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HemiBeers

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  1. I try to avoid listening to Red Barchetta especially driving down 2 lane country roads. Somehow I find myself pushing and occassionally topping triple digits. :haz:
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  2. It depends how many pictures I have to move. If it's one or two, fine....but I can imagine I'd hate moving pictures if I had to move loads of them...and if they were big, heavy pictures.

    :facepalm: :laughing guy:

     

    Once you start moving pictures, moving furniture is close behind. Then arguments start and someone is moving out. Vicious cycle.

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  3. Losing It is too close to art imitating life, in the case of Rush. And I don't think the boys would want that easy comparison. It's an easy song to sing in your 30s, when they wrote it. Kind of uncomfortable at this point.

     

    Ged was quoted that he liked Cut to the Chase, so it's more likely.

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  4. ATWAS...my first Rush album.

     

    I never heard their music, but I saw the album in the record store. Since it was a double album, I debating on spending a whole $10 of my lawn mowing money on a group I never heard. I decided that, even though I might not like it, with a stage set like that front cover picture it will definately kick ass. I was right.

     

    Good grief. This mirrors my experience exactly. I had never heard of the band but ATWAS was sat ( sealed) in the import rack of my local record shop. I too had to wrestle with the dilema of wether I should spend my whole album allowance on this expensive double album. I also could only see the front and back covers and I took a risk and went for it. Amazing.

     

    I think it took a whole 20 seconds of Bastille Day to convince me. Ballsy metal riff, time signature changes out of the blue and...who the hell changes keys 4 or 5 times during the guitar solo? Epic at first listening.

  5. Counterparts

     

    This is where they shake off the dry synthy sounds of the mid late 80s and get back to rocking it. Considering that they were close to hanging it up after A Show of Hands, CP was an important album for getting back on the right track.

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  6. To be fair, at our age, music isn't exactly a major aspect of our marriage, and it was never built on that.

     

    Best to just acknowledge that as fact, and move on. Many perceived problems are best to ignore. But then again I'm a male with a killer lazy boy recliner.

  7. Loves me some AFTK except Cygnus X-1. It has some cool moments (opening bass riff), but it gets way to self-indulgent and starts to sound cheesy like Spinal Tap. I think I read that Neil detests X-1 as well. Book 2 on Hemispheres is a whole other story...definately top 10.
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  8. Per this, Digital Man was the beginning of the end of Terry brown with Rush.

     

    http://ultimateclass...album-turns-30/

     

    The article was very good:

     

    "Longtime producer Terry Brown was so disgusted with the band’s direction on the funky ‘Digital Man‘ that he initially refused to record the track (and those arguments resulted in an end of their collaborative partnership). "

     

    I can't imagine, if the above is true, what it would be like being faced with a producer who disliked something I wrote so much he wouldn't want to record it.

     

    According to what he's said in interviews, it was more the keyboards that turned him off rather than anything else. He said it was the deviating from the guitar/bass/drums format was the clincher. I'm with him on that.

    If I were Terry Brown, at this point in time, I'd feel foolish admitting that the reason why I got fired was because I initially refused to record what turned out to be one of their best songs.

    I don't agree with that. I think Terry was plenty happy to not have Hold your fire or presto on his watch. After A Show of Hands, Alex was quoted that they were considering hanging it up since they lost direction. I think it was around this time that ray danniels was pursuing van hager heavily and telling them that rush was washed up. the middle to late 80s was a not a kind period and it's after Broon left.

  9. Eagle will know what he's using.

    signals tour video...looks like the hentor strat.

     

     

    and *gag* the steinberger bass.

  10. What kind of guitar is Alex using on the song?

    On the album I think Al is using the Hentor Stratocaster. If I remember the solo, there's definately some whammy bar action, so likely not the telecaster.

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