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  1. Never say never...the Cubs trailed the Braves 10-2 and fought back to win, 14-10. Largest comeback victory I've ever witnessed, period. This includes a matchup between the Cubs and the Astros, back when Rick Sutcliffe was on the hill for the Cubs. After falling behind 8-2, the Cubs rallied for seven unanswered runs to clip the Stros, 9-8.
  2. Yesterday, I completed my Rush vinyl collection...but Bezos' folks worked overtime, sending me duplicates of nine albums (Roll the Bones the only exception). I arranged to have the extras sent back, and should be handing that today.

     

    In the days to come, my Signals tour tee and p/g tour tee should be arriving too.

     

    Ho hoooooooo!

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  3. I hate to be so selfish, But i'm really upset with RUSH and Neil for giving up on RUSH, I know they all have other things to do in life.

     

    Its been like "clockwork" for years, Every couple of years something new and awesome from RUSH for me to look forward too,

     

    Now it seems to really be over and i'm upset to say the least, I wish they would think of the fans and make something new for us all. They know we want that,

     

    They must have new songs written after all these lost years without them, They must play music its in there DNA I want to hear those songs big time, Also are they still friends ? Anybody know about that ?

     

    RUSH 2018 Album ? I can always dream at least ---

     

    Btw thanks for letting me join your RUSH Club, I dig it

     

    Rush doesn't owe you anything. All you entitled die-hards need to get over yourselves.

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  4. Looks like a cold day in Boston, Rick!

    Fortunately anyone at the game can go home knowing at any time knowing that the officials will take the Patriots into their loving arms and take them to the #1 seed.

     

    Triggahed!

    Is Jerry Jones going to get a playoff share, too?

     

    You can't say Kraft isn't a "shrewd" businessman, that's for sure.

    Let me cheer you up a bit...

     

    http://www.blackandgoldreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Sad-Tom-Brady.gif

     

    Do you have any RECENT clips of the Pats being blown out?

     

    Didn't think so. Try harder. #PATSBASHFAIL

  5. And another resounding duh.

     

     

     

    I do love Stairway though, but come on.

     

    Come on what? i'm not a musician. I don't know which song took more talent to write. Just because something sounds good doesn't necessarily mean it's better.

     

    Sorry, I shouldn't assume the difference in complexity is always obvious to everyone. To my ears as a musician, a great deal of skill and talent went in to the performance and execution and recording of both of these tunes, but Stairway had to be way easier to write, and that's the deciding factor.

     

    The idea of Stairway is essentially a song that builds from a somber acoustic intro all the way to a euphoric blast of heavy metal and touches every base in between. Not necessarily easy to pull off, but easy enough to understand. Once you have the idea, it almost writes itself.

     

    The idea of Bohemian Rhapsody is far less intuitive and requires a truly unique talent to imagine. It begins with an eery a Capella intro which fades seemlessly into a gorgeous piano power ballad. The ballad section escalates into a righteous guitar solo before crashing down into something more identifiable as opera than rock and roll. The opera section is thoroughly entertaining and dynamic, and ends with an astounding climax that immediately breaks into pure heavy metal thunder, which then slowly fades away (and how) into yet another gorgeous and somber piano led ballad section which closes out the piece with only a few lyrics and a perfectly placed gong. To even come up with this idea implies being some kind of madman musician who got carried away, but to make it work, to make it defy all expectations and actually touch the hearts of millions and become one of the most renowned songs of all time? That implies a genius musician who may have gotten carried away, but knew exactly what he was doing. That kind of compositional talent puts Freddie up there with Mozart and Beehtoven in my book. And the whole band are of course monstrously talented in actually being able to pull the thing off.

     

    Slow clap. Especially in the Mozart observation. Both were geniuses and died far too young.

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