JARG

You're definitely not the only one to notice it. I've heard it for years...no clue as to what's being said. It's a great song.

2 minutes ago, Second Hand Grace said:

See, opposing themselves - as with all those in the Wide Gate to death Jesus spoke of in Matthew 7:13.

Crazy how the Golden Rule and Wolves in Sheep Clothing encapsulate verses 13 and 14.

Yup, crazy indeed.

2 minutes ago, Second Hand Grace said:

How else would you understand the war within you?

 

You start with questioning the motives of those who are telling you there's a war within you. Perhaps their reasons are relatively banal, perhaps they think they are more enlightened than most and enjoy throwing their alleged superiority in other peoples' faces, or perhaps their reasons are more sinister and they hope to profit by sewing the seeds of self-doubt.

7 minutes ago, Second Hand Grace said:

Armageddon: The Battle of Heart and Mind. -

Speaking metaphysically The Battle Between the Great Red Dragon and Michael

More recently, I've been into Bytor and the Snowdog as the parallel in the parallax, of your Humanity verses your Divinity. 

Yes, those works of fiction are distinctly appropriate.

5 minutes ago, Second Hand Grace said:

What an ethereal thrill it would be. 

You'd probably have to get high though, so you can slow down enough to go deeper, which means your humanity will have to be dissolved by your divinity.

What Rush song would you apply to that thoughtstream?

The Twilight Zone

3 minutes ago, Second Hand Grace said:

                                          Chapter 97

Michael Alexander BoryAlis:

A Symposium from the Rush Angel that inspired Test For Echo and Vapor Trails.

Hmmm...I thought the new book was supposed to be non-fiction.

My friend Charles approves of this thread.

On 8/20/2024 at 11:29 AM, Second Hand Grace said:

Rush fans don't like the last line of Totem, it comes from a Christian song, and they need Rush to be athiest's. 

 

I don't have a need for Rush to be atheists, but I do have a need for those claiming intellectual/spiritual/emotional superiority to have a firm grasp of the rules of grammar.

14 minutes ago, Second Hand Grace said:

Death comes to all who don't go through the Second Death. 

Know anyone yet?

Yes, me. My next time in the box will be #6. Three more to go!

On 8/20/2024 at 9:05 AM, Second Hand Grace said:

Never met Ged Al or Neil, only talked with Pegi Ceconni a few times, their manager. Yh, i was the inspiration behind T4E and VT. Ask me anything about any song on those two two albums.  

Asking questions is easy, but will you provide knowledgeable answers?

2 hours ago, Second Hand Grace said:

Neil is worm meat now, will Gary or Alexander be next? 

My money's on Alex. He's carrying quite a bit of extra weight.

Death comes to us all, whether we're teacher's pet or not.

10 hours ago, Second Hand Grace said:

That's Unsurprising.

But is it inaccurate?

I'm re-reading Finding Darwin's God, by Ken Miller. Miller is a molecular/cellular biologist and a Catholic who spends the first part of his book defending Darwinism from religious-oriented attacks. The 2nd half of the book is how one can be fully in support of evolution and also be a devout believer. He has an interesting place for where to find "Darwin's God".

20 hours ago, Entre_Perpetuo said:

I already explained exactly how Neil would position himself as the “third hand grace” based on exactly the line of logic that Fridge used. And when I did you just said I wasn’t worth talking to. Step off your soapbox and analyze the lyrics for what they are.

Shit, Neil doesn't even claim to be third-hand grace in the song, so the premise of the OP is already in the ditch. He says "my third-hand grace", so it's something he has, not something he is.

We talking LSD? I think Ged talked about dropping acid in his book...but I've slept since reading it, so...

The child is grown, the dream is gone.

8 hours ago, Entre_Perpetuo said:

Aight, I’m getting the impression that OP is claiming to have personally inspired major portions of Rush’s music. While that’s not totally impossible, it sounds implausible to me, especially with his… esoteric posting style. @Second Hand Grace would you care to offer some kind of evidence or proof that you ever even met the members of Rush?

How can you prove a psychic connection?

On 8/14/2024 at 3:19 PM, Timbale said:

Thank you, Jarg - much appreciated.  Yeah, that fill is very much in the "In the Air" world...it's kinda the same fill offset by one note, which didn't totally strike me until after I'd done it, haha.  I knew it was a "Phill-esque" fill... and the drum machine is also more than a little reminiscent of that song, too.

A lot of the song is made up of Mellotron sounds.  I am not fortunate enough to have access to one of those in real life...I use quite good digital samples of the original tapes through an app called the M3000HD.  The kind of main chordal part is a mix of mellotron flute and I think oboe, which was the first thing I came up with.  I then put that drumbox beat to it, which fit the mood well, I thought, and carried on from there.  There are some synthy sounds - including the bass - that are a Moog synth called Animoog, and then I think a sound or two that are from a digital replication of a Prophet synth.  The kind of high, etherial sound in the song is a synth sound I used a lot on the record - sometimes, if you play it with two notes and bend them down, it almost creates a lap steel effect.  The album has no guitar on it...I wanted to make a sort of singer/songwriter album but without either a guitar or piano at the centre of it.  It's not that I have anything against those instruments, I just thought it would be interesting sonically to not have something so familiar in the middle. The drums themselves were the last thing to go on, actually.  As soon as I got a little ways into the song, I knew I wanted the drums to have that Collins-like thing with no hi hat or ride cymbal keeping time.  

 

Thanks for listening to it!

 

 

Interesting that the drums came last given that you're a drummer. I don't think the lack of guitar hurts the song in any way (and that's saying something coming from me!). Are you using a physical synth, or plugins?

Waiter, I'd like some dressing with my word salad.

On 7/26/2024 at 9:59 AM, Timbale said:

Hey friends -- so I have been a musician for most of my adult life, predominantly playing drums in other peoples' projects.  I have just released my first ever album of my own music, playing everything myself.   I thought I'd share a song here if you care to check it out.  :)

 

 

 

A lovely song. The drum fill that brings in the last chorus had a slight "In The Air Tonight" feel.

What are all the instruments used in the song?

In what order did you build up the song, trackwise? Did you start with the drum track?

18 minutes ago, Weatherman said:

I would like to give compliments to Philo, but Neil's drum parts rest on a high peak of perfection and it's so sad to watch less trained drummers fall off the side of the steep walls as they try to ascend... 

I bet it took more than 5 takes for Neil to compose that perfect drum part, and I bet he got feedback from his fellow composers as he went along.

Very cool take. She followed the vocals for the punches.

23 minutes ago, laughedatbytime said:

That sounds similar to my reaction when Geddy starts the piano interlude to Rush's cover of the Spinal Tap classic "Lick My Love Pump"... I just weep instantly.  What's  that key again?

D-minor, the saddest of all keys.

5 hours ago, BastillePark said:

Why would a woman who appears to be leading the charge have her tits out?

How else is she going to get men to notice her?