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    Happy 35th Birthday - Hold Your Fire

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    I've said it before and I will say it again: I love HYF. :heart: The mixing is what it is but the softness feels very comforting to me. HYF in it's entirety puts me in a creative mood. Most songs are energetic and beautiful, and the bass lines are delicious. Tai Shan has a different feel to it than the previous songs on the album but usually I listen to it as well.

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    What Made You Sad Today?

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    1 hour ago, pjbear05 said:

    Today is the 30th anniversary of Hurricane Andrew, at the time the greatest natural disaster to hit the US.

    65 killed; 63,000 homes destroyed and 175,000 left homeless; initially, half a million people without power; 

    3 cities-Homestead, Florida Lakes, and Naranja Lakes-completely destroyed, or nearly so.  I vivdly remember an official's comment upon an aerial view of Homestead-"it looked like a city that had been bombed".

    It exposed shoddy home construction of the period, introducing a new terminology to the area; "Miami-Dade certified", referring to standards for home construction and remodeling materials and labor as an afternath of the destruction. 

    I remember the area huddling down as the storm approached.  Weatherman for the NBC affiliate WTVJ Bryon Norcross as the guiding voice through the storm even as station staff retreated to a safe area of their studio. The obliteration of homes and neighbhoods.  The chaos and temporary lawlessness on the streets afterwards; when asked to comment on looters raiding houses and businesses in his area one gentleman,  patrolling his neighborhood and shown with a cocked and locked .45 automatic in his belt, responded "planet of the apes."

    Most of all I count my blessings.  Had Andrew not veered South in the 3 hours before landfall, the full brunt could have hit the vicinity of the Dade-Broward county line; being barely 5 miles from there it is likely Karen, myself, and our house would not have survived. That, and the thought of survivors if similar disasters, still sends a chill through my bones.  And so it was, until a vile lady named Katrina came calling, and another named Wilma, which truly shut us down for a few days, and out of work for a week.

    A prayer for them all.  :sad:

     

    Thank you for sharing these memories. Here on the other side of the great Atlantic Ocean these natural disasters were watched in TV news, and I can only imagine how terrifying these hurricanes were.

     

    :rose::rose::rose:

     

     

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    Does CA make the Top 10 Rush albums EVER?

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    Posted · Edited by Sun & Moon

    On 8/8/2022 at 10:42 AM, Sun & Moon said:

    CA has its moments, but in entirety: no, it's not in my Rush top 10.

    Recently, I've given both CA and VT a new try. They're both clearly better than I remembered. One of the problems in them is that many songs that start catchy fade into weaker melody lines as the song continue. That's not so much the case with S&A or CP (that are easily in my top 10), the melodies are more solid in them in general.

     

    Both CA and VT are the first Rush albums that I tested when doing a workout at the gym. A lot of energy but nothing that would distract me for a longer while, works fine! I prefer CA so far, though. (Both CP and S&A would make me lose focus, I love them.)

     

     

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    What are you reading?

    in Turn The Page

    Posted · Edited by Sun & Moon

    Since reading The Notebook I read two other Nicholas Sparks novels (Message in a Bottle and Nights in Rodanthe), and I'm currently reading The Rescue.

     

    What can be said about these books? The storylines and many details are overtly calculated, and there are themes and surroundings that keep coming up from novel to novel (not in good or bad). North Carolina, losing someone, surviving as a single parent, being surprised by love, insecurities, storms, seaside, sex. Working part time in a library. :biggrin: The beauty of nature. Sparks is good at observing human gestures and body language and describing everyday life and worries. He knows how to write an entertaining story that's easy to relax with. Nothing larger than life, but writing a romantic novel that will not completely bore the reader to death is a skill. 

     

    (While I was reading these books I did some Google searches on the different places that the stories locate in. Rodanthe and the Outer Banks area in NC seem very beautiful. I love seashores, so these surroundings are a real plus to me. Travelling through stories is nice.)

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    Is Caress of Steel in your top 10 Rush albums?

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    Posted · Edited by Sun & Moon
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    On 8/9/2022 at 11:01 PM, Alex’s Amazing Arpeggios said:

    I was wondering what your Top 10 Rush Albums are ? 🤔
    Also , does your Top 5 ever slightly rotate from time to time ? .. or tend to remain in the same positions ? 🙂

     

    My top 5 Rush albums listing pretty much consist of the same albums, but in the top 3 the albums rotate. I've grown to understand that for me it's impossible and unimportant to choose just one album that would be #1. 

     

    There's rotation inside my top 10 as well, but some albums have so far never reached top 10, and I'm unsure if they ever will. But never say never.

     

    My top 10 at the moment in no particular order:

     

    Signals

    2112

    Hold Your Fire

    Hemispheres

    Counterparts

    Snakes & Arrows

    Permanent Waves

    Moving Pictures

    Grace Under Pressure

    A Farewell to Kings

     

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    What made your day today? v.2

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    Posted · Edited by Sun & Moon

    I got a new, skilled bass teacher!  :happy::cheer: The one I had was very nice as well, but I had to take a train and travel two hours to get there and two hours to come home. The new one teaches in the city I live in, so it takes about ten minutes to walk there. I will now have lessons twice a month so as I do my homework my playing should be advancing a lot. :smile:

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    Is Rush your favourite band?

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    Posted · Edited by Sun & Moon
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    Rush is the number one rock band for me. I found them in my adulthood, having been listening to a wide variety of music. I still do, and I'm constantly open for finding new music that inspires me. I don't care about genres. I've loved music since I was a kid, and been super passionate about it since my early teens.

     

    Finding Rush was very surprising because I didn't have any big favorite rock bands earlier. A lot of the music I have been digging has pretty much been in the margins or has been based on other kinds of concepts - accordion players in zydeco & cajun, blues guitarists, other instrumentalists, early rhythm'n'blues shouters, jazz bands, or artists with a group of super skilled musicians backing them (like Little Richard, James Brown).

     

    As I had spent most of my time somewhere on the back roads and front porches the idea of a stadium rock band was something quite new to me, personally, as I found Rush. But essentially, Rush is not about big audiences. Rush is the #1 of all rock bands because of their musicianship, musical content, feel and imagination. I love their whole catalogue.

     

    Overall, lyrics in music have never been so relevant for me. I prefer rhythm, harmony, sound and energy to stories. In music there has to be frenzy, something wild. Sometimes it's subtle and restraint, sometimes lound and bombastic. No matter if it's Charlie Feathers singing I Guess I'm Crazy, Sam Baker moaning You Can't See the Blood, Vulfpeck jamming in Dean Town, or Gary Moore playing live almost anything, it's the energy combined with a lot of skill and beauty that attract me.

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