I’ve been working in the oilfield since I was 19 years old, I remember watching this video back in 2009 before I applied to become a Tester, spent 7 years as a Well Tester like the soldiers in this video, I’ve now moved on to the production sector, I’m born and raised in Alberta and extremely proud of my Province, LONG LIVE ALBERTA.
what a dude, tought me alot. he told me about some stuff, like he cant drink in the wintertime, because his wife thinks he will wander off....and he did lol,, whatever it isw, there is deep seated wanderlust in im hahaha
Ahhh.... I am a Canadian living in Australia, and this song is my Canadian pride and joy that brings back heaps of memories and images of our powerful and stunning homeland. Reminds me of winter sunsets, early morning hockey, and working with my father...
When my daughters were little, like, 3 and 8, we'd play this whole CD at top volume and they'd dance their hearts out with me. (My wife thought we were crazy!) But the music just drives right through you, and the kids could feel it, and just let themselves go with it. It was very, very fun.
"All hell for a basement" is referencing Rudyard Kipling's quote on seeing Medicine Hat's gas and oil fields from a train in 1907: “This part of the country seems to have -all hell for a basement-, and the only trap door appears to be in Medicine Hat.”
Ever hear of Fort McMurray, if you knew anything about Alberta and the oil fields you'd know that we were drowning in oil and money. Hence the quote "where they've gone all hell for a basement", and another cause for that is inflation... due to the money... from the oil
This is a beautiful video... It made me cry! So many lives are spent working in those fields and there's hardly any art - video, music, books, movies - that capture it. But this video sure does! Thank you. And thanks Canadian West for the info about Rudyard Kipling...I didn't know that.
I've lived in eastern Ontario all my life. I spend a lot of time in Alberta. Nothing quite like driving across and seeing the oil wells, grain elevators and beautiful landscape.
Nice job!! I worked for Norward Energy Services back in 91 and did my fair share of frac clean up. Seeing you at that manifold made me chuckle.. frikken frac sand ate 90 deg elbows every few hours..what a pain. glad i dont do that anymore.. Got tired of 40% sour wells too...you know lol
As a Newfie who lost his way a few times on the mainland, this song still effects me as much as it did when I first heard it years ago. I couldn't hack it in Alberta, but at least I made it home alive. Some guys make a nice living for themselves up there, other guys get hooked on something and either come home strung out or just OD or freeze to death on the streets. Young Newfies should stay home. We have the most beautiful and unique province in the country, and the economy is doing alright.
Many have moved to the West in search of a better life & a new start. This stirring song sums it up nicely, and set to some actual oilpatch video is good.
As an western Albertan living in the northwest central now this song makes me proud to be one and honored for the oil men breaking their backs to keep countless lives moving.
To this day, this is, and always will be, one of my favourite videos. Respect to all! And, thanks for keeping my car on the road and for feeding my ongoing need for plastics! Tree-huggers...screw off!
i love this province. born and raised in Alberta. from diggin' basements to hauling pipe in the oilfield i have been there done that like most of us. salute our brothers and sisters!!!
Just read up on this. It's a song about an out-of-work Newfie considering going to find work in Alberta because of what's been heard. A heaven in Alberta (lots of work) and all hell for a basement (tons of oil and gas). But he's finding it hard to leave Newfoundland because that's the life he knows and is used to.
+Elsinore Brewing Don't worry, friend! Ole Rachel knows she's a one term wonder, just like Bob 'Rae Day' Rae in Ontfaeryo! Oil WILL go up again. It always does.
The music in this song really hits me and there's something extremely powerful about the rudyard kipling quote.. it's so poetic and descriptive in its curtness.
I moved to Alberta 4 years ago and I absolutely love this song. Lived in Sask. and from Man. Reminds me of work from the visual and the song reminds me of home. Love it.
This Song makes me miss medicine hat and my friends from there thats a place thats built on top of natural gas with wells in the city....all hell for a basement
I believe that it was Rudyard Kipling. This is a great video. It really reminds me of Alberta, even though I was never in Fort McMurray. Every now and then it is nice to see Alberta depicted as something other than silos and Rockies.
This song is about the cultural shock of being a Newfoundland er, leaving small town nfld, and your family and friends, to go move 3000kn away to work Alberta oil fields. “All hell for a basement “ was like many already saidRudyard Kipling. These Gordie , is most under appreciated Canadian Gordie ever
Great song, and i have heard that this song was wrote for eastern canadians migrating to alberta for work. I myself am out here now from newfoundland. great place with great people but it will never be my home. and we are all helll for a basement.
When I was on the rigs we would sing a tune on the floor from time to time, this one would have fit the bill. We worked hard and played hard but we were not all pigs. Like Corb says cant blame the riggers our the guys driving a truck just trying to make a living and making a buck.
I just moved to eastern BC (from western BC) and have the chance to see Alberta a lot, and this song reminds me of it, very much! I'm not in the industry but this song and video have very special meaning to me anyway; everything about it feels memorable and personal to me...awesome song, terrific video, thanks for posting it!
Great compilation of video to go with tunes!! I was working at Vault Gas compressor station, Alberta. Found out that it costs three times as much to make it than what it actually sells for, basically a losing proposition.. thankfully we live in the best province, in the best country of the world. This song sums up precisely what we're all about. Go Big Sugar!
Was born in Fort Mac. I have been all across western Canada and every boss i have had was amazed at my work ethic. The "git er done" attitude that is so normal for me... Well it's not so normal outside of Alberta.
with a name like fourtwenny, I doubt you could pass the prerequisite piss test to access sites. The "git r done" attitude is what non-tradesmen have, so its obvious you are low on the totem poll and likely a jackass jabroni who takes orders from people like . I am an Albertan with over 30 yrs in the patch, sounds like you are a typical doucebag with a jacked up truck with ufc shirts who brags too much..FT MAC STEVE..you tube it.
for everyone arguing about the meaning of the song, its about Medicine Hat, Alberta. In 1907 Rudyard Kipling while in medicine hat stated that people living in the district have all hell for a basement due to the enormous gas field it was built upon, this quote is actually quite proudly displayed in Med Hats airport. Medicine Hat Alberta, the town with all hell for a basement.
Every now and then after a hard days work,,,,getting in late...I play this....need to have them back in Nova Scotia.......................soonthank youDavid
Sometimes I wish I didn't relate so much to this. Great video, I feel it really captured everything I've seen and done. Time to get back home, and start this whole life thing again, but at least now I know what's out here, fucking hell for a basement.
was a true story for me when I first moved there. fortunately, I had a couple of friends in Edmonton, who had a space in their basement for me, and had a great job within 3 days- Heaven in Alberta is an understatement :-) is it still booming?
A song can have multiple meanings. Who are any of you to tell someone else what the song should mean to them? I'm an Albertan to the bone and proud. I love the oil and gas industry. I like working 120 hours a week. I like sleeping in my truck, the smell of diesel, the taste of crude oil and I take bong hoots of H2S gas for breakfast. I rock the fuck out to this song at the end of my long day and feel good knowing I worked hard and got the job done. We work hard and we play hard in Alberta
The song is about Medicine Hat, Alberta where Rudyard Kipling visited and said about the town... All Hell for a Basement... because of all the natural gas underground. Medicine Hat is called the Gas City because it is rich with natural gas. Big Sugar is from Medicine Hat.
I`m telling ya, anybody whos worked the patch for a while has seen a lot of stuff. I`ve worked with explosives, under supplied air, drove over thousands of miles of muskeg, encountered tonnes of wildlife on the road, worked with volitile chemicals (a lot of them under pressure) flew to remote locations, plane or helicopter, the list of hazards go on and on, real dangerous stuff. Now I`ve been away from it for a couple of years, and I still miss it.
who ever made this vid good wrk. i was a tester for 7 years 2 with flo safe from gp and 5 with can sub. great song, cool vid took me back to my tester days. thanks lol
This song was written Redcliff, Alberta. And the song came from a poem titled "All Hell for a Basement" written by Rudyard Kipling. Records say it was written about Medicine Hat because it is now larger than Redcliff.
Gordie says the original inspiration song was a quote from Rudyard Kipling about Medicine Hat...“This part of the country seems to have all hell for a basement, and the only trap door appears to be in Medicine Hat.” Kipling died in 1936.... that'll tell you how long the oil and gas industry's been out there.
cool video, and the song is about the newfies initially coming to work at fort mac while it was still a fledgling... the maritimers went through a culture change as it was basically be like moving to a new country for them.
dude i saw big sugar in concert in newfoundland and he explained the whole meaning of this song he said he even wrote it for the newfoundlanders who lost their way and searching for employement in alberta. Not to mention he did the recording for this song in st.john's
These days the line "the words are like rope that's wrapped around my throat" are so fucking true.Alberta as Province has contributed without measure....all of those BILLIONS of dollars as it has been for DECADES.....and as the bread provider we are being shit upon for wanting a pipeline to tidewater....at the same time foreign special interest groups PAY people to be professional protesters and try to STOP a pipeline that already exists. Alberta has PAID more than it's fair share to the rest of Canada for DECADES.....give us the fucking pipeline.
I’ve been working in the oilfield since I was 19 years old, I remember watching this video back in 2009 before I applied to become a Tester, spent 7 years as a Well Tester like the soldiers in this video, I’ve now moved on to the production sector, I’m born and raised in Alberta and extremely proud of my Province, LONG LIVE ALBERTA.
Born & raised on my native land 💪 I do support pro oil & gas born & raised Alberta
hell yea brother, i hionestly wish i sawe more natives in the industry. my jm long ago was from a rez in sask, good dude, is what it is, i guess
what a dude, tought me alot. he told me about some stuff, like he cant drink in the wintertime, because his wife thinks he will wander off....and he did lol,, whatever it isw, there is deep seated wanderlust in im hahaha
Ahhh.... I am a Canadian living in Australia, and this song is my Canadian pride and joy that brings back heaps of memories and images of our powerful and stunning homeland. Reminds me of winter sunsets, early morning hockey, and working with my father...
Here's to hoping you're still in Australia!
there is a heaven in alberta
Check out “we’ve got stronger beer” it’s a Canadian classic!
When my daughters were little, like, 3 and 8, we'd play this whole CD at top volume and they'd dance their hearts out with me. (My wife thought we were crazy!) But the music just drives right through you, and the kids could feel it, and just let themselves go with it. It was very, very fun.
"All hell for a basement" is referencing Rudyard Kipling's quote on seeing Medicine Hat's gas and oil fields from a train in 1907:
“This part of the country seems to have -all hell for a basement-, and the only trap door appears to be in Medicine Hat.”
Yes
i thought it was because Albertans smoke crack in their basements
@@James-px3om Pretty sure over 100 years ago that wasn't the case there bud.
@@RonM. oh ya, must've been opium then bud
Ever hear of Fort McMurray, if you knew anything about Alberta and the oil fields you'd know that we were drowning in oil and money. Hence the quote "where they've gone all hell for a basement", and another cause for that is inflation... due to the money... from the oil
This is a beautiful video... It made me cry! So many lives are spent working in those fields and there's hardly any art - video, music, books, movies - that capture it. But this video sure does! Thank you.
And thanks Canadian West for the info about Rudyard Kipling...I didn't know that.
I've lived in eastern Ontario all my life. I spend a lot of time in Alberta. Nothing quite like driving across and seeing the oil wells, grain elevators and beautiful landscape.
Not so great when you see all the pump jacks at a standstill.
:(
Nice job!! I worked for Norward Energy Services back in 91 and did my fair share of frac clean up. Seeing you at that manifold made me chuckle.. frikken frac sand ate 90 deg elbows every few hours..what a pain. glad i dont do that anymore.. Got tired of 40% sour wells too...you know lol
As a Newfie who lost his way a few times on the mainland, this song still effects me as much as it did when I first heard it years ago.
I couldn't hack it in Alberta, but at least I made it home alive. Some guys make a nice living for themselves up there, other guys get hooked on something and either come home strung out or just OD or freeze to death on the streets.
Young Newfies should stay home. We have the most beautiful and unique province in the country, and the economy is doing alright.
tried construction or you went straight for the oil boom jobs?
Well that's a god damn bold claim. Newfoundland isn't the Center of everything my boy.
You are right !!!! newfies should stay home !!!!
What about bc?!
Pretty sure this song is about fort Mac the biggest newfoundland city lol
Heard this for the first time on 106.7 Rock this evening. Great tune.
Great song. Glad there's still some music out there with heart and meaning, not just shit put together to sell to tweens.
Many have moved to the West in search of a better life & a new start. This stirring song sums it up nicely, and set to some actual oilpatch video is good.
This song makes me miss my hometown soo bad.. Dear little po-dunk city of medicine hat.. The Gas City!
As an western Albertan living in the northwest central now this song makes me proud to be one and honored for the oil men breaking their backs to keep countless lives moving.
northern alberta is where the best and brightest of the entire globe comes for work, as a sask boy
Thanks Alberta for everything! 2008-2013 oil boom
Btw: I’m from Mexico and I missing you :(
3:02 that beat gets me every time, Albertan for 18 years love this song
Greetings From Calgary
ALBERTA ROCKS!!!! im glad to be born and raised here.
I love that mournful guitar.
Every guy on a guitar get it
Pic squeals,..most great guitarists don,t know that trick with the strings.
Me too
Heard them in Fort McMurray
To this day, this is, and always will be, one of my favourite videos. Respect to all! And, thanks for keeping my car on the road and for feeding my ongoing need for plastics! Tree-huggers...screw off!
isnt it kinda ironic to say respect to all and then follow it up with tree huggers screw off
i love this province. born and raised in Alberta. from diggin' basements to hauling pipe in the oilfield i have been there done that like most of us. salute our brothers and sisters!!!
the shot of the road sky, jus befor the deer near the end there, tottaly takes me back up to Swan Hills, early morning starts and evening finishing.
I just love this tune.... Yes, its Alberta, providing energy to keep everyone warm in the winter...Great tune...
Loved this song and this video ever since I found it as a kid. Now I work on Frac pads for a living. All comes full circle I suppose
Hell yeah brother!!! I hear you man, LONG LIVE ALBERTA.
Great video....It's now time for Alberta to stand up unite and separate #VoteWexit
F*ck separatists!
Just read up on this. It's a song about an out-of-work Newfie considering going to find work in Alberta because of what's been heard. A heaven in Alberta (lots of work) and all hell for a basement (tons of oil and gas). But he's finding it hard to leave Newfoundland because that's the life he knows and is used to.
what sucks for Alberta now is that we have "all hell for a government"....tax and spend more
+Elsinore Brewing Don't worry, friend! Ole Rachel knows she's a one term wonder, just like Bob 'Rae Day' Rae in Ontfaeryo! Oil WILL go up again. It always does.
+ThePennyPincher Yup another Boom will hit again. Rachel will be gone and then we can all move on.
The gene pool has been paid off. Tax and spend will never end.
Alberta has the lowest tax in all of Canada. Quit bitching or move out. I love it here, peaceful and quiet. Life is easier.
@@MiddleofNowhereDuff See boys, this is a real Albertan here. Follow suit or get the frig out of 'Heaven'
I'm a well tester in Grande Prairie. And I just discovered this song. Wicked.
The music in this song really hits me and there's something extremely powerful about the rudyard kipling quote.. it's so poetic and descriptive in its curtness.
love this song, long live the patch!
I remember hearing this song played as a young kid growing up in Hinton, AB. I've since moved provinces but this song always brings back memories.
This song is always going to remind of my time living in Rocky Mountain House Alberta.....
My home town!
I worked a few places in town but the best job plus the people I met was when I worked for Rocky mountain valve.....
Did a few gigs up north between jobs circa 2007-2012 .If I was on an east coast crew, this was the first song on the drive to the job site.
I moved to Alberta 4 years ago and I absolutely love this song. Lived in Sask. and from Man. Reminds me of work from the visual and the song reminds me of home. Love it.
I love the idling diesel in the end. It fits perfectly.
Such a goood song..almost(IMO) like an..Alberta Anthem.
This Song makes me miss medicine hat and my friends from there thats a place thats built on top of natural gas with wells in the city....all hell for a basement
The guys that move rigs are magicians. I love the videos of the bed trucks and sows in the mud.
I believe that it was Rudyard Kipling. This is a great video. It really reminds me of Alberta, even though I was never in Fort McMurray. Every now and then it is nice to see Alberta depicted as something other than silos and Rockies.
Being a Newfie, in Alberta. Here for oil and gas... It is very hard to leave the life I once knew.
gotta love this province i was proud to serve for my beautiful country and my beautiful province
I used to drive rig out In Alberta and loved it beautiful province and nice people out there
WONDERFUL SONG!!!
I love this video!!!!!!! Great song, and great Work!!!!!!!
This song is about the cultural shock of being a Newfoundland er, leaving small town nfld, and your family and friends, to go move 3000kn away to work Alberta oil fields. “All hell for a basement “ was like many already saidRudyard Kipling. These Gordie , is most under appreciated Canadian Gordie ever
This song is Awesome!!!! One of my favorites
I think the deer at the end and the sound of the Duramax diesel really add to the video. Well done!
17 years was enough for me. it has its beauty to it, and im thankful to it for the money it made me, and my family. but im definitely not going back!
this songs awesome and the video is amazing pure demonstration of wat a testor goes through
My favorite video, I watched 15yrd ago..outstanding
Great song, and i have heard that this song was wrote for eastern canadians migrating to alberta for work. I myself am out here now from newfoundland. great place with great people but it will never be my home. and we are all helll for a basement.
When I was on the rigs we would sing a tune on the floor from time to time, this one would have fit the bill. We worked hard and played hard but we were not all pigs. Like Corb says cant blame the riggers our the guys driving a truck just trying to make a living and making a buck.
What a video. What a song. What a life!
One of Kipling's many memorial quotes. I love Alberta!
Excellent...yes we are hard working in Alberta day or night, rain or snow!! That's the patch.
What an awesome tune!
I just moved to eastern BC (from western BC) and have the chance to see Alberta a lot, and this song reminds me of it, very much! I'm not in the industry but this song and video have very special meaning to me anyway; everything about it feels memorable and personal to me...awesome song, terrific video, thanks for posting it!
As a well tester of 5 years i really enjoyed that video and hope to see more.
Great compilation of video to go with tunes!! I was working at Vault Gas compressor station, Alberta. Found out that it costs three times as much to make it than what it actually sells for, basically a losing proposition.. thankfully we live in the best province, in the best country of the world. This song sums up precisely what we're all about. Go Big Sugar!
never in my life would i imagine id meet people from all over the globe, in the middle of nowhere
Was born in Fort Mac. I have been all across western Canada and every boss i have had was amazed at my work ethic. The "git er done" attitude that is so normal for me... Well it's not so normal outside of Alberta.
Although modesty is not your strong point
with a name like fourtwenny, I doubt you could pass the prerequisite piss test to access sites. The "git r done" attitude is what non-tradesmen have, so its obvious you are low on the totem poll and likely a jackass jabroni who takes orders from people like . I am an Albertan with over 30 yrs in the patch, sounds like you are a typical doucebag with a jacked up truck with ufc shirts who brags too much..FT MAC STEVE..you tube it.
You do realize that many of the oil workers are from OUTSIDE Alberta
They were at the Calgary stampede... they played an AMAZING show!
Love this song. Very well done.
Great voice and great guitar tone! Love it!
Amazing song ❤
great video man, well done
for everyone arguing about the meaning of the song, its about Medicine Hat, Alberta. In 1907 Rudyard Kipling while in medicine hat stated that people living in the district have all hell for a basement due to the enormous gas field it was built upon, this quote is actually quite proudly displayed in Med Hats airport. Medicine Hat Alberta, the town with all hell for a basement.
Love this video!! This is such an Alberta song...thanks!
Every now and then after a hard days work,,,,getting in late...I play this....need to have them back in Nova Scotia.......................soonthank youDavid
Sometimes I wish I didn't relate so much to this. Great video, I feel it really captured everything I've seen and done. Time to get back home, and start this whole life thing again, but at least now I know what's out here, fucking hell for a basement.
Long Live a Strong & Free Alberta ❤
was a true story for me when I first moved there. fortunately, I had a couple of friends in Edmonton, who had a space in their basement for me, and had a great job within 3 days- Heaven in Alberta is an understatement :-) is it still booming?
Awesome,wish they had more great songs!!!
Heard on radio, youtube searched Hell Basement Heaven in Alberta and VOILA!
Me gusta
Memories. 2012 Fort Mc Kay. as north as she went. Team work. Husky Oil. Best job I ever had.
This song still kills it
A song can have multiple meanings. Who are any of you to tell someone else what the song should mean to them? I'm an Albertan to the bone and proud. I love the oil and gas industry. I like working 120 hours a week. I like sleeping in my truck, the smell of diesel, the taste of crude oil and I take bong hoots of H2S gas for breakfast. I rock the fuck out to this song at the end of my long day and feel good knowing I worked hard and got the job done. We work hard and we play hard in Alberta
I think this should be like an....anthem for Alberta
it is
The song is about Medicine Hat, Alberta where Rudyard Kipling visited and said about the town... All Hell for a Basement... because of all the natural gas underground. Medicine Hat is called the Gas City because it is rich with natural gas. Big Sugar is from Medicine Hat.
What an awesome Riff. Just saw these guys in St John's and they were great.
I`m telling ya, anybody whos worked the patch for a while has seen a lot of stuff. I`ve worked with explosives, under supplied air, drove over thousands of miles of muskeg, encountered tonnes of wildlife on the road, worked with volitile chemicals (a lot of them under pressure) flew to remote locations, plane or helicopter, the list of hazards go on and on, real dangerous stuff. Now I`ve been away from it for a couple of years, and I still miss it.
@MsCanadiancougar your man is a real man in this world of well never mind! Be proud of him!
Well, you can't go wrong referencing Rudyard Kipling, ...it takes a classy guy like Gordie to turn a great quote into a work of art...
Canadian by Birth, ALBERTAN by the grace of God !!!!! Keep Trudeau and his ENERGY policies East of Alberta / Saskatchewan Border
who ever made this vid good wrk. i was a tester for 7 years 2 with flo safe from gp and 5 with can sub. great song, cool vid took me back to my tester days. thanks lol
This is an awesome song has heart and true meaning👍👍👍👍
This tune is truly amazing... easy thumb up.
From New Brunswick but love Alberta can't wait to go back for the 4th time hoping to stay permanently this time
This song was written Redcliff, Alberta. And the song came from a poem titled "All Hell for a Basement" written by Rudyard Kipling. Records say it was written about Medicine Hat because it is now larger than Redcliff.
Most of the people I grew up from Newfoundland, live this life. ❤
this is a beast song. you cnat deny it
AWESOME TUNE
Gordie says the original inspiration song was a quote from Rudyard Kipling about Medicine Hat...“This part of the country seems to have all hell for a basement, and the only trap door appears to be in Medicine Hat.” Kipling died in 1936.... that'll tell you how long the oil and gas industry's been out there.
cool video, and the song is about the newfies initially coming to work at fort mac while it was still a fledgling... the maritimers went through a culture change as it was basically be like moving to a new country for them.
Thumbs up if you live in Medicine Hat or are from the Hat, the town that this song is about :D
dude i saw big sugar in concert in newfoundland and he explained the whole meaning of this song he said he even wrote it for the newfoundlanders who lost their way and searching for employement in alberta. Not to mention he did the recording for this song in st.john's
Love it and were comming back
These days the line "the words are like rope that's wrapped around my throat" are so fucking true.Alberta as Province has contributed without measure....all of those BILLIONS of dollars as it has been for DECADES.....and as the bread provider we are being shit upon for wanting a pipeline to tidewater....at the same time foreign special interest groups PAY people to be professional protesters and try to STOP a pipeline that already exists.
Alberta has PAID more than it's fair share to the rest of Canada for DECADES.....give us the fucking pipeline.
Much appreciation for all of you hard working fellas out there
Now more than ever.
The comments from folks 8 and 10 years ago 😭 it really was a different time back then, hard to believe all we've been through since then.
great sounding guitar! solid drum work! good players all!!
i heard this song on the radio and i thought it waz awesome cuz i live in Alberta =D