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  1. Just saw it here in the Chicago area. All I'm going to say is that I thought it was an absolute blast. Best part is that I saw it with my best friend from High School who introduced me to Rush 41 years ago.

     

    Also going with him to see Primus perform Kings in a couple weeks. I know nothing about Primus, though apparently I have seen them since they opened for Rush during the Bones tour and I did see that tour. Looking forward to the show.

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  2. I love Different Stages. I was at that Tinley Park Illinois show (Hello, Chicago!) and I can hear myself cheering and applauding on the discs. (Ha!)

     

    Lots of mentions of Bootlegs here. If anyone could suggest exact titles, it would be great. I would love to hear those songs (from any era) that were played live but not included on any of the live albums.

     

    And just what is that bizarre sound in the middle of "Cinderella Man"??

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  3. That image is a bit strange. To me anyway. "Roll the Bones", in it's lyrics, mentions Lady Luck a few times. While Lady Luck is sometimes depicted with a blindfold, she doesn't have a scale. That's Lady Justice, who does always wears a blindfold.

     

    The entire album, lyric-wise has a bit to do with luck. Not so much justice. Not certain about the birds either.

     

    Maybe I'm missing something.

  4. back on again! Who's going?

     

    Certainly not me......

     

    Yeah, I dunno. I've seen all the docs over the last few years in theaters, and they were always an awesome experience. But with rising cases and this being an indoor thing...

     

    it's nothing to do with Covid...I won't go because I think it'll be shite......

     

    What would an adherent to the Shia branch of Islam have to do with "Cinema Strangiato - Director's Cut 2021"?

     

    Oh. Sorry. Misread that.

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  5. Hey RushFanForever, does Dubois, in that book, by any chance explain what the hell the lyrics to "Battlescar" mean? Those lyrics are all over the place. "Found a Fist in an Empty Field." Gross. Always wondered what he did with it.

     

    Geddy does a pretty good job at making his parts sound cool.

     

    Page 216-17 of the book.

     

    "It's just a very simple anti-American song," answers Pye asked about the lyric. “Uncle Sam's time is only to grease the wheel. I think that's self-explanatory. OK, forgive me—for me it's self-explanatory. Uncle Sam is the United States, and 'Uncle Sam's time is only a greased wheel...' I don't know how you used the term, a greased wheel, but you've heard people say grease the wheel? You grease the palm, yeah, grease the wheels of commerce—it's blatantly anti-American. And 'bust the busters, screw the feeders,' well, why bust me if I have dope? Let's go bust them. You know? You know, the people that feeds me this cultural crap, they're the ones that need to be fed. etc. I mean, don't be busting me!"

     

    Thank you, RushFanForever. That helped a bit. I always wondered what Buster Keaton and Buster Crabbe had ever done to Max Webster.

     

    And the the "screw the feeders" part: What's wrong with nice people trying to feed the starving? Now I know what he actually meant!

     

    I always knew the "Uncle Sam's time..." was a negative thing about the United States. I think Dubois would like real Americans. Not the politicians or the corporation jerks.

     

    I'd still like to know what he did with that fist though.

     

    It's possible the fist in an empty field refers to those solidarity posters, like black power, that show a fist against an empty background, or "field"

     

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    Now that's a thought!

  6. Hey RushFanForever, does Dubois, in that book, by any chance explain what the hell the lyrics to "Battlescar" mean? Those lyrics are all over the place. "Found a Fist in an Empty Field." Gross. Always wondered what he did with it.

     

    Geddy does a pretty good job at making his parts sound cool.

     

    Page 216-17 of the book.

     

    "It's just a very simple anti-American song," answers Pye asked about the lyric. “Uncle Sam's time is only to grease the wheel. I think that's self-explanatory. OK, forgive me—for me it's self-explanatory. Uncle Sam is the United States, and 'Uncle Sam's time is only a greased wheel...' I don't know how you used the term, a greased wheel, but you've heard people say grease the wheel? You grease the palm, yeah, grease the wheels of commerce—it's blatantly anti-American. And 'bust the busters, screw the feeders,' well, why bust me if I have dope? Let's go bust them. You know? You know, the people that feeds me this cultural crap, they're the ones that need to be fed. etc. I mean, don't be busting me!"

     

    Thank you, RushFanForever. That helped a bit. I always wondered what Buster Keaton and Buster Crabbe had ever done to Max Webster.

     

    And the the "screw the feeders" part: What's wrong with nice people trying to feed the starving? Now I know what he actually meant!

     

    I always knew the "Uncle Sam's time..." was a negative thing about the United States. I think Dubois would like real Americans. Not the politicians or the corporation jerks.

     

    I'd still like to know what he did with that fist though.

  7. Hey RushFanForever, does Dubois, in that book, by any chance explain what the hell the lyrics to "Battlescar" mean? Those lyrics are all over the place. "Found a Fist in an Empty Field." Gross. Always wondered what he did with it.

     

    Geddy does a pretty good job at making his parts sound cool.

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    Geddy cited Neurotica as one of those "What was I thinking???" songs in an interview a few years ago which I found interesting considering he claimed for many years that RTB was the album he was most proud of for the songwriting

    Yeah, Ged also thought in 1996 that TFE was the best work they'd ever done. Later, after the long Neil pause, he admitted that they'd run out of gas on that album. So I wouldn't really listen to his assessments of his own work.

    I'm an artist too (not music), and I freely admit that my opinion of my own art is useless.

     

    Artists always love their newest work and for the sake of their contract with the distributor, certainly have to "talk it up". Sometimes they're so close to the work that they can't recognize what's wrong with it. That definitely happened with the original version of "Vapor Trails". It would be interesting now to hear Alex and Geddy if they were asked to review some of Rush's "lesser known" songs. Was it Geddy who recently (within the last 20 years that is) said that he can't even listen to the "Fly By Night" album in full anymore? I remember he said that was his least favorite album on a TV rock show of some sort. And I seem to recall Neil having said that he was disturbed by his lyrics for "Anthem", saying something to the effect that those lyrics were possibly his most "misinformed" words which led some to "misunderstand" what he meant to be saying. Or maybe my brain is making this all up.

  9. Tom Sawyer.....love the music, hate the lyrics...f**k off Pye Dubois.

     

    Force10......as above (don't know if dubious Dubois was involved, don't care)

    Now that Fridge has given his opinion for the day I can finally sleep tonight.

    Fridge is THE final (sometimes first) word on everything always. :codger:

    Ever live in a factory combined with a church in the 17th century?

    Only in the 16th

    How did you like it?

    You better ask Fridge.

    And a pigeon.

     

    What the f**k does a pigeon know?

    Bread

     

    Is that Duckinese for f**k all?

     

    Waiter, this conversation isn't very good. ;)

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  10. Neurotica-"Rush using "BABY" in their lyrics-UGH!!! :boo hiss: :tsk:

     

    "Oh hey, now, baby

    Well, I like your smile"

     

    "Hey, baby, it's a quarter to eight

    I feel I'm in the mood

    Hey baby, the hour is late

    I feel I've got to move"

     

    "Well, hey, now, baby

    Don't you talk so fast"

     

    "I just want to find out, baby

    Where'd you learn what you know?"

     

    "Hey, baby, it's a quarter to eight

    I feel I'm in the mood

    Hey baby, the hour is late

    I feel I've got to move"

     

    "Hey, baby, it's a quarter to eight

    I feel I'm in the mood

    Hey baby, the hour is late

    I feel I've got to move"

     

    "Well, hey, now, baby

    I said I like your style

    You really got me, baby

    Way down deep inside"

     

    "Baby, you're the one"

     

    "Hey, baby, it's a quarter to eight

    I feel I'm in the mood

    Hey baby, the hour is late

    I feel I've got to move

    Yes, I do"

     

    UGH! I mean, COOL, BABY! :D

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  11. For the love/no love bit, it's "The Necromancer". That slow-mo narration should have been recognized as bad back before the album was released. To me, it just doesn't work. Really annoying. The rest of the song is totally kick-ass, dude! It would be awesome if Alex/Geddy did a re-release on it and got Morgan Freeman to do a reading on that narration. Or James Earl Jones (Darth Vader's voice). Or Spongebob Squarepants for that matter.

     

    The so-called "rap" of "Roll The Bones" ("It's a 'speaking part' ", according to Geddy!) would have been cool if they had been able to get John Cleese to do it. I got used to it and now when I hear it, I "hear" a specific voice at a certain point. For me, in my head, I always imagine Homer Simpson saying, "The Night Has a Thousand Sax-a-maphones." And that makes it all better.

     

    To comment on some of the other posts above this: "Virtuality" and "Dog Years" are two songs that pretty much do nothing for me. Along with "Rivendell", but Rivendell's words are cool. I get the "I'd rather be a tortoise from Galapagos" bit. Those things live for like 300 years or something. As opposed to 9 to 12 years (or so) for dogs.

     

    From "2112": "Discovery" does drag, imo, with the actual "discovering" how the strange device works. I love the rest of the entire song.

     

    From the op's choice, "Chain Lightning": I have always remembered Neil writing about this song's lyrics, saying that the "Sun dogs fire on the horizon" was something that he experienced alongside his daughter, Selena, when she was around 9 years old. These further lyrics from the same song, "This moment may be brief, But it can be so bright, Reflected in another source of light, When the moment dies, The spark still flies, Reflected in another pair of eyes" - is a direct reference to Neil seeing an excitement for experience in his own daughter's eyes. I recall this information regarding this song made me look much more deeply towards it. Of course, after the tragedy of Selena's death some 10 years later, this song gained even stronger impact. For me, that is.

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    . I am happy for Mary because she is on her way home to be reunited with all those that left before her! Her long lived toil has concluded in this place and she now belongs in the great beyond. Safe journeys Mary rest in peace. Shalom...

    <>< :angel: :rose: :angel: <><

     

    I would have written, basically, this exact post. I couldn't word it better. Thank you, Mary, for being Geddy's Mom, and brining into this world all that you did!

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  13. Both Analog Kid and Circumstances are based on Neil's experiences. When he was an adolescent, he met that "fawn-eyed girl with sun-browned legs" on summer vacation. Circumstances is based on his short time living in London, trying to get work as a drummer, So those two songs are certainly related. Also, of course, Lakeside Park is also based on Neil's memories of teenage years at that very park.

     

    Even Fly By Night is autobiographical to Neil. I've always loved the lyrics, "Moon-rise, thoughtful eyes - Staring back at me from the window beside". That's Neil looking at his own reflection in the window of the airplane he was sitting on, during a night flight to London. (Which eventually led to Circumstances!) He based his lyrics on an entry into his own personal diary, though he might have described that "diary" as simply his "scribblings".

  14. Roll the Bones is the reason I'm a Rush fan. I would buy anything released under that name, I adore that album.

     

    Roll the Bones is a very cute album.

     

     

     

     

     

    Ba-dum-dumb!

     

     

    But hey, it does give that shout-out to that old Groucho Marx game show. I believe Groucho was possibly a hindu muslim catholic creation evolutionist. I definitely know he was a rational romantic mystic cynical idealist.

     

    So yes. Up with Roll The Bones!

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  15. It recently dawned on me that R50 is coming up somewhat soon. I wonder if anyone in the Rush circle has any BIG, major ideas for that. Maybe Alex will reveal that he's been lying all this time and the Rush Vault is LOADED with unreleased material. Like 6 or 7 songs originally recorded for a "double LP" release of "Moving Pictures" that they scrapped because they were total crap. Now that I'd like to hear! Total crap songs!

     

    Kidding, of course. But I do think it's possible that there will be something for R50.

    RRHF

    WOW! That translation is perfect.

     

    It turns out that Alex Lifeson is... is... BLAH-BLAH!!!

     

    (Brilliant!!!)

     

    Thank you for putting this up.

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  16. I didn't know that about Snakes! Definitely not one of my favorite album covers. I wonder why they did that. At least they closed out with a proper Hugh Syme cover on CA.

     

    I forgot about the CA change. According to Hugh, the cover of CA was originally going to be that big Sundial with the Dancer on the Edge image. That supposedly had been decided on, but then Neil saw the artwork (which ended up on the cover) and thought that it would work better as the album cover. The Sundial artwork ended up on the inside. So there! Interference again! (Not really "interference". The guys had input, say-so and final approval on the covers, and none of that is really interference. But they did interfere on SaA. imo.)

     

    I've always thought that the CA cover as is, is a bit too much like "Hold Your Fire" with all that red again. Not terrible, by any means. And I still say I see a face in there, smiling evilly like an evil Watchmaker would smile. (Evilly.)

  17. Now this is just me - in my own opinion and all that - but that Grace Under Pressure photo of the guys never impressed me much. It always seemed pretty standard stuff to me. I know... You don't have to tell me.

     

    Also, above there was mentioned that the guys never felt it necessary to interfere with Hugh Syme's album cover work. Unfortunately (okay, again in my own opinion...) they sure did interfere with "Snakes and Arrows". They moved Hugh's work to the inside material and put that awful old painting on there instead. ("Old painting" or whatever that was/is.) I think it would be cool if at some point (and for some "gooder" reason) "Snakes and Arrows" received a re-release with Hugh's original intended artwork on the cover.

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  18. Can anyone suggest some Primus songs to check out which they might be likely to perform at this show? I've certainly heard of Primus but have never had any interest a chance to check out their stuff.
  19. Grace Under Pressure tour. Chicago's Rosemont Horizon stadium. We had seats in the upper level, back right-hand corner (as you're looking at the stage.) It was a short ways into the show, so everyone had actually taken their seats and were all really enjoying the show.

     

    All of a sudden, this one guy - about 19 years old, blue jeans, blue jeans jacket over a black t-shirt, wild black hair. He stands up on his own and just TOTALLY WIGS OUT! I mean this guy just GOES NUTS. He was holding a drink of some sort, which just went flying all over the place as he did this bizarre shaking-thing - his arms swinging all over the place. His body in convulsions. His head flinging back and forth and back and forth. His wild black hair going even more wild as it led the way back and forth for the rest of his head.

     

    The only light in the area was basically originating from the stage, so the lights were changing colors, creating all sorts of horrifying effects on this guy.

     

    And the SOUNDS that were coming out of him! Just absolute SCREECHING like a banshee. A completely out-of-control banshee!

     

    Everyone around him - and I mean EVERYONE, both sides, behind and in front of where this guy was freaking out - for rows - just ran for their lives. Thing was - security was on this guy in like, seconds! There had to have been like 8 guys (security) that jumped on this guy and wrangled him out of his aisle, up the steps and out of the venue. He never stopped his bizarre behavior all the way out.

     

    Afterwards, everyone just returned to their seats. The ones that had gotten the drink splashed all over them just had to deal with it. The people who were next to him - had to be friends, right? - just went back to their seats. Didn't give a rats ass about their friend having freaked out - and dragged out.

     

    I wish I could remember which song Rush had been performing at the time. After all that, everyone and everything was fine and a good time was had by all.

     

    The guy who freaked out and was dragged out by security? He was never heard from again... well, at least not that night during the concert.

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