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Rolling Stone played Alex and Geddy a song by each of their fellow 2013 RRHOF Iinductees. Their comments, (that you can read below) about Donna Summer were totally inappropriate. You don't diss someone on an occasion like this and not someone who recently passed away. Save your anti-disco feelings for another forum/interview/time. Just really inappropriate and makes them look like total assholes, which I fear a little mainstream attention has caused them to become.

 

 

LEE: This brings back memories of a terrible period of music to me. We were hardcore rockers and disco was so counter to that. The divide was stark back then between disco and rock.

LIFESON: We’re not going to vomit listening to it now, as we might have back then. The arrangements of all of her songs are very well done, and her voice is fantastic. She was quite an accomplished painter as well.

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Rolling Stone played Alex and Geddy a song by each of their fellow 2013 RRHOF Iinductees. Their comments, (that you can read below) about Donna Summer were totally inappropriate. You don't diss someone on an occasion like this and not someone who recently passed away. Save your anti-disco feelings for another forum/interview/time. Just really inappropriate and makes them look like total assholes, which I fear a little mainstream attention has caused them to become.

 

 

LEE: This brings back memories of a terrible period of music to me. We were hardcore rockers and disco was so counter to that. The divide was stark back then between disco and rock.

LIFESON: We’re not going to vomit listening to it now, as we might have back then. The arrangements of all of her songs are very well done, and her voice is fantastic. She was quite an accomplished painter as well.

 

 

Hmmmm... I really don't think they're comments were rude or "assholish." Geddy made a valid point... hard rock was getting its ass kicked by disco back then. Alex was talking about vomitting over disco music, not Donna Summrs. In fact, he said she had a "fantastic" voice and was an accomplished painter.

 

One of the biggest problems with reading text on a screen or in a magazine, is that it's hard to "feel" what they're saying. That's why we have these silly little emotion icons (that are very handy sometimes!)

 

I think you may be taking their comments the wrong way... maybe. These guys have never ever dissed anyone... not that I've ever heard or seen anyway.

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Long before I ever heard of Rush, I was a big fan of Donna Summer in the late 1970s and I still am. I also liked disco. Whether anybody likes it or not, disco was a very valid form of pop music. Of course, it did eventually go over the top, but it was fun music and people of all ages liked it whether they want to admit or not.
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Rolling Stone played Alex and Geddy a song by each of their fellow 2013 RRHOF Iinductees. Their comments, (that you can read below) about Donna Summer were totally inappropriate. You don't diss someone on an occasion like this and not someone who recently passed away. Save your anti-disco feelings for another forum/interview/time. Just really inappropriate and makes them look like total assholes, which I fear a little mainstream attention has caused them to become.

 

 

LEE: This brings back memories of a terrible period of music to me. We were hardcore rockers and disco was so counter to that. The divide was stark back then between disco and rock.

LIFESON: We’re not going to vomit listening to it now, as we might have back then. The arrangements of all of her songs are very well done, and her voice is fantastic. She was quite an accomplished painter as well.

 

 

Hmmmm... I really don't think they're comments were rude or "assholish." Geddy made a valid point... hard rock was getting its ass kicked by disco back then. Alex was talking about vomitting over disco music, not Donna Summrs. In fact, he said she had a "fantastic" voice and was an accomplished painter.

 

One of the biggest problems with reading text on a screen or in a magazine, is that it's hard to "feel" what they're saying. That's why we have these silly little emotion icons (that are very handy sometimes!)

 

I think you may be taking their comments the wrong way... maybe. These guys have never ever dissed anyone... not that I've ever heard or seen anyway.

 

Sorry. There shouldn't even be the opportunity to misinterpret or have to parse words. They should be smarter. And Geddy wasn't just making a valid point about disco and not Donna Summer. if a song by the 'Queen of Disco" elicits that response then she's not shielded by the comment. Under no circumstances should anything negative about her or the genre she was a part of, have been uttered at this time in that context. It just showed no class. Alex's comments about her arrangements and her voice should have been it.

 

And saying that you wouldn't vomit from it, isn't really a compliment. I however did vomit the first time I heard side two of Roll the Bones.

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I wonder what Donna Summer song was played for them?

 

Last Dance. Which is a great song.

 

Agreed. I have her double album "On the Radio", which I used to play a lot. It had all the major hits of hers. I got her 1980 album "The Wanderer" which is post disco and slightly new wave.

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Rolling Stone played Alex and Geddy a song by each of their fellow 2013 RRHOF Iinductees. Their comments, (that you can read below) about Donna Summer were totally inappropriate. You don't diss someone on an occasion like this and not someone who recently passed away. Save your anti-disco feelings for another forum/interview/time. Just really inappropriate and makes them look like total assholes, which I fear a little mainstream attention has caused them to become.

 

 

LEE: This brings back memories of a terrible period of music to me. We were hardcore rockers and disco was so counter to that. The divide was stark back then between disco and rock.

LIFESON: We’re not going to vomit listening to it now, as we might have back then. The arrangements of all of her songs are very well done, and her voice is fantastic. She was quite an accomplished painter as well.

 

Uhm, yeah - that sure was a hardcore diss...

 

If anything, they should have got up and done "the hustle" - you know, out of respect.

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Rolling Stone played Alex and Geddy a song by each of their fellow 2013 RRHOF Iinductees. Their comments, (that you can read below) about Donna Summer were totally inappropriate. You don't diss someone on an occasion like this and not someone who recently passed away. Save your anti-disco feelings for another forum/interview/time. Just really inappropriate and makes them look like total assholes, which I fear a little mainstream attention has caused them to become.

 

 

LEE: This brings back memories of a terrible period of music to me. We were hardcore rockers and disco was so counter to that. The divide was stark back then between disco and rock.

LIFESON: We’re not going to vomit listening to it now, as we might have back then. The arrangements of all of her songs are very well done, and her voice is fantastic. She was quite an accomplished painter as well.

 

Link please.

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Boo hoo. I fail to see how this is so very disrespectful. Just because someone dies doesn't mean you have to absolutely praise everything they did. I hear people talk bad about the Grateful Dead all the time. "Their music is so bad you gotta be high to enjoy it." Who cares? Just because Jerry Garcia is dead isn't going to make me all upset.
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Rolling Stone played Alex and Geddy a song by each of their fellow 2013 RRHOF Iinductees. Their comments, (that you can read below) about Donna Summer were totally inappropriate. You don't diss someone on an occasion like this and not someone who recently passed away. Save your anti-disco feelings for another forum/interview/time. Just really inappropriate and makes them look like total assholes, which I fear a little mainstream attention has caused them to become.

 

 

LEE: This brings back memories of a terrible period of music to me. We were hardcore rockers and disco was so counter to that. The divide was stark back then between disco and rock.

LIFESON: We’re not going to vomit listening to it now, as we might have back then. The arrangements of all of her songs are very well done, and her voice is fantastic. She was quite an accomplished painter as well.

You act as if they called Donna a whore or something. Sheesh. Take it easy there, champ.

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Does the OP LOVE AND CAN'T GET ENOUGH of every Rush song? Personally I don't as well as I don't love and gotta listen to every Donna Summer song either. I DO respect her for what she did for NYC during the 9/11 crisis, and yes I can tolerate some of her music now moreso than back then.

Let's take the context of when and where this interview went down. Rolling Stone huh? hmmm and remember Geddy and Alex DO have a very dry sense of humor as well. As we used to say back in the New Wave 80's take a chill pill dude.

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LEE: This brings back memories of a terrible period of music to me. We were hardcore rockers and disco was so counter to that. The divide was stark back then between disco and rock.

LIFESON: We’re not going to vomit listening to it now, as we might have back then. The arrangements of all of her songs are very well done, and her voice is fantastic. She was quite an accomplished painter as well.

 

Let me translate:

 

LEE: Donna Summer? Wow, this brings back memories, I wanted to bang her so badly in 1978 my balls swelled up like a couple of stepped-on tomatoes and they sagged so far down my pants I got them caught in a turnstile, it made my voice sound like I was on helium for months!

LIFESON: Meh you always sounded like that! Anyway listen Mickey Mouse I DID bang her ok? You bet! In a hotel in New York! Remember that day you had that bad omelette in Jersey City on a day off and it made you puke for days? Where do you think I was??? Yeah I was all over Donna like that omelette was all over your hair! "Ohhhh I feel love, I feel love, I feel love", see no helium singing from me boyo!

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I fail to see what is so bad about what they said. Rock and Disco were mortal enemies back then, they're right. And I don't think Alex was kidding about those compliments.
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Rolling Stone played Alex and Geddy a song by each of their fellow 2013 RRHOF Iinductees. Their comments, (that you can read below) about Donna Summer were totally inappropriate. You don't diss someone on an occasion like this and not someone who recently passed away. Save your anti-disco feelings for another forum/interview/time. Just really inappropriate and makes them look like total assholes, which I fear a little mainstream attention has caused them to become.

 

 

LEE: This brings back memories of a terrible period of music to me. We were hardcore rockers and disco was so counter to that. The divide was stark back then between disco and rock.

LIFESON: We’re not going to vomit listening to it now, as we might have back then. The arrangements of all of her songs are very well done, and her voice is fantastic. She was quite an accomplished painter as well.

Sorry prat, but they don't look like total assholes at all. They were just being honest. Alex and Geddy obviously didn't want to give phony answers. Didn't they wear 'Disco Sucks' t-shirts back in the day? That would be funny if someone printed photo of Geddy wearing a Disco Sucks t-shirt and under it is the quote you wanted from Geddy gushing about Donna Summers and how glad the Queen of Disco is finally in the RRRHOF.

 

I thought Geddy said nothing at all about Ms. Summer herself and Alex's answer was mature, and gave her deserved kudos. I think you have a lot of misplaced anger, of some kind.

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OK it's Sunday and I have to go to communion today, so I better confess a guilty pleasure Andrea true conection More more more How do you like it ho do you like it....yeah just like that mmm right there....

 

was a porn star first, disco songstress second

 

 

Oh yeah I liked it more more more.... etc etc etc ;) :drool:

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Rolling Stone played Alex and Geddy a song by each of their fellow 2013 RRHOF Iinductees. Their comments, (that you can read below) about Donna Summer were totally inappropriate. You don't diss someone on an occasion like this and not someone who recently passed away. Save your anti-disco feelings for another forum/interview/time. Just really inappropriate and makes them look like total assholes, which I fear a little mainstream attention has caused them to become.

 

 

LEE: This brings back memories of a terrible period of music to me. We were hardcore rockers and disco was so counter to that. The divide was stark back then between disco and rock.

LIFESON: We’re not going to vomit listening to it now, as we might have back then. The arrangements of all of her songs are very well done, and her voice is fantastic. She was quite an accomplished painter as well.

Sorry prat, but they don't look like total assholes at all. They were just being honest. Alex and Geddy obviously didn't want to give phony answers. Didn't they wear 'Disco Sucks' t-shirts back in the day? That would be funny if someone printed photo of Geddy wearing a Disco Sucks t-shirt and under it is the quote you wanted from Geddy gushing about Donna Summers and how glad the Queen of Disco is finally in the RRRHOF.

 

I thought Geddy said nothing at all about Ms. Summer herself and Alex's answer was mature, and gave her deserved kudos. I think you have a lot of misplaced anger, of some kind.

 

There's a time and a place to be honest and a time and a place to edit yourself. And I don;t think it's really mature of a 60 year old guy to say he wouldn't vomit from something. No one has to gush. just be respectful. And to someone else who responded, it's not about being respectful of the dead, which should be some consideration, but be respectful of a fellow inductee.

 

You don;t have to praise the music. They didn't praise public enemy and rap, they just weren't negative or disrespectful.

 

it's about time, place and context. it seems hard to explain that to you.

 

As for the misplaced anger, really? that's what you get from this?

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