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  1. 6 points
  2. I was there...here's a few words about the event, which I sent to friends of mine and will share with you: A Night for Neil happened yesterday, and it was incredible! The event was organized by a non-profit organization called Overtime Angels. One of the members is the admin/owner of the website Rush is a Band. Neil's family was there - his mother, sisters and brother, but not his wife Carrie or his daughter Olivia. Geddy and Alex were not there either, and I don't really know why... I arrived in St. Catharines mid afternoon and went to Lakeside Park, where the "Neil Peart Pavilion" is now located. In my first visit there they didn't have a sign that says "Neil Peart Pavilion", but now it's complete! I met the Brazilian band Fleesh taking pictures on the site, as well as Martin Vasco, a MEGA Rush fan who was actually friends with Neil. After a few pictures on Lakeside Park I went to the Meridian Hall, and while waiting outside, I saw two faces that were part of Rush's visual identity: the guy who posed for Hugh Syme when he did the "Starman" logo, and one of the movers who was on the Moving Pictures cover. Both were having the time of their lives with so much attention! The show started with the Devah Quartet, a violin trio, who did an instrumental version of 2112, with guitarist David Barrett helping them out. Yes, they played it in full!!! Fleesh was next, and they did The Pass and The Garden. Coming up next was Brandon Dyke, who did an acoustic medley with deep cuts, including Tai Shan. A few videos with statements of Neil's friends were played on the big screen - Doane Perry from Jethro Tull and Kenny Aronoff gave great speeches. Jacob Moon did his version of Subdivisions and another song I can't remember - Time Stand Still or Mission...but he was great as well. The night closed with two cover bands - Permanent Waves, from Toronto, and Solar Federation, from Pennsylvania. Both were great, but Solar Federation was on a whole different level...they played Necromancer, and the crowd went nuts!! I didn't take many pictures from the shows, but here are a few - one in Lakeside Park, one with the guys from the covers, and the last one, with Neil's BMW!
    4 points
  3. I don't know why but this album showed up on a feed today so I went with it. My sister is 7 years older so she was 15 when this album was released ( 1963 ) and I was 8. She bought the album in 1963 and that was the start of my music education. Thanks Sis !!! My favorite song off the album and it's from George.
    3 points
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  5. Couldn't happen to a more deserving fanbase.
    3 points
  6. "Yankmes lose! Yankmes lose! Theeeeeeeeeee Yankmes LOSE!"
    3 points
  7. Well, you can take everything I say with a grain of salt since this was my first time ever seeing them but… THAT WAS FANTASTIC!!!! How does a 60 something year old Bruce Dickinson still have 95% of what he had in 1982??? That’s what it sounded like to me. Idk about Rod’s show, maybe he was having an off night? I didn’t my notice any songs played significantly slowly, and I never heard Bruce miss or chicken out of anything that wasn’t a NOTB level high pitched scream. The guitars sounded incredible, just unreal, and I didn’t my even have the best sound in the world considering I was in the nosebleeds, but the solos were just breathtaking, like I was listening to a studio recording. The only think I thought seemed amiss was some possible rhythmic confusion in one song, and perhaps the song right after it, but it seemed like something where Nicko might have just gotten off on the wrong beat during a weird time signature and Bruce and Steve went over to him during the solo section, probably to do a little course correction. It was no big deal, and frankly I may have just been hearing it wrong. It was during an odd time section after all. But the props! The sets! The costume changes! The energy!! Jannick swinging his guitar around like a professional guitar swinging athlete!!!! Ugh. I knew Maiden were great live and put on a great show… but this was comparable with a Rush show, and Geddy didn’t sound as good on R40 as Bruce sounds to this day.
    3 points
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  9. My favorite album of the MCA era. Ramones - Teenage Lobotomy (Mediasound rough mix)
    3 points
  10. Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son My favorite
    3 points
  11. Happy, happy birthday, Laura !! Best wishes to TRF's own rock star and a fellow Geddy fan! I hope today is wonderful for you!
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  14. Quizz Kid - Jethro Tull
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  15. Peel the Paint -- Gentle Giant
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  16. Have you seen Lady Windermere's new carriage, dear?
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  19. He's killed the best man! He killed my auntie!
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  20. This is Mr. E.R. Bradshaw of Napier Court, Black Lion Road London SE5. He cannot be seen. Mr. Bradshaw, will you stand up please.
    2 points
  21. I don't suppose you could give me a list of their names and addresses, could you?
    2 points
  22. No. We have no call for it. We've quite enough without volunteers coming in here donating it.
    2 points
  23. Well, that's planning, isn't it? Fore thought.
    2 points
  24. I don't like that. There's dust on here. I don't think it's a proper meal without . I'm going to have a baby in a few years.
    2 points
  25. Sshh, dear, don't cause a fuss. I'll have your I love it. I'm having ...
    2 points
  26. That's not a proper salesman. I'm not buying from him, he doesn't give you confidence.
    2 points
  27. Try to eat some my dear. It'll give you strength.
    2 points
  28. Update: I just found out what it is: http://themedlockkrieger.org/?fbclid=IwAR2zpF5ntB6Xsnyld_03DSrnuS9d8sri0bzPNFHutao07fYdOqSIWr6o1PE
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  30. I think Within Temptation are gifted with the most entertaining female singer in metal. I have all their DVDs and I spin them often. She's magic!
    2 points
  31. I wonder if they trying to aim their setlist at US fans, thinking the songs you mentioned are too "European". That's the only reason I can think of, catering to an audience they don't know. Are they popular in America? Personally I would have trusted an Iron Maiden audience to enjoy anything off the first three albums especially.
    2 points
  32. Most of Within Temptations set is newer stuff. I wish they did do something off Heart Of Everything. I think The Howling would have gone down well with the Maiden crowd. I'm shocked they're not doing Ice Queen which is one of their more popular and "well known" songs. It's on the same album as Mother Earth. You should definitely give that one and The Silent Force a listen. They are playing one song from that album, Stand My Ground. Sharon is fantastic. My crush on her has been going for almost 20 years now. I think at this point it will be a lifelong one 😄
    2 points
  33. Really insane how well they still perform. I’ll say I think Rush definitely do compare from and energy and musical standpoint. They don’t have the theatrics though, but then that’s not who Rush are anyway. Yeah, if they do an American leg for the SIT/Senjutsu tour I will be buying tickets, hopefully with my dad. This set was probably more his speed (I don’t think he knows much off Somewhere In Time), but I imagine most the big crowd pleaser hits will remain. Maybe it’ll be a longer set? Have they said if they’d have openers? On Within Temptation: I did! I knew you and Segue would kill me if I didn’t, lol. I have to confess though I really only listened to The Heart Of Everything before seeing them live, and only a couple times. So I felt like most, if not all, of the songs were brand new to me (one of them did sound familiar). I thought they were excellent. The band sounded good, and the singer (looking up her name…) Sharon was just fantastic. She had plenty of energy all throughout and hit every bit she reached for, and her highs were beautiful and powerful and perfectly in tune the whole time. I think it was the last song they played, something she said was much older, that I loved the best. Mother Earth looks like it was called. The rest I enjoyed, but after that one I could hear how much of the rest of the set had kind of dialed back the epic in favor of the anthemic. One thing that really stood out to me was the light show. They weren’t given use of the video boards, so they seemed to make up for it by blinding us (in a good way) with spectacular strobes, rotating beams, and beautiful floods that synched up with the music so well they felt like a visceral part of it.
    2 points
  34. Back when they hadn’t yet left Australia, so they only kicked the Australian kind.
    2 points
  35. Don't bother with the remake. I saw the last 30 minutes of it on Cinemax a handful of years ago and it's just another remake to make a profit. Sam Rockwell deserved better and has done much better than this.
    2 points
  36. I dunno, sarge... I expect I'll be looking after me mum. She'll be getting on a bit now.
    2 points
  37. I saw a bunch of posts and videos this afternoon. so, I’m kind of torn on this whole thing about Geddy and Alex not being there. Even though now it’s a moot point as they say. I feel like there wouldn’t have been anything wrong with them coming out at the very beginning, saying a couple of words and welcoming everyone. because after all, Rush was three guys and they are two of them. Or, maybe have had them at the end and said a few words and thanked everybody for being there. Because in that case everybody would have stayed for the whole thing. since they were all the band together, I don’t know that it would’ve been seen as being just about them if they had showed up. I never expected that they would play, I just thought they might say something. And if it had been publicized it would’ve sold out, and given that all of the money, or at least a lot of it, was going to charity, I don’t see how that would have been a bad thing. I mean, they knew him for decades and toured with him and sang his words. But no, they do not owe us anything, I agree. I just think it might’ve been nice if they had publicly remembered him with everyone that was there, even if only briefly. regardless, the last chapter in this sad saga is over.
    2 points
  38. I've seen a couple of videos as well, and a report from someone in another group that went that he and others were disappointed that Alex and Geddy didn't come. His complaint rubbed me the wrong way, just my opinion. It would have been cool, but the night was supposed to be all about Neil; it was never stated that Alex and Geddy would be there. They most likely realized that if they showed up, the night becomes about them instead of Neil. Ged and Alex owe people nothing after all these years
    2 points
  39. I don't know, fans should be allowed to voice their opinion if they don't like what the artist is doing. Hearing all positive feedback doesn't really help someone to grow as a song writer does it? If they are sheltered from any criticism and the artist drops a true stinker, they're going to think everything is fine and not try to do something better if all they hear is this a great and there isn't a bad word to be said anywhere.
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