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GeddysMullet

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  1. 2 hours ago, Rhyta said:

    I think it's a nice concept but doesn't really work that well,  I love watermelon but in water? A big no.  I also dislike it from an ecological standpoint, more plastic bottles that aren't going to be recycled.  At least put it in cans like the other seltzer waters.  If I want flavored water, there is a product called True Lemon that I use.  It comes in packets and I use it in my tea all the time, really nice.  They also have Lime, Orange and Grapefruit.  It is hard to find sometimes but usually on the aisle near the koolaid.

    True Lemon is awesome.  I use all their products, the citrus powders, the fruity drink mixes, the seasoning blends.  Good stuff.

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  2. 6 hours ago, Timbale said:

    His voice is the perfect vehicle for Peart's lyrics.  Peart used a lot of words that many lyric writers would stay away from, I think - "microcosmic" for example - and somehow, Geddy's very enunciated style (at least in the height of his career) was perfectly suited to that stuff.  His voice is unique...and I think from MP on he is kind of underrated as a singer.  Rush is not overly emotional music... but he does have moments where he connects that way.  It's so hard to think of his voice as separate from Rush, which is why I voted that maybe he's in my top 10 - he just IS Rush.  I particularly enjoyed when he dropped down into his less shrieky register.  His singing on Signals is probably my fave. 

    I especially love Geddy’s live vocals, because in the studio he tended to sacrifice passion for precision, but in live performances his voice had a little bit of a mind of its own and a passion that really moves me would come through.

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  3. 2 hours ago, Timbale said:

    So you don't think Rush were performing Finding My Way, In The Mood, Working Man, Take A Friend and What You're Doing in '73-'74?  I find it hard to believe that a band in that position went into the studio and decided "let's write new material for this".  Like, it's not how bands make 1st records, almost ever.

    They were probably playing those songs in some unfinished form that they were expecting to improve upon.  Who knows.  Probably not even Geddy and Alex remember the full story at this point.

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  4. WIth Neil, Geddy and Alex always wrote music independently of the lyrics, then worked on fitting the lyrics Neil had given them into the music they had written.  So I would guess the songs were ones that Geddy and Alex had already worked on musically while expecting that John would be providing lyrics in time to record.  

  5. 2 hours ago, goose said:

    I've always taken the song's message around our insignificance as permission to let go of things rather than a lamentation.  It seems there's a clear religious/Christian undertone that offers hope.  Floyd's Wish You Were Here doesn't have that element.  So, yeah, optimism vs pessimism.

    I really like that interpretation of Dust In The Wind. I suppose it says something about me that I've never liked the song because I heard it as an existential lament and never picked up on an element of hope. I may hear it differently now. That might not change my regard for the song but I like the idea of trying a new way of listening to it when it comes on the radio instead of instantly turning it off.

     

    Wish You Were Here I never heard as an existential lament but always very face-value as a song of missing someone precious who is lost. It's a song that reminds me very strongly of a particular difficult time in my life, but in a comforting way. Wish You Were Here the album is the only Pink Floyd album I ever really connected with. I still love it. I don't particularly care for Welcome To The Machine and Have A Cigar as songs by themselves but Wish You Were Here might possibly be #1 on my all-time list of albums that demand start-to-finish listening to be honoured and savoured properly.

     

    Tangentially relevant: Pink Floyd did the song Time, which is the only song I disliked even more when I was a kid than Dust In The Wind for the feeling of existential dread it gave me. Dust In The Wind is positively sunny and cheery compared to that one! 

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  6. 2 hours ago, goose said:

    Two very different songs from my perspective, so it's hard to compare them.  Dust In The Wind is a much more positive, uplifting song, whereas Wish you Were Here has Floyd's cynical bite.  Both are great in their own right, of course.

    Hmmm.  “Positive and uplifting” is an interesting take on Dust In The Wind.  Is that a bit of a glass half-full/glass half-empty thing?

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  7. Ok, one more question before I leave this thread for now, how does one get warning points, I ask this because I wanna know so I don't do any of the things that could get me those warning points and get me possibly banned.

     

    Welcome to the forum! Don't worry too much about the warning points. As long as you are civil and do unto others as you would have them do unto you, you will be just fine :yes:

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  8. I wrote to Lorraine regularly during the time that she was ill. She answered when she could. I keep tripping over a thought of "Oh, I should send Lorraine a message today". She can no longer answer, but I still keep wanting to do it.

     

    Music brought us all together, so I'm making a "Lorraine mix" playlist to celebrate her, and I'd love to include suggestions from other friends that miss her. If you are of a mind, please contribute!

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  9. I'm a bit surprised at the amount of accolades this guy is getting both from old school musicians and celebs and more recent ones. I don't remember any recent drummer getting this many not even Neil Peart. And lots of other musicians have died in recent years but most of them don't get all this love. I'm not a fan of the band, but even if I was I'd be surprised. Just seems a bit strange to me, I don't get it. :huh:

    It’s at least as much to do with his work and his skills as it is his personality and how he handled himself around both fans and fellow musicians of all ages and stages in life. He was loved because he was so loving of others.

     

    I think in comparison to Neil, who was influential but not a social butterfly, Taylor and Dave had become the face of rock music at a time it needed positive personalities. Twitter and the Oscars can be bleak if searching for the best humanity has to offer.

     

    So true! Taylor was a skilled drummer, but I think a lot of the accolades are more about his enthusiasm, commitment, and his being an all-around good guy than about his technical drumming prowess. It’s just too sad for words to think that such a joy-bringer was in the kind of pain that leads to medicating to early death.

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  10. Since Phil was a drummer, I wonder if he didn't see sitting down for the shows as that big of a deal. He may have thought that fans were used to seeing him perform that way. The money is probably a huge deciding factor too. Or it could be possible that he genuinely wanted to give the fans some kind of farewell before he was unable to do anything on stage at all.

     

    Agreed. Folks are being awfully hard on Phil. And the guy has been a performer for 50 years, maybe he also wanted to give himself a last farewell to that part of his life.

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