pjbear05

They must, 'cause they sure as hell don't give any breaks to the ticket buying public.

No Rush relation: pj for my initals, and a nickname I've been called since first grade. bear from a former hobby of collecting artist grade and limited edition teddy bears. 05 from the number 5 being a significant number-05 just looks cooler.

5. The Bob Seger System-s/t (aka Ramblin'Gamblin Man) 4. Qucksilver Messenger Service-s/t 3. LZ 1 2. Unorthodox Behavior-Brand X 1. The magnificence that is-Kick Out the Jams-The MC 5.

Oh well, here goes, in no particular order: 1. The Bob Seger System-The Bob Seger System (aka Ramblin' Gamblin Man) 2. MC 5-Kick Out the Jams (1st album I owned) 3. Cream-Fresh Cream 4. Qucksilver Messenger Service-Quicksilver Messenger Service 5. Kraftwerk-Autobahn 6. Emerson, Lake, & Palmer-Trilogy 7. Al DiMeola-Elegant Gypsy 8. Brand X-Unorthodox Behavior 9. Jimi Hendrix Experience-Electric Ladyland 10. Rush-Exit Stage Left (1st Rush album owned) 11. Yes-Fragile 12. King Crimson-In the Court of the Crimson King

Hmm, Al DiMeola is doing a couple of shows in Boca in a couple of weeks.

S—t, lots at both ends. Best: 11/19/75, at The House that Rock Built-Cobo Arena Detroit. J Geils Band recording parts of Blow Your Face Out, Golden Earring opening, and Mountain in between. Worst: 10/20/74 at The Big Red Barn-Olympia Stadium, Detroit. Traffic and Fairport Convention. Place was hot and stuffy. Both bands and the sound systems sucked. End of story

6' 4'', 270 lbs., 63 YO.

Al Dimeola-Kiss My Axe

Most versions palyed on radio are so God awful the artists should be impaled by a Christmas tree. Praise da baby Jeebus for my Christmas CD collection: Windham Hill's Winter Solstice series of CD's. "Rock n Roll Chrstimas" comp CD with such gems as "I Believe in Father Chirstmas" (Greg Lake) "Father Christmas (Kinks), and the truly bizarre "Sock It to me Santa" (Bob Seger & The Last Heard). Merry Axemas 1 (with Alex's Little Drummer Boy, but more on that below) Rob Halford's Christmas CD "Decemeber" by The Moody Blues. "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" music from the television special (claymation, w Burl Ives as Sam the Snowman narrating) The Jingle Cats, Melissa Etheridge, Enya, and other artists. And a two casette gem, Reader's Digest compilation of traditional carols by the original artists which still stands the test of time. And IMHO sorry Bob Seger, the duo of Bing and Bowie, and yes, you too Alex, but Harry Simeone got it (Little Drummer Boy) right the first time.

I always thought of Keith as OK until I saw him in Hail, Hail, Rock n Roll, jamming with the Grandmaster, Charles Edward Anderson Berry. Watching Chuck schooling Keith through Carol was a riot, as was the rest of the movie. Happy 70th Keith.

1. Google Search. 2. I joined after dealing with the ongiong problems that followed the last crash of the Counterparts board. I still sign on there every now and then, but lately I've been doing most of my posting here.

Went through the same thing with the crappy plastic hose guns, but my local Home Depot had the fix. An old fashioned twist type hose nozzle, and except for two neoprene ring gaskets and the rubber end washer, this thing is solid brass. They had an all metal hose gun, but it was a cheap POS, so I ponied up the cash for something that will last.

1. Al DiMeola 2. ELP 3. Yes 4. Pink Floyd 5, Shadowfax

During my first exposure to the group and hearing some killer music,only to be reduced to tears by: Coheed & Cambria-Wake Up

Outstanding...as was 2nd leg 2nd gig (BBT Center).

Am I the only one who thinks this looks a little like Martin Landau as Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood? Nobody gives two f*cks for Bela.

I was going to post this as part of Ken Jennings' thread: http://www.therushforum.com/index.php?/topic/80659-your-five-least-favorite-songs-ever/page__st__180#entry2997223 But figured it's good for a thread of it's own. I'm currently not working (due to the Gubmint shutdown), but when I am, I have had my share of Music Wars. My latest has been with two Latino ladies in the aisle parallel to me that play one of the local FM Hispanic stations. As they sit in two cubicles next to each other, they use the radio's speaker, so they get a pass on that. Most of it I ignore-I'm listening to my music on headphones anyway. It's just the Anglo stuff the station plays is particularly vomit inducing, and when that comes on-You're Beautiful is a particular station favorite-I pull out the headphone plug out and let whatever I'm playing blast away. My boss joked for me to hit 'em with some Rush, and I responded, "Oh, no, Rush is good, but I have better weapons for my aural assault and battering". Such as ELP, Yes, Coheed and Cambria, Kraftwerk, Ozric Tentacles, Brand X, etc. I once threw some of the sound effects from Elliot Mazer's The Digital Domain, one of the first CD I ever owned. That'll teach them! Frank Zappa's Jazz From Hell is another winner. How about everyone else? Let 'er rip!

Back before Rush was inducted into what I refer to as the "Whores of Rolling Stone Magazine Music Hall of Fame", I looked over the list of inductees. Most were good, and some where not, but the one question to self I could never answer was "Who the F--- did Bonnie Raitt do to get inducted?" There are more musicians and acts I could fill in, but BR was number one.

Why the hell not? I used to sneak upstairs into my sister's room and play her vinyl! She was huge Beatlemainiac, but the first "different" albums of hers I listened to (Fresh Cream and Are You Experienced) set me on my my way.

StartIng in 1988 my friend Jim and I would send each other copies of various albums on cassettes. One tape he sent to me was a tape of the original CD version of ESL. After hearing that I was hooked. Since then I sent him a CD copy of "The Rush Remasters" of ESL (which included my all time favorite single Rush song, A Passage to Bangkok.)

Any of Clint Eastwood's many.

Everybody so far has raised the valid points, basically don't be a douchebag. A lot has to do with seating and venue. I don't do lawn admisson at outdoor venues because in open areas like that you become fair game. No thanks IMHO. Hit a pre-concert party bar, and/or get your buzz on in the parking lot beforehand, and save the $10 beers at the venue for the fools. Some venues it can't be helped. From the 60's to the 80's I attended many a concert at a place I lovingly call "The House that Rock Built"-Cobo Arena in Detroit. You couldn't avoid a contact high from all the people firing something up, and the place could get pretty rowdy, so you just went with the flow. The all time weirdest was seeing Jon-Luc Ponty at Detroit's Fisher Theater, a venue then primarily used for plays and musicals. For the first two songs everyone sat around listening to the music almost confused, nobody doing anything. The start of the third song was like a signal, and suddenly folks started lighting up and lightening up. For Clockwork Angels at BB&T Center I was in the last row of the floor area, just to the right of the mixing boards. If I got a bit cramped it was no big deal to step over my chair and mill about on the open area between the back of the floor and the wall in front of the arena seating. People would stand there and groove or occasionally stop and shoot a picture, but the area stayed open enough to walk through. During the last half of the second set we had that plus a number of air jammers, myself included, rocking our a**es off, but still being cool. It was probably one of my better seats for a concert.

Too many favorites to count, but Delirious takes the prize. On the phone my friends and I often greet each other with Eddie as Mr. T, " Hey boy." Also have his "Best of SNL" tape, with Mr. Robinson, playing Stevie and Michael, and of course The Velvet Jones School of Technology. "Be somebody-Be a ho."

Mostly to live cuts, where the drummer gets a chance to really work the kit. Any of Neil's solos, obviously. The old guy in me really gets playing to two solos in particular: Michael Shrieve-Soul Sacrafice from Woodstock Carl Palmer-"Drum Solo Con Brio", Karn Evil 9, 1st Impression, from ELP's Welcome Back my Friends...

Emerson Lake and Palmer from Welcome Back My Friends... Karn Evil 9: 1st, 2nd and 3rd Impression. The MC 5 from Kick out the Jams: Ramblin' Rose and Kick out the Jams. Al Di Meola, from Elegant Gypsy: Race with the Devil on Spanish Highway, Lady of Rome Sister of Brazil, and the Elegant Gypsy Suite.