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It's very easy for me! "HEMISPHERES" The greatest album ever created on the planet Earth! "2112: A Space Odyssey" coming soon to theaters near you! Signed, Arthur C.aress Of Steel Clarke

Something like Caress Of Steel on steroids. Something dark and dreary and not real uplifting. Go out with a bang. And calm down the f**king production please!! I don't need 50 layers of everything!! :)

And I hope they do. Less overdubbing and more "space". Kind of ironic how Alex wanted to get rid of the keyboards so he wouldn't have to "find a place". Now he fills every nook and cranny in the song. Let it breathe Al, let it breathe.

she sucks and all but I don't know why people are getting riled up by her dumbass antics, this type of performing is nothing new. except miley seems to want to take things to GWAR levels

Sure it CAN be. But what are the odds? I think that it's their best since Moving Pictures. We can always hope they can keep the momentum. FWIW - I think the "story" is pretty stoooopid. Clem

"...take things to GWAR levels." That's pretty awesome. I think I'll incorporate that phrase into my daily lexicon.

Wow, I never thought about it this way, but the GWAR comparision is really spot on!

Caress of Steel is a heavy metal classic that sits alongside other 1975 metal slabs like Black Sabbath's Sabotage, Scorpions In Trance, Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow and Thin Lizzy's Fighting, plus Rush's own previous metal slab Fly By Night... :haz: :haz: :haz: :haz: :haz:

I believed the first one. This one, not so much

The album has a few good tunes on it. In The Presence Of Enemies is awesome. I like Constant Motion and Forsaken is a cool tune to. The rest is just whatever to me. Telling someone who is new to Dream Theater to start with Systematic Chaos is the equivalent of telling someone who's new to Rush to listen to Roll The Bones first. Yeah, there's a few great songs on it but that's not where you want to begin. Images & Words and Awake are the albums that got me into the band way back when they first came out. Metropolis 2 is considered by most to be their best album. So that's why I always tell people to start with those three. Those are also their three best albums anyways.

CA is one of Rush's less worthy efforts imo. I hope they go back to writing great songs & leave all this wall of noise stuff behind them.

I don't know what they could do that they haven't done before. Something dark, maybe? Daring? Emotionally gripping stuff touching on areas of the psyche once thought impossible for them to handle, and yet somehow pulled off in a critically-acclaimed instant classic that could only be done by them? Sorry, too much coffee again.

I saw them at Castle Donington in 1984 as well, that was a great bill too. Who was on that bill? AC/DC Van Halen Ozzy Gary Moore Y&T Accept Motley Crue That was my fave Monsters year.

He's a real snowhere man, sitting in his snowhere land, making all his snowhere plans for snowbody.....

Haha. It is! Middletown won 3-2!! Woo-hoo!! Game was tied 2-2 at the end of regulation. The captain scored the game winning goal 15:24 into OT. (Love that they let them play and didn't go shootout) Nerve wracking game but it was great. Both teams really brought it. Congrats, Zach!

coldfire, I know EXACTLY what you mean about "prog for the sake of being prog," sort of makes you wonder if basing all your songs off yes, genesis and ELP is really all that "progressive"

Especially the guitar solo!!!!!!!!!! "Who's come to slay the dragon?" THE DRAGON IS A SYMBOL FOR METAL! Love, DIO That dragon is laughing at the dragon from Red Dragon Cartel!! Jake's dragon is an old fool who chases ice cream trucks! :laughing guy: Hahahaha! The Red "Drag" On Shitel! I think "Trilogy" by Malmsteen is a piece of shit record too. A three headed dragon cover of dung! That live album from DOKKEN "Beast From The East" has a dragon tattoo on the cover. Shitty live album and and a shit studio cut, "Walk Away." Dio's "Intermission" ep cd sucks. I think having a dragon on the cover of a rock record is a curse. I can't think of any album that is good with a dragon. Even the Y&T album "FACEMELTER" has a dragon on it. IT'S CRAP! RUSH IN RIO doesn't blow my mind either! Dragons and Rock And Roll = CURSE.

I guess we can add Stan Laurel to the list of actors he sometimes resembles.

Geddy is ALWAYS adorable! :sigh:

I posted this in the Neil one too but Ged is so adorable here http://i.imgur.com/GgPes1Y.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/GgPes1Y.jpg http://i.imgur.com/XDiHtwY.jpg http://i.imgur.com/IUugIFW.jpg I don't know why this is so adorable http://i.imgur.com/9Me9ebD.jpg

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1. Rush - 2112 (from a bootleg) 2. Rush - Force Ten 3. Rush - Far Cry 4. Rush - Cold Fire 5. Rush - Closer To The Heart 6. Rush - Analog Kid (another bootleg) 7. Rush - 2112: The Grand Finale (different stages) 8. Rush - Driven 9. Rush - Headlong Flight 10. Rush - Mission 11. Rush - Circumstances 12. Rush - Freeze (Remixed) 13. Rush - YYZ (from a bootleg) 14. Rush - Workin' Them Angels 15. Rush - Fancy Dancer (ABC 1974) Kinda hard not to get Rush, when I only got Rush in my music library. You guys know why I only got Rush? Because I looooooove their music!

Do folks know/like Echolyn? They're pretty awesome, and nice guys, too. This is one of my favourite songs ever:

I don't get Rush fans who complain about lyrics like 'going bald' and 'dog years'. We have the most kick-ass rhythm section on the planet, the most versatile, under-rated guitarist in the universe, but um geez.. Them lyrics (!?!?) REALLY?? ..Who bought 'Caress of Steel' for the lyrics anyway?? We've been humouring kiss for decades, I say let Rush crank out a silly tune once in a while! K, done ranting, welcome back Big Earl! Lol

http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z33/bfwgjma/Rush%202010%20Red%20Rocks%208-16/RushatRedRocks2010181.jpg http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z33/bfwgjma/Rush%202010%20Red%20Rocks%208-16/RushatRedRocks2010179.jpg http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z33/bfwgjma/Rush%202010%20Red%20Rocks%208-16/RushatRedRocks2010171.jpg http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z33/bfwgjma/Rush%202010%20Red%20Rocks%208-16/RushatRedRocks2010148.jpg

In New York City, they charge extra to park a Red Barchetta! http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x285/geddysmullet/ExoticCars_zps02e8ea53.jpg

What 15 songs come up on itunes shuffle? NO skipping (unless you get, like, 8 songs in a row by the same artist), you don't need to explain embarrassing choices if you don't want to, I just love getting a glimpse into other peoples' music library. And you can post as much as you like. here's mine: 1. Dear Prudence- Across The Universe soundtrack 2. Bring Me To Life- Evanescence 3. Lay All Your Love On Me- ABBA 4. Mission- Rush 5. A Farewell To Kings- Rush 6. Infinity Guitars- Sleigh Bells 7. RIP (Rock In Peace)- AC/DC 8. Badlands- AC/DC 9. High Priest Of Rhythmic Noise- Cheap Trick 10. Killer- Alice Cooper 11. Tall Cool One- Robert Plant 12. Clint Eastwood- Gorillaz 13. Valley Girl- Frank Zappa 14. Ride The Lightning- Metallica 15. Hells Bells- AC/DC :)

let's not forget budgie's bandolier True! And I was gonna put that in too!

2's My Favorite 1 - Coheed and Cambria From the Hill - Neurosis Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming - Deep Purple Flood III - Boris Cenotaph - Satan Blackwinged - Darkthrone Der Baumann - Paysage d'Hiver Odyssey - Kyuss Concealing Fate Pt. 1 - Tesseract Perennial Quest - Death When My Wrath Is Done - Nile Just Exist - Touche Amore What Only You Know - Dark Tranquillity Clean - Depeche Mode Psalms for the Dead - Candlemass

I beg to differ on that point. Warm in winter means, to me, a relief from the cold harshness of winter, awakening feelings of the spring to come. Right now I am experiencing a period of warm relief from the up-until-now harsh winter, and I welcome it. I was wondering if the fear of tornadoes expressed in several posts above as a result of cold winter going to substantially warmer all of a sudden might be a regional thing where the posters lived, and not applicable here where I live, but my brother (who is a park ranger and who is consequently supposed to be weather wise and know this shit) just sent me a text warning me to "look out for tornadoes tonight" I responded that I would not look out for tornadoes, since there was nothing I could do to affect whether they might suddenly appear and hit my house or not. That sort of thing is just a matter of blind stupid luck. Maybe so, but listening to a weather radio or the tv for a tornado warning could save your life if one were coming and you were able to get under cover in time.

Lost of Control - Van Halen In The Mood - Rush Best I Can - Rush Casino Boogie - Rolling Stones Alabama - Neil Young Caliph - Shift What Is and What Should Never be - Led Zep Celebration Day - Led Zep Ghost Rider - Rush No Quarter - Led Zep Sunrise - Uriah Heep I Don't Wanna Be a Soldier - Mad Season Respectable - Rolling Stones Sweet Thing - UFO However Much I Booze - The Who

According to Weather Bug, next Friday is Rush day http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x285/geddysmullet/0ad6c43a-90aa-4425-8256-0fd37f1a48a6_zps2e264cea.png

Innocent Exile—Iron Maiden Shell Shock—Manowar Carnies—Rush 2112—Rush Aberdeen—Cage the Elephant Carry On Wayward Son—Kansas Lithium—Nirvana Nitro—The Offspring Patrolling Days—The Hives Highway to Hell—AC/DC It's Not My Time—3 Doors Down Monkey Wrench—Foo Fighters Seven Nation Army—White Stripes Re-Education Through Labor—Rise Against Turning Japanese—The Vapors

I always find the shuffle fun. Especially if you're not in the mood for any band in particular. Usually there will be at least one song that pops up that I haven't heard in forever. 1. Amon Amarth - "Across The Rainbow Bridge" 2. Megadeth - "Youthanasia" 3. Slayer - "Praise Of Death" 4. Slayer - "Threshold" 5. Stone Sour - "The Uncanny Valley" 6. Disturbed - "Deceiver" 7. Alice Cooper - "The Sentinel" 8. Heaven and Hell - "Atom and Evil" 9. Bruce Dickinson - "Trumpets Of Jericho" 10. Nevermore - "Born" 11. Rainbow - "Run With The Wolf" 12. Mercyful Fate - "Nightmare" 13. Dio - "Egypt (The Chains Are On)" 14. Kamelot - "The Human Stain" 15. Nightwish - "Know Why The Nightingale Sings"

Queen - "Radio Ga Ga" Wire - "Did You Dugga?" Bob Dylan - "Corrina, Corrina" Elvis Presley - "Long Tall Sally" Peter Gabriel - "Excuse Me" Paul McCartney & Wings - "Baby's Request" The Rolling Stones - "That's How Strong My Love Is" David Thomas - "Crush This Horn Pt. 2" The Beatles - "If I Fell" Lou Reed - "The Gun" Procol Harum - "The Devil Came From Kansas" David Bowie - "(You Will) Set the World on Fire" XTC - "Bungalow" Camel - "Lady Fantasy: Encounter/Smiles For You/Lady Fantasy" Brian Eno - "Mother Whale Eyeless"

Mine are: A Trick of the Tail - Genesis 2112: Soliloquy - Rush Babe I'm Gonna Leave You – Led Zeppelin Pure Spirits of the Forest – Avatar movie soundtrack Temples of our Gods - Oblivion movie soundtrack Couldn't Stand the Weather – Stevie Ray Vaughan Behind the Lines – Genesis In Your Room - Halestorm Driven - Rush Killing in the Name - Rage Against the Machine Django - Joe Bonamassa Secret Prayer - Joe Satriani Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding - Elton John Aeromancy - Dorje Face to the Floor - Chevelle

Steven Wilson and Porcupine Tree The Raven That Refused To Sing is glorious and the video Wilson wrote to go with it is so moving. Eerily bueatuful.

This I think is their first hidden gem. It is a great song that could apply to pretty much any touring band. It is a very honest look into their early road life, and has a nice guitar part. It's one of my favorites from the album. Also love the "From Sea to Shining Sea" lyric refrencing Canada's motto on the coat of arms.

Alex plays slide. Like this one.

That bums me out then Pat because Jake E. Lee's new vocalist sucks too!! You're dead right Earl the Red Dragon Cartel has a bum for a lead vocalist, this is why I didn't get the album, that and the sloppy guitar work from Jake. I saw this interview with Jake on youtube at NAMM 2014 and he was drunk. He said the reason he came back and formed a new band was because one day he was chasing an ice cream truck and was catching it up but fell down a slope and broke his foot, smashed his heel he said and he couldn't get up. So while he was there he said he had a revelation, he needed a cell phone and a new band!! :o He sounded out of it! :smoke: He also admitted he was a better player when he was in Ozzy and he doesn't practice or prepare like that anymore and didn't even in Badlands. PAT! You and I haven't talked or typed in months and yet time doesn't matter! You and I have so much in common! You are my brother from another musical brother! Although I just mentioned how much I hate "Flick Of The Switch!" LOL! It is what it is mate!! I was so stupid about the Jake E Lee! I bought the Best Buy version with the bonus track. Then I bought the Japanese version with a different track. I just assumed it was going to be incredible. You called it. Shit singer, shit sloppy guitar playing. I'm a fuckking fool!!! Now I am worried about MOONKINGS and I just bought two Japanese pressings!!! I'm in fear that our old guitar heroes are just selling out for a fukking cash grab. Frontiers Records in Italy is the biggest Corporate Whore int he CD Business! Rock And Roll is my crack rock and I still give in and give them my money! ROCK CANDY RECORDS is another whore that I love to sleep with! They just remastered the first three DOKKEN albums. They sound fukking amazing! Listening to Vandenberg's "Alibl" Japanese pressing now. PEDAL TO THE METAL!!! VANDENBERG USED TO RULE! Our guitar heroes are turning into old prune ZEROS! In ten years from now all of our bands that we grew up with will be fuckking GONE! INCLUDING RUSH!!!! My soul will be crushed. Rock and Roll will be truly dead. I will be 56 in ten years. I hope The Rush Forum will be around. Hey Motley Crue is going out on their FINAL TOUR! I'm gonna pass! They are the NEW KISS! KISS MY ASS VINCE, MICK, NIKKI AND TOMMY! TOMMY LEE ISN'T EVEN DOING THE MEET AND GREETS AT 3000 BUCKS A TICKET! FUKK MOTLEY CRUE!

Would it make you feel better if I post another pic of my yard? :D No, it would be depressing. I know I've got at least another month of this crap.

It's got a good melody, it's well put together and it's catchy. I wish they'd write more songs like this today.

I love it. I agree - hidden gem.

Whoa, cygnux-x1.net is your site? So cool. I love your site and have been going for years. It is such an awesome resource for fans, I appreciate the work that must go into it, even if it is a labour of love. Just tonight I was browsing the tour books for the Farewell to Kings and Hemispheres tours! The timeline looks fantastic. I have often dreamed of there being something like that, and now there is! I will definitely be going back again and again. My brain really loves information presented that way. Totally minor things I thought about while looking at it: It would look nicer on a page with a white background. The design is so nice and clean it'd look better against a similarly basic background (not to say I don't like the default site look, I do, I just think they're two different design aesthetics). Also, if it were possible for future versions to filter information by type, like album releases, biographical, etc. But like I said, those are two minor things, it is fantastic as it is now. Cheers!

Over the past several months, I've been working on a new section to my Rush fan site at www.cygnus-x1.net: The Rush Timeline http://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/rush/timeline.php The timeline is a graphical, chronological and interactive database of Rush's extensive history. Please have a look and let me know what you think. Thanks! -John

Hahaha omg ducky lol I've never felt a desperation like this to see a concert before :P ......I'm a dork.

http://i.imgur.com/E4XSk5T.jpg This may actually be my new favorite Geddy picture ever. What a cutie

If you're heart is aching, just remove the shame You've got to want it, give your soul a shaking Read more: Geddy Lee - Runaway Train Lyrics | MetroLyrics Once I have lyrics, being able to shape them around a song is nothing new for me, I've been doing that for 25 years. The soul searching part of it, the spontaneous part of it, that was, and remains, a really terrific process. Global Bass interview (2000) ​

It's weird how they're all hot in completely different ways, isn't it? It gets to where I'd go for a different one depending on my mood. Of course the techniques I'd use on each would be completely different as well. As I've said before they are all sexy as hell... :drool: :drool: :drool: