![]() ![]() In the United States they couldn’t sell 100,000 copies in five years. In Canada the Hip sold more than 200,000 copies of Fully Completely in five weeks. They really did seem poised for international recognition. The Another Roadside Attraction tour, a sort of traveling festival organized and headlined by the Hip, was enormously popular, and thanks to Dan Aykroyd, a fellow Kingstonian, they performed “Nautical Disaster” and “Grace, Too” on Saturday Night Live. “New Orleans is Sinking” was already canonical. The band received the key to the city of Kingston in 1991, the same year they won a Juno for Canadian Entertainer of the Year. Article content Gordon Downie, lead singer for the Tragically Hip signs autographs backstage at the Prince George Multiplex following one of the band’s sold out shows in B.C. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. They obliged, and Gold and Gregg signed them to their management company on the spot. They were impressed enough by the raw talent that they felt compelled to reach out to them, inviting the band to make the two-and-a-half hour drive from Kingston to Toronto to perform a short set at Larry’s Hideaway downtown. Gold and Gregg had been sent a demo tape by a friend. It would soon prove a legitimate one: the band’s big break arrived courtesy of a pair of upstart Canadian music moguls named Jake Gold and Allan Gregg, neither of whom was much older than the band. ![]() Downie quit school to focus on his career. Music was slowly become a full-time gig for the band: when they weren’t on stage they were composing original music, recording demos and mailing out CDs to record label execs, even attempting the occasional Battle of the Bands. Photo by Handout Gord Downie of the Tragically Hip performs at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Ont. 26)–Members of the The Tragically Hip (left-right) Johnny Fay, Rob Baker, Gordon Downie, Paul Langlois, Gord Sinclair are shown in this undated handout photo. By the time they graduated Kingston Collegiate and enrolled in University - Downie elected to study film at Queen’s - their live show, consisting mainly of covers of bar-band staples, had become popular enough locally that they were performing nearly every weekend. The Hip honed their style in small clubs around the city. At a certain point they decided to abandon the nearly obsolete punk scene and form a rock band together. Downie’s classmates, Gord Sinclair and Rob Baker, had a band of their own at the time, called The Rodents, and the three admired one another’s taste and sound. He attended high school in nearby Kingston, where he was the lead singer of a punk-rock group called The Slinks. No one.” Gord Downie, frontman of the Tragically Hip Photo by Mike Faille/National Postĭownie was born in the small town of Amherstview, Ont., in the early months of 1964. No one worked harder on every part of their life than Gord. At home, he worked just as tirelessly at being a good father, son, brother, husband and friend. As a musician, he lived ‘the life’ for over 30 years, lucky to do most of it with his high school buddies. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt. ![]()
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