The Analog Cub

Grace Under Pressure and it's not close. Signals and Power Windows have good stuff but GUP is on fire the whole way through.

78-84 and 93-12 are my peaks, which one between the two depends on my mood. Sometimes I like the classic prog, other times I want something heavier and a little more contemporary. I really don't think the overall sound changed much from Counterparts to the end, even though there is a distinct sonic identity on each album in that period.

You cannot beat the energy of that Rio show. The R30 show is also awesome.

I suspect it'll be them playing The Garden or another sad-ish song with a montage of Neil stuff on the video board.

Let's do this!

Never in my wildest dreams did I consider this would happen again. They may be getting older and it may be only two of the legend, but this will certainly be special.

Tai Shan with a Matthias Jabs solo!

You've lost me here. Force Ten's instrumental section is great. I think it's one of Alex's best moments in one of the worst times for him. That tremolo, reverb, and delay are going absolutely crazy. Some great bass playing from Geddy, too. Prime Mover is a good song. Another one I'd love to hear with the Fender Jazz.

I wish I could hear it with the Fender Jazz. The chord riff from Force Ten is great on R30 but it'd be cool to hear the same thing for Turn the Page or Lock and Key. This album is where they really started to fall into no mans land for me until Counterparts, but late era bass tone would amp it up.

Been observing a lot of first paint slowness and 502s. Once the first paint happens things seem to be running fine but any page changes are STRUGGLING today. @1-0-0-1-0-0-1 is the server drunk on the job?

There's a little bit I've heard from Endgame that I found decent as a nonfan but otherwise I haven't heard anybody outside of their hardcore fans rave over anything after the 90s in general. Dude also has some serious Old Man Yells at Cloud syndrome.

There really was no metal guitarist like him. His banjo influenced shredding and riffs were a force to be reckoned with and it's equally impressive that Bill could even keep up with it.

Today's the day to give Crack the Skye a listen.

Confirmed by the band. Holy shit. Brent seemed like a really difficult person to work with and had a really difficult final year. Horrible news.

News is spreading like wildfire today that Brent was killed in a motorcycle accident last night.