QUOTE (IChoseFreeWill @ Feb 28 2011, 10:47 PM) I don't like Neil's handlebar mustache. Makes him look MUCH older than what he was. With that look, he reminds me of a character from a 70s TV show that was a couple decades than Neil at the time. A character whose personality and interests are nothing like Neil's. A character that would not like Rush because Rush is waaaaaay too intellectual for him. Yet Neil is reminding me of him.
For those of you who are wondering who this character is, it would be Don Ramon from El Chavo del Ocho. Who is pretty much the polar opposite of Neil otherwise- but Neil with this look reminds me of him. Unfortunately.
as you can tell, i do love the mustache. and i generally do NOT like guys with mustaches! but i love the look of all the Rush boys during this era, because it's so over-the-top 70s, and they are all in their 20s and enjoying the whole first wave of success. and neil is so downright lanky.
this is also the "first Rush" i remember... it was 1977 and i was in an 11-year-old 7th grader, moving up to the big high school building with all of the older kids. one of the seniors had a locker next to me, and she opened it up and had this 2112-era Rush poster plastered inside... and i remember sneaking a sideways look at it every time she opened that locker.
"who ARE those guys? how is their hair so impossibly long? their noses and mustaches so impossibly big? i must find out...!"
