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Roll the Bones and Fly by Night are the ones I can do without hearing again. Most of the "hits" I still really enjoy and haven't gotten tired of.

Both of her albums are great. Insanely talented singer and stylist.

On a more positive note, I've seen some recent (within the last couple years) YouTube footage of Jon Anderson's new solo touring band and it's phenomenal. It's all younger musicians who nail the material and his voice sounds shockingly good singing the 70s stuff. If he came near me, I'd have much more interest in going to see him than I would in seeing the cover band with the rights to the Yes name that tours now.

90125 at least has some good songs. Everything following it falls into one of two categories: desperately trying to chase 90125's pop success without the good songs, or desperately trying to recapture the 70s prog sound without the good songs.

I also think their 70s sound could only have been achieved in the 70s and the way those albums were recorded are part of what makes it great. Trying to recreate it in the 90s and 00s with digital recording technology just makes it sound artificial and not organic.

Classic Yes is some of the best music ever made but I don't like a single thing they released after 90125 with the exception of the song "Mind Drive."

On 3/17/2024 at 7:32 AM, custom55 said:

Robert Plant keeps releasing great music.  

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.

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.

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.

Best songs for me: Panopticom, I/O, Four Kinds of Horses, Road to Joy, This is Home

Full interview starts about 25 minutes in:

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?

21 minutes ago, upstateNYfan said:

Rush will always have a big place in my life. But when Neil passed away that magical dynamic also died too. I think deep down Geddy and Alex realize this. Rush just wouldn't be the same.

 

What motivation would they have to hit the road? It's exhausting and expensive, and we all have limited time.

 

I view Geddy's wonderful book tour as a victory lap and a thoughtful and articulate farewell.

 

What a run.

 

 

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.

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.

On 12/16/2023 at 5:12 AM, condemned2bfree said:

 

This is exactly the clip I was coming in here to post. So good.

Interesting piece.

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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The final piece of writing by legendary Rush drummer Neil Peart was about one of the great passions of his life—collecting cars; the joy of collecting them, and the even bigger joy of driving them. In this never-before-seen piece, finished just before his passing in 2020, Neil writes about not only his lifelong passion for cars and the open road, but about his Silver Surfers—a rare collection of the best sports cars from the 1960s.

Each image in the book, personally selected by Neil, takes you on his journey of car collecting—including a photo of him at 22 with his first car, a 1969 Lotus Europa, purchased when he was working as a parts manager at his father’s farm equipment dealer; a 1948 MGTC he bought in London while on tour; and the black Ferrari car he drove while writing the songs for the seminal album Moving Pictures. And then there are his beloved Silver Surfers—seven classic 1960s sports cars, from an Aston Martin DB5 Saloon to a 1963 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray, each one a gorgeous silver, except one: a black 1964 Shelby Cobra whose patina Neil loved so much he refused to change it.

Beautiful studio images showing both the interior and exterior of these extraordinary cars, as well as personal images of Neil driving them along the California coast, accompany Neil’s warm, personal memories of why and how he bought the cars, the friends he made along the way, and what it was like to be behind the wheel. Neil’s final work is a love letter to these cars that meant so much to him, and to the passion of the road that fueled his life.

THE FINAL WRITING OF A LEGENDARY MUSICIAN: Neil was working on this book at the time of his death in 2020.

EXCLUSIVE FOREWORD: Includes a thoughtful foreword by Neil Peart’s wife, renowned music industry photographer Carrie Nuttall Peart.

NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN IMAGES: Carrie Nuttall Peart provides stunning photographs of Neil’s car collection from her personal archives.

DEEPLY PERSONAL MEMORIES: Neil shares intimate stories about his lifelong love of cars and driving

AN EXCELLENT GIFT: Silver Surfers: Sports Cars of the Sixties makes a thoughtful gift for car enthusiasts and Rush fans alike.

COMPLETE YOUR COLLECTION: Silver Surfers: Sports Cars of the Sixties joins Rush: Wandering the Face of the Earth: The Official Touring History on your bookshelf, also available from Insight Editions.

12 hours ago, Rush Didact said:

Geddy and Alex were dropping some very big hints tonight in Toronto about playing together again. They can play coy all they want, but these guys know how to work the media, and they wouldn't be talking the way they have been lately unless something was already in the planning stage. I bet we hear something definite in the new year...

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.

Watched all four episodes last night. It's a good time.

4 hours ago, HemiBeers said:

3. Get a keyboard player and/or singer. Geddy can still probably sing a few songs that his voice can handle, but I'm guessing it's shot at this point. I would think Geddy would like just concentrating on bass at this point.

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.

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

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.