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It is horrifically embarrassing to like prog rock. It's like having a sh*t fetish but with music.
Says the guy that started the manga thread.
New song sounds pretty good, but a bit over-noodly. The one thing I always liked about Rush back when I was a huge fan was they typically managed to hide the prog stuff under lots of really good sounding songs; once Permanent Waves came out, they stopped the ten-minute math jams and managed to write loads of catchy riffs and awesome tunes. When it comes to the "look, ma, no hands, see how good I am" aspect of show-off prog, I'd rather stick forks into my head than listen to that stuff.
That new track at least piques my interest. I thought Snakes & Arrows was one of the singly worst things I'd ever heard, though, so I'm dubious.
Says the guy that started the manga thread.
Oh snap!
I already knew that Clocky hated most good things, so I'm not surprised to find out that he's grotesquely wrong about this as well.
As far as the new track goes, I dig the energy, but I wish it didn't feel like an instrumental with a vocal line bolted on. I'll spin it a few more times to see how it grows on me. One way or another, I'm still really looking forward to the album.
I have no interest in manga. I started the thread because people were talking about starting one but no one would cowboy up and make it.
And you're all sick for loving Rush. Sick in the head.
Never even heard of that movie.
Never even heard of that movie.
You probably wouldn't get it.
Probably not!
Welp, since the thread is bumped I'll throw in a pimp for the recent addition of the Classic Album series on Netflix streaming.
They're hour-long "making of" documentaries. Good quality based on the few I've watched.
Here's the Rush: 2112 & Moving Pictures episode.
I have to imagine flying pigs are having a snowball fight in Hell right now.
I have to imagine flying pigs are having a snowball fight in Hell right now.
It's true, the world will end Dec 21, 2012.
I have to imagine flying pigs are having a snowball fight in Hell right now.
Finally! I can't believe it took this damn long.
About damn time!
Noice
Double noice. I don't have that good of a view, but I do have a ticket on the floor in the 21st row for the show in Raleigh. Yes, a ticket. Cue "forever alone" image.
When you are at a RUSH concert, you are alone, with all the other alone people. You and your bass.
I pretty much air drum the whole damned time. So very, very alone.
The guy with the white sleeves?
He's either playing air-harp or stand-up bass.
The old guy on the left is throwing gangsta signs.
Neil Peart is married to my mother-in-law's god-daughter so we're like... nothing.
Two paragraphs below:
Peart was introduced to photographer Carrie Nuttall in Los Angeles by long-time Rush photographer Andrew MacNaughtan. They married on September 9, 2000. In early 2001, Peart announced to his bandmates that he was ready to return to recording and performing. The product of the band's return was the 2002 album Vapor Trails. At the start of the ensuing tour in support of the album, it was decided amongst the band members that Peart would not take part in the daily grind of press interviews and "Meet and Greet" sessions upon their arrival in a new city that typically monopolize a touring band's daily schedule. Peart has always shied away from these types of in-person encounters, and it was decided that exposing him to an endless stream of questions about the tragic events of his life was not necessary.
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