The Tragically Hip, Canada's BEST rock band ever. #14; final tour! Going?!

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Lead singer, guitarist, mad genius-poet Gordon Downie has terminal brain cancer forcing The Hip to confine their tour to a few cities in Canada between July 22nd in Victoria, B.C., and August 20th, their final show in the band's hometown of Kingston, ON. Broadcast live across the great nation of Canada!

I just received my Enhanced DL for WA which allows me entry into Canada once again. It's been a long, long time. I can't wait to see the Machine in action.

I've had the utter privilege of seeing TTH play in 1,000 seat or less venues in the U.S. Excepting the one show in Marymoor Park (Redmond, WA) where there were upwards of 2,000 or more thanks to WOMAD '96. (? Going from memory here)

Canadians get their Hip on 70,000 at a time or so. This will be new for me to a degree. There was the Monsters of Rock (Spokane, '84) way back when.

Man Machine Poem, album #14, released 6/20/16; all done before Gord even knew he was essentially a dead man walking.

9 of 13 albums went to #1 in Canada (not counting #14 which hasn't been tallied obviously). All 14 contain 10 songs minimum. 150+ not including live versions or bonus tracks. Gord can't write a bad song to save his life.

Are you going? I'm planning to visit the first 4 stops. All starting a week from Friday...