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Fall of the Peacemakers.   Molly Hatchett.

September 1984. p/g.  MSG. In nosebleed seats.

Coincidentally my 38th and final show was also in nosebleed at MSG - and I'm fairly certain I was only a couple of sections away from my 84' seat.  Symmetry.

5 minutes ago, BastillePark said:

That's a band that I think doesn't get enough acknowledgement.

 

"Wait", Wang Chung

I have been a sleper fan for 40 years, and have finally started listening to them in rotation.

Love the band.


X and Y. Coldpaly.

Sleepwalk - Ultravox

21 hours ago, BastillePark said:

This thread reminds me of the first "nice" headphones I ever bought many moons ago. I don't recall the model but they were Sennheisers and cost a whopping $73 which at the time was a major decision for me. Not only were they far and away more than I'd ever spent on headphones, but the price was hard to justify in my mind. Not because we were going to not be able to pay a bill or something, just that I couldn't imagine paying that much for headphones. My primary pair now would make some people question my sanity but they sound exquisite to me and I could afford them. 

Back when I was commuting to work on mass transit I had a set of Sennehiser noise cancelling headphones for the iPod.  Best portable set I've ever owned.

I really like these:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ENMK1DW/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1

11 hours ago, Holdyourfireal said:

Can you imagine hearing a fully produced version of this??? I think it's going to happen!

 

 

That would not suck at all.

8 hours ago, blackhawkrush said:

Retirement age in L.A. has gone up?  

Nobody can retire anymore.  The economy sucks.

It better not suck.

We saw it on Broadway - yeah, really really good.  How the story was weaved around the songs.   I can't listen to that album anymore without the play filling in the 'gaps'. 

4 hours ago, thizzellewashington said:

What did they say?

Blah blah...blah bla blah.

Really good songs.


It might be my imagination, but the harmonies on the first song sound a little strained.  I get the impression that he recorded some vocal layers recently.  

6 hours ago, Slim said:

 

But there's a flat 7 in there as well. Not sure what it would be called, actually. F#11b7 maybe.

Probably.  As  bass player the notation makes my head hurt. 

But the chord sure does sound pretty.

I don't care what they decide to call it, if it happens. 

Take my money, please.    See you at the gig,

I was watching the KISS End of the Road PPV tonight.  It was OK.

There was a gal in the pit , stage right, in front of Gene - wearing a Rush Tour Baseball Jersey.    Thought that was kind of cool.

A job on Wall Street.

Wall Street is also mostly responsible for the loss of the short hair too.

10 hours ago, Principled Man said:

 

Do you guys know the Alex Lifeson Chord?  NO?!  YOU DON'T KNOW THE FREAKIN' ALEX LIFESON CHORD?!!  WTF, dudes!!     

 

 

F#m11

3 hours ago, Rhyta said:

Maybe you will grok it

In it's fullness.

2 hours ago, Slim said:

Something that I found quite striking, from the later part of the book.

 

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This is one of the images from the book. Geddy and Alex in their dressing room after the very last Rush gig.

 

I'm posting it here because it illustrates something that's apparent from Geddy's book - the degree to which Neil, by the end of the band, is isolated from the other two. By this time he travels to the gigs separately, he has his own dressing room. And he even does the end of tour party separately from Geddy and Alex, as well.

 

 

Yeah, that.

Ged and Al wee celebrating a great show and a great run at their party.  Their crowd was thinking 'man, is it really over?'.

Neil's party was celebrating all of it being over.   His crowd was welcoming him back.

On 11/29/2023 at 11:14 AM, BastillePark said:

The day they featured Martha Stewart on the Swimsuit Edition cover is the day they became irrelevant. 

Which will be forgotten about the day that they allow a trans on the cover of the Swimsuit Edition.

Also, you gotta admit - Martha was a smokeshow in her prime.

12 hours ago, Holdyourfireal said:

Let me know when you have to totally change your life and take in two children because their parents would rather do meth. You know what you are if you decide to try meth at 50 something years old? A scumbag.

I'm not going to get into the trading insults aspect of the thread here.

But this is worth commenting on.  I totally agree - there's a time in your life when you're responsible only for yourself. So, whatever.

But if you have responsibility for the welfare of others, stay off of anything that will cause you to fail them. Wanna smoke some grass or have a bunch of drinks?  Not bad unless it's excess.  

It's well documented that people often get hooked on meth and the other shit from the first try.  Stay the f**k away from that shit.

15 minutes ago, Rush Didact said:

 

 La Villa from the St. Louis show is an absolute monster of a performance, far and away my favourite recording of that song.  The bass from the Taurus pedals in the middle section is absolutely thunderous, it's my go-to demo track for speakers and subwoofers.

 

Rivaled only by LVS from pink pop.  Which itself is subsonic taurus heaven.

10 minutes ago, Rush Didact said:

 

Anthem really need to get their shit together with these things.  No more stupid backstage passes and toy cars, give us MUSIC.  That's what we're all here for in the first place.

f***ing amen to that. 

17 hours ago, NoahLutz said:

I never heard of this book so I looked it up.  I saw this: "Sue K. Hurwitz wrote in her review for the School Library Journal that it is "a catalog of Heinlein's sins as an author; it is sophomoric, sexist, militantly right wing, and excessively verbose" and commentary that the book's ending was "a devastating parody of SF conventions—will have genre addicts rolling on the floor. It's garbage, but right from the top of the heap.""  Maybe I'll try it.  

It's a product of a different time.  Not everyone can like everything, nor should they.

Having said that, I am struggling a little to get through it.  It's funny, the earlier draft of it is called Pursuit of the Pankera.  He didn't like it and didn't want it published. Which it ultimately was a couple of years ago after his death.  IMO it's the better of the 2 books. Still his style, but more concise.

https://www.amazon.com/Pursuit-Pankera-Parallel-Novel-Universes-ebook/dp/B082838YYY

Heinlein himself is pretty legendary. But again, from a different time.