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Who exactly is disputing this? Anyone who complains that Neil no longer believes stuff he wrote four decades ago.

People should be allowed to change their opinions over a lifetime.

What makes a great Kiss? Lots of makeup!

Numbers like that is why there will be a second leg to this tour.

You mean the following scene was inspired by Geddy?

Here's an old thread that had a bunch of "period" TV ads for Rush albums and concerts. http://www.therushforum.com/index.php?/topic/89502-rush-songs-in-tv-commercials/page__hl__%20rush%20%20walmart

According to this page on the Clockwork Angels tour, their gross income was about $500,000 per show. Of course that had to be split among all the roadies etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clockwork_Angels_Tour

While exercise is important, keep in mind that running one mile will only burn 100 calories. 100 calories is about 1 can of coke, or 1 tablespoon of butter! If you overeat you'll have to run a marathon to burn it off! So you also have to count calories too, and try to reduce the daily intake. One big culprit (for me) was cream and sugar in the coffee. It added up to a lot of pointless calories in between meals. I learned to love black coffee! Also set a modest goal. Like, 1 pound a month. Think "long term." It's easier that way, and will ingrain your new eating habits better because you're working at it longer.

Geddy said that Rush is very much a "show must go on" type of band. Geddy even played while he had a hole in his eardrum once! He said it was a pretty bad experience. So yeah, I can't see them canceling a whack of shows.

Clockwork Angels, great album! It's what got me back into Rush after saying buh-bye to them way back in 1989!

Good album! If you like the song Show Don't Tell, make sure to listen to the Different Stages version... it rocks to a new level! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmcAxiogJKs

AIRTIGHT!!!

Sounds like they put his voice through some effect like a flanger or phasor, something like that.

Apologies if already posted: http://www.stltoday....1d9004af71.html Rush hints at last hurrah at sold-out Scottrade show (MOD EDIT: Please don't paste entire reviews into your posts. Just post a link to the original article.)

Indeed: http://www.therushfo...the-title-2112/ Another interesting coincidence from that thread:

One more thing! The bible chapter is "Job", which makes perfect sense if you consider that the "working men" of Rush consider their music to be a job. ... IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW... :rush: :Alex: :Neil: :geddy: :rush:

Neil doesn't mention the bible in this 1976 article... http://www.2112.net/...760300creem.htm Their latest project is an epic science fiction slab called 2112, which will take up an entire side of their next album, due this month. Set in the city of Megadon on another planet (Earth having been snuffed in 2062) in the cartoon light of the future, it concerns a society where everything is controlled by quasi-religious Priests who take all their orders from gigantic banks of computers called Temples. All individuality and creativity have been stamped out and everyone treadmills out their lives in a cathode palsy of day-to-day nullness. ~The Temples totally control everything-work, education. even entertainment," says Neil, who came up with the entire conceptual whoopee cushion and wrote all the Iyrics. "All their music has been taken to the final limits of the average. It's total commercialism that's put out strictly for people to like." Luckily enough for the Megadunces, a curious young punk accidentally stumbles upon the ruins of a great university one day. He starts digging around in the rubble and comes across a room of perfectly preserved artifacts he's never seen before. Books, magazines, WIN buttons, hula hoops, records, the home version of Match Game '84-all kinds of things that don't exist in 2112. He keeps it a secret and goes back every night to sort through the cheese of the past. Then one night he makes the fateful discovery-an electric guitar-and eventually sets out to change the world. What finally happens is a "double surprise ending" according to Neil, who declined to fill in the details but assured me it's "a real Hitchcock killer."

Oddly, if you use the King James Version (which IIRC was the most common one back then), the verse describes the band pretty accurately: "They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ." So: timbrel = percussion instrument harp = stringed instrument(s) rejoice = singing organ = synthesizer However I still have to listen to 1812 in its entirety to see what else Rush stole, other than the last two digits of the title, the cannon shots, and the "Overture" part of the title!

Has Rush ever explained where the 2112 number came from? In my biblical readings, I noticed that there's a bible verse that seems relevant to both the number (21:12) and the fact that Rush is a band: Job 21:12 12 They sing to the music of timbrel and lyre; they make merry to the sound of the pipe. Also in 2112 Geddy sings "the meek shall inherit the earth" which is also from the bible. That being said, I didn't think Neil was very religious...

Alex even played a giant slug. It was horrifying and thrilling at the same time! http://www.tuxboard.com/photos/2014/08/solo-guitare-limace-17.jpg

Did you really do that? No doubt Geddy appreciated that as he and Alex are fans of David Lynch's films. EDIT: I was thinking of Eraserhead. Clockwork Orange was directed by Stanley Kubrick. Eraserhead... reminds me of the times I tried to grow my hair long... ugh, childhood memories! http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Film/Pix/pictures/2008/08/15/eraserhead460.jpg

So I said to Geddy, "heyo Dirky boy... don't mind if I call you Dirk do you? Lemme ask you Dirk, what's your secret to success?" His answer: http://www.quickmeme.com/img/a5/a50cebfeebe45df25540b2dd309aae4406ef94321e41f0103bc7521f77a23156.jpg

I met Geddy backstage after the show. As usual, I embarrassed myself... http://cdn.meme.am/instances/500x/59459828.jpg

Actual photo from Lincoln show. Yes, Geddy played a dog. http://www.sadanduseless.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/d7.jpg

Nope, those memes are old at all... Modernized Trollface! http://sc.mogicons.com/share/troll-face-81.jpg