Gord Downie: A Remembrance-Part 1

Ongoing History of New Music

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Music History, History, Music, Music Interviews, Music Commentary

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🗓️ 1 November 2017

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Here is how we’re going to do this…we all know how important Gord Downie and The Tragically Hip have been to Canadian music, Canadian culture and Canada, period…we’ll take that as read… And when Gord died on October 18, 2017, it seemed like the whole country went into mourning…the best tweet I saw read “Canada closed…death in the family” …those six words summed things up better than anything else I saw... What I’d like to do is remember and celebrate Gord and The Hip, filling in some blanks along the way…they’ve never been interested in any kind of chronological autobiography and no book about them has ever received official authorization from the band… So, although The Hip was around for more than three decades and have some of the best fans ever, there’s still plenty of stories to be told…and along the way, we’ll remember Gord for who he was and what he did that touched so many people across this country…and we’re going to start at the very, very beginning… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Alan, and I just wanted to let you know that you can now listen to the ongoing
0:04.3	history of new music early and ad-free on Amazon music, included with Prime.
0:10.9	This is Gord Downey.
0:13.0	You know, as I'm fond of saying, it's not really the successes that make you.
0:16.0	It's the failures and the fun you have with your failures.
0:19.8	There's a few lines over the years I always try and get in
0:22.4	because I think in some vain way they're neat.
0:25.7	Or they, you know, they neat.
0:27.0	Or maybe it's not vanity, it's just they hang in there.
0:30.3	I don't know why.
0:31.4	And they insist or insinuate themselves into something
0:33.8	and they seem to fit and work.
0:36.3	It'd be hard for me now at this age and stage
0:39.6	to leave a song without a glimmer of hopefulness. It'd be tough for me to do that. I'd
0:45.9	probably, because I would say who wants that? But you can take someone, take yourself to the edge
0:53.8	of a bleak sentiment.
0:56.3	But I always like to try and have some kind of sense of hopefulness,
1:00.8	even in collapse, that someone or both are going to be able to get up and walk away.
1:07.7	This is part one of a remembrance of Gore Downey and the tragically him.
1:16.1	This is the ongoing history of new music, the podcast edition with Alan Cross.
1:25.7	Well, I mean, on stage, I'm just thrilled to be there and nervous and a little fright, you know, a little nervous.
1:35.8	And, but I am definitely, I feel like I did when I first rehearsed in a basement with these guys in the hip or the first
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