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QUOTE (drbirdsong @ Jul 5 2012, 09:47 AM)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg8MqjoFvy4 The Opening scene from Orson Wells' masterpiece Touch Of Evil. Watch carefully, even the shadows have been choreographed.

QUOTE (driventotheedge @ Jul 5 2012, 02:58 PM)

Saw him with Stevie Ray in '89. He was quite good but I liked SRV better.

QUOTE (Symmetre @ Jul 3 2012, 04:31 PM)

Hi all, newb here. There are a number of comparatively easy Rush songs for guitar. The Larger Bowl is pretty easy to play (C, Am, E and G chords) and sounds great on an acoustic. The Trees is a fairly simple song, it just sounds a lot more complex than it really is. Limelight is also pretty straightforward.

Waiting for some images to start leaking out. The guys must be deep into stage prep and fine tuning the lighting, videos set list and of course...rearranging the orchestra chairs.

Jack Palance

 

"Few people know that veteran movie actor Jack Palance was a professional heavyweight boxer in the early 1940s. Fighting under the name Jack Brazzo, Palance a product of Lattimer Mines, Pennsylvania, won his first 15 fights, 12 by knockout before losing a 4th round decision to future heavyweight contender Joe Baksi on Dec. 17, 1940. With the outbreak of World War II, Jack Palance's boxing career ended and his military career began. Wounded in combat, he received the purple heart, good conduct medal, and the World War II Victory Medal. After the war he began his long and famous motion picture career."

 

... he followed this with arguably his finest film role of the decade, that of creepy, sadistic gunslinger Jack Wilson who becomes Alan Ladd's biggest nightmare (not to mention others) in the classic western Shane (1953). Their climactic showdown alone is text book.'

 

...While an understudy to Marlon Brando in the Broadway production of "A Streetcar Named Desire," Brando, who was into athletics, rigged up a punching bag in the theater's boiler room and invited Jack to work out with him. One night, Jack threw a hard punch that missed the bag and landed square on Brando's nose. The star had to be hospitalized and understudy Palance created his own big break by going on for Brando. Jack's reviews as Stanley Kowalski helped get him a 20th Century-Fox contract

 

 

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clearly your brother must've been a person who cared for others. May his memories always be with you!

 

I too am quite moved by this song and its meaning

QUOTE (The K Man @ Jun 29 2012, 02:04 PM)

And I agree with Todem about the solo in The Garden. It is a good solo, but considering the build-up to it, and how it started off with those first few notes, it should have been a monster, but it ended up being merely a nice solo. The younger Alex Lifeson would have destroyed us with that solo.

Alex has evolved into Jeff Beck's twin brother. Sometime's it's very interesting, but sometimes I want to hear a ripping solo ala' Headlong Flight

QUOTE (Gedneil Alpeart @ Jun 28 2012, 12:15 PM)

QUOTE (Jomboni @ Jun 28 2012, 12:11 PM) It's not his flashiest album, but for the most part, what he is playing is exactly what works in the songs.  My only complaint is that his solos are too short.  Not in the sense that I think every solo needs to be an extended, epic piece, but there are some where, to my ear at least, it almost sounds like he recorded a really awesome solo and then just decided to chop the second half off. I second this!!!!   need more alex, not less

move this to Making Modern Music

for pure acting I'd go with Nicole Kidman in To Die For, great opening scene..

 

the first 15 minutes of Quantum of Solace is pretty damn exciting, which does not make up for the rest of that movie.

 

The opening scene of LOTR two Towers is pretty awesome with Gandalf falling and battling the Balrog. AWESOME!

 

 

how about a camera above neil looking straight down...he throws his sticks up in the air...LOOK OUT!!!!

QUOTE (ArrowSnake @ Jun 24 2012, 04:50 PM)

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?

The watchmaker is time itself.

 

It is ever-present. It guides our decisions. It never relents.

 

Time loves us all to death

while we're on the subject of ipods and earbuds.

 

if you have a bucks in you pocket, buy these

 

http://www.etymotic.com/ephp/er4.html

 

simply the greatest sounding buds on the market, at any price. and they are pricey. Ive had several different models over the past 12 years. The warranty is awesome and the company takes care of everything. I just blew a 4 yr old pair through the washer/dryer and twisted the cable into a knot.

 

They replaced everything for $50. brand new set. Awesome people!

Right, reading the pastors review got me thinking that we often view Neil's lyrics through our prism of his anti-religious opinions. But this album has that wizard of 0z feel as stated above. I initially jumpe to the conclusion that the watcaker was Neil's evil version of god. Father time is my bet.

you can quote me here.

 

they will open w SPOTR or some such hit, play a couple deep cuts, then do a 5-6 song suite from CA finishing the first set with The Garden, which will be epic.

 

Then they come out for second set with By-Tor and other such hammerings until we're all whipped into aBroons Bane, Trees Xanadu, Digital Man, Somthing for Nothing, LVS, WM Frenzy!

 

Again, it will all be epic

I'd like them on a platform in the center of the arena, lowered down into the arena when their parts are played and then lifted back up into the darkness until they are needed again.

I wore my TM shirt to the mall last year while Christmas shopping in Tevanna this 60 year old lade starts having conniptions!"OMG I LOVE RUSH! Greatest band of all time!" my wife was rolling her eyes at the whole thing.

 

2o minutes later some stoner looking teenagers came up to me and were like "DUDE, I was at that show, f***ing awesome!"

 

10 minutes later the same thing,...my looks at me and says, "can you not wear that next time"

I sang in the church choir as a kid so I know the fundamentals of annunciation, projection etc, but the ability to actually stay in pitch or key has eluded me over the last 30 years.

 

I will try recording myself to see what i hear and work on it. Just bought a new ZoomH2 microphone so I'll see what happens.

 

Problem is getting some quiet time to work on it with a family of four around all the time...mocking me mercilessly.

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

 

The last two songs lay this out perfectly in that the main character learns you cant change people and all you can do is tend your own garden.

 

Of course to me the title track also clearly supports my theory, Clockwork Angels...hmmmm?

Now that I'm playing guitar my family has been kind enough to tell me Iam a horrible singer. I suspected this but it has been confirmed.

 

ANyway, can it help for me to take voice lessons? Can bad be fixed, at least to a point where I'm at least better than awful. Let me know if you guys have had any experience with improving. Thanks!

 

QUOTE (Pags @ Jun 23 2012, 08:52 PM)

To me, the album gets stronger and stronger the more I listen to it and become familiar with the intricacies of the songs. But nothing tests music more than when I'm on my riding mower with my earbuds cranked to full. CA just continues to take me to another place. I got 'that' feeling on just about every song. Each one has it's own hook that grabs me and doesn't let go. It's a set of songs that I don't need to skip anything from beginning to end. Sun... beer in right hand... steering with the left... shades... heat... the rumble and the sound of the tractor... and Clockwork Angels rockin' my ass. So I'm happy to report, Clockwork Angles passes the lawn mower test. Good job, guys.

QUOTE (Earthshine @ Jun 18 2012, 11:13 PM)

Just had to say that!!!!! It gets better everytime I hear it! The Rush album of ALL Rush albums!