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The Hello and welcome to another edition of Turned Out of Punk.

I'm your host, Damian Abraham, and today on the show, they don't get too much bigger than this in Canada

Paul Langois from the band the tragically hip is on the show if you are from Canada

you know how big this is if you are from anywhere and you know a Canadian you probably

know how big a deal this is the tragically hip are the biggest band ever

from Canada. And as I talk about it with Paul, it's really hard to kind of place their significance

in terms of comparisons, certainly to the music I know best, which is probably music from America or the

UK.

So I'll just leave it at there are a band that everyone pretty much in this country has some

sort of interaction with or has had some sort of interaction with in terms of the music

or seeing them perform their final concert on live TV shortly before Gordowny,

rest in peace, passed away, or just hearing someone talk about this band. They are a huge

band. On a personal level, years ago, I wrote a article just before Gord passed away for Vice about my journey with a tragically hip.

And I'm not going to bore you by reading it now or anything.

But I'll summarize it as saying I was a fan of the tragically hip as a young kid as they were sort of on this ascent. and then they became kind of the biggest band in Canada

and without knowing any of the people just not necessarily being a fan of some of the people

that were very vocal fans of the band at that point.

I kind of just dismissed them and walked away.

Only years later to kind of come back,

not only to the music,

but then to also realize from talking to people within music,

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