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Truth! There’s a reason why Neil was the lyricist from the time he joined, too- else we be subjected to ‘Hey baby, it’s a quarter to eight’ for the next 40-odd years. 😂 (This is not meant as a knock on Geddy at all- I love, love, love all three guys. And hey, “Big Beautiful Book of Bass” I liked).

Rush- Fly By Night Derek Trucks Band- Already Free

The U.S. Supreme Court.

I’m very sorry to hear this. There were a few people in my high school class who died not long after- cancer, drug overdose, motorcycle accident…not even people I was good friends with, but still, it’s awful anytime I life is snuffed out so short.

Charlatans UK- Up to Our Hips Gryphon- Red Queen to Gryphon Three (first-time listen)

Till the Sun Turns Black- Ray LaMontagne

2007- Lifeline, by Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals

Quiet as it’s Kept- Max Roach

Happy belated, my friend. So glad to hear you got to spend a great day.

It has a couple of very dated or dud songs, lyrically, and my gripe with it over all these years has been a lack of melodic playing from Alex- not that more purely riff-driven things can’t be great (because I think Clockwork Angels is brilliant)…but T4E has always sounded a bit too same-y from one group of songs to the next, to my ears. But having said that, I quite liked it today!

Agreed.

I have six of the ten that are on that list, but I don’t care, really. I agree it’s slanted too heavily in favor of one particular era (even at the same time that I’ll agree the first half of the 1970s had SO much going on, in rock and roll).

Rush- Test for Echo (one of my least-listened-to Rush albums, but I rather enjoyed it today) Fleetwood Mac- Tusk

The degree of my being emotional about him is also because I’ve suffered losses similar to what he did. Losing a couple of loved ones unexpectedly creates a tragic sort of kinship, even when it’s with someone you’ll never meet.

I didn’t want to start a new thread, but this one seems to be the most appropriate place to post about this…I’ve been reading a couple of Neil’s travel books lately; I just finished The Masked Rider yesterday and started immediately on Ghost Rider right after it. I am not the fanboy type, but I am finding myself getting emotional about him being gone…as I read his words, his careful pieces of prose strung together and conveying incredible stories- it all just brings back to the front of my mind how much we lost when he passed away. His very matter-of-fact way of explaining his thinking, and his humor, and his eloquence. In thinking about just putting this post together, I was going to call him ‘brilliant’, but then I stepped back, because that lends itself too much to hyperbole, I think. But ‘eloquent’ definitely fits. That’s what I gain from his writing- from reading the finished, published books. He had such an eloquent mind.

Genesis- Nursery Cryme King Crimson- Starless and Bible Black One band just gaining its footing in the prog rock universe, and another at the height of its powers.

Dayton here, where are you?

2005- Picaresque, by The Decemberists

John Renbourn- The Black Balloon

The show in my neck of the woods is not until late January, I think it’s the second or third to last show of the whole tour.

2003- It Still Moves, by My Morning Jacket

Bringing it All Back Home- Bob Dylan

I’m envious of you, young man. Ireland and the UK are a dream trip of mine. I look at country homes in the UK frequently, and I’d love to get one. Anyway, I don’t see that you reported back about how it was! So how was it??

I always thought the phrase in the lyric was ‘unconditional love’. No?

Grateful Dead- Wake of the Flood Jethro Tull- Benefit