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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.

❤️

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.

Hang in there. Sending happy thoughts.

Wow the live cuts are a bit of a revelation:

So now I’m listening to the live tracks on the deluxe edition of the album on Spotify. So — it’s pretty good. More rockin and better produced than the actual album.

That Bacon guy's career went into the toilet after GTR disbanded. He ended up going on a talent show around 2000 singing The Hunter and When the Heart Rules the Mind. It was like he was living in the past trying to milk those old songs like it was the only thing he had. This is cringe x 1000, but he can sing in tune at least. Is this 2000? Looks like 1992 or something.

I wrote a big long screed about GTR on CP before it crashed 15 times in a row. There’s a documentary on YouTube about the making of that first album. It has aged not very well. And then Hackett re-did the single a few years back. Howe just was cashing in like nobody’s business.

I mean - I gotta agree. This album surprised the shit out of me.

Van Halen’s A Different Kind Of Truth. Sure some recycled tracks. But there’s new shit too - and it’s awesome. EVH is fully reinvigorated and inspired. Like it’s 1985. Just beautiful guitar playing.

You should listen to “The Mission”, it may change your mind. I’ve now listened to the 2 latest albums and I’ve really enjoyed them. Thanks for the suggestion.