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I don't understand how anybody could be a hardcore fan of a band if they are so eager to dismiss entire sections of said bands discography, and mock another fans love of a less iconic album. if someone here thinks Presto or T4E are the bands best albums, and they love them with all their heart, I will disagree with their view, but also agree to disagree! Rush make great music.

Clockwork Angels is easily one of the their 3 best albums. They are sill in their PRIME. They've had many Primes.

On Monday, Keira graduated to a "big girl bed". The crib has been retired!

http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/7e/ae/bb/7eaebb563257f53c6b68e7da38871c6b.jpg CARLOS! The greatest joy my life has ever known. He's a Chiweenie dog.

Just wanted to express a few thoughts about the ladies around here. I ran across this yesterday and thought to myself, that seems like the ladies of Rush. Her attire is not exactly what I visualize (but would like too), but the sentiment is. I picture a lady in maybe an old school Moving Pictures raglan, some nice fitting jeans and All The World's A Stage (the album) opened all the way up and check'in out the boys when they were young with "In The End" blasting. I have been around here for a few months now and really enjoy reading the thoughts and seemingly strong emotions behind those thoughts. I have always had more lady friends than men and really do enjoy the ladies perspective on life, love and all things in general. I also enjoy the sausage smugglers posts as well, but the way the ladies bring it strong around here is truly refreshing. To those ladies who have had some struggles in 2013 with relationships and other challenges, here's :cheers: to a happier and healthy 2014. :) Keep bring'in it ladies!!

1.8.2014 Toronto Can. Great White North Newspaper: Toronto Edition. World publication: DISTO-AP News Wire Interview: Alex Lifeson, Neil Peart, Geddy Lee: Part II Interviewer: Beatonto Seamaso. BS: So Guys, it’s here the 40th anniversary of your first album AL: Yep –it’s here! AL: 40 years, jeez wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere did the time go? GL: Who knows NP: Time is relative. AL: If I could save time in a bottle, the first that I’d like to dooooooooooooooooooo.............. NP: No, Alex stop!...you can’t carry a tune...my head hurts and your singing leaves a lot to be desired AL: Sorry. BS: So............guys your remasting the Rush album...what’s new in that idea? GL: Well; for starters we are in agreement that the album is lacking, it’s really a flat sounding album. Were working with a full orchestra to added some dimension to it AL: Ged...albums are flat...and round GL: Alex, I’m referring to the sound of the album....pour another glass of wine...and refill mine please. NP: I’ll be working with the percussion section of the orchestra to help them achieve a broad expansion of the bottom end and add some real crash! To the sonic footprint BS: Wouldn’t adding more cowbell work? NP: This is Rush were talking about...not some hee-haw band. AL: My old original solo will be slotted back into Working Man and the string section will be the backbone of the song....think of Working Man meets Rogers and Hammerstein. GL: Great idea Alex, you know I can do the whole “orchestra” on my keyboards. NP: Yeah, we tried that Ged back a few albums ago and it lost us a butt load of fans...remember? AL: Thanks Neil! NP: Ged, if you really want to do the keyboard thing again I hear Angel is reuniting for a tour.... GL: Thank God! They were great! Greg was a god on the keyboards! Ya know we almost swapped Alex for Punky Meadows back in 79....but his hair was too high maintenance. NP: Yea, I remember that! AL: You’re glad you didn’t now...I’m the real chick magnet for this band!...yea know I think I’ll grow my hair long again, that was a good look for me NP: Right Alex all six of them show up at every show....Please! BS: Guys can we stay on the subject please? GL: Sorry, we’ll release a remastered version of “Rush” and it’ll really kick some a$$! NP: There could be a double disc set which would include a few unreleased album singles and a full version of working man live the first time I added new cow bells to it....like in All The Worlds A Stage, only better. AL: Yep, it’ll kick some a$$ and make us some do-ray-me money! NP: I hope so, I need to have my Aston Martin repaired.....ran into a deer out west...what a mess. BS: Is that it for now guys? AL: Yes it is, time for a nap! NP: Great idea Al....I call dibs on the sofa. AL: Neil, you might want to take the spare room, the dog shat on the sofa last night. GL: I’m crashing here on the lazy boy...later dudes....wake me up for dinner...Alex is cooking tonight.

In Toronto going to those Rush shows in the 70s was a religious experience. Ged, Alex & Neil were still just kids really, 23 years old the first time I saw them. Things were changing fast, they could feel it and we could feel it. Suddenly this trio that was playing the Gasworks mere months before was selling out the Gardens three or four nights in a row. It was a celebration, a victory for all of us. Critics hated them. Our parents hated them. Even our girlfriends hated them. But if you were a teenage guy in Toronto you got it, and you didn't give a crap what anybody else thought. Rush making it big had validated everything you believed in and it felt great. For those few hours we felt that we owned the city. As we filed out of the gardens on to Carlton street, a swarming mass of denim and Greb Kodiacs, we felt unified and those teenage problems that Neil talks about in Subdivisions all seemed to disappear. Talk to anybody in Toronto who experienced those shows and I guarantee you that their fondest memories won't be about the concerts themselves, but about the good times the had with friends getting there. And the shows themselves were pretty f_cking awesome as well!

The title track with a bit of extra padding is a book called Anthem.

I can't imagine which glasses he was talking about. I sure hope it wasn't THESE glasses, because I think those are a part of the reason I fell in love with him http://i.imgur.com/0NYSVd6.jpg also some random Geddy pictures I had on my computer http://i.imgur.com/PutyqT8.jpg http://i.imgur.com/SI0N7so.jpg http://i.imgur.com/OdgtP56.jpg oh and this :drool: http://i.imgur.com/GpyQBaC.jpg

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/q-a-geddy-lee-19961212 I just discovered this article about Geddy, some of you may have read it before but for those of you that haven't it's a real treat.

This? http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/Bluefunk/Rush/Bluefunk_0107-Jan-141917.jpg It didn't look intentional to me, but the camera was only on him for a split second. Who knows with Lerxst! :D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M7AEi68a20 about 42 seconds, its definitely intentional! Hehe, that's a better camera angle than on the one I watched. :laughing guy:

Just be careful my dear.........

Sadly, Phil Everly has passed on. I loved some of the Everly Brothers songs, especially Cathy's Clown. They had a tv show in 1970 which I watched. RIP Phil. http://www.telegraph...thers-hits.html

I love the song. In particular I like the more quieter parts because Geddy's voice is, sorry to say more ear-friendly, and the emotion he puts in. Oh heck, what am I talking about, it is a masterpiece! :D

I agree with this assessment of the song. The first 6:45 is among the best the band has ever done, while the rest of the song is pretty uneven. "Discovery" is pretty cringeworthy, IMO, and there's a reason they didn't bother playing "The Oracle" live until 1997—it is another stop and start momentum killer, something the song suffers from as a long piece. Don't get me wrong, I love "2112" and I appreciate its importance in making the band what they are today, but I don't think all parts of it have aged equally as well.

I find a lot of their modern material more interesting. Musically, there are parts of the song that are simply phenomenal—especially, of course, the opening few minutes. Other parts pretty much lose me, but that's okay—not every epic can be Close to the Edge. Lyrically, well, their intentions were nice. Can't help but chuckle or shake my head during some sections. Fine for where they were at the time, but thank goodness they grew up.

We should ask Narpet, he was there at the time... :codger: :P :P :P :lol:

I can't imagine which glasses he was talking about. I sure hope it wasn't THESE glasses, because I think those are a part of the reason I fell in love with him http://i.imgur.com/0NYSVd6.jpg also some random Geddy pictures I had on my computer http://i.imgur.com/PutyqT8.jpg http://i.imgur.com/SI0N7so.jpg http://i.imgur.com/OdgtP56.jpg oh and this :drool: http://i.imgur.com/GpyQBaC.jpg There was a time when I had big glasses like that too back when they were in style. But I look at pictures of myself back then and they look goofy. Even though at the time they were the thing everybody had.

As usual, your opinions are clearly stated and points are well justified. Such an insightful addition to the discussion.

The lamentation of the women!

Without 2112 we probably wouldn't have had any other Rush albums. I love the theme, the story and the music. It just fits flawlessly together. I just wish they could write stuff as interesting as this now. The lyrics are so visual, Geddy's voice so full of emotion and Alex's guitar so grungy and yet so filled with wonder at times. It's pretty much perfect.

Reviewing the early Renaissance with my daughter for her Humanities class. Fascinating period of history.

Rush committed what I consider the worst offense any rock band could commit with the Snakes album: It's boring. Rock albums can be overwrought, over produced, silly, cheesy, off the wall, convoluted, but just never be f***ing BORING

O my...a world where music is banned...a young man, the saviour figure, rediscovers lost art and seeks to make its beauty known... Now before I get all Segue Myles-ey on yo' b'hind let me just say: this story rules and the ending left me crying once. Its beautiful! Fables are simple stories, the message that runs through is often deep. Clockwork Angels...sorry I can't follow that story, its nothing special. The beauty of 2112 is you can see the story in your mind, and it has a point. I absolutely love it! Everything about it. I hate to sound negative but its the best Rush epic, and in my haughty, stuck up and biased opinion, it is the best Rush song, period. 10/10 disrespect it at all I will hunt you down and kiss yo' ass! Hang on...I meant...

Are you high?

Its when you bend over, keep your legs straight, and wiggle your bum. Its ridiculous how much press this silly dance routine has had lately, its not even sexy!

I would be opposed to Geddy lip syncing, that would be stupid. I would not be opposed to him using voice enhancement technology though, I would love to see them play some of those older ones and I wouldn't really care if Geddy enhanced his voice. I would prefer they just drop the key though

Got an update on my IRA in the mail. It's earned 20% in less than a year....:)

I can't imagine which glasses he was talking about.

That was cute about the Winnie the Pooh songs.

Reported.

Happy Anni 6 :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

Here! Don't you start doing a documentary on us, young man. :tsk:

This? http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/Bluefunk/Rush/Bluefunk_0107-Jan-141917.jpg It didn't look intentional to me, but the camera was only on him for a split second. Who knows with Lerxst! :D I cannot tell you how many times I've watched those few seconds. He grabs his award twice. The second time he positions his left hand for a bit longer than the first time. Yeah, I've uh... I've watched this a few times.

A real life Sheldon Cooper.

Wow!

Well, some of the wonderful behaviour that made the Fanshaw-Chumleighs the second Most Awful Family in Britain 1974.

Blooming' weather - dunno whether it's coming or going..! Very cloudy, somewhat cold, and rather windy. Some trees are waving about.

http://i.imgur.com/MLalL38.jpg

supposedly going to be around 8 degrees F at my place in the morning. wind chill to take it below zero. might end up being the coldest weather this southern boy has ever personally experienced. depends on how bad the wind gets. right now it is about 25 F outside, and dropping fast, with a vicious wind that makes it feel much colder a few months ago my two kids were trying to tell me that they didn't think living in cold climates would be bad. I replied that I thought they were saying that only because they had never experienced real cold and so didn't know what they were talking about. will be interesting to see if this arctic blast changes their opinions.

Alex's facial expressions make some ladies think certain thoughts, just sayin'.

Joe Walsh has some good ones...http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/12759065/Joe+Walsh+Joe_Walsh.jpghttp://stars.topnews.in/sites/default/files/joe-walsh9.jpg Joe most definitely gives Alex a run for his money.....

Alex ain't the only one... http://i1264.photobucket.com/albums/jj488/catanstrophe/gedface1.jpg"]http://http://i1264.photobucket.com/albums/jj488/catanstrophe/gedface1.jpg[/url]

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Occasionally I skip the great songs just so I can hear the even better ones!

I like threads discussing the relative flaws and merits of individual songs. To me, discussing the songs is more interesting than setlists, anniversaries of album releases, old-timers telling younguns about the putative glory years, joke interview threads and debates about how Neil played a certain drum fill six years ago all put together. When it all comes down to it, the songs are why we're here. The songs are forever. I am eternally in favour of discussing any aspect and all minutiae of the critical, wonderful songs

Sherlock...but then I'm biased, because it's written by the same guys who write Doctor Who