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"The hypocrites are slandering The sacred Halls of Truth Ancient nobles showering Their bitterness on youth Can't we find the minds that made us strong? Can't we learn to feel what's right And what's wrong?"

Ditto here, although I need to listen to MFH more. Also, I didn't think it sounded like Rush. Something was different.

I am a nerd. I love science and medicine, I still play D&D, and I listen to Rush. I read all the time, usually fantasy stuff or nonfiction. I'd much rather spend time in a bookstore than at a sportsball game. I have no idea who most of these celebrity people are. Intelligence is sexy.

I don't understand what this means.

Hey, I saw Pat Travers that same tour. They opened for Blue Oyster Cult & Cheap Trick on August 19, 1979. It was my first concert! :cheers: Boom Boom...... :) Out go the lights ;) Well done... :ebert: She beat me to it!

Hey, I saw Pat Travers that same tour. They opened for Blue Oyster Cult & Cheap Trick on August 19, 1979. It was my first concert!

Keeping in mind I've seen literally hundreds of concerts over the past 35 years :codger: , the best concert I've ever seen was U2, December 15, 1984. I watched them with my jaw hanging down; they had such an incredible rapport with the audience, very different than what Rush has, and they were simply fantastic. A couple of the Rush shows during the CA tour are up there as the best concerts I've seen. Other really, REALLY good concerts have been: Midnight Oil in 1988, Miranda Sex Garden & Einstürzende Neubauten 1993, INXS in the 1986-88 range, Marillion in 1987 (at one show I was up in front and Fish looked right at me and said something, and I couldn't understand what he said ). I've seen some horrible, crappy bands as well, many of which were just small, local acts. Of the touring acts, A Split Second and The Weathermen are the two worst I can think of. Of course, there is also the whole classification of what my friends and I call Laptop Bands. Bands that go onstage with pretty much just a laptop and a singer and attempt to do a show. Those are boring because there's not much at all to look at, and since all the music is recorded it's no better than listening to the CD. I consider that a whole different sort of crappy.

This article says it better than I can. In short, all they care about is low prices, and that comes at the expense of working wages for employees, and quality products for their customers. They also drive small, local stores out of business. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Walmart

My thoughts exactly :(

Oh my, what have I wandered into? I dated a guy like that once. I think I only slept with him once (for other reasons, but it was just as well). Poor guy, it must have been hard (no pun intended) growing up like that.

Maybe, after some time, they'll do a remake? It certainly worked for Battlestar Galactica. Now, if we could only get more seasons of Firefly I would be most happy, indeed.

I'd be surprised if that was ever intended to be on the album. They've done lots of covers for release as singles or B sides. But they did such a great job with it! I still have the shaped picture disc it came on (backside of "The Trooper," iirc).

Iron Maiden "Cross Eyed Mary".

Here's a tigerfish catching a bird in flight: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGpr7cDEq3g

"Hey baby, I'd like to roll your bones."

My first concert was Blue Oyster Cult, Cheap Trick (my favourite band at the time), and Pat Travers in 1979. And that was where I got my first kiss as well.

"Narpzilla"?

I just saw this and it's hilarious!

I've watched it a few times. For me, the first season is something to tolerate in order to get to the good stuff. Sinclair is just not a good actor, and I like Sheridan so much more. I heard that B5 was originally written to be five seasons, but then it was going to be cancelled at the end of the fourth. As you're watching, you see them quickly try to tie up the loose ends during the fourth season, only to have the show renewed for a final fifth season. For that reason, the fifth season seems like somewhat an afterthought. But yeah, seasons two through four are great.

Yup.

So, why did Geddy abandon the Rick and/or never use it again after experimenting with other basses?

Most definitely the Rickenbacker! Looks sexy, sounds fabulous.

Ah, The Alarm. I loved them back in the mid-80s. I was lucky enough to see them a few times, and even briefly met them after a show, but lost track of the band after "Eye of the Hurricane." I only recently heard about Mike Peters working with Big Country (whose first two album were excellent; great rhythm section) but haven't yet had a chance to hear that stuff.

Don't disagree, but the problem with those albums (PoW and HYF) is not that they sound like the music of their time, but that they sound like the bad music of their time, or poor attempts at imitating the better music of that time. There was good "new wave/alt/indie/etc" music in the mid/late '80s, like The Smiths, Pixies, U2, etc, but Rush doesn't sound like them, instead they sound like Rush doing Cindy Lauper or Mr. Mister. That's the problem for many of us who don't care for those albums. Yes, well said. I grew up on hard rock and metal and in the 80s was listening to a lot of new wave (starting with Ultravox, thanks to Rush) and alternative. But never, ever did I listen to that Howard Jones/Cindy Lauper/new wave's answer to easy listening music. In fact, once I learned about it, I got really into the hard industrial music, stuff like Skinny Puppy & Front Line Assembly. It blew away the thin, wimpy, jazzy Rush.