Terrible injustice - TRAGICALLY HIP - WHEAT KINGS REACTION(First time hearing) 

Funny how Rush who was bigger in Canada and international who’s drummer Neil Peart died of the same cancer and it was kept silence till days after his funeral the way his family wanted and he like it, out of the limelight. Rip Gordon and Neil. They are jamming together 🎸🥁

This American is lucky enough to have discovered the Hip in the early 90s. It's a shame and a mystery that they didn't catch on down here like they did in Canada. But, as Gord said on the Live Between Us album about the Rheostattics (and applies to the Hip), "we're all richer for having seen them".

It's because Canadian stations have to play Canadian songs. Dumb Canadian law.

@@habibikebabtheiii2037 It's not dumb at all.

Meritocracy

You summed up my thoughts.

Perfectly said. Probably my favourite song of the hip. I live a stones throw away in Humboldt! Hope you're enjoying the holidays!

Thanks for this post (and this reaction!) I grew up on a farm outside Saskatoon. I think it was when I was young, I remember seeing on the news about him being set free. It was a huge deal. Couple details about ther song... this is my partner's favourite song of the Hip. He's older than me by 12 years, by that line about "classrooms hung with pictures of our parents' prime ministers". He says that's exactly what his classroom was like (in rural Saskatchewan as well). I always wondered about the title.. makes me think if the WHL (hockey) team Brandon Wheat Kings - which is a small city in Manitoba. I believe "wheat kings" might be a name for the iconic but disappearing grain elevators of the prairies, including Saskatchewan. Thanks for covering this!

I'm from Saskatoon as well... beautiful city and alot history

Almost as bad as the farmer shooting the indigenous teens who wandered onto his property and got away with it, All he had to do was talk to them.

❤

The 5 year anniversary of Gords death was a couple weeks back. Local radio renamed the station to Gord FM and only played hip songs all day. Was a great day and shows how much he meant to all of us.

Alabama gets it.

Warms my heart to hear cousin.

Very well known in Canada 😊

Bless you sister.✌❤🇨🇦

Thank you.✌❤🇨🇦

While the Tea Party aren’t national icons like the Hip, I doubt many Canadians will have any issues with you also enjoying the Tea Party’s music too. 😊

Nautical Disaster has the some of the best and most powerful lyrics ever.

Nautical Disaster is my favourite Hip song.

@@jomc7425 my band covers it and everytime we play it, the crowds get into it. and its really not the type of song to get into

Much like your discovery of the Hip, I am still so happy to have discovered Paul Kelly in the ‘90s-along with the Hip, Paul’s one of my favourite-both are national treasures

A society can't improve if it won't acknowledged it's faults. In Germany day trips for schools even go to concentration camps. Bury the ghosts of the past, they come back to haunt you.

Rip Gord. We miss u. 🙏🇨🇦♥️

Fiddler’s Green is one of my favourites, however I can barely make it through without crying.

Since I’ve had kids, I can’t listen to that song anymore

I was at the show where they played it for the first time in almost 2 decades. There was not a dry eye in the house and we all knew that we were present for magic.

I cry every time I hear Fiddlers Green

yeah bill, great perfomance one of my favorite bands but i think AC/DC stole the show

Thanks to trump. We don't believe that in the US anymore. Better that 100 people are imprisoned rather than one go free.

It is understandable, as the Hip wrote and created songs more often then not with a Canadian historical background, which would not easily be transferable to other countries. Truly cultural Icons.

They started around the time of Nirvana and the Grunge scene. hard to compete with them when you are singing about Canada for Canadians.. they are well loved here.

I was at a Hip concert at the Dome in Calgary in 2008, and one line into Blow At High Dough Gord just stepped back and let all 23K of us sing to them. It was note for note, hiccup for hiccup, reproduced like we'd been listening to it our whole lives... ...which, of course, we had.

More like the great band

Agree!

Many other countries too.

It was a terrible injustice. But the police didn’t fabricate anything. His two friends even told police they’re witnesses him do it! The police, the prosecutor and the judge were convinced based on the evidence. I can’t imagine losing half your life in jail for something you didn’t do. Unbelievably tragic. One good thing is that this case created more safe guards for investigations and prosecutions to help avoid these tragedies.

@@strigoi5890 the friends originally were telling the police that he was with them at the time of the murder but the police thought they were lying. They had another person before them who told them it was David so he could get reward money and this was why they thought David’s friends were lying. They police pretty much intimidated and scared the teens (who they had been interrogating for over ten hours I believe, I’ll double check) into what the police believed was telling the “truth”

They did the same thing to Steven Truscott in Ontario. He was also just a boy ..14 years old.

Queen rae - Read about the Steven Truscott case in Ontario. Even worse. He was convicted to hang in 1959 at fourteen for the rape and murder of a school friend, Cheryl Harper. His sentence was reduced to life in prison. He wasn't exonerated until 2007.

I was born in 1958 and grew up hearing about this 14 year old kid in Ontario who was convicted of murder. Everyone I knew was pretty uncomfortable with what happened in that case. I grew up in Regina and the David Milgaard case from just up the road in Saskatoon was another one that everyone in the public was much troubled by. We all wish, no matter where we live, that the justice system was more accurate in who it convicted. This is as old as mankind itself. Look at Joseph in the Bible, who spent 14 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. Ask God to be with and protect those convicted wrongly and rotting in jail. 🥴😧☹

Unfortunately, while Steven Truscott was released on parole in 1969 and finally freed from his parol obligations, it wasn’t until 2007 that his case was overturned (though he was not declared innocent just that there was “reasonable doubt” about his innocent. His case was heard by the Supreme Court in 1967. One judge said that if his case had been heard at that time he would have been found not guilty. His was the dissenting vote. The 8 other judges said that the evidence didn’t persuade them the the original verdict was wrong. He appeal failed. It was a farce. The evidence, even given the state of forensics in the day didn’t point to him. No other suspects who were more likely, had been in the area, one most likely to have committed the crime had been seen on the same road in the previous several days trying to get girls into his car. NONE of these were considered. The police had decided that Truscott had done it and they made the evidence for the notion that he did it even when the evidence almost totally exonerated him. The Ontario Court of Appeals just rubber-stamped the previous decisions. It wasn’t until 2001 that he again appealed to the Court Appeal they agreed to hear it again. The case was before the Court from 2001 to 2007. In 2006, they exhumed Lynne Harper’s body, reheard ALL the evidence including the other possible suspects, the insect evidence with fresh expert eyes. The original draft autopsy contradicted the final autopsy report about the supposed narrow window claimed by the original Crown Attorney. Since the study of insect evidence had improved since the original investigation, it clearly showed that she must have died later that the police claimed, as late as the next day. And is appeared that the original forensic expert actually tailored the evidence to fit the police contention only Truscott could have done it. Even after all the evidence presented, the Court of Appeals would not declare him “factually innocent” but that there was “reasonable doubt” but overturned the original decision and left it up to to the Crown to decide if they should try him again. Thankfully, the Attorney General decided not to retry and apologised for the miscarriage of justice. “On August 28, 2007, Truscott was acquitted of the charges. Truscott's defence team had originally asked for a declaration of factual innocence, which would mean that Truscott would be declared innocent, and not merely unable to be found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Although they issued the acquittal, the court said it was not in a position to declare Truscott innocent of the crime. "The appellant has not demonstrated his factual innocence," the court wrote. "At this time, and on the totality of the record, we are in no position to make a declaration of innocence." Within the Court's 2006 judgement, as they reviewed the evidence against Truscott, the Court wrote that "In these circumstances, we cannot say that an acquittal is the only reasonable verdict." Truscott therefore remains a strong suspect in the rape and killing of Lynne Harper.” “Attorney General of Ontario Michael Bryant apologized to Truscott on behalf of the provincial government, stating they were "truly sorry" for the miscarriage of justice.” It was about bleeding time.

Linda Garcia - Read about the Stephen Truscott case in Ontario, Canada. A horrible story. Convicted at 14 to hang for the rape and murder of a girl, a schoolmate, in 1959. The sentence was reduced to life in prison and he wasn't exonerated until 2007!

Larry Fisher. They caught him, I think a year or two before David was freed, but boy did he leave a bloody trail before he was stopped!

Been there....and I'm from Connecticut