Jaminbenb

QUOTE (greyfriar @ Jul 7 2011, 06:38 AM) I don't think this will be the last album or the last tour (if there is one in 2012). They seemed so relaxed and vital on this tour that I think we will also see the R40 !!! I also didn't see a reason why they should stop as long as they play on such a high level. Maybe I'm too optimistic but that's my 2 cents. I'm in this same boat...MY opinion is that as long as they are having fun, they will continue to tour. Sure every night isn't going to be what they want to be doing at that particular moment, but I think that in general, as long as it stays fun, they'll keep it up.... I honestly thought that during their last "hiatus" that was it, no more Rush, maybe, if we're lucky...something from the vaults, or something they've been saving to release when they decide that's it...but they came back better than ever! I see the "R40" tour happening...I see something in 2012 to commemorate 100 years PRIOR to 2112 being a possibility (hey maybe they'll dust it off again...they did it ONCE!) But I'll take what they give...it can't last forever..and we got a lot out of the last re-start!!!

QUOTE (SignatureAurora75 @ Jul 8 2011, 07:09 PM) http://i728.photobucket.com/albums/ww289/shepwhite2112/IMAG0029.jpg http://i728.photobucket.com/albums/ww289/shepwhite2112/IMAG0030.jpg I have something rare Just thought I'd share Nice! Can I get that in a Shiraz?!?! Hmmmm Rush and wine...two of my favorite "legal" indulgences!!!

Up until that point, I never HEARD anyone even approach the drums in that manner, so of COURSE I ended up getting hooked! (and was forever ruined to own a small drum kit!) After getting ATWAS, I listened to the whole album 10 times in a row to just absorb what I was hearing...it was on another level! Not long after this, I was in a friends car and they had a tape of Caress of Steel and I got hooked on that (still a favorite to this day) then picked up Archives and 2112 for my own consumption....when AFTK came out, it too things to a higher plane, as did Hemispheres!

QUOTE (gotbass1228 @ Jul 11 2011, 10:39 PM) QUOTE (gatorbass @ Jul 9 2011, 08:03 PM) QUOTE (ColdFireYYZ @ Jul 9 2011, 08:00 PM) Best 80's - Either Signals of Permanent Waves. I can't decide. Best 90's - Counterparts +1. Signals is the ultimate synth Rush album, but Permanent Waves is so all around good that it has to rank at least top five of all time. 90's Rush doesn't really do it for me, but Counterparts had the better songs of that decade. Power Windows rules all synth Rush albums You say that like it's a GOOD thing......

Rash

QUOTE (FallTempest @ Jul 11 2011, 03:07 PM) I am really a big fan of WDADU its just not the same to me. No JLB? But Charlie was a good singer and a class act. But I agree with most everyone on here about these various topics. I LOVE DT!!!!!!!!!! PS: You guys like any of the unreleased or B side tracks? I really like Speak To Me all of a sudden lol Charlie is actually a really nice guy! Way back he used to hang out on the old AOL music boards (his handle was CDXDTVOX or something like that) He'd answer anything you asked him about the band from the time he was in it until they canned him, but just one hell of a nice guy to talk with! Derek would make the odd appearance as well as Mike. I liked Charlie's voice, wasn't overly convinced that JL was the "end all" to DT's vocal problems, but no one else seemed to be able to step up. I found WDADU on the import rack not long after I read about it in the old "Spirit of Rush" fanzine talked about it. Cost me something like $25.00 way back when...Not long after I found the "InstruMental" 1, 2, & 3 bootlegs that pretty much had the early DT years covered.

Well...let's see.... Besides Rush.... No real order either..... Yes ELP Pink Floyd Frank Zappa Gov't Mule Dave Matthews Jethro Tull Chicago Transatlantic Steely Dan Most of this is judged by the amount bootlegs I have for each, but also (like in the case of Steely Dan) the sheer musicality of the band!

QUOTE (Tommy Sawyer @ Jul 10 2011, 08:27 AM) I don't think anybody mentioned the death of Jim Croce. He didn't leave a band, he just left!

QUOTE (skalamander2112 @ Jul 10 2011, 09:26 PM) when you listen to something like The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway then Invisible Touch, it kinda makes you want to kick Phil Collins in the nads. having said that, i will say that Domino and The Brazilian from Invisible Touch are great tracks.... You can't compare the old and new stuff. like that, those are extremes! You can't even compare Illegal Alien and Jesus, He Knows Me, to anything else either....but yeah, tunes like Domino, Fading Lights, The Brazilian, Home By The Sea, and Abacab are wild! Heck Turn It On Again is in an odd time signature and was a HUGE RADIO HIT! They took some crazy prog and made it more accessible...why is that "selling out?"

Not a big fan since Rudess joined...don't get me wrong, JR is a great musician, but I just don't like what he brought to the band. I liked their earlier stuff, and thought that Change of Seasons, and Falling into Infinity were great albums, after that they sort of lost me a bit....Train of Thought is IMHO the best album they did with Rudess, though. Just my take on it

Cool! Keep the framing ideas coming...I need to figure out how I want to frame my Hemispheres cover!

VERY cool!!!!

80's Permanant Waves 90's Counterparts No contest!

I'll have to go with the first song I ever heard from them, which was Working Man off of ATWAS (not long after it was released)....I had a friend that liked to play snippets of tunes for me...he'd go "you gotta hear this" and would start a song, then after maybe a verse or two, go "Oh, you gotta hear this!!!" and do the same thing...one day we were sitting in his room going through one of those sessions, and he said "Hey, you're a drummer right...you really need to hear this guy, he's amazing...the drum solo is at the end of the tune" and he actually (for once) played the WHOLE THING! Needless to say, I was hooked, and got my mother to order ATWAS from "Columbia House" the next day!

QUOTE (Enemy Within 77 @ Jul 8 2011, 11:03 AM) QUOTE (Jaminbenb @ Jul 8 2011, 08:11 AM) QUOTE (Enemy Within 77 @ Jul 7 2011, 01:39 AM) Hate to rain on the parade here, but no Jon= no Yes. Sorry, I can't fall into that category! If Yes was Anderson, Wakeman, Howe, Squire and White from day one, and decided to tour without one of them for the FIRST TIME EVER this tour, then I'd buy that garbage, but Yes has never been the SAME BAND for more than two albums in a row so get over it already! Yeah, I like the CLASSIC line up too, but it's just not happening right now. My only qualm is that from what I've heard so far, Benoit is singing like a clone, and I'd respect him a tad more if he was just "himself"...And if that IS his natural voice, then I apologize. Like I posted earlier, my problem is Benoit sounds too much like Jon. I can accept the fact that Jon isn't in the band anymore, but I can't stand when bands replace their singer with a clone. But the weird thing is I think he sounds more like Trevor Horn than Jon?!?! I thought that when they played Hershey a few years back, but what I've heard off of the NEW album it's almost uncanny!

Emerson, Lake, and Powell after Powell left! Dennis DeYoung leaving Styx Kerry Livgren but moreso Robbie Steinhardt leaving Kansas! I really loved Kerry's songwriting, and playing, but Robbie was the SOUL of that band! When he rejoined for a tour a few years back, they were a MUCH different band live!!!! Terry Kath passing away...Chicago was never the same!!!! The whole Skynyrd thing....I agree! It's not even worth the price of trying to hear them in a parking lot for outside shows! Can't really comment much on Yes...that band has changed so many times, and put out great stuff with the oddest combinations, that you either like the current version or you don't! I PREFER Jon Anderson as lead singer, but LIKE stuff that Trevor Horn did, and Trevor Rabin has done, and sort of like some of the new album a bit. Queen was one on my all time bucket list, even though in their later years they LOST me!

I dunno...you could ask the same question of Rush's output in the 80's! I think they CHANGED with the times, and COULD have gone a bit MORE mainstream than they did (see Phil Collin's solo albums!) They CHANGED, but I don't think they actually SOLD OUT. When you look at their album structures, they mixed it up a bit, one of two serious PROG pieces (tempo and time signature changes etc.) A ballad or two, and something "fun". Some of their older stuff tended to get "long in the tooth" and you could easily lose interest with how they seemed to Stretttcccch things out sometimes... Progressive rock is just that...PROGRESSIVE! Things don't ALWAYS need to deeper into Mordor to be interesting!

QUOTE (Enemy Within 77 @ Jul 7 2011, 01:39 AM) Hate to rain on the parade here, but no Jon= no Yes. Sorry, I can't fall into that category! If Yes was Anderson, Wakeman, Howe, Squire and White from day one, and decided to tour without one of them for the FIRST TIME EVER this tour, then I'd buy that garbage, but Yes has never been the SAME BAND for more than two albums in a row so get over it already! Yeah, I like the CLASSIC line up too, but it's just not happening right now. My only qualm is that from what I've heard so far, Benoit is singing like a clone, and I'd respect him a tad more if he was just "himself"...And if that IS his natural voice, then I apologize.

Any version of Maha! UNREAL playing through and through! Vs. DT?!?!?! Jazz Fusion virtuoso's vs. prog metal virtuoso's!?!?! Hard to compare...but I was a Mahavishnu fan LONG before DT! I met Billy at a drum clinic a long way back (mid-80's) and had him sign my Inner Mounting Flame album cover and the his cover of Modern Drummer....the album disappeared during a move, but I still have the MD. When I handed him the album, he grinned and said "OLD fan huh?" I MAY have been about 21-22 at the time.

Thankfully when I got to see them, only the drummer wasn't the original dude...it was before he passed away, but they said he was sick during the show...that said, I think Todd Sucherman was a better drummer anyway.... I can't say I'm a HUGE fan, but I don't switch stations when they come on the radio...they, to me, were an ALMOST progressive band, that leaned a little more towards pop than rock....Progressive Pop?!?! It was one of those bands that your girlfriend didn't make you take the tape out when you were listening to them, but you could STILL have some "meat" to the tunes!

Pretty cool! Saw them open for Foghat back in 1978 or something and it was a wild show!

Looking through some of the other posts...I DO recall Kiss playing at Hershey Stadium MAYBE about 8-10 years back (I think it was the year the original band toured with make up etc.) I lived about 5 miles as the crow flies from the stadium, and at one point I opened the window and could hear Rock and Roll all Night PLAIN AS DAY! If I had known that I would have went out earlier. Y&T is on the list...I saw them open for Rush in 84...no comparison with sound...the Who is LOUD, but I'll stick be my earlier post and stay with Motorhead!

I got to see Ozzy with Randy on the Blizzard tour and it was an AMAZING show! (4/23/81 in Harrisburg, PA in a small venue) He actually did Flying High Again and Believer off of Diary, And I don't think it was released for another 6-7 months?!?! I had to vote for Blizzard, I've been listening to that album forever, and it makes it into the rotation on a fairly frequent basis! I LIKE Diary as well, but Blizzard always was a notch better IMHO....

TO me it sounds like a leftover or outtake from Scenes From a Memory..it would fit into that sound very easily! My guess is they are setting a "familiar" feel to break in the new member to the masses...kind of playing it safe and going with a working "formula" (not a detraction from MM, but after people have been fans of a particular band, and one of the FOUNDING members leaves, you don't want too much of a departure to pizz off those that decided that hang around) I DO like that they seemed to have walked away from the drastic METAL GOD sound they've seemed to have in the recent past. A little more melodic, and the fact that JR's keyboards ACTUALLY SOUND LIKE KEYBOARDS is a plus to me! As a side note...has anyone heard any of Portnoy's new project? I know he put a "do not tape and distribute" note out, but I was curious if anyone was AT the show, or heard a tape?