Join jD, Pete, and Tim as they welcome 50 Mission to the podcast. 50 Mission will be playing at the finale event and you can learn more about them by visiting their website https://www.50missionband.com/TranscriptTrTrack 2:[0:00] So have you guys met each other here? Track 1:[0:03] Yeah, this is Steve. I'm Steve. Track 3:[0:06] I'm Ron. Track 1:[0:07] Ike. Ike plays bass. Alirio, I'm the nice drummer. The nice looking drummer. Yeah, he's got a weird accent. So you may have to ask what you're saying. Yeah, there's a couple accents there. Latino accent. I might switch to Spanish. Track 2:[0:26] Yeah. Track 1:[0:28] In Spain, I already speak Spanish. Track 3:[0:30] Where are you from? Track 1:[0:32] Originally from Venezuela. Venezuela. Track 3:[0:37] And I heard another accent there, too. Track 1:[0:43] No, just one. The invi... Oh, different Canadian, oh, maybe, maybe, uh... Maybe like Newfie accent. Newfie accent, yeah, yeah. Canadian, but... I don't think so. Introduction and Location DiscussionTrack 3:[0:55] Where do they live? Where do you guys live at? Track 1:[0:58] We're in the Brantford area, pretty much all of us. Yeah, it's like 100 kilometers west of Toronto. So we're about that area, yeah. Yeah, pretty much from where Jamie's from. Yeah. Yeah, I'm just north of Waterford. We're actually just north of Boston, Jamie. Track 2:[1:18] Oh, okay. Track 1:[1:20] East of Boston, sorry, yeah. Where are you from, Jamie? Track 2:[1:24] I grew up in Waterford. Track 1:[1:25] Oh, there you go. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we played the old town hall there a couple times. Track 2:[1:32] Yeah, it's a cool venue, right? Track 1:[1:34] Oh, it's a great venue. The stage is beautiful. It's just a really nice place. I mean, I would love to go see a band there, right? Track 2:[1:41] Yeah, I saw Huxley Workman there. Track 1:[1:42] Nice. Yeah. Yeah, and I saw the Sheepdogs there three years ago. Yeah. Oh, wow. It was great, yeah. It was packed with the Sheepdogs. Track 3:[1:51] How'd you guys all meet? I was gonna say- Oh, go ahead, JD. Track 2:[1:54] No, no, man. No, no, no. Have you met Tim and Pete? Track 1:[1:59] Yes. Track 2:[1:59] Yeah. Okay, so I was late. Track 1:[2:02] So see, that's, you know, it's all I know is, all I know is I have where to stay in Spain and Oregon. Track 4:[2:08] Si, si, si. Track 3:[2:12] Trust me, there's a lot of nice, there's a lot nicer places in Spain to stay than my house. Track 4:[2:19] Venga aqui, si. Bienvenidos. Track 1:[2:23] Yeah, as far as how we met, it varies. Ron and I played in a band previously. It's the first time I've been a singer in the band. I've always been a drummer. I sang songs from the drums, but came up front. So Ron and I were in a band previously. Steve is a friend of Ron's. Yeah, I've known Ron probably close to 20 years now. I joined a band and he was the other guitar player he joined it to, and we hit it off pretty good. And then we ended up quitting that band. Turned out we were also living quite close. We were practically neighbors and didn't realize it. Oh yeah. How Band Members Met and Their History[3:01] Okay. And as far as Ike, Ike's brother of Trisha used to be a singer in another band I was in, so. Ike and I have known each other for, 10 years at least. Not longer, yeah. And Illyrio was in a band with some buddies of mine as the drummer, so that's how Leroy and I know each other. And we actually played soccer together like 15 years ago. Yeah. We've played soccer together for a long time, too, so. Track 3:[3:38] Did we lose, did you guys lose me or did I lose you? Track 1:[3:42] I lost you for a minute there, Pete, but you're back. Track 3:[3:45] Okay, well, at least the question got answered about Ike and his brother. Hopefully it was cool. Sorry. Can I ask one more question? Oh, Tim, go ahead. Track 4:[3:57] I just got. I was just gonna ask who out of the five of you has seen The Hip play the most times, had seen them play the most times? Track 1:[4:06] I've actually never seen them play. Track 4:[4:10] Oh, okay, you're part of our club. Track 1:[4:14] Me neither, fun fact, my daughter, she actually saw them in 2017 in a school event, And I've never got to see them. Track 4:[4:22] Oh, wow. Track 1:[4:26] Okay. that. It's probably me then. I've probably seen them 12, 15 times over the years. Yeah, I saw them on the last tour, neat little stories, the guy went to high school, when I had, the first time I saw them was a roadside attraction in Kiyoka at the Speedway, yeah samething, yeah, JD was probably, I think Oliver Waterford was there because it was so close. But a buddy of mine, well, JD, you know, Bill Ella, right? Track 2:[5:03] Yeah, yeah. Track 1:[5:03] So Bill and Bill and I went to our first hip concert together. And then when my fiance and I got tickets for the last tour, we got four tickets and I called him up said, Hey, man, we got to see the last one together too. So he jumped right on it. So himand his wife joined us. It was great. Track 2:[5:21] It's pretty special. What venue do you go to? Track 1:[5:24] We saw them at ACC. Track 2:[5:27] Oh wow, nice. Yeah, in Toronto. Yeah. Oh, man. Track 1:[5:31] Yeah. Yeah, yeah, it wasn't a dry eye in the place. It was pretty special, man. Yeah. Track 3:[5:41] Do you guys, and I ask this strictly, this is not like, you know, any remotely thing, judgmental, it's just a curious thing as far as musicians, but because I have a friend that wasplaying, he played a while in a tribute band for Floyd and then also one for Oasis, and he likes Floyd a lot, but he was like not an Oasis fan, but he played in it because, you know, Gigs agig. It's fun and it's cool. But like do you I would imagine that all of you guys genuinely like the tragic We have at least to some degree. Track 1:[6:16] Oh, yeah, or if not dig the shit out of them Yeah, and it's a riot to play it is so much fun to play the music it's lots of energy and I have an absolute riot playing it It looks like it fromthe videos i've seen I didn't know that many songs until I joined this band. I only knew a couple, like New Orleans is Sinking or probably Little Bones, but then these guys got me into them. Now that's all I hear. Oh, wow. So I love them so much and that's all I hear. it now. And I used to play like a really like you name it from from Metallica down to Bird Jam to Foo Fighters and now my favorite is Tragically Here. So yeah it's uh it's interesting when we play a show that uh, the fun part for me is not only playing the show and the people are into it like everybody you know that everybody's coming tosee the show knows the songs see they're going going to be singing. But after the show, the number of people that come up and want to tell you about the time they saw the hip or they have a story about when they met one of the members of the hip. So people just reconnect at our shows, which is a fun part for me. Track 4:[7:37] Sure, that's amazing. Track 2:[7:38] Yeah, it's like a community, right? Track 1:[7:40] Oh, absolutely, yeah. Track 3:[7:43] Yeah, and I mean, I gotta say, I've seen, obviously, not anything hip related, but like, for example, I remember seeing a Zeppelin tribute band that was really good, that I just kind oflike, I mean, I'm a diehard Zeppelin fan, like, you know, all eight studio records just flow through my veins and seeing that show was like, you know, I was like, OK, it's cool. And then Iwas just so wildly impressed. Like, I'm not the guy because I play, you know, you play, you play a gig, kind of like put your guitar, put your instruments away, go to the bar, have a beer, check out for the night,especially if it's a long show and you're tired. But like I was like, I got to go tell these people how fucking great they sounded and And how during this tune, the communication breakdown, he hit the solo perfect. That's so cool that you have people that... Because it's a testament to you guys being fucking really good at your craft and knowing how to play to the crowd. I can't wait to see you guys. Track 1:[8:56] Thank you, Lola. Yeah, we have a blast. The Complexity of Learning Songs on Instruments[9:00] Yeah, so these guys always mention, you know, when we're learning a song, they've got a a lot harder than I do, but a lot of folks who either don't play instruments or folks whoaren't hip fans that are playing instruments say, oh yeah, those songs are easy. But I'm sure these guys can tell you that they're not easy. There's all kinds of stuff going on. No way. Yeah, you've gotta really hit it to get the nuance of the song and the notes, but I don't know if you guys have examples, but. Two guitar parts are so very complementary to each other. There's really no rhythm or lead. There's just two guitars. And without one, the other just doesn't sound right. You have to have those two parts like the record, and then it gives you that sound. Yeah. So we're very picky about the sound. We use the right instruments. We try and use the right equipment wherever we can and re-crease that sound, like the record, as close as we can, right? Track 3:[10:05] Yep. The general rule with music, too, is if it sounds really hard, chances are it's not, and if it sounds really easy, chances are it's not, right? Track 1:[10:16] Isn't that the case? That is right. As I was saying, I used to play what I thought they were the hardest song to play, like the Foo Fighters, to name a few. But then I thought, okay, this doesn't sound difficult. man, I was wrong. It is difficult, it is, because it's just, we need to connect, like, you know, we need to be in sync to actually make it sound right, which is very interesting, and I love doing that. And theseguys are awesome. Yeah for that band, that's it Yeah, we're very lucky that everybody has the same ambition to make it sound like that. You know when everybody's in the groove it the music becomes a Uh part of the vocals everything. Yeah, it's one. It's a rare commodity Yeah, yes And we're lucky to look it lucky to
I'm so glad to find this podcast! I started a band in smalltown Alberta in '93 and the Hip were HUGE influences for us. We played the Shit out of every album from Fully Completely up to Phantom Power. 25 years later and we still love playing the Hip tunes in our set list. Thank You guys for this deep dive into our favorite band!!
Great podcast gentleman ... Keep up the great work ... Cheers 🤟