Rhyta

Wait with bated breath for the CA tour DVD to come out and keep listening to CA 'cause it is so good :dweez:

You are so right, CA is fantastic! I was listening to it again today and it just knocks me out :rush: :haz: . I am so grateful that the Vapor Trails tour happened, just wish I had seen it. But thanks to all who keep sharing their memories...so good :D

"I can't stop thinking big"...love that chorus from Caravan, love that whole song. :musicnote: Secret Touch "the way out is the way in...." Intro to Subdivisions, love how it builds with the keyboards and then combines with the drums :ebert: . The drumming in Carnies Yeah! :Neil: More but it is late :)

I read it and felt it fleshed things out a little. There is some story building that isn't directly linked to the lyrics but it follows the tracks of the album mostly.

I appreciate you sharing that with me, I think we are so lucky they got back together, if they didn't, I am not sure I would have become a fan since I didn't see them until R30. I think I learned to love VT the album by watching the Rush in Rio concert and how joyful the crowd was.

Most of the albums took months of off-and-on listens to really enjoy them as a whole. For me, too. Although, I've listened to Counterparts enough that I feel safe in saying that I only like four songs from it. Thanks Geddys Mullet, I am in the same boat. I do try to listen all the albums off and on but this one just doesn't click for me like others. But I know one thing, Rush rocks :haz:

Thanks. It is intriguing and I found this even more curious "The woman on the cover is really a symbol of us. If you think that's sexist in a negative way - well, it's really looking at ourselves so I don't think it can be. The idea is her perfect imperturbability in the face of all this chaos. In that she represents us. In the basic sense, all that cover picture means is forging on regardless, being completely uninvolved with all the chaos and ridiculous nonsense that's going on around us. Plus she represents the spirit of music and the spirit of radio, a symbol of perfect integrity and truth and beauty." - Neil Peart, Sounds, April 5, 1980. http://www.2112.net/powerwindows/main/Wallpaper.htm Mystery solved...yea :rush:

That is so cool! I had a slightly similar experience with my nephew in May. My sister loves Rush but her husband doesn't and he has got the kids thinking they are dumb. So I took R30 over to her house on her birthday and we watched it late that evening. She and I went to that concert in 2004, my first Rush concert...she's been a fan since forever. Anyway we were watching the dvd and youngest son comes down and starts going, why are you watching these guys, they aren't good. I told him to sit down and be quiet. After a few minutes he says, that was a good song (think they played Between the wheels). Then he says when is he going to do the drum solo and I told him it was coming up soon. He sat there and kept saying that's sick during the solo. He sat and watched the rest of the concert and then looked at us and said, hey they are cool. My sister was grinning. We are taking the older son the end of the month and he's never been so it will be fun. It's great to make a new fan :dweez:

When I met my friend years ago, she was naming all her cats after Rush songs and albums...I was naming mine after Harry Potter characters

While watching the Stanley Cup Playoffs you cheer when they play Tom Sawyer over the P.A. or hear the organist play it :rush:

Since I am a relatively newer fan of Rush, I have wondered if there is something I am missing about the Permanent Waves cover? Does it have some hidden meaning? I just look at it and think I see that the gal on it shows up later on Exit Stage Left. Was this a Hugh Syme creation? Give me your take on it...thanks

Wrong to you. :codger: I wouldn't be as harsh as Sin City but I find it very dull. Only two good cuts for me but if others like it have a party. I just won't be playing it except for Stick it out and Leave that thing alone. Animate sounds like Neil got out his rhyming dictionary..kind of a mess IMHO Please, taste is taste, so that's all well and good, we don't all have to like the album, but if your reasoning involves Neil's rhyming scheme, you may as well join the "Rush sucks" crowd; let's face it, a poet he ain't, at least not until the other two guys arrange the songs and take his wordsmith-ship from palatable to sublime if we're lucky. He's a nice guy, more than capable of the occasional profound observation, but like most of us, suffers from the naiveté of his own pretentious predilections (and, yes, that twist of phrase is meant to be ironic) I mean, we're talking about a guy who as recent as this summer still thinks Karl Marx is responsible for the gulag. Many people enjoy Rush for the lyrics, and it's an important feature of their music to me. The lyrics on CP are among the band's worst...Rutsey era included. Thats one importNt measure Of a song, and it's one reason I think this is their worst album To me, you sound much more like a member of the "Rush sucks" crowd than fans who appreciate the lyrics generally, but have an issue with a few songs or albums. I'm not sure if you are referring to me or Led Rush...I am certainly NOT a member of the Rush Sucks crowd. I just was commenting on Rush goober's usual insistence that everyone who doesn't agree with him is not only wrong but misguided. He thinks VT is horrible but loves Counterparts, I think the opposite. I think we need a bit more of agree to disagree here, just because I said I didn't like a couple of Rush songs then it becomes I think Rush sucks? That's a pretty big assumption to make and not supported by my posts. Unlike others here, I don't post to start arguments. This thread is about Counterparts the album and that is what I was commenting on. I wouldn't be posting here if I thought Rush sucks, geez :sigh: :eyeroll:

I just read the new Illustrated History book and it shows how close they were to going their separate ways around the TFE days. Now I understand why it was so emotional for them and so many fans when they went out on the VT tour

It is just an opinion. It just happens to be the wrong opinion. Wrong to you. :codger: I wouldn't be as harsh as Sin City but I find it very dull. Only two good cuts for me but if others like it have a party. I just won't be playing it except for Stick it out and Leave that thing alone. Animate sounds like Neil got out his rhyming dictionary..kind of a mess IMHO

Thanks for the link to the video, I laugh so much every :laughing guy: time I see it. I think it is great that Geddy and his daughter can share this together. :)

I have to agree, you guys are giving me chills. Thanks so much for sharing these great memories!! :D

I know what you mean, I saw R30 and then didn't catch TM or S&A (for various reasons :sigh: ). That's why I am so excited for Clockwork Angels, really want to see them. :drool:

it was fantastic...my favorite tour until Clockwork Angels. Great setlist. I'm grateful that they stuck it out and hit the road one more time. It was emotional. I thought they were finished. Many were worried they might not tour again after the 4 years off, so so glad they did or I wouldn't have seen them on R30. Geddy and Alex both seemed to be concerned that was a possibility in the interview I saw and in Beyond the Lighted Stage if I recall. Thanks for sharing and I hope I can agree with you on Clockwork Angels, July can't come soon enough :dweez: :rush: :haz:

Ok we have had several threads of everyone stating why they like Vapor Trails the album and those who don't (we know who that is ). I would like to hear from TRF folks who went to shows on this tour and hear their reactions to the show and seeing the group again after a long hiatus. The reason I am posting this is I saw part of an interview with Geddy and Alex where they said it was an emotional tour for them and how people reacted to them. I really would like to hear about it from those who were there. That's all I am asking for (NOT more talk about how VT the album stinks, please). So who wants to start off... :Neil: :Alex: :geddy: Tell me how the concert was and your feelings :)

R30 Medley sounded great though I didn't really know the songs that well. Now I do and I was lucky to hear them :rush: :haz:

Ok, I listened to Vapor Trails today and still think it is an underrated album, love the intensity of the music and powerful lyrics. :haz: So after perusing this thread I have listened to TFE and Counterparts since I hadn't played them in a while. Neither of them are very strong over all :sigh: Only songs on each that I like: Driven/Resist and Stick it out/ Leave That Thing Alone. I think another reason I like Vapor Trails so much is the Rush in Rio DVD, the joyous crowd's reaction colored my response to the album. I also like the segment in Beyond the Lighted Stage where it shows Neil driving to a concert on his motorcycle while Secret Touch is playing in the background. :rush:

My love of Rush wasn't an overnight infatuation, I came to their music in stages. Knew of them in the 70's, thought it was funny when Geddy did Take off with the MacKenzie Brothers. My sister was the rabid fan then. Skip ahead to 2002 and I meet a friend who loves them and goes to several concerts each time they do a tour. I listen to them on a trip with her and think they are ok. R30 tour, take my sister to it as a birthday present. Really impressed with their cover songs since they all were part of my teen years (yeah I am an oldie but a goodie). Buy Feedback at the concert and enjoy listening to it but don't do much listening otherwise. 2011 New Year's see Beyond the Lighted Stage on VH1 and was so impressed with the guys, liked the tune they played when Neil was riding his motorcycle ( I also like VT). Get out an ipod I found and listen to Subdivisions. I was hooked. Went on to fall in love with GUP and listened over and over. Joined this board not long after that and the rest is history. Clockwork Angels is my second fav, just listened to the whole thing today again. Can't wait for the end of July to get here :rush: :yay:

What is interesting is how RG thinks he is doing everyone a service by telling us our taste in music sucks but when he had a Twilight thread up and everyone starting telling him how much that book/series sucks, he had the thread closed. Why the two different standards?

I am with you GeddyLeeFender, I really like VT and find it very powerful. Those who dislike it say it is mixed way too hot or oversaturated. I find it fits the mood of the songs, very intense and strong. Given the material covered and it being their first album together after Neil's personal tragedies, it is an emotional group of songs, IMHO. Secret touch is my fav :rush: :haz:

I am an alto so I have trouble with some of geddy's range but I sure have fun trying, when I am alone of course! :D