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QUOTE (PuppetKing2112 @ Nov 16 2005, 07:34 PM) QUOTE (thestand @ Nov 11 2005, 10:20 AM) QUOTE (kazzman @ Oct 24 2005, 01:25 PM) December 18: Trans-Siberan Orchestra December 26th for me!!! And I maaaaaaaaay get tickets to Aerosmith/Lenny Kravitz, which is at the end of the month. I'll be waaaaaaaay up in the nosebleeds (don't feel like paying the 124 for seats closer for a concert with two bands I only remotely like) Go for it...I'm not at all a fan of Lenny Kravitz, but I've seen Aerosmith and they do a fantastic show. Well worth catching. Aero Supply I lost respect for after their infamous 2001 SuperBowl debacle with Outta Sync and B*tchney Sneers. I know Roger Taylor and Brian May of Queen almost killed Queen's legacy working with 5ive, Robbie Williams and Creeponce, Orange and B*tchney on re-makes of We Will Rock You or We Are the Champions, John Deacon thankfully stayed out as he retired. Had it not been for Paul Rodgers, Queen's legacy would have been destroyed! I am going to see David Gilmour if he tours the US this coming spring!

QUOTE (Moonraker @ Dec 2 2005, 12:01 PM) QUOTE (floydfanatic111 @ Dec 2 2005, 12:36 AM) David Gilmour of Pink Floyd has a THIRD SOLO ALBUM due on March 6 for the world outside America on EMI and on March 7, 2006 on Capitol called On an Island You're kidding. Why is it everytime Roger does some kind of solo work, either PF or Gilmour is right behind? Heh, maybe one of em should release work on a regular basis, then they both will I am not bulls**tting on the new David Gilmour album! Roger is working on two rock albums as soon as his opera is done. Roger on the BBC Radio 2 stated the possibility of working on another album with PF. They will do some shows ala Cream and do a Last Waltz type thing!

QUOTE (Grandpa Grizz @ Dec 2 2005, 04:39 AM) QUOTE (floydfanatic111 @ Dec 2 2005, 03:22 AM)Best concert I saw was Pink Floyd or as some will call Pink Fraud(as Roger Waters was not present) at Foxboro Stadium on May 19, 1994. I agree. The Pink Floyd show of '94 was hands down the best concert I've ever seen, and I too also saw them shortly after the Rush Counterparts show. Rush is superlative, of course, but that Pink Floyd show was just exceptional. I've been a huge PF fan since 1967 and only saw them one other time, in 1972. Their loyal fans were in much smaller numbers then. It was before Dark Side came out. That was quite a memorable show as well. I'm really looking forward to the upcoming release of Pulse on DVD. I'm with you, fanatic. Rush and PF are the two greatest bands to walk the face of the earth, so far. I have been both a Floydian and Rush-head for years. I have taken the razzing for liking as much as liking Pink Floyd without Roger Waters or Syd Barrett. My other band of my trinity of greatest bands is Queen. 2006 is shaping for great year. Pulse DVD(in time for my 30th birthday), David Gilmour's new solo effort On an Island due March 7, Queen and Paul Rodgers touring the US and new Rush album!

Best concert I saw was Pink Floyd or as some will call Pink Fraud(as Roger Waters was not present) at Foxboro Stadium on May 19, 1994. Just after seeing my first Rush concert a few weeks before with a dreadful Candlebox opening(I have seen Rush THREE subsequent times since and were better each time), I anticipated for Pink Floyd. I was in the nosebleeds of Foxboro Stadium but Floyd were AMAZING. David Gilmour's guitar was in fine tow and he did well singing wise as well despite flubbing Keep Talking's lyrics(instead of singing "My words won't come out right" it was "My words were not so bright"), Nick Mason was drumming like he hadn't played since the Animals tour and was superb on Astronomy Domine and Rick Wright's Hammond I swear was going to explode and his synthesizer work was brilliant. Setlist: Astronomy Domine(I was stoked PF chose this track to open the show as they hadn't played this since 1970 and the planets swirling onstage was superb) Learning to Fly(seagull film in background) DG says hi to crowd and welcome to Foxboro and the band brought the rain, and were good at it(a good chunk of the US shows had rainy days on the tour) What Do You Want From Me(first song from The Division Bell I heard live) On the Turning Away(was miles ahead of Delicate Sound version) Take it Back(awesome light show on this track) Poles Apart(the band swapped songs each night and did this Division Bell number which is a great song and the lasers during the kaleidoscope section was breathtaking) Sorrow(stellar version, how David Gilmour's Fender Strat didn't break or go out of tune from his whammy bar use on end solo and the lights were blinding) Keep Talking(great performance, David's voice-box solo at end was stellar) One of These Days(killer version and had the two warthog pigs from side of stage and PYRO EXPLOSIONS galore) Intermission Shine On You Crazy Diamond(pts 1-5)(the screen made its first appearance) Breathe(they pulled from archives) Time(with Breathe Reprise)(another great film of inside of clock) High Hopes(best Division Bell track live and the film from Storm Thorgerson was breathtaking) The Great Gig in the Sky(was good and had a different film) Wish You Were Here(excellent performance and crowd sang, I couldn't as I almost damaged my tonsils from screaming loudly at Rush a few weeks before) Us and Them(had the old backdrop film and was great) Money(with funny film of alien coming to Earth and a great version) Another Brick in the Wall(pt. 2)(with teaser of Brick 1, Happiest Days and Goodbye Cruel World)(stellar version with Gilmour singing(like he did on record with bass player Guy Pratt substituting for Roger Waters) DG thanked the crowd and hoped we had a great night despite the rain, cold and wind(I laughed) Comfortably Numb(Gilmour's ending solo was amazing and the mirror ball popping from stadium floor was price of admission) Encores Hey You(another classic resurrected live and DG did most of singing, he sang most of track originally) Run Like Hell(with firework display that would make KISS' use of pyro look like fizzlers) This show plus Rush at Great Woods in 1997 I still regard as two best shows I have been to EVER!

David Gilmour of Pink Floyd has a THIRD SOLO ALBUM due on March 6 for the world outside America on EMI and on March 7, 2006 on Capitol called On an Island

QUOTE (jgt46 @ Nov 30 2005, 06:45 PM) The change in what is being played on the radio now is due to the pursuit of money not talent. Mainstream radio is owned by these big media companies that may play 10% of the music out ther past and present. Actually very few good new bands ever make it to recording an album and being heard. I mainly like the older bands Who, Marillion, Queensryche,Dio and others. I also love the guitar virtuosos who never get airplay. Satriani and Vai are incredible. Some of the new bands I like tool. Audioslave(Have always like Chris Cornell's voice sine the Soundgarden days) Nickelback sounds like the old bands and Shinedown has some good stuff. So I never watch the award shows or hardly listen to the radio as the industry has no interest in talent as much as they do in money. Also, that dumbkuff President of ours is in co-hoots with Clear Channel and they have been on a censorship crusade ever since that "N*pplegate" scandal with Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake which has caused the FCC to come out of hibernation and censoring art. Howard Stern went satellite as he hates the modern state of radio. I don't listen to radio as much as I used to. I just listen to CDs. Both Republicans and Democrats are hypocrites. Tipper Gore went after AC/DC, Judas Priest and KISS and the righteous right attacked Rush and Pink Floyd. One priest said Rush stood for Rulers Under Satan's House and Anthem on All the World's had a Satanic message! What dumbkuffs!

My favorite live album/DVDs DS by a LONGSHOT! RiR rivals DS R30 is excellent ESL was fantastic despite some doctoring ATWaS was great but too raw ASoH was bland pretty much save Marathon, Turn the Page, Manhattan Project, Mission, Witch Hunt and Time Stand Still. I didn't like the Signature Guitar nor the Simmons drums on CttH and was worse doctored than ESL

QUOTE (slacker @ Jun 11 2005, 05:47 AM) All the Worlds a Stage ATWAS was technically the first live Rush album I heard(or half of live album I heard in July of 1988 as uncle had the original record(he lost record one)). ESL I first heard on an old station in Boston in May of 1990 called ECGY where they played ALL FOUR SIDES of ESL. I recorded YYZ through Xanadu. When I first heard live YYZ from ESL on May 11, 1990(I was 14 then), I was officially a Neil Peart fan(myself being a drummer discovered the successor to Moon and Bonham).

QUOTE (Moonraker @ Jan 22 2005, 02:38 AM) QUOTE (RushGuru @ Jan 21 2005, 09:38 PM) Oh Garage this is hard. There are great songs on every one! I had to choose Different Stages though. Last Spring Break I drove all the way to mexico with just Disk 1 of DS. I couldnt believe i forgot all my music! I must have listened to that disc 200 times all the way through. I memorized what every fan screamed and when they screamed it. I memorized everything. Now whenever i listen to different versions of the songs i always expect the fans to scream what they did in DS disc 1. I devoloped almost a spiritual connection with that music. I fell in love with it. I appreciated Rush more than i ever did before. I couldnt have made it through that vacation without that disc. Thank you Different Stages disc 1. Your sounds will be imprinted on the back of my skull forevermore. Sounds like my trip to NY for the week last winter. I coulda sworn I packed a travel cd case full of cds, but the only one that I fought I had with me was what was in the cd player when I boarded the train. Needless to say, I dont think I can listen to Yes's Fragile without thinking of NY. That reminded me of my trip back to native Boston, MA from Charleston, SC(where I lived mainly for two years) for almost THREE months for family issues and to see Rush on 30th Anniversary Tour! I accidentally bought a duplicate of Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here album. My other copy was buried in suitcase and wanted to listen on plane but was in hurry to board plane so I bought another copy at an airport in Atlanta at a record store in airport during a switchover from planes.

Different Stages for me. That and Pink Floyd's PULSE are GREATEST LIVE ROCK RECORDS EVER!!! I was at the show where 2112 and Leave That Thing Alone were recorded in Mansfield, MA at Great Woods(now Tweeter Center). When they played all of 2112, I almost fainted. Alex's little guitar solo during Discovery rocked.

I have Roy Harper's Unknown Soldier album which should be Harper/Gilmour album as David Gilmour co-wrote five of the ten tracks. Also, David played guitar on the whole thing. My favorites were The Fly Catcher, You(The Game Part II) which also had Kate Bush duetting with Roy, True Story(the riff sounds like Run Like Hell in a different key) and a re-do of Gilmour's Short and Sweet.

Yesterday, I grabbed another copy of Vapor Trails plus Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run and Born in the USA. The night before it was Journey's Live in Houston 1981 CD/DVD and Queen and Paul Rodgers' Return of the Champions. I am looking forward to 2006. New albums from Rush and David Gilmour of Pink Floyd.

This is all I pretty much watch. I am sick of reality TV. If I see one more Celebrity Reality show, I will seriously. Some of my favorite cartoons were Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck in Duck Amuck, Rabbit Fire and Ali Baba Bunny Bugs Bunny Rabbit Rampage, Long-Haired Hare and many others I can go on about Looney Tunes. The Pink Panther had many funny cartoons like Little Beaux Pink, The Pink Phink, Pink Pranks and many others. Other greats on the Pink Panther block are The Inspector, Ant and the Aardvark and my buddy Misterjaw and his infamous "EEGOTCHA". Let's not forget The Tijuana Toads, they rules!

To me iPods are for retards(not to be cold). Downloaded music sounds bad to my ears and only download if it is a LAST RESORT whilst rebuilding collections.

QUOTE (dweezil @ Nov 24 2005, 12:43 PM) I suspect most people like to be told what is good. Sheep. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v636/palominodweezil/noangry.gif Roger Waters hit the hammer right on the nail. He saw the industry change in the 30-years since he first penned Welcome to the Machine and Have a Cigar. Rap is a joke. Penny Cent, I mean 50 Cent, is a loser. Kanye West is a HYPOCRITE. He claims to like white people yet has publically BASHED white people. He whined when Gretchen Wilson won a Best New Artist award and cried RACE CARD! Then did it again when Maroon 5 won. Let's not forget his infamous tantrum on the Hurricane Katrina benefit. Rap is what disco was in the 1970s, getting old and overplayed. Enough bling and jive and bring back rock. If Billy Joel was out today, he would not have made it big.

QUOTE (Necromancer @ Nov 23 2005, 02:56 PM) I agree with everything about the industry and what "popular music" has unfortunately become. But to say there's no good music out there today is way off base. I honestly can't listen to the same stuff over and over. The remark that Stairway still gets played on the radio is something that irks me to no end. Not only does the industry suck, but radio doesn't help by constantly playing these "time honored classics". Yeah... zep doesn't have any new stuff... but RUSH does. When does your rock stations play One Little Victory or hell for that matter... ANYTHING after Moving Pictures? There's two stations around here worth any time and one plays "classic rock" and I usually won't listen to it since i've grown with that old crap and other than RUSH, couldn't care less about hearing one more Stairway or Freebird. There's a lot of modern stuff out there that's brilliant. TOOL and A PERFECT CIRCLE come to mind immediately for me. Talk about musicians learning their crafts and having CHOPS. Danny Carey, no matter what band this board is devoted to, may be the greatest drummer alive. Justin and Adam are no slouches at their respective instruments either and MAYNARD... probably the best male vocalist of all time IMHO. His other band APC, is just as accomplished on their instruments and the songwriting of both bands is phenomenal. I think there's a lot of stuff out there that will knock your socks off if you're not convinced that STAIRWAY is the end all of good music. And as far as the local bar scene... HELL YEAH. My area alone has produced some major bands. The Alex Lifeson produced LIFER... that i'm amazed not many of you have heard, and BREAKING BENJAMIN who are on the track to stardom now. All good stuff. More of it out there, but i mentioning it all would be too long-winded EVEN FOR ME. Just check out some of the bands that are mentioned in here. I did with Nightwish and now have a new band i'm really into. Lock those OLLLLDDDD tired Zep albums away and give something else a shot. You'll be glad you did. I hear Subdivisions on the radio and have heard Ghost of a Chance, Presto, Show Don't Tell, The Big Money, Secret Touch, Summertime Blues and such in the Northeast in Mass and Rhode ISland as Rush have a big stronghold in Massachusetts.

I listen to Pink Floyd, Rush, Queen, Journey(Steve Perry era), Styx(Dennis DeYoung era), Iron Maiden, Motorhead, Black Sabbath, The Clash, The Eagles, Bruce Springsteen, The Who, The Beatles, some classical, Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Miles Davis, Genesis, Zeppelin so I am somewhat diverse.

David Gilmour of Pink Floyd hates today's music scene with a passion. Even as far back as 1992 he said 1% of stuff coming out is nice but doesn't hunt as much as he used to for new bands so he sticks with old Bob Dylan, Eagles, Leonard Cohen and Neil Young records. Roger Waters stated that MTV has allowed music's self-expression to be treated like soap powder and alot is soft porn. He said after hearing a Radiohead record "where's my Neil young and John Lennon". Ain't it the truth. Because of Madonna getting famous she spawned unholy acts like Witchney Sneers(name for Britney I have), P*sstina Aquafina(whom I call Christina) and Ciarra Mist turned music into one softcore porn film and I don't find either one of those jezebels attractive. In fact, Witchney is a poor facsimile of my best friend back in Massachusetts named Danielle. She is not a rock fan(she prefers hip hop and rap) but knows I love Rush and Pink Floyd as I would flap about both bands like no tomorrow at college. One time in college, I was wearing my TFE tour T-shirt and she was like who are Rush and I said "The greatest band EVER to come from Canada and anyone who says Rush sucks should keep quiet".