep... We'll see where this all ends up in 2013 winter arena tour.

Having said all that if you in lived within an hour of Toronto, last week there was free shows for 4 days downtown where you could have had a pretty intimate experience musically and even a band chat if you worked hard at it.

Anyways here's the photos from Row 1
http://www.flickr.com/photos/concertaho ... 4564/show/

[thebends]

Listen this was likely a one off, I doubt we will see $250 Ticket again. Was it worth it? The food was decent and 5 drink tickets and then $2 after that...still doesn't add up to $250 for the 19 or so songs. Given this type of show it would be a bit easier to swallow if there was in the 23-25 range of songs. That extra 3-4 song set of a couple older gems would have been nice. I took my business partner who hadn't seen them since the 90's... I mean I really took him... FRONT ROW, he used all his drink tickets and most of mine, he loved that Gord came out of his shoes-crazy and ended up with Johnny's drumstick in the end. So we bought the tix out of the company and really enjoyed the night! If I was still 24 and couldnt afford to go I be more pissy about it...but I'm not, I have the cash and had a mission and it went well us.

In the end the price was still ridiculous and I am a tad surprised that TTH attached their name to that type of pricing... and to pay $100 for those stands? also pretty steep... We'll see where this all ends up in 2013 winter arena tour.

Having said all that if you in lived within an hour of Toronto, last week there was free shows for 4 days downtown where you could have had a pretty intimate experience musically and even a band chat if you worked hard at it.

Anyways here's the photos from Row 1
http://www.flickr.com/photos/concertaho ... 4564/show/

Fantastic pics! Thanks for sharing.

[emperor penguin]

And this is exactly my problem with Hip shows the last couple years; they'd rather cater to people that have no interest in supporting their new work as opposed to those of us who have supported them for years.

Exactly

[Tthip]

So for 250 bucks as a VIP you get 19 songs?

I was cleaning some stuff tonight and ran across the "newspaper" they handed out for Another Roadside Attraction. The one with Blues Traveller.
And tickets were $35 plus service charges for that full day festival.

[The Darkest Canuck]

Nobody cares that they played Fiddler? I thought that was really cool.

The setlist does seem boring on the surface, but as WC said, the energy was great, and they were really in the (red) zone all night. The new stuff sounded great, I wouldn't have minded hearing a bit more of it, but i was pleased with the selections that did make the set. It would've been cool if Sarah Harmer was their to do Plan A, and maybe even Silver Road with them. I would say that it was probably the shortest set they've played out of the 6 times i've seen them now as well. All in all, the great energy, the excitement of hearing new material, and ferocious renditions of the hits, far outweigh the shortness of the set, and lack of "gems" ( IMO Fiddler is like a two-point conversion).

*edit* The setlist says "Scared", but they swapped it out for Wheat Kings.