The hip

[trappermatt]

Great show tonight , I just came back from a week in the north in time to catch it on TV , been a hip fan for a long time and it's a sad thing that is happening to Gord , wish him all the best .

[skypilot]

Ahead by a Century.....

[one shot scott]

I cracked a Moosehead and enjoyed watching. I have only been to 3 concerts in my life. Page/Plant and the hip 2x and that was 20 years ago. Great music. Good to see him enjoying himself with his fellow bandmates. The loss of G Downy will hit Canadian music greatly.

Now that I think back to that 2nd Hip concert, its weird. I can recall having difficulty standing due to an yet undiagnosed cancer. When the time comes Gord, I hope you do not suffer.

& F cancer.

[Dythbringer]

Was drinking the Crown with Yedi. I thought it was a solid concert. I must say I thought Gord was showing the disease about mid concert (would look down at the tele-prompter, looking fatigued,etc). But whatever the roadie gave him mid-concert seemed to perk him up. My mom passed in Feb with gliobastoma. I highly doubt Gord Downie will see these words but thank you very much sir for everything you and your bandmates put into the past three decades.

[contaucreek]

He lost me when he started beaking off about the Turd. No need to bring politics into the show....twice....
Kow-tow to the CBC?

[FishinScuba]

Great show , he is definitely a great entertainer! Saw them in Belleville a few years back and saw something I had never seen before , a guy in a wheelchair crowd surfing! I will remember that for the rest of my life.

[Oddmott]

He lost me when he started beaking off about the Turd. No need to bring politics into the show....twice....
Kow-tow to the CBC?

Downie has been politically cognizant and active his entire career.

He's cared about water safety for the north for years and has been a board member for an organization trying to improve matters there.

Don't agree with his opinon of trudeau in the slightest... but he had every right to use the opportunity to espouse his beliefs one last time.

[taketheshot]

Half way through the show I was thinking to myself "This is the best thing the CBC has been involved in". Then when Gord started endorsing JT and saying that we're in good hands now, I thought "Ohhh, now I get it".

He lost me when he started beaking off about the Turd. No need to bring politics into the show....twice....
Kow-tow to the CBC?

[GW11]

Trudeau and CBC aside, that was probably one of the best three hour events I've ever watched on TV. Like many of you, being 40, The Hip was the soundtrack of my late teens and early 20's.

Great show, well done Gord....

[Oddmott]

Also key to point out that the show was completely off the cuff and unscripted, and - most importantly - produced by a 3rd party company.

CBC just agreed to air it. They didn't have their hands on the technical, artistic or political details of what we viewed.

Probably why it was so awesome.