Phallic's Lifeson

Yes. For I have stated nothing that any intellectual person could construe that I hate anything besides the first album or anything with a synth in it. I praised the inclusion of the following songs: 1) Digital Man 2) Circumstances 3) Entre Nous 4) Mission 5) A Passage To Bangkok 6) Mission 7) Marathon 8) The Camera Eye 9) Presto...even though I freakin' HATE the song I applauded bringing back an obscure never-heard song With the exception of Bangkok, all of those songs have extensive synth. None of them are from 1974. To make a stretch (two posters so far) that I only want them to play Fancy Dancer and Finding My Way (which I could care less to hear) is pure idiocy as I have stated nothing that would lead anyone logically to that conclusion. But, with certain types of 'boi's...it is easy to predict. Oh, and I agree...the highlight for this tour for me is Marathon.

QUOTE (BIAS2112 @ Jul 22 2010, 03:46 PM) The guy (phallics) sounds like an old metal rocker fan (zepplin style) who got in at the very beginning and as soon as a synth was introduced, he quit. Maybe he wants time machine like "The only good music Rush put out was before they got signed" type of time machine. Sounds more like an OLD Machine to me :-) Marathon was the biggest treat for me as well as Presto and TSS. Presto is an amazing album IMO. I guess this guy didn't read my previous post where I predicted responses such as this. Originality?

QUOTE (druid13 @ Jul 22 2010, 03:07 PM) "Phallic's Lifeson"....hmmm....interesting name.....hmmmmm. I am not sure why people hate Presto so much? I mean it does not remind me of..... (MOD EDIT: pic of shit log removed) Some songs on Presto are OK or at least listenable. But some are just mindnumbingly awful such as Whore Paint, The Ass, Pissto, Ass-a-grab For Man-ho, Red Mountain Fresh Tide with Bleach, Ass Insert Fist, Poopycumdickedher, and Available Shit. Show Don't Tell and Chain Lightening are pretty good.

QUOTE (Snyder80 @ Jul 22 2010, 01:19 AM) I wish I had the ability to say welcome to the boards but I don't. Just another person here with all their whiny, cry baby bullshit. If you don't like what they play stop listening to their music, going to their concerts, etc. Save the shows for someone who actually appreciates it. Let me guess, it wasn't the true time machine show you expected because they didn't play In the Mood or Finding My Way? Get lost. I hate it when a fanboy assumes that if you bring up something that THEY perceive to be in a negative light the first thing they jump to is "You hate everything before 1980" or "Go comb your mullet and listen to In The Mood." I mean seriously...can you come up with ANYTHING better than that?

Stating that those five songs were surprises was not an opinion.

You disagree that Entre Nous, Mission, Circumstances, Digital Man, and A Passage To Bangkok were 5 complete surprises and that this current tour contains less surprises than last tour? Wow. Someone doesn't pay attention.

On the Snakes & Arrows tour, we got treated to a TRUE glimpse of what a REAL "Time Machine" tour SHOULD be...we got FIVE songs that were TOTALLY a surprise and a GREAT breath of fresh air!!! We got: 1) Digital Man 2) Entre Nous 3) Mission 4) Circumstances 5) A Passage To Bangkok Now, on an advertised "Time Machine Tour" after much hype and expected excitement and conjecture, the band takes a few steps back and actually delivers LESS surprises and hardly ANY unexpected songs than the tour before it...even after describing a "totally different setlist" than we are used to. So, we got: 1) Presto...if I could wave my magic wand, I'd p*ss all over this sh*t song 2) Marathon 3) The Camera Eye One could argue that Time Stand Still and Stick It Out were also unexpected, but really? These are two of the types of songs that ANYONE interested in a "Rush Time Machine Tour" would NOT be expecting to hear. Played to death over the years live in the 90's when no one cared much, and not requested really by anyone to ever be heard again. And while I appreciate the inclusion of an obscure song such as Presto on this tour as the TYPE of obscure "less played" songs that they SHOULD have chosen for this tour...let me go on a tangent here. Let's just say that when I used to TRY to get into the Presto album many years ago (hoping in my mind that Rush would have regained SOME glimpse of what made them great), when the tape got to this song I simply had to turn it off. I endured the album up to that point. I could take no more. I tried. Repeatedly. I just couldn't make it any farther. About the first two minutes into the song Presto is when that album's listenability absolutely ended. Kind of like driving an underpowered car towing a 30ft travel trailer up a mountain, slowly but getting through, suffering, sticking through it, trying to make it, having to poop, only to finally have the transmission explode and the car/trailer stop immediately in the middle of the road about halfway up the incline. That is the embodiment of the arrival at the 2 minute mark of the song Presto in making it up the mountain that is listening to the Presto album.