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They should only play in church basements and Sadie Hawkins dances.

Anybody see Me First & the Gimme Gimme's Ruin Johnny's Bat Mitzvah?-- something along those lines with Alex getting drunk and tased at the end.

Totally agree about the reception of the new material. And Headlong Flight was the highlight of the show.

Headlong Flight has become the new live favorite.

I'll call it a sleeper, because casual fans might not know it by name yet -- but it rocks live. People love it.

Great review -- great show.

Lord Stanley and his cup-- classic RUSH!!!

It's an unertaining show.......in a an economy where entertainment dollars have to be spent wisely

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http://www.sportingnews.com/nhl/story/2013-06-29/stanley-cup-rush-concert-chicago-tinley-park-geddy-lee-neal-peart

It was unreal. The crowd went insane!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.chicagotribune.com/videogallery/76497563/Video-Hawks-take-Stanley-Cup-to-Rush-concert

Neil gave it a couple taps with his stick.

Alex kissed it.

There was an interview earlier this year or last year when they were asked about Tom Sawyer being left off a setlist—Alex and Geddy smiled sheepishly and said something like: "Oh, no, we're Canadian.... and too polite for that."

It was obvious that they no longer feel the need to play it every show, but they also had a true appreciation for how it changed their career and launched them into to a whole new league of arena rock acts.

It's interesting to watch how Tom Sawyer is placed / presented from one tour to the next.

From Signals through GuP tours -- it was the #2 song right behind the opener TSOR -- RUSH was getting the audience really, really fired up about being at a RUSH show with back to back crowd pleasers.

Then, for GuP and PW it was moved to the end of the setlist as pre-encore closer or the first song of the encore.

HYF, Presto, RTB -- it was exclusively the pre-encore closer. That is an interesting spot. They wanted to conclude the regular set with a crowd pleaser. This was also an acknowledgment of the commercial importance of the song.

CP and TFE it was again a finale piece or part of the encore.

When the returned from the Hiatus Tom Sawyer was the opener for the first time. It was the perfect choice to open that tour IMO.

R30 - it opens the 2nd set then returns to the pre-encore spot for S&A.

Of course it opened the MP suite for the Time Machine tour, and now it's the first song of the encore.

I would say that that pre-encore spot or 1st song of encore over the years indicates the song is there as a crowd pleaser, something they feel obligated (in a good way) to do.

http://www.neilpeart...-sweet-science/

 

HoF, the science of motorbike riding, Chuck D, Alex L, praise of the praiseworthy, blah, blah, blah...

 

 

Read on.

Jann Wenner walks up to the greatest living rock and roll drummer and presumes to give him notes.

RUSH fans, we are not through with Rolling Stone yet.

Me thinks that rag should be put out of business.

Or perhaps dildos should start mysteriously piling up around the Madonna exhibit at the Rock Hall or cans of Spam at the Abba exhibit.

There are a lot of things to criticize Jann Wenner for. Being a John Lennon fanatic is not one of them.

Why not?

When you start bronzing every turd he left behind, then you've lost touch with reality.

Maybe John Lennon's greatest composition was marrying a hideous talentless women as way to express balance or ying and yang -- to every action there is an equal and opposite reaction -- "and I'm going to marry it."

The Point of this thread is Jann Wenner walked up to the greatest living rock and roll drummer and presumed to give him notes.

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The man knows talent.

 

Wenner is such a Lennonphile, Rolling Stone magazine actually reviews and promotes Yoko's screeching albums.

 

 

Check out this freak show:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-VlMaS6th8

 

That was sort of beautiful. One man's freak show is another's, ya know, art.

There's no accounting for taste.

But lets not call Shinola, "art".

Out of curiosity, I thought I'd see how Geddy sounded on the S&A tour, where I really started noticing the problem, even though it existed prior to that. I did a google search and the firs thing it came up with was Red Barchetta from the S&A official DVD:

 

 

 

Check out Geddy's singing from 1:26 on through about 3:00 - I didn't listen beyond that. TRY and be objective and just listen just to the vocals. Sometimes he's fine, but at other times it's cringe city. And keep in mind this was 5 or 6 years ago and things have only and will only get worse. The RRHOF performance vocally was worse than this video.

I'll see your S&A Red Barchetta and raise you a Time Machine Freewill

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDUXE9-SS4s

AND a HEADLONG FLIGHT....

Kiss my ass, lee can't sing, that's domino mother trucker!

Watch Chuck Berry's face when Yoko grabs the mic and makes her musical contribution to his song.

http://youtu.be/Ft2MbCpmYUI

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The man knows talent.

Wenner is such a Lennonphile, Rolling Stone magazine actually reviews and promotes Yoko's screeching albums.

Check out this freak show:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-VlMaS6th8

Who is Rush's sound man, and how has he not been sacked?

I could see the band, but I couldn't hear them. It was just a mush. No bass guitar in the mix, no synths in the 80s stuff.

The only time you could make out Neil were his solos.

 

Nowhere near enough speakers to fill the room, so the sound man attempted to fill the rest of the space with sub frequencies. Absolutely gut wrenchingly disappointing.

Maybe you should get you're ears checked.

Alright everyone,

 

Time to reflect on what we saw during the HBO special of the induction. Personally, I thought it was half good and half bad. The Donna Summers and Public Enemy parts bored me to tears and I didn't really pay attention at all. The Foo Fighters are possibly the biggest RUSH fans ever. The Crossroads all star jam at the end was awesome! Alex destroyed the guitar solo!

 

Love to hear some "Feedback"!

To all the PUBLIC ENEMY haters out there....

Only one other inductee showed RUSH some love and respect!!

I didn't see Heart or Randy Newman posing for pictures with RUSH or giving out hugs.

Flavor Flav was rockin' out during the entire RUSH performance, I respect that.

Face it, from the point of view of the establishment and the cool crowd, Oprah et al, RUSH and Public Enemy were the loud party guests, knocking shit over and making a scene. So they found each other and bonded. f**k the cool crowd.

Alex's speech would've been more effective and funny if it was about a third of its length. Lol

It was just under 3 minutes.

How would you express the same thing in less than 1 minute?

So people just don't get great performance art.

"The noises in Lerxst's head", as Dirk would say.

We were privy to the inner brilliance of Alex Lifeson.

No.

You're wa-aaaay way off.

The Body Electric.

Subdivisions - HH / Ride 16ths.

TSOR - 2nd verse - Ride/Crash 8th combo

Tom Sawyer - steady 16ths -- such a distinctive sound

the paradiddle ride patterns in YYZ, TSOR

These are a FEW examples of things that are uniquely neil peart.

Will the most epic of speeches (performance art really) make the cut...???

Or will Jan Weenerdude demand not to be mocked??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x8tWt4yKQ8

I'm guessing because it's in the teaser/trailer, the HBO producers/editors liked it -- it's so Rock and Roll!!

I will always consider the L.A Forum to be Rush's L.A. home.

Nothing like being a suburban 14yo getting out of your mom's station wagon in Inglewood, across from the race track, and hearing her say "Be back at 11 to pick you boys up."

It was an adventure.

the booing at one of the other nominees was not classy. Was it Public Enemy? (not that I care about rap, but still)

Considering Public Enemy was the only inductee that showed RUSH some love.

I didn't see any pictures of Rush with the Wilson sisters or Randy Newman.

Later in the article, there's a funny quote by Alex:

Blah, blah, blah...

Peart was at it again last night at the RRHOF induction ceremony:

 

... Neil Peart was honored to be introduced by two rockers who play the same instrument and happen to be his friends. Said Peart: "Dave told me the other day that he was inspired to play drums by our 2112 album, and when I first heard Nirvana in the early 90s, I was galvanized by that and then what he's done since then. So I kind of consider it the praise of the praiseworthy, people that I respect who have respect for what we've done." ...

 

This is what pisses me off slightly about Peart. Now, I've no interest in meeting the guy, and would just ignore him (as he wishes) if I ever bumped into him. That's not the case for most Rush fans and many would love to tell him how much his playing/lyrics have inspired them but can't because he doesn't like that. However, if some star musician or person he idolises wants to express similar sentiments then that's ok, that's praise from the praiseworthy. In other words, you don't amount to anything so f**k off out of my face before Mosbach gets medieval on your ass. Nice.

 

 

And that concludes my Saturday sermon.

 

Have a good weekend, unless you bump into Neil Peart...

I don't get that vibe at all from him.

Besides, he's been doing increasingly more and more promotional stuff since R30. Not as many interviews and appearances as Geddy and Alex, but he's been out there a fair amount. And think he was very specific about what he's not comfortable with, people showing up at his house and his hotel room.

I'm sure a polite and sincere compliment would not bother him under the right circumstances.

People make too big deal out of Neil not doing meet&greets or as many appearances.

Funny thing, when he does show up, he usually hits it out of the park, personality wise -- On Colbert, Alex the comedian hardly said a word.

"I know they said that we were laughing at them when they played, but quite frankly they were too shitty to listen to. And 40 years later they have a story to tell about it. Who knew?"

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