The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal (2024) docuseries review

even the the bit of information with like Tower Records right like that was [ __ ] amazing right knowing that you know they approached them to like just play on their to do Beetle style playing on the roof show when then they were gonna basically give that album front and center in every Tower Records around the world and the band said nah that's too [ __ ] corporate because we're Sam the Record Man people here in because Sam the record's a big Canadian CH or was big Canadian yeah and they're just like you know well and then Sam the Record Man had and then they like kind of bring that too where like they have their own like magazine or whatever and they're just bashing the hip without even realizing that that the hip is basically giving them a [ __ ] reach around yeah [Music] well we got it first for this podcast so thank you TOR group and Prime video we're talking shows we're talking a documentary The Tragically Hip no dress rehearsal written and directed by Mike Downey insert random tragically hip verse lyric here you mean something like I'm tragically hip come on just let's go something like [Music] that hey everybody and welcome to this week's episode of how you like that movie we are actually doing something very special as you know we're primarily a movie or film podcast but when Prime video gives you the opportunity to cover The Tragically Hip no dress rehearsal docu series that just premiered at Tiff by the time you've he heard this you say yes so Scott New Orleans is Sinking ban I don't want to swim let's get into the hip let's do it right now let's do it fully completely nice um listen I think we gotta first start just like with a little script because you you keep on [ __ ] taking my [ __ ] now and I'm not liking this I like better when I was taking your [ __ ] but like now like [ __ ] yeah uh but yeah so if you're not at Tiff today you blew it uh September 5th uh this will release on Prime on September 20th and let me tell you this there there's the doy series I think is one of the one of the best ones I've seen in a very very long time cuz it it completed everything it like it has all the [ __ ] Feels Like You Laugh You Cry you cheer you're [ __ ] sad um you go through a roller closer of emotion and it it just encompasses like like the hip is Canada you got maple syrup you got Tim Horton and then you got the tah hiip right and I would put the hip probably above the other two with maple syrup a close close second but yeah like this was so [ __ ] well done and I was like I without even watching the trailer or anything I I was expecting this was just going to be like a docy series on you know that last tour but it's not it it takes you from the Genesis the birth and the explosion of the hip and it's a [ __ ] wild ride but also so super super [ __ ] enjoy it like you will be entertained and this is where you insert are you not entertained are you not entertained are you not entertained yes yes you were uh so just for a bit of coverage for those of you that are not Canadian uh the fact that Scott was able to just like jump into this doesn't even have to call the band The Tragically Hip they are known two Canadians so well that that shorthand of the hip there's only one band that's the hip it is The Tragically Hip they are the like the band that is Canada like yeah there's bigger bands like rush or uh Nickelback Justin Bieber the weekend Drake like all yeah all those people come from Canada but the hip the hip is Canada they told Canada who they were they were Canadians talking to Canadians about Canada and if you're from a specific generation there's no part of your life that doesn't have some hip single soundtrack to them so this is a band that started in a little town called Kingston Ontario uh and they went on in about 1984 and again there are other you know podcasts and documentaries and docu series that are going to cover the hip we are specifically going to be talking about uh no dress rehearsal the the recent uh docu series but again yeah hip started in 84 and they basically went till 2017 officially uh because their front man Gord dowy died in 2016 I believe um and so yeah this is if you have if you don't know the hip go Google The tragical Hip go listen to a bunch of their singles then come back finish this and then definitely watch this docu series that comes out on Prime video the 20th of September so Scott like yeah let's just go back and forth because I mean it's four parts roughly an hour each uh so you got about four plus hours of running time Direct Ed by Gordon's brother uh which I thought was you know super cool Mike Downey uh also did uh the music video for poets uh which they talk about in the docu series uh he did the hockey Nomad and finding the secret path um this docu series features The Tragically Hip which is the late great Gord Downey Rob Baker John Fay Paul langos and Gord Sinclair it also features will Arnette Dan akroy Jay barle Sarah harmer Getty Lee from Rush George trolopoulos from much music and the prime minister of Canada for now Justin Trudeau as many other celebrities and family members in management so okay Scott I'll kick it back over to you yeah like it is like especially growing up Canadian like it is a lot of whoooo like especially with George and Devin for much music um but the there's such a sweet innercut of all like you know CBC interviews much music interviews like even George's show he had for a while that was kind of like I guess you could say almost like real talk with um or Real Time with like um yeah it's kind of like that uh where it was like you know political docy and then you had the guest um but yeah like there's so much like watching this it like I don't know about you but like for me like watching this and then it's just the flood of I don't want to say I don't want to say it's Nostalgia but it's just the flood of like like hip songs like it brings back [ __ ] good memories like it's not like you're just living in the past but like you can like I I've been enthralled with [ __ ] my Apple music like [ __ ] just playing the [ __ ] hip over and over again now because of it and it's uh you know my wife may leave me because she never was a hit fan so I'm like obviously you're not Canadian but um but yeah it's just it's just so much [ __ ] fun and so like especially now being you know uh mid 20 to 50 range that I can play um it like actually listening to these lyrics now right like because you know like to me fully completely is my hip album right that's the one I identify the most with and love the most but you know there there isn't a hip album that that's [ __ ] bad which that's the thing watching this and you're going through each album technically and just like they start like playing the samples of the songs and [ __ ] you're like [ __ ] this one's good yeah this one's good too right um it's just yeah I want to say it's just so [ __ ] well done and having like the inside baseball of of the band like speaking on what was going on at the time and and and how their processed work like even the fact that you know you you find out and I don't know if this was basic knowledge or not but you know the um how they splitted the royalties like sure gourd was like you know I want to my contribute is I want to only Sing My Own lyrics but you know the the royalties of that song got split four ways it was never like song writer five five members of the band but you know what I mean right yeah yeah yeah basically he didn't just get the songwriting stuff all to himself he was like a tragically hip song is not a tragically hip song Until everybody puts their stamp on it from the drummer to the guitarists to like him you know what I mean like so it was yeah like that's that is one of the reasons that band probably stayed together and I mean they talk about it in this the docu series as well that like that because you didn't get the financial issues and gour even talks about it they're doing an interview with him on much music which was our MTV up here in Canada and there he's just like I can't be driving a Rolls-Royce and then he points to his guitarist and says like uh and he's riding a 10-speed bike you know I mean like that's just not cool right yeah yeah and like even the the bit of information with like Tower Records right like that was [ __ ] amazing right knowing that you know they approached them to like just play on their Beetle style playing on the roof show when then they were going to basically give that album front and center in every Tower Records around the world and the band said nah that's too [ __ ] corporate because we're Sam the Record Man people here in because Sam the Record man's a big Canadian chain or was big Canadian chain yeah and they're just like you know well and then Sam the Record Man had and then they like kind of bring that too where like they have their own like magazine or whatever and they're just bashing the hip without even realizing that the hip is basically given them a [ __ ] reach around yeah so yeah it's just like the little tidbits and like going down like the history um of this ban is just it it was just awe inspiring right and kind of sad too because like me personally I never had the opportunity to actually go watch them live and I really wanted to especially Canada like CU that was that was it like hip Canada Day concert right like I don't know how many they did in a year like in a row but that was always the thing like okay I want to go watch the hip on Canada day but never actually had that opportunity to do it so okay on that topic this is a great segue so I've had tragically hip tickets at least twice and I did not see the band including being at a tragically hip at a music festival tragically hip was playing at and not seeing them play so I was at a music festival in Victoria British Columbia in like probably like late 2000s uh you can Google it it's called Rock the Shores it was like them great b or uh current swell Sam Roberts and so current swell Sam Roberts playing while Sam Roberts is playing there's a lightning storm right and we actually don't get a lot of those in Victoria just because of the weird weather patterns they get out there and so Sam Roberts plays half his set he leaves the stage so I'm at this thing there's like I don't know how many thousands of people I say to my buddy I'm like yo we got to get the [ __ ] out of here before this turns into a riot cuz people are going to be pissed they don't get to see The Tragically here so of course you know discretion is the better part of valor we leave the show we're at a house party later and people show up and they're like yo were you guys at Rock the Shores I was like yeah we left did you see The Tragically hit play and we're like no people start pulling out their phones and you got The Tragically hit playing and a [ __ ] lightning storm they still went on the stage a lightning storm over top of them like God gave like whatever God you believe in if you believe in one basically said [ __ ] you Chris you're going to miss the greatest tragically hip show and I mean until they did their final tour uh ever because it was like thunder lightning and then them rocking out underneath the [ __ ] lightning in a place that never gets [ __ ] lightning storms so yeah [ __ ] Chris and then I also missed out when they were playing at Squamish Music Festival uh because of uh girlfriend stuff so yeah yeah Chris never also got to never see the tragic and were playing locally at the Kitchener Auditorium this is be just before uh gourd gave release that he he was getting sick and he was probably going to die uh and tickets were like normal price you know 20 bucks to go see The Tragically Hip at the kit Kitchener Auditorium and then Gore Downey the lead singer is like yeah I got terminal brain cancer we're gonna do one more tour uh into in in in in uh packing up our album tickets go through the roof the prime ministers going to the [ __ ] con final concert and here we are and yeah gour gour Downey the lead singer of The Tragically Hip died on October 17th 2017 so here's a question from our producer who said if you're not Canadian and you're not a tragically hip fan like why would you watch this documentary should you watch this documentary skyp yeah uh and that's the thing like the the aura of you know hip in let's say if the question is about the states um like they they reference it and and I I believe that that narrative that they weren't popular in the states seems like through this documentary seems to be kind of demystified because yeah they weren't you know they weren't as big in the states as they were in Canada but they were popular enough where where they even reference like any club that band wanted like to solidify themselves in the states would play the hit played yeah there weren't like [ __ ] probably Arena tours in the States but they they were still you know popular enough there like they got to [ __ ] like what do they say they played with [ __ ] the Rolling Stones right yeah andant and Jimmy Paige from [ __ ] Leed Zeppelin so yeah like and that's the thing I think it like the um the one thing that they did when they had the you know no Roadside Attraction tour and then they brought in Midnight Oil yeah and they're like we had no [ __ ] idea who these guys are and then you you you're watching this like behind the scenes where you know Midnight Oil is rocking out they're on the stage watching and then they go back in their dressing room and they're like having [ __ ] panic attacks like why the [ __ ] would we headline this and then they come out and just [ __ ] blow the roof off of of the place yeah and then just [ __ ] made Midnight Oil a Believer right like we're not worthy we're not worthy I think their credentials and their and their um alkalides kind of speak for themselves like it's referenced like how big they were in Europe so I think just because you're not Canadian doesn't mean you're not going to enjoy this I think you you'll probably enjoy it more and if you wen't a fan from from any of these countries and you watch this documentary I think it's going to to I think and I hope that their record sales and their downloads and their streams just after September 20th just has a huge [ __ ] Renaissance that you know you have another hip explosion where people are just [ __ ] in love with the hip again because it it is it's coming up to their 40th anniversary right so I think this is the perfect time to like [ __ ] Rego back on the hip yeah I think so first off if you like wellmade documentaries whether music or otherwise this is a great one like again it's got a great story arc unfortunately because of the death of gour Downey and with the band had to do or decides to do after that that's kind of the final of the four uh the first episode is basically the creation of the band like these guys were in like grade 11 and stuff when they first started jamming with each other and even other bands before those you know some members from two different bands basically become the hip then you've got the second episode which is really like the big albums of the of the 90s like uh road apples and up to here and I'm even fully completely might be in there uh and then you get into the third one which is kind of like you know where do we go from here the the trouble in the band and that's where you first hear about diagnosis and then obviously again the fourth is like the the final chapter and I so again if you just like documentaries this is going to be a great document if you like music documentaries you get to see like you said all this behind because you've got footage that's like never been seen before because it's their personal you know camera footage interviews uh Mike has done a really great job of like going through the [ __ ] Archives of the hip from much music to other news broadcasts and stuff like that like even the local stuff out of King and pulling this stuff all together so you really get this the dissection of a band but not in a clinical way in like this really holistic kind of spiritual Mind Body you know Collective and again so if you like music documentaries you don't even know have but I I would argue you cannot watch this documentary if you've never heard of the tragical hip if you watch this docu series you are going to want to know The Tragically Hip like I was not big tragically hip fan growing up I I almost feel like because they were so big especially in the little Southern Ontario like cities and towns and stuff that like I grew up in and Scott grew up in there was almost like for me it was like I pushed back against the head I was like [ __ ] that these guys are like everybody listens to [ __ ] tragical hip I'm way too cool for school I'm not going to listen to The tragical Hip I mean you couldn't not hear the tragical hip my parents listened to tragically hip my friends were listening to tragically hip and so even without being like some super fan man this music is the soundtrack to massive parts of my life like I hear certain songs and I know like being up at my Cottage hanging up with like the older kids at parties and stuff like that and all the like back the the the broken in you know 50 Mission cap like I worked it in to look like that like those baseball caps that were kind of purposely broken in like this is the soundtrack of your life here in in Canada you know what I mean especially if you're a certain age group like I'd say 40 to maybe 55 somewhere in there but again if you're older you were listening to it too like they were just a massive massive band and even after after gour died like streaming and purchases of their albums went through the roof again so I agree uh with Scott that I'm hoping that this docu docu series does what it I think it's going to do it's going to be huge in Canada and uh it's going to drive their album sales and stuff like that again um I really just can't say enough about this it is such a welldone piece of Cinema really like I don't know what else you could ask for from a from a music documentary that this doesn't have because as you said said Scott it's got all the feels it's got all the feels yeah and I think um the way this is done and the narrative is done especially when it you know it is gourd's brother right it doesn't it doesn't shine everybody with like the Basking like like everybody was perfect like everybody's flaws even gor's flaws were were addressed here right like I do think that the fact that he was a Boston Bruins fan might have knocked him down in terms of Canada um like sure it's original six but come on man like the minute Ottawa Senators got a team you should have you should have gone to Ottawa like if you didn't and especially since living in Toronto like for a while you should have gotone leavs but but I digress in terms of that it's not yeah it's not punk rock to [ __ ] pick an American original 16 man come on come on but uh but yeah like I think but also like like I there there was something that was said in this documentary like especially in the last episode and I think it was um [ __ ] I think it was George that said it or it was um I'm having a brain Freight the guy from Kids in the Hall oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah that's other thing there's um one of the main guys from kids the hall it also alludes me he uh he worked with them a lot on some projects including a music video for uh music at work yes yeah that at work uh but yeah they um they were saying like on that final tour like every night like it like having that mental drain I think these B this band had on that final tour where every night you know he's saying goodbye to the audience and technically you know every night he's saying goodbye to this band right until you get to that final concert in Kingston now did you watch did you watch it on I think it was CBC that broadcast there oh yeah yeah of course man I mean Bars were playing it uh I mean our produc ucer tried to go see it at a bar and that didn't really work out because people were [ __ ] being annoying so he ended up going home and [ __ ] setting up his big stereo system and watching it that way so like everybody I I bet you most Canadians were watching or participating in that event yeah it it was like what did they say it was the second most or most watch thing in Canada it it was like one or two right yeah then but it it and and that's that just goes to show like how much this band who sang about Canadian stories but never made it n like it was never nationalistic yeah yeah it was just like this is our history we should know our history um and I think it was Jay BR or BR yeah who addressed it more they and you think about it there really isn't another nation whose whole entertainment and culture is based off of their neighbors like we we engulf and consume more American content than probably anybody else right like even our Bo office is based off America like name the last Canadian movie that like blew up the [ __ ] Cinemas porks just SS I don't know one of those like how long ago it was right look how long yeah man uh again like I said there there are better podcasts to do about The Tragically Hip uh music and stuff like that go listen to [ __ ] Allen cross all these people all these places will do it better than us all I have to say is this when this thing comes out on the 20th of September you know again I'm sure Prime has some type of like free version you can watch for a couple days or whatever you're you're going to want to watch this this things if you're in Canada if you love the hip if you love music if you love documentaries watch it uh if you were lucky enough to see it at Tiff congratulations I hope you enjoyed yourself uh it is going to be hitting some other Canadian film festivals including the Atlantic International Film Festival the Vancouver International Film Festival and the Calgary International Film Festival uh like I said it's like four hours of your life and uh but then you'll you'll be ahead by a entry and that is our wrap for the day please like And subscribe to this podcast tell your friends if you want to get a hold of us reach us at the www.atm.com [Music] [Music] I also like the fact that they they reference like uh road apples and what that actually [ __ ] means and the American um the American yeah didn't even realize it and they're like yeah we like that Apple like literally it means horseshit yeah the album's called horseshit Frozen horseshit yeah so but that's the thing that's cat we're we're even nice about putting making people feel stupid like okay production by Rod shaver Vader Monkey Productions