templejanitor

I'm a long time RUSH fan and go back a long way. I remember something about the ESL album was the first live album by anyone to be digitally mastered. Everyone at the time said it would sound differently on radio. Can anyone else confirm this? If it was digitally mastered, shouldn't they last a long time?

OK, I get it. Geddy is the guy in the white t-shirt and black vest, right? I didn't recognize him at first.

Anybody else buy any of the new RUSH stamps being release on 7/19/13 from the Canadian Postal Service? I bought 6 of the OFDC - official first day covers - about $1.60 each. The dumbest thing, it put a fraud alert on my credit card I used to purchase them. No worries, I called and told them it was OK to accept orders from this website.

Now that's it's starting to get warmer out, there's nothing better than cranking the first 5 or 6 songs in the car on my way home from work. You know, windows down, volume all the way up. The Anarchist still mesmerizes me, their playing is that good.

What is a man card anyway?

 

I guess if I have I ask, I really don't need to know anyway.

 

Sounds like a license to be a loser.

 

Geeez, I'm in trouble now.

 

 

I have been following RUSH since 2112.

 

I have ridden the ups and the downs, the happiness and the tragedy, the good albums and the maybe-not-as-good albums.

 

I cried with Neil in 1998 when I, too, lost a child. I lost my sense for music.

 

Then I jumped for joy when they decided to go on. VT was a comeback album for me too.

 

I think CA may be the end. I can live with that. It's OK to cry when you know friends are crying too.

 

 

 

I was first turned on to Rush when I first heard 2112.

 

Xanadu had me banging the walls.

 

Hemispheres made me think.

 

Freewill made me jump for joy.

 

Entre Nous made me dance.

 

The Trees had me pondering my place in the universe.

 

Then I lost track as life got in the way.

 

Peaceable Kingdom gave me a reason to believe again.

 

The Larger Bowl made me take pause.

 

I've run the gammut of emotions with RUSH, but nothing like The Garden.

 

I first listened to it on a good stereo system about an hour ago, and I'm still crying.

 

Geeeez, is this not the most beautiful song you've ever heard?

 

Damn it boys, don't say goodbye. But if you are, thanks for being.

I'm working my way gradually into this one.

 

Played the whole thing non-stop for the first time today on a pair of nice computer speakers while I was at work. The first 6 songs just blew me away.

 

May listen to it again tomorrow at work.

 

Friday I'll listen to the CD on a good CD player with a good pair of headphones.

 

Saturday I'll have a few beers and crank it up on the home stereo. I'm not planning on being disappointed.

 

There's so many different things going on in this album that I want to listen it real close and absorb every note.

 

This is one of their best efforts. Even a bad RUSH album is so far better than anybody else it isn't even funny.

 

All I can say now is "Well done boys." Looking forward to Philly on 10/12.

 

 

I got 4 seats in Section 112 row 10 and I'm happy. A little better than Hershey, not as good as what I had in Allentown, but at least I won't have to stand or look around other people. But I hate the wait. October 12? Geeeeeeez.

There's nothing like a good Star Trek episode or movie.

 

But I've gone beyond sci-fi to where sci-fi meets reality.

 

dark matter

dark energy

string theory and m-theory

the concept of space-time

the LHC

AMS-02

how we are affected by what lurks in other dimensions

geocaching

watching the ISS fly over

watching any satellite fly over

watching the NASA channels and the astronauts work on the ISS

 

It's amazing where the mind goes when you're listening to RUSH music.

 

The only thing that disappointed me was the freakin' rain and rush-hour traffic in Allentown. Oh, and the 1/4 mile walk to the bathroom in the parking lot.

 

Everything looked good and sounded good from Section 105 row G. The crowd was much more energetic than at Allentown last August. Eveybody was dancing and singing at the top of their lungs. It was good to see a full house. We stood most of the show.

 

The boys seemed to enjoy themselves, I thought Neil was making his best effort, he's never disappointed me in any show. He seemed like he was into it, very powerful, very smooth.

 

This was the first time seeing them indoors since 1984. Some outdoor arenas are horrible acoustically, but I enjoyed the sound better at Allentown last August. But the Giant Center took me right back to my old party days at the Spectrum.

 

We thought the concert was great and everyone had a blast.

And for BU2B -

 

Brought up to Believe - you can do anything you want.

 

And they certainly have, and I believe in their desire to do whatever they want.

 

And I believe in their ability to keep us entertained and inquisitive as to the real meaning to their music. That's why we discuss it here.

 

I think it's alot simpler than most of us say here.

 

I don't think they have anything to prove to anybody else but themselves, and I appreciate their ability to push the outside of the envelope.

 

All their music means something to me, and I believe in their ability to make me think about it. I have many albums I call favorites, but none that I really don't care to ever listen to again.

 

RUSH music has set a mood for my life for over 30 years. It is a respect I will carry forever.

 

 

I haven't played the new songs more than once or twice a day, but I've gotten alot from them. It has always taken many listenings to digest their music properly. I don't jam it in to my brain in one day.

 

I think the boys have jumped into a time machine and gone back to the beginning, where the world was Toronto and they had big dreams.

 

The instrumental section of Caravan seems to be a medley of older bits done as they might do them if they were written today. Newer technology, better musicianship. But as everybody has noticed, there are lots of older bits in there.

 

The Caravan - is you and me and all of us who have followed them for 36 years and I think they're trying to thanks us for our support.

 

But I also think it's the beginning of the end.

 

I think the Time Machine album will celebrate their time with us for all these years and everything will come to an end after the tour next year.

 

I thank the boys for their participation in my life and hope I am wrong.

 

 

I've had the second half of "Lakeside Park" buzzing in my head for 2 weeks now. I don't know why, it's just there.

 

".......some memories last forever."

 

So true of all the RUSH concerts I've been too.

 

Maybe that's it!

 

Or I'm just going crazy.

 

I think I'm going crazy.

 

Dammit.

 

QUOTE (sanzo @ Mar 30 2008, 04:29 PM)

All I listen to now is Rush, why listen to others when you know there is better?

A day late and a dollar short as usual.........

 

Thanks for your work on getting us the clip, Cygnus.

 

It sounds more Feedback-ish to me, not VT-ish at all. I'm old enough to remember the original music they did on FB, and really liked their renditions of them all. If the whole album rocks with that kind of sound ............................ oh my!