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ST3V. Come on, man. I could have looked, but I just didn’t want to!

The Black Crowes- Three Snakes and One Charm Megadeth- Youthanasia Pat Metheny Group- Still Life (Talking) I had only ever listened to Metheny’s first album, Bright Size Life, and didn’t really latch onto the rest of his catalog. But then last year I watched my son perform Minuano in concert with his band, with him playing the flugelhorn for the main melody (which is done on the guitar/keys on the studio version here)…and he also solo’ed on the flugel for about a minute and a half, where Metheny’s guitar solo is…I was soooo impressed. And started listening to Metheny’s albums more and more, from that point. So Minuano and Still Life (Talking) is where it truly started, for me.

I will go with Presto as well, as the best answer here. I really like the album itself. But not the cover art.

Who the hell voted for Permanent Waves in this poll??

Do you think Rush should have dropped Working Man from any future setlist after 1975, since it's not a Rush song but a "Led Company" song? As well as In the Mood and Finding My Way? I may be in the minority but I never liked In The Mood. Finding My Way and Working Man are good rock songs but I don't associate Rush as an entity with them. They felt more like covers when Rush played them live. A big part of what makes a rock band good is the feel of the drummer, and Neil, as great as he was, served the debut's songs well but something was _off_. Almost like asking Gavin Harrison to play a Beatles song, or Dave Weckl to play an AC/DC song. I get the same feeling with any pre-Beast Maiden songs with Nicko, another excellent drummer. Lifeson was close, but Geddy still sounded like he was still searching for his bass identity, too. For your initial question, nah they're great live songs and they played them well. They just felt like covers to me. I might be in the minority there. So you're calling RUSH a covers band now? Nothing but a covers band. So now you're the covers band guy, from now on. :musicnote: I will call you Analog Covers, the god of balance you definitely won't be :musicnote: I'm calling the debut album a garage band album by a bunch of covering nobodies! You've just got it in for Rutsey! You're a Rutsey-hater! His makeup was ugly. Serious answer: the music wasn't bad with Rutsey. Just not my brand, and not what I identify Rush with Maybe you should write to Geddy and Alex and tell them to get it formerly removed from the RUSH catalogue? Have it expunged from our memories using gamma rays? I mean what else can you do? Burn some copies? Break into amazon's warehouse and nuke the lot of them? Get over to Anthem records and destroy the master tapes? Kill kill kill? Do a Putin on RUSH's ass!?? :bang bang: :rush: :laughing yellow guy:

Grace Under Pressure

I agree that Neil’s lyric-writing was just unbelievably good in the mid to late ‘80s. He was on quite a hot streak.

I live about 15 minutes from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Consider this my goodbye to you all… :laughing yellow guy: (I’m totally teasing…I am not at all worried about the end of days).

:lol: JR!

Love seeing another Budgie fan. :cheers:

I like that idea as well.

Xanadu is the one, yes.

Is it possible that I have never posted in this thread?? (Yes, it is- I just read through the whole blasted thing). First Rush show was at Riverfront Coliseum, Cincinnati, OH- 6 March 1990. I had been listening to them for ten years at that point, missed some incredible shows I’m sure, if I’d been able to go earlier. But in March of ‘90, I was still not quite even 17 years old. Went by myself. Loved every second of it. Xanadu into YYZ into Neil’s drum solo…I had reached prog rock Valhalla.

Happy belated birthday to you!

Rich Robinson- The Ceaseless Sight Judas Priest- Firepower Mandolin Orange- Blindfaller Watchhouse- S/T

The things I love about Caress of Steel are many- I love the dark, mythic overtones, I love that it’s a dark album. I think musically it’s much more adventurous than Fly By Night. And so very heavy…and more times than not, it ‘succeeds’ at what it’s sets out to convey. (I had to put that word ‘succeeds’ in quotes, because it is as subjective a statement as you’re thinking it is). But Fly By Night is the better album. Concise, blows the doors off, just as heavy and rocking and beautiful as you please.

I am in the same boat as you. Had tickets to the DC Crowes show in 2020 (was a toss up for me between that show and the Va. Beach show). The DC show was a Sat night, so got tickets for that one. When it got rescheduled, it ended up being switched to a weeknight and I had to travel for work and ended up missing it. So, I will probably try to hit at least one show for this summer. Glad to see Sven is back in the band. I haven't seen/heard anything about whoever is in the 'lead' guitar slot. As you know, I am such a Luther fan. That will probably be the deciding factor between seeing 1 show or several shows. Since Rich and Marc Ford worked together in Magpie Salute, I was hopeful that maybe Marc would go for the ‘reunion’ tour in 2020, but obviously that wasn’t to be…and yeah, Luther has moved on. I’ve only looked at a couple of clips from the recent shows, but this Isaiah Mitchell guy (that’s the lead/second guitar) seems pretty good. In spite of all the chemicals and for as much as Chris has beaten the hell out of his voice, he still sounds really good on the Black Crowes material, at age 55…Rich is playing great as always. And having Sven in the band is definitely good, yes… I totally overlooked a date in Windsor, Ontario, July 5th. Definitely the closest they’re playing to me, it’s like three and a half hours. Second row. Sold!

I’m thinking about seeing the Black Crowes this summer. Closest they’re coming to me at this point is Highland Park, IL (maybe 5.5 - 6 hours away). I had tickets to see them in 2020, which was postponed by a whole year. And then last summer the date that they re-scheduled to just happened to be the day of my brother’s wedding reception (which was also re-scheduled after the summer of 2020!). So I may spring for tue meet and greet thing, too, I don’t know. I also might hop over to the UK to catch a date or a few in the autumn. London, maybe Manchester…maybe Dublin? Because yes, I am just that crazy. But if I find out they’re recording anything new (as there are reportedly 20+ new songs written), then I might wait, and spring for a trans-Atlantic trek then. This is what two years of sitting at home has done to me! :lol:

That’s a bummer, I’m sorry. If I were you, I’d go anyway, though!

Progressive Priest could also be Sin After Sin/Sad Wings era, Run of the Mill kind of progressive. I like Nostradamus anyway. The swagger mixed with progressive is interesting. This is true.

That word, ‘progressive’, as associated with Priest- the Nostradamus album was seen as somewhat progressive too, wasn’t it? Love some epic-length metal. And also, just looking forward to finding out what they’ve cooked up! No matter what it is.

I find no absolution In my rational point of view Maybe some things are instinctive But there’s one thing you could do You could try to understand me And I could try to understand you He was on such a roll in the mid to latter ‘80s in particular, IMO…from Grace Under Pressure through Hold Your Fire, just incredible.

Rush- Fly By Night As many times as I’ve listened to this album in the past 40 or so years, for some reason, today in particular it just blew me away. Definitely shook the cobwebs off. Was just what I needed!

57 is soooo too young. :( :rose: