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Going by personal observations at concerts, I think the premise is likely correct. Why couldn't musical taste be gender biased? Is it not possible certain styles of music appeal to one gender more than another in sufficient enough numbers that generalities could be reasonably inferred?

Because Rush is such a long-lived band, the demographic of its audience has changed over the years, so my comments are going to focus mostly on the first decade of Rush as a recording unit -- this is when they developed their core fan base, a fan base that rewarded them for the risk they took in recording 2112, the success of which allowed Rush a shitload of artistic freedom. My first Rush concert was 42 years ago today (Hemispheres tour) and I can confidently say the ratio of males to females in the audience that night was probably 20:1. That ratio was slow to change for many years, with the biggest single-tour shift happening during the MP tour. The scarcity of female fans at those early Rush shows prompts two possibilities in my mind: 1. There were just as many female fans as Rush fans but the female fans didn't care to go Rush concerts 2. There just weren't as many female Rush fans as male mans. I think it's the latter. I had many conversations with my male classmates in high school about music in general and Rush in particular, and far fewer likewise conversations with my female classmates -- they just didn't seem that interested. The reason for that is that my male classmates loved to talk about music, almost obsessively, and those of us who were Rush fans really connected. I don't know if it's true today, but back in the late 70s and early 80s, males tended to bond over musical interests. I don't know women did that much, but if rock music wasn't the lingua franca with females the way it was with males, then that probably explains why Rush didn't really catch on with females in the numbers that they did with males. If there are any aged 50+ females in our ranks here at TRF, can you speak to this? Was rock music in general, and Rush in particular, something you girls would spend hours talking about in HS?

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I was thinking the intro to Shine On You Crazy Diamond could have influenced the one in Xanadu. Alex is a huge Gilmour fan, so yes. You can hear in the spacey bridge of YYZ, especially that cascading riff that he stole from Dogs. Can you post the Dogs video and point out the approximate time-stamp where the stolen riff occurs? Here: 13:55 to 14:00 -- a down-cascading hammer-on-and-off riff leading into a spacey PF bridge -- bears an uncanny resemblance to Alex's down-cascading hammer-on-and-off riff in YYZ leading into a spacey Rush bridge. I can easily imagine Alex being influenced by that lick, but it's not nearly close enough to the descending lick in YYZ to say Alex stole it. Fair. It's not the same notes, per se, so I probably shouldn't have written "stole". But it's easy to see that Alex was almost certainly influenced by it, especially given the spacey keyboard half-time stuff that follows both parts. Context matters. It's possible he was influenced by it. I'm sure they all listened to a lot of PF during that point in their careers. Like I said, the licks are substantially different. Composition and execution matter.

I was thinking the intro to Shine On You Crazy Diamond could have influenced the one in Xanadu. Alex is a huge Gilmour fan, so yes. You can hear in the spacey bridge of YYZ, especially that cascading riff that he stole from Dogs. Can you post the Dogs video and point out the approximate time-stamp where the stolen riff occurs? Here: 13:55 to 14:00 -- a down-cascading hammer-on-and-off riff leading into a spacey PF bridge -- bears an uncanny resemblance to Alex's down-cascading hammer-on-and-off riff in YYZ leading into a spacey Rush bridge. It's not a coincidence. The Gilmour part was recorded in 1977, the Lifeson part in 1980. The only differences are the key and the fact that the Gilmour part was double-tracked. Mmm, I don't think that's close enough to call lifting. Alex is clearly playing a more complex rhythm in that YYZ lick than Gilmore plays in Dogs, Alex is using a combination of 16ths and 8ths whereas Gilmore is just playing triplets. Not to mention Alex goes up and down his triads whereas Gilmore only goes down. It's true that each 3 notes batch in the Gilmour run descends in sequence, but the pitch at the beginning of a sequence is higher than the pitch of the last note in the previous sequence, so it has sort of a stair step feel rather than a linear descent feel. And yeah, Alex's riff is very different. Each pattern is a group of 4, with the lowest note the same in each group (open B string), which gives the whole riff has a "pedal point" feel, and each pattern of four notes has an "up/up/down/down" pitch arrangement, rather than the "down/down/down" pitch arrangement in the groupings of the Gilmour run. And finally, Alex's lick is mostly hammer ons and pull offs, which gives it a very fluid feel ("legato"), whereas Gilmour's lick is more saw-toothed. This is great, we're talking about my #1 and #2 favorite guitarists!

I was thinking the intro to Shine On You Crazy Diamond could have influenced the one in Xanadu. Alex is a huge Gilmour fan, so yes. You can hear in the spacey bridge of YYZ, especially that cascading riff that he stole from Dogs. Can you post the Dogs video and point out the approximate time-stamp where the stolen riff occurs? Here: 13:55 to 14:00 -- a down-cascading hammer-on-and-off riff leading into a spacey PF bridge -- bears an uncanny resemblance to Alex's down-cascading hammer-on-and-off riff in YYZ leading into a spacey Rush bridge. I can easily imagine Alex being influenced by that lick, but it's not nearly close enough to the descending lick in YYZ to say Alex stole it.

I was thinking the intro to Shine On You Crazy Diamond could have influenced the one in Xanadu. Alex is a huge Gilmour fan, so yes. You can hear in the spacey bridge of YYZ, especially that cascading riff that he stole from Dogs. Can you post the Dogs video and point out the approximate time-stamp where the stolen riff occurs?

I was thinking the intro to Shine On You Crazy Diamond could have influenced the one in Xanadu. For sure, and probably did to some degree. PF was so great at that sort of thing.

I can't imagine Geddy, Alex, and Neil listening to Dark Side Of The Moon and saying "moody, atmospheric stuff has no place in rock music".

We were watching Knives Out last night and during one of Plummer's scenes I said, "I wonder how much longer he'll be with us?"

1. Hemispheres 2. Permanent Waves 3. Moving Pictures 4. 2112 5. A Farewell To Kings On occasion #2 and #3 swap positions.

I guess they should've posted a transcribed edited version of the interview. I suppose if their goal was to please me then maybe they should have. But I kinda' doubt they give a rat's ass about my opinion. Not giving a rat's ass about my opinion is generally a good practice (as my wife can attest). They're not the only ones who would benefit from doing so.

Sorry to hear that—I’ve known him for just over 35 years. He’s good people, and he was probably almost as nervous to do that interview as any of us would be. It definitely showed.

It's a very cool piece of music.

I didn't finish it. The interviewer's style put me off too much.

You're right, of course. Most days I love what I do. I sincerely look forward to doing the work.

Fly By Night. It wasn't the latest Rush album at the time (that was AFTK), but it had just the right combination of ingredients to appeal to my burgeoning interest in non AM-radio music.

The joys of IT!!! ...... I happily left all that stuff behind when my company offered me early retirement in Dec 2013. Life is much simpler now! I envy you! So which one of you is on envy island now? :huh: :lol: My own catch phrase being used against me. Oh the horror!

I’m basically a team of one.

The joys of IT!!! ...... I happily left all that stuff behind when my company offered me early retirement in Dec 2013. Life is much simpler now! I envy you!

For the 17+ years I've been working at my company, IT has said, "all web apps must run in IE -- other browsers are not supported". Microsoft has retired IE in favor of EDGE, so now IT says, "all web apps must run in EDGE -- other browsers are not supported". This means I have to go through all the web pages I've built over the years and do what's needed to make sure they run in EDGE. So, for example when I referenced a value from a dropdown list, in IE, I would use ddl.options.value; now all those occurrences have to be converted to ddl.value. Today I stumbled on a new one: var now = new Date(); var year = now.getYear(); Works fine in IE, but not in EDGE (2021 becomes 121), so now.getYear(); must be now.getFullYear(); And then to make matters worse, I have the user community to deal with as the tools are rolled out for testing. Me: "Please do a thorough test of the EDGE version of the tool. Simply checking to see if you can access the tool in EDGE will not be a sufficient test. Use it as if it were the only version of the tool you had available – because it will be." User: "I was able to access the tool in EDGE."

Yes, and this was the first album where I hesitated to accept it.

Playing Hemispheres there.