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Yep, BU2B2's artwork seems to be influenced by childness, with its sheer familiarity and big 2 in the middle. http://i1144.photobucket.com/albums/o492/dsiebold/BU2B2.png

Oh, yes, this is what the "Wreckers" art looks like! Stolen straight from Hugh Syme's notebook! http://i1144.photobucket.com/albums/o492/dsiebold/TheWreckers.png

Ooh, here's the single artwork for "The Garden", which is rumored to be the next released single! http://i1144.photobucket.com/albums/o492/dsiebold/TheGarden.png

I heard they renamed BU2B to UBB2 because the lead character is dyslexic.

If they take the Pink Floyd route, they will rerelease every one of the albums they rereleased at the end of 2009 for twice the money, including a limited edition boxset that actually has a hair rumored to be from Paul McCartney's pillow case. Also, you get a scrap of the bullet that killed John Lennon, one of George Harrison's lost song lyrics about his gods, and a Ringo Starr star, yours to keep if you can make it into another galaxy

Last one I saw was April 8th of last year in Hershey, PA, my first Rush show. Great gig.

The latest song from the David Siebold Group "The Man In The Background", a twenty minute- progressive/jazz fusion epic in demo form for now. It can be heard Here how's that for some self-promotion?

Imagine they did an acoustic version of this and Losing it... it would be E-P-I-C! Although a full band version of Losing It would be fantastic too

This is really my favorite song from 2112 (I really don't care too much for that album, but it's not bad). Although it is pretty simplistic in nature, I think its the one track where Geddy's soft side is shown. A magnificent piece, if only it wasn't succeeded by Something For Nothing

QUOTE (Merely Space @ May 1 2012, 08:06 AM) Oh it's epic, alright, it's just not an epic.

I just got into Pet Sounds a few months ago and I also got Smile too, some truly brilliant stuff which really shows its not all about surfing and cars Did anybody download the new single? I'm rocking out to it now!

QUOTE (Good,bad,andrush @ Apr 30 2012, 07:11 PM) QUOTE (ColdFireYYZ @ Apr 30 2012, 07:09 PM) QUOTE (The K Man @ Apr 14 2012, 01:20 AM) QUOTE (ColdFireYYZ @ Apr 13 2012, 06:58 PM) I got Moonmadness in the mail today. Holy shit, its good. Chord Change, Song Within a Song, and Lunar Sea are my favorites. I don't know why it took me so long to get it. Now I'm waiting for Nude to arrive. It should be here tomorrow or early next week. Air Born and Another Night are my favorites, and I love the dreariness of the short Spirit of the Water. Man, Moonmadness is so awesome. I'm listening to Moonmadness and I just realized how great The Spirit of the Water is. I love the haunting, gloomy vibe. Amazing album, ridiculously good. The first time I realized how great "Spirit of the Water" is, was when they played it on the Farewell Tour in tribute to Peter Bardens. Beautiful.

I also found a "live" version of "City Life" , the opening track from Nude. I put "live" in quotes because it honestly doesn't sound live and it might have been a promo with a backing track for tv stations? Anybody have any insight? Here's the link: Camel- City Life Update: I just read this on the Wikipedia for "The Old Grey Whistle Test" (which is what the performance is from): "Many viewers assumed the bands were always playing live. However, due to technical issues during the show's early years, and the need to ensure performances were controlled, the bands often recorded the instrumental tracks the day before. The vocals were then performed live, "99 per cent" of the time. However, after 1973, the show changed to an entirely-live paradigm." So, perhaps it is live, considering this is from 81, I presume.

Technically speaking, I think the Rush from the first album could easily have performed a song like BU2B because of its simplistic 4 chord nature, but Headlong Flight is certainly more of a challenge. Heaviness wise, its a different story because it would have been near impossible to get music as heavy as theirs is now back then. Also, Have you noticed that taking any one Rush album out from the chronology makes their timeline of albums senseless? Its really amazing to see that each album truly is a stepping stone, for instance, how could you go from Hemispheres to Moving Pictures without Permanent Waves? Or how could you go from Roll the Bones to Test For Echo without Counterparts? The only one that I notice seems to be the weirdest jump Is from Grace to Power Windows. The sheer sadness and thematic-ness of Grace under pressure is a sharp contrast to the "happy" sounding Power Windows.

Allan Holdsworth's live album "All Night Wrong" is perhaps the best recording, studio or live, he has ever created

QUOTE (Dscrapre @ Apr 24 2012, 10:35 PM) We all know that lots of great Rush music was written in E minor. The real question is, what key is Dog Years in? First note is in fact E, BUT, it goes directly to F after it

QUOTE (SlyJeff @ Apr 24 2012, 01:48 PM) I would guess this is way more about playability than singability. I think the melodies are probably fit not whatever they are playing rather than the other way aroun (especially the way HF and BU2B sound from a melody standpoint). E minor is just a great key for playing the guitar and bass, it's no surprise that a lot of songs are written in it. On a humorous, related note, as a former worship leader I can tell you that 90% of contemporary worship music is performed by using a capo so the guitar players can play in the key of G/e minor (same key) while allowing the vocalists to sing in a "real" key that is comfortable for them. Chris Tomlin is the worst about this, and yet his music was some of my favorite to do. As an act of protest, however, I tried to find different ways to voice my guitar parts so I wasn't always just playing in G/e minor- gotta keep things interesting you know! Man, I understand exactly what you mean! At my old school they would do that, which meant no skill needed at all. Capos may be great devices used properly (Tommy Emmanuel), but when using it on the fourth fret just so you can play an open G or C chord is ridiculous. Learn to play a bar chord please! Sorry about my little rant

In my opinion, even the stinky "Fly From Here" was better than Grace For Drowning. (Don't shoot me anybody!)

QUOTE (wilb1972 @ Apr 24 2012, 12:21 PM) QUOTE Lots of E minor in Rush history This is such a minor issue. That was so awful it was great.

QUOTE (savagegrace26 @ Apr 24 2012, 12:03 PM) Can anyone provide a list of which key every Rush song is in? That would be quite an undertaking considering many are in multiple keys, but that would be nice

QUOTE (Presto-digitation @ Apr 24 2012, 11:05 AM) QUOTE lots of open strings Geddy can hit notes that are high but not too hard to reach for him Bingo Yes but then why did they drop 2112 down to D?

Am I the only one who noticed that "Headlong Flight", "BU2B", and "Caravan" are all in the same key of E minor? I've noticed they really do like that key in their recent music and even past songs. Either it is thematic, a coincidence, or the effects of being old

QUOTE (CrossedSignals @ Apr 22 2012, 10:58 PM) I'm going to be weird and say Hemispheres and Grace Under Pressure It's hard to choose the two best out of such a stellar group, but those are the two I'd bring to a desert island. That's what I chose too, both are some of my favorite Rush albums (Hemispheres always tops my list) and just the sheer theme of Grace Under Pressure...it's such a melancholy album with some brilliant guitar work, rocking bass, and more of Neil's big foray into electronic drums. Hemispheres I hope doesn't need an introduction though However I do think Permanent Waves is a very good album. I think the weakest point is Entre Nous, but I can get over it. Although Spirit and Freewill are getting to be overplayed on each tour, I have to admit they are well constructed songs. Natural Science and Jacob's ladder are some of the greatest progressive songs they ever wrote, but for me, the biggest beauty of them all is "Different Strings", much like "Tears" (for me) is one of the few redeeming songs on the second side of 2112. Moving Pictures is always a good album, but not one of my favorites. Signals too, it has some fine songs (Losing It is verging on my favorite Rush song right now), but I always thought a few of the songs were a bit, I don't know, "fluff". I could probably do without Chemistry or New World Man. Sorry I got pretty long winded there

QUOTE (I know i'm going bald @ Apr 20 2012, 12:24 PM) Check out "Camel - A Live Record" if you get a chance. Absolutely brilliant full length performance of "The Snow Goose" together with some of their other classics like Lunar Sea, Never Let Go and Lady Fantasy Yes, I think that's one of the best live performances of the Snow Goose suite, especially with the addition of an orchestra. The song selection for the first record is great too. It's amazing how they culled together five different performances from separate tours and still the album as a whole sounds so tight from beginning to end.