I love The Proposition but it loses steam when it focuses on Watson and Winstone, which is saying something because they are both great actors. Really it's about the brothers, great visuals and music. After enduring the somehow-snooze-inducing Triple 9 recently, I'm pretty much convinced that Hillcoat has nothing to…

Good for you. Predator is a growth industry.

I know this is largely about Gord, but I need to post something separately here to praise all the other band members. As I mentioned earlier, I saw the Hip ages ago and was blown away. That night and tonight again I was so impressed by really stellar musicianship all around. I spent many years as a musician so I tend…

Honestly, that's what first got me crying too. I was already getting pretty choked up but then between songs they cut to some random woman in a baseball cap who was crying away, and it got me started.

That's a great description, and I'd kind of apply that to The Hold Steady (whom I love) though I never would have thought otherwise to compare those two particular bands.

"Heroic" is a great word for it. Also "drained".

That's fucking great!

Here's me in my fucking metallic pink suit, asshole, I'm not going down without a fucking fight

I didn't know that Leafs story, that's amazing. (I don't know the song either, which probably doesn't reflect well on me in this context……)

That was me too. My gf was gone for a while as I was watching the concert and when she came back it had just ended and I was in the kitchen trying to ponder making dinner but failing because I was so knocked out. I had stopped crying a bit earlier but she took one look at me and said "Are you okay?". It was written…

Gord's voice was … different, but like Bob Dylan, he needed to be the guy
singing these words, in this order, with this intonation.

I am filled with jealousy but glad for you that you were there! What an experience that must have been. Hope you can take a minute to tell us about it.

Could you expand on the First Nations thing? (I know I can Google it, but I prefer to just have conversations with people about things sometimes.) I'm American and don't know anything about it.

Yeah I don't care if they never play again but I am holding out hope that Gord hangs in a long time.

I was thinking it would be funny/appropriate if the last two songs were Scared and then Courage. I missed the beginning so I missed Courage but Scared had me in tears (well, I was already in tears). I really thought they were done when the last line of Scared came around - "it's been a pleasure doing business with…

I'll be the one that goes to bat for OLP. "Happiness Is Not A Fish That You Can Catch" and "Spiritual Machines" are both excellent albums; the latter makes me think of them as a meat-and-potatoes Radiohead, it's like a less trippy version of Ok Computer. Unfortunately, they are pretty much a classic example of…

Esthero too. Why does she seem to disappear for years at a time?

This was really amazing. I am so very grateful that it was streamed as I don't have CBC and didn't want to miss it. I did miss a chunk of the beginning but everything I saw was really great.

WEEEEELLL? WE'RE WAIIITIIING!!

Didn't you read the article? "Shots fired". SHOTS HAVE BEEN FIRED