darrenhigh

Subdivisions perfectly captures where I was in my life at that point. A Rush song that I can say was written about me (and hundreds of thousands of other kids my age living in America)

but not when they are red

I like traffic lights

I like traffic lights

I like traffic lights

I used to live on a small military base where I was literally two minutes drive from where I worked. Why not walk, you ask? Killer rabbits and land mines off road. Anywho, I didn't realize how much I would miss it until I moved away. Now I only drive about 15 minutes one way but it's costing a lot when you factor in errands, lunch, etc. I'm easily spending over a hundred more a month in fuel costs. Not to mention how this is affecting the price of everything else.

Just Rush in two weeks. I would see VH, Foo, Asia, and definitely Yes later this summer but I'll be away on an extended vacation and will have to wait until next year.

I bought all the songs on Neil's house mix I didn't have already (Jeff Buckley, Tragically Hip, Jethro Tull, et al). The Robert Plant/Alison Krauss album, it's pretty good. Been getting into The Mars Volta and Porcupine Tree (a few years behind everyone else, I know). Still listen to the latest Foo Fighters quite a bit.

I have never made any frivolous purchases of musical equipment. Ever.

I wouldn't put it in my top ten, but it's a decent album. There are a few forgettable tunes on that album and I feel like they didn't really break any new ground. HYF represents the end of the 80s to me, as they went another direction with Presto. That album does have its moments though.

great, I'll check it out...

QUOTE (friendlyvoice @ Jun 20 2007, 11:18 AM)My first Rush concert experience was merely OK. It didn't have anything to do with them. They were great, as always. It was because of the lousy venue and even worse crowd. This was January '88, HYF tour, at the arena in Jackson, MS...or as I call it "the giant circus tent". The place was maybe half full, the crowd wasn't interested, and Rush has never returned to Mississippi. Can't say I blame 'em. Had tickets for the T4E tour in Nashville and literally at the last minute was unable to go. Didn't even get to unload the tickets. And I missed seeing 2112. My Rush concert-going fortune has been MUCH better since 2002. I was at the Eric Johnson show in Little Rock last week and there were two guys who had driven from Jackson complaining about the lack of concerts there. We even talked about Rush and they said the same thing, that Rush got no support so they quit coming back. I feel for anyone who lives in remote areas. I'm in the military and from HYF until the R30 tour, I was never able to see a concert because of distance, scheduling and a lack of enough funds to travel. Fortunately although I'm still in the Army, I can now afford to travel a bit so I was able to see R30 in Dallas (driving from OKC) and I will be seeing them in Dallas again this tour (driving from LR area).

The RUSH show that almost wasn't: my first show was the Texas Jam (I think 84) which Rush headlined on the Grace Under Pressure tour. The TJ was held in the Cotton Bowl and it was general admission on the field so we decided to ensure we had great views by leaving for the stadium at midnight the night before (gates were opening around 10am). The show was in June, and it was already hot by the time the gates opened. We ran to the stage once the gates were opened, congratulating ourselves on our wisdom at arriving early and getting spots against the stage right in the middle. Of course, it was 10 am and Rush was the 5th band in the lineup and not scheduled to start until after dark. Being young and impervious to physical needs, we didn't worry about the fact we had been partying all night without eating or drinking anything remotely hydrating. The bands performing that day were (in order of appearance) Gary Moore, Brian Adams, Ozzy Osbourne, 38 Special, and then Rush as the closer. Gary Moore was great, BA was awful but we didn't want to give up our spots, Ozzy was great, and then came 38 Special. By the time 38 Special went on (after 5 pm as I recall) the entire crowd was a sweat soaked writhing beast. And my friends and I all felt like we were trying to kick a heroin addiction by that point. It was probably fortunate that 38 Special was at the spot in the set because we really didn't want to listen to them and with our quickly deteriorating conditions we were compelled to seek water and nourishment. Of course, that also meant all we had worked for was going to be lost. Not so fast, grasshopper. One perhaps unknown fact about general admission festivals is that getting good spots is not just about getting there first. It's also about sheer will and brute force. After we slid out between the massed bodies to get hydrated and fed, we knew that our only purpose in life was to get back to the promised land against center stage. So that's what we did. One of my friends nearly traded blows with a few disgruntled fans that he gave a firm elbow to, but I was able to get all the way back up front with just a couple of "Hey, watch out(s)" in my ear as I pushed by. I still felt like hell, but I completely forgot my physical needs when I saw Rush take the stage for the first time. I was physically one person back from the stage (there was a single line of fans holding on to the security perimeter that couldn't be separated) halfway between Geddy and Alex but mentally I was in nirvana. How I drove home later that night without wrapping my car around a tree I'll never know (any my diehard friends racked out before we got out of the parking lot. bastards), but I managed to make it home to live another day (and see Rush again on the Power Windows tour). But that's another story...

QUOTE (lerxt1990 @ Feb 10 2007, 11:23 AM)QUOTE (darrenhigh @ Feb 10 2007, 10:21 AM) these sorts of comparisons are pointless. might as well say carbon is a better element than hydrogen. they're both great drummers with unique styles and I love listening to each of them for different reasons. I think if you spend your time ranking musicians or bands, you're probably not really listening to them. F-ck that, Carbon kicks the crap out of Hydrogen! Cmon - polymorphs man, diamond, graphite, buckyballs, nanotubes.... CARBON RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i would tend to agree on principle, i mean, buckyballs is just a cool word, especially if you're name is bucky. but to make beer you need water, and to make water you need hydrogen. so keep your buckyballs and nanotubes, i'll have a beer instead.

these sorts of comparisons are pointless. might as well say carbon is a better element than hydrogen. they're both great drummers with unique styles and I love listening to each of them for different reasons. I think if you spend your time ranking musicians or bands, you're probably not really listening to them.

QUOTE (Maddy @ Aug 13 2006, 04:34 PM) QUOTE (darrenhigh @ Aug 13 2006, 07:58 AM) http://www.bbc.co.uk/cumbria/weather/a_z/images/crepuscular_rays_270.jpg Jacob's Ladder correct

^ "Talk to the Wind"?, more like "breaks the wind"...

Subdivisions - but I also love most of the other songs on that album. New World Man is about my least favorite.

2112 - no question.

Bastille Day with Lamneth a close second.

yup

yup

QUOTE (tangdog @ Jul 24 2006, 05:54 PM)Eric Johnson at the Orange Peel, Asheville NC 8/30/2006 One of my all time faves. That will be a great show. Check out my review of the Little Rock show for a glimpse of what's to come: http://ericjohnson.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2709

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cumbria/weather/a_z/images/crepuscular_rays_270.jpg

Xanadu - great on the album and Alex breaks out the white doubleneck live. What more could you ask for? It's a double neck. No one plays those anymore.