la villa strangiato book ii: addicted to that rush
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 20:31 (six years ago) link
Alfred's latest "Worst Songs" post is also a celebration of one of Rush's best
https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2018/05/08/worst-songs-ever-arcade-fires-we-used-to-wait/
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 20:35 (six years ago) link
"I think of The Moody Blues as "post-psychedelic" rather than "proto-prog" ..."
watching justin sing nights in white satin on that hall of fame thing and all i could think of was the first king crimson album. the flute! the mellotron! greg lake's justin homage!
― scott seward, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 20:40 (six years ago) link
procol harum in 1967 and moody blues in 1967 = most prog to come!
― scott seward, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 20:42 (six years ago) link
'Grand Designs' came up on shuffle earlier and... fucking hell, I love this band.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 21:09 (six years ago) link
By the way, that Billy Sheehan clip I posted, that's one of the very few times I've heard Rush playing anything but Rush songs with anybody but the core three members, let alone jamming.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 21:17 (six years ago) link
i saw that tour. sheehan did a bass solo with a power drill
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 21:30 (six years ago) link
I think he and Gilbert both did!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 21:49 (six years ago) link
That may have been the last time Rush even bothered with an opening act.
I saw Primus open for Rush on the Roll the Bones tour. I think Primus toured with them again in 1994.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 22:49 (six years ago) link
ooh, that sounds right. I wasn't sure if they traded off with mr. big behind presto.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 22:57 (six years ago) link
I had to sit through Vinnie Moore on that tour, horific.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 23:13 (six years ago) link
I can't spell...
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 23:14 (six years ago) link
the first big rock concert i ever went to. i made my dad take me. now i can listen to a bad bootleg of it on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwmEQTCf8bU
― scott seward, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 00:52 (five years ago) link
Jealous
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 02:13 (five years ago) link
I saw Primus open for Rush on the Roll the Bones tour. I think Primus toured with them again in 1994.― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, May 8, 2018 3:49 PM (three hours ago)
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, May 8, 2018 3:49 PM (three hours ago)
check the intro y'all:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ato_YTBQpu4
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 02:37 (five years ago) link
When I saw Primus at Lollapalooza, they played a bit of A Passage To Bangkok.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 02:40 (five years ago) link
Huh:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piLUfNc-96w
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 03:57 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IOKT_sC9ac
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 24 May 2018 19:53 (five years ago) link
that rules, schroeder's keybsbrown's shredding, pigpen's peart, snoopdoggy dog's bass damn
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 24 May 2018 20:11 (five years ago) link
last time I heard Madonna's "Ray of Light" the only thing I could think of was how much it sounded like Rush
― frogbs, Thursday, 24 May 2018 20:20 (five years ago) link
xxp So many perfect touches to that, not least the running time :)
― Jeff W, Thursday, 24 May 2018 20:23 (five years ago) link
Neil Peart Completely Dominates Subway Busker With 20 Bucket Setup
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 24 August 2018 14:37 (five years ago) link
hemispheres rules so much
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/rush-geddy-lee-interview-prog-rock-hemispheres-738828/
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 00:32 (five years ago) link
Cool interview. Hemispheres is where it really all coalesced for them.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 01:46 (five years ago) link
for historical purposes, this is a good post about power windows
Imagine a POLL Where It All Began: Rush- Power Windows Poll
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 02:39 (five years ago) link
Great interview!
― The nexus of the crisis (Sund4r), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 12:43 (five years ago) link
After decades of sentimental favoritism, I'm willing to admit that "Hold Your Fire" is relatively weak. However! The entire first side (give or take "Second Nature") is some great songwriting and arranging. "Hold Your Fire" is lovely. "Force Ten" is rousing, "Open Secrets" is some great lyrics writing and features a neat coda, and "Prime Mover" is of course awesome. Side two ... "Mission" is kind of a weaker "Marathon," though of course "Turn the Page" is cool. The rest of the songs are pretty eh. The band would get better at conventional songwriting with "Presto."
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 8 November 2018 12:50 (five years ago) link
it’s a pretty uneven record imo. first side is indeed so awesome
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 8 November 2018 12:59 (five years ago) link
Heh, I meant to say "Time Stand Still" is lovely. Why is this not a classic rock/AOR staple?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 8 November 2018 14:21 (five years ago) link
I'm not ashamed to admit that time stand still is the song that triggered my rush fandom at the belated age of 35.
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 8 November 2018 15:17 (five years ago) link
It's really a good song, and much of it comes down to Peart's lyrics. If they were bad the song would only be OK.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 8 November 2018 15:27 (five years ago) link
just as well it wasn't made five years later, or aimee mann's part would have been given to a computerized 'rapper' voice
― mookieproof, Thursday, 8 November 2018 15:34 (five years ago) link
Hold Your Fire is the first LP in their discography that I don't like - I pretty much like to love everything before that, even the first three albums.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Thursday, 8 November 2018 19:41 (five years ago) link
I like "Mission" they did it once when I saw them live
there's a doc about the last tour called "Time Stand Still" on Showtime, was nice, didn't know how much pain Peart was in
― Greta Van Fleek (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 8 November 2018 19:47 (five years ago) link
I still haven't watched that doc. Worried it will depress me too much.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 8 November 2018 19:51 (five years ago) link
Nah, it's good. Peart has gone through worse than physical pain.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 8 November 2018 19:58 (five years ago) link
watch it, it's not depressing
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 8 November 2018 20:58 (five years ago) link
Heard "Tom Sawyer" on the radio yesterday. It was Two-for-Tuesday, so I readied myself for "Freewill" or "Spirit of Radio" or "Subdivisions," but then they played "Time Stand Still!" I'm not sure I've ever heard that on the radio before, it was awesome.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 13:21 (five years ago) link
Pretty much was all over classic rock radio in 1987/88 (along with "Force Ten") -- but that's time and place for you.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 14:54 (five years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DxEJkvWUwAI6pEo.jpg:small
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 22:19 (five years ago) link
hell yeah
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 22:36 (five years ago) link
spoiler alert
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 22:54 (five years ago) link
Lol josh
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 23:22 (five years ago) link
yeah I feel like Time Stand Still is probably the one song outside of Tom Sawyer that I ever heard on classic rock radio with any regularity (maybe Big Money at the time it came out too). Great song.
― akm, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 23:25 (five years ago) link
My earliest memory of rush was limelight on the radio in the garage while my dad was doing something mechanical and that definitely had to be KQRS so limelight must have been on classic rock radio at least once
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 23:29 (five years ago) link
The ones I hear the most on classic rock radio are "Tom Sawyer," "Freewill," "Spirit," "Limelight," "Subdivisions" and "Red Barchetta." Really nothing from "Grace Under Pressure" on, bar at the time the occasional new song from new album promotion.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 January 2019 04:17 (five years ago) link
Rush must have been huge in Houston, because in addition to the tracks Josh named we also got "Working Man", "Fly By Night", "Closer To The Heart" and "New World Man" on the reg. All of them at least once a day, putting them up there with Zep, the Stones, and the Eagles in terms of exposure.
― Infidels, Like Dylan In The Eighties (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 17 January 2019 05:01 (five years ago) link
xxp lol i think the question was about time stand still, limelight without a doubt is being played on the classic rock radio station in heaven
― j., Thursday, 17 January 2019 05:02 (five years ago) link
Yeah, I hear all those songs, to some degree. But "Time Stand Still" I file under "the occasional new song from new album promotion." I was just too young to remember it in the radio in Philly, but I sure heard "Show Don't Tell," "Dreamline," Animate," at least (or only) during the album cycle. But "Time Stand Still" is such a great song, I'm surprised I'd never heard it on the radio before the other day.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 January 2019 12:45 (five years ago) link