Starman.2112

"I don't have faith in faith I don't believe in belief You can call me faithless I still cling to hope And I believe in love And that's faith enough for me"

I didn't mind Wal-Mart using the song at all. I just thought it was funny that they were basically advertising investing in America (250 billion) and using a Canadian Song (group) while doing it. Seems like a marketing fail to me. Bruce Springsteen would probabley had been a better choice

Your lord lets a child die on this planet of terrible agonizing starvation every 3 seconds, I'm not worried about using the name in Vein. Good thing hes imaginary. But on topic, Christ, this thread title almost made me crud my pants too. I was brought up to believe The universe has a plan We are only human It's not ours to understand The universe has a plan All is for the best Some will be rewarded And the devil take the rest All is for the best Believe in what we're told Blind men in the market Buying what we're sold Believe in what we're told Until our final breath While our loving Watchmaker Loves us all to death In a world of cut and thrust I was always taught to trust In a world where all must fail Heaven's justice will prevail The joy and pain that we receive Each comes with its own cost The price of what we're winning Is the same as what we've lost Until our final breath The joy and pain that we receive Must be what we deserve I was brought up to believe

I personally think they are more in their prime today then ever before. In fact, CWA seems to have ruined older Rush for me, I prefer to listen to CWA now!

Trees!

Don't get me wrong because I near worship Neal Peart as a drummer, but as we all know, he thinks people that feel this way are silly. I actually very much dislike this and his general attempt at being intellectually snobby which I can not respect from a person who's intellectual existence has been dominated by beating on some drums. Meaning I respect him as a drummer and a possible poet, but not the kindred scholar that I think he sees himself as. Goes back to that age old question about who should make more money, a rock star or a brain surgeon. Ill also note that in several of the recent interviews with Geddy that I've seen, hes starting to come off more snobby now-a-days.

FreeWill

Roll the bones.

I'm a product of the 80's and for me Rush was a small part of the music I listened to back then. I remember Tom Sawyer and Subdivisions (and the other more popular songs) and really liked it when I heard them play on the radio (I taped Tom Sawyer of the radio at one point). Those two specifically had been some of my favorite songs in the 80's even though I wasn't a "Rush" fan, I was more into Def Leppard. Time moved on and so did I. Then I had a buddy in around 91 reintroduce me by handing me Chronicles. The songs I had liked to hear were in there and lots of new ones. Roll the Bones came out and I really wasn't much of a fan of it and spend a lot of time over the next few years listening to Chronicles. Counterparts hit in 93 and I absolutely loved it, just about every song on the album. I played that Album for probably 6 months strait. I was a great break from the depressing grunge of the prior 3 years. I was then pulled down the rabbit hole and became a "Rush" freak. So I'd say in 93'ish I started going back historically and listening to their older music not on Chronicles. Now, my buddy likes to think he is a more *elite* fan then I am since he got Chronicles a year before me but I still say I was good fan the day Tom Sawyer came out (long before him :) )

My son is 13 and has been to the last 2 Rush concerts. the first one was perfect, the last one (CWAs) really concerned me because now that weed is legal (in the privacy of your own home), everyone around us lit up to an extreme. Sure in the past you might smell it every so often, this concert featured just about every person in a 30 foot radius lighting it up. Now, it *is* legal however its still (like smoking) not legal on the floor and it was really starting to piss me off. I voted for it and I am totally for you smoking it in your house, keep that shat out of kids faces. To boot, there were many younger people (even much younger then my son) in the crowd with their parents. wish people could have some respect and at least go out into the smoking areas.

I don't think music is a generational thing. It's a good music/bad music thing. Yeah, absolutely. The Beatles last album came out when I was 1 years old. I love them because they were brilliant, not because I grew up with them. My favorite music is from the mid-60's to the late 70's - that's not because it's music I grew up with - it isn't. I grew up with 80's music, but I listen to 60's and 70's stuff because it's simply the best music made. If I used this logic I would then assume the Beatles sucked since of my 1500 favorite rotating song list, not one of them are Beatle songs. But I know better, I can appreciate the history. But then again, that's my own preference and you of course are no one to say what I should prefer. Now I do have many many songs in there long before my generation from bands such as Led Zeplin, The Who, etc... Music is a surly generation thing, I doubt most people today are listening to Oprah (classical to a lesser extent) like my dad used to play on his 8 track in his car 35 years ago when I was 5. As a computer scientist I can appreciate founders of computers (or Rock) however that does not mean I would want to be running an ENIAC as my desktop today. Funny though, I do have an appreciation for Techno/trance music and I think I got that from my dad as a more modern electronic form of his Opera/classical music. but I can appreciate Rush since 40 years of playing (and they are still playing live to my ears), their last album is contemporary and in my opinion on of the best rock albums ever made.

The Beatles are just not my generation (hell Rush's first album was released the year I was born). Music is a generational thing and I have every Beatles album there is yet I have never really liked any thing of theirs except a few songs here and there. I can understand why how the people who grew up with them would love them as much as say I still to this day love Def Leppard Pyromania (which I listened to when it came out when I was 9 years old and every day since) I'm happy to say most of my favorite rock is from the 80's.

At first his comment shocked me and I thought that he was talking about rush but after I read it a few times it sounds like he's talking purely about the Orchestra. Probably a clear indicator that they wont have a new one. However I will call out the curse of orchestra's. Seems like every band that uses one disbands after (ex GnR)

The Wreckers: I've really connected with his song and considerate one of my top 5 fav's of all time now.

1) Caravan: This is the one Rush song period that I immediately skip over. I just do not like it.

Well, my wife told me that shed divorce me if I put Rush on my skin (she's one of them women that hate Rush).

hmm.. you look EXACTLY like the guy sitting in front of me at the concert last week. 200 section about midway back on the Alex side?

I think Rush is understood pretty well. One thing I have noticed in all media (movies, music, books) as I grow older is the real tyranny of religion in these arts. I've seen it in movies the most lately. If the movie has any kind of anti-religion topic they literally campaign against it and have killed them (Golden Compass is a good example). Rush is a thorn in their side for sure even though it seems like music lyrics are subdue enough that they don't understand what Neil is telling them. Heck, we know right from the beginning (2112) that they were attacked for being "anti-Semitic" which is why even to this day you hear Geddy say "I'm just a Jewish boy from Canada". This is what happens when you go up against mega billion dollar corporate religions who literally send their sales people door to door.

Cool! I also run 2 of the 12" Outlaw LFM-EX subs. I love Outlaw.

I was to young for Rush in 1980, I was listening to the BeeGee's on my dads 8 track though :)

I've been thinking about getting my first tattoo at the ripe age of 40! I would love the starman but I'd also like to use the red dragon that they used for several years but for the life of me, I cant find any images on the web except the Rush in Reo version where he's holding a drink. Would love to have the dragon in action with the starman logo included. Would a great thing to do when they tour next since it would be my 10th show. I've had a starman logo on my car for years.

Yup! Was quite shocking to see a change like that. At first I was waiting to see security tackle them... but then I saw the happy birthday sign :)

I listen to Rush in my media room / Home Theater with a pretty nice setup. I've tuned the room with the use of sound paneling (kill of reflection points) and sound metering. For example, to 7.1 I run dedicated monoblocks (Outlaw) and have almost completed my migration to Paradigm speakers. I can say that CWA is by far my favorite album for sound because it punch's. When you play a song like The Anarchist, the bass at times will rattle my 3rd floor. Slapping in the new 2112 Bluray in Dolby DTS master 5.1 is like heaven although I notice at the beginning there's a lot of "hum" in the recording. Specifically I think its the first album in 15+ years that they brought Neal's drums more to the front and not hidden behind everything else.

Honestly, around 15 years ago (not including all albums since then), any thing not on Chronicles. 15 years later Im still trying to sort my way through all the albums >15 years old.

What would I say if I were as lucky as you are to say one statement to Geddy? "Geddy, I would like to thank you for being a beacon of light in modern society for the cause of secularity and allowing millions of people the ability to come out and speak of such things in public like never before." I wonder if he hears that much?