Wow - The Hip in Concert

As a post concert wrap-up, I have to tell that that was a fun evening. Like everything in Fredericton it started late 8:15 vs 8 and was opened by the Sadies a fun foursome in great suits with a funky heavy rock/country kind of twinge.

After a 15 minute break to clean up the stage at 9, The Tragically Hip took over and rocked the AUC. As always, Gord was front and center showing off.

The draft beer flowed freely at $5 a cup and sweet scent of aromatic and illegal herbs wafted through our seating section. David, who sports a haircut, that I refer to as a cop-cut, since he uses the same barber shop downtown that has been trimming Freddie's finest for decades, managed to scare the pot-smoking children in our section right out of the section. They lit-up and then took a look at him looking down his nose at them and promptly left the scene, only 10 minutes into The Hip's onstage act. Go-figure.... & I wonder where they hid.

The interesting thing about a group that has been recording and performing for 20 years is that they do span multiple generations. I started listening to them in university just after the release of their first recording. There were parents with their teenage children, parents without their children, moms & dads obviously expecting children in the near future, and the usual group of parent-less high school and university kids. The Hip play a good assortment of old and new songs and you can tell when people first 'discovered' The Hip in their lives by the songs they do and don't know the lyrics of. It was funny watching some of the younger folks not be able to identify the music and it was funny to look at us older folks and realize that because we did, we are older than we once were even if we don't like to admit it or even feel it most days.

And yes, I don't regret going a bit. I won't miss the ticket money later this month. I would have missed going much more.

The lesson of this is that we can't give up every pleasure or opportunity that presents itself even if it seems to be an illogical choice to take advantage of it. We may feel too old or too broke or too some other damned excuse to do it, but if we don't, what then?

Keep asking the "what then?" question when something seems illogical and see what happens. Ask about the regret if you decide in favor of the logical choice. If you will honestly feel no regret and you feel that passing up the opportunity is a sound choice then do it but otherwise, go with your heart and go dance on the edge.

We did last night and I wouldn't trade that for anything now.

Cheers,
Cynthia