Rush Cocky

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Rush - Exit...Stage Left

That was my favorite Rush show ever! I was 6th row in Columbia, SC for that! And musically it was pure awesomeness!

Post of the day right here. I've probably listened to that version at least 1,000 times, and it never gets old! Maybe one day I'll actually be able to drum it. :eh:

Boldly paying where only a few have paid before. :) I'm watching too. This is cool. I’m sure Shatner got paid negotiating an appearance fee. Yeah, but it was in dilithium crystals, which turned out later to be fake (yep, zirconium).

Fair enough. Here's another example: Unless I'm just craving to hear Neurotica (which has yet to happen), RTB never makes it to the player. I hate the thin sound of those songs on the album, and anything I like off that album has already been played live, and it has "more balls" to it in those instances.

That was a helluva find yesterday, too good not to share.

I've been thinking about this a lot lately since I'm on my Rush live kick, as I listen to them in the car to and from work. There are certain studio albums that I just won't listen to anymore. Not because I hate them, no I think of them very highly. But with so many live albums out there, it is hard to find a particular song which the studio recording was better than what was played live. And oftentimes, the live recording is much, much better. Pick a song, any song. Rush did it better live. Example: Xanadu. I grew up endlessly listening to ESL (have it in the car CD player now in fact), and this one became a favorite. Eventually, I got around to picking up AFTK, and hey let's listen to Xanadu! And......huh. Sounds kind of ordinary. So what did I REALLY buy AFTK for again? Oh yeah, so I could hear Madrigal, the only song off the album never to be played live. Ironically, one of Rush's least favorite albums (by the fanbase at large, but I like it a lot) -- Caress of Steel -- gets played a LOT in my player, because apart from Bastille Day, there are no decent recordings of any of that stuff live (that I've found anyway). Agree? Disagree? Leave your comments in the section below. :D

It was so bad it caused Styx to break up. Fact.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbbdHkCT6D8

keep helping people

Na-na-na, na-na-na-nah Na-na-na-nah Hey Jude.....

A lot of stereotypes in this one, but good action movie to watch with the wife.

keep people free

1976 - Rocky

1991 - Enter Sandman by Metallica

2010 - Born Free by Kid Rock

It's hard to definitively make this list, but this is as good of a grouping as any I have seen in this thread.

I thought Broon made it very clear in the documentary that he had no interest in going in the synth direction, so "way better" could have never been a realistic solution. Rush wanted to evolve and explore, and he didn't really, thus the parting. To me, the official end of the synth era didn't really come until Counterparts, which is in my top 5 of Rush albums.

Broon's Bane/The Trees :notworthy:

He did things that affected people outside the bounds of the board. Think about an admin researching someone, and then acting on that info in any way. Without consent. I bet Rudy's favorite Rush song was "Witch Hunt".

:o What are the odds? I wasn't trying to call you out or anything. I thought that post was actually reflective of the "board wars" that were going on back then, however subtle. I posted on both, but I much preferred TRF from the start. I thought it was managed much, much better.

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I wonder if Neil would have been appreciative or embarrassed? I guess we'll never know since they waited 2 years too late to do this. Not that it wasn't awesome, it was. But I wish Neil would have gotten a chance to see it too.

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