Bard

My daughter was sent a recent picture of this from a friend. Your stick is either gone or been moved to the star. There are 3 sticks on the star but none on the wreath. Yeah, you can't expect stuff on Hollywood Blvd to stay there for very long lol. The star was inundated with flowers and sticks and candles last week, I'm pretty sure it gets cleared every night by the locals. It's all about the journey, as Neil might say. ;)

I agree. What a punk.

Well, I had to make the pilgrimage. I’ve been thinking a lot about how much music is such a big part of my life this last week. One of my few personal heroes passed suddenly this week. I’m feeling it. It’s not the mortality of it all, I came to understandings of that a long time ago. It’s something bigger than death, bigger than the passing of an era. Neil, he was the poet laureate for hard rock. Greatest drummer of all time, you bet, but also a master lyricist and writer. My first 2 record purchases as a kid were Rush Permanent Waves and Van Halen Fair Warning. Throughout our high school and collegiate careers, our tribes pretty much feasted on a fairly constant diet of Zep, VH, Rush, and AC/DC, with generous helpings of 70’s Aero, the Doors, the Kinks, and Stevie Ray. But 9 times outta 10, at any particular gathering, it was either VH, Rush, or Zeppelin playing at any given time. My first Rush gig was later in their career, the Presto tour in ‘90, at Arco Arena in Sac. I still remember the giant inflatable bunnies. Since then, I’ve pretty much caught every tour. Irvine Meadows on the Roll the Bones tour, wrecked to high heaven. The Hollywood Bowl on the Snakes and Arrows tour, wordless at the magnificence at hand. Front and center at Gibson Amp for the Time Machine tour. San Diego for the Clockwork Angels tour. And finally The Last Rush Show at the Forum on the R40 tour, where along with everyone else in attendance I wept when Neil came out for his first - and last - bow ever. Watching Bubba play wasn’t just watching a percussionist at the highest level. It was like watching a ballet. Such precision and tone, dedication to craftsmanship, ever the perfectionist but allowing, even humorously, for imperfections. The loss is so profound. Because it’s pure flashpoint art, and it will never be replicated, and as Neil always said, musicians are, have to be, all about live performance. And I’ve seen and experienced a LOT of legendary musical acts, and even beyond being a loyal Rush fan, I don't have to tell anyone here...a finer live power trio, there isn’t. Anyway...I discovered the City of Angels deemed fit to place a wreath at Rush’s star on the Walk of Fame, though they, or the WeHo contingents, cleared up the candles and flowers and sticks left earlier this week. I brought a candle and a drumstick of my own, placed the stick within the wreath as you can see. And I had a long solemn moment and shed tears. It felt like I was there repping a bunch of guys n’ gals I came of age with, like I was a proxy of sorts. Like all of you, Rush was ever present throughout our lives...whether it was a few of us sitting around a campfire drinking brews in the dark hours of midnight listening to a well worn 8 track of 2112, or whether a stadium full of us were transfixed by another mind blowing drum solo. And it was here, among the raggedy lost soul carnivals of Hollywood Boulevard, that I said my last good bye to a good man, a brilliant man, and wished him fair journeys in the worlds to come. Thanks again Neil. You gave happiness and joy to millions. No small feat. Well done, brother.

Well I remember YOU......stupidity like that is unforgettable :) Banter with a Scot is largely...forgettable. :)

Sorry. I don't remember you. :)

I don't give a toss what others wrote, I'm speaking only for myself, and you started the ad-hominem shit. Again, I think your sense of humour switch is broken....I mean, look at some of the posts for Gods sake, and stop being so literal. Cherry picking is the bastion of the weak. So you only gave a toss about what I wrote, rather than others. How sweet. :) Are you a bit simple or something? Of course I only gave a toss about what you wrote, you were the only one who launched an attack on me. What other people think about Rush is of no real concern to me, it's their opinion. For the record I'm not overly bothered about them stopping either. You still seem to have missed the humour in the thread........ Oh no, laddie. I never even cited or quoted you, nor knew of your existence, until you said this out of the blue: You taking offense at my generalization (which was not pointing out anyone in particular) is on you, son. You launched the specific individual attack. You don't get to cry about it if you fired up at me first. Laddie. :)

I don't give a toss what others wrote, I'm speaking only for myself, and you started the ad-hominem shit. Again, I think your sense of humour switch is broken....I mean, look at some of the posts for Gods sake, and stop being so literal. Cherry picking is the bastion of the weak. So you only gave a toss about what I wrote, rather than others. How sweet. :)

You're right. There is indeed nothing more metal than Tai Shan. Or the Garden. Clearly metal. And Here Again. And CTTH. And GOAC. The list goes on and on. :)

The attacks began from the metal side. Look for yourself, son. So to speak. :)

Interesting how anyone with a different opinion than yourself is a "fanboy" despite posting histories manifestly displaying the opposite..... You don't even seem aware when people are just having a bit of fun with a subject, and it's pretty obvious your irony and sarcasm metres have been bypassed. Oh, and posting text in your dialect only serves to make you look like a moron. Not sure you had a point there. If you had something of substance to say, it seems to have been lost in translation. You must be European, I'll wager. Or perhaps Canadian. :) You're the one who communicates like a cross between a half-baked hillbilly and a doped up student. I was under the impression that English was a common language amongst us, and it's hardly my fault if you've sufficiently mangled it :-) So go on, continue to get busy with the dropped "g" and substitute apostrophe.....it makes you really edgy and cool. Haha. A Scot. Figures. InterWeb 101, man. Rookies.

Interesting how anyone with a different opinion than yourself is a "fanboy" despite posting histories manifestly displaying the opposite..... You don't even seem aware when people are just having a bit of fun with a subject, and it's pretty obvious your irony and sarcasm metres have been bypassed. Oh, and posting text in your dialect only serves to make you look like a moron. Not sure you had a point there. If you had something of substance to say, it seems to have been lost in translation. You must be European, I'll wager. Or perhaps Canadian. :)

LOL. You're a special little man, aren't ya, kid. It wasn't Carrie. :)

I'm no expert on Rush. One need not be an expert on Rush to know such base reflections about hard rock in general. What fools these mortals be. Fanboys are the worst. Blind idolatry. However...Rush is of course whatever you kiddies want it to be. I'm sure that's the way Ged, Al, and Neil would want you to have it. Take 'em however you like, if it rawks in certain shades of rose, super duper flooper. :) So if Rush is metal for you, then that's all right. Heck, I'm sure Rush is Dixieland Delta blues jazz for some people. :)

What a waste of skin you are. You ain't no prog pro, son. :) You obviously haven't read his reviews on the prog archives website. He knows, and loves, his prog. LOL. Anyone who thinks Rush is metal, has no business archiving prog websites.

What a waste of skin you are. You ain't no prog pro, son. :)