Borough of Shmeng

Tough one Middletown Dreams Subdivisions La Villa Strangiato Roll the Bones Losing It Afterimage Leave that thing alone The Garden Ghost of a Chance Earthshine

Tai Shan

Yep the camera eye for me, would be way better if it was about 3 1/2 mins shorter I think. I'm not as big a lover of the 'epics' as many Rush fans, and while I enjoy Cygnus x1 and Hemispheres, I do feel there are times when the same riff could be repeated less often so that the songs moved through more quickly. The waterfall sounds in 2112 tend to bore me a little, that sort of thing.

RIP John

QUOTE (Battlestarfilmmaker @ May 1 2008, 03:01 AM) QUOTE (Pound of Obscure @ Feb 19 2008, 11:06 AM) QUOTE (ILSnwdog @ Feb 17 2008, 06:28 PM) QUOTE (RedGreen @ Feb 17 2008, 04:17 PM) It's certainly no secret he is miserable and grumpy. Us fans pay his wages, it's not fair to treat us like garbage, and hide his face, run to the BMW, and whatnot. Lots of famous musicians who have had contact with him can vouch for that also. When I pay for a ticket to a Rush concert, I expect nothing more than 3 hours of wonderfully executed music. I really don't care how fast Neil sprints to his BMW after the show. I don't either, but it is funny. And somewhat pathologic. Dirk Benedict probably does the samething after a convention. I met Dirk at a convention in Birmingham, he was a top guy.

Freewill for me

I find that S&A is incredibly consistent, and works as a play from start to finish album. VT I think has some better individual songs to my mind, I just love ghost rider, earthshine and VT, ceiling unlimited and the stars look down, some outstanding songs. If I was going to do a compilation for the car or something VT has more top class stuff than S&A I think. But the production and Out of the cradle do take a few points off. Very tough to choose, but i just go for VT

One of the best early Rush songs by a long way, fabulous!!!

Red Sector A

Cant see the boys turning to code brown myself, but hey who knows!

QUOTE (CygnusX-1Bk2 @ Dec 19 2007, 08:31 PM) Anything by the Chick Corea Elektric Band, who regrouped and are doing a few weeks here and there. They were just here at Yoshi's in Oakland for the week, this week in LA and next week in NY. I highly recommend them. Chick is an astounding keyboardist and composer. The band features Dave Weckl on drums (quite possibly the best drummer on the planet right now), Frank Gambale on guitar and Eric Marienthal on sax. The regular bass player, John Pattitucci is replaced for these dates by Victor Wooten. Absolutely stunning. Also any Dave Weckl solo albums are interesting. Steve Smith (formerly of Journey, yes THAT Journey) has a band called Vital Information that is very good as well. Gambale was with them and left to rejoin Chick. Bill Bruford did some stuff back in the 80s with Kitaro, a Japanese guitar player along with Jeff Berlin on bass. They called themselves Spice of Life. That stuff is pretty good too. I saw the Elektrik band in 1990, with the original line up Chick, Dave, Frank Gambale, Eric Marienthal, and John Patitucci, they were totally awesome. Would love them to tour over here again.

Alert major deviancy!!!!

It is well publicised that Neil isnt always the biggest fan of touring, or indeed fans. But he has done it for 35 years so it cant be that bad for him. To my mind the man has given me so many hours of pleasure listening to the band along with Alex and Geddy of course, so he has paid me back many times over to my mind. He doesnt need to do anything else to my mind.