Do You People On Here Still Have Ears And Eyes? BORING!!! LIKE ME!!! The Fact That RUSH Put "Distant Early Warning" On The "HEAR 'N AID" Album is..

[Lucas]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y3Mum0xJ3A

[JohnnyBlaze]

Those dancers or whatever they are are very talented but no thanks.

 

I want to see a heavy metal show in Japan.

No chance in hell would you like AKB48.

Zero.

They're about as metal as the dump I took yesterday.

[Lucas]

Those dancers or whatever they are are very talented but no thanks.

 

I want to see a heavy metal show in Japan.

No chance in hell would you like AKB48.

Zero.

They're about as metal as the dump I took yesterday.

 

JB, take 8 minutes and watch this

 

It won't change your opinion, but it is exactly what I feel from it

 

[treeduck]

My oldest daughter just told me that sushi in Japan is very sketch. Because of the tsunami and also because they substitute dolphin for tuna. Is this true??

It might give you a tapeworm!

 

Is your oldest daughter looking at this thread?? :givebeer: :smoke:

 

NO! Zoe is NOT looking that this thread!!! Yeah screw that! I don't need a tapeworm. Not sure if the other sushi would be safe to eat either Pat! Lots of STDs out there man! Did you know that 85% of the world has HPV? I'm very clean so I'm very worried about that. HPV? Isn't that a record store chain in England? LOL

How did she find out then???

 

HMV sucks nowadays too. I used to grab quite a few import albums from there in the 80's. Now you couldn't even get a Justin Beaver Cockknocker single from the dump. It's bad!

I've got three tapeworms from the local sushi. And I've named them Dirk, Lerxst, and HMV! I ate some sushi last Saturday night so I probably have an additional two or three tapeworms to name. Hell man, if someone thinks (for whatever reason) the sushi is dangerous or bad out here, then don't eat it. My favorite food to eat out here anyway is yakiniku (grilled meat Korean style).

 

Anytime I've tried sushi stateside (and there've been plenty of times), it just doesn't taste that good. I'm not a sushi snob or connoisseur but maybe it's because they use different rice? Different vinegar? Different fish? Not enough tapeworm? Not sure. But it is what it is.

 

Just remembered the time a few years ago back in the states...I was visiting my family and they took me to some teppanyaki grill that was supposed to be quality. The chefs are entertaining us by flipping their cooking utensils, slicing and dicing, and all the juggling acrobatics. The Asian waitresses are dressed in kimono and looking delicious too. Occasionally the waitresses are talking to each other (not in English) and one of my bros leans over and whispers, "Can you understand what they're saying?" I answer, "Not one bit." Surprised, he replies, "Nothing?! Why not?!" I say, "Because they're not speaking Japanese. Or Korean. Or Chinese. I have no idea what language it is actually. And the chefs aren't Japanese either because their Japanese is even worse than mine." "Really?!" my bro asks. "Yeah man. Their pronunciation is shit enough for me to notice that it's shit. But f**k it, the lobster he's grilling is the only thing that matters."

 

Oh, HMV is out here and sucks too. I bet it has tapeworm.

 

((Edited to add: Just for clarification, I've been eating sushi out here for years and I don't have tapeworm. However, on full moon nights, I lose all memory and supposedly prowl through the city dressed as bluefin tuna out for kicks.))

Now we're on the right track!

[treeduck]

Those dancers or whatever they are are very talented but no thanks.

 

I want to see a heavy metal show in Japan.

No chance in hell would you like AKB48.

Zero.

They're about as metal as the dump I took yesterday.

 

JB, take 8 minutes and watch this

 

It won't change your opinion, but it is exactly what I feel from it

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2qarTeJ1Bk

Marty is probably insane!

 

Hey JB how do you rate Marty's Japanese?

[treeduck]

Those dancers or whatever they are are very talented but no thanks.

 

I want to see a heavy metal show in Japan.

No chance in hell would you like AKB48.

Zero.

They're about as metal as the dump I took yesterday.

It's got plenty of IRON in it!

[treeduck]

When Earl arrives later I want to talk to him about these albums:

 

 

[Lucas]

Any music that is so polarizing, I find is usually interesting, at the very least

 

All the knocks on some of this new stuff were the same things said when Bob Dylan picked up an electric guitar in place of his acoustic, and when KISS came out on the 1970s, and when punk exploded in the late 70s ..

 

Music is just sound and frequency vibrations that create a surge of endorphins or chemicals in a person

 

It shouldn't be so important why, and what label it is given

 

When all is said and done, music is escape ... It doesn't have to be anything more, and no matter who is doing it, it usually never is any more

[JohnnyBlaze]

Earl,

 

You're digging back deep with that album! 30 years I bet. And it's overshadowed by We Are the World, Band Aid, etc.

 

But yeah, I bet you can find that cd out here for ¥300 (around $2.75?) at some underground cd shop's dusty old bin in the back corner....

 

OR

 

...the cd would be sold for ¥8,000 ($75?) and found at some underground cd shop's dusty old bin in the back corner!

 

That's how bipolar this den is!

 

A couple of years ago, Geoff Tate was randomly drinking beers with a former co-worker of mine at some dirty 'ol rock bar dive. And apparently, Geoff wasn't the dick that's often reported. Tate was that former co-worker's idol so he was in hog heaven and reportedly was so nervous talking to him. No worries. No shit.

 

That same year, Tom Cruise was promoting his newest action movie wank...

 

Close-up of Tom's face.

Slowly.

Intense look.

Close-up even more.

Focus.

More intensity.

Sweat on the brow.

Bollocks.

 

During that promo visit, Cruise was standing on the deck of some boat floating down Osaka's dirty Dotonbori canal waving and grinning like Prince By-Tor to his adoring public. "Tom Cruise mita?" acquaintances asked me after the visit. "Why the hell do I wanna see him?" was my thought. "No, I didn't" was my answer. No shit.

 

What am I rambling about?

 

Where's my thing?!

 

Experience to extremes!

 

Signed,

 

Brooding in the tower

 

 

P.S. Earl, when you visit this land some day, don't blow your wad in some underground cd shop's dusty old bin in the back corner! There are more albums where that came from!

 

 

JB!!!

 

You really make me smile buddy. I thought people were going to attack me for my rant.

 

You are so right on.

 

I am dying to get over there to hit every fuckingg dusty record store there! Dude! I have a HEAR N AID CD to play and one sealed. I am crazy! YOU KNOW THIS!!!

 

But I'm fuckking CRAZY IN A GOOD WAY!!!!!

 

I KNOW WHAT I LOVE AND I LOVE WHAT I KNOW!!!!

 

Remember my new slogan and Motorhead song title. "SINGLE FOR LIFE HALF WAY TO DEATH!"

 

Fuckk it friend!

 

We only live once. You bring me joy here and make me want to write more here.

 

When I die I can't take my music with me either.

 

CDS will be useless when I am 90 but I will be proactive and own many cd players still sealed so I can listen to my rare Japanese shit until I die.

 

I feel like I live alone on this planet despite being surrounded my amazing family and an incredible network of friends.

 

Many are on here too. You know who you are. I hope!

 

Gosh I love music.

 

Perhaps I was the one who actually chose rock and roll over my wife.

 

Now that I have retained my home I blast my stereo every night. Five cds a night while watching sports.

 

BBQ Brewskis.

 

It's so funny.

 

When the Warriors have been in the playoffs I always blast old Van Halen with the TV sound off at my house.

I watch the games alone.

 

It's working so far.

 

We are all connected to the Universe.

 

I'm going deeper every day.

 

Blaze!

 

If I ever go to Japan I will go alone. We better meet and explore record stores together!!!!!

 

I know the Whores in Japan dude.

 

I've wasted a lot of money on Japanese product. Fuckk it.

 

LONG LIVE ROCK AND ROLL!

I'm gonna waste a lot of money on Japanese product tonight!!! My buddy's birthday so we'll eat and booze, eat and booze. And to quote you, "Fuckk it!"

 

Could be time this evening for the private karaoke room with nomihodai (all you can drink booze). Don't really need the booze but singing with friends is always cool! Wish you were here!

 

Ah, my train just pulled into the station. Party with pals in 3-2-1.... :cheers:

 

I was going to go to bed but I just had to see some of the responses here. It's amazing how great several of you are on here. I can say almost anything and there is no anger or hate. I am in shock.

 

Damn JB!

 

I love you man! Like the movie right?

 

You just said "WISH YOU WERE HERE!"

 

PINK FLOYD BABY!

 

WE are "two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl year after year!"

 

THAT WAS MY MARRIAGE OF 18 YEARS!!

 

God I wish I could transport myself to Japan right now!!!!

 

I would love to party with you someday.

 

Damn!

 

So many friends on here world wide!! WORLDWIDE LIVE!!! SCORPS!

 

If I was rich I would travel the world and meet all of my Rush Forum Friends.

 

I am dead serious.

 

I hope those of you who read this and know me get the REAL ME!!!

 

I saw THE WHO a few weeks ago and it was Pete Townshend''s 71st birthday. IT WAS INCREDIBLE!! TRUST ME!

 

 

STARKY BLOWS HIS FUCKKING FATHER AWAY! LOL!

 

DUH!

 

STARR OUT OF STARKY!!! HOW SNARKY! HAHAHAHA!!!!!

 

 

BLESSED AND CURSED! I AM!

 

JUST LIKE A MEDIOCRE RUSH SONG!!! LOL! LOVE U DUDE!!!!

 

SING ME AWAY JB!

 

LOVE

 

NIGHT RANGER

By chance (or maybe not), I'm wearing my favorite t-shirt: a fitted T-shirt of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. We didn't do karaoke but we did hit up our favorite Italian joint with all you can drink booze followed by one of our favorite bars with a bartender that can tell stories worthy of movies. Outside of talking about some personal stuff, we were on topics of music, movies, travel, ZOMBIES, and 80s culture. You would've loved it!

 

On the train home now. Hopefully I won't pass out before my stop!

 

Shit, you're probably just waking up after a night of who knows what kind of dreaming!

 

 

Hahaha! JB! You crack me up! I hope we can meet up in Japan some year and party!!

 

God I woke up at noon today. My dreams were really intense. My last dream was so wild and it felt so real. I can't type it on the Forum as it is X rated. Dating is a drag. Thank goodness I have lucid dreaming!!! I could write movies based on my dreams! Perhaps I am insane!!!!

 

 

In a good way........

 

Earl, don't you dare think of going to Japan without me . .

 

I AM THERE

 

You, me, and JB

 

We'll all go see Momoiro Clover or AKB48

 

Just when Japan thinks it has seen it all - it hasn't seen Lucas and Earl

 

http://fat.gfycat.com/TemptingSimpleJabiru.gif

 

http://38.media.tumblr.com/657a8d8a79004e076a730bd54991b788/tumblr_n9ubm5A77r1tsqfxqo2_400.gif

Sorry Lucas, you guys are on your own with Momoiro Clover and AKB. I can't take all that choreographed, high pitched voiced cutesy shit.

I can't imagine Earl liking it.

And it really is hard for me to say that it's music.

It's more like a display.

Or a performance.

 

It's show biz

 

I love it, as a spectacle

 

And the music kicks ass

 

You're in denial

 

Not in denial.

Frantic flashing glitzy prancing ants. Put cutesy, athletic girls in cutesy costumes and train them to dance and sing. No thanks.

"Fight oh fight oh fight oh"...typical shit out here.

 

Not coincidentally and not imitating the Momoiro Clover song, the junior high basketball girls team at one of the schools I used to teach at was doing a "fight oh fight oh fight oh" call & response chant thang repeatedly as they jogged around campus together. It was just the vice principal and I in the huge, main teachers office a few floors up but we could hear the team chanting again and again down on the school field. In the room's silence, the joking yet slightly irritated vice principal goes (in Japanese), "That's it?! 'Fight oh fight oh fight oh?!!" I laughed. Then he laughed. I guess you had to be there but it's pretty ridiculous.

 

"Fight oh fight oh fight oh"...

[Lucas]

Those dancers or whatever they are are very talented but no thanks.

 

I want to see a heavy metal show in Japan.

No chance in hell would you like AKB48.

Zero.

They're about as metal as the dump I took yesterday.

 

JB, take 8 minutes and watch this

 

It won't change your opinion, but it is exactly what I feel from it

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2qarTeJ1Bk

Marty is probably insane!

 

Hey JB how do you rate Marty's Japanese?

 

 

Marty is happy and a positive guy, and he is creating a lot of very cool new music

 

He's taken a much better road IMHO than his former bandmate, who continues to be a nasty old prick

[Lucas]

HOLY ****

 

Look at this :

 

RUSH FANS ACTUALLY HAVE A PULSE !!!!!!!!!

[goose]

Jesus Christ Duck!

 

Curveball!

 

I can't keep up with it.

 

I thought I already owned all of them! UK or Japan versions!!

 

Are they reissued?

 

Am I missing some?

 

I can't keep up.

 

Listening to some April Wine now. FUCKK "ROLLER" IS A FUCKKING KILLER SONG!!!! TALK ABOUT PASSIONE BACK IN ROCK!

 

Sadly us rock experts have to look back in time to get our fuckking rocks off on classic killer HARD ROCK AND METAL!!!!!!!

 

 

ROLLER BABY!!

 

My next woman is going to be a fuckking ROLLER!

 

I'm CRAZY BABY!

 

 

I want to have more "CRAZY BABIES" TOO!! I WANT A SON!

 

Signed,

 

OZZY

 

Did someone say

 

ROLLER ?!?!?

 

 

 

I guess it's up to me to turn this shit thread around.

 

 

:haz: April Freakin' Wine :haz:

[Lucas]

Jesus Christ Duck!

 

Curveball!

 

I can't keep up with it.

 

I thought I already owned all of them! UK or Japan versions!!

 

Are they reissued?

 

Am I missing some?

 

I can't keep up.

 

Listening to some April Wine now. FUCKK "ROLLER" IS A FUCKKING KILLER SONG!!!! TALK ABOUT PASSIONE BACK IN ROCK!

 

Sadly us rock experts have to look back in time to get our fuckking rocks off on classic killer HARD ROCK AND METAL!!!!!!!

 

 

ROLLER BABY!!

 

My next woman is going to be a fuckking ROLLER!

 

I'm CRAZY BABY!

 

 

I want to have more "CRAZY BABIES" TOO!! I WANT A SON!

 

Signed,

 

OZZY

 

Did someone say

 

ROLLER ?!?!?

 

 

 

I guess it's up to me to turn this shit thread around.

 

 

:haz: April Freakin' Wine :haz:

 

 

I'm still waitin'

 

 

;)

[treeduck]

Those dancers or whatever they are are very talented but no thanks.

 

I want to see a heavy metal show in Japan.

No chance in hell would you like AKB48.

Zero.

They're about as metal as the dump I took yesterday.

 

JB, take 8 minutes and watch this

 

It won't change your opinion, but it is exactly what I feel from it

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2qarTeJ1Bk

Marty is probably insane!

 

Hey JB how do you rate Marty's Japanese?

 

 

Marty is happy and a positive guy, and he is creating a lot of very cool new music

 

He's taken a much better road IMHO than his former bandmate, who continues to be a nasty old prick

I like his last few solo albums.

[JohnnyBlaze]

Those dancers or whatever they are are very talented but no thanks.

 

I want to see a heavy metal show in Japan.

No chance in hell would you like AKB48.

Zero.

They're about as metal as the dump I took yesterday.

 

JB, take 8 minutes and watch this

 

It won't change your opinion, but it is exactly what I feel from it

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2qarTeJ1Bk

Marty is probably insane!

 

Hey JB how do you rate Marty's Japanese?

What was I supposed to get from that Lucas?

Ok, Marty talked about some melodies in certain song sections sounding metal if sped up or slowed down...so what? It has no connection to the main things I hate about Japanese idol music: the cutesy shit, the high pitched cutesy girl voices, the choreographed dancing bits...

And okay the melodies...well, I don't like those either.

 

BabyMetal is the least annoying of all of those groups. But I still don't like it.

 

duck, Marty's fluent no doubt.

[Lucas]

Those dancers or whatever they are are very talented but no thanks.

 

I want to see a heavy metal show in Japan.

No chance in hell would you like AKB48.

Zero.

They're about as metal as the dump I took yesterday.

 

JB, take 8 minutes and watch this

 

It won't change your opinion, but it is exactly what I feel from it

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2qarTeJ1Bk

Marty is probably insane!

 

Hey JB how do you rate Marty's Japanese?

What was I supposed to get from that Lucas?

Ok, Marty talked about some melodies in certain song sections sounding metal if sped up or slowed down...so what? It has no connection to the main things I hate about Japanese idol music: the cutesy shit, the high pitched cutesy girl voices, the choreographed dancing bits...

And okay the melodies...well, I don't like those either.

 

BabyMetal is the least annoying of all of those groups. But I still don't like it.

 

duck, Marty's fluent no doubt.

 

On a chemical level, it's all the same

[Lucas]

I'll end with this

 

TMI perhaps

 

But every time I put AKB on the stereo or blu ray, my dog pulls out his biggest toy doll and starts mounting it

 

lol

 

I am serious

 

and he's been fixed

 

ok, back to your April Wine

[treeduck]

Punky Meadows has new album out:

 

 

Meanwhile I'm having an ice cream before my HULK TV show triple bill.

[Lucas]

ok Earl, are you happy now ??

 

We've got The Hulk, and dogs mounting dolls, and Dario Argento and ex Megadeth members speaking fluent Japanese and . . .

 

You wanna list you Top 10 Rush songs ??

 

lol

 

LONG LIVE EARL

 

LONG LIVE ROCK AND ROLL

 

 

[Lucas]

Rob Halford to perform with BabyMetal

 

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/judas-priests-rob-halford-to-perform-with-babymetal-at-alternative-press-music-awards/

 

http://i0.wp.com/www.metalinjection.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/babymetal-rob-halford.jpg?resize=450%2C300

[treeduck]

This has become the most dominant thread on the forum of the last few weeks!

[JohnnyBlaze]

This has become the most dominant thread on the forum of the last few weeks!

Sure, if by "weeks" you mean "48 hours".

But we can make it weeks if we apply ourselves.

[Lucas]

I remember getting Circus magazine in the mail every month back in the late 70s into the 80s, and as we hit 1980, I was feeling a change - Bon Scott had died, KISS was dressing like Vegas showgirls, Joe Perry had left Aerosmith, Rush was starting to lose that edge I loved ....

 

Music - esp the attitude - was at a crossroads .. As a 13 year old who had loved the thrill of the bands with an attitude, a lot of what was going on with bands trying to transition into the 80s was very stale - I felt sort of abandon ..

 

But a few of these bands that I have never heard of were making their way into the magazine - Motorhead, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest - these guys wore denim and leather jackets with these wristbands - I loved it .. They kind of reminded me of the bikers my sis was hanging out with, who were intimidating but far more interesting at that time than Paul Stanley in purple ribbons ..

 

I wanted to be like that .. Music was rebellious again .. Loud... Fast ... There was a sense of power and a surge of something I couldn't describe, but loved .....

 

And to make it even better, it was just what I needed as I was going into high school, which was a big scary factory at the time ... Those teachers, not to mention the 18 year old students, didn't seem as intimidating when I had Lemmy and Paul DiAnno backing me up ....

 

Metal is an attitude, and the surge of feeling like a bus could hit you and you'd get up, spit out some teeth, and laugh

 

 

.

 

 

.

Edited June 13, 2016 by Lucas

[Lucas]

Pete Way + AKB48

 

Epic

 

No dancing, no cute

 

Edited June 13, 2016 by Lucas

[RUSHHEAD666]

HOLY ****

 

Look at this :

 

RUSH FANS ACTUALLY HAVE A PULSE !!!!!!!!!

 

Like in Pink Floyd PULSE? LOL!