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Excellent question. I wish I could figure out a reason why they WOULD make an album if they can't monetize it

Because they enjoy doing it? They are artists after all...

I always thought Analog Kid had a summery vibe, despite the "autumn woods" and "winter skies" of the chorus.

Well it's set on "a hot and windy August afternoon", so it definitely does.

I'd go for Marathon and the "lightning that flashes and fades in the summer sky"...

The guys in her band are all too notch session guys I'm sure. Not surprising they played that.

Indeed. Remember Atomic Kitten? Same deal I'd imagine. (Scroll to 2 minutes if you don't want to listen to a Motown classic being murdered)...

QUOTE (HigherWater @ Jun 14 2011, 06:15 PM) Surfing Rush tubes in search of some great Peart moments after all the hating that's been going on. This is just amazing. So powerful and fluid. I think this might be Neil at his peak.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMjWK6Tz78M&feature=related

 

I was there! My first RUSH concert.

 

I remember they transitioned from xanadu into Superconductor.

 

 

I'm glad the video ended before the transition. Xanaconductor...one of the few dark moments in Rush concert history...

If it's from 1990 I think it would have been the less offensive Xanadu/ YYZ combination...

Neil Peart has led a life that could fill 100 books ... Unfortunately, he just doesn't seem to know how to get it out interestingly right now ..

:) Well put

Me and a mate were steaming drunk one Saturday night and decided to phone the Orbit Room (transatlantic) to ask Alex when Victor was being released as we were fed up waiting.

He wasn't in.

Geddy must certainly be satisfied with his haircut if he's kept it the same for the past 23 years...

Always surprised me that they never went back to him for even just one more album in the 30 odd years since Signals. They do seem to have a good relationship with him.

One of the reasons that they dropped Terry (possibly the main one?) was their desire to use Steve Lillywhite on GUP. I wonder how that one would've turned out if he'd not bombed them out?...

Ahh, a time travel paradox indeed - OK kill 1968 Hitler it is!

Sad to say but without Hitler there would be no Rush...

Certainly nothing after Hemispheres as they would have a hard time believing they weren't metal anymore.

They weren't metal in 1968 though (it didn't exist then for a start).

I'd play them The Pass, a beautiful mature song with a fine message to give to teenagers.

This thread is full of win.

 

Castles, Rush, Deep Purple, Sabbath, Aerosmith, 2 photographers... bedrooms, dungeons, whips.. a mention of Yes. What's next?

I visited Clearwell Castle in 1980, got Richard Stilgoe's autograph.

Bought it on a whim on a snowy January day in 1987. I knew little about Rush and nothing at all about this album.

First listen I was indifferent.

Second listen I was intrigued.

Third listen I was in love.

It's stayed that way ever since...

They were also 22 when Rutsey left. Maybe they just got better? I'm sure we can give them all equal credit for inspiring each other to be the best they can be.

They were only 20. Neil joined on Geddy's 21st birthday, Alex is a few months younger.

This thread would be more relevant if John had stayed in the band for another 5 years or so.

This is no insinuation (since I smoke) but I've been wanting to ask - was David a smoker?

 

Yes, I'm pretty sure. I think it was lung cancer.

I heard it was liver cancer.

Yes, he smoked like a chimney but it appears to have been liver cancer he was suffering from. The same as Mick Ronson tragically enough...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/i-saw-david-bowie-collapse-7161501