wilb1972

My oldest step daughter plays softball and this past summer in the line-up the girl wearing 21 batted before the girl who wore 12. I would always try to snap a picture of their backs when they stood next to each other but it was usually 1221, or someone would get in the way. O well, maybe next season!

QUOTE What's odd about the Power Windows cover? I like it. It looks pretty normal to me. I dunno, just strikes me a certain way... I guess because when I first got into Rush, I had never seen that cover, or most of any of their covers, because it was a friend in HS who made me a mix tape (ah, the days of mix tapes!) and The Big Money and Mystic Rhythms were on that mix tape. I guess in my mind I built up an image of what the album cover would look like before I saw it and then when I did, I guess it just wasn't what I expected. Strange sounding I know, but over all these years, it still just seems odd for that sound. It just looked to me like it should have been the cover of a different album I guess!

QUOTE I like to have a representative from each era more or less I agree, what with Rush changing their sound so much over the years, it would be hard to play something like Bastille Day, and then when they buy something like Hold Your Fire hear that its nothing like Bastille Day! So I would want to mix it up for the new fan, and explain, these guys are always evolving and changing their sound. But since younger music fans don't seem to be into albums anymore, I would probably make a mix CD instead. Then if they like it, suggest the following albums: Moving Pictures Signals Permanent Waves Counterparts Clockwork Angels (when if comes out) 2112 However, a mix CD would have the following: Working Man Fly by Night Closer to the Heart The Spirit of Radio Freewill Tom Sawyer YYZ Limelight Subdivisions The Big Money Show Don't Tell Driven One Little Victory Far Cry Caravan BU2B

I too really like his solo album.

My wife and I were already planning to do this as well. It's something to do until CA finally gets released!

QUOTE Neil never got to proof Hemis cover art and was,his words, "horrified" when he saw it Yea Hemispheres is a strange cover, even if the guy wasn't nude, it would be odd. Rush has some cool covers, but they have the odd one from time to time and that is certainly one of 'em. I don't know if Hugh was going for some sort of Hipgnosis-styled cover or what, but I can see why Neil was 'horrified'. Power Windows is another odd cover.

QUOTE It took me a bit of time to realize that this was, in fact, incorrect. Geddy had much more hair at the time than the guy on the cover Yea I hear Ged's back and butt are much hairier!

I like the idea of them covering old prog tunes! :-) As for Feedback itself, I like Summertime Blues, its a good tune, and Crossroads is cool. Their version of The Seeker kicks butt. And I really dig Seven and Seven Is. To me its a real window into the kind of manic playing they would do on things like Before and After and Beneath Between and Behind.

QUOTE Well if they can just keep the rest of the record at the level of Caravan and BU2B this will be a monster record for me. I think those first two are as good or better than Far Cry which was by far the best song on SnA. Totally agree!

Didn't Nick R say that S&A was supposed to be old school Rush, like Hemispheres or something? That certainly did not come to fruition. I have high high hopes for CA, because I am really digging Caravan and BU2B. I just hope all of this epic talk is not another epic let down.

I've always loved Fly by Night, probably my fave of those early albums. The first album is okay, its a good album to put in if you happen to have friends or family around who are not particularly Rush fans, but like that classic rock sound. Caress of Steel is interesting, and while its never been my favorite, I have always liked Bastille Day and The Necromancer. 2112 of course is great. I really really want the Sector sets, but with all of the technical issues, I want to wait ... wonder how long it will take them to correct and re-issue new sets? I sure do not want to buy one of the defective sets.

QUOTE This what you're looking for?... http://www.therushforum.com/index.php?showtopic=70720 I knew it had to have been brought up already and I missed it! Thanks!

QUOTE For those that say that Neil should keep his athiesm to himself I would like you to think about that and ask yourself, "do you also complain that Christians should keep it to themselves?" Yes. QUOTE Are you as openly critical of Christians expressing their beliefs as you are of athiests? Yep. QUOTE Telling Neil to "keep it to himself" is akin to telling homosexuals to keep in the closet As long as they aren't writing songs telling me how wrong I am for not being one, then I am cool with homosexuals. Look I have friends of all stripes, creeds, colors, lifestyles, etc. But the thing we share is the ability to respect each others' ways of life without feeling the need to constantly bring it up. I love Neil's work with the band, his words, his music. But when you write from the position that you are somehow above others because they believe differently than you, then it gets a little annoying. I like BU2B and Freewill because they are more examinations of those belief systems. Whereas a lot of the Roll the Bones album assumes a certain viewpoint, that frankly leaves a lot of listeners on the outside. But again, I love Rush and will continue to support them, because it is all thought-provoking. Maybe not always the grooviest, but there you go.

So now this whole discussion has me wondering where everyone would rank their DVDs from best to worst? Poll anyone ...?

WELCOME! I too agree S&A is the best presentation of the band in the DVD format. As for the TM DVD, my only complaints are too many shots of the audience and poor Ged's vocals. But by the 2nd half of the show he warms up. I tend to watch from Subdivisions through to the end.

Unfortunately its only the zealots and nuts who grab the headlines when it comes to the world of religion, so that is what Neil sees. Plus, there is the death of his family and 9/11, which was carried out by religious zealots and nuts. I know he feels he needs to deal with it through his writing, and I can understand how it can be a put-off. Heck, a lot of the whole "the universe is random" stuff on Roll the Bones was annoying. Yea, we get it Neil, but for a whole album? Having said that, none of it really bothers me to the point that I skip songs. I only do that if I dont like it as a whole, lyrically and musically. Roll the Bones and Snakes and Arrows were (for me personally) weak albums musically, and the lyrical themes were all that was left to cling to and well, they left a lot to be desired. Therefore most of the tracks from those two albums never get heard in my house. But BU2B gets blasted all the time.

I really like the Foo Fighters, although I think their last couple of albums have been somewhat disappointing. I saw part of that FF doc a few weeks ago. There seems to be a mutual respect between the two bands, what with Ged and Al jamming with FF in a concert, and with Taylor Hawkins giving props in the Rush doc.

QUOTE We REALLY need some CA news at this point. Nobody has any ideas for good threads lately. LOL Totally agree! I was just telling my wife I have been latching onto every tidbit of useless anything that is Rush-related as we await CA. We have watched the Time Machine DVD to death ... C'mon guys! A 2 / 1 / 12 release date would be great! If not, we are gonna have to make threads about how many moles Al has on his bald spot.

"I better not see that on Ebay!" -- Neil from Colbert Report

Tai Shan -- interesting but nothing special. High Water -- pretty good, kind of a generic track but better than Tai Shan. I dont hate it, but I rarely listen to it. QUOTE BTW, I love King's X as well LOOOOVEEE them! Ear Candy is awesome. So is Gretchen.

QUOTE even I thought that the 5 S&A songs opening the second set on that tour was a downright terrible decision. I agree. I wasn't a huge fan of S&A, so that was a dud of way to start the 2nd half (though Far Cry is awesome). Spreading them out is much better than bunching them all up together. I could see 3 together, but man ... That was too many new tracks in a row. If I remember correctly they did most of the album on that tour! They usually do what? Five songs from a new release? Ticket sales may not have suffered, people still went, but Rush fans are, if anything, dedicated. It was a fair trade off to hear all the other songs. I mean, Entre Nous? A Passage to Bangkok? I dealt with it, but hope they dont do it again.

QUOTE I think that setlist would please about 90% of us TRFers .... but 10% of the general Rush-going fans! I know, its not terribly realistic -- but one can dream... Seeing the solo stuff would be interesting. Since Big Al has been doing a little acoustic solo after Neil's solo, Strip and Go Naked would be interesting right there. QUOTE Play all the songs, then we can never complain about them never playing the rare tracks! Exactly! I mean, yea they will always do TSOR and TS and Limelight -- but they are getting on in years, and how many more times can they tour?? They need to throw a few of these out there for us before its too late.

Vapor Trails all the way. Despite the infamous production.

When I saw the Eagles they did 3 encores ... after two encores people were starting to leave, and here they come again! But it was pretty cool. QUOTE YOU WOULDN'T TURN ON THE LIGHTS Always a dead giveaway eh?

QUOTE Well if Grusin has a song by the same title is it possible your media player is going on line to find the album info and just pulling up the wrong thing? I guess I just assumed that stuff was encoded onto the disc?