On the follow-up tour for this album, the band made its only appearance on Saturday Night Live , on March 25, 1995, thanks in large part to the finagling of fellow Canadian and Kingston-area resident Dan Aykroyd , who appeared on the show just to introduce them. Aykroyd, who is a fan of the band, had personally lobbied SNL showrunner Lorne Michaels to book them as a musical guest. On the show, Gord Downie notably flubbed the start of the song “Grace, Too”—rather than the normal opening lyric, “He said I’m fabulously rich”, Downie sang it as “He said I’m tragically hip”. The band later attributed the error to their pre-show use of marijuana .
Saturday Night Live appearance
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