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I think Presto is a great album, though I didn't think so at the time it was released. I thought it was just ok. I saw them for the first time on that tour and just remember being really disappointed that they didn't play "Presto". Afterwards, I wondered if the guitar technology of the time didn't allow for the quick acoustic to electric sound changes needed to play it. I was overjoyed when I heard they were playing it on the "Time Machine" tour.

 

As far as Neil's style change, I'm assuming that this was his way of streamlining his part in the recording process by switching over to a more improvisational technique. Kind of the way they decided after hemispheres that they needed to cut back on the overly complex stuff to maintain their sanity in the studio.

I could listen to Alex speak all day long. Rush certainly understood the importance of not stepping on people as they climbed the ladder of success.

I love the way he gets rid of the slide for the solo and puts it back on afterwards without missing a beat.

It looks like javascript to me.

I had a dream just the other night that I was being followed by a man playing "She Blinded Me with Science" on an accordion. And I didn't even eat anything strange before going to bed.

 

I'll put my mention of "The Golden Age of Wireless" as a result.

1. Keith Emerson
   
2. Rick Wakeman
   
3. Tony Banks
   
4. Vangelis
   
5. Thijs Van Leer
   

Wonder what the back side looks like ? :mwah:

 

The backside of both is the "Vapor Trails" album cover.

When I think of the perfect union between lyric and music, where both contribute equally to tell a story, I always think of Red Barchetta.

 

When I think of an imperfect union between lyric and music, where the lyric tells the story and the music just happens to be there is Wakeman's "Journey to the Center of the Earth". Although I love the album, I don't think the music goes along with the narration all that well.

Neil's too cerebral for Monopoly. My guess is he's a "Magic The Gathering" player.

For the male and female models involved in those swimsuit pics, I can imagine their agent coming to them and saying "I've got some good news and some bad news."

 

These are just in time for this year's SI swimsuit issue. I hope I won't be disappointed.

(My 82 year old mother told me this joke just a couple months back)

 

A man is suffering with erectile dysfunction. As he is embarrassed about it, his wife, Mary, goes to the local pharmacy to pick something to help.

 

Mary goes to the pharmacist and says "Hey Tom, how's this new ED medication we've heard so much about?".

 

Tom says "Oh, I've heard that it does an awesome job, definitely worth all the hype".

 

Mary says "That's great, can you get it over the counter?".

 

To which Tom replies "Maybe if I took two".

If you look up "tasty lick" in the dictionary, there should be a picture of Buck. He's got more of them to his name than just about any other guitarist. He was one of my first guitar idols (from back in the "Fire of Unknown Origin" days) and still is to this day.

I like Lonesome Crow but I've got to be in the mood to listen to it. When I am, I really enjoy it.

 

It is a bit on the trippie side, isn't it? :D

I just listened to "Lonesome Crow" this past weekend.

 

I was a huge Scorpions fan back in the early 80's, buying everything they had come out with at the time. One of these purchases was "Lonesome Crow" and my musically immature 18 year old mind just couldn't figure out what to do with it. Fast forward to around 2004 and I decided to give it another listen. It completely blew me away and continues to do so to this day. The fact that Michael Schenker was 16 when it was recorded makes me want to give up playing the guitar entirely. I'm not worthy.

I didn't know I was a member of the club until my lower back told me a couple years ago.

1. Rush- 2112

2. Yes- Tales From Topographic Oceans

3. Genesis- Foxtrot

4. Rush- A Farewell To Kings

5. Yes- Fragile

6. Yes- Close To The Edge

7. Rush - Hemispheres

8. Genesis-The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

9. Pink Floyd-Dark Side Of The Moon

10. Porcupine Tree-Fear Of A Blank Planet

11. The Beatles - Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

12. Mars Volta - Frances the Mute

13. ELP - Tarkus

14. Jethro Tull-Thick As A Brick

15. Spocks beard- the light

16. Between the buried and me- colors

17. The Alan Parsons Project - Tales Of Mystery And Imagination

18. Genesis - trick of the tail

19. Ozric tentacles - erpland

20. King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King

21. Jethro Tull - Songs From The Wood

22. Jethro Tull - A Passion Play

23. Marillion - Misplaces Childhood

24. Van Der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts

25. Genesis - Nusery Cryme

26. Mekong Delta- Dances of Death (and Other Walking Shadows)

27. Gentle Giant - Three Friends

28. Porcupine Tree-Deadwing

29. Porcupine Tree-Signify

30. King Crimson-Red

31. Gentle Giant - In A Glass House

32. Dream Theater - Images & Words

33. Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells

34. Genesis - Selling England By The Pound

 

35. Jon Anderson - Olias of Sunhillow

 

36. Focus - Hamburger Concerto

To me it sounds like he's trying to rip the neck and/or bridge off the freak'n guitar. I love just about every solo he has done, but I appreciate the energy he puts into this solo in particular (like he did much later with Kid Gloves).

Not sure if this has been discussed before or not. I apologize in advance if it has.

 

In the guitar solo for "Cinderella Man", Alex goes wild with his whammy bar and at two distinct times during the solo (at the beginning and end) it sounds like he does a dive and then pulls back on the the tremolo to increase the pitch beyond the original note. He's does almost the exact same thing twice in the solo and, at both times as the pitch is rising, I hear a pretty loud creaking sound.

 

My assumption is that he is not pulling up on the tremolo arm, but possibly using a finger to press down on a string above the nut to increase the pitch (a trick that I know Jimmy Page used from time to time). This "creaking" sound could then possibly be the string straining against the nut.

 

I would guess that he didn't have a floating tremolo back then (i'm not sure when they started to become popular) to pull this off another way.

 

Any opinions as to what this sound is?

It's the only hope of another Rush show, as we know.

 

Whether it's progressive overspending, more fancy cars, wanting to secure mo' money for the wife+kid, or trying to start the endowed Neil Peart Scholarship For Musicians Who Can't Philosophy Good, And Want To Learn How To Do Other Stuff Good, Too, something would get him behind the kit

 

Discuss.

 

I agree that a desire to get that one more large influx of cash would be the only thing that would get him to do it one more time. I believe that he's beyond the point of no return physically, but if he feels better after a long rest, one never knows.

 

I know that discussing this is beating a dead horse, but it's interesting to think about none the less.

 

I'm sure that he's a smart man and gets proper financial advice, but just that "dangling carrot" of one last big payday could be awfully tempting.

 

As far as his books go, if he enjoys writing them, then he'll continue. I'm not sure he's overly concerned if they sell or not.

Due to the guitar distortion factor, I'll say "Lilywhite Lilith" from The Lamb.

 

My runner-up would be "Land of Confusion".

Michael Caine loses just because he did "Jaws: The Revenge". I saw an interview with him years later where he said he didn't regret doing that film because it bought him a house. That's a total lack of artistic integrity.

I've been listening to GG's first album a lot lately. I can't help but think that, even though I enjoy "Acquiring the Taste", it was a significant drop off from their first quality wise.

I literally just listened to the GTR album for the first time in (let's see, it came out in '86, so I haven't listened to it in) 30+ years and I stand by my "it sucked" review.

 

The music could have been passable if they hadn't put that advert in melody maker for "Wanted: Completely soulless singer with a good set of pipes".

 

I'm not sure I can forgive Hackett for stealing his own instrumental...It bothered me doubly upon my re-listen today. I guess he figured that nobody would notice given his solo album sales. To be honest, I believe that Steve Howe's instrumental piece was regurgitated from somewhere else also.

 

I thought the vocals were fantastic on this album. It's too bad that Max Bacon left the music industry, because I fully believe he should be the one fronting Styx right now.

 

In my opinion, he had a great voice, but no feel for the music. In his case, the great voice didn't make him a great singer. That being said, he'd be perfect for Styx :)

I literally just listened to the GTR album for the first time in (let's see, it came out in '86, so I haven't listened to it in) 30+ years and I stand by my "it sucked" review.

 

The music could have been passable if they hadn't put that advert in melody maker for "Wanted: Completely soulless singer with a good set of pipes".

 

I'm not sure I can forgive Hackett for stealing his own instrumental...It bothered me doubly upon my re-listen today. I guess he figured that nobody would notice given his solo album sales. To be honest, I believe that Steve Howe's instrumental piece was regurgitated from somewhere else also.

I've become my father when it comes to nodding off. I used to laugh at him when he'd fall asleep after sitting down for five minutes. Now my son laughs at me. It's the circle of life.