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The crashing noise you hear between the breaks of the guitar solo is the sound of wind chimes tied to a 2x4 slapped against a wood table. The band confirmed this in an interview on WNEW New York in the winter of 2002.

The Spencer Davis Group, Eric Johnson, Corey Hart - Morning Sun http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfZJOoU9y9I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrC9G1W2QBo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JQ-MnW2Nwk

Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYhSroxeoEE

The Prodigy - Firestarter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkiqYE2H09w To note Robert Fripp and Sidney Jake swapped clothing styles.

I was listening to the Fleetwood Mac song 'Not That Funny' that Lindsey wrote, and I stumbled upon this past post. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkrw2VEHTgE The live version has more intensity than the studio one. The past scenario with the band and Lindsey is not that funny is it? (no pun intended).

Toronto, April Wine - Enough Is Enough http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePdIqcLjrpY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK1oPdoOGA0 Both songs and the albums that the songs are on were recorded at Le Studio, Morin Heights, Quebec.

Spotify Landmark: Tears For Fears http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4_mMl0B5mA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khFb4FTJ4Jo

Terry Brown and the late Jack Richardson (who produced 'Battlescar' by Max Webster featuring RUSH) will be receiving the SOCAN Guardian Award as noted here.

This topic always makes me think of this written piece from The Cleveland Plain Dealer below. What is rock? Rock and Roll Hall of Fame gets debate rolling with every class

Triumph, Ozzy Osbourne (featuring Elton John) - Ordinary Man http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQX3taGGIls http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJeEvRv1xjI

I'll be watching this event on CBC Gem. Also to note that The Tragically Hip will be performing with Feist. I'm going to add this tidbit of trivia. Ben Mink collaborated with Feist on her big hit song "1, 2, 3, 4," (noted here), which in 2008 had four Grammy nominations. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIcRv_UYUv4

Frank Zappa, Right Said Fred, RUSH - Stick It Out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPzvr9S34pc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAMFW6lceYc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y7FRiVA-TM

zappafrank it's interesting that you created this thread since the late Frank Zappa's birthday is on 12/21, which is 2112 backwards.

The History Of Rush by Geddy Lee & Alex Lifeson: Moving Pictures and the 1980s This is mentioned in the 1982-85 section of the interview. Geddy Lee: My love of keyboards – I guess you could call it an obsession – reached its peak on Power Windows. Alex Lifeson: Keyboards were the new thing, so there was this attitude: ‘Let’s just push them up, they sound big and they sound cool.’ Geddy Lee: We would get caught up in the making of an album, and then maybe after it was done Alex would hear it with fresh ears, he’d be like, ‘Hmm, maybe that was too much keyboards.’ Every so often it would come up in conversation between us. Alex Lifeson: I did see the bigger picture: I knew we were going in a new direction and this was part of it. I don’t have anything against keyboards. Geddy Lee: Power Windows was very much an album that was out of that whole Trevor Horn school. We brought in this synthesiser guy, Andy Richards, who really brought it up a notch in terms of quality and technology. This was very attractive to me, because it was new and fresh and exciting. Alex Lifeson: For me, that record was a challenge. But I thought: go with it and it will all work out in the end. So I did that. I just saw that there was a shift in my role. Geddy Lee: When you’re using that many keyboards, you’re taking up so much space on the record. Then the guitar has to fit around that. With a lot of the songs on Power Windows – songs like Grand Designs and Marathon – we had so many parts already done on keyboards that on previous records the guitar would have filled. So Alex had to figure out a way in. That’s really what it required of him. Alex Lifeson: The guitar suffered in a lot of the mixes. That’s what bothered me more than anything. The bottom line was, I just thought that we needed to preserve the core of what the band is. It’s a three-piece. Geddy Lee: Alex did play some great stuff on that record. Like on Mystic Rhythms. Without the guitar riff, that song doesn’t work. And I really like the sound of that album. I thought it was a really strong production. There are some great songs on that record. I like Middletown Dreams a lot – you know, every once in a while we write a good melody! Overall, I thought Power Windows was a great accomplishment for us. But maybe not so much on the couple of albums after that – Hold Your Fire and Presto. On those records the keyboards were still present, but not in so positive a way. That was making the case, once again, for realigning the sound…

This post makes me think of this related clip below. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qa7p6gFIGw

Alabama, Bananarama - Love in the First Degree http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beBkl4ITF6o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4gnmoxgJXs

Sometimes I wish that there wasn't a Hall of Fame for anything really. The recipients who're chosen for entry into the hall; there's other's that individual's feel deserve the honor more. You can't make everyone happy. Regardless, I'm glad Todd Rundgren is finally getting his due. I hope Iron Maiden makes the list next year. Does the sports Hall of Fame go through something similar like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2_HCptj6wU

ABBA, The Go-Go's, Tears For Fears, Blue Rodeo - Head Over Heels http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28u54Opf-TI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn5s2JxEh1c http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g7Pvyip_U4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZzLG4TdOjg

Johnny Horton, The Band - Whispering Pines http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bS1XBw-U50 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEBoP_F_gto

Hall & Oates covered Mike Oldfield's song 'Family Man'. It thus became one of the very few songs penned by Oldfield to chart in the United States from the Hall & Oates cover. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC-nATyudCo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cptMnXiHfNc

Billy Joel, Bruno Mars - Just The Way You Are http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBqyX0UUzVQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGUKBXpfU1o

Is there an actual rare version of the Exit...Stage Left concert that features 'Waiting On A Friend' by the Rolling Stones, 'Midnight Confessions' by Karla DeVito, 'Just Between You and Me' by April Wine, along with a Jim Croce infomercial to start things off? :)

I like both of Phil and Don's solo careers, I like both Genesis and The Eagles, and I like both 'In The Air Tonight' and 'The Boys of Summer'. I recently learned 'Against All Odds' on acoustic guitar. In this case, I can't choose one or the other for the three options listed.