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Hell if I know, I'm just trying to find the free food. Is this where the free food is? I'll cook a nice steak for free then. Seriously? For us? With the price of beef these days? Your generosity knows no bounds. :clap: Unless you just meant for yourself, then, well...I didn't want your steak anyhow. :poke: How would you like it cooked? When a server asks me, "How would you like it cooked?", I usually reply with, "Probably better than I'd like it in-cooked!" Yeah...I get a lot of strange looks.

Nachos...steak...cupcakes...donuts...sugar...honey! Y'all sure know how to make a fellow hungry!

DR: Geddy, your first album was released during the Nixon regime. How do you feel about Gerald Ford pardoning him over Watergate? GL: Er, what? DR: Your most popular record was released during the Reagan Administration. Don't you think Reagan should have been executed for Iran/Contra? GL: Uhh..... DR: Did despair over the Bush 41 regime lead to the recording of Presto without a bass guitar, or that God-awful rapping skeleton on Roll the Bones? GL: I never thought about that... DR: During your triumphant return in 2002, were you aware George W.Bush was snorting coke in the Oval Office and paying off witnesses who could verify he dodged service in Viet Nam? I have proof. GL: Neil gave him the coke. DR: Now enjoying your retirement, how do you feel about the current great embarrassment of America? GL: I thought she looked like an old hag on Anderson Cooper. Build that wall baby! And we want one on our side too! Ed you made my night!! I'm going to watch the interview now just because of your amazing post! RUSH ON! Earl has decided to become a big game hunter, only in LA's Griffith Park, he looks for people having sex in the bushes! He calls it Big Earl Hunting! Where have you been Lucky Ducky Fucky! I wrote a homage to Neil called "New Medicare Man" and I can't believe you didn't comment Mr. English Wit Writer 101! I am a "Big Game" Hunter. I love WHITE LION! But! "The Hunter" IS ROKKEN WITH DOKKEN BABY! Ed's looking for love on these lonely streets again!

I'm late seeing this, but I'm very sorry for your loss.

Everyone that picked "The Enemy Within" should have been very happy with the Presto album, because they used the same basic music with different lyrics for "Red Tide". As for the question..."The Weapon" by far.

There's a little place in Helen, Ga. called North Georgia BBQ. If you're ever in the vicinity, try it. You won't be disappointed.

I could listen to "RUSH" through "Hold Your Fire" on continuous loop. After that, it's a bit spotty. Presto? Some of those songs I had a personal connection with back in the day. Roll the Bones? Not so good by Rush standards, but still a solid album. Counterparts? Really love it, but not great within the Rush cannon. Test for Echo? Should have been aborted. Vapor Trails? If you can get your system set up just right, the songs are fantastic! Snakes and Arrows? Very good album. Not great. Clockwork Angels: Again- great album with great songs, but it is so much f***ing work to get it to SOUND good on your system, just like Vapor Trails...I'm sorry...what was the question again?

Cool! I'll give it another try. Stephen King (my favorite author, by the way) usually has "scary" moments throughout his novels. This one is kind of a build up. But really...don't trust my opinion too much. The guy could publish a grocery list and I'd buy it. By the way, what's up with this Dark Tower movie? They stretched out 4 Tolkien books (which I love) into 6 movies (yeah...I love those as well) but they condense 7 mind-blowing novels into 1 movie? No way! I still may see it, if only because I need more than real-life shit to piss me off! I was actually going to start a thread about that. I don't know how they can pull it off. I love both actors so I don't doubt they can pull off the characterizations of The Gunslinger ad The Man in Black, but the story is another more complicated thing all together. When I first heard they were making it into a movie I just assumed it was going to be more than one part (a la Lord of the Rings or The Hunger Games). I mean HELLO, it's only a 7 novel series! I don't know if I can take it. May have to just wait for video and seethe in the comfort of my own home. My feeling (without seeing it) is it will be a "loosely based" kind of thing. Hell..."Wizard and Glass" alone deserves a full movie treatment! Because that's when the Gunslinger really became THE GUNSLINGER!

Cool! I'll give it another try. Stephen King (my favorite author, by the way) usually has "scary" moments throughout his novels. This one is kind of a build up. But really...don't trust my opinion too much. The guy could publish a grocery list and I'd buy it. By the way, what's up with this Dark Tower movie? They stretched out 4 Tolkien books (which I love) into 6 movies (yeah...I love those as well) but they condense 7 mind-blowing novels into 1 movie? No way! I still may see it, if only because I need more than real-life shit to piss me off! I was actually going to start a thread about that. I don't know how they can pull it off. I love both actors so I don't doubt they can pull off the characterizations of The Gunslinger ad The Man in Black, but the story is another more complicated thing all together. When I first heard they were making it into a movie I just assumed it was going to be more than one part (a la Lord of the Rings or The Hunger Games). I mean HELLO, it's only a 7 novel series! I don't know if I can take it. May have to just wait for video and seethe in the comfort of my own home. My feeling (without seeing it) is it will be a "loosely based" kind of thing. Hell..."Wizard and Glass" alone deserves a full movie treatment!

Cool! I'll give it another try. Stephen King (my favorite author, by the way) usually has "scary" moments throughout his novels. This one is kind of a build up. But really...don't trust my opinion too much. The guy could publish a grocery list and I'd buy it. By the way, what's up with this Dark Tower movie? They stretched out 4 Tolkien books (which I love) into 6 movies (yeah...I love those as well) but they condense 7 mind-blowing novels into 1 movie? No way! I still may see it, if only because I need more than real-life shit to piss me off!

Cool! I'll give it another try. Stephen King (my favorite author, by the way) usually has "scary" moments throughout his novels. This one is kind of a build up. But really...don't trust my opinion too much. The guy could publish a grocery list and I'd buy it.

My opinion? It's an interesting read throughout. This kid following his hero. The payoff is at the end, when it gets really Stephen Kingy...shades of Pet Semetary. Hope that's not giving too much away. But, to me, it pays to stick this one out.

Your opinion of "Revival"?

I'm reading "The Hellfire Club" by Peter Straub. Really like his style: kind of a cross between the freaky-but-grounded-in-reality of Stephen King and the just-totally-out-there of Clive Barker.

If you decide to add it to your collection, I'll sell you mine!

Kevin J. Anderson is a terrific author. I haven't read his Star Wars books, but his own series are flat-out gripping fiction. If you guys really want to knock someone's writing, I can give you a name of a guy who wrote a best selling fantasy series that was soooooo bad...Dog Years would be its lead trailer music if made into a movie. But I won't. Because I'm an aspiring writer with zilch to my name. But we're all critics, right?

Sundown, he better take care... If only he could save time in a bottle!

I remember that Batman movie. He said, "Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb!" Classic!

Welcome to TRF, Garth! :hi: Party on, Garth!

Vapor Trails for me. But there were a couple of not so great ones between Hold Your Fire and there.

Never have understood the hate for this album. I mean, you knew up front they were cover songs. I think the did a terrific job on all of them. Maybe it has to do with the finite nature of time and the career of a band. If RUSH only ever had 20 albums in them, I think most fans would trade an album of covers for a new original album any day. Vapor Trails was released in May of 2002 while Snakes And Arrows came out in May of 2007; in-between we got Feedback in June of 2004. Even if it is an EP and not a full length album, I would have much preferred an originals release sometime in late 2004 over a covers album. It is just a waste of time and effort for me. The time the three of them had left in their careers in the studio recording together was already so fleeting by 2004, that it feels like such a disappointment not to get something truly RUSH rather than this collection. That said, we all understand that, especially the way they work, that recording 8 covers is a completely different undertaking than 8 original songs, but I would have taken 5 or 6 originals over any number of covers. An EP of originals would have been more than welcome as far as I am concerned. So I think that the hate over Feedback has little to do with what it actually is, but has everything to do with what it isn't. It probably reminds fans of what could have been if only different choices were made. I'm generally not a fan of covers regardless of the band undertaking them, so Feedback just ends up being a RUSH album in my collection that means as much to me as Chronicles or Retrospective III. It is there. It exists. I look at it thinking "well... this happened" and never listen to it. I would have at least listened to an EP of new originals released in 2004 many, many times. I can count on one hand how many times I've listened to Feedback straight through. . Great point!

In all honesty, I think they always sounded great live. The production and sound on a couple of the DVDs sucked, but I've never seen them live and came out thinking, "They sounded like crap tonight!" In fact, after R40 in Atlanta, I commented to my buddy that they'd never sounded better. That's a true comment. Sometimes, I guess, production hurts. All the World's a Stage...perfect live album...minimal production. That album captures the spirit and musicianship of Rush to a T. I'm gonna quit before I start rambling like RUSHHEAD666!

Fly By Night Tour, hands down. No Tom Sawyer, none of Hemispheres, PW, or AFTK. None of the synth period stuff. Uninspired set-list.

Never have understood the hate for this album. I mean, you knew up front they were cover songs. I think the did a terrific job on all of them.

I once thought I heard them playing "Dog Years" at Walmart. Turns out it was just an old guy bending over to check out the flip-flops and farting.