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<title>jep</title>
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Those are great photographs! 

oh, and hey brokenengine, it is gonna be on CBC this weekend april 7th or something - on the 94.1 station. I hope they play the whole thing; the singalong ending was toooo sweet. ]]>
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2007 18:19:02 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Tanja</title>
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Might I just say that those are some awesome guitars.]]>
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2007 02:56:21 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>brokenengine</title>
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The first time I told my wife I loved her was at a Rheo's show at The Horseshoe.  Sadly, we were unable to get tickets for Massey hall.  I hope it's played on CBC, so we can listen.

Dave Bidini is one of my personal heroes, and my heart is broken a little bit...]]>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2007 14:01:56 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>fryer</title>
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Long time fan, awesome show, and awesome to see Mr. Clark  on the drums albeit only for one song ]]>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:05:47 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Beth</title>
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Cinnamon gurl, I read your blog post - what I very nice account. Hilarious reference on the "Tom Green style" comic relief (there's actually a great photo of that 'yo-yo homey' hand gesture over on Darrin's new goodgonedead site -  http://www.goodgonedead.rheostaticslive.com/index2.shtml).  Martin did sound pretty hoarse, but the atmosphere at the Horseshoe was more loose, rough & tumble, and the band kicked up their heals in a different way, so it was kind of OK.   You could tell that he knew his throat wouldn?t hit the falsettos, but he poured his heart into it & growled his way through them anyway.  I think it was that snarling growl combined with the fragile vulnerability of trying so damn hard that made his voice (and performance in general) kind of tragically sexy... if that makes any sense.  (Sorry, I digress, but his crazy brand of genius - or genius brand of crazy - really gets to me).  

Anyway, thank you for your writeup and for stopping by here.  I still refuse to believe they?re over, so I prefer to say we?ll see ?em somehow, somewhere, down the road.]]>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2007 11:24:35 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>cinnamon gurl</title>
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It was a great show. Some of what I said on my blog follows (the original post was a lot longer and full of other crap but this is the relevant stuff I think):

It was a tremendously nostalgic evening... not only because it is the end of the band, but more personally. I haven't followed them for the last few years, so for me they're very much a part of my youth -- the same adolescent who adored Kids in the Hall and smoked cigarettes for the first time and drank beer around bonfires. On the one hand, it's really kind of sad that they never made it really big, because they are so talented, but on the other, I think it makes us fans feel smart and part of a select group. Actually, it felt more like regret than nostalgia, regret that I hadn't seen them in concert more when I had the chance, regret that I'd let them go like all the old friends I've lost touch with.

I couldn't help but think about how talented they all are. They always seem to be experimenting and having fun, while still keeping some special spark that is their own unique, identifiable sound. I love how they sampled Al Purdy reciting a line, how they created a whole album inspired by the Group of Seven, and how they collaborate with so many Canadian artists. And how they all also write or paint... they're marvels. Here they are, barely halfway through their lives, and they already know (I hope) that they will leave this place richer than they found it. That said, at one point Tim said something about opening for the Barenaked Ladies in Winnipeg, and I'm sorry, but that is just SO wrong.

Dave Bidini had his signature fedora on, which contrasted jauntily with his Patio Lanterns rock star leaps, and I can just imagine him practicing those guitar jumps as a 15-year-old in some wood-panelled basement with orange shag carpet.

I was deflated when they left the stage after the first encore. They hadn't played Record Body Count, and I really didn't feel like leaving until they did, despite the cramps in my knees and my numb bum. I wondered if maybe Martin's voice just couldn't do it (poor guy, he was sick and his voice was pathetically, but movingly and appropriately hoarse at crucial moments). But they came out again after another standing ovation (which provided considerable relief to my old body), and Dave Bidini picked up his acoustic guitar and they all sat down on the edge of the stage, legs dangling. They talked for a moment, about nothing really, then played Legal Age Life and we all sang along. Dave Clarke came out again, and directed the audience in some fun backup "singing."

Finally... finally, I recognized the first notes of Record Body Count. Bidini played quietly, and Martin sang hoarsely, the house lights golden dim with a bright spotlight on the Rheostatics, and it felt like a huge bush party around a camp fire, singing. I wondered if maybe this was why they'd chosen the beer-less Massey Hall, for a vision of this campfire moment with all their loyal fans singing with along all our might, as if our voices could keep them together, keep them from leaving us behind... I think maybe they had that moment planned all along. I wondered how the last lyric would hang in the great open space above us, the line about "Joey stepped up on the block of ice, put a rope around his neck, fell asleep before he died." It's an awfully morbid ending, but Martin deftly added a Tom Green sort of IEECE accent and a yo-yo-Homey hand gesture for comic relief, and those morbid last words floated painlessly in the air.
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2007 09:32:35 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Michelle</title>
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Nice write-up Beth.  I was at the show at Massey and it was really really sad...I really hate to see them leave.

PS.  for those that are interested, I believe the CBC is playing the show from Massey on the radio on April 7th.]]>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2007 09:06:41 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Sameer Vasta</title>
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What a wonderful tribute to a great band.  Thanks for posting this.]]>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2007 07:44:52 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>suckingalemon (from harmelodia)</title>
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carrie, you don't need that history of fan-dom, the first time i saw them, after the first song i could feel it. i can't imagine anyone having seen a rheos show and not feeling something. in fact iv never heard anything like that. how many bands can you really say that for.

as for the shoe vs. massey hall, to me it was sorta like you can try your best to make everything really great and nice but for some reason its always the one thing that is not perfectly perfect you do that that person remembers and turns out to be the best part. with that in mind im glad my last time was at the 'shoe as much as massey must have been wonderful. i think it goes hand in hand with the person above who said it was perfectly fitting that at the last rheos show teilli's voice was breaking his very best at the notes.

also, i somehow find it oddly fitting that you wrote this up (as someone who just went to their first show) for the rest of us. its sorta like someone who has just experienced something telling us who know what its like, what its like and not the other way around and that to me is perfectly poignant and very meaningful to me.
translation = i appreciate it alot.

ps. i know i gave you a mouthful on the photos already and plan to say some more on flickr or reallifeblog, but for whatever reason i find that picture of tim heroic.

cheers]]>
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<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2007 23:16:47 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Carrie</title>
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I was also at the Massey Hall show, and although I've never really gotten into The Rheos (though I've seen them a few times), and don't know their songs all that well, it was one hell of a show.  *I* even cried, and don't have that history of fan-dom for them.  The fake snow was spectacular and will be burned into my mind forever.  All in all, you could feel that the place was emotionally charged...people around me were openly crying throughout the entire 3+ hours.  That show was one of those uniquely Canadian moments in time and I'm so glad I stayed after shooting the first few songs.  ]]>
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<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2007 21:31:39 PDT</pubDate>
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