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QUOTE (Dscrapre @ Aug 7 2012, 04:02 PM) I'm happy they chose The Wreckers. I was in love from the first time I heard that chorus. Yep, me too. I love this song. The chorus gets me everytime.

"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live." - Goethe "Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it." - Goethe There are many great quotes from Goethe, the man was a genius.

QUOTE (Good,bad,andrush @ Aug 8 2012, 09:04 PM) From my rotting body, flowers shall grow. And I am in them. And that is Eternity. -Edvard Munch Great quote from one of my favorite painters!

For me it's The Wreckers. This song has become a personal favorite of mine. I just wish they didn't use the fade out at the end, they should have ended the song with a full Alex solo. I don't like fade out endings... But other than that I love the song.

Have a good one, bro!

The Scorpions have some great album covers! http://www.covershut.com/covers/Scorpions-Lovedrive-1979-Booklet-Remastered-Front-Cover-65853.jpg

This is a great cover of my favorite Black Sabbath song:

QUOTE (Xanadoood @ Jul 11 2012, 08:36 PM) Great band. And the offshoots of Kyuss were awesome as well...Fu Manchu and Queens of the Stone Age Yep, Fu Manchu and QOTSA are great bands too!

Kyuss was a f*cking great band! The ultimate stoner rock band. Or is it desert rock? I listen to Blues For The Red Sun and Welcome To Sky Valley all the time. Great music to have on your mp3 player while working out in the gym. This is one of the greatest riffs of all time: this one also rocks:

I just can't believe you didn't do anything when that guy stomped on your donuts, and didn't say anything to the manager. I would have broken that clerks nose!

Been listening to the Scorpions a lot lately. Great band! Although some people make fun of me for listening to them... But screw those people! This is what I'm listening to: http://www.metal-archives.com/images/1/4/9/4/149462.jpg It's a compilation album featuring songs off of Fly To The Rainbow, In Trance and Virgin Killer. This is my favorite song:

QUOTE (rushgoober @ Jul 10 2012, 09:35 PM) QUOTE (trenken @ Jul 10 2012, 10:59 AM) QUOTE (rushgoober @ Jul 10 2012, 09:29 AM) Please do not turn this into a religious debate *Looks at topic title *Looks at very first line *Laughs *Looks at poster *Looks at member title *Laughs

QUOTE (OGr8imL84AD8inF8sBlackSedan @ Jul 7 2012, 08:17 PM) One of the most amazing things about TRF is that this thread is 45 pages long. Seriously, wtf is going on here? My Little Pony?

QUOTE (Maverick @ Jul 7 2012, 01:04 AM) If I could do that Travis Picking style that he does, I might not want to play any other way. I can play Travis picking. In the style of Merle Travis and Chet Atkins. And Tommy Emmanuel is fast, but there are much better Travis pickers out there who are much more pleasant to listen to. Tommy plays too fast sometimes, without emotion. Check out Marcel Dadi if you want to hear real good fingerpicking.

Bruce Lee http://cdn2.sbnation.com/entry_photo_images/3290153/Bruce-Lee-10_large.jpg Jean Claude Van Damme http://images1.makefive.com/images/entertainment/movies/top-5-karate-moviesstars/jean-claude-van-damme-7.jpg Two guys I would NOT want to mess with! If you're talking about tough guy attitude, I would say Clint Eastwood, Charles Bronson and LEE VAN CLEEF!

Black Sabbath Kyuss Karma To Burn Smashing Pumpkins Rush

QUOTE (briremo @ Jun 24 2012, 01:49 PM) I'm beginning to become dubious of Neil's rejection of Rand This album is blanketed with individualism, objectivism and a good dose of anti-deism. All of which I love But I will say this; I do not see "The Watchmaker" as a maleavolent deity forcing a belief system on people. Rather, I think he's discussing the restrictions of time itself. He is getting older and as our longevity disappears, we begin to see the limits to what we can accomplish in the time we have and how we usually don;t realize it until its too late This is all true I think. But the connection with the Watchmaker Analogy, and the book "The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design" by Richard Dawkins is also there.

The Watchmaker analogy is a very well known teleological argument (which I explained in my post above). The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design is a very famous book by the British ethologist and atheist Richard Dawkins. Neil Peart reads many books. He must know about The Watchmaker Analogy and the book by Dawkins. Peart using the name Watchmaker is not a coincidence I think. Isn't this obvious? Or am I crazy?

http://www.therushforum.com/index.php?showtopic=74766&st=40 I think The Watchmaker definitely represents a higher power in control. The fact that Neil chose to name this power "The Watchmaker" is not accidental. It means that The Watchmaker can also be seen as the idea of a God, or organised religion. The Watchmaker is clearly a nod to the "Watchmaker analogy" which originally was an argument for the existence of God. It states that an intelligent design like the universe must have been designed by someone, like a watch was made by a watchmaker. But Charles Darwin and Richard Dawkins came up with theories where a design is not necessary. (Evolution). Therefore denying the existence of God.

QUOTE (upstateNYfan @ Jun 24 2012, 07:45 PM) It seems The Watchmaker is a higher power that is all-controlling--dare I say A GOD? Hence while our "loving" Watchmaker loves us all to death. He's thumbing his nose at God after living such a good life. He has called himself a "linear thinking agnostic" (a 1991 interview, I think), so this fits perfectly. Agnostics do not deny the possibility of a God--a Watchmaker. They simply don't see any evidence they exist. He hits on this in Ghost Rider too. The Watchmaker definitely represents a higher power in control. The fact that Neil chose to name this power "The Watchmaker" is not accidental. It means that The Watchmaker can also be seen as the idea of a God, or organised religion. As I said in my previous post: The Watchmaker is clearly a nod to the "Watchmaker analogy" which originally was an argument for the existence of God. It states that an intelligent design like the universe must have been designed by someone, like a watch was made by a watchmaker. But Charles Darwin and Richard Dawkins came up with theories where a design is not necessary. (Evolution). Therefore denying the existence of God.

Awesome song! Love the guitar riffs and Mellotron sounds! I hope Porcupine Tree gets back together soon. In Absentia, Deadwing and FOABP are three of the greatest rock albums I've ever heard...

Seven Cities of Gold, The Wreckers, Headlong Flight. Awesome 3 song run!

QUOTE (Xanaseb @ Jun 21 2012, 01:09 PM) Could someone tell me which songs the taurus pedals feature most prominently? I can hear it quite a lot in Caravan... that's actually all I know lol, because I had been listening to that back home with proper speakers, the singel version Headlong Flight, The Anarchist and The Wreckers feature some cool Taurus sounds.