Admiration for Gord Downie and The Tragically Hip

[skip]

Politics aside, Downie worked hard to entertain.
I saw that one third of Canadians tuned in for part of the concert.
If that is Canadian politics - hardly compares to what is going on south of the border...
I am a bigger fan of the Hip today after watching on Saturday.

[mustardman]

Listened on radio in grain truck/grain cart but Missed hearing my favourite song "38 years old"
Supposedly a song about David Milgaurd
Tried getting ticket for the final tour but no luck. Great to hear on radio with Buck 65 doing commentary

[cottonpicken]

Lost track how many times i seen them live,their pretty good but a little to soft and feminine for me.

The brain washing politics should have been left out but holy moly that must have been a tough show to do,went out with a bang anyways.

[rockpile]

As one who can speak of personal experience with the loss of a loved one with the very same brain cancer as Downie has (killed my bride of 37 years seven and one half years ago), I can only say I have no idea where he got the energy to do this tour. It's a super human feat! The average life expectancy after diagnosis is 14 months. Sometimes politics just don't matter...

[mustardman]

Sorry for your loss rock pile

Yes it must be a super human feat to go onstage under the fog of illness
It does put things into perspective when you see someone publicly performing when we know he won't be here long and it makes some of our "problems" seem trivial

[farmaholic]

Well I finally got my chance to watch the concert......I will never hear a Tragically Hip song the same again!!! Hit after hit....hard to believe they had that many....but they've been around a while. Gord was a real trooper....at the end of the last song before they came out for the third time, he looked like he would like to cry the cancer away....likely knowing this will in all likelyhood be his last tour performance.

Thank you Tragically Hip for decades of music entertainment. A band with a signature sound and proudly Canadian.