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I think he replicated so many of the sounds of the keyboard era perfectly.

Stones - It's Only Rock N Roll I always thought the sound on this album was muddy. Side 1 is great while side 2, meh. Fingerprint File is the winner of side 2.

Stones prepping. Not their best there are a few gems. Sharing my beer with Keith. 434471130_396980009795795_7221216122155107618_n 2 by Jim Chambers, on Flickr

There was a time I would have said Closer to the Heart or another over played song. But after a recent hiatus from the band, my appreciation for those songs returned. If an annoying song is overplayed, time and distance can warm it back up to me. That said, I'd be fine if I never hear "In the Mood" ever again. Why it was a concert staple for so long is a mystery to me. It's a blight on all those early live albums.

Get Your Wings My intro to Aerosmith. Back in 1974 I walked into a dorm room at college and this album was blasting. I sat down and listened to the rest of the album. Aerosmith was now on my radar. I saw them in Central Park the summer of 1975 and they blew me away. Got tickets for the band Feb 2025 at MSG. Love this song with the headphones on.

Monday and Tuesday: Honey Revenge - Retrovision Keep Flying - Daylight (EP) (Vinyl) Judas Priest - Sin After Sin Scene Queen - BIMBOCORE, VOL. 2 (EP) Scene Queen - Bimbocore (EP) Judas Priest - Stained Class Judas Priest - Hell Bent For Leather Judas Priest - British Steel (Vinyl)

More Stones prepping. Tattoo You Favorite song off the album

Feeling a bit concerned, Avs have had some serious lapses and lost some key games. Will be playing Winnipeg in the first round and that's not looking so good. Just hope they manage to finish on a win Thursday. On other news, not sure what the hell is going on with the NHL, going to send the Coyotes to SLC?? As much as I would love to have an NHL team near me, this has me feeling skeptical. After all, the owner of the Utah Jazz will be involved, what could go wrong? Oh, how about getting a new arena built then selling the team as soon as your tax write offs expire. Yeah that happened once before so I wonder what do we not know about this deal? Stay tuned I guess.

Rush - Grace Under Pressure Wilderun - Epigone Caligula's Horse - Charcoal Grace Primus - The Desaturating Seven Unleash the Archers - Apex Deep Purple - Machine Head Deep Purple - Who Do We Think We Are Slomosa - Slomosa Alice in Chains - Facelift Mastodon - Once More Round the Sun

I think I could survive on the nourishment these box sets provide without food!

The Wings deserved a better fate after tying last night's game with 3 seconds left and winning it in the shootout. Those heroics were erased when the more-undeserving Caps went ahead on an empty net goal in a tie game. Lame.

Happy, happy birthday blackhawkrush! Best wishes to a great guy! I hope the Blackhawks get a win for you tonight! Cheers!

S U C K

As much as I'd love to see a release like this happen, I have my doubts that it ever will, for a few different reasons. 1) Physical Media is a dying industry. With the exceptions of collectors and preservationists, most people simply do not care for Physical forms of media. As a result Anthem would be less likely to release an updated remastered release for such a small percentage of people. 2) The Footage might not exist anymore. In all the research I've done on this topic, I have never found any evidence to suggest that the film reels were preserved or held onto. It's to the contrary actually. I recall reading a post someone posted on the forum where it was mentioned that nobody bothered to keep track of the film reels after each live video was released in the 80's. Additionally, sources close to Rush have stated that the band had absolutely zero interest in older footage of themselves and as a result they did not go to any lengths to preserve it. A lot of the older footage that we do have exists only because it was preserved by third parties or by people close to the band who stepped in to save it.Even for the R40 boxset, they used the same old video transfers for footage that was included. The bonus Lock and Key Footage from ASOH was from the same old video transfer as the VHS/Laserdisc, and DVD release. Not a remastered and newly scanned negative. I'd love to be wrong, but I do believe that the original negatives for ESL, GUP, and ASOH are probably long gone or unaccounted for.

Rumors In the Air Play Rough You can still rock in America Don't tell me you love me

I saw the second (original date) R40 Toronto show and only later learned that was the better of the two - technical issues made the first concert very challenging. Details that probably lots of people didn't notice, but hearing it from Neil's perspective and reading his books with lots of details about concert issues and personal afflictions, pretty much every tour had its ups and downs. "One tour, it was my teeth!" During part of R40 his feet were killing him. So what was a good performance and what was a bad performance? From my side of the fence, playing twenty, thirty, forty dates on a tour, and the guys being human beings, I am always hesitant to be even the least bit critical. And for that matter, it should not go without saying that so often he was riding a few hundred miles between shows and that in itself had an impact on things. So to say a musical performance was less than ideal on a day when the riding was maybe better than ideal? I think you have to look at both when considering how Neil was performing and it's completely acceptable, to me. To me, they played amazingly, right to the end. Some adjustments and evolution over time (Geddy singing a big lower on some verses of some songs) but in the end () Rush had such a huge choice for set lists. Did they all sound the same as the original - and I think this is what some people might think of "as good" and I don't - no, they didn't. Sometimes is it was just different. To wonder if they lost the "sauce" as Jack Black put it, I would say no. Not ever. Because they continued to be true to the songs. To us. And to spend more money and include more musicians and rehearse it all so thoroughly right up to the end, that's not "ageing", that's investing. That's being better at something. I have seen and heard so many bands that go "unplugged" or do re-makes to suit their older selves and continue touring, or put out more best-of albums with re-dos and recycled music. These guys were committed to excellence right to the end and I think it sounds and shows exactly that. Nothing taken for granted? Nothing assumed as being acceptable simply by playing a song live - it had to be rehearsed and the backdrops had to be stunning. And they didn't re-visit having bands open the show. Would have been easier to play shorter set lists but not these guys. Very expensive, a huge group of people making it happen. Right to the end. So to decide (or accept) between them that it was over, it was probably at the best possible time. Not too old, not too young, just so. I was relieved to read that Geddy came to accept Neil's wishes about retirement. When I see Alex and Geddy play on R40, they are frickin' amazing. Same with Neil. And to state the obvious, it's after four decades together. I don't think they should have stopped touring sooner. And I am glad they stopped touring when they did. It feels like a sweet spot. And they are so open to discussing details and sharing intimate moments of almost every aspect of the band. Maybe I never needed "closure" because I keep getting more stuff from them. ytserush felt kind of bored with the second set of R40. To me it was very interesting and a bit edge-of-your-seat, because those earlier songs were brutal for Geddy to sing. But he wanted to honour those tracks and whether you love his voice or not, he made a decision to sing them. Watch the guys on stage. Neil or Alex aren't seen to be wincing or glancing about when Geddy hits the ceiling, it's a group project and they kept to their parts right to the end. To an outsider, one would wonder what the heck is he doing. To us, he was being the singer of the same band and if that is how they were written, that is how he is going to sing them. Truly wonderful.

If I had a playlist for long distance driving, and didn't have any Night Ranger's songs on it, but I would like four of them, which even though I like "Sister Christian", I wouldn't include that, they would be: Rumours In the Air Goodbye Sing Me Away Hearts Away Talk about another band, and group. John, if you haven't listened, or haven't listened to Survivor too much before, for on a playlist, I recommend two of their studio c.ds, and albums called "Vital Signs", and "When Seconds Count". I think they are similar to Night Ranger. Accountant, it looks, and sounds like Night Ranger's song you were thinking of, which was released in 2011, is called "Growin' Up In California", and not "Born In California".

Regarding Neil and his late career drumming, I don't think he ever mailed it in. I do think that as he aged what was once youthfully passionate drumming was replaced by an overly cerebral approach. In everything I've read from Neil or seen in interviews or drum videos, he was very proud of that evolution.

I did a rookie mistake in college and made YYZ my alarm clock on my phone. That ruined the song for me for years. I finally deprogrammed it only two years ago and like it again. Take it from me, don't ever choose a song you like as a ringtone/alarm.

Metallica - ...And Justice For All Amigo the Devil - Volume 1 Primus - Frizzle Fry

Third Eye - TOOL

He needs to do the whole catalog including the live albums.

Great album and on top of that, it brings back great memories of my college days. Favorite song off this album.

What a late season run by the Pens!!!!

Robert MacNeil, a Canadian-born broadcast journalist who built what is now “PBS NewsHour” and served for two decades as its urbane, evenhanded co-anchor, died April 12 at a hospital in Manhattan. He was 93. Mr. MacNeil, known as Robin, and Jim Lehrer, a former Texas newspaperman, formed one of television journalism’s most successful and enduring partnerships in 1975, when they launched what became “PBS NewsHour.” As the news world transformed around them with the arrival of 24-hour cable news and combative political talk shows, they maintained a reputation for sober, straightforward reporting and analysis. “I think we helped create a place for a civil discourse and respect for complexity in a medium which often respects neither — you could even argue increasingly respects neither,” he told the Times in 1995, shortly before stepping down. “Those aren’t small things.” All of our newspapers and other news services should be writing stories about THIS man and not about that other "person" who recently passed away.

Simply incredible... maybe better than PeW...

How much coverage would he be getting if he hadn't been embroiled in the murder case? He'd just be a footnote in the sports column.

JETHRO TULL/ CD 1 Claude Nobs – Introduction by Claude Nobs (Live) [2024 Remaster] No Lullaby (Live) [2024 Remaster] Sweet Dream (Live) [2024 Remaster] Skating Away (On the Thin Ice of the New Day) [Live] [2024 Remaster] Jack-in-the-Green (Live) [2024 Remaster] One Brown Mouse (Live) [2024 Remaster] Heavy Horses (Live) [2024 Remaster] A New Day Yesterday (Live) [2024 Remaster] Flute Solo Improvisation / God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen / Bouree (Medley) [Live] [2024 Remaster] Living in the Past (Live) Songs from the Wood (Live) [2024 Remaster] No Lullaby (Live) Sweet Dream (Live) Heavy Horses (Live) Botanic Man (Live) 4.W.D (Low Ratio) [Live] CD 2 Thick As a Brick (Live) [2024 Remaster] Hunting Girl (Live) [2024 Remaster] Too Old to Rock ‘n’ Roll: Too Young to Die! (Live) [2024 Remaster] Conundrum (Live) [2024 Remaster] Minstrel In The Gallery (Live) [2024 Remaster] Cross-Eyed Mary (Live) [2024 Remaster] Quatrain (Live) [2024 Remaster] Aqualung (Live) [2024 Remaster] Locomotive Breath (Live) [2024 Remaster] The Dambusters March (Live) [2024 Remaster] Conundrum (Live) Quatrain (Live) The Dambusters March (Live) CD 3 Sweet Dream Fanfare (Live at Madison Square Garden October 1978) Sweet Dream (Live at Madison Square Garden October 1978) One Brown Mouse (Live at Madison Square Garden October 1978) Heavy Horses (Live at Madison Square Garden October 1978) Thick As a Brick (Live at Madison Square Garden October 1978) No Lullaby (Live at Madison Square Garden October 1978) Flute Solo Improvisation (Live at Madison Square Garden October 1978) Songs From the Wood (Live at Madison Square Garden October 1978) Quatrain (Live at Madison Square Garden October 1978) Aqualung (Live at Madison Square Garden October 1978) Locomotive Breath (Live at Madison Square Garden October 1978) The Dambusters March (Live at Madison Square Garden October 1978) A Single Man (Live at Madison Square Garden October 1978) Too Old to Rock ‘n’ Roll: Too Old to Die! (Live at Madison Square Garden October 1978) My God (Live at Madison Square Garden October 1978) Cross-Eyed Mary (Live at Madison Square Garden October 1978) DVD 1 Claude Nobs – Introduction by Claude Nobs (Live) [2024 Remaster] [96/24 Stereo] No Lullaby (Live) [2024 Remaster] [96/24 Stereo] Sweet Dream (Live) [2024 Remaster] [96/24 Stereo] Skating Away (On the Thin Ice of the New Day) [Live] [2024 Remaster] [96/24 Stereo] Jack-in-the-Green (Live) [2024 Remaster] [96/24 Stereo] One Brown Mouse (Live) [2024 Remaster] [96/24 Stereo] Heavy Horses (Live) [96/24 Stereo] A New Day Yesterday (Live) [2024 Remaster] [96/24 Stereo] Flute Solo Improvisation / God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen / Bourée (Medley) [Live] [2024 Remaster] [96/24 Stereo] Living in the Past (Live) [96/24 Stereo] Songs from the Wood (Live) [2024 Remaster] [96/24 Stereo] No lullaby (Live) [96/24 Stereo] Sweet Dream (Live) [96/24 Stereo] Heavy Horses (Live) [96/24 Stereo] Botanic Man (Live) [96/24 Stereo] 4.W.D (Low Ratio) [Live] [96/24 Stereo] Claude Nobs – Introduction by Claude Nobs (Live) [2024 Remaster] [DD & DTS 5.1 Surround] No Lullaby (Live) [2024 Remaster] [DD & DTS 5.1 Surround] Sweet Dream (Live) [2024 Remaster] [DD & DTS 5.1 Surround] Skating Away (On the Thin Ice of the New Day) [Live] [2024 Remaster] [DD & DTS 5.1 Surround] Jack-in-the-Green (Live) [2024 Remaster] [DD & DTS 5.1 Surround] One Brown Mouse (Live) [2024 Remaster] [DD & DTS 5.1 Surround] Heavy Horses (Live) [DD & DTS 5.1 Surround] A New Day Yesterday (Live) [2024 Remaster] [DD & DTS 5.1 Surround] Flute Solo Improvisation / God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen / Bourée (Medley) [Live] [2024 Remaster] [DD & DTS 5.1 Surround] Living in the Past (Live) [DD & DTS 5.1 Surround] Songs from the Wood (Live) [2024 Remaster] [DD & DTS 5.1 Surround] No lullaby (Live) [DD & DTS 5.1 Surround] Sweet Dream (Live) [DD & DTS 5.1 Surround] Heavy Horses (Live) [DD & DTS 5.1 Surround] Botanic Man (Live) [DD & DTS 5.1 Surround] 4.W.D (Low Ratio) [Live] [DD & DTS 5.1 Surround] No Lullaby (Live) [Flat Transfer] Sweet Dream (Live) [Flat Transfer] Skating Away (On the Thin Ice of the New Day) [Live] [Flat Transfer] Jack-in-the-Green (Live) [Flat Transfer] One Brown Mouse (Live) [Flat Transfer] A New Day Yesterday (Live) [Flat Transfer] Flute Solo Improvisation / God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen / Bourée (Medley) [Live] [Flat Transfer] Songs from the Wood (Live) [Flat Transfer] Thick As A Brick (Live) [Flat Transfer] DVD 2 Thick As A Brick (Live) [2024 Remaster] [96/24 Stereo] Hunting Girl (Live) [2024 Remaster] [96/24 Stereo] Too Old To Rock ‘n’ Roll: Too Young To Die! (Live) [2024 Remaster] [96/24 Stereo] Conundrum (Live) [2024 Remaster] [96/24 Stereo] Minstrel In The Gallery (Live) [2024 Remaster] [96/24 Stereo] Cross-Eyed Mary (Live) [2024 Remaster] [96/24 Stereo] Quatrain (Live) [2024 Remaster] [96/24 Stereo] Aqualung (Live) [2024 Remaster] [96/24 Stereo] Locomotive Breath (Live) [2024 Remaster] [96/24 Stereo] The Dambusters March (Live) [2024 Remaster] [96/24 Stereo] Conundrum (Live) [96/24 Stereo Quatrain (Live) [96/24 Stereo] The Dambusters March (Live) [96/24 Stereo] Thick As A Brick (Live) [2024 Remaster] [DD & DTS 5.1 Surround] Hunting Girl (Live) [2024 Remaster] [DD & DTS 5.1 Surround] Too Old To Rock ‘n’ Roll: Too Young To Die! (Live) [2024 Remaster] [DD & DTS 5.1 Surround] Conundrum (Live) [2024 Remaster] [DD & DTS 5.1 Surround] Minstrel In The Gallery (Live) [2024 Remaster] [DD & DTS 5.1 Surround] Cross-Eyed Mary (Live) [2024 Remaster] [DD & DTS 5.1 Surround] Quatrain (Live) [2024 Remaster] [DD & DTS 5.1 Surround] Aqualung (Live) [2024 Remaster] [DD & DTS 5.1 Surround] Locomotive Breath (Live) [2024 Remaster] [DD & DTS 5.1 Surround] The Dambusters March (Live) [2024 Remaster] [DD & DTS 5.1 Surround] Conundrum (Live) [DD & DTS 5.1 Surround] Quatrain (Live) [DD & DTS 5.1 Surround] The Dambusters March (Live) [DD & DTS 5.1 Surround] Hunting Girl (Live) [Flat Transfer] Too Old To Rock ‘n’ Roll: Too Young To Die! (Live) [Flat Transfer] Conundrum (Live) [Flat Transfer] Minstrel In The Gallery (Live) [Flat Transfer] Cross-Eyed Mary (Live) [Flat Transfer] Quatrain (Live) [Flat Transfer] Aqualung (Live) [Flat Transfer] Locomotive Breath (Live) [Flat Transfer] The Dambusters March (Live) [Flat Transfer] DVD 3 Sweet Dream Fanfare (Live at Madison Square Garden October 1978) (Music Video) Sweet Dream (Live at Madison Square Garden October 1978) (Music Video) One Brown Mouse (Live at Madison Square Garden October 1978) (Music Video) Heavy Horses (Live at Madison Square Garden October 1978) (Music Video) Thick As A Brick (Live at Madison Square Garden October 1978) (Music Video) No Lullaby (Live at Madison Square Garden October 1978) (Music Video) Songs From The Wood (Live at Madison Square Garden October 1978) (Music Video) Quatrain (Live at Madison Square Garden October 1978) (Music Video) Aqualung (Live at Madison Square Garden October 1978) (Music Video) Locomotive Breath (Live at Madison Square Garden October 1978) (Music Video) The Dambusters March (Live at Madison Square Garden October 1978) (Music Video) A Single Man (Live at Madison Square Garden October 1978) (Music Video) Too Old Too Rock ‘n’ Roll: Too Old To Die! (Live at Madison Square Garden October 1978) (Music Video) My God (Live at Madison Square Garden October 1978) (Music Video) Cross-Eyed Mary (Live at Madison Square Garden October 1978) (Music Video)

Oh, look, a band who knows what they're doing with the nostalgia releases. The Chateau d'Herouville Sessions was a great blast from the not-quite-how-it-happened past.

I drove across southwest Ontario today so I had time to play some music: A Perfect Circle - Mer de noms Strapping Young Lad - Alien Devin Townsend - Terria The Tragically Hip - Man Machine Poem Rush - Clockwork Angels Handsome Jack - A Good Thing Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression Murder By Death - Who Will Survive, and What Will Be Left of Them? Gogol Bordello - Super Taranta! Gary Clark Jr - JPEG RAW

What a great, record breaking football player, what a garbage husband. Such a violent guy and we didn't know for a long time. My sister was a food server for a long time in a prestigious restaurant in Pittsburgh, a remodeled train station. Way in the corner of the huge room was a little table they called "the OJ" because you had to fly through the rest of the room, running like OJ, to get there and still have the food warm. (before 1994.) It unfolded so strangely. I remember my dad, who never watched anything but the food channel, calling me and going, "Are you watching the white Bronco? I can't turn it off!" And the trial was certainly proof of the fact that wealthy people who can pay for the best lawyers have an advantage. So sad for OJs kids to see violence against their mom, lose her, and then lose a (crappy) dad for a time also. Terrible for the Goldman family as well, whose son didn't do anything but try to be kind.

Happy birthday Grace!

You know, that guy from the Hertz commercials who jumped over stuff in the airport.

Jethro, the least successful of the Tull brothers.

Yeah, not a big fan either.

I watched some of the trial when I was in Europe. Sky News was all over it. One time, my then girlfriend came over and asked, 'What are you watching? I said, 'O.J. Simpson'. She asked, 'Who?'

oh i'll always agree with nirvana bashing Mick

He didn't get what he deserved.