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There were a few previously unseen clips, eg. A soundcheck jam of Jacob's Ladder, Losing It featuring Jonny Dinklage and....the SNIDER! :o

 

Thanks.....so that's it for $15? Sad how far the Rush fan base has fallen that we get so excited for a rehashed product that most of us already have. Hard to believe that just a decade ago, we still had three tours ahead of us....

 

Yeah, with no tours in the future, this is what it's come to. They've suggested this may become "annual" - theater events once a year, in lieu of tours. During audience participation songs (the clapping during Spirit of Radio, "heys" during 2112 Overture), my theater participated like they would've at the live concert. Is that kind of cool, kind of pathetic, or a bit of both? What if I confess that I started it? ;)

Is this the clip with Johnathan Dinklage that's featured in Cinema Strangiato?

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3Eye8gLiVM

 

Basically, yes. In the CS version, the interview segment was just a smidge longer, and edited differently, but that's it. The interview and performance weren't superimposed over each other - we got the interview then the entire song performed in concert.

The promos at the head of this ran long. First other "rock movie" trailers my theater will soon be showing - a ZZ Top documentary, a Roger Waters thing, a Vanilla Ice thing, and apparently a "designing of Neil's drum kit" documentary - followed by the trailer for an indie horror flick, a short AFTK-related Rushtoon, a Geddy-endorses-Fender ad, an Alex-endorses-Gibson ad, and I can't remember what else.

 

Next came the segment on Geddy's bass collection and his BBBoB, which thankfully didn't feel like a self-serving advertisement until it neared the finish line. It didn't run 40 minutes as someone above said; I'd estimate 15-20 minutes.

 

Then the feature, which as advertised was "R40 plus." It was the R40 home video, minus several songs but with some extras sprinkled throughout - a soundcheck of Jacob's Ladder; outtakes of the guys filming their silly film shorts; interview clips of Taylor Hawkins, Johnathan Dinklage, Billy Corgan, Tom Morello and his equally Rush-obsessed wife, etc. By the time you've traveled backwards through the Rush catalog as far as 2112, you just want to go home... but there's still four more songs. Long movie, an endurance test. (My wife the casual fan thought the epics shown back-to-back was too much all at once: Hemispheres Prelude, Xanadu, followed by more than half of 2112. That's the part us diehards LIKE! But bless her, she requested Red Barchetta for the ride home.)

 

Setlist as I recall it:

Jacob's Ladder (soundcheck)

The Anarchist

Headlong Flight

Roll the Bones

Distant Early Warning

Losing It (w/ Dinklage)

Subdivisions

Tom Sawyer

YYZ

The Spirit of Radio

Hemispheres: Prelude

Closer to the Heart

Xanadu

2112: Overture/Syrinx/Presentation/Finale

Encore -

Lakeside Park

Anthem

What You're Doing

Working Man

 

Several funny moments, including beautiful Mrs. Morello being counted as "female Rush fan #45" and Dinklage talking about the difficulty of playing Losing It: "it's Rush, so it's in 5 instead of 4, and it's in G-flat, which if you know the violin, is a pain in the neck!"

 

 

Thanks. Wish I'd seen this 16 months ago, when I turned 50. (Now I'm 51 and change.)

 

Shows how little I come around here, eh? ;)

 

How've you been, sir?

Above ground and breathing the good air. How are you?

I'd grant that through Life's Rich Pageant; from Document on they were a pretty polished act.

 

I think of that divide on each side of Dead Letter Office as two really distinct phases. I loved both but I think you and JB are on to something with the early phase; they were a kind of granola indie act, which wasn't a new genre but the way R.E.M. combined that with widespread appeal was fairly trailblazing. There were some good imitators that came along, the most notable by my recollection being The Reivers (originally Zeitgeist before another band claimed the name). Debut album Translate Slowly is really great. Point is though that there was a movement of music along the lines of R.E.M. -- a mid-'80s movement -- though R.E.M. is the signature act no doubt. My introduction to R.E.M. was at The Police's Synchronicity show at D.C.'s Capital Centre. R.E.M opened. I had no idea who they were at the time though a friend with me had seen Radio Free Europe on MTV. I remember a shirtless Michael Stipe striking me as one weird dude (which it turns out is mostly true, but in a good way) and the song Pilgrimage. Anyway, I liked them enough to immediately pick up Murmur. I recorded it on the flip side of Big Country's The Crossing, and that cassette got more play than any other that coming year (my senior year in HS) for sure. The P-Furs' Talk Talk Talk and Forever Now combo was a strong second. What a great decade for music.

I love R.E.M. I went through a big R.E.M. phase, where they had essentially replaced Rush in importance in my heart. I like a lot of their stuff, but I eventually settled on Life's Rich Pageant as being my favorite album of theirs. Document, Green, Out of Time, and Automatic for the People are all excellent too, of course. EDITED TO SAY: and oh yes, I put the Psychedelic Furs "Talk Talk Talk," "Forever Now" (I love the title track!), and "Mirror Moves" in heavy rotation during my senior year of HS and immediately after! I saw the Furs in concert, and you'd be surprised what an amazing live act they were. -

The dance is tonight, not the other day as I thought. :dweez: Would anyone like to take me? :) You wouldn't want me sitting in a corner crying into my glass of club soda, would you? :| ;)

 

In any event, as I walked through the grocery store this morning, I was singing this tune out loud. I got a few strange looks.

 

 

 

:musicnote: ..So let's sink another drink

'cause it will give me time to think ... :musicnote:

 

My favorite song to dance to.

I was in HS in the 80s, and it was the last decade of me listening to Top 40 radio (it's sucked ever since). I listened to Rush, but also all the New Wave 80s stuff that was so prevalent... on radio, MTV, and in the arcade at the shopping mall, a ticket to The Karate Kid in my pocket, obsessing over girls. The songs take me back there...

 

Be Near Me - ABC

AEIOU Sometimes Y - Ebn/Ozn

Whisper to a Scream - Icicle Works

Head over Heels - Tears for Fears

Wouldn't it be Good - Nik Kershaw

That's Good - Devo

(Anything by Howard Jones)

Wishing - Flock of Seagulls

Destination Unknown - Missing Persons

China - Red Rockers

Secret Separation - the Fixx

Major Tom - Peter Schilling

West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys

Pretty in Pink - Psychedelic Furs

If You Were Here - Thompson Twins

Gold - Spandau Ballet

Positively Lost Me - the Raveups

Der Kommisar - After the Fire

Lots of good ones. West End Girls is a great song. Love the intro.

 

There's a couple awesome ones which people won't know by title/artist, but they'd recognize if they heard it.

 

"Positively Lost Me" was played in Pretty in Pink, by the band in the club that Molly Ringwald went to.

 

"Whisper to a Scream" - find it on YouTube, play it, and thank me later. "Holy shit, I've heard this song! It's freakin awesome!"

I was in HS in the 80s, and it was the last decade of me listening to Top 40 radio (it's sucked ever since). I listened to Rush, but also all the New Wave 80s stuff that was so prevalent... on radio, MTV, and in the arcade at the shopping mall, a ticket to The Karate Kid in my pocket, obsessing over girls. The songs take me back there...

 

Be Near Me - ABC

AEIOU Sometimes Y - Ebn/Ozn

Whisper to a Scream - Icicle Works

Head over Heels - Tears for Fears

Wouldn't it be Good - Nik Kershaw

That's Good - Devo

(Anything by Howard Jones)

Wishing - Flock of Seagulls

Destination Unknown - Missing Persons

China - Red Rockers

Secret Separation - the Fixx

Major Tom - Peter Schilling

West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys

Pretty in Pink - Psychedelic Furs

If You Were Here - Thompson Twins

Gold - Spandau Ballet

Positively Lost Me - the Raveups

Der Kommisar - After the Fire

 

 

 

 

Also look for the "making of" clips on YouTube for Ged interviewed about this.

 

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Have already watched the first five episodes of season 1 The X Files.

 

"Squeeze" (s1e3) is one of my very favorite episodes. The villain is so good, they bring him back in "Tooms."

The Stranglers - "Nice n Sleazy"

 

APB - "Shoot You Down"

Here's one I'm surprised no one's mentioned......

 

Anastasia (Pulling Teeth) - Metallica (Cliff!)

 

Someone said "bass solo, take one." That must've been a reference to this track.

 

Glad that Jaco ("Teen Town") and John Deacon ("Dragon Attack") got some love. I play the Dragon Attack line all the time... love it!... nice that this Queen "deep cut" was chosen.

At age 69, far too young. Buckner was a great player that, sadly, may be most remembered for an unfortunate infield bungle.

 

 

His Seinfeld appearances are classics!

 

Do you mean Curb Your Enthusiasm? (Easy to get them confused after all these years.)

 

And it was easy to blame Buckner for losing Game 6, but I think Mookie beats him to first base anyway.

Also..."Boston manager John McNamara chose to have Buckner take the field in the bottom of the inning instead of bringing Stapleton in as a defensive replacement for the ailing Buckner as he had in games one, two and five"

 

And how many even remember that there was a game seven yet to be played?

 

I remember. In games 6 and 7, my family and I were doing sambuca shots whenever the Mets scored in late innings.

 

McNamara denies this, but his decision to not replace Buckner late in Game 6 - like he'd always done before - might've been that he wanted Buckner on the field when they won the Series.

I think you're right; I think Mookie still wins the race to the bag. I think he was already past the pitcher, who'd be responsible for covering first (Bob Stanley, at that point?).

 

And we can also put some blame on Calvin Schiraldi, the reliever who put the tying runs on base. Schiraldi and Clemens played college ball together in Texas and Schiraldi was actually considered Clemens's equal, with one crucial exception: Clemens would WORK, while Schiraldi was a lazy, spoiled rich kid.

 

Poor Buckner. Another Buckner factoid: he was the outfielder when Hank Aaron hit his 715th homer (the record breaker), over his head.

My Yankees are in first place in AL East and still on a massive tear... with kids, and without Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton, Didi Gregorius, etc. Wait'll our best players return from their injuries... NYY will probably become unstoppable.

I liked his hair best in the Big Money video. I know that's technically a mullet, but at least it's a Richard Marx (or Bono at Live Aid) mullet, not a Billy Ray Cyrus mullet.

 

Presto, with his hair SLICKED BACK into the pony... that's the worst.

 

http://nightflight.com/wp-content/uploads/RUSHBIGMONEY12.jpg

 

 

Happy 52nd Birthday, Fridge! :cheerleader: In 3 more years, you can get a senior discount!!! :codger:

 

 

Is he American? Because in the States, AARP starts that stuff at 50.

I've been making my way through all the "monster of the week" (stand alone) episodes of The X-Files, from Season 1 forward. What a great show that was!

The Boston album is maybe the best debut album by ANY group. I picked it.

 

I liked 70s era Aerosmith, but everything they've done from their late 80s comeback to today sounds alike to me... and I don't care for any of it. Overrated band, if you ask me.

I've now read and twice re-read a great King novella called "A Good Marriage," from Full Dark No Stars. Suspenseful story about a woman who discovers evidence that her husband might be a notorious serial killer. (Bad movie adaptation with Anthony LaPaglia and Joan Allen.)

 

 

Thanks. Wish I'd seen this 16 months ago, when I turned 50. (Now I'm 51 and change.)

 

Shows how little I come around here, eh? ;)

Yes, he's genius! Haven't heard much, but I adore what I know by him:

 

"Thank You God (For Fixing the Cataracts of Sam's Mum)." I've watched the YT clip of him playing this live, with orchestra, many times. I've dumped the audio of it to my iTunes, and listen to it on the go.

 

"Storm." Genius! A great animated piece with "beat poetry"-style music and words by Tim. Watched this on YouTube over a dozen times.

 

"White Wine in the Sun." Discovered this a year ago at Christmas and it immediately became one of my favorite Xmas songs. For secular people like me, Jesus is NOT the reason for the season... family is. I've heard it 4-5 dozen times, and cry every time because it hits so close to home - especially the end, when he sings about his blue-eyed baby girl. (My blue-eyed girl was born before Xmas, too, and got "handed 'round the room, like a puppy at a primary school" by my family.)

Thanks to everyone for the responses.

 

It went well - all that practice must've helped. I recited The Garden entirely without notes, with good inflection, and no tears. (Tears certainly came before and after.) I humbly accepted praise on how well I did, then drove home from the service playing a mix of Rush tracks - sending Chris off with a last blast of our favorite band.

 

Another note: those CDs of "classical renditions of Rush songs" came in handy again today. I had the funeral parlor play them throughout calling hours. To an older person with an aversion to hard rock, they were completely inoffensive and tasteful. To me and some others, it was "Hey, that's actually Limelight!" (I'm referring to "A Baroque Tribute to Rush" and the superior "Exit Stage Right: A String Quartet Tribute to Rush.")

My brother-in-law died Tuesday morning, from complications following open-heart surgery. He was 51 and had two young children. We feel just terrible for my sister and those kids.

 

He was a big Rush fan; it's what cemented my friendship with him, when my sister began dating him 18 years ago. We'd go to the Rush shows together, try playing Rush songs together (him on drums, me on bass), talk about Rush.

 

I was approached about finding some Rush music for his funeral today (Sat, 10/28), and didn't hesitate with my choice. "The Garden," of course! So appropriate. I played it for my sister, and she loved it. She was bawling, just as I've been bawling, listening to it this week with Chris in mind. The minister, surpringly, already knows the song, but felt it would be better if I RECITE the words, as a poem or reading, rather than play the actual 7-minute song.

 

So that's part of my long day today: reading The Garden aloud at a funeral service and trying to get through it. Practice has helped; we'll see how it goes.

 

Thanks for reading.

Missed the prior round, and sad to see Sean Penn isn't among the final 30. I think he's the greatest actor working today.

 

Getting it to 10 was relatively easy for me, but then painful to cut another three. Well, here's my 7 (alpha by first name):

 

Anthony Hopkins

Dustin Hoffman

Gary Oldman

Gene Hackman

Jack Nicholson

Robert DeNiro

Tom Hanks