IwillchooseFreeWill

Top band yes. Top musician(s) no. Clapton will always be number one there. I have gone through a lot of "favourite bands" over the years but I don't think any band ticks all the boxes the way Rush does. I know more about them than I ever tried about anyone but the Beatles when I was a teenager. I admire them as human beings as much as I admire George Harrison (and that's saying a lot). Their songs run through my head constantly. I'm now older than they are and still love them

Holy cow! Naked bananas! How did they know where to put the black squares?

Fish fingers

I like the absence of "Ooh, Baby, I need you so much" songs and crashing chords. Instead the songs are about destiny and freedom, and the music is really complicated. They don't even look like other rock bands, except in the '70's and everyone had long hair then. And to persevere without critical support for FORTY years! Who else is like that? I do like other bands but I never get tired of Rush.

Is he the guy that couldn't make a gig, so Alex asked Geddy to fill in? And the rest is history, as they say?

Welcome to the clubhouse. Good to have another woman with such excellent musical taste joining. I too am a Men Without Hats fan. Try to take everything these guys say with a pound of salt because they like pulling one's leg. I hope you're more encouraging to you students than my art teacher was of me but then we weren't being taught in my media (photography).

That's definitely collecting because there's only 24 hours in a day and you've got years of listening there. Are you like me and get stuck in a rut of listening to the same stuff over and over, or are you better at mixing it up? I'm trying NOT to collect at the moment since I don't want to leave a house full of stuff when I die. I had to clear out my mother's old stuff and I swore I would never leave that to somebody when I fall off the perch. My hobbies involve spinning fibre (wool, silk, alpaca, whatever) and I tend to buy more than I will ever use. Anybody want a handknit custom pair of socks?

Midnight Oil are talking about getting back together but I hope they don't. Clapton has been the centre of my musical life since 1966 when I heard John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers. I've listened to pretty much every thing he's produced since and made special trips to Cleveland to see him live twice (but missed Rush). I converted two of my husbands, and played Tears in Heaven at my late husband's funeral. He's an entirely different genre from Rush, so I can't compare them. Then there's all the quirky bands I picked up along the way, most of whom I like before they had their moment of fame. The Call, Blur, Fountains of Wayne, Mondo Rock, Powderfinger, etc. My iPod is full of weird bands.

They always said they were trying to produce the best music they could, always trying to get better. Neil read a lot and obviously had ideas that didn't fit into a standard rock song. And they did like complicated musical structures, not just loud chords. This wasn't because they thought they were better than other bands, it's just where they were going with expression and they never cared whether the critics liked it. If the fans liked it and kept coming to concerts, that was their goal. I still can't figure out how the three of them composed songs, even after I've heard the process described. They must have gotten along extremely well and had no ego involved.

The Mechanic. Just cuz I like Jason Statham and mindless shoot-em-ups. Just found out he was an Olympic diver and a model. I want to see Arrival too!

That's cuz you're a man and by definition don't understand women or what they find hot. Geddy = hot.

He's shy too! I married a man who was the then reigning expert on internet security and who was interviewed in national newspapers when the topic came up. But he was too shy to go up to a counter in a deli and order a sandwich. He pushed me with my not too fluent Australian to go up and speak to strangers. He wasn't standoffish or aloof, just shy (confirmed by his mother). I would imagine Neil responded just as my husband would. I can relate to the "stranger not being the lng awaited friend when I got a knot of eager folks wanting to talk to me after I had just spoken half a day to 200 people and they wanted to tell me they heard me speak at X event, as if I would remember them out of the audience. And I have a crap memories for names and faces.

I think some of you are over-generalising from some brief views into Neil's life. He does sound like he's pontificating sometimes but I would think if somebody told him that, he'd be surprised. Nobody forced anybody to read his books where he's free to express whatever the damn well he wants. If you don't like his tone, don't read them. When you're locked inside a motorcycle helmet and have thoughts you'd like to capture, you're probably not overly concerned about what a potential reader would read between the lines. For all we know, he was running to his bike because he was late, not because he was running away from contact. I've noticed he does very well in one on one encounters when he knows who he's talking to but not in groups of strangers. I'm just like that. I used to speak to groups of 200+ and was told I did it well. But I would rather run away when a few strangers wanted to speak to me afterwards. And if the other two all get along with him and did for 40 years, who are we to judge?

I know there are Aussies who made it to shows, but I'm not one of them. Does extreme hardship extend to being in the ass end of the world (and that phrase was used by a former PM to refer to his own country)? I must be the only Canberra resident with a Rush sticker on her car. I've never known any Aussie outside of TRF to know anything but Tom Sawyer. Half the time they don't even know that. These are 20-40 somethings that I'm talking about. Rush is never played on the radio here. We try to promote Aussie music so much that Canadian doesn't get a chance. I'm trying to tune them in by blasting it out of my car all the time. And T shirts? Check! Multiple copies of DVDs and CDs? Check! Fridge magnets? Check! Sounds like what I imagined. What's the population of Canberra? 300,000? 400,000? Can't be more than 500,000, yeah? I bet there aren't even 200 or 300 Rush fans there. And certainly you've got to be the biggest fan in the city. Onwards with your own brand of Rush promotions!!! :hail: Canberra's population is 350,000. There might be some Canadians here since it's the capital and all. Australians have been taught to ask anyone with a North American accent if they are Canadian first. Because Canadians get very huffy if they are assumed to be from that more populous country to the south. I'm one quarter Canadian. But then not all Canadians are Rush fans.

Sleep.

I know there are Aussies who made it to shows, but I'm not one of them. Does extreme hardship extend to being in the ass end of the world (and that phrase was used by a former PM to refer to his own country)? I must be the only Canberra resident with a Rush sticker on her car. I've never known any Aussie outside of TRF to know anything but Tom Sawyer. Half the time they don't even know that. These are 20-40 somethings that I'm talking about. Rush is never played on the radio here. We try to promote Aussie music so much that Canadian doesn't get a chance. I'm trying to tune them in by blasting it out of my car all the time. And T shirts? Check! Multiple copies of DVDs and CDs? Check! Fridge magnets? Check!

I know there are Aussies who made it to shows, but I'm not one of them. Does extreme hardship extend to being in the ass end of the world (and that phrase was used by a former PM to refer to his own country)? I must be the only Canberra resident with a Rush sticker on her car.

Net worth can include their physical possessions which are not spendable cash. Geddy has A LOT of wine that may be worth a fair amount. He'll not be able to drink it all before he dies so he better have a lot of parties. Al owns the Orbit Club and part of a golf course. Neil should be getting some income from some of his books.

I have a fear of jumping, not falling. I want to fly and sometimes believe if I just try, I could. But heights don't bother me. My SO is terrified of heights. When we were at the Grand Canyon, he kept saying, "Get away from the edge!" while I was looking over and down. He wouldn't even let me go to some lookouts because he was too frightened. I wasn't but he was!

I knew exactly what ORFie meant. I knew the nurses didn't have any control over what the rules said. Still pissed me off but I had to just lie there and wait. The good thing that happened was one nurse said they had another patient with my condition who had complete recovery, which is something I haven't heard from anybody yet. But I wil NOT start feeding my cats bananas

I had to have my monthly immunoglobulin infusion today and when I got to the hospital I had to wait 45 minutes for the doctor to come around. All she does is listen to my heart and clear me for the drip. Then they got all in a twist because they had my name listed differently on two different forms and had to dance around about that. What usually takes 2 hours took 3 and a half. I was totally wiped out by the time I got home.

You just touched it. You're it

Until I had a killer burger in a restaurant in a biker shop in Escalante UT, I would have said Max & Erma's (central Ohio chain) burger with blue cheese, bacon, and mushrooms. Never had any fast food restaurant burger that could hold a candle to it

Thanks for the nod but I'm not touching this with a ten foot anything.

Ok boys. I won't post again in any forum expressing my opinions about the future of Rush since that has already been decided by Higher Powers (I.e., you), even if the thread was specifically started to bring up that topic. I'm terribly sorry I don't understand your graphic novel references since I gave up reading them about 40 years ago. Go back to posting pictures of hot dogs and I'll go elsewhere. I have not left TRF but I'll lurk in the female forums where I feel more comfortable. The Boys Club is all yours. And it's NOT because my feelings are hurt but that I think you're all talking in a different language