He’s a hypnotic entertainer, the kind of guy who could have a cult following - if he doesn’t already. Antics such as that made it Downie’s show. A few tunes later, after he kicked it over, it bounced back and hit him on the head, so he kicked it again and then apologized to it. During the first song, he knocked it over and whipped it with a belt. The microphone stand bore the brunt of Downie’s energies. Singer Gord Downie, the maniacal front man in the Hip, knew he had a captive audience and he performed with an intense passion, as if feeding off the crowd’s energy. It reaches a point when you want to hold back on the reins.” (Lynn Saxberg)ġ993: Concert review, Another Roadside Attraction, Lansdowne Park, published July 27 It’s the old saying - it’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye. Sometimes he really gets carried away with it, and that’s what he felt like doing. “Gord really depends on the passion of performance, receiving a lot of energy back from the audience, as much as he’s giving out. “I think we were going to go into The Wherewithal, which wasn’t going to do much to calm things down so we figured we better pull the plug while we had the chance,” said bassist Gord Sinclair. Why did the band end the last Civic Centre show early? (Lynn Saxberg)ġ993: Interview with bassist Gord Sinclair, published July 24 So what does Gord do to liven things up? Without batting an eye, he throws himself into the middle of the mayhem, diving over a row of security guards and landing atop the first few rows of fans standing on their seats. But the crowd’s reaction to Hundredth Meridian was tame compared to the response to the older hits like New Orleans Is Sinking. The band was building to a big climax last night at the Civic Centre, pulling out some of the rockers from the new album. OKġ992: Concert review, Ottawa Civic Centre, published Nov.
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You may use a different browser or device to view this in full screen. More and more, he’s letting the music suggest the lyrics rather than coming to the music with finished lyrics and trying to cram the two together.” (Lynn Saxberg)įull Screen is not supported on this browser version. Gord Downie would pick up a little melody snippet or one phrase of a lyric and he’d repeat that until that led him someplace else. “With this record, it was a matter of somebody bringing in a very rough idea, maybe just a guitar riff, or chord progression and we’d just start hammering away at that. 12įully Completely, the new album, shows more of a collaborative effort in writing the songs, Baker says, though all the lyrics were written by Gord Downie, the band’s poetic, yet eccentric, front man. (Lynn Saxberg)ġ992: Interview with Rob Baker, published Nov. Even after months on the road, they’re still sounding good - although maybe a bit weary of the shenanigans. It was a great show by what is indisputably Canada’s top rock band. Full cups of beer, bras, running shoes, hats and even a box of dairy creamers - Gord liked that one. Some tried to shed their clothes and others got in fights. On Thursday night at the Congress Centre, they climbed the stage and dove off it. They want to be just as wild and crazy as he, and many will go to fantastic lengths to prove it. Article contentįans seem to want to be Gord.
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