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QUOTE (GangsterOnBoats @ Apr 6 2012, 05:41 PM) I would much rather them play the entirety of this new album. I think pulling apart a concept record that they put so much time into would not be a good way to set off on this tour. Agreed.

Rhayader Goes To Town! The guitar solo in Lawrence on the Rajaz album is awesome. Last I heard, Latimer was stranded in the desert, surviving off the stored water of the camel he was riding...

I was just wondering if there were any Rush demos floating around. I'm not sure if they did much demoing at all, but I remember hearing a snippet of a studio demo version of "Tom Sawyer" on the 2112/Moving Pictures Classic Albums DVD. I also heard there's an alternate version of "The Trees" in some Rock Band video game. After they're done touring and recording albums, I think the release of a collection of demos would be pretty cool

I'll mention Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres, but I might hurt myself if I tried to chart it out If I count correctly, it starts in 12/8, later jumps from 3/4 to 7/8, then later some 4/4 is mixed into the equation. That's just the prelude!

QUOTE (1 of the 7 @ Jan 25 2012, 10:58 PM) Have you been a fan a while? I see our last Rush show is the same one - Hershey, PA. See you around! Well, I grew up with the Moving Pictures album; half the songs were on classic rock radio and I think YYZ was in a Guitar Hero game awhile back. Sometime in October '10 heard my friend Ryan talking about some album called "2112" at school one day, and a week later I saw it at Walmart for $7.00, so I figured it was worth a shot. At the time, I had just stopped listening to rap, and I was listening to punk and rock --- 2112 changed my life, opening the doors of progressive rock and jazz fusion to enter my ears. Later in the year, I "borrowed" a kid's Rush collection (Rush - Snakes & Arrows) and then I moved to NC (along with the CDs). So that's my "Rush Testimony" And yeah, Hershey was my first Rush show; I brought my brother who hated the band with me and he's listened to Hemispheres almost every week since!

QUOTE (apetersvt @ Jan 25 2012, 09:18 PM) I don't think I can listen to Alex's fretwork in 'The Necromancer' and not have some kind of cosmic moment (sober or with some 'help'). The Fountain just means so much on so many levels. The entire Hemispheres album is just so balsy-in your face rockin-exploratory-look what the f I can do-self indulgant brilliance. Can't be matched. EVER. It should be what every want to be rocker aspires to. Wow - I've never felt this understood!! I've always felt, from the first time I heard it, Lamneth is SO under appreciated! Most people dismiss the song as a "stepping stone" to 2112, and there is an obvious progression from one to the next, but there's so much more going on underneath the surface!! -Alex's chorus-drenched guitar -Geddy developing his signature gritty and active playing style -And Neil, in the worlds of Jack Black, "right on the nuggets"

Hey, I'm a new member of the forum (after checking back to it almost every day since June 2011 and enjoying the fine commentaries and posts from fans of like mind), and I figured I should introduce myself, exercising some type of "forum etiquette". Currently, I'm really digging "Caress of Steel", "Signals", "Hemispheres", and "Grace Under Pressure"; all albums that seem to have been placed next to more popular or better selling records. Any thoughts on these records?