Shreddy Lee

Hello! Yes, haven't been around in a while. But Facebook decided to put at the top of my news "NEIL PEART SAYS HE'S RETIRED" and knew I had to come here to see the reaction. I expected a bit more chaos.

Just think how excited we'll all be for the R50 Reunion Tour!

 

But really, I think it's fine if they stop touring at this point, they've earned that. But I would hope the door isn't closed to something like a single show here or there once in a while, or another album.

 

Also, this is being reported as Neil's definitive statement, but I have a feeling it's being taken a little out of context. We may soon hear from the band that the whole operation isn't over, like this makes it sound. Last we heard from Geddy and Alex, it was all still "we don't know." If Neil had decided this for sure I would think they would put out a joint announcement.

Well the leaked tour book listed The Wreckers, Big Money, YYZ, Camera Eye, and Natural Science, none of which were played last night. We'll almost definitely see all of those.

But they still did play Tom Sawyer and The Spirit of Radio, so, can't win 'em all.

 

Also, that tourbook image did list both YYZ and Natural Science, so I wouldn't get your hopes up about that yet, they'll probably get rotated in. As a YYZ lover I'm personally hoping for that.

Here I was just trying to make people laugh, and the actual point of this thread seems to have passed most people by. Ah well.

It was August 1st, 2002. I had two tickets for the Rush show in St. Louis the next day. I always put valuable things like that in my ledger for safe keeping, but since I had recently purchased a new ledger, I hadn't yet written any names or numbers inside it. I thought it would be okay though and put the envelope with the tickets inside my trusty ledger.

 

At one point I was taking a walk down a street and needed to tie my shoe. For just a second I put my ledger down inside the bed of a truck that happened to be parked on the side of the street next to me, which was filled with a bunch of trash and leaves. I needed my hands free to tie my shoes. When I was done tying them and I stood back up, the ledger was gone! To this day I still don't know what ended up happening to my tickets.

 

So don't forget to check the bed of the truck you put your ledger in for a second when you are walking down the street and need to tie your shoe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It is tomorrow isn't it? Why would the code work now?

I know that the comedian Louis CK was able to pretty successfully take on Ticketmaster by first having a tour where he sold tickets directly to fans, and left Ticketmaster out of it entirely. This time, they are involved but apparently agreed to do his ticketing without all the extra fees, I'm guessing because they didn't want to be left out again. So, if there's a will, there's a way.

So, can anyone who knows a bit more than I do about how this works tell me, after today is there still hope of getting anything in the first 10 rows without going to a reseller?

I really love that there are already a ton of tickets on StubHub for crazy prices. I really, really love the way this whole process works.

 

And by love, I mean hate.

I could get Section C Row 8 right now... but I'm thinking of turning it down to wait for something even better.

I really wanted to get something good this time, but of course since I'm trying one whole hour after the sale began, it seems as though there's nothing left.

Really? I didn't know that. I thought 'Weinrib' was just a term of affection

 

Yes. My mother always calls me her sweet little weinrib

1981 nomination for Best Rock Instrumental Performance

"YYZ" � lost to The Police's "Behind My Camel"

 

This one still blows my mind. The genius that is YYZ losing to literally the most boring 3 minutes you'll ever sit through. It's the same droning sound repeated for 3 minutes! Once you've heard the first 5 seconds of that song, you've heard the whole thing. Just awful.

This topic brings to mind for me a key difference I often think about between these two - what I will call their presence within the sound of the band. A somewhat unique thing about Geddy and Rush, and something I love, is how forward the bass often is in the mix, and how much the bass is often an integral part of a song. It's right there, up front, providing another layer right alongside the guitar, or sometimes even taking the lead instead of the guitar. With JPJ and Zeppelin, you may chalk it up to just being a different time, different methods of production, a difference of his personality, whatever, but the fact is that in so many songs JPJ is just completely buried in the mix, and I often have to struggle to try to hear what he's even playing. Now, with Zeppelin being what it is and with Jimmy Page on guitar, you can say that's inevitable, and you'd have a point. Even in Them Crooked Vultures, he does some great work, but you often have to hunt for it to even hear it. It may just be that he prefers to stay more in the background and follow the more traditional bass player role. I don't know. But to me, it's an important point.

Thanks to this article, here's a few more excerpts for you guys: http://www.uproxx.com/webculture/2012/10/jon-wurster-has-been-tweeting-excerpts-from-kiss-drumer-autobiography-and-its-inspiring/

 

"Hey ma, you ever give dad head?"

"Ace wasn't lazy, however, when it came to beating his meat."

"Paul loved to doodle. And he drew the best cocks in the universe."

"I'd get a huge boner and go over to Gene as he was applying his makeup and lay my boner on his shoulder."

"I guess I had the most orgies with Ace."

I think it sounds off when they've been playing it because, to me, the focus of the main riff in the song is supposed to be the bassline, with the guitar in the background, but in all the recordings I've heard so far, the guitar is overpowering the bassline and you're mainly hearing the repetitive and uninteresting guitar part during the main riff. That could just be due to the quality of the recordings, I don't know, but it totally throws the song off.

So I guess I'm a little confused, though I admit I haven't read all 20 pages of this thread. I interpreted the original post to mean that this was just a temporary old version of the board until they were able to finish putting up the real new one - is that the case, or is this the new board now?

I'm often amused by videos of YYZ that people take - you'd think at least some people filming a Rush show would be familiar with such a well-known song of theirs. But it's amazing just how many people don't know where to point the camera come solo time - Geddy's first solo? Let's look at Neil doing nothing! Now comes Neil's solo - shoot the camera over to Alex! It both frustrates and amuses me every time.

What with all the talk about tickets for shows for this Rush tour going on, I figured I might see if any of my fellow TRFers were interested in a different kind of show. I've got one ticket I won't be using to see comedian Louis CK at the New York City Center at 7pm on Tuesday, October 23. It was $45, same price for every ticket to his shows, and I don't want any more than that for it. If you're interested, let me know.

QUOTE (MMCXII @ Oct 17 2012, 04:52 AM)

Anyone who thinks the first couple lines are bold or cringeworthy is probably homophobic. They really aren't that bad..

My lyrical quip with the song? The first two lines make me cringe so hard that I have to turn it off immediately. Absolutely can't get through it after that. It's embarrassing to hear.

To quote Alex himself, "I couldn't care less, look who's up for induction, it's a joke." Sums it up pretty perfectly.

QUOTE (drbirdsong @ Oct 8 2012, 11:47 PM)

QUOTE (Ancient Ways @ Oct 8 2012, 06:27 PM) they're only legit in that everyone seems to accept that they are legit.  Kind of like how everyone agrees gold is valuable even though it is just a rock we dig up from the ground. Please sir, if you continue to make this much sense the government may take steps to silence you.   Well, I do think a lot of people just seem to accept that since it's called the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, it must mean that it actually is the holy grail, the ultimate representation of the best blah blah blah. They just take it at face value that it is what they say it is, and that's why they want Rush in it so badly. When really, I could just as easily put a little table on my front lawn with a cardboard sign that says Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and have just as much credibility as the other one does.

As others have said, Hendrix is always going to win the top spot anyway, so what does it really matter.

 

Man, I feel bad for anyone who got paired up with Hendrix. Especially the first bracket. That's just not fair.