The Tragically Hip
Live Between Us
Album · Rock · 1997 · Universal Music Canada
On the Hip’s 1997 live album, Gord Downie is already off in his own orbit before the opening “Grace, Too” has hit the one-minute mark, ad-libbing over the song’s predatory bass groove en route to a jammed-out finale that drops in quotes of John Lennon’s “Imagine.” It’s but one example of the band’s ever-changing approach; elsewhere, the power-pop anthem “Courage (For Hugh MacLennan)” works in a bit of the Hip rarity “Montreal.” And in a set otherwise stacked with Canadian-radio staples, The Hip bid adieu with a punked-up rip through deep cut “The Wherewithal” that ends with Downie singing in tongues.
Live Between Us
The Tragically Hip
On the Hip’s 1997 live album, Gord Downie is already off in his own orbit before the opening “Grace, Too” has hit the one-minute mark, ad-libbing over the song’s predatory bass groove en route to a jammed-out finale that drops in quotes of John Lennon’s “Imagine.” It’s but one example of the band’s ever-changing approach; elsewhere, the power-pop anthem “Courage (For Hugh MacLennan)” works in a bit of the Hip rarity “Montreal.” And in a set otherwise stacked with Canadian-radio staples, The Hip bid adieu with a punked-up rip through deep cut “The Wherewithal” that ends with Downie singing in tongues.
