Gord Sinclair - Get Back Again

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In my early days with The Tragically Hip I wrote a song called Get Back Again. It never made it onto a Hip record but somehow it managed to stick in some people’s minds.

Fast forward 30 odd years to November of 2019. We were planning the release of Taxi Dancers and I, being the tech un-savvy boomer that I am, realized we had no photos from the sessions for the package. Nothing of the process or the fabulous musicians, friends and family who helped make the record. My manager hastily arranged a photo session at The Hip’s Bathouse studio. With everyone together again, we thought it might be fun to lay something down that afternoon. Why waste all that beauty and talent on a photo shoot alone? We needed a song, something we all knew, and Get Back Again was suggested.

In retrospect, given the tectonic shift the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to all our lives, I couldn’t have imagined this would be our last opportunity for the foreseeable future to assemble and do what musicians love to do, play and record together. Now, more than ever, the song’s sentiment rings true for me. I miss the life I knew and loved as a recording artist; as a performer. I miss my friends and family. I miss life. I think that’s a sentiment we all share in this time, wherever you are and whatever you do.

I never intended this to be heard, but here it is; a little ancient history while we are all, each to ourselves, living through it. While we wait, invest in some music and please spare a thought for all the performing artists from all disciplines waiting for you on the sidelines. If you can, please consider supporting the Kingston Food Bank and the Unison Benevolent Fund. In the meantime, I wish you all the best. Stay home and stay safe. We will get back again. When we do, lead with love; and think globally, but live locally.

Thanks to Tim Des Islets, Annie MacDonald and Jenn Pressey for organizing everything. Also to John Angus MacDonald, James McKenty and Nyles Spencer for the recording and mixing. A special thanks to my good friend Andrew Budziak for his talents, for assembling this footage and for having the presence of mind, and savvy, to be shooting while he was taking photographs.

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