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    Minneapolis

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  • Number of Rush Concerts Attended
    7
  • Last Rush Concert Attended
    2010-08-27 Minnesota State Fair
  • Favorite Rush Song
    Hemispheres
  • Favorite Rush Album
    Hemispheres
  • Best Rush Experience
    This last concert; I haven't met any of THEM yet. I had never seen them outdoors and thought it would put a damper on the thing, plus my seats weren't as good as usual. It was the best concert I have ever seen. At first I thought it was just initial afterglow, but it's been a couple of weeks and I stand by it.
  • Other Favorite Bands
    Frank Zappa, Porcupine Tree, Babes in Toyland, Testament, Amorphis, Nina Simone, Tori Amos, Bill Withers, Kate Bush, Napalm Death, Catamenia
  • Musical Instruments You Play
    Voice, keyboards, and am trying to play bass
  1. QUOTE (GhostGirl @ Sep 15 2010, 01:38 PM) http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v250/Jett_Moonwing/1Subalbum/Neil500.jpg Ummm...the less said about THIS pic, the better. Mercy me. Less? no, no -- are you kidding?? The only problem this poses is how to cleverly insert the "Pratt" element into the brilliant (Jaye's I think) term "Dirxst." Edit: Hey, I fixed my sig, go me! And like the pic next to it, Neil's is from "my" show, in a Suburb Of Minnea-- I mean, in Saint Paul.
  2. I want to say that I wish we heard Where's My Thing live more often, and that it is underrated. But certainly, La Villa.
  3. QUOTE (Itty12 @ Sep 13 2010, 10:43 PM) I have to say Presto! I don't find ANYTHING on that album that i would change. Dude, it's one of my favorites, but not even War Paint? Edit: Hemispheres! We're number two!
  4. I'm visiting you esoteric professorial droolers to show you this pic of Neil. I think I took it frm the documentary, so, my apologies if you've seen it recently. He's sort of dashing here, but the first thing I thought was: he looks exactly like the villain in silent films who ties helpless squealing virgins to railroad tracks. http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4089/4989219204_c8685e0206.jpg Or at the very least, a rakish pirate on shore leave.
  5. If 1) it was a whole show, not just 10 songs; 2) it was an additional tour (sort of like the current one), and did not supersede an album-supporting tour; and 3) my income was at least 50k instead of no more than 15k; then yeah, I'd shill out double. Top Ten, eh? Here Again A Farewell to Kings Enemy Within Prime Mover Lock and Key Grand Designs Territories Chain Lightning Time and Motion Freeze
  6. Fun fun is right, good idea Here Again Anthem Necromancer part 2, that kickarse part they used to play occasionally (e.g. '76 Birmingham, UK) Something for Nothing A Farewell to Kings (Got 2 good boots with it, but I've waited long enough!) Circumstances Entre Nous Vital Signs This is hard... I was desperate for Digital Man and then saw it twice... I guess The Weapon Enemy Within Grand Designs! but that's never gonna happen, too synthy. :/ Prime Mover! Chain Lightning Where's My Thing? Cut To The Chase Time and Motion realistically, Earthshine Seven and Seven Is We Hold On Caravan (Edited to include, uh, Feedback ) Since VT's release I have really wanted to hear parts 1 through 4 of Fear, even though Neil added Freeze to that as an afterthought. Most people are probably sated with Witch Hunts by now. Not me though.
  7. uh, sorry, I'm not actually here. Forget you saw this. ;P Sorry.
  8. QUOTE (dakota2112 @ Sep 12 2010, 04:14 PM) I've been a bit worried about Ged's voice over the past few tours myself - but I agree with the post in here that says he kicked @ss at the Columbus show. His voice was in top form. He nailed those high notes in the bridge of (that one song... SPOILER...). The crowd then proceeded to blow the roof off the place. Same in Minneapolis... I mean Saint Paul, which I won't diss because Petie might be listening from that town next door If there had been a roof it would have blown. He nailed it. To me, (this one song I guess I need to not spoil) was the only slightly vocally problematic song he had at that show; and I was listening Very. f***ing. Carefully.
  9. QUOTE (Rushchick10 @ Sep 10 2010, 11:57 PM) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHbcEn-5apo Watch that...watch how he moves those hips. There's something about that guy that is just sexual! There's a freedom of movement in his middle regions that other straight guys don't generally have. It's the same thing that makes him flit about so lightly, I think. Maybe it has to do with the added maneuverability granted by his lowish center of gravity. Actually, I'm Jewish born and raised, and my brother and uncles have a touch of that. I believe straight Jewish men grow up with more emotion and affection being OK, and there's a balancing effect to that. In my experience "our" straight men are closer to gay and bi men in emotional... I dunno about maturity, but awareness, certainly. And that gives a person a different relationship with their physical self.
  10. QUOTE (FoxxiStarr @ Sep 12 2010, 04:41 PM) QUOTE (Jaye @ Sep 12 2010, 09:37 PM) http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v250/Jett_Moonwing/1Subalbum/Geddy805.jpg HAIR!!!! That was what ~really~ messed me up at the MN State Fair on Alex's birthday. I've never seen Ged's hair that long and I have a hair thing; then plus, I'd never seen them outdoors and there was this ~breeze,~ right, so I didn't breathe really for 3-1/2 hours.
  11. QUOTE (x_analog_kid_x @ Sep 10 2010, 11:27 PM) Just thought you girls may be interested in this hilarious song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqsF1AQFnZ4 "Me & You & Geddy Lee." (I never have any pictures, so this is my contribution, haha.) Whoa, that's awesome. Does he sing "Geddy Lee gave you his rubber?" That's just not a good line and I think I am hearing it wrong Actually, stuff like this further proves that Rush is entering mainstream classic status, and musicologically has gained... ok, I'll stop. Sowwy.
  12. OK, here's the thing. I've paid a lot of attention to Geddy's voice for many years, and that includes learning things I'd like to avoid as a singer through listening to him. (For example he has used vibrato as a crutch to maintain pitch, not just for expression, which I abhor in myself; and similarly I would never do that flip-yodel thing he does to move to different notes sometimes.) So I'm actually not THAT biased. Geddy smoked into the '80s and began taking lessons by the late '90s. Starting with probably Signals, especially with his live performance, he started to adapt to the fact that he could no longer scream the way he used to. His unaided approach to this evolved into a very clean but thin sound, in which his chest voice (meaning not falsetto, but he's only dabbled in that anyway) resonated almost completely in his head. Your sinuses are like an amp. I enjoy that sound a lot. However, as they became Harder Music again in the '90s, he seems to have developed a desire for more resonance. He's been moving toward that since the '97 tour or possibly the '94. Going for this actually results in more cracks and warbles because your voice is resonating deeper, in your actual chest and in all of your throat; you're like a cannon instead of a Beretta, the power's greater but you have less control if you're still learning. I think that's why he developed the yodelly transition he uses between some notes to avoid an uncontrolled crack. This tour has been my favorite vocally since he switched approaches, so probably since the Presto tour. The resonance has increased a lot and he's started to be able to get that WHILE enunciating the lyrics, which seems to be an ongoing issue. The cracks and warbles you heard this year are either 1) something he's passing off as expression that's really a bit of a crutch, or 2) genuine mistakes that I think are much better to make than to go back to the cracky thinner sound of the TFE thru SnA tours. So, he knows he's aging, and has been taking steps to preserve things as well as possible, often by altering the way he sings.
  13. QUOTE (yaoi_myantidrug @ Sep 6 2010, 07:16 AM) http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l348/yaoi_myantidrug/genesis/nrfygjuyf-pb.jpg http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l348/yaoi_myantidrug/genesis/magasin1-pb.jpg Yaoi, your pics are freaking me out, because when I look at them I find that when he was younger Mike Rutherford was bizarrely attractive, and I didn't really want to know that. It's a bit like finding a dead bug or something. Good observation about Tony having a bitchface though.
  14. QUOTE (the masked drummer @ Jul 19 2010, 11:38 AM) I'm a late-comer to this thread, but my response to original post: 1) women are less-visual, in general, than men. Besides, he's the baddest bassist in the world, so... 2) you're trying to understand women. big mistake. just accept them and the fact they think differently than we do. Overall, you're full of crap. I am a very spatial thinker and I know many other women like that. We are indeed often socialized to be more about emotions and more adaptable; for example, it's easier to talk oneself into finding someone hot that one already likes, if one is female. But I was raised by a second-wave feminist and have less of that socialization than average. Also, the younger a female friend of mine is, the less likely she is to adhere to what you've described; because the expectations are flying out the window ever faster as society progresses.
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