While hugely popular in their native Canada, the Tragically Hip found the U.S. charts continually resistant to their blues-influenced pop fare. Taking their name from a skit in Michael Nesmith's Elephant Parts video, the five-piece group, consisting of singer/songwriter Gord Downie, guitarists Paul Langlois and Bobby Baker, bassist Gord Sinclair and drummer Johnny Fay, formed in Kingston, Ontario in 1983. After becoming favorites on the local club scene, the Tragically Hip toured extensively throughout Canada before a gig at Toronto's Horseshoe Tavern sufficiently impressed MCA Records President Bruce Dickinson enough to offer the band a contract. They released their eponymous debut album in 1987; the hit "Blow at High Dough," from their 1989 sophomore effort Up to Here, firmly established the group's success. A series of LPs followed, including 1991's Road Apples, 1992's Fully Completely, 1994's Day for Night, 1996's Trouble at the Henhouse and 1998's Phantom Power.