Jaminbenb

I'm more of a Vinnie Coliauta fan than anyone else....guy can do stuff no one else can (while eating!) Reading a book by Arthur Barrow, who was one of Zappa's bass players, and he said when they were learning Mo & Herb's Vacation (which is just 8-billion notes on a page) Vinnie was sight reading, pushing up his glasses, and picking on sushi, and played through perfectly! Besides crazy stuff like that...the dude has more groove and feel than any drummer I've ever heard!

Traveling Music....I just liked how it was.... Ghost Rider was like therapy, and the rest of his "travelogues" were just like reading a book full of his blog posts.... I forget what Masked Rider was...but I read it... (it's on my shelf)

I think the 80's was an era that you could have taken or left.... I saw a LOT of crazy shows in the 80's, including Rush three times....but a bunch of other stuff. Ozzy Osbourne and Motorhead on the Blizzard of Ozz tour, Rossington Collins Band, LOT'S of metal...Rainbow, Scorpions, Riot, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Ted Nugent, Gary Moore, Krokus, Def Leppard,.... I also got to see Pink Floyd, Asia, Emerson, Lake and Powell, Yes, Anderson, Bruford Wakeman and Howe....I thought it was a great time to see live bands!

Working Man from ATWAS.... A friend prefaced it with "you're a drummer, right? You have to hear this" And he played the whole thing! Album was ordered the next day from Columbia House!

Red Lenses

Not sure if anyone posted this but it's cute.... https://vimeo.com/39656335

That just doesn't look like a fun job...

They could have at least turned it into a Rush museum!

I've been wanting to A/B them, but haven't gotten around to it... Just got the new version, and the 2112 40th disc in the mail, now would probably be a good time!

If I remember correctly, the black chrome Slingerlands were retired after the Hemispheres tour, and he had the Rosewood Tama's for the PW tour. In fact, I think the promo pictures of them in the studio for the recording of that album had the Tama's...

Vapor Trails tour...

Any more I download what's out there, and listen to it...if it's worth it, I purchase it, if not, the discs get tossed into a box, never to be heard again. Found an Mp3 version of the discs online, and the only thing I've heard so far that's worth it, is the alternate 2112 from Massey Hall. Not a bad version! (and this proves to me that there are alternate live versions of things out there in vaults....so RELEASE THEM ALREADY!) The "cover versions" are ok, and yeah, I agree, the Steven Wilson version is great. So I will pick this one up at some point after the holidaze are over.

That's odd... I've always liked both bands, and get into moods to listen to them occasionally... Not one of my go to bands when I don't know what musical mood I'm in, but they make the serious rotation about once every two years (when I get into one of those...start with the first album, and listen to each successive one until I get tired of them, or get to the last one) I pulled Point of Know Return and Two for the Show over the summer...

Watched it last night (Got it at Best Buy for $21.49....should have set it up to ring up at $21.12...THAT would have messed with fans! hahaha! ) anyway... Good stuff...Wish it was longer, though, you can only imagine how much footage was probably taken and edited down? Wondering how many concerts were filmed like that and shelved for various reasons? (and yeah...I totally miss Media Play! used to go there and spend HOURS!) (and a lot of cash)

It was a "bucket list" of tunes I never got to hear live...so YEAH!!!!

Yeah....The past ones are occasional reads...they feel like the dive reports I put up for my friends when we go scuba diving...it's my "dive log" entry, but some of it's funny and the guys I dive with are entertained... His road reports are interesting at times...but get a little...blah blah blah....

Well, the thing is, I have all of the official releases, but my bootleg collection fills a CD binder, and a few spindles! (not much to look at)

Yeah..Secret Touch was VERY good live!

Pretty much how I got to see it....We were in Indianapolis for a few things...(convention, DCI pre-lims, etc.)(Chromey wasn't there yet...saw him another trip) Went up to South Bend on our way home to just go see Notre Dames campus, then drove across Ohio to Cleveland, and hit the RNRHOF on our way back... It was interesting from an "old" perspective, but the artists that were in over the later years, don't justify calling it rock and roll.... Ok, Pink Floyd had stuff in it, Springsteen was the featured artist at the moment, They had Queen's stuff in it, etc. But the fact that Michael Jackson was in it and some of the other bands, make it a "eh" sort of museum...

Ok, just heard, and got a ticket to Dream Theater at the Hershey Theater on October 8th!! (ten minutes from my house) That'll be a crazy day, I need to be up in State College, PA for the Penn State-Maryland game at noon, then I have to come home for that show at 8:00pm! Guess I'll sleep in the next day.....

In a pinch, McDonalds is the one I can tolerate no matter where I go...they are the most consistent! The simple hamburgers/cheeseburgers, and quarter pounder like things are always good...as is their fish sandwiches, and I love their breakfast when I'm in the mood for those kinds of calories! But I try NOT to eat any fast food with and regularity, unlike I did when I was younger and always out.... Wendy's is next, pretty consistent, food usually tastes good. If you can find a Hardee's, I'll go there....but they're tough to find. We had a great one not far from where I used to live, and I was hooked on Frisco Burgers! Burger King has gone WAAAY down hill over the years...their food tastes like crap! I never DID like Chick-Fil-A...KFC is slightly OK...but not great. The one in Hershey is bad, but the one where I used to work was pretty good. Taco Bell is "eh" take it or leave it...have to be in the right mood...(rather just go to a Mexican place) but the food is usually good. I totally hate Subway! worst food on the planet...I'd rather just go look for like an Italian restaurant that sells subs and pay maybe a little more...the food is usually fresher! Same with Pizza Hut...can't STAND their pizza, and there are plenty of pizza places all over...

I have some chicken breasts soaking in some Italian dressing for grilling later....We'll have that with some Romaine lettuce later on....

I've never seen Rush in a general admission show, so nothing crazy went on

Hmmmmmm..... In the End can ..er...um..... turn things around...so to speak,

New World Man.... Nothing like a quicky!!