IwillchooseFreeWill

I understand your post, I am relatively new here and got a bit drunk one night and posted a few threads which were not nice and I was an arsehole. I deservedly got a good verbal kicking from people. But now I am cool with all of that, I have a good vibe now, learned my lesson and I think I get on well with nearly all now. This site is full of good people of very different views and personalities, but there is a lot of piss taking and banter. Best thing that I have learned in my short time here is if you live by the sword then you have to die by it. By that I mean then yes it is fine to post strongly held opinions and comments, that is what we want. Just be thick skinned enough to take the flak that comes back. It took me a while dude. Best Regards and I hope this helps And PS - don't listen to the one who slagged off your Avatar. The 365 GTB is a classic!! Or is it a 512? My avatar is a Lamborghini Countach, and if it has a model number I don't know what it is. I like to drive fast red cars and I've never gotten a ticket. If you have another 12 cylinder mid-engine car, I'd like to drive it. Never been able to get behind the wheel of an actual Countach, but I built a model! Thanks for all the welcomes and wish someone would help me set up a sig and explain settings to me. I've never been in a forum like this. I go back to alt.rec newsgroups but not these new-fangled graphic ones. What I would have posted (and think I actually did once) in this thread, is that I haven't written off Rush as dead and buried. As I might have said previously, I don't believe that die hard musicians who routinely play their instruments at home can flip a switch and say "I can't tour so I will never play music with these close friends again." So they don't tour. That doesn't mean the end of the world except to you guys who put notches in the bedpost for each concert. So I live in hope and watch a lot of concert videos

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.

I went through a couple of things like this at work and the WORST thing you can do is react publicly about what's going on inside you, especially if somebody has been saying lies or hurtful stuff about you. I had a very close friend (I thought) who I found out was convinced I was having an affair with a coworker (not) and not only believed her own fiction but was telling other people at work that we were and killing projects "because of our relationship ". She eventually said something about it to my face and I told her she was wrong, but I kept the hurt feelings to myself. It does you no good to be seen as a hysterical female (and there are still lots of people who think that way) who can't keep it together over a slight, no matter how mean and unjustified. Keep your cool, know that you are the better person and I bet it all blows over if you give it some time. You can't let her hurt you if you don't allow it. Keep your chin up and your lips tightly closed. Know we are all with you and behind you!

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With the roast chickens, washers and the popcorn machine what else does a touring band need? Oh yeah, alcohol and weed.

I find this very funny !! Much more entertaining than the dull-as-dishwater cover of Twilight Zone Not funny here. So many times I get ready to do an online transaction only to find out that the only address options are the US and APO boxes. Even Amazon who I feel like I'm supporting some days will sometimes not ship here. If I can find the same product in Oz that's fine even though it will be double the price (taxes plus greed). And don't get my started on DVD regions....

I can relate to what MrMan is saying. I spent a fair amount of time watching stuff on YouTube that I wish was officially distributed. Why should I pay a lot of money for a box set of stuff I already have because I want the one disc that's an previously unreleased extra? Somebody in Rush's management is deciding this is a good idea. The band themselves? IDK. A way to make money, yes. You guys in the Northern Hemisphere have more options than what I can find here. Not to mention all the frigging merchants that won't ship outside the US. Like I'm in some third world country where the mail is carried by the monthly pack mule. Don't get me started.

Good night TRFers, I may do some midnight shopping before I turn out the light. Very dangerous...

I'm always finding new stuff but then I have very eclectic interests (dilettante) so I could be searching weather or jewellery or brain research or something else abstruse. And if a subject that's still being investigated then there's always new stuff. If all you want is a list of things, yeah, you'll hit a wall. But then I have weird hobbies....

Welcome back to the fold. :) There are tons of bootlegs online. Even YouTube has a multitude of them. You could get on the list for the hard drive that's making the rounds... http://www.therushforum.com/index.php?/topic/60890-ext-hd-vine-is-here-complete-rush-audio/page__st__1900#entry4262756 The Different Stages subforum on here has lots of links as well. I've now spent too many pitiful Aussie dollars on bootlegs. I've watched a lot on YouTube but I'd like constant availability. Thanks for the welcome. I feel like the teenybopper I was in the 60's buying fan magazines etc.

I need to gush because I've come back to Rush after 25 of living in Australia where I got sidetracked with culture shock and life intruding. Now I am consumed with Rushness and have gone back to the beginning and right up to R40. I never got to see them live except of DVD. I will try not to simply gush over Geddy because he really floats my boat in all ways. I am in awe of Alex's guitar gymnastics, Neil's beat the crap out of his huge drum kit and the three making more music than three people could possibly make. I even love listening to drum solos! Favourite songs: Free Will, Far Cry, Xanadu, Dreamline, Red Barchetta, 2112. I am so sorry to see them old because it's like looking in the mirror (I'm a few years older than they are) and can sympathise with the aches and pains but I Don't Want Them to Stop!!! Sigh. Anyone tell a hopeless dummy how to find bootlegs?

Well, I listen to RushRadio most of the time and that's pretty random. If you count what's playing between my ears when I'm offline, it would be Dreamline, Xanadu, Big Money, Lock and Key, SOTR, Limelight and Far Cry. Not what I would have instantly chosen as "favourite songs" but those that pop into my brain.

Wow! What a prodigy at 16 (?). Pimples and all

Mark O'Brian who played the dweeby nephew on the Republic of Doyle is now the husband of one of the heads on Halt and Catch Fire. According to IMDB he's in Arrival but I missed it. Don't get me started on this thread -- it's a favourite hobby

Neil has a lot of street legal sports cars, Austin Martins, Ferraris, a Lamborghini. He knows which entrance and exit ramps from the freeways in LA are the most fun to zoom through. And anybody who rides motorcycles can shift manually.

Places more than specific scenes. Yes and Jethro Tull, living in Chapel Hill NC in the early 80's, Satisfaction by the Stones, high school n NY, Rush (Closer to the heart, Fly by Night) in the late 70's in Ohio. Def Leppard Photograph in Ohio. Most of these in my living room since the only ones I saw live were the Stones (1964 and the Sticky Fingers tour in Charlotte NC) and Tull (Chapel Hill). Here Powderfinger and Cold Chisel in the car. And introducing my husband to Clapton.

They are really hot! I hate to admit this as a woman, but I generally don't like female leads. This could be an exception. I like Pink, The great Janis, and Sheryl Crowe but that's it. I like the bluesy feeling but like men to croon (or scream) in my ear. A man gets the juices flowing (ahem) the way a woman just doesn't for me

I've liked him, yeah it's a looks thing. I loved John Wick and look forward to volume 2

Supposed to be sunny and high around 90. Thursday high around 95 but we're approaching winter so it will be down in the 80's after that. Been dry and we need the rain.

I'm sad. Partly because I never saw them live and I kick myself daily for not making the effort when I was living in Ohio. Not so much opportunity in Australia. Partly because I don't believe people who spent their lives making incredible music can just turn it off like a tap when it becomes a bit harder. I've retired but I loved my job and miss it. I came to Rush in the late 70's and missed the stuff produced in the 90's and later until recently. There are things on the recent albums I love. Having said that Clockwork Angels wasn't their best and as much as I adore Geddy, his voice is shot. They had a helluva career and they deserve a rest but considering how they created the music and released it, I have hope. I know they always prided themselves as being a working touring band but maybe they can give that part a miss and produce something new. Geddy's said he doesn't intend to give up production of new stuff. If Al's arthritis can be managed, as mine is, and they take it slowly, I still can dream. And listen to them every day. Please don't shoot me down because I'm not a longtime member of your little club.

RushRadio.org. I listen all the time

It's a Norwich terrier which Geddy owns. And it's Photoshopped into a bass playing photo. Norwich terriers are nice dogs if you've got lots of energy for them. Cute from a distance but I have enough trouble with Burmese cats!

I heard somewhere that Al and Geddy were still playing at home for their own musical urges. IMHO, give them a few years and they might get some real music done. They might persuade Neil to do a studio album, no touring. (My fan heart bleeds for that because I woulld literally kill to see them live). I love Geddy singing too but he just can't hit the high notes anymore. So an instrumental which wouldn't force Neil to produce lyrics while he's playing with his daughter. Or they could write songs in a lower key. Alex clearly loves playing and so does Geddy. I believe (she says, lighting a candle) there's a chance. But I'll just continue listening to recordings if I have to. Makes me sad but hopeful. I'm older than they are and have chronic medical issues so I COMPLETELY understand wanting to cut way back. But I haven't given up the activities that make my creative juices flow.

I am childless by choice and by accident. My first husband said the world was too horrible to bring a child into. (There's more than that but never mind). My second husband was too work involved to even have time for me much less kids. My third husband already had 3 kids so it wasn't an issue. I have never had maternal feelings nor gone mushy about babies. Kids are interesting when you can talk to them but that's it. I had an unhappy childhood and don't want to repeat it on some small human. Carol still sigless

GedsJeans, I think you hit the mail on the button when you said we folk are often broken people. I was emotionally abused by my father and it took almost my entire adult life and the love of two wonderful men who believed in me before I believed in myself. When Rush wrote Subdivisions they spoke to all of us who tried to remain invisible in high school (although junior high was worse). Speaking from an advanced age (I'm older than the band) it does get better. Although now I am widowed in a foreign country and am very lonely. At least I have Rush to fill my lonely days. Carol the Sigless