I've always had a special place for Tragically Hip. Like most Americans, I heard them first when I saw BBC series "The Industry" shown on PBS, way back in the early 1990s before our young family put basic cable into the budget. We had the three networks, a couple of independent stations, and PBS. We're kind of boring and had babies back then, so our Saturday evening entertainment usually included staying up late watching The Red Green Show and whatever odd programming PBS put up after that. Some time after midnight, the combination of lack of sleep and PBS programming starts getting trippy.
So it was surreal in a good way when The Industry first came on. The opening credits, with Tragically Hip playing Blow at High Dough was mesmerizing. I knew nothing about the show except we recognized Ranger Ranger Gord (Peter Keleghan) from the Red Green Show playing Alan, the insanely narcissistic CEO of Pyramid Productions. I was addicted from the beginning. I felt quite proud that I had discovered both The Industry (called Made in Canada in Canada) and Tragically Hip before any of my friends.
I watched their career casually over the years and was pleased to see they had good success, if not superstardom. I read they were doing a farewell concert and heard an interview where they laughed with gallows humor that their first thought hearing that scalpers were selling their tickets was that they had finally made it. Their second reaction was that it wasn't fair for scalpers to profit like that, and they were looking into ways to do more concerts or get more tickets out there.
I wish them well and highly recommend watching the opening scene of Season One, Episode One of The Industry (Made in Canada).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycGzFlkbOiY&list=PLK5ZkW-0cJMwniIB6cRPvTPlxr4nRTaKB