2024 April, Gord could still sing their early stuff beautifully, the way the band is so tight together physically, their muscle memory is to be together on a small stage close, Long Live the Hip
I love these guys. But im gay for Gordie and he's gone from here. I hope i see him up there. What a poet. What a voice. People who haven't experienced TH wont get this but he was a stand alone artist. Prince, Michael Jackson, Gordie, Elvis all different but all radiant in that special way.
This song feels like the black sheep of Former Lives. It’s amazing and the vocal melody is chefs kiss, but it stands out with the others. In a good way.
Why, why, why, did their label not aggressively shop them in the US?? This band could have changed everything. Even Dan Akroyd tried to break them. LOL!
This is the song that made me buy my Gibson SG :) I went in the music store to poke around while waiting to meet someone, and plugged in a dandy little SG Tribute into a Traynor amp, and played this riff. Love at first strum. Two weeks later, I had the guitar :) This song got me through so much of COVID. I am not sure exactly what Gord wrote it about, but knowing the story of Tom, the line "I've been shaking all night long, but my hands are steady" just hit me so hard, working from home into the wee hours of the night, running my business. And through it all, my hands were *always* steady.
Love the T Hip . . . got to see them a couple times in Vermont way back. Great live band, Gord was out of his bean on stage, all over the place, a great frontman.
My old man was a hard Canadian, so much so, they used to call him "rebel" as an American reference. He hated everyone and everything, especially the government and the Crown.
