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About barchetta90480

  • Birthday 05/22/1970

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    Nuremberg, Germany
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  • Number of Rush Concerts Attended
    4
  • Last Rush Concert Attended
    Frankfurt 2011
  • Favorite Rush Song
    Subdivisions/ Red Sector A/ Natural Science/ Driven/ Cut to the Chase ...
  • Favorite Rush Album
    Grace Under Pressure
  • Best Rush Experience
    Hearing Red Sector A on Bavarian late night radio in 1984 - it changed my musical preferences quite a lot ...
  • Other Favorite Bands
    The Nits, Bob Dylan, Beatles, Deep Purple, Fleet Foxes, Iron Maiden, John Hiatt, Balkan Brass Bands, New Model Army, Porcupine Tree etc. ... and lots of Jazz
  • Musical Instruments You Play
    Guitar (badly!!!!!!)
  1. Not to mention, side one of "Making Movies", with "Tunnel of Love", Romeo and Juliet" and "Skateaway". A bit weird but my absolute Dire Straits fave is Communiqué, side 1 - along with all the long tracks on "Alchemy". Some poster before mentioned Side 1 of "Octopus" by Gentle giant - what aforgotten gem!!! Must dig it out of my vinyl vaults at once. Another suggestion: Side 2 of "Jailbreak" by Thin Lizzy (Side 1 being stellar, either - though I don't like the title track too much); same with side 1 "Led Zeppelin 4". And side one of GUP, MP, Signals and PW, of course
  2. ... Given this wide a definition Rush and Nickelback are the same kind of music as well. No offense meant, but Rush and Kiss are worlds apart despite having toured together. Both Yes and DP are much closer to what Rush is than Kiss ever was. at least, Rush has always been 100% about music. Kiss? Did music ever matter to them? I can't say whether or not music "mattered" to them but the early KISS stuff is good shit They wrote catchy hard rock tunes.. I'll never understand the attitude that , as a rock band, you need to be a friggin musical maestro.. Kiss were no better or worse than a lot of other bands from that era.. seriously, do these people think rock starts with rush and ends with dream theater? Ha. I know right? Even in the Beyond the lighted stage, when Geddy says something along the lines of " whatever you think about kiss, musical or otherwise" , I was thinking it was a snobby comment.. I mean, why doesn't anyone pick on a band like ZZ Top? They have churning out the same bluesy style southern rock for over 40 years.. I love me some ZZ top, but it's no more musical than what kiss does yeah and you don't see anyone talking shit about motorhead either Talking shit about Lemmy? I wouldn't even think about thinking of it ... Nobody fools around with Lemmy ... Added: Music doesn't end with Dream Theater. They are at a point where music has already ended for me. But I've done enough Kiss bashing here (belatedly but seriously excluding "Strutter" and "Black Diamond"). Not starting on DT again...
  3. Thanks mate. If you hadn't writtewn that, I would've had to! To add things: It HAS a Police-like vibe. Which is why it's such a stellar album. And I'm repeating myself, it offers a number of their best songwriting efforts ever, topped by Red Sector A, which was not only the first Rush song I loved to death (and still do), but a revelation in terms of combining 70s classic rock with the good sides of the 80s. And, in my view, this album, as tough it may have been for Geddy and neil to record, has aged perfectly. It's not that much different from the likewise stellar Signals, but different enough to have a trademark sound of its own. And it has the best side A of any Rush album (apart from Moving Pictures maybe). To be honest, if other albums - great as they are - hads been my introduction to Rush, I might not have dug that deep into them. I'm talking of the 2112 to Hemispheres era. As it was GUP, I had in an instance found my favourite band. The first 30 seconds of Red Sector A did it for me. So, it's my clear No. 1 album by Rush - and, of course their best 80s effort. Rush was a great band in the 80s, really ... Still is ...
  4. ... Given this wide a definition Rush and Nickelback are the same kind of music as well. No offense meant, but Rush and Kiss are worlds apart despite having toured together. Both Yes and DP are much closer to what Rush is than Kiss ever was. at least, Rush has always been 100% about music. Kiss? Did music ever matter to them?
  5. Great band, one of my favourites but let's be honest their body of work is patchy at best and they probably only have one song that invades the general public's consciousness. Pretty much, the same thing could be said of Yes, or even Rush, at that. Deep Purple deserves to get in just as much as Yes and Rush. Completely agree. And DP have a number of more than classic albums. As great as Yes is, but they don't have the an album of the general status that In Rock, Machine Head, Made in Japan or even Perfect Strangers achieve. For their (creatively short-lived) 80s comeback alone DP deserve to be in ... That said, one of my three or four favourite albums of all time is Close to the Edge.
  6. Wow...I admit I believe each to their own...but how is Caravan a stinker? Like...its one of the best Rush songs ever! To me, it has replaced Finding My Way as their worst opener ever. No moving melody, no really interesting hooks. An agreeable guitar solo, fine. But the orchestra on the live album doesn't make it any better. I see the love this song gets here for its edgines, it's "metal" feel. But that's nothing of a criterion for somebody who has never considered Rush a metal band. In comparison to a stellar first song like One Little Victory (well, that's power. and passion) Caravan has absolutely nothing to offer. There are exactly 11 better songs on Clockwork Angels.
  7. No real change in position. It has been their best album of the last 20 years or so (yes, ranked slightly above Clockwork Angels), and the remaster is fine and maybe even necessary, but I have loved it before and still do so. Because of "Out of the Cradle", among others, BTW. I even started to like "The Stars look down". Leaves "How it is", which is not at all great, but no real stinker of the "Caravan" or "You Bet Your Life" kind ...
  8. Nothing against Yes - I'm a huge fan of their early work. If they make it, Geddy might give that speech. Or Steven Wilson. Or whoever. Maybe one of those punk guys who have always dissed Yes but finally found out that they have loved Close to the Edge all their lives but just couldn't tell their grilfriend. But DEEP PURPLE not in? Sorry Yes, but that's another league altogether. One of the five or six decisive rock bands of all time (and, yes, apart from my own anboydom, Rush is not in that list generally), and NOT in? That's joke, and a bad one, too. If only one of the bands mentioned can make it this year, Yes must wait another one. And no comments on Kiss ...
  9. Nice idea ... stellar to epic - in the "Subdivisions" league: Headlong Flight The Wreckers Fine to quite nice - in the "Force Ten" league: The Garden Clockwork Angels The Anarchist Average - the "Alien Shore" league: Carnies BU2B Seven Cities of Cold Not at all indispensable, but I don't skip it too often - the "Grand Designs" league: Halo Effect Wish Them Well BU2B2 The worst album opener ever ... never get why it's popular at all ... didn't even make the "You Bet Your Life" league: Caravan Still, a very fine album that late in their career - rank 8 or 9 for me overall. Yet, If I'm looking for their best in the last two decades, I stick to Vapor Trails, preferably remastered.
  10. Easy: - Bravado - The Big Wheel - Heresy - You Bet Your Life - Caravan Honorary mentions go to: - Carve Away The Stone - The Speed of Love
  11. Blasting Number of the Beast for the fifth time in a row now. Will continue with the first Yes album ... R.I.P. Clive and Peter. Thanks for contributing in forming two of the greatest bands ever to grace the face of this planet!
  12. He went home... A guitar god of my early rock fan years. R.I.P. Seems as if "Recorded Live" has to get a couple of spins this night ...
  13. No mentioning of FOOLS yet? Now tjhat's a gem. The whole "April" album as well. My all-time favourite by DP is "Pictures of Home" - but as it's on "Machine Head", you can't call it overlooked. But it's stratospheres above "Smoke On The Water"!
  14. Hmmm .... My problem with "Dark Side" is .... songwriting. Apart from "Us And Them" and (even more so) "Time", I can'T find much compelling stuff on it. (And yes, I hate "Money"). That said, all albums between "A Saucerful Of Secrets" (early favourite) and "The Wall" are better than "Dark Side" for me, my favourite clearly being "Animals". "Sheep" is one of the best prog tracks ever.
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