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  1. QUOTE (Ron2112 @ Dec 28 2010, 06:42 AM) QUOTE (Duck @ Dec 26 2010, 01:11 PM) - Eddie wrote a song called the "Pleasure Dome." Listen to it. It is a homage to Rush's Xanadu and there is a riff taken almost directly from the Rush material -- not to mention the subject matter. Uh........no. You do realize that both songs are rip-offs of the poem "Kubla Khan," by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, right? Uh....no? Have you bothered to listen to the VH tune? It opens up with a tone and a riff that are clearly influenced by some of the music Rush wrote in Xanadu. This isn't just my observation, mmmkay? Do some Googling and look around a bit before you "Um...no, blah blah..." Here is just one link on the VH tune: "The opening riff of "Pleasure Dome" is highly similar, and most likely an homage, to a prominent guitar line in the Rush song "Xanadu," which is about the fabled "pleasure dome" of Mongol/Chinese emperor Kublai Khan. Coincidentally, Rush signed to Atlantic Records, a sister label to Van Halen's then-label Warner Bros. Records in 1989, and Van Halen would later be represented by Rush's long-time manager Ray Danniels."
  2. This is all bullshit. Story comes around periodically on the VHLinks site too. While both bands probably don't have a huge liking for each other's work, they don't hate each other at all. Some facts: - I directly recall Roth in a 1980's video discussing Rush -- basically wasn't his cup of tea, called them "Techo-rock" which descibes the synth-era Rush at the time - Alex Lifeson has complemented Eddie in numerous interviews and has even used Eddie's line of 5150 Amps. - VH used Ray Daniels as their manager. Why would they if they absolutely hated Rush, since that was Ray's prime client at the time? - Eddie wrote a song called the "Pleasure Dome." Listen to it. It is a homage to Rush's Xanadu and there is a riff taken almost directly from the Rush material -- not to mention the subject matter. Also, IMO, Eddie Van Halen is one of those few guitarists that was an absolute game-changer in the theater of guitar driven Rock&Roll. Say what you want about his ego and personality, but the man changed music for over a decade and his influence reverberates even today. A true great.
  3. Add: Fly By Night Lessons (or Something for Nothing) A Farewell to Kings Changes: Switch out Faithless for Hope. One bad S&A song for a good one, you can't lose! Add Countdown (since the Shuttle era and possibly all American manned spaceflight is over next year).
  4. QUOTE (gazza65 @ Dec 14 2010, 09:28 AM)Can anyone tell me ...have they dumped the lasers on the Time machine tour ??????...if so WHY ???
  5. Well, I looked at the code some more today. It isn't ASCII. I'm sadly getting the feeling it is just random bits which is a little disappointing. I even Googled up a binary ASCII to text web app to make testing snippets of the Counterparts binary code easier to check without going through it manually, but no luck. Looks like garbage in ASCII. Anyway, here is a real message in binary ASCII, which should go well with a movie often seen during these times around Christmas... 010000100110010100100000011100110111010101110010011001 010010000001110100011011110010000001100100011100100110 100101101110011010110010000001111001011011110111010101 110010001000000100111101110110011000010110110001110100 01101001011011100110010100101110
  6. http://www.animatedgif.net/games/pacman-ln_e0.gif
  7. QUOTE (FoG @ Dec 1 2010, 02:54 PM)Speaking of the back cover of Counterparts, has anyone tried to decode the binary on the back of the cover? I never even thought about that until I read your post. I took a quick look at the binary. I thought the simplest encoding might be ASCII. Each 8 bits is a byte...and each byte is a number that is mapped to a character. So the beginning of the sequence looks like this in different bases... [1010 1001] [0101 0110] [1001 1010] ... binary bytes (base 2) [ A9 ] [ 56 ] [ 9A ] ...same things in hexadecimal (base 16) [ 169 ] [ 86 ] [ 154 ] ...and in decimal (base 10) Now in an extended ASCII table (see http://www.plcdev.com/ascii_chart), these three bytes above at the beginning of the sequence convert to an underscore '_' followed by a 'V' and then something that looks like a U with an umlaut over it... Not promising that this is ASCII as these first three characters seem nonsensical! I would have figured most of them would be letters and this would start out by spelling a word. So then I was thinking it might still be ASCII, but the sequence is in the middle of a message, so that we might not be looking at the very beginning, but at some unknown offset into the message. The most common letter in English is 'E', which looks like 0100 0101 in binary when ASCII encoded. I figured if I could find some E's in there, then I could easily continue the encoding sequnce on either side of it. But just scanning it once over, I don't see that sequence in there. Bah!
  8. QUOTE (irish_matt @ Nov 30 2010, 02:23 PM) Interviews with Ray Daniels, Alex and Geddy in the last few months have hinted at the album being finished in 2011 with a 2012 release. They are doing things at their own pace. In the past, they would have played longer tours with less time between shows. Now they are playing 3 shows a week without back to back nights. Fans want to see this tour... 8 months ago European fans were pissed that they where not included... same with cities missed on the first run. If they finish the last leg of the US tour by mid summer, that'll give them plenty of time, while still sharp, to finish the album in the fall, take a holiday break and drop CA in the spring. That would give us yet another Tour in the summer of 2012. Complaints aside, this is the busiest they have chosen to be in years. I'm all for it. As for cashing in.....? were people complaining in the past when they played 60-70 date or more, US tours? Rush not touring... complaints Rush tour is tour short and not hitting Europe... complaints Rush now touring too much??? complaints? there's no pleasing some people.... Be happy that they still choose to do anything at all. -Matt
  9. This makes me wonder whether anything can be done about it. I was listening to 2112 today and kind of miss Geddy singing like that -- although I also really enjoy Geddy's mid-range stuff as much (e.g. Subdivisions). Maybe there is a kind of vocal exercise or something along with some hot tea :-) I bet Geddy can still hit some of those notes but the risk of his voice cracking is too much to risk during concerts.
  10. There is not a lot that can go wrong in an electric guitar. Electrically, the instrument is essentially a set of pickups -- magnets and coils that make a tiny bit of current that gets generated by steel strings vibrating in the field lines. Very simple. I have a couple electric guitars and nothing has ever gone wrong with them electrically aside some the dials getting a little gunked up over the years (a little spray electronics cleaner fixed them up). Its the other end of the equation -- the rig basically. From the guitar we go into a wireless and then the receiver sends its output into preamps/rack effects/amps which then get fed to the cabinets. There are sensitive electronics and computer chips on that end. And yeah, if the pyro was generating any kind of surge or spike or EMF that could effect something like computers/electronics but would not likely do anything to the guitars.
  11. Duck

    Who is...

    QUOTE (ColdFireYYZ @ Aug 22 2010, 10:25 PM) http://www.youtube.com/xliberatorx#p/u/35/tAECKBCBJZk I doubt he is a threat to the band. His videos are actually funny. "When I'm thirsty I drink A&W root beer. It's the best beverage for a hot day in the mountains." I think he is a real whackjob. I pray he stays the hell away from the band. Reminds me of the kind of guy that killed John Lennon. Nothing funny about this shit. http://www.youtube.com/zahn#p/search/6/W7AaUO1NdVI
  12. Right: Flaunt the fruits of noble birth Wash the salt into the earth What me & friend heard first time playing this song: f**k the future, an' Mother Earth Wash the salt into the earth We had to get the lyrics out to dissuade our ears. To this day, I know if I play that sound, we will both hear that again.
  13. Great pics! Wonder if Geddy's throat was bugging him. maybe the air was cold. He has a scarf around it in the encore.
  14. Who else was thinking of this? http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/shakespeares_sister/shakes4/chili.png
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