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Ehy!! No Roger Daltrey??? I'm gonna beat every one of you with a flying microphone!!!!

Hello :hi: I'm a noob, trying to hang with all the cool TRF vets! :ebert: :cheers:

The first time the words "Celine Dion" and "hard on" have ever been used in the same sentence.

Why so much hate? I can understand some for them but... The faux-cowboy shite. Taking something wonderful like country rock and turning it into something beige and nondescript. Glenn Frey. Anodyne, soulless, mawkish, lachrymose songs that beg to be set on fire, and then pissed on. Don Henley. There's more, if I could be arsed. f**k The Eagles. f**k them.

GM,. you make me laugh, and the pictures make me smile. I needed both. Let's make this at least a weekly thing, shall we? ;) :) Love the third, fourth and fifth picture. What a great smile he has! Doesn't everyone agree? :) ;)

Hooray! I love when it's that time! Thanks again, GM! :) (A grinning Geddy always seems to put me in a good mood!)

Taken yesterday. Sorry if I look tired, because I was (and I still am!) :P http://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/z365/musicalabby2112/Me_zpsbc3103b8.jpg

Apologies to everybody out there who are pretending to like this thing, but the songwriting, vocal melodies, song structures, arrangements are an example of a band that are completely devoid of any ideas as regards a musical future... The mastering is so bad that the individual instruments and vocals are difficult to hear. Quite obviously, to anybody with a pair of ears this album has been cut and pasted beyond belief and not particularly well No, it doesn't "Kick Ass" and no, it's not their best since... ? To be honest, I would prefer to read the novel than to have to listen to Pearts backing band trying to come up with some dodgy music in an effort to support his narrative. "In the fullness of time" this album will go down as sucking as much as the rest of the Rush catalogue since "Signals" I remember reading on this forum how great "Snakes and Arrows" was, only to be slagged of a few moths later, once the childish euphoria wore off.. CA is truly awful... you'll all agree with me in a few years - or through the "fullness" of time...

:clap: :ebert: :guitar: :yay: :D Happy 1st Anniversary, CygnusGal! :clap: :ebert: :guitar: :yay: :D

I'm sure many of you have seen this DVD. The 20th Anniversary Tour (Live with the Octavarium Orchestra). It was recorded April 1, 2006, Radio City Music Hall in New York. I watched it again last night, beginning to end, uninterrupted. And, holy EFFING WOW! Rush will be always be my favourite band and part of the reason is nostalgic. They're the first band I really went nuts for and my first show was the 2112 tour back in '76. I've seen about 27 shows now I think. But, I have to say, these Dream Theater guys - OMFG are they ever GOOD! Not just their music, but their musicianship is something I don't think I've seen before. I mean, these guys could easily kick the asses of people like Steve Howe, Chris Squire, Brian Eno, Holdsworth, Wakeman, Page, Bruford, Bonham, Gilmour and - (TBR hides behind his couch again to avoid getting the living shit kicked out of him by a bunch of hard-core Rush fans from the states) even Geddy, Alex and Neil. On top of all that, the sound is crystal clear on this DVD. The venue helps, of course, but the band sounds great! Tight as a frog's ass... They have an orchestra behind them for the second half of the show and it really works with DT's music. Their music is very complex compared to that of Rush, or even Yes, for the most part. A perfect mix of heavy stuff like Iron Maiden and orchestral progressive like early Yes or even some of the very early (Gabriel era) Genesis. If you haven't yet listened to these guys, get this DVD. If you hate it, I'll pay you a hundred bucks. (CND of course.) TBR

Happy first anniversary CygnusGal! It's been wonderful having you around...don't go anywhere

The TRF is a brighter place because of chicks like you. Let's make today a holiday in your honor. What should we call this special day? Hmmmmm....how about "Badass Bass playing chick day"? It seems to have ring to it in Swahili...."beda nedi kiki bobo dastufa" is how you say it. Let's celebrate!!!

Only just noticed that! :P Me too! Well, I'd noticed the glasses, but not the li'l tuft of hair on the chinny-chin-chin. Ya know, altogether, that is kind of a weird picture!

I'm not a huge Queen fan, but damn Freddy was a wonderful singer.

I love the layered guitars on Dirty Movies! "Daddy's little sweetie after some damn rainbow!" This is a great, great album :haz:

GnR sucks donkey balls. I got my vote in.

I enjoy Hagar era VH moreso than DLR. Songwriting was far superior in my book...Hagar pushed the envelop with band to its furthest with the For unlawful carnal knowledge...great album...Eddie at his best. Probably not a popular opinion

Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers

In no order Beatles Fleetwood Mac—Buckingham era The Police Rush Dixie Dregs Mastadon INXS They Might Be Giants Yes Simon & Garfunkel Lyle Lovett—he has a large band

Digging this. Good find!

It's that time again! :sundog: http://postmediamontreal.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/rush.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/07/Geddy_Lee_performing_at_the_Air_Canada_Centre_on_October_16%2C_2012.jpg/476px-Geddy_Lee_performing_at_the_Air_Canada_Centre_on_October_16%2C_2012.jpg http://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/rush/images/books/classic-rock-07.2012/classic-rock-07.2012-3.jpg http://nationalpostarts.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/geddy.jpg http://www.thecanadianmusicscene.com/ggpaa2012/ggpaa_rh_058.jpg :drool:

The Beatles Rush Van Halen (but not the Cherone era) Black Sabbath (the Ozzy and Dio eras) The Rolling Stones The Police UFO (the Schenker era) Soundgarden Led Zeppelin Guns N Roses (the 1980s and 1990s versions) The exact placement shifts constantly.

So what you're saying is...you guys went from two piece swimsuits (can u say thonnnnnngggg?) to mukluks and furry hoodie parkas??? KHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!! Ya... something like that. ;) Check out my website for new bikini pics, taken just yesterday. :P There's a website? KHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!! *insert eyebrow perk smiley and EKG goin off the chart smiley right here!* KHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!! :LMAO: :P

welcome Grand Designer :hi: For a moment, I thought my emoticon interpretation of 2112 had caused the game to crash "For the words of the profits, Are written on the studio wall, Concert hall - Echoes with the sounds... Of salesmen."

The Fireball album is way underrated.

I heard a very recent interview with Geddy where he said, "The VT remix should be available within the next 20 years... you know, probably..."

On Grooveshark.com someone remixed the entire album pretty well. It's called Vapor Trails - Less Vapor. They did a pretty good job.

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I love how the pig head has glasses and a soul patch.

'cyber-pissing contest'..! I don't even know what that means, but it sure got me :LMAO: !

:)

Ummm... Is it safe to come out yet, or should I put boxing gloves on the pair of you..?

Geddy's fingers....yeah. You know, a mans fingers can tell a lot about him. :)

Ok, this is officially a fantastic thread. Anything involving Geddy's fingers and the freedom to do what he wants with them is pretty darn good in my book! :)

To be honest, WGAF? Is Rush going to be any greater if they win this poll? Will GNR suck any less?

I think some people have too much time on their hands. Or on their fingers? :P

Just remember, it's not how big your e-peen is, it's what you do with it You net boys love your e-peens. Like my post, SC, and just watch it grow... :geddy: :geddy: :geddy: :geddy: +2 Like this one and my e-peen will block out the sun and stop global warming. For the sake of the Earth, ok. The Earth, nah. To shut some posters up? That's a worthy cause. +3

You know, I was really involved some time ago in my town's local Punk scene, and I really got fed up with their attitude. They still believe the Ramones or The Clash are the best bands ever as though no other bands had came during the last 35 years. I almost got in a fight with a guy who was adamant Syd Vicious was a great bass player, obviously, I told him he wasn't , so he answered me something like "it dosen't matter, it's the image and the look that matter", anyway we argued for about half an hour and I ended up calling him "a f***ing groupie". But I still like a lot of punk music, I just find the ideology completely retarded.

The problem isn't the mixing or the mastering of VT, it's the recording. They made some fundamental errors in the recording process such as recording individual tracks too hot. They could remix/remaster VT all they want and it's still going to have issues. GIGO - Garbage In, Garbage Out.

My four The Body electric/Middle Town Dreams becomes Kid Gloves/Emotion Detector Halo effect with Distant early Warning (played after the garden) Put Dreamline in Tom Sawyer's Spot and in Dreamline's old spot put Prime Mover (People are going to hate me for this) 2112 with Marathon (if a fifth could be picked) Red Sector A with Jacobs Ladder/Xanadu (would really like these ones, but I had to clean out the low points on the list first (no disrespect for Middletown dreams, but get another PW song out there is my dream))

Guns and Roses beat the Beatles and Led Zeppelin while Van Halen beat Pink Floyd. I still voted for Rush

I think if you compare them at their peak in the late 70s/early 80s Michael measures up very well, but ultimately Eddie owns him. And yeah you told me about the shitting! Eddie may not be a SAINT but Schenker is more of a Cleveland Brown!! <<< Schenker's old lady

Give me Hemispheres side 1

Guns 'n' Roses beat The Beatles. No wonder humanity is f*cked.

Driven (live) Leave that thing alone (live), Digital man, Cygnus x1 hemispheres, YYZ, Analog Kid, Circumstances, The Body Electric.. HA! no! Caravan, Headlong flight, La Villa Strangiato. These are just the hardest songs to learn all the way through on bass, from a bassist's perspective.

What can this strange device be? When I touch it, it gives forth a sound It's got wires that vibrate and give music What can this thing be that I found? :guitar:

In appreciation of your appreciation of my posts in the other thread, here are a few for you, Janie: http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8050/8110086228_ba0bb5a6e9_b.jpg http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8191/8110087050_ffa3ac7695_b.jpg http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4101/4821420056_2f900e402a_b.jpg http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4142/4820749117_7f601675b7_b.jpg

Geddy has already said the Setlist is not changing, or maybe that was Alex... and we know how reliable he is. I learned to love the setlist, I forgot how much I like those 80's songs. The buddy that I took really like the setlist because those were his first RUSH albums.

QUOTE (LedRush @ Aug 8 2012, 05:28 PM) From RS interview iwth Alex, in June: I've heard word that Vapor Trails might get remixed at some point. Is that true? Oh, yeah, that's always something that we're doing. We've already remixed a few songs. The idea was to do it as a tagalong with this record, maybe. That was one of the options that we talked about. But the schedule just keeps getting in the way of something like that. Because it's not really a priority. We'd like to do it, I think, for all the right reasons. We're not happy with the mastering. We felt that the production could've been a bit better, and we'd like to have another crack at it. But the longer we get away from it, the less appealing the idea is. Maybe it's best to leave it as it is. There's something that's very compelling about that record. It's the least-produced record that we've ever done. But in a way that's the right thing, for the moment. It was a very, very difficult time, and that record should sound and feel very different from anything else that we've done. Uh, that's all fine and dandy Alex, I mean I can respect the sentiment you have for that album and all, but the album should still be, like, listenable without blowing our eardrums out. I don't think causing Rush fans to do deaf was the sentiment you were going for...? But I will agree with you on one point: It absolutely DOES sound very different than any album you've ever done