Scatterbrain

You oughta check out these cats from Vancouver. All young session pros. Here is a live session video with one of the more prog-inspired tracks on their recent debut.

 

JET!

 

SC is probably a better track on paper but I've always loved the Rockshow performance of Jet.

Brass Camel - Long Way to Go

 

 

"I wish I was a wise man,

I could be like Richard Feynman,

and if you asked me about nothing,

might tell you that it's really something"

 

 

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A band from my city that needs to get discovered, Brass Camel:

 

This band needs to get discovered, session guys from Vancouver who really go to town:

 

Daniel James' Brass Camel - Long Way to Go

 

I'd swap Anthem for By-Tor...as much as I love Anthem I really miss the intro in the current version, and I think Ged would sound better on By-Tor.

I've got a cherry red Gibson Custom EDS-1275 that takes far too long to restring, but certainly makes for a mean Xanadu (or Zep....or Mahavishnu). Killer guitar that always gets a great reaction when busted out onstage.

When I caught them on the TM in Seattle he absolutely crushed the high verse. At the next show I caught (in Vancouver), that verse sounded good but it was nothing like the other show. I don't doubt he'd be able to kill it on this tour. I have been blown away by some of the videos I've seen so far...let's see how long he can keep it up for!

La Villa Strangiato

 

Xanadu

Just picked up tickets for Portland...and three white kimonos. Gonna be a hell of a time.

To me Hemispheres is a perfect album. Xanadu might just be my favourite Rush song but I don't personally feel that AFTK makes for the same roller coaster of a listen that Hemispheres does.