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  1. Never met him, am fine with that. Here's why-

     

    in 2001 I unexpectedly met another favorite musician of mine and it was a very underwhelming experience (not bad, just lame.) The lesson there- musicians are human beings who also need to play the "stardom" game to make money.

     

    They "clock in" for work just like the rest of us- practice sessions, interviews, performances, etc. is the musician's "job".

     

    The old saying about this matter is "Don't meet your heroes." Give yourself the gift of preserving the image/experience of their work, without having to experiencing them as flawed human beings.

     

    Not true with Geddy and Alex. I have met them both, and they are super down-to-earth, and just plain wonderful. I used to see Alex quite often at The Orbit Room. (Once having a shot of Tequila with him), and my ex and I won a radio contest and had breakfast with Geddy during the MFH promo tour. To your point however, Geddy, my ex Julie, and I had a wonderful conversation about non Rush stuff. Her son and Geddy's daughter are the same age, so they were talking about kids, and Geddy and I had a great baseball conversation. The thing that impressed me, is that Geddy knows every World Series champion from the early 20's on to today, not only that, but if that champion had a nickname, he knew that as well. (Murders Row, The Big Red Machine, The Family, etc).

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  2. This is sorta like seeing a child you gave up for adoption at 12 yrs go into witness protection.

     

    Hi Ken, how’s things?

     

    Some good, some bad. I've landed a great job with Yahoo (They have a server farm near Buffalo). My wife is undergoing chemo for her third occurrence of cancer in a year. We're super positive about it. Just a strain.

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  3. This is sorta like seeing a child you gave up for adoption at 12 yrs go into witness protection.

     

    I hear you.

    Oh please, worrying about Counterparts is like looking at the all new C8 Corvette and wondering whatever happened to that Fiero you used to own.

     

    CP has survived a hell of a lot more than we've ever had to deal with. It's been the home of lots of Rush fans for what, almost 20 years?

     

    The best is when a server company we were on was bought, and we would be down for a week while they moved the servers from California to New Jersey. 2 months later, we found out the Russian Mob bought the server company, and had everyone's hard drive sitting on the floor, and wanted something like $2k to give us the hard drive back.

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  4. Most of you have never met Mike Wells, but there may be some of you who were regulars of CP back in the day, who knew the poster of the name "WIndshield Fly".

     

    So sorry to say, that Mike, a.k.a. WIndshield Fly passed away last weekend.

     

    So for those of you that knew Fly from CP, go out and buy a bag of Funyons and remember his laughter and fun spirit.

     

    Fly, you will be missed, and missed big time.

     

    :(

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  5. I'm going to report it...

     

    Why? :D-13:

     

    Well I'm not going to...but using (and misrepresenting) others creative work like that for prmotion without permission nor consent is pure evil.

     

    Ok. I can get behind that.

     

    What's apparent is someone either in that band or connected with that band has mad video editing skills.

     

    Maybe Rush should employ them to do their video's... :drool:

  6. Ralph Wilson lived to to be 95, and did a lot of great things, but hearing news of his death still bums me out.

     

    On top of that, Jim Kelly isn't doing well. His cancer returned, and his wife Jill said today that it has become more aggressive, and is spreading. He is scheduled to have another surgery on Thursday.

     

    The Bills Mafia sure would like your positive thoughts and prayers (if you're so inclined).

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