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KISS (and Aerosmith) are not my cup of tea. While I was a kid in the 70's I really didn't get into music until I saw Rush in '83. That changed everything.

KISS fans are probably the most rabid in the music world. You can get buried in a KISS casket for Pete's sake!

The heartbeat at the end of Cygnus X-1. Only noticed it after reading about it and then putting on some headphones to listen more closely.

 

On the vinyl version of FbN, the chimes at the end of By-Tor don't end, they continue into the run-out groove. And the tonality of the chimes is different on vinyl than on CD.

 

There is a slight ghosted vocal at the end of Didacts and Narpets on CoS, when the vocals shout "Listen!", you can hear it almost as a ghosted echo after the track ends.

 

The remastered VT revealed a lot of things that I never noticed before, little sounds here and there in various songs. It was like hearing it again brand new.

I had to drag out my vinyl of Fly By Night and the chimes fade out before the run out groove.!Mine must be a later pressing,i've been ripped off!Yes I am still hearing things between the two Vapor Trails,particularly more of Alex's guitar parts.I have always tried to decipher the communication dialogue on Countdown.I have the Sector 3 release and it all sounds so clearer to my standard issue from years ago.

Mostly accurate transcript of the Countdown dialogue follows. As a 12 year old I recorded the audio of that launch by holding my tape recorder up to the TV speaker.

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=207518

And video/audio of the launch. I get goose bumps remembering how I felt that morning.

Also, the definite sound of bell bottoms during Natural Science and Jacob's Ladder

Impossible. Bell bottoms were a 70's fad.

The hidden reference in 2112:

"Attention all planets of the solar federation" - 7 words repeated 3 times = 21

"We have assumed control" - 4 words repeated 3 times = 12

I suspect CA rankings (and the rest of the catalog) are strongly correlated to the age of the Rush fan.

I'm 47 and would rank CA somewhere in the middle or a bit lower in their catalog. I'm sure younger fans will rate CA and S&A far higher than I would. And many fans older than myself think any 80's and beyond albums (that is, Permanent Waves on) show Rush past their prime.

Haters gonna hate! Kidding. But honestly, I adore Presto. And not just because my member title comes from the title song. It's my go-to pick-me-up especially if I've had a bad day. Available Light is gorgeous; love love the piano there. Besides, I wouldn't even use the CD case as a coaster. It has bunnies on it! Bunnies!

Available Light is sooo underrated. I would make the argument it's one of their best post-MP songs. Lyrics are great too.

"Promise offered in the east/Broken in the west"

The writing was on the wall from the beginning. In the end, the decision to stop touring was influenced by one person and one person only. So stop trying to say that it was a mutual decision that they all considered. Geddy and Alex simply did what Neil wanted without any input of what they would want.

Rush has never been a democracy where the majority could "force" the minority into decisions. They have always been a unanimous operation. All three would need to be in agreement on any decisions they made.

Neil didn't want to do anything between 1997 and 2001, do you feel that he was being a jerk then, since certainly Ged and Al "did what Neil wanted without any input of what they would want"?

Just to be clear, this happened during the tour:

"I thought the spacious landscapes of northwestern Arizona would be ideal, and we arranged to meet in Seligman on July 26, a day off between shows in Vegas and Phoenix."

My parents more or less refused to buy me rock music for Christmas so I appealed to my grandmother. She bought me cassettes of MP and Signals in either 1982 or 1983. From there P/G (cassette), PoW (vinyl), HYF (vinyl), then HYF & 2112 - my very first CDs. Then every current release on CD after that.

I bought Archives and ESL on vinyl and PW on cassette somewhere in there. Not sure exactly when I started to pick up the rest of the back catalog...

How about the "ding"? At 2:29.

I don't listen to my Rush cds or vinyl much these days. Between my live recordings and local radio I get my fill. In Canada we have Canadian content rules and I hear at least a dozen Rush songs a day when the radio is on at work. Still more Rush than anything else though.

 

What are canadian content rules? Radio must play so many canadian bands per hour or something?

 

 

 

http://www.crtc.gc.c...ancon/r_cdn.htm

 

35% canadian in most cases

Wow. I thought it was a radio station promotion or something: "Canadian Content RULES!!"

So I moseyed on over to Syfy.com and they had a "Fun Facts" section for Season 1, Episode 5. One of the fun facts read:

"The Rocinante is a reference to both Cervantes' Don Quixote and the name of the ship in the Rush song "Cygnus X-1.""

So there's that...

Still, it could be a nod to Rush. It's a sci-fi show and obviously X-1 is a sci-fi song. Unless they are tilting at windmills in the show (haven't watched the latest episode yet).

The first episode's title was "Dulcinea". Another episode (only episode 7) that'll air this month is called "Windmills". It couldn't be a more obvious reference to Don Quixote than those two titles.

Now I'm wondering why the show has so many Don Quixote references...

This covers all the bases

 

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7312/11917864925_a28c374858_o.jpg

In Kenowhere, no less.

Just think - 36 years ago today, in 1979, Permanent Waves was a done deal - recorded, pressed, packed and ready to be shipped so that all could have it on January 1, 1980.

Yes, so everyone could get the FIRST ALBUM OF THE 1980's. :haz:

Studio:

YYZ

Turn The Page

Digital Man

Anthem

Malignant Narcissism

Show Don't Tell

La Villa Strangiato

 

Live:

Leave That Thing Alone (TM tour)

Where's My Thing? (RTB & CA tour)

Red Barchetta outro (TM tour)

Driven (Vapor Trails tour)

 

Amazing stuff.

Just rewatching the R40 concert this morning and he totally tears it up on Working Man.

Why start a topic about Geddy's fish?

 

Why not?

You got a point when you look at most of the other threads started in the Rush section. At least a thread about Geddy's fish hasn't already been made over a thousand times.

 

Be grateful I didn't start a thread: Geddy and His Crabs ;)

As a keyboardist, I'm sure Geddy understands it's better to have a lobster on your piano than crabs on your organ!

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Why start a topic about Geddy's fish?

 

Why not?

You got a point when you look at most of the other threads started in the Rush section. At least a thread about Geddy's fish hasn't already been made over a thousand times.

 

Be grateful I didn't start a thread: Geddy and His Crabs ;)

As a keyboardist, I'm sure Geddy understands it's better to have a lobster on your piano than crabs on your organ!

Reminds me of this bit on Robot Chicken featuring the ghost of Liberace:

But, that brings up an important question.

 

Is Geddy a fisherman? Has anyone ever caught him with a fishing rod in his hand trying to catch some of Canada's finest fish?

I think there's a picture out there of Ged and Les Claypool on a boat holding up a fish.

The song was entirely inspired by "A Nice Morning Drive" written by Richard Foster and appearing in the November, 1973 issue of Road & Track. It imagines a future where government safety regulations result in cars being overbuilt for safety:

"But in the late Seventies, with no major wars, cancer cured and social welfare straightened out. the politicians needed a new cause and once again they turned toward the automobile. The regulations concerning safety became tougher. Cars became larger, heavier, less efficient. They consumed gasoline so voraciously that the United States had had to become a major ally with the Arabian countries. The new cars were hard to stop or maneuver quickly. but they would save your life (usually) in a 5O-mph crash. With 200 million cars on the road, however, few people ever drove that fast anymore."

Article link here: http://www.2112.net/xanadu/articles/a_nice_morning_drive.htm

Remember he has tricky dicky bass and drummer behind him playing dicky tricky time signatures .You can practise widdly tricky guitar licks in your bedroom but it all goes dicky if it aint sticky with the other guys in the band.

 

What's a time signature?

 

It's how musical passages are grouped/arranged. Go listen to the intro to Kid Gloves. If you count each note that Alex is playing, you're counting quarter notes. You'll notice that the notes are arranged into groups of 5 (1-2-3-4-5, repeat). That means the intro is in 5/4: 5 groups of quarter notes per measure. The verses are in 5/4 as well. When the music changes to fit the "call it blind frustration" sections, it switches to 4/4 (you count 1-2-3-4, repeat). The duration-value of the notes in both those sections is the same -- they're quarter notes, but the grouping changes from groups of 5 to groups of 4.

I'm pretty bad at figuring time signatures but a very illustrative example (if it hasn't already been mentioned) is Workin' Them Angels. The verse is 3/4 and the chorus is 4/4.

My favorite line and it may be one of the top 5 couplets of Pearts career

 

Medication or meditation

A comfort or a promised reward

We should start a couplet thread. My favorite:

I feel the sense of possibilities

I feel the wrench of hard realities

Sooo much truth there.

Those usually aren't iron clad. Some have out together greatest hits with one new song and managed to meet the requirements as well.

 

Is the record company going to get is "bang for the buck" with an album in which Peart may be "mailing it in" in regard to the contract?

 

I don't think it's in Neil's DNA to mail anything in.

 

....including his retirement plans. ;)

Touche!

Those usually aren't iron clad. Some have out together greatest hits with one new song and managed to meet the requirements as well.

 

Is the record company going to get is "bang for the buck" with an album in which Peart may be "mailing it in" in regard to the contract?

I don't think it's in Neil's DNA to mail anything in.