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Being bluntly honest in your objective appraisal, I can imagine being creeped out as an attractive female performing in front of a bunch of dudes as old as my dad undressing me with their minds. It's one thing to feel sexy as a performer in front of your peers and own it, it's another to be ogled by old nerds. This makes sense - and I saw some weird, fawning bald dudes on a couple videos. I could definitely see that as being a reason. However - she should’ve hung in there - no question the crowds could get younger as they get bigger. Just the way it goes. She has a great vibe onstage and Billy is a smart musician. It’s a good combo that I hope they revisit.

All the Miyazaki movies are on HBO Max. These might be the greatest films ever made.

I have to admit when it comes to covid vs 30th Anniversary of Use Your Illusion, I'm pulling for covid. Seriously.

Just watched Sunset Blvd. for the first time. Great film.

We don't know what's going on though. So we can't say it's a dick move or not. Terrible timing for sure but maybe life threw some stuff at her and she needs to take care of it. Yeah - seems like a hasty decision when the band is on the cusp of bigger things. All things being normal, you don’t bail on a band that’s got shows booked and an album coming out. Do the shows and then split. I think Rocky is perfect for the band and I’m disappointed. She sounded like a female Geddy! She did it tastefully too. It’s big shoes to fill

Seems like a dick move to me, but it could be for a host of different reasons.

I bet it has something to do with Geddy’s upcoming book and Alex’s upcoming album. I’m hoping that there will be some Rush related announcements when those two products hit the market. Perhaps of the release of a deluxe moving pictures set would hurt sales of the book and Lifeson album.

https://m.facebook.com/YYNOTBAND/ Just before an album release and an upcoming tour.

Alex f***ing crushed it. The whole performance was mostly pretty good, though that one vocalist seemed clueless and lost. Crowd Lands dude was great. Are there SIX guitar players on stage?? 2 keyboard players. A drummer and 2 percussionists? I wonder if that was enough?

The doc is amazing. Just get Disney plus, watch and then cancel. Worth it.

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Heard this on a late night drive last night back home from a gig. Incredible: 202. Sade - Is It a Crime (6:21)

Here’s a really good Sondheim interview I was watching this morning. A bit like the Sting interview with Rick Beato in a sense. However, with polar opposite approaches to songwriting.

I didn’t really start appreciating him until last year, when I heard a piece about Sundays in the Park with George on NPR. It was a “how have I not paid attention to this” moment.

Ok I agree with all of the above - but I kinda like what they did with ESL.

Demos. Certainly something a true Rush fan would never want to hear. Toss em!

The latest one is growing on me. I like it more than the other one from a couple years ago. But still - I miss the jazz centric arrangements of Ten Summoners Tales and Mercury Falling.

To my ears I don’t think they’ve sounded better. I think they always wanted to sound like old blues men and they finally arrived.

I think these comments get misconstrued because these guys have all been pretty close over the decades. They live in a different world - so Daltrey talking a little smack about a peer is not really a big deal.

Sending ❤️ to you.

Did he fall out with SW?

Hand Over Fist is just great.

I found this on youtube today and listened to it. It's fun to hear them live in this era - playing really well....but still a little bit loose, too. (I like hearing Neil and Alex screw around at the end of Closer To The Heart, both trying to get the "last word"...) For me, if you could put a handful of Signals tunes into this setlist, it would be just perfect. As it is, it's an unreal set of music from them. One thing that is interesting to hear with shows from this era is how hit-or-miss Neil is with tempo sometimes. I find it funny when you see people's comments on things like youtube praising Neil as the be-all-end-all drum god...often people will say something like "Metronomes set themselves to Neil".... and I always think, wow, you haven't listened to some of the unofficial live stuff! He's all over the place in that Chicago show - you can hear how they get out of sync with the sequencer in Spirit Of Radio, for one obvious example. He was still progressing as a live drummer I guess... and yet, I love how energetic and powerful he is in this time. I'd rather hear him be shaky in '81 than tempo perfect in 2004.... I was watching the ESL film, and my god is TS just all over the place. So fast at the beginning and then NP has to put the brakes on in the middle of the song. He struggled with that one for awhile. Closer to the Heart took a few years too.

Going to track down that Exit Stage Right boot and listen to it today.

There’s was a time MiTA would consistently post new content on CP.