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Old Bands with Great Late Releases
thizzellewashington replied to Union 5-3992's topic in Music Of The Spheres
This is a good call. The stuff with Allison Krauss isn't really my thing but I can recognize that it's good. I really liked his album Carry Fire from a few years ago and he's had some other good ones post-2000 as well. -
Old Bands with Great Late Releases
thizzellewashington replied to Union 5-3992's topic in Music Of The Spheres
Every post-2000 Depeche Mode album is been at least very good, a few I consider great. Particularly 2005's Playing the Angel. As someone already mentioned, Cheap Trick's recent stuff has been pretty strong. Peter Gabriel's new album I/O is up there with his best. Didn't love the new Stones album but the solo album Keith Richards put out about 10 years ago is really good. Those are just a few off the top of my head. -
Awesome. Hopefully to be followed by a US headlining tour.
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Zero songs I skip on any album from Kings through Power Windows but Power Windows is my favorite album so by default I'll say my favorite five-album run is Permanent Waves through Power Windows. but no wrong answers with any combination of five from that seven-album period.
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Peter Gabriel - I/O
thizzellewashington replied to thizzellewashington's topic in Music Of The Spheres
Best songs for me: Panopticom, I/O, Four Kinds of Horses, Road to Joy, This is Home -
Geddy Lee won't rule out future Rush shows with Alex Lifeson!!
thizzellewashington replied to skullchrist's topic in Rush
Full interview starts about 25 minutes in: -
Peter Gabriel - I/O
thizzellewashington replied to thizzellewashington's topic in Music Of The Spheres
I think I prefer the bright side mix too. -
Can't believe there's no thread for this album. It's f***ing KILLER. Best album he's put out in decades. Anyone else into it?
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Geddy Lee won't rule out future Rush shows with Alex Lifeson!!
thizzellewashington replied to skullchrist's topic in Rush
I tend to agree with this. I don't want to see Rush without any one of the three. If Geddy wanted to do a solo tour and play Rush songs as well as solo stuff, I would be interested in that, but they don't have to do anything. Something Alex said on the radio yesterday, too, is that he feels like the show they put together for R40, and how good they were on that tour, is a good final memory for fans and he doesn't want to go out and cheapen that if they can't do it at the same level. -
Geddy Lee won't rule out future Rush shows with Alex Lifeson!!
thizzellewashington replied to skullchrist's topic in Rush
Alex just did a radio interview today with Eddie Trunk on SiriusXM and definitely didn’t sound like any kind of “Rush 2.0” is happening. Didn’t rule out writing new music with Geddy at some point and said he wants to do that when Geddy gets done with the book promo stuff, but Alex was adamant that he has absolutely zero interest in touring again and doesn’t know if he can still play Rush stuff as well as he did on R40 because of the arthritis. So there’s that. -
This is exactly the clip I was coming in here to post. So good.
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Interesting piece.
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https://www.rushisaband.com/blog/2023/12/21/6052/Neil-Pearts-Silver-Surfers-coffee-table-book-due-out-this-coming-May Looks like there's finally an Amazon listing for Neil's final book on his classic car collection and it's coming out on May 7: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CN1BCDC6?tag=rushisaband-20
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Geddy Lee won't rule out future Rush shows with Alex Lifeson!!
thizzellewashington replied to skullchrist's topic in Rush
What did they say? -
"I Am You Are" is the better of the two, for sure. "Gone" is OK, not as good as the ballads on MFH. It's just nice to hear his voice again.
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Geddy Lee on Paramount + “Are Bass Players Human Too” Dec 5th
thizzellewashington replied to Tony R's topic in Rush
Watched all four episodes last night. It's a good time. -
Geddy Lee won't rule out future Rush shows with Alex Lifeson!!
thizzellewashington replied to skullchrist's topic in Rush
Definitely agree they should use extra musicians -- a full-time keyboard player so Geddy can focus on bass, and maybe even a second guitarist to help Alex out. As far as the vocals, I also worry that Geddy's voice wouldn't be able to hold up for a full tour. He sounded *fine* at the Taylor Hawkins shows last year but there's a big difference between being able to do three songs at two one-off shows with a ton of time to rehearse, and having to play a two-plus hour show several times a week. I don't think they'd need to get a different vocalist, I just think they'd have to be smart about what songs they play. Some of their recent tours (Clockwork Angels for example) focused on the mid-80s stuff that's a lot more reasonable for Geddy to be able to still sing, and he sounded great. R40 was rough in places because they were playing a lot of the 70s stuff. So keep the focus on the later Rush material in addition to solo material and some of the "mellower" older stuff to get around the vocal issues. -
Seattle crowd was fine.
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Years ago I sat down and ranked all of their songs from 1-175. Just pulled up the document on my computer and I stand by it. Here's my top 10: 1. Red Barchetta 2. Xanadu 3. Subdivisions 4. Tom Sawyer 5. 2112 6. YYZ 7. Marathon 8. The Anarchist 9. Limelight 10. The Pass
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Every one of these interviews feels like they're trying to back Geddy and Alex into a corner to say they're going to tour together as "Rush" again and they're clearly still on the fence about it.
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How To Hear The New Geddy Songs Tonight Or Tomorrow?
thizzellewashington replied to Holdyourfireal's topic in Rush
I went to the book tour stop in Seattle on Friday and Geddy said the songs would be released digitally/streaming "next week." So there's that. -
I must have missed this at the time (or it wasn't publicized) but there's a little note in the last chapter of Geddy's book that after the final tour, the three of them did one of those deals to cash out and sell their publishing to one of those companies that buys artists' catalogs. So I don't know how much control Geddy and Alex would even have over archival releases at this point.
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Geddy Lee won't rule out future Rush shows with Alex Lifeson!!
thizzellewashington replied to skullchrist's topic in Rush
Geddy said something interesting in his latest Rolling Stone interview — if he ever plays Rush stuff live again, with or without Alex, it likely wouldn't be as a three-piece. He'd get extra musicians. Which makes sense, because he (and Alex, if he were to be involved) is a little old at this point to still have to recreate all of that stuff himself live. And if they're not calling it "Rush," it doesn't really matter if it's not a trio. I highly doubt Portnoy would be the one. He just rejoined Dream Theater a month ago and they're making a record, and I would think him rejoining his original/iconic band after 10+ years away is a big enough deal that he won't want to commit to another gig, especially one this high-profile, for at least a few years. Plenty of drummers are technically capable of playing Neil's stuff, it's just weird to picture them calling anything "Rush" without him. And again, I think Geddy and Alex would ultimately come to the same conclusion and call it something else, knowing how they're wired and how much respect they have for what they built with Neil.