GeddysMullet

Well, you weren't completely wrong about him being a girl. Just look at the lyrics to Alone Again lol. I really like that one. Lynch is a beast on that. :guitar: I've got nothing against George's playing on it. The lyrics are just wussy pop garbage. I hardly consider lyrics in music. Lyrics are just like the sprinkles on the cake for me, not even the icing or the cream never mind the cake. I hear lyrics but I don't hear them. It's probably why death metal vocals never bothered me, vocals are just another instrument to my ears, an effect. Lyrics are just a necessary tool. I mean you have to sing something don't you? As for Mr Neil Peart and his lyrics, I prefer to think of him as the man who came up with the themes and concepts for all the albums, the album titles, the song titles, the lyrics were just the nuts and bolts in that whole machine. The themes, concepts, ideas, even the titles are more important to me than the actual lyrics. Lyrics carry a lot of weight with me. Cheese is still cheese no matter how inspiring the music behind it. I mean, take one of the worst songs ever (imo), the horrendous 1982 "I've Never Been To Me". The only way that song would ever be good enough to listen to would be if Warren Zevon or Frank Zappa did a really ironic arrangement/vocal, and they're both dead so.... A more recent example: "I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight". That is one of the dumbest, sappiest, most treacly songs ever. I know 10 year olds who could write better. Sure, it has hairy metal behind it, but that cannot conceal the fact that it's a steaming pile of yak poo. I agree that lyrics are very important and that really bad lyrics can sink a song quickly. But I will say that I think good music can redeem bad lyrics much more easily than good lyrics can redeem bad music.

That's disgraceful and, you're right, utterly tasteless. No class. No dignity. Venal is what it is. Did you read the article? Tom Petty's daughter Annakim is a strange girl, but I think it's wrong to call her venal when those t-shirts were gifts for the funeral attendees, not products for sale. Annakim has an Instagram on which she posts a lot of weird things, but it's not a commercial one on which she does business. Her posting about the funeral on Instagram for Tom's fans and giving out T-shirts to friends and family who came to the funeral was her way of grieving. It might not be the way you would do it, but "tasteless and venal" is really harsh!

Two weeks now. I was thinking today that although I still feel grief at the thought of Neil's passing, also renewed is my deep gratitude that he lived and gave us his music in the first place. Neil is gone, and the living entity called Rush gone with him, but the music will always be there to comfort, soothe and uplift, just as it for so long has been. Thank you, Professor.

Yes- really good tribute, I thought. And here's a response from one of his fellow staff writers, NOT a really good tribute. Neil's body is barely cold and this jerk is slagging on him. https://www.national...een-this-wrong/ If I was Carrie and Olivia, I'd sue for slander. I didn't see anything slanderous there. Just acutely biased opinions. Huh. I see the classless ravings of a complete asshole. Those too. But being an asshole isn't actionable.

I knew it would happen, of course, and that it would hit me hard, but I thought there was time yet.

I'm still not over my annoyance at how the term "goat" in sports used to refer to a person who had made a screw-up that caused a game loss, and then suddenly it became an acronym meaning something so far on the other side of the spectrum. But I guess that's neither here nor there. Carry on!

That sounds like a beautiful moment to me.

I swear all you ever did was slag him off Even if he did, he's not "slagging" Neil now. Is this the time to call someone out for past posts? (IMO, no, it isn't.) Thank you, Jim. Not the time OR the forum section, really.

Such a tangle of them in my mind, but here are my two absolute favourite individual couplets: I see the hands of men arise with hungry minds and open eyes. Pavements may teem with intense energy but the city is calm in this violent sea.

I had for so long cherished the hope that it would be reunion news of some kind that would bring everyone back here....

I cried.

That is the great privilege that we have as fans. Although right now we are mourning, the music will always be there for us.

Rest in peace, you magnificent contrarian.

Noooooooooooooooooooo :( :( :( :( :( :( :(

Even a staunch defender of Geddy's voice like me can admit that he should have left Lakeside Park alone

Same. The memories and friendships.

Amen to THAT!!! I just had it with folks who complained about his voice so much. It not liked the fans (some of them) could do it better!! I LOVE his voice not matter what age our beloved Geddy is...I love his 80s era voice so...and plus, Geddy been singing since he was very young child anyway, it was during 1968-69 he started to used that soaring and high vocals!!! And welcome back!!!! I love Geddy's voice the way I'd love a friend who comforts me when I'm down.

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Are you saying it was kind of a re-edit or that they used different R40 footage? If that's the case then I'm definitely in on the DVD. Both. It was a mixture of footage from the R40 home video release, alternate R40 footage, and a different editing style. I really like the editing style, wish they'd redone the entire concert that way.

I bet Geddy misses Rush as much as any of us.

Bonzie! :o :hi: :Neil: I'm with you on all of this! Geddy's voice is adequate to good on most of R40. Except for Lakeside Park, that even I as a staunch defender of Geddy's voice have to admit he should have stayed away from. After seeing the film I was thinking that I wish they had represented Caress Of Steel with some arrangement of In The Valley/The Fountain, from Lamneth. I think Geddy could have sung that well, and the fans would have gone crazy. I hope you're well. I so miss those listening parties we used to have in chat! Of course you know I would have gone crazy if they didn't play all of Fountain. Sure! But at the same time, you would have been stoked to get some of it, the same way I was with Book II! :P ;)

One thing that has never been in doubt is that Geddy knows how to sing properly and knows how use his voice effectively, whether you like the way it sounds or not.

Bonzie! :o :hi: :Neil: I'm with you on all of this! Geddy's voice is adequate to good on most of R40. Except for Lakeside Park, that even I as a staunch defender of Geddy's voice have to admit he should have stayed away from. After seeing the film I was thinking that I wish they had represented Caress Of Steel with some arrangement of In The Valley/The Fountain, from Lamneth. I think Geddy could have sung that well, and the fans would have gone crazy. I hope you're well. I so miss those listening parties we used to have in chat!

It wasn't exactly a highlight reel of the R40 DVD, but sort of. Some of the shots were different, and some of the songs were from a different performance. It wasn't anything terribly exciting in terms of content, but personally, I really got a kick out of just being in a public space with a bunch of Rush people enjoying some big-screen Rush footage, and reminiscing with random strangers after about what a great experience it was to see Rush live and commiserating regarding missing them. Worth the $11.55 I paid for the ticket.

As an oldster who was there :codger: allow me to answer. Back in the 1970s and early 80s when all these bands were becoming popular, there was no such category as “arena rock.” That came later. AOR was not a genre. The term AOR referred not to a set of bands but to an FM radio station format. It stood for “Album Oriented Rock,” and what that meant was that many different tracks from an album were played, and special presentations included playing full albums on the air, as well as live performances (the famed St Louis Rush show was originally a vinyl pressing of a recording that was circulated for play to FM radio stations) and interviews with artists. All the AOR stations pulled from a tremendously diverse range of rock music but were somewhat independent of each other and aside from certain national programs did their programming the way they saw fit. Deep track and new artist requests were a big part of it. Every commonly discussed band or artist in this forum that released an album before about 1985 is a band that could have been played on a good AOR station. AOR stations are certainly where I heard every one of them for the first time.