GeddysMullet

Unlike the last several Rush screenings I’ve been to, for this one I lucked into a theatre with a huge bright clear screen and an amazing sound system. I could hear every instrument clearly and the close-ups of hands on guitars were downright awe-inspiring. It brought back, if not ALL of the joy and excitement of a Rush gig, at least a satisfying portion of it. I’d go see that film anytime they showed it if I could always see it in that good a room.

I can’t vote for ten of those in total, much less ten from each group!

I'm amused by the absence of The Garden from this list. After Geddy was so proud that Rush finally made a proper power ballad!

So much love and empathy to you, Lorraine :hug2:

 

How I wish the world was a kinder and more just place.

Rush x3. There aren’t very many bands that I actually loathe, but I loathe Foreigner.

I understand your perspective on this, Lorraine.

 

Sending love :hug2:

 

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I just got back from picking out my funeral cards. This is really getting bizarre. I often wonder who the person is that's doing all this stuff while holding normal conversations with people without being a basket case.

 

I think you are incredibly brave. Huge respect. :hug2:

 

I'm not brave. I'm taking the coward's way out. Brave is having the courage to suffer the ravages of chemo.

 

I strongly disagree with this, but I'm not looking to challenge your definitions of courage :) Just to offer my support and let you know that I will always remember you with affection and great regard :hug2:

I understand your perspective on this, Lorraine.

 

Sending love :hug2:

 

:hug2:

 

I just got back from picking out my funeral cards. This is really getting bizarre. I often wonder who the person is that's doing all this stuff while holding normal conversations with people without being a basket case.

 

I think you are incredibly brave. Huge respect. :hug2:

I understand your perspective on this, Lorraine.

 

Sending love :hug2:

I remember Firefall from Casey's Top 40. "You Are The Woman". Very 70s AM radio, a very strange match-up with the Yardbirds.

Where do you get these match-ups from?

He probably goes to thrift stores and buy whatever he finds in the Rock vinyl bins

...and at the bottom of those bins is a clue, which leads him to building out of town, and to another bin, which contains the key to the bin which holds all the secret records discarded by record companies, and in that bin, he finds "Firefall - Luna Sea".

 

Nah, we know what RPG means.

 

I know RPG stands for Random Poll Generator, but I was wondering from what data pool the generator is pulling the choices.

Where do you get these match-ups from?

I love the whoa-oh-ohs at the end of Grand Designs, the rest of the song not so much.

 

Also: I've never much liked Tom Sawyer, but the drum break in it is mighty.

 

And as long as I'm tipping sacred cows, the bridge of The Trees is chock-full of glorious Rushy goodness, but I've got no use for the rest of the song.

I'm not even a Yes fan and I can tell you that's not Yes. It's Uh-huh, maybe, or possibly Aye, or even Yeah if I'm being generous but it sure as heck isn't Yes.

Up and down, shit! I was getting better Saturday and Sunday. Some aches, but temperature back down to normal. Monday, went out shopping since both Rocky and I were running out of food. The heat made me a litttle tired, but I got through it...Oh, the fantasy...

...Woke up this morning and relapsed. Fever, and another round of the aches and chill shakes, although not the Parkinson's like tremors of Thursday. Taking Tylenol, but spacing doses way out because I maxing the daily dose. Loading up on Coke and Gatorade, too. Feeling a tiny bit better, but being cautious.

 

I had it last year and had the same experience a few times of thinking I was getting better and starting to resume a little bit of activity but then relapsing. You've got to continue to rest as much as possible even if you think you're starting to recover.

John at Cygnus-X1.net offers an indexed archive of Neil's blog at: https://www.cygnus-x...-and-sports.php

 

Let me take this opportunity to give John at Cygnus-X1.net some recognition, not only for his archiving of Neil's articles, but for his entire site, an invaluable resource to the Rush community. John was handing out postcards advertising Cygnus-X.net at the first Rush gig I ever went to, the gig at which I became a fan, and I have been visiting it regularly ever since. Many thanks and much appreciation to John for all his hard work over the years!

For anyone badmouthing the production on RTB, I'll just say this: that album has NEVER been properly mastered. Even the Audio Fidelity gold disc a few years ago, while it's the best of the bunch, still is way, way, way too bright.

 

I did my own personal "remaster" of it and put it through a parametric EQ a couple years ago. Using Kevin Gray's master as a starting point, I cut a whole 3dB out of the upper mids and boosted the "bass cloud" frequencies (from 150 - 500 Hz) by a good decibel or so, and the result was revelatory. Ged's vocals have vastly more power and body, the drums have impact and heft, and there are entire guitar parts that I'd never noticed before that suddenly popped out of the mix.

 

There's absolutely nothing wrong with Rupert Hine's production on that album if you master it correctly. The version I listen to now is so crankable that you can blow the house down with it, it just sounds better and better the louder it gets. Unfortunately, no mastering engineer has given it the balls that it needs to really shine.

 

Any possibility for a share of that?

Yaaaaaaaawwnn

Oh the memories!

 

I have a questionable relationship with the guitar solo from The Camera Eye :lol:

I laughed!

Would it be sacrilege to say that I much preferred the short solos scattered through the show that Neil did on the last few tours to the one long one he always did before that?

It's in my Top 5.

I'd like that a lot more if the three musicians actually looked like the guys from Rush rather than just guys with similar hairstyles and clothing.

The scene in Toy Story 2 where Jess the cowgirl sings about having been outgrown by the girl she used to belong to destroys me, especially when they show her lying abandoned under the bed.

It wasn't The Camera Eye at the start of the Time Machine Tour, but it was at the end!