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I heard The Larger Bowl a couple years ago at a local Wal Mart. It was like they were still playing circa 2007 songs on the store rotation

I thought he looked like a Columbian drug lord from a Steven Seagal movie in his Presto/RTB slicked back pony tail era especially in the album photos with the suit :-)

I'm STILL annoyed at the set List for skipping over 4 albums, 3 in a row after 1984! They should've done at least one from each album no excuses

Paul McCartney's mother has been dead since the '50s so yeah, I can see why it was hard to get in touch with her for an interview lol

The comment about "pretentious junk" is why I could never get into guys like SRV, Satrianni, etc. Tremendous talents who could play guitar in their sleep 1000000 times better than any of us can no doubt about it but their music just sounds like overlong wankfests. Same reason I can't get into Dream Theater. Too many notes too fast by everyone. I like prog but a little goes a long way

Sorry to ruffle any feathers round these parts but I wasn't all that crazy about Rush's final instrumentals. Malignant Narcissism and Main Monkey came across to me like warmed over retreads of songs they either already did (Mal Nar is very YYZ like) or just were sort of phoning it in. Hope sounded like Alex recorded screwing around on an acoustic and it ended up on the album.Never cared much for Main Monkey because its too repetitive

I heard one on SXM last month 'Fanfare For The Common Man' by Emerson Lake & Palmer I liked Elton John wrote some really good instrumentals too...the proggy Funeral For A Friend is the best of the bunch

A high school friend stuffed a cassette tape recorder down his pants to record a Counterparts show in NJ 25 years ago. He got the entire show. I still have it. Sound quality isn't very good but at the time pre-internet and bootlegs were expensive if you could find them, that was all we had

They are a godsend if its of a tour or show that was never released officially. That and if they are unedited. All of the Rush live albums up until RIR were edited with songs missing. I had a friend burn me a copy of a Moving Pictures tour show so I can hear what Exit Stage Left wouldve sounded like if it wasn't cut into pieces in post production

HYF should've ended appropriately with Turn The Page

I heard Cinderella Man once on a local FM rock station. Must have been a request SXM Deep Tracks played The Necromancer a couple weeks ago

The wreck of the Edmond Fitzgeraaaaald....

I liked the resurrection of Time Stand Still, Presto, Camera Eye and some others but his voice was so bad on that tour

I have no strong feelings for him one way or the other

The Big Wheel is a good example of a song that's sort of just OK but lacks ANY sort of oomph or edge or power or the tricky musicial ju-jitsu Rush built a career on. Aside from Dreamline Where's My Thing and a few other scattered moments, Rush was really playing it unusually safe in the songwriting department during RTB. Boring almost. Rupert Hine's glossy mix was the icing on the cake of the half great half mediocrity of Bones

Ugh. I may have to never listen to that song ever again after Fredo pretentiously quoted from it...

Somebody here really likes The Big Wheel? I've honestly never seen that before. It often gets mocked as "Rush trying to sound like Cher" lol

Show Don't Tell The Pass Superconductor Dreamline Ghost Of A Chance Bravado Cut To The Chase Leave That Thing Alone Half The World Test For Echo

Not even close to a great singer after, I'd say, 2007. R30 was the last tour before he really started to strain and crack and do that weird yodel

Reminds me of my cassette version of Exit... with Xanadu spelled 'Zanadu'

Show Don't Tell riff kicks too. And it was a nice return to a more relaxed rock-ier type of songwriting letting loose after three straight albums of tight arrangements

It was only seemingly used for just one song and an obscure one at that but I've always really liked his tone during the solo (and the solo itself) in No-one At The Bridge. In later interviews he said it was heavily influenced by Steve Hackett

Anthem intro

I should go back and relisten to it. I don't listen to TMT often because Geddys vocals were noticeably terrible on that show, especially early on.

That's why NY/NJ based Power Windows was so good...they played the songs pretty much note for note but they had such a good energy and vibe and their guitarist Zach wasn't just doing an imitation of Lifeson , he would put a little of his own spin on the solos and show some individual personality.