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What does The Tragically Hip and Bath Ontario have in common

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So what does The Tragically Hip and Bath Ontario have in common? Well Canada’s ambassadors of Rock & roll, The Tragically Hip, has found this really cool place to practice their musical song writing artistry in the great city of Bath Ontario.

The band is an extension of Canada’s way of thinking and life style to most of us rockers up here. The village of Bath Ontario has the same sort of relationship to our country’s identity of the past and now the future. Bath was founded by United Empire Loyalists, who help forge our history as far back as 1784.

This village is found outside of Kingston Ontario, which happens to be the home town of The Tragically Hip.

I found this little bit of The Tragically Hips trivia while leafing through our latest installment of Macleans Magazine, a weekly Canadian News publication. It shows these intimate pictures of the band and their new castle! This venue would make any band jealous with envy!

So check it out and tell us if you had, or you knew a band that had, a practice hall quite like this before? I never had a rehearsal hall anything like this, but I would have killed for something like this in the past!

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Finally the Beatles reunite once again

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Finally the surviving Beatles, Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, got to play together one more time live on stage!

The remaining Beatles performed at New York’s famous Radio City Music Hall in support of the David Lynch Foundation. This foundation focuses on Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace for students throughout the world to use.

Mr. McCartney said, “At this point we would like to introduce somebody to you who you know, you’ve heard his name. He’s going to come out here and play you a little song this joyful night. Ladies and gentlemen: Billy Shears!” The New York Times

The press conference that they held was definitely intriguing. Just watching them both together on the stage made my nerve endings tingle, like a little kid just before Christmas morning.

My wife and I had the honour of seeing Sir Paul a couple of years ago at Toronto’s Skydome. They had the dome set up in it’s concert tent format and it was not all that bad acoustically speaking. I don’t know if just seeing Mr McCartney and his now deceased wife Linda playing on stage together that night that may have made me oblivious of the sound quality or not. They performed some massive blasts from the past that evening, I more then sure it made most patrons of the show have goose bumps all over!

The first song they played was together at the Change Begins Within show was With a Little Help from My Friends. That’s definitely one of my favorites to play on my acoustic at any campfire.

The encore section showcased Starr playing on his familiar small kit. They perfectly executed an epic version of “Cosmically Conscious,” that was followed by the crowd-pleasing “I Saw Her Standing There.” Now that’s a show worth the price of admission!

I’ve been having problems with my site right now, so I’ll keep this short and sweet. Did anyone here go a witness this unforgettable show? If so, what was it like? If you didn’t attend the event, have you seen any of these musical giants on stage on their own?

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Randy Bachman to rock at Luminato free opener

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Canada’s most prolific guitarist/songwriter of our generation, randy Bachman, will be opening the third annual Luminato. It will be located in downtown Toronto’s Young & Dundas square on June 5th of this year.

Honestly, I’ve never been to any of these events but, this year will be much different!

The god-father of Canadian guitar, is really looking forward to initiate the opening of the Luminato Guitar festival lineup in the heart of Toronto. He told reports that musicians often wonder to themselves Why aren’t I playing that and said that this is one such event that he could not miss out on. He said it about Woodstock, but he won’t be saying it about this year’s Luminato event!

Because of the recession, it’s great to have a big opening free concert!

Also at this years celebration of everything guitar, we are going to be attempting to break a Guinness World record at this location as well! It will be called The Great Canadian Tune

Some of Toronto’s most talented, or so they think, and lucky residents will be attempting to break the Guinness World Record for Largest Guitar Ensemble. The talented one’s I hope, will have a massive jam session playing ten of the greatest Canadian tunes ever simultaneously.

The current record was held in Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany. There, 1,802 guitarists gathered to perform Deep Purple’s “Smoke On The Water.”

In the weeks leading up to the Festival, audiences will be asked to log on to luminato website to place their votes for The Great Canadian Tune. Got any in mind?

So listen up everybody, here is a BIG heads up on what to do on June 5th in Toronto, if your not that busy?! Hope to see ya there!

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