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Had no idea he was still alive to be honest.RIP

Giving it a listen right now...the 1982 retrospective linked below, to be specific. The site's list of RUSH programs is impressive! https://rushradio.net/mob_nbc1982.php

Certainly not the baby.

Is this where people usually put "Your mom" in the reply?

So who does the 'Papa tomato, Mama tomato, baby tomato' joke, then?

She's not in it. They have that Aussie chick as Harley and I must say she gets the accent right. Almost as good as the original by Arleen Sorkin on Batman the Animated Series, where the character first appeared.

Maybe the thin air isn't working out for him after being in the thick moisture laden air in Seattle.

Eddie Vedder- Earthling A great deal more enjoyable than the last Pearl Jam album, Gigaton. This is wonderful! I'm a huge fan of Vedder's voice and he's SOARING here. I didn't pay any attention to this when it came out, but I did today and I love it.

Yes -- The Solution

1991 Ten - Pearl Jam Achtung Baby - U2 Temple of the Dog - Temple of the Dog Roll the Bones - Rush Slave to the Grind - Skid Row F.U.C.K - Van Halen 1992 Core - Stone Temple Pilots Images and Words - Dream Theater The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion - The Black Crowes 1993 Counterparts - Rush Ten Summoners Tales - Sting Vs - Pearl Jam 1994 Amorica - The Black Crowes Superunknown - Soundgarden Grace - Jeff Buckley Purple - Stone Temple Pilots 1995 The Bends - Radiohead Soup - Blind Melon A Change of Seasons - Dream Theater 1996 Down on the Upside - Soundgarden Tiny Music....Songs From The Vatican Gift Shop = Stone Temple Pilots Crash - Dave Matthews Band Test For Echo - Rush 1997 O.K Computer - Radiohead The Color and the Shape - Foo Fighters The BBC Sessions - Led Zeppelin 1998 Yield - Pearl Jam Before These Crowded Streets - Dave Matthews Band 1999 There is Nothing Left To Lose - Foo Fighters Make Yourself - Incubus Metropolis Scenes From A Memory Pt2 - Dream Theater The Distance To Hear - Live 2000 Brave New World - Iron Maiden All That You Can Leave Behind - U2 Parachutes - Coldplay 2001 Blackwater Park - Opeth Morning View - Incubus Lateralus - Tool

John: create an image of a shirtless Captain Kirk CoPilot: I’ll try to create that. Captain Kirk is a fictional character from the Star Trek franchise, played by William Shatner in the original series. He is the captain of the USS Enterprise, a starship that explores the galaxy and encounters various alien races and civilizations. 🚀 John: Make him sexier, please. CoPilot: I’m sorry, but I cannot make him any sexier than this. This is the best I can do with my graphic art tool. Maybe you can try to find a different image of Captain Kirk that you like better. 🙏

In case anyone missed it, here's some hilarious trolling of ChatGPT by asking it to make a continually happier bunny.

I'm sure I heard some of them on original, but it's been decades. I'm excited to listen to all the album releases just to hear the boys when they were young and just getting started.

Got it on right now! Never listened to these before, excellent for background music as Bahamas stated!

Greatest fake performance ever!

Yeah, those three books are essentially the “deleted scenes” from the Beyond the Lighted Stage documentary in text form. They compile masses of omitted interview material from that project. It’s a huge mistake to make a gut reaction of “I don’t like Popoff so I’m going to ignore those books.” The majority of info and opinions in them is from the band and associates.

Aerosmith - Janie’s Got a Gun

All three of those books are great, in my opinion. Almost every page is source material and putting history and events into a good series of books. I expected more "filler" stuff like long winded explanations and writer's opinions, but found them all very thoroughly researched. We all have our favourite albums or decades, say, but I found the writing fairly consistent throughout. Regarding My Effin' Life, I am taking my time as some other readers have said. I do really like the quality of the book and the included photos. The writing style is engaging, asking me questions or offering a chuckle. I really like it. I don't like comparisons between books, personally, because not only are they different authors but the purpose or reasons for writing are not the same. Sorry, I see the tendency to do it but it's not fair to any author.

I just discovered this tonight, went to the site for some background music while working and it was different. Used it fairly often, probably as recent as November? Silly me, I kept clicking around to find the Play Now radio button, saw lots of great nostalgia and recent Rush Con stuff for Geddy's tour. Then I looked closer and sure enough: Station: Rushradio.org Server Status: Retired. RIP 1998 - 2023. I liked it a lot, donated a couple of times and always got a prompt Thank you. Thank you Rush Radio Dot Org! And great website, in general, by the way :) I'll check out rushradio.net - thank you, Time Stood Still.

I get it, I was a very productive realtor and just retired early this year after about 30 years. In the moment I took every client and every transaction incredibly seriously and devoted all my energies to resolving problems and accounting for the specific transaction details in each contract and file. But if a client from 2002 bumped into me tomorrow and just said “Oh hey! How are you? Hey thanks again for putting that protective language in our contract that saved us all kinds of grief, especially the second line in special provisions.” All I could do is say “Uh.. you’re welcome” without having any clue what it says. Having said that, I certainly do have specific memories of many clients and homes and contracts, but I’d hate to think that every day I might bump into a client that would be annoyed or offended if I didn’t remember every step of their transaction from years ago. And it doesn’t mean I cared any less when I worked on it if I didn’t remember it later. So I’m sure that when Geddy bumps into a fan who says “Wow! Geddy Lee! Hey, I’ve always wanted to know what the sixth line of Prime Mover meant and did you write that song before or after Turn the Page?” all he can think at first is “Holy crap, what album is he even asking about and what year was that… wasn’t I still in my thirties???” These guys don’t sit around listening to their own albums or watching their old interviews on YouTube or whatever. And it’s also totally unfair to go up to one of them and say “I saw you guys live in 1982 in Colorado, I was wearing the blue sweater and you made a funny face at me, remember?”

Apple is banned from importing or selling its latest Apple Watches (The Washington Post) Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant, little blue-green planet, whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea. This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn’t the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy. And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches. -- Douglas Adams

Happy Christmas

"Everybody Wants To Rule The World", Tears For Fears

Descending - TOOL

Fever -- Aerosmith

Draw the Line -- Aerosmith

Close to the Edge - YES

2010 - Kick Ass

Maybe Geddy needs to write another book: My Effin Job where he can go into greater detail about recording sessions and whatnot.

I was a little surprised at how big a factor cocaine was. I guess I'd always been under the impression that the three of them largely avoided hard drugs and that was credited as a reason for their longevity. But it never got to be a REAL problem in the band. I finished the audiobook yesterday. The stuff about Neil at the end was pretty heavy. But I'm glad to hear that he revisited Rush's albums near the end of his life and felt good about them. I know how much he hated looking back at the past so it was nice to hear that he was able to do that and be proud of what he did.

Well done! I love what you've done with it.