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“You guys f—ing show up! Thank you,” he tells the audience. “I mean, I feel a little bit sorry for the next f—ing place we play. It’s okay, we’re not going to go in there with the same expectations anyway. We’re going to go in there [saying], ‘Hi guys, you should have been at that Detroit show. Because that crowd is something.'”

 

This quote in particular is making me kind of choked up :(

That's what makes this hard to understand for me. Because everything on the surface, his twitter page, the statement above, made everything look...fine. I'm sure every person that attended the show last night is in complete shock as well. It seems there may have been some type of trigger or deep, dark things happening under the surface. Perhaps there may be more information forthcoming that would shed more light on his mindset. Just speculation, but his wife tried calling him pretty soon after the show, so she may have felt she needed to keep tabs on him a bit.

 

It doesn't seem a Soundgarden 'band conflict' would have affected him like this, sense they broke up before and Chris is a solo artist as well. So he could easily say F the band, I'll do my own thing again.

 

I'm just speculating out loud trying to make sense of this. I think in a very logical 'cause and effect' fashion, so that very well may not apply to mental illness.

It makes no sense he would do this right after a show in the middle of a tour...involving his band and fans.

Why get the band back together after a nearly two year break? Why work on a new album if you don't have a will to live?

Even though I could get depressed, I have no idea what depression is.

Reportedly, his final live performance last night was a cover of Zeppelin's In My Time of Dying. This is playing out like a Hollywood movie...

 

:(

 

This makes it too brutal...his final setlist...

Ugly Truth

Hunted Down

Non-State Actor

Searching With My Good Eye Closed @Tape

Spoonman

Outshined

Kickstand

Black Hole Sun

By Crooked Steps

The Day I Tried to Live

My Wave

Been Away Too Long

Fell on Black Days

Mailman

A Thousand Days Before

Burden in My Hand

Blow Up the Outside World

Jesus Christ Pose

Rusty Cage

Slaves & Bulldozers [w/ "In My Time of Dying" refrain]

@Info[Final show with their singer Chris Cornell before he passed away on the 17th of May 2017.]

Chris' words for Andrew, now for him. One of the most powerful and memorable show openers I have seen, only performed 8 times ever by TotD,

Please, mother of mercy

Take me from this place

and the long winded curses

I keep here in my head

Words never listen

and teachers, oh, they never learn

but I'm warm from the candle

though I feel too cold to burn

He came from an island

and he died from the street

and he hurt so bad like a soul breaking

but he never said nothing to me

So say hello to heaven, heaven, heaven...

So say hello to heaven, heaven, heaven...

New, like a baby

Lost, like a prayer

The sky was your playground

but the cold ground was your bed

I said poor stargazer

She's got no tears in her eyes

but smooth like a whisper

She knows that love heals all wounds with time

Now it seems like too much love is never enough

Yeah, you better seek out another road

'cause this one has ended abrupt

So say hello to heaven, heaven, heaven...

So say hello to heaven, heaven, heaven...

I never wanted to write these words down for you

with the pages of phrases of all the things we'll never do

So I blow out the candle

and I put you to bed

Since you can't say to me now

how the dogs broke your bone

there's just one thing left to be said

So say hello to heaven, heaven, heaven...

So say hello to heaven, heaven, heaven...

He was incredible last fall with Temple of the Dog

Heartbroken, but reminiscing he gave us one chance to enjoy that band live before he died.

It's over.

 

Totally over as a touring act.

 

I even think recording is probably over as the unit. Neil is done. Gone fishing.

 

It's over.

 

The music of Rush will still be carried over in the next projects of Alex and Geddy. We will hear the spirit of Rush in their songs, I am sure even though Neil is not on board.

Rush touring is done, especially of this magnitude.

Had hoped Neil would have interest in another album. Nope.

Thought for sure Ged n Al would record some music and play some dates.

But after two years of no mention of new music, I'm thinking we're much more likely to see a new Tool album within 10,000 days than Ged n Al record and tour

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Today I heard this from one guy: When he was a student he was hanging out with his company very often at one place. On their musical repertoire was mainly metal music(esp.extreme type of metal) and a little bit, punk rock. Some fool of DJ decided to put in a music as Prodigy or something like that. Once that DJ started playing a song "Don't Speak" by No Doubt and all chicks who were there at a party, completely turned on to it, they started dancing, crying, they couldn't brace up while that hit song was on. And DJ played that tune over and over again during "metal/punk" parties, just for chicks who felt so deeply in love with it. This guy who told me this, and his friends were shocked by the reaction of those girls, who previously were headbanging to Slayer, Pantera, Sepultura, Death etc. And he got sick of "Don't Speak", today he can't stand and even hates to see or hear that song.

BTW And I hate that crappy tune too. lol

This was at a chicken dance?

Can't find my copy of Victor anywhere.

Also can't find Salival by Tool, which is a real bummer cuz the DVD cd version is like $100 on the Nile. Will need to borrow a listen from Mr You Tube

Two year anniversary is almost here. This time two years ago, they were about to mail the set list out to vip ticket holders.

Hopefully no one will get sick in section 335.

I haven't used Google since 2012.

 

Well, the maps I use. Google Maps and Google Earth are my friends. But none of the rest of it.

 

Google "Royal Thunder" and try some songs. I think you'd love them!

 

Burning Trees or April Showers are good starting points...

 

Well, I can do a search on the internet for them. But I won't be using Google.

 

It's curious how 'Google', the verb, has entered the vernacular. To me, it's just a company.

 

 

Anyway, enough of my nonsense...okay, I'll look for it!

 

Google is the most popular search engine in the world. Plus you've got gmail, google play and whatever else they've got their name in. So, it should be no surprise that the word has entered the popular vernacular. What search engine do you use and what do you have against using google?

 

As for Mr. Rogers question, yes, i've been doing that with songs/bands when I hear them for many years now.

 

When one company changes its privacy policy and it makes national headlines...I smell something fishy, that's all. That's what happened, five years ago, and I stopped right there.

 

Yes, I'm aware of how omnipresent Google is. But the interwebs are certainly navigable without it.

Bing and Ask Jeeves are also acceptable if you approve of their privacy policies.

DuckDuckGo is much better for privacy. As for looking up songs, I usually do that for ones I hear on commercials. It's almost like some bands write songs knowing they'll end up in a commercial.

Their forced AMP pages on mobile are quite annoying

Eh. I've cooled to tool in recent years. They bore me now. And it's ridiculous how long fans are waiting for new music.

Pretty much the same reason why I've grown cold towards the band. I'll throw Lateralus, Ænema, and (to a lesser extent) 10,000 Days every once in awhile, but not that often these days. I never liked Undertow that much either when I was into the band and I'm sure I'll downright hate it now.

B-but Adam's getting fresh lobsters in Maine, so the new album is almost here ;)

Fairfax one month from today!!

Geddy and Alex interviewing their new drummer...

http://pic.twitter.com/blak5JGB01

This is absolutely incomprehensible. According to this rock magazine Sting is the worst rock lyricist ever followed by Neil Peart.

 

http://ohnotheydidnt...m/16643617.html

 

Drummers are good at many things: exploding, drowning in their own vomit, drumming. But the Rush skinsman proved they should never write lyrics—or read books. Peart opuses like “Cygnus X-1” are richly awful tapestries of fantasy and science fiction, steeped in an eighth-grade understanding of Western philosophy. 2112, Rush’s 1976 concept album based on individualist thinker Ayn Rand’s novella Anthem, remains an awe-inspiring low point in the sordid relationship between rock and ideas. Worst lyric: “I stand atop a spiral stair/An oracle confronts me there/He leads me on light years away/Through astral nights, galactic days” (“Oracle: The Dream”)

 

WTF???

This guy's got it all wrong, 2112, Cygnus X-1, Hemispheres those are all good lyrics. It's when Peart got to The Larger Bowl and Dog Years and some other Test For Echo stuff that he started to go wrong...

 

I agree - somewhere around CP his lyrics really started becoming ... awkward, to say the least. Cringe-worthy to say the most. Although he found his voice again briefly on VT, he derailed again on SnA, and only partially recovered on CA.

According to the article, this is a higher quality lyric than what Neil writes

Love in an elevator

Livin' it up when I'm goin' down

Love in an elevator

Lovin' it up 'til I hit the ground

Jacki's in the elevator

Lingerie second floor

*Rare moment of seriousness*

 

I just want to go on record. I did not go to the boss and complain about this.

It's only one day and one commenter, my friend ;)

BOK center douche! And I doubt YOU were there!

Doubt all you want son. I was partying with other members of TRF before and after the show. Pretty pictures of my smile to prove it!

 

I was at the last show of the Snakes & Arrows tour in Kansas City. WHERE WERE YOU TULSA???

This "person" is obviously not a fan! Why is he allowed on here?

 

Wow. You're a member for a little over a week, and know enough about other members to make that kind judgement? You're good. It took me years on this forum before I could do that!

 

Have you read any of Zumbi's posts yet?

 

Welcome to TRF. You're on the road to have lots of fun here.

 

Thanks man! ✌️

It was pretty obvious he did not have the intelligence to be a RUSH fan!

 

really....you're welcome I guess.

 

Oh, were you being sarcastic? Guess I missed that.

I was really just saying thanks for welcoming me.

You are correct about the Tulsa show of course, but did you notice the douche could not answer it?

Kinda proved my point!

 

I promise....JR knows about the opening song in Tulsa. I think you are just being ignored.

 

And I was welcoming you. You're off to a great start! Have fun!

JR was definitely at the Tulsa R40 show. Ask him about the vomit smells in section 335.

But the honest man knows this. Because either THM will tell us his other TRF aliases, or 73 will. This warrants a poll. Name the alias. I take Jennifer Garner.

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Ok here is the deal. Someone needs to explain to me why someone who claims to be a fan gets on this website and spends all his time talking about what a "douche" Neil is. And how do you allow him to make a thread about what a true RUSH fan is, when he is obviously not one?

Am I missing something?!??

Someone help me out here?

 

It's called boredom.

Here's my contribution to boredom:

A Permanent Waves douchebag tribute...

 

 

Permanent Douchebags

 

1) The Spirit of Douchebag

2) Free Douchebag

3) Jacob's Douchebag

4) Entre Douche

5) Douchebag Strings

6) Natural Douchebag

I. Douche Pools

II. Hyper Douche

III. Permanent Douchebags

 

***Bonus tracks

7) Red Douchechetta

8) Douche Douche Zed

 

That's not nice. Maybe he works for Summer's Eve! ;)

 

 

 

(That's a female joke, btw. You guys who don't know, look it up. :P)

I'm a douchebag just like we've been told by big boss man Honest Man so of course I'd know about Summer's Eve. :P

Which, of course is a 70s album.

As a yuuuuge fan of everything 70s Rush. I have always liked the soaring pace of this synth era tune. It could almost pass as an epic, with differing themes appearing and reappearing. And interesting lyrics regarding the dangers of populism.

Very relevant message, over 30 years later.

9 of 10.

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Old news.

 

There was a thread made about it a few months ago when it was announced.

 

rough crowd

 

yes, it is old news, but still, it's good to hear that Geddy and Alex will be there as a part of the honor

 

Hopefully they will play some music together, and with that as a springboard, Geddy and Alex will get back to doing what they love

A TRF no no. Oh How many times was I lampooned for not using the search function.

Great to hear the story again!

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Grand Finale (studio version)

Yes yes yes

As a new member of this forum, frankly I'm afraid to post anything about some topics because there are so many negative and judgmental folks here who pounce on anything they don't agree with and shoot it down, and brutally. No allowance taken on someone having a different opinion or different starting point. And you all seem to know each other and say well, that's so-and-so for you. I have really strong feelings about some Rush-related topics but I'm afraid to put them down for either being shot down or killing the discussion such as it is. And do you guys know how tiresome it is to scroll through pages of long quoted posts attached to enormous sig files, just to find out that the response was "Me too" or "that was 1976 not 1975". It's like this place is a private party and strangers are not welcomed or told the rules.

 

My two cents.

 

Understood, and as others have said already, it hasn't always been like that. I'm not an 'old-timer' on TRF, but I've been here for roundabout five years. The community goes through periods of negative and positive in fits and starts. And I think it also makes a difference what sections of the forum a person frequents, too, as to the opinion that he or she gleans from the content. Some sections are generally a little testier than others.

A little? Beware SOCN, the politics subforum ;) Also careful aboot commenting if it's all Neils fault that Rush is retired.

Please enjoy the forum and take it for what it is...An internet forum. And don't worry if you get corrected....After all, PeW is a 70s album, not 80s.

Where else can we "meet" fans that were there in the beginning, and learn a little about our favorite prog rock trio?

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