The Tragically Hip are a Canadian Rock band that formed in Kingston, Ontario in 1984.

Originally consisting of Gord Downie on Vocals, Rob Baker on Guitar, Gord Sinclair on Bass, Johnny Faye on Drums and Davis Manning on Saxophone.

Davis Manning was replaced by Guitarist Paul Langlois in 1986 and this formation would remain in place permanently.

The band’s name comes from a skit by Mike Nesmith of The Monkeys, the film was titled Elephant Parts and the skit was titled for a line where someone says “Send some money to the Foundation for the Tragically Hip”

The Hip released 13 studio albums over a 33 year career with 9 of them reaching number 1 on Canadian charts.

In May 1997, The Hip released a live album, “Live Between Us” which is a play on words from a wall mural painted by former member Davis Manning. Its said that while battling a decision to stay with his girlfriend, or sway with The Hip, he painted this mural on a wall in downtown kingston – “The Hip Live Between Us”

Between 1996 and 2016, the Tragically Hip were the best-selling Canadian band in Canada and the fourth best-selling Canadian artist overall in Canada.

The Tragically Hip played their final show together on August 20th, 2016 at the K Rock Centre in Kingston, Ontario, Canada basically shut down for the day and 11.7 million people tuned in to watch the show.

We lost Gord Downie to cancer just over one year later on October 17th, 2017