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I voted for the same player Alex would vote for...Jimmy.
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I think from a funny perspective, the Scorpions original "Lovedrive" artwork (which was banned in the US) is one of my favorites. The Scorpions had a knack for offensive album covers there for a while, I'm sure they inspired Spinal Tap's fictitious "Smell the Glove" cover.
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Have any of you seen the Hipgnosis documentary on Netflix? Although I don't miss vinyl, I miss the days of real album cover art.
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If you want to hear how human Alex is, listen to the following...I don't mean this to put Alex or anyone else down. What I idolize about Alex (Ged, John and Neil also) is that he took his desire to play and would not be denied. Years of struggling, knowing that there were players out there who were better than him, yet still becoming a rock god to many. His greatest talent was/is playing the right notes at the right time to make a song meaningful and memorable. He always did just what each song needed...no more, no less.
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I'll go back to what Charlie Watts famously said which paraphrased was "25 years in a rock n' roll band equates to 5 years of playing and 20 years of hanging around". Needless to say, the members of Rush had a lot of free time on their hands over the years. I think it's hard to witness what your peers are doing and not try different things just out of plain boredom. Given that, it's not surprising that Geddy's book delves a bit into the hard drugs that were being used by both band and crew. Was I overly surprised about the amount of drugs being used...only to the extent that they had to know that it affected their performances negatively. I'm just glad that Geddy's book spared us all the tales of womanizing that went hand-in-hand with the drug use.
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They do have more detail than Geddy's book, which is why I was disappointed. The detail those books provide is more about technical details such as the production and engineering. I know that those tasks are extremely important to the end product. I'm just more interested in the inspiration behind the bass line or riff or drum pattern that was the seed. I think the only thing I get out of Geddy's book regarding this is that he and Alex evidently wrote a lot of their earlier songs on acoustic guitars and that "Making Memories" was written in the back of a station wagon. How Geddy remembers that, but can't remember that they had played "Jacob's Ladder" in concert prior to R40, I'll never know.
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I guess that makes sense...there probably isn't any of us who want to rehash our work lives for 30+ years. That's probably why there isn't a whole lot of detail about it. Clearly they struggled at times in the studio and the songs we hear are not the result of divine intervention, but of painstaking trial and error, not to mention the long hours. I wouldn't want to revisit that either.
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I enjoyed them quite a bit and flew through each of them. Again, a little disappointed in the details about the music creation process in the Popoff books and was hoping that Geddy's book would fill in the gaps, but it does not. I would guess that many memories of the writing/recording of their earlier albums are simply lost to time. Not sure if Terry Brown has any books about his time with Rush or not. I've always enjoyed reading Neil's tour program notes in which he described the atmosphere of their recording sessions, especially those at Le Studio. I don't know if any of Neil's books provide any more detail.
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I'm just about finished with the book. It's a good enough read but, as I expected, the music itself is pretty much glossed over throughout, some albums not really even getting more than a few sentences. I was hoping for a little more insight on the music creation process and maybe some mentioning of moments of when they were inspired musically when coming up with a song. There isn't a whole lot of that. There's a certain "woe is us" tone at times in the book that bothers me a bit coming from a rich rock star. I understand that Geddy and his bandmates made many sacrifices for their careers. Should I feel bad about that? It's something that is necessary for just about everyone over the course of their lives. When I got to the part about the tragedy of Neil's wife and daughter, I couldn't help but think about people who go through similar situations but don't have the means to take years off travelling the world to try to find the inspiration to work again. That is literally all I could think about while reading those passages. Maybe I find the book a little too "lifestyles of the rich and famous" for my taste.
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I was being sarcastic :)
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I've only seen two performers that were bothered by crowd noise...Steve Howe and, believe it or not, Roger Waters. You would think that performers who have been doing it for years would just let it slide as drawing attention to it just causes more problems. I was at Geddy's book tour show in Philly. There were people yelling and applauding all the time but, since Geddy responded positively to it, it wasn't a huge deal and didn't really throw things off.
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Quatrain - Jethro Tull
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As much as I loved the Beatles' documentary...boy would I love something like that from Rush. I can't get enough of the "behind the scenes" stuff with them.
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I'm located in Northeast USA and haven't been able to access posts in about two weeks. Site takes a little longer to load once I login and I can view new content listing with no problem. When I click any post in the new content listing; however, I get a "404 not found" message after a minute or so. This happens on all my devices and has been going on for several weeks.
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Thank you! I had 5 or 6 more questions, but he elaborated A LOT in his replies. One of the things I didn't ask is what was his recollection of the late 70's when apparently the rise of punk meant the death of prog. I was only 4 at the time, but recently I've been reading that prog was a victim of its own excesses. I wanted to hear his thoughts on that, but it would have been another 15-minute reply! :D Yes...he seems very cerebral when he answers questions, bordering on philosophical.
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Top-notch interview Rod, great work. In particular, I loved your question relating to the term "album" and how that has much less meaning now than it used to in terms of the listening experience.
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I've always heard that a boat is really "just a hole in the water that you pour money into". I'm assuming that pinball machines are not great investments either.
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Just wave your hand and say "this is the pinball machine you're looking for". Works for me every time.
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When does a band become a cover band of itself?
Relayer2112 replied to Timbale's topic in Music Of The Spheres
To me, a band that no longer regularly releases albums and is also missing members of the band who were integral to the success of that band is covering themselves. Basically, when the band is the band pretty much in name only, they're a cover band. -
It's a great album in the fact that Yes has single-handedly come up with a cure for insomnia, hysteria, anxiety attacks and the dreaded 4 hour erection.