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AlanP

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  • Number of Rush Concerts Attended
    5
  • Last Rush Concert Attended
    Time Machine Tour
  • Favorite Rush Song
    impossible to pick. Limelight?
  • Favorite Rush Album
    Moving Pictures
  • Other Favorite Bands
    Beatles; Classical Music
  • Musical Instruments You Play
    Guitar, Bass
  1. “Available Light” The bridge and solo on “Good News First” “Vapor Trail” “Cinderella Man” “The Enemy Within” “Grand Designs” “Prime Mover” “Sweet Miracle”
  2. I think they are counting from Neil's joining the band. Probably as a convenient way to call this "R 40" instead of the awkward "R 41." But Neil joined 41 years ago, in 1974. True! But I knew I read somewhere that the "excuse" to call this R40 was based on some loose idea about Neil joining later. Serves me right for reading something in Rolling Stone: "The tour commemorates the 40th anniversary of drummer Neil Peart joining the band, even though that actually happened in 1974." http://www.rollingst...2#ixzz3aEMJD4yP
  3. I think they are counting from Neil's joining the band. Probably as a convenient way to call this "R 40" instead of the awkward "R 41."
  4. Each hash mark is marking the start of a decade of the band's work. They are entering their fifth decade. Five hash marks.
  5. AlanP

    Spindrift

    Anyone else think that some parts of Spindrift (e.g around 40 seconds in) sound a fair amount like some parts of Time and Motion (about twenty seconds in)? Anyway, seems to me that there are pieces of Spindrift that could be great but as a whole it is not a standout song. I like the "a little closer to you" part best (which is also the part that the instrumental portion in the middle plays over).
  6. AlanP

    Geddy Solo

    I like My Favorite Headache quite a bit. Favorites include Working at Perfekt, Runaway Train, Still, and Grace to Grace.
  7. Hemispheres is incredibly tempting . . . and yet my eyes are drawn toward the mountain in the east . . . . I vote Caress of Steel.
  8. 1 Vapor Trails 2 Clockwork Angels 3 Counterparts 4 Snakes and Arrows 5 Test for Echo
  9. While I like the entire song Presto, I agree that the bridge is the best part. We should have a separate thread for songs where the bridge is your favorite part!
  10. A song that takes a while to warm up for me but then gets MUCH better is "Good News First." I don't really like the song very much, but at 3'00" or so there is a bridge ("some would say they never fear a thing") that is great and then the instrumental part over the bridge's chord progression (around 3'35") may be my favorite part of the whole album. That ends at 4'00". I can't really think of another Rush song where I am really unenthused by the main part but am totally into one minute in the middle of the song.
  11. I love both albums and think both are among their very finest work. Vapor Trail, Sweet Miracle, Ghost Rider, Earthshine, Peaceable Kingdom -- great songs (among others -- there isn't a weak track, in my view). And I agree with H.P.L., the lyrics are moving and more personal than ever. Clockwork Angels is an "album" in the old-school sense -- somehow whenever I start it, I feel the need to continue on through to the end. I love the "journey" you take on the album. Songs like "Halo Effect" and the transitional "BU2B2" may not be standouts on their own, but they create some pacing that plays perfectly in the context of the entire suite. I am absolutely astonished that the band has put out such high-quality work at this stage of their existence.
  12. I posted this in the other thread, but now that it is broken out: I noticed some notes (synth/keyboard?) being played on Sweet Miracle that I never heard before. Listen to the music after each time Geddy sings "oh, salvation."
  13. No One At the Bridge is a great lost gem. Love the guitar solo. Bacchus Plateau is also a nice song. I don't listen to them enough . . . but maybe that is why they stay fresh.
  14. In the "Oh salvation" bridge in Sweet Miracle, I am hearing something in the background that I never noticed before -- single notes that almost sound like keyboards in between each time Geddy sings "oh salvation." Anyone else hearing this? Anyone ever notice it before? I never noticed it before. Neat. More generally, hats off to David Bottrill.
  15. #9 for me. 1. Moving Pictures 2. Permanent Waves 3. Signals 4. Hemispheres 5. GUP 6. Power Windows 7. 2112 8. HYF 9. Clockwork Angels 10. Vapor Trails
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