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On 4/15/2023 at 12:36 PM, IbanezJem said:

See what happens when Neil`s not around to provide titles? "Big Book of Bass" and "My `Effin` Life". 

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.

On 6/24/2023 at 1:48 AM, Krystal said:

I found out that someone I went to high school with died 2 years ago.  I'm assuming it was because of covid.  The obituary didn't say very much.  

He had a wife and 2 kids.  He was really successful.  We were in a lot of the same classes and served on the student council together. 

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.

1 minute ago, Alex’s Amazing Arpeggios said:

T4E is under-rated and better than at least 5 other  albums 

in fact I actually rank T4E as high as 12th out of their 19 studio own material albums. 

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!

8 minutes ago, Segue Myles said:

T4E grew on me recently. Its still potentially my least favourite, but I like it a fair bit these days

 

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.

On 6/17/2023 at 8:10 AM, Chronos said:

 

Ohio!

Dayton here, where are you?

2005- Picaresque, by The Decemberists

John Renbourn- The Black Balloon

On 6/13/2023 at 10:04 PM, Leanne said:

 

Yes I definitely will! I just hope BC gets at least an hour (or more). Our seats are kinda high up (300s section), my friends son-in-law bought them and I guess that was the best he could get. Tour doesn't start until September, I'll be curious to find out how the first couple of shows go.

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

On 3/12/2023 at 6:21 PM, Entre_Perpetuo said:

Title says it all. Thoughts? I'm trying to not be tied down to bus and train schedules or organized tours.

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