Not that I encouage boots but when I had the store I use to have some of the best Hip Boots, my fave was the show I was at in Barrie, it was one of the Canada Day shows and they did "Killer Whale Tank", any real Hip fan knows what i'm talking about.
If you've ever seen the band play live, there's usually a point in the middle of "New Orleans is Sinking" where the band just goes off into the void. The music changes and Gord goes off into another world, totally unrelated to the song. Sometimes, he tells some kind of stream-of-consciousness story, the most famous one would be the "killer whale tank" monologue. That's how "Nautical Disaster" was born. It grew out of that famous experimental middle section of "New Orleans is Sinking."
Yeah "killerwhaletank" is a classic. The link I provided earlier
http://www.geocities.com/stephendame/unreleased.htmlcan tell you about the song and you should be able to get a download.
Like I said before there is shitload of unreleased stuff from the Hip out there that is brilliant. Here are a few more write-ups about their unreleased stuff from that site:
Double Suicide: Probably the best known of Gord's rants, made famous by the Roxy and Elsewhere bootleg. Received huge exposure for an unreleased song on Southern Ontario radio stations such as 97.7 HTZ FM in St Catherines and Q 107 in Toronto.
The Double Suicide rant is hilarious. "And we'd laugh". Downie is funny as fuck in general.
Three of my favorite unreleased songs:Blonde Solid: Fully Completely outtake whose lyrics were inspired by a painting Gord saw. Played live on 4/18/92, and brought back during jams in 1996-99.
Get Back Again: Gorgeous ballad written by Gord Sinclair, played often in 1990. It was eventually recorded for Road Apples, but never released. A fan favorite, it was brought back every once in a while, and even played live on the radio in 1992. Last played in Kingston in February, 1995. Among diehard Hip Heads, it remains the most requested of the unreleased material, and is perhaps the most deserving of a release.
Montreal: Road Apples outtake. Played live during 1991. The lyrics resurfaced a lot during Courage on the Canadian leg of the Henhouse tour in 1996 ("The snow is so merciless/Poor old Montreal"), and then it was played in full in Montreal on the 2000 "Evening With" tour. It was inspired by the murders of 14 women at the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal on December 6, 1989. One bootleg (mistakenly) calls it Don't You Worry.
Not that I encourage boots either but this music is too important to be kept a secret. I recommend downloading the unreleased stuff but you really should buy the Hip CDs they really are that good.
