Tom Sawyer

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The Hotel California is 44 years old today... The Eagles released their 5th studio LP "Hotel California" on Dec. 8, 1976. It was the first Eagles album without the appearance of their founding member Bernie Leadon and their first album with guitarist Joe Walsh. It is also the last album featuring original bassist Randy Meisner. The album became the band's best-selling studio album, with over 16 million copies sold in the U.S. alone and over 32 million copies sold worldwide. The album topped the charts and won the band two Grammy Awards for "Hotel California" and "New Kid in Town". The album was nominated for Album of the Year but lost to Fleetwood Mac's Rumours. The album yielded three Top 20 singles, "New Kid in Town", "Hotel California", and "Life in the Fast Lane". "New Kid in Town" and "Hotel California" both topped the Billboard Hot 100, and "Life in the Fast Lane" reached number 11 on the charts. The album was ranked number 37 on Rolling Stone‍‍'‍s list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". The album further established the group as the most successful American band of the decade, making the Eagles household names. The song "Hotel California" is considered by many to be one of the greatest rock songs of all time; it was ranked number 49 on Rolling Stone‍‍'‍s list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". The guitar duet at the end of the song was performed by Don Fedler and Jow Walsh. The album also features "Wasted Time", "Victim of Love", and "The Last Resort". Their best record? Your thoughts? Happy 44th Birthday to "Hotel California"!!

I was considering making this a poll, but just no way I could do that. Even if we choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

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Reading so many things that Neil wrote regarding money, wealth and his place with it all, directly or indirectly. He considered himself as rich as he ever could have imagined and then some. He was very grounded and "efficient" with regards to money and spending. He was very gracious and generous. He almost felt guilty to have so much at times, I felt. But he just figured, what the hell. I came to highly respect his attitude toward money and his wealth through all his writings. He died a very rich man in so many more ways than mere money could provide to one's life.

too many favorites to pic one, loved his 70's 'stache, but this is a good one.

yes, please, take "another" picture won't you ...

“The Call of the Wild” opted for CGI, photo-realistic animal characters in order to provide them with the full range of emotion that London characterizes in his novel. But the film is a live-action and animation hybrid with impressive vistas and visual effects all the same. The film will also be the first film released by the studio under the 20th Century Studios name, being rebranded from 20th Century Fox to reflect the acquisition. Coincidentally, the 1935 version of the film was the last film released under the Twentieth Century Pictures name before the merger and formation of 20th Century Fox. Looks like harrison is expanding his canine career.

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This would be so cool. https://www.loudersound.com/news/petition-under-way-to-have-rushs-neil-peart-honoured-at-lakeside-park Petition link: https://www.change.org/p/mayor-walter-sendzik-petition-to-have-neil-peart-honored-with-a-plaque-or-statue-at-lakeside-park-st-catharines-ontario

I think members of this forum should be free to discuss this in any way they want to. It's valid to inquire about Peart's condition in his last days. I see nothing disrespectful about it. I see nothing useful about it. There's nothing useful about much of what is discussed here at TRF. Luckily utility is not a requirement for discussion. TRF is in many ways the Cheers bar for Rush fans. And it NEVER gets old!

A dear friend of mine died of brain cancer seventeen years ago. I visited him the two days before he passed on and he was difficult to understand, he was talking fine, coherently, but difficult to understand. I firmly believe it was the medication that was effecting his speech. I would imagine that this may be the possible reason for these remarks. It's quite trivial. Neil will always e remembered for his wit, brilliance and thoughtful conversations.

There is Rush, which I do enjoy, and and have three different stages of fandom. Stage one, 1976 when a friend introduced me to 2112, 1981 when I first hear Tom Sawyer and Spirit of Radio. and 2003 when I purchased Rush in Rio DVD. love the music, love the lyrics. Then there is Neil Peart. I discovered his book Ghost Rider in 2004. That changed me profoundly, more than anything the music or lyrics ever came close to. I really hadn't felt this strongly about since Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer. There was an instant connection for me to the writing "style". I felt Neil was using his writing (in his books) to connect with people who wanted to do what he had the time, resources and ultimately, the courage to do. He allowed me (us) to ride along with him on journeys to rediscover life and a rekindle the desire to appreciate life for what it has to offer. Adventure can be found in the simplest forms. Adventure begins whe we decide to "get moving" ... "somewhere"... "anywhere". You see, it doesn't really matter. "The point of the journey is not to arrive ,,, anything can happen" Thanks Neil. You gave me something far and away beyond just your music, or your lyrics. You gave me the desire to aspire in life!

Why do we feel the death of a musician like Neil Peart, even though we have never met him? I hearken back to Ludwig Von Beethoven’s funeral for the answer. When he died in 1827, it’s estimated that anywhere from 10,000 to as many as 30,000 attended his funeral. Of course, most of these mourners had never met the man personally, or if they did they merely tipped their hats to him on the street (and perhaps got a grumbling insult from him in reply!). But they knew his music. They were so affected by it that they felt compelled to come and mourn his passing. In a way, they felt they did know him. Because they knew his mind and his heart as expressed in those beautiful sounds he left the world as his passing gift. Music is unique in the arts in that it above all others has the eerie power to alter one’s mood and force them to actually feel what the composer is feeling — not through the words of a sonnet or the brushstrokes of a painting, however frenzied and passionate they may be, but rather in an almost primal way. One cannot avoid it. Who can listen to “Ode To Joy” and not feel exalted, a smile forming without even knowing it? Who can listen to a hard-driving rock song from, take your pick, Led Zeppelin, The Who, AC/DC, Nirvana, and a thousand others and not suddenly feel the urge, whatever your mood was before hitting ‘play’, to hurl heavy objects, run faster, jump higher, or play air guitar? After all, we don’t work out while reading Milton or staring at a photo of the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Instead, we don our headphones and amp up the music. Why? Because it actually changes us physiologically. The way love does. Those who don’t have an ear, or even those with a mere passing interest in music, must look at those Rush fans sincerely mourning the death of Neil Peart and think them a tad “off.” But when a favorite musician passes, it feels more real because we actually have been inside his/her head. Unlike a poet who tells us, or a painter who shows us, the musician demands we jump into their most intimate self to experience his/her thoughts, emotions, and pain in an eerie mind-melding way. We become one with them. And so the musical experience feels more personal to us than standing at arm’s length admiring a static sculpture, inspiring as it may be. Losing a musician is to lose someone who was not just “out there” entertaining us, but who invited us, even forced us, into their world as they understood it and felt it. It is an intimate, wonderful, painful, relationship … and one that can impact the musician’s fans very much as might the death of an old friend. So when you see people who seem in mourning over the loss of Neil Peart (or any artist they value and who has enriched their lives in a way only music can) fight off the impulse to shake your head and say: “Snap out of it. You never even met the guy.” Because that’s wrong. Every time they played his music they met him all over again, and got to know him a little better. He became a part of their world, and they his. How often do we hear the term “the soundtrack of my life.” For those Rush fans who followed this outstanding trio for the past five decades, this tragedy was more than just a news bulletin. To those whose lives Neil Peart touched, to whom he bequeathed the soundtrack of their lives, even if from afar, it’s very personal indeed. I respect that. I am sorry for your loss, Rush fans. Brad Schaeffer https://www.dailywire.com/news/schaeffer-why-it-hurts-when-great-musicians-pass-away?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benshapiro

Thanks, Mike for giving us this place, and keeping it going. Indeed. :cheers: yes. we all feel stunned and would be so dislocated without this place. haven't needed to be here more than now. thank you very much!!

his legacy lives on and his memory with will echo through the rush fans for ever. *ride on into the sunset down around that last curving highway professor*

In shock. So sad to hear this. thoughts and prayers to his family.

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-finally got my endorsement after taking and passing the riding course. starting out slow and building up my skills and confidence. started rereading ghost rider book (for the 5th time now i think) and somehow forgot that neil failed his test the first couple times. the book that inspired me 15 years ago to someday become a motorcycle owner/rider. I love this. ... a whole new world opening up to me!!

my personal feeling is, anyone who doesn't wear a helmet, evidently has nothing worth protecting. i have had tremendous success with honda engines (cars/ generators) plus it was what I could afford. ;) i'm enthusiastic, not effluent. :)

haha, yeah, will be avoiding that. As my bike mentor (Neil Peart , of course ;) ) has advised... http://www.2112.net/...050400bmwon.htm