RUSH

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ClockworkHouse wrote:

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.

Duuude. awesome sang. Been listening to it all morning

Also this!
http://cygnus-x1.net/links/rush/tour...

Un-confirmed dates for Clockwork Orange tour

Quintin_Stone wrote:

From IRC...

ClockworkHouse wrote:

It is horrifically embarrassing to like prog rock. It's like having a sh*t fetish but with music.

:o

If this is true, then I have that fetish and am horribly embarrassed!

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look how cute they were!

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.

iaintgotnopants wrote:

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.

ya, well Rush is new too!
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Never even heard of that movie.

Quintin_Stone wrote:

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.

Rush is finally in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

I know! WOOT!
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or, this one.
Love the lip-bite
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MilkmanDanimal wrote:

I have to imagine flying pigs are having a snowball fight in Hell right now.

Rush is finally in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

It's true, the world will end Dec 21, 2012.

MilkmanDanimal wrote:

I have to imagine flying pigs are having a snowball fight in Hell right now.

Rush is finally in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Finally! I can't believe it took this damn long.

About damn time!

Rush is coming back to Ottawa! WOOT.
The Blues fest is where I saw them last time. it si a festival style so big mosh pit of gyrating fans slappin' da bass.
This year we're doing it different.
Last year, in order to get a good spot, a friend camped out at noon when the concert started at 8. He went with his camera and photographed the goings on as they set up the stage and the famous Neil Peart drum set. Great set of shots. We, the rest of our group, showed up at around 4 and waited the rest of the evening at decent positions to see an awesome show.
One thing about festival shows, everyone stands. My wife is 5' nothing. In a festival crowd she might as well be sitting on the ground. Also bathrooms might as well be forgotten about nd bring a bottle, let alone getting beer. Forgetaboutit

So we have tiered pricing for tickets. Well, two tiers. Cheap and really expensive.
Gold Circle tickets get you in an assigned seating area for 300 guests, Gold Circle bathrooms and a Gold Circle beer tent.

Sooo, I mention this to my wife, thinking She'd never go for it.
I says...
"So, wife, we can either get the $65 tickets, wait in the middle of a large crowd because I know you won't want to wait all day for that great spot, have to loose our precious spot because of a beer or bathroom break, and possiblly need to get a stool for you so you can see over the people standing...OR we can spend $150 each and get our own assigned seats, private bathrooms and beer bar, and a gift certificate each for $25 to our favorite restaurant."

She said, look into where the seats are, and after I told her they were near the front, she said go for it!!!
I flipped, sqweed, and then ordered the tickets!

RUSH in July, baby!

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.
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groan wrote:

When you are at a RUSH concert, you are alone, with all the other alone people. You and your bass.
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I pretty much air drum the whole damned time. So very, very alone.

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What's the guy in the middle doing? Opening a beer?

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.

Aaron D. wrote:

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.

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LOL I think white-sleeves is playing air-theramin.
I was referring to grey hoodie.

And his gangsta signs look just like how i play air-bass!

Neil Peart is married to my mother-in-law's god-daughter so we're like... nothing.

LiquidMantis wrote:

Neil Peart is married to my mother-in-law's god-daughter so we're like... nothing. :(

I hope you are wrong or maybe it's true and she was this person but...(sorry if it's true)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Pe...
Soon after the conclusion of Rush's Test for Echo Tour on July 4, 1997, Peart's first daughter and then-only child, 19-year-old Selena Taylor, was killed in a single-car accident on Highway 401 near the town of Brighton, Ontario, on August 10, 1997. His common-law wife of 22 years, Jacqueline Taylor, succumbed to cancer only 10 months later on June 20, 1998. Peart, however, maintains that her death was the result of a "broken heart" and called it "a slow suicide by apathy. She just didn't care."[18]

That was the shi#iest year of his life. I don't think he has remarried.
edit: I don't really mean to call you out on this. Just want to make sure people know.

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.