the_necro_dancer

Some people on this forum make me hate Rush, for had I not heard Rush I would not have encountered such cretins.

QUOTE (hughes&kettner @ Apr 6 2012, 09:23 PM) Is there a good radio head forum you can go to? And leave this one here too I mean. Never compare rush to radiohead again....in any way. Geddy likes Radiohead. Should he stop being a member of Rush?

Let's make two distinct points here. First of all, there is the issue of patience and the passing of time. I don't think many of us would begrudge, or demand that Rush finish an album before its ready (i.e., artistically not reached the satisfaction or quality they expect of themselves). I think the wait before an "announcement" is more than reasonable, and it would be disrespectful for any one to bemoan such. Secondly, (and whilst it is their music, and they could finish something and release it five, ten years later, or hell, they could decide not to release it all. It is their music, after all), the wait between now and the announcement smacks of cynicism and exploitation through marketing profiteering - especially now in the days of high speed data access, where one if they wanted could remove the middle man, and this pointless racketeering to form a genuine relationship between musician and listener ("Hey, I just recorded this, have a listen") Rush decide not to. So, basically what is developing here is a contrived, bound to be anticlimactic, high on expectation, soon to be let down curve, that is, from my point of view, utterly and completely pointless. But like I say, it's Rush's music - they can do what they want, and so can I, and so can we all.

Marketing ploy? Taking the piss more like. If this was Radiohead we would have had the record weeks ago.