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  RTNDA | ACDIRT
The RTNDA Gord Sinclair Award is presented to the station or network which, in the opinion of the judges, displays excellence in the coverage of a special event (ie.
Sinclair was an early morning disc jockey for twenty years, the most noted of those being most of the 1950's at CFCF Montreal.
The station opened in March 1960 and was run by Sinclair until he sold it in 1972, staying on as general manager until 1974.
www.rtndacanada.com /Content.asp?PageID=4.5.8   (253 words)

  
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Sinclair was a familiar voice for the past two decades on the station's noon-hour news and public-affairs talk shows, Free For All and Feedback, where he cultivated a reputation as a cranky, reactionary tightwad with a common touch.
Sinclair was honoured at a charity banquet at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel that raised $40,000 for the Montreal Association for the Blind.
Sinclair never eclipsed his father's reputation but several years ago told a reporter that although he would never be famous as a household name, "I'm as rich as he was, and that counts for something." Mr.
www.worldofradio.com /dxld2113.txt   (12065 words)

  
 Tragically Hip Winter Tour 99 | Calgary
Gord Downie was a possessed man from the opening note; I swear he did not stop rambling all night.
Gord Sinclair could not hide his wide smile as the crowd response rose to a righteous roar (Gord D would appreciate the alliteration).
Gord stopped when he realized what he was doing, saying "I can't do THAT!" Gord continued his antics into the next verse, inserting some geographically correct lyrics...
www.canoe.ca /TragicallyHipTour/calgary1_2.html   (686 words)

  
 hipbase.com - The Tragically Hip Database
Gord D and Bobby with the full suits and the rest sporting some fl pant and shirt combo… Paul in cowboy boots and a pair of Black Oakley’s which he wore through much of the evening.
Gord D begins to chat with a few people and while Paul is sitting on his amp plucking away someone asked if they can have their picture taken with him, he says sure and the guy hops up and goes over kneeling beside Mr.
Gord D really did look to the crowd and a few of us who were right in front of him to inspire each 30 second or 3 minutes of Silver Jet take… the rest of the Band fed from us also followed by Gords moves and gyrations.
www.hipbase.com /sights/video/silverjet.php   (2648 words)

  
 JMTS RADIO REQUEST
Sinclair, who co-produced The Spades new album, Burning on Fumes, had a five-minute rehearsal with the band backstage before jumping on stage for a chance to prove his muscle beyond his role as the Hip's bassist.
Sinclair bassist for the country's biggest rock band, had taken another one of Kingston's native sons under his wing, co-producing McKenty's new CD, Burning on Fumes, at The Hip's Bathouse studio in Bath.
Lawson knew the Hip's Sinclair from his days in Kingston and, knowing the bassist was anxious to get back to the studio as a producer, turned him on to the Spades.
www.thespades.ca /press.html   (1087 words)

  
 hip online: artists: interview: tragically hip
The band ripped through the United States during the summer and fall of that year and are now in the midst of their biggest Canadian tour ever.
I recently talked with lead guitarist Rob Baker and bass player Gord Sinclair about the tour and what success means for the band.
When we are writing the music and Gord (Downie) is putting the lyrics together, we really are just approaching it song by song.
www.hiponline.com /artist/music/t/tragically_hip/interview/100011.html   (719 words)

  
 The Tragically Hip
Had that writer done his math, he would've realized that Gord Sinclair was in kindergarten at the time.
Sinclair credits Padgham and Manning for setting the pace at Manning's Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas last fall.
Sinclair said things are clicking because he and his bandmates - guitarists Bobby Baker and Paul Langlois, singer Gordon Downie and drummer Johnny Fay - are, first and foremost, friends.
www.pauseandplay.com /thehip.htm   (1696 words)

  
 Media Circus Apr 24 1997   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Moderator Gord Sinclair got so infuriated at Jim Duff that he tried to storm out of the studio, momentarily forgetting that his (most recent) skiing accident had rendered him legless.
Gord hit the ground with an audible thud, after which Duff was heard to say, "Er...
As for Gord Sinclair, it was a bit disturbing to hear a man his age hit the floor, but I'm not too worried.
www.montrealmirror.com /ARCHIVES/1997/042497/media.html   (411 words)

  
 Copper Penny
He had come from B.C. with a saxaphone under his arm, Gord Sinclair explained, and when the band started up, the sax sound suited the style of music they were playing to campus crowds.
Gord D. : It would be a deep and lasting honour to appar with Scooby Doo.
The Gords and Bobby had been living in a house on Brock Street with Gord Downie's high school buddy Paul Langois, who was constantly strumming on the acoustic guitar.
www.rainbowcountry.bc.ca /TheHip   (1172 words)

  
 NYE1.htm
Gord’s rant during Meridian didn’t have the forgetting rant, but he seemed to be saying something else kinda cool, maybe someone else can remember exactly what he was talking about.
Gord did a duet with S. Harmer of Silver Road which was cool, a little odd and a lot of fun to watch.
Gord D. was wearing his green shirt and during one song all the lights were turned out except for the one one on him.
www.killerwhaletank.com /rory/NYE1.htm   (3565 words)

  
 hip online: artists: tragically hip
The humble frontman is a poet with the down to earth sensibility of the average Joe, but when inspired by art, history, or visionary landscape, he transforms into a lyrical genesis.
Gord has a craft in his songs that would never work for the average band.
"The Completists" is cunningly balanced between Rob Baker's streamline guitar work and the plucking of Gord Sinclair's bass work, fitting well with the vocals of Downie and Doiron to make for a flighty upbeat cut.
www.hiponline.com /artist/music/t/tragically_hip/music.html   (568 words)

  
 Radio People are in your head
By the time Gord Sinclair died on Friday after 51 years on the radio in Montreal, most of his fellow anglophones knew more about the rhythms of his day than those of friends they've known for decades.
Gord was never close to his dad, who advised him to give up radio as he'd never amount to anything.
Gord agreed with his dad on America, but he wasn't a professional curmudgeon to the same degree.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/717399/posts   (1770 words)

  
 The Tragically Hip - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Tragically Hip — often referred to simply as The Hip — consist of Rob Baker (guitar), Gordon Downie (vocals, guitar), Johnny Fay (drums), Paul Langlois (guitar), and Gord Sinclair (bass).
Singer Gord Downie has released two solo albums, Coke Machine Glow in 2001 and Battle of the Nudes in 2003.
The Tragically Hip's most recent album is In Between Evolution, which was released on June 29th, 2004.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Tragically_Hip   (482 words)

  
 Tragically Hip makes waves, just not in U.S.
Onstage, Gord Downie, the lead singer of the Tragically Hip, is a mass of primal, unhinged energy.
He doesn't dance so much as writhe, arms and legs flailing, and he seems to bare his very soul as he wails the band's signature melancholy rock.
The five guys -- Downie, Gord Sinclair, Robby Baker, Johnny Fay and Paul Langolis -- first teamed up in 1984 in Kingston, Ontario, as a cover band playing lesser-known songs by groups like the Yardbirds, the Monkees and the Rolling Stones.
www.freep.com /entertainment/music/hip12_20020712.htm   (645 words)

  
 :: GolfOntario.ca   >  Interview - Tragically Hip ::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Cat is the home course of both Langlois and bass guitarist Gord Sinclair, but after talking the traditional walkers into taking a power cart, and then denting innumerable trees lining Cataraqui’s ancient fairways, my photographer and I found a way to make the smooth-swinging twosome feel like they were playing on foreign turf...while blindfolded.
And despite more errant shots than they’re used to, both players clearly have game; Sinclair often looking as though he’d be quite comfortable teeing off down the aisle of a crystal shop, and Langlois occasionally blending more power and control than one would expect from a relative latecomer to the sport.
PL: Gord and I were actually talking about how neither one of us has ever been on a golf trip - a trip just for golf without all of these gigs in the way.
www.golfontario.ca /archives/2002_hip.shtml   (2664 words)

  
 Canadian Communications Foundation - Fondation Des Communications Canadiennes
The eldest son of one of Canada's best-known news broadcasters, "Gord" (as he became known) got his first job in radio at the age of 19 as an announcer at CHVC, Niagara Falls, Ontario, moving shortly thereafter to CKOC Hamilton and thence to CFNB Fredericton, New Brunswick where he took over the Morning Show.
Gord was a member of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters' Half-Century Club and the Radio-Television News Directors' Association (RTNDA) where each year his legacy is recognized in the Gord Sinclair Award for Special Events Coverage.
Gord Sinclair was posthumously inducted into the CAB Hall of Fame in November 2003.
www.broadcasting-history.ca /personalities/personalities.php?id=74   (321 words)

  
 The Tragically Hip Unreleased Songs Information Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Gord sang this with the Rheostatics during a CBC Realtime show, and the Hip played with it during jams on the Henhouse and Phantom Power tours.
Gord surveyed the beach, the water slides and the breasts, and came up with this funny and surprisingly structured song right off the top of his head.
Gord would often sing long "Life is forgetting/Life is for getting" rants during "At The Hundredth Meridian" as part of the 2002 In Violet Light tour.
www.geocities.com /stephendame/unreleased.html   (7077 words)

  
 Queen's Journal - Across the Causeway: Oh, the importance of being Hip   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
On their 1987 eponymous debut, Sinclair himself wrote the song “Small Town Bringdown” as a cynical response to John Cougar Mellencamp’s glorification of the small town experience in his Small Town record.
Sinclair spoke fondly of legendary live venues, Lakeview Manor and Dollar Bills, places where you would sneak in for your first illegal beer and be exposed to great, live, rock music.
Sinclair likened the experience of writing with The Hip to a “creative cabal” where friends can hang out, exchange ideas, feed off each other, and together make music.
www.queensjournal.ca /articlephp/point-vol132/issue4/arts/lead1   (2945 words)

  
 Canadian band still seeking U.S. success
PHILADELPHIA - Onstage, Gord Downie, lead singer of The Tragically Hip, is a mass of primal, unhinged energy.
The five guys - Downie, Gord Sinclair, Robby Baker, Johnny Fay and Paul Langolis - teamed up in 1984 in Kingston, Ontario, as a cover band of lesser-known songs by groups like the Yardbirds, the Monkees or the Rolling Stones.
Sinclair, 38, said that for the first few albums, the group assumed it would get attention in the United States similar to what it was getting in Canada.
www.showmenews.com /2002/Aug/20020811Ovat021.asp   (632 words)

  
 The Tragically Hip - Concert   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Listening to the Vancouver radio station the Hip hype was running fast and thick: an interview with Gord Sinclair (bassist), live reporting from the sound check, one of their songs every hour.
At one point the two Gords combined their guitars with Johnny’s drumming into a syncopated funky rhythm that was heading in a direction that I, as a person who doesn’t enjoy that funky groovy kind of sound, was a little hesitant about.
Gord answered that they were playing the song that night and asked for the fax to show the other guys.
users.uniserve.com /~micmouse/hip.htm   (2176 words)

  
 eye - The Tragically Hip lead By Divine Right into the Air Canada Centre - 02.18.99
Gord will sit in and basically rap on top, and the song will begin to take shape.
And as we've grown older and progressed, the results we've got from writing this way are most pleasing, and I think the music is probably the best that we've done.
An enthusiastic thumbs-up from attendee Gord Downie, who invited the retooled BDR on a club tour with the Hip and lent them the keys to the Hip's Bathouse Studio near Kingston, where they began work on Bless This Mess for Nettwerk.
www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_02.18.99/music/hip.html   (1368 words)

  
 CFCF Montreal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Gord Sinclair left to launc his own station (CFOX).
Gord Sinclair returned (he had sold his CFOX in 1973).
Former CFCF personality and newsman Gord Sinclair died at age 74 on July 12, 2002.
www.billdulmage.com /skeds/others/cfcf.html   (179 words)

  
 Epinions.com - The Tragically Hip Live In Bolton Valley, VT August 5th, 2000
Gord Downie was his usual self, ranting and raving...
Bobby Baker seemed to be in his own world, but letting us in with his unbelievable guitar playing..
Gord Sinclair was his usual self, quiet, yet brilliant.
www.epinions.com /musc-review-4EAD-316A220C-39A970B8-prod5   (225 words)

  
 hill.htm
Gord forgot the words to the first verse, so the band kept playing as Gord looked at Paul and Gord S. and shrugged his shoulders with a sheepish grin.
Gord D joined her for Silver Road, much to the enjoyment of the crowd.
Gord D was encouraging people to "take care of each other" and had a few rants about 185 pound guys pushing you around and of course "crowd surfing went out with acid washed jeans." Silver Jet was wicked.
www.killerwhaletank.com /rory/hill.htm   (2705 words)

  
 The Tragically Hip   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Tragically Hip also often referred to simply "The Hip " consist of Bobby (guitar) Gordon Downie (vocals guitar) Johnny Fay (drums) Paul (guitar) and Gord Sinclair (bass).
Singer Gord Downie has released two solo in 2001 and 2003.
The Tragically Hip recently finished recording their album In Between Evolution which was released on June 29th 2004.
www.freeglossary.com /The_Tragically_Hip   (378 words)

  
 The Tragically Hip
The Tragically Hip - often referred to simply as The Hip - consist of Bobby Baker (guitar), Gordon Downie (vocals, guitar), Johnny Fay (drums), Paul Langlois (guitar), and Gord Sinclair (bass).
Singer Gord Downie has released two solo albums, in 2001 and 2003.
The Tragically Hip recently finished recording their newest album In Between Evolution, which was released on June 29th, 2004.
en.mcfly.org /The+Tragically+Hip   (313 words)

  
 SEE Magazine: March 4th, 1999   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
With a steady stream of folks wandering up and down the stairs and lining up to purchase their fave brew, The Tragically Hip and By Divine Right put on a strange yet great all-around show Sunday.
The Gord Downie troupe did the expected and the openers, surprisingly, blew over the few fans who had found their seats before heading off for more brews.
In fact, if it weren’t for the steady Hip pocket of Fay and Sinclair in the rhythm section, one has to wonder where the excitement would have been.
www.seemagazine.com /Issues/1999/0304/mus4.htm   (343 words)

  
 Tragically Hip '95
GORD SINCLAIR and PAUL LANGLOIS -- respectively bassist and guitarist for Canada's coolest band of the moment,THE TRAGICALLY HIP, are crossing a busy strip of Toronto's Queen Street West en route to a Mexican restaurant.
In fact, both Langlois and Sinclair don't even warrant a second glance from passers-by, and reception is equally warm in the restaurant.
The duo adds that singer Gord Downie prefers to share the spotlight rather than hog it, hence the reason he's doing minimal interviews for the tour.
www.octopusmediaink.com /TragicallyHip.html   (1278 words)

  
 gibsonsrev.htm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
gord came out dazed noticing the two levels of audience
bob baker came out in a blue velvet shirt gord was shaved bald
wow is gord sinclair chewing gum he sure is he still smoked one smoke but
www.killerwhaletank.com /rory/gibsonsrev.htm   (128 words)

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