Godeater2112

QUOTE (Union 5-3992 @ Jun 14 2012, 07:22 PM) http://i45.tinypic.com/nbxidc.jpg Now I got it! Great shot!

QUOTE (Tony R @ Jun 14 2012, 05:22 PM) I've never understood how non-believers can blaspheme. Surely only believers can blaspheme? Exactly.

I give up oving... If you're bored this evening though I'd bet "The Garden" must provide some other fodder for potential blasphemy conspiracy theories, have fun.

QUOTE (Scottishdood @ Jun 14 2012, 04:52 PM) Lean not upon the handle of the suitcase with the collapsible grip as it makes you look like a tw** at the airport when it folds beneath thee! Travel tips brought to you direct from Caledonia! Haha! I like your sense of humour friend, I'd bet if we ever got together for a pint we'd probably really hit it off.

Trust me, I am impressed that you or your friend "noticed" the similarity. I am far from religious but the bible does make a good scholarly read. Nobody cried blasphemy if he borrowed a cool phrase from Shakespeare. If he "did" take this from the bible, you folks should maybe be proud that he did. Or something...

QUOTE (Ovningskora @ Jun 14 2012, 04:45 PM) QUOTE (Godeater2112 @ Jun 14 2012, 01:43 PM) WTF is this? Are you seriously suggesting that these two lines from Neil are ripped off from the bible and contorted to be blasphemous? Really? Man... wait until you see the 2112 cover, you're going to have a field day with that one! Might be, might not be. Seems satirical to me, and we all know Neil's one of the proudest atheists out there. I bet Neil reads everything from the Koran down the Swank Magazine and sponges up interesting little ways to describe things, or nuggets of wisdom from all over the place... "Lean not on your own understanding" could have come from anywhere, possibly the bible, but to suggest he purposely took those and contorted them... that's really loony dude.

WTF is this? Are you seriously suggesting that these two lines from Neil are ripped off from the bible and contorted to be blasphemous? Really? Man... wait until you see the 2112 cover, you're going to have a field day with that one!

How does this work? Radiation?

QUOTE (greg2112 @ Jun 14 2012, 07:26 AM) Heard about half of it so far. Best Pumpkins in years, very old school Gish song on many tunes. Looking forward to buying the album next week. That is very encouraging to hear, Gish is a wonderful album.

QUOTE (Rushman14 @ Jun 14 2012, 01:05 PM) QUOTE (LeaveMyThingAlone @ Jun 14 2012, 09:48 AM) So when you guys say "he let the cat out of the bag" are you referring to bringing an orchestra on tour with them? Wow, that would be freakin' incredible and would mean without a doubt they're playing the whole album live and would probably play some other tunes conducive to an orchestra...Losing It? a small orchestra during Clockwork Angels in its entirety would not suck at all Rush will not just bring one in for the sake of doing something silly. I'm looking at you Metallica! If they do choose to do this and to whatever extent, I am sure it will be AWESOME. I can forsee them opening the second set with all or most of Clockwork Angels with an 'orchestra' then using them for a couple vintage tracks where it really makes sense too! With or without it and with or without the ENTIRE Clockwork Angels album being played, this tout will kick ass either way!

Ahhhhhhh. Actual conversations about Rush.....

Good news, Jeremy @ RoadRunner says he will try to get a copy of it from SiriusXM and post it to the RoadRunner web site.

QUOTE (losingit2k @ Jun 14 2012, 10:34 AM) I love it too man!! Lets go watch double rainbows together. I almost lost my mind at work yesterday watching the DOUBLE RAINBOWS GUY for the first time.

QUOTE (trenken @ Jun 14 2012, 10:19 AM) Gotta love when people pass their opinion off as fact. ... it just wasnt mixed or mastered well. That's just reality. Come on man! Anyway this is not a sad day for anyone except those obsessively captivated to analyzing the "sound quality" and fretting about it. Not a sad day for me at all, I'm in love with this album, sound quality and all and I probably can't say I've enjoyed a new release so much since I became a fan around Hold your Fire time.

Yeah I am keeping my eyes and ears peeled, this was absolutely golden and I'd love to listen to it again, was half way while tuning in lats night.

QUOTE (Rush-O-Matic @ Jun 14 2012, 08:47 AM) QUOTE (Godeater2112 @ Jun 14 2012, 07:08 AM) Someone with more time that I have did a pretty good run-down of the "interview" on RIAB. Credit to "Most Endangered Species" from over there: Here are some highlights from the interview for those who missed it: . . . When asked if they'd ever consider adding other pieces to their tour, Neil gave sort of a long stammering pause (seeming to choose his words carefully) before saying they are "talking about" augmenting the live performances with an orchestra. The way he stumbled at the beginning of his answer led me to the same conclusion as #14 below, that he let the cat out of the bag. He TOTALLY let the cat out of the bag. If somebody posts the audio for this, it is clear he was getting ready to say something different. Somebody in the studio or "behind the glass" made him change course from what he was about to say. Totally. Hey I'm glad someone else at least heard this! They may never replay it and possibly nobody managed to record the audio for it. I expected to wake up this morning to find a hundred Rush fans stammering about how amazing this interview was, instead I could only find two people between here and RIAB that apparently tuned in. Here of course getting buried by threads about trolls and bad sound quality... *sigh*

Someone with more time that I have did a pretty good run-down of the "interview" on RIAB. Credit to "Most Endangered Species" from over there: Here are some highlights from the interview for those who missed it: Jim Ladd, for those who don't know, was a well known radio DJ in LA ever since forever. Very passionate and opinionated about rock music. He had a brief spot in the Moving Pictures Classic Album episode. The format of the interview was a track by track discussion of the whole Clockwork Angels storyline, with Neil reading the prose from the liner notes leading into the playing of each of the 12 songs in order, with brief interview questions before/after each song that shed light on what we'll see in the novel. Seemed that Ladd did his homework about the songs and the storyline, and he gathered several questions from a colleague at Sirius who is a big Rush fan. With Neil doing interviews so infrequently, it was a treat to listen to an interview that was a serious attempt to get to the bottom of the lyrical subject matter. The way I would put it, they "gave the album the attention it deserves." Neil said he just finished recording the audiobook and joked that because of that he was very warmed up to read these liner notes intros. [i though he did indeed read it very professionally] The lyric "In a world where I feel so small" wasn't originally in the lyrics that Neil submitted to Geddy, and came about later in the writing process because Geddy asked for an extra line to make it sound good. He described The Anarchist's character as a "Freedom Extremist", the polar opposite of the Watchmaker. Not originally a terrorist, but "brought up" to be "lacking" which in turn fueled his evil. Neil said the Anarchist fits the saying "I am the way my life has made me." He said he got chills when he heard Geddy sing "A missing part of me that grows around me like a cage." Didn't realize how cool a lyric that was until he heard Ged sing it. A funny part was that Neil referred to The Anarchist as a "Malignant Narcissist" and even quoted the line from Team America: World Police (as authentic as he could with a girly voice!). The song Clockwork Angels is about how the pageantry of Chronos Square is meant to keep the population in line. Noted how in Ancient Rome they said "Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt." Joked about the reference to In N Out milkshakes with the biblical quote in the title track. He explained to Jim Ladd how that SoCal burger chain has biblical chapter:verse references on the bottom of their cups and fries. [As a sidenote, I actually had lunch at In N Out today and sure enough there was "Proverbs 3:5" at the bottom of my milkshake.] And proof that Neil is not infallible, during the interview he mistakenly referred to it as Proverbs 3:16. Asked about his collaboration with Kevin Anderson (author of the book version), he said they always wanted to collaborate on something but never had an opportunity until this project. Neil had the initial idea and they fleshed out some of the story while on a hike near his home in Colorado, discussing themes of order and freedom. Halo Effect was one song that came out of that collaboration. They weren't afraid to make the hero in the story a reflection of themselves and this song was somewhat inspired by experiences in their own lives. The Pedlar is really the Watchmaker in disguise. He wants to know what people lack, hoping the answer is "nothing". His role in the storyline is to prompt soliloquy's with his "What do you lack?" question. When asked if they'd ever consider adding other pieces to their tour, Neil gave sort of a long stammering pause (seeming to choose his words carefully) before saying they are "talking about" augmenting the live performances with an orchestra. The way he stumbled at the beginning of his answer led me to the same conclusion as #14 below, that he let the cat out of the bag. Francesca is the name of the trapeze artist that the hero gets tooled by in Halo Effect. [i'm wondering if that name could be a literary reference of some kind?] The historical factoid about the fake lighthouses from The Wreckers is that this was done in the southwest coast of England, in Cornwall. Speaking for myself, I have been confused about why BU2B2 comes after Headlong Flight. Seemed backwards to me, as BU2B2 seems like a sort of fork in the road that should follow the character's disaster in The Wreckers, with Headlong Flight as sort of a 3-part epilogue to his adventures along with Wish Them Well and The Garden. Neil addressed that a little bit in this interview, he said that in BU2B2's soliloquy the hero is figuring out how to deal with all the bad things that happened to him, and Wish Them Well is the answer that he comes up with. Asked if Wish Them Well is how he approaches life, he said it's more like a resolution that we should try to do that. Ladd said "like turning the other cheek?" and Peart said no you're not just standing there and taking more abuse, you're walking away from the situation.

Did nobody else hear this last night?! HOLY SHIT this was the most amazing thing I've ever heard on the radio! First off I expected you know a half hour interview with Neil, same old questions, probably not playing much off the new album? No. This interview went on for hours. Neil was so excited he would go on and on for 10 minutes without Jim Ladd getting in a word edge-wise, very insightful, Neil was terribly excited about the new album, I'd never heard him like this before! To top it off they played the entire album, track-by-track, with Neil explaining the concept entirely, he would then narrate the introduction right before each of the songs before they kicked off. I don't know the relationship between Neil and Jim Ladd, but Neil was right in his comfort zone with this guy like they are best buddies, no stuffiness whatsoever. This was beyond awesome, please tell me a bunch of you managed to listen and heck even record it! We'll have to keep our ears peeled for a replay. Wow! Can you tell I am excited?!

Hard to teach the cranky old bastards in the crowd new tricks. I can't even train half of them to stand up. Cool idea, not a fan of slappin' da bass schtick though. And good god, nothing like the retreads in the Superconductor video... I wills tart hurling people I swear. How stoned were they when they approved this idiotic concept for a video?

QUOTE (ShlappinDahBass @ Jun 13 2012, 03:21 PM) QUOTE (marblesmike @ Jun 13 2012, 02:16 PM) QUOTE (Storm Shadow @ Jun 13 2012, 03:14 PM) I read all of losingit2k's posts with that "double rainbow all the way" guy's voice in my head. Who's the double rainbow guy? That sounds funny. It's a video of this guy that is so out of his mind baked looking at a double rainbow...It is funny. You will laugh. Holy shit that is funny!

QUOTE (Gompers @ Jun 13 2012, 03:03 PM) QUOTE (ShlappinDahBass @ Jun 13 2012, 03:01 PM) I am so confused on what is going on in the forum post anymore. lol. All I know is that people do not understand the definition between a troll and a person with an honest opinion. This thread is not about people with honest opinions. It is about TROLLS. Has nobody read the title yet?

QUOTE (Repner @ Jun 12 2012, 06:03 PM) I got my fan pack yesterday. It wasn't until soon after that I saw some other people had been getting a poster with their names on them, and that it was only available to those who ordered before the 8th of May. I ordered on the 3rd What is your name? One of us can check if your name is at least on it. I could later but now I am at work. edit: sorry I missed you were already smart enough to think of that. LOL.

QUOTE (marblesmike @ Jun 13 2012, 02:56 PM) Example? No deal Mike!

QUOTE (ReflectedLight @ Jun 13 2012, 12:12 PM) QUOTE (Godeater2112 @ Jun 13 2012, 11:10 AM) All I know is that this album sounds amazing to me! vapor trails sounded fine to me so i don't know what the hell you guys are talking about. Ha! Well that one I will admit certainly sounded like assholes in a blender! CA though? Not that I don't believe the audiophile take on it, but I'm frankly surprised there are complaints, didn't expect that.

All I know is that this album sounds amazing to me!