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Hmmm... possibly, in fact probably, but...
1. How many other words has NEP made up in 41 years ? (OK, I realise that at this point I might be swamped by examples !).
2. What IS a Tobe anyway? Even if it is made up, what does it represent? Is it just easier to use "Tobe" in a lyric than "dank subterranean tunnel or chamber, or whatever a Tobe is meant to represent ? It is entirely logical that a Tobe could be a sort of lemon meringue pie which is a speciality of Hades, rather than a subterranean chamber ?
By-tor was a play on "biter" (I believe) & Snowdog is a description rather than a made up word (I think).
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Is the River Dawn actually the Don River (or River Don) which flows to the east of Toronto ?
The Don River looks very fordable when viewed from the high bridge which crosses it, & to my hearing, Dawn & Don, said in the correct North American accent, sound very similar, so is the Don River the River Dawn ?
It's also not an unwalkable distance from Willowdale, especially if you are a traveller.
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What is a "Tobe" (as in Tobes of Hades) ?
If you do not believe Hades exists, and if a Tobe is/was something only found in Hades, by definition a Tobe could not exist, however, if a Tobe could exist outside Hades, or you were to suspend your disbelief for a moment, then what actually is a Tobe ?
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Available Light by a whisker, just ahead of Cut To The Chase.
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Without doubt the Manchester (UK) Apollo - June 18th 1980.
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To REALLY learn patience & "the art of waiting", become a Frank Marino fan & wait for HIS long promised DVD
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QUOTE (hughes&kettner @ Jul 2 2011, 02:32 PM) QUOTE (Scars @ Jul 1 2011, 07:09 PM) ONLY two? I think if given the option, I'd be dumping half the setlist...
OUT:
Faithless
Workin' Them Angels
The fact that S&A has 3 songs yet Fly By Night, Caress Of Steel, Grace Under Pressure, Roll The Bones, Test For Echo, and Vapor Trails don't even get touched ticked me off. So to compensate for at least some of those albums, I'd put in Test for Echo and Dreamline....ironically in 2004 I think (off the top of my head) the only album not represented was Presto ?
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QUOTE (bigmoney2112 @ Jul 1 2011, 04:04 PM) Out: Presto and Faithless
In: Half The World and The Big MoneyHalf The World - great idea !!!
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OUT - Stick it out & Tom Sawyee.
IN - Available Light & hmmm... so many... erm... Madrigal, Different Strings, A Farewell to Kings, The Stars Look Down, Between Sun & Moon...
I am also in total agreement with OUT MP, IN COS, not that I dislike MP but COS live would be total genius - even to a genius!
Working Man would have to stay due to it's "closure" factor - effectively Rush's career took off when Donna Halper heard & started playing WM on WMMS in Cleveland in 1974, & I guess (well, I'm sure) the boys have DVD'd Cleveland on this tour as a nod to that starting point.
For the same reason I think Time Stand Still needs to stay - very much an "end of the summer" "looking back" type of song - "old friends growing older" is now surely as much a nod to "us" - the people who have followed Rush for spans of geological time, as it was to whoever it referred to in the mid '80's. In many ways this song works even better with the boys being at this stage in their lives (& we at ours ?) that it did when it was written.
I also think Closer To The Heart is another nod to "closure" - a song which allegedly at least one member of the band never wanted to play live again, but such an audience singalong in the past that it is back again to say bye-bye ? (that doesn't mean I wouldn't change it though!)
I think some songs (& maybe not just/even the above ones ?) are in the set-list for certain "deeper" reasons - not just because one has a nice bass line or whatever ?
...then again I might be talking a load of rubbish & the songs are just "here because they're here"
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Just got mine - & just to (test for) echo greyfriar's words, many thanks to Nebbish and all involved!!
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QUOTE (sanzo @ Jun 12 2011, 09:26 PM) Horseman- I dont really recall what I was doing at the interval, I know I wenr to the stall and got a poster and badges then came back and stood in the aisles and they good stewards there let me too.
How do you know I was talking to a Canadian and New yorker? I didnt even know that lol
Hi Sanzo - The person in the Geniusses shirt was having a chat to a stocky coloured guy & his mate who, dare I say, had a look of Geddy about him, but maybe a generation or two removed. Me & my wife then spotted these same two guys when we went for a wander after breakfast the next morning. We saw the same two guys just past the Tyne bridge & had about 20 minutes chatting with them until it started raining. They both seemed like regular Rush fans, the coloured guy having seen them 22 times, mostly around the NY area. It was even weirder to find that the bloke whose appearance reminded me of Geddy was actually from Toronto!
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In no particular order...
Rush - 2112
Rush - ATWAS
I was lent these two simultaneously while at school - music was NEVER the same after that.
Jan Garbarek - All Those Born With Wings
Henryk Gorecki - Symphony No3
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis
John McLaughlin, Al Di Meola, Paco De Lucia - Friday Night in San Francisco
Do you mind if I go over 6 ?...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Jethro Tull - Heavy Horses
Rammstein - Links-2-3-4 (a song, not an album)
Luciano Pavarotti - Greatest Hits
Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No7
Gregorio Allegri - Miserere
Led Zep - III & Physical Graffiti
Django Reinhardt - Appel Direct
Loreena McKennitt - The Book of Secrets
Hodie - An English Christmas Collection
The Stranglers - Black & White
Radio 3 - Late Junction (OK, I admit it, it's a radio programme!)
I think I better stop there !!!!!!
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QUOTE (phlaaps @ Jun 5 2011, 08:52 PM) QUOTE (sanzo @ Jun 5 2011, 02:11 PM) It was probably me you seen in Newcastle or nebbish +co , I think we were the only ones with them on but of course there could have been others Undoubtedly the finest tshirt to celebrate the boys FIRST visit to Ireland.
Hi Sanzo, if you were stood for a while during the interval in the aisle that ran on the left hand side of the floor (when looking towards the stage) about 5 rows from the front , & were talking to a couple of guys, 1 from Toronto & 1 from New York, then it was you I saw.
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QUOTE (phlaaps @ Jun 5 2011, 08:52 PM) QUOTE (sanzo @ Jun 5 2011, 02:11 PM) It was probably me you seen in Newcastle or nebbish +co , I think we were the only ones with them on but of course there could have been others Undoubtedly the finest tshirt to celebrate the boys FIRST visit to Ireland.
Hi Sanzo, if you were stood for a while during the interval in the aisle that ran on the left hand side of the floor (when looking towards the stage) about 5 rows from the front , & were talking to a couple of guys, 1 from Toronto & 1 from New York, then it was you I saw.
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Just looking forward seeing one in person.
Hi Phlaaps, I & various friends saw the shirts in person in Sheffield & Newcastle & were absolutely blown away, so much so that my current order list stands at 1 medium & 3 large !
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QUOTE (ALifeson85 @ Jun 2 2011, 01:50 PM) Over the years of playing guitar (almost 12), iv'e developed a knack for being able to learn songs by ear pretty quickly. A few months ago, i taught myself how to play The Camera Eye...and it took me maybe an hour and a half to learn. Solo included. And for me, when it comes to solos, once i figure out the first few notes, i can pick up on the rest on my own. My ears have just been naturally trained that way. Over the past 36 years of guitar playing I have developed the knack of NOT being able to play most of what I am trying to play, so much so that I am almost perfect at it
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In terms of bass playing, my favourite bass line to play is definitely Circumstances, which I worked out on guitar then transferred to bass (I played guitar for over 30 years before starting to play bass - I don't know why I waited all that time, maybe because one of my best mates played bass & we didn't need another bass player? - but I wish I had started years ago).
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If you are playing what you are hearing then you are probably right. A bit like in the film "Girl With A Pearl Earring", when Vermeer asks Grete what colour the clouds are, she says White, then she looks harder & sees blues & greens & pinks etc within the "whiteness", so if you are REALLY listening (& I'm sure you are), & are playing what you hear, then you are probably right.
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From Phlaaps' message I reckon I am a similarly gifted guitarist & never really made it past working out, then playing for the next 30 years, Broons Bane & The Trees. Freewill is also OK until I get to the solo, then I have to start whistling. A few weeks ago while jamming with various friends, we had a go at Leave That Thing Alone, which I found to be achievable (I can't actually play Alex's solo yet but maybe I'll get there one day !).
Also, in the past week I have found footage on You Tube by someone called Blobblob22 of a lot of Rush done on Acoustic guitar, & the chords sound pretty accurate with suspended 4ths & 2nds often appearing instead of straight G5, A5 etc. Here the link to one of his videos...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX6x0tQMM8g&feature=related
In many ways I am not really bothered that I can rarely manage an Alex solo, as it is his chord work which sets him apart from virtually every other guitarist in the universe, & when I manage to get the chords to any Rush song sounding right, to quote Geddy, that's beauty eh!
...and I may as well be the first in this current thread to say that Alex is without question still the most underrated guitarist in the most unheard of band on the planet !
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QUOTE (Hatchetaxe&saw @ May 30 2011, 09:59 AM) QUOTE (pedro2112 @ May 30 2011, 04:29 AM) Guess what my wife bought me for our 18th anniversary tomorrow:
http://thirstyblogger.my/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/laphroaig-quarter-cask.jpgFabulous. Enjoy every drop of every dram!
You are a man with extremely good taste in Whisky!
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There's absolutely nothing wrong with a Macallan, far from it in fact, but as long as the mighty Islays exist then I'm unlikely to switch my allegiance.
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River Dawn / Don River
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51 views & no replies ? Am I the only person to have wondered about the whole Don River / River Dawn thang ?
C'mon Neil. You wrote the lyric. Surely YOU remember, eh? ;-)