The open hi-hat on that kit is really magical, also the bass and snare, but when the first OHH comes in I was sold 100%. Great cover.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 20:17 (three years ago) link
If the comments are to be believed, supposedly Mike Portnoy sent him or arranged to have him sent a kit and cymbals.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 24 March 2021 20:39 (three years ago) link
That kit sounds pretty good. Love the kick sound.
― earlnash, Thursday, 25 March 2021 02:04 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48IEOgnpZ84
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 24 June 2021 13:14 (two years ago) link
There's a Your Favorite Band Sucks podcast on Spotify. Scrolled through the list, listened to a bit of the Rush one, and lost interest when the two hosts threw out "none of the three are talented musicians".
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Thursday, 24 June 2021 15:38 (two years ago) link
Good way to know to avoid that podcast. I mean, I get Rush not being everyone's cup of tea but to insist that none of them are talented is just bizarre.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 24 June 2021 15:42 (two years ago) link
That's Tyler Mahan Coe, right? I just assumed from one or two episodes that it was a prolonged pointless troll. Like, I think I heard the Police one, and almost everything was anti-Sting (fair) but then he did the same thing, dismissing Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland as the worst guitarist/drummer ever, which is just stupid. Same with one on the Smiths, largely anti-Morrissey (fair again) but then dismisses the rest of the band as talentless or something, just to be stupid.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 24 June 2021 15:53 (two years ago) link
Tyler, yes. The description includes Some algorithm randomly assigns a band to deconstruct and that's all Mark and Tyler are doing in every episode. From what you say re: The Police and The Smiths, doesn't sound like a deconstruction as much as lining up straw men. I'd rather watch drum-only clips. I think the one above is from the Peart "Taking Center Stage" doc, which is great.
Wish I lived in the alternate reality where Peart's still around, ailment-free.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Thursday, 24 June 2021 16:18 (two years ago) link
classic
― cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Thursday, 24 June 2021 16:42 (two years ago) link
Where is that video from?
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Thursday, 24 June 2021 17:52 (two years ago) link
The YouTube video doesn't give origin, but it's Neil's Taking Center Stage DVD. Same clothing/hat.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Thursday, 24 June 2021 19:14 (two years ago) link
is it? the footage in Taking Center Stage is mostly taken from concerts
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Thursday, 24 June 2021 20:15 (two years ago) link
and I'm pretty sure that includes a concert performance of "Subdivisions"
Mix of concert and drum only. For each song, key grooves and fills are analyzed by Neil in an interview setting with Hudson's Joe Bergamini. For each groove and fill discussed, both full-speed and slow-motion drums-only demonstrations are included, coupled with PDF icons that allow the viewer to analyze and practice the patterns using the included PDF eBook. At the end of each song discussion, the viewer is transported onstage to a Rush concert to see the actual live performance of the song from the perspective of the drum cameras only (with an exclusive, custom audio mix that features the drums heard slightly louder than a normal concert DVD mix).
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Friday, 25 June 2021 00:10 (two years ago) link
right, the full songs are all from the concert
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Friday, 25 June 2021 00:57 (two years ago) link
Survived slave labour at Auschwitz, ran the town’s favourite variety store for decades, plugged for her bass-player son Gary who, because of her Yiddish pronunciation of his name, changed it to “Geddy” https://t.co/Eo1CJmdR42— Doug Saunders (@DougSaunders) July 5, 2021
― mookieproof, Monday, 5 July 2021 16:45 (two years ago) link
Awww, she was great in the Rush doc
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Monday, 5 July 2021 17:10 (two years ago) link
long, incredible life
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 5 July 2021 18:17 (two years ago) link
Thinking about Rush's parents, it's a sign of how separate the film and rock worlds are (in Canada, at least) that for years I had read about the documentary Come On Children, without anyone making the connection that young Alex Zivojinovich in the film had grown up to be one of the most famous musicians in the country. I remember reading an article about the filmmaker, Allan King, probably written in the 80s, which described Come On Children something like "a portrait of aimless youth, destined to make nothing of their lives". Even when there was an Allan King retrospective at TIFF, maybe around 2000, the Come On Children write-up mentioned Alex as a cast member, without making the Rush connection.I mean, imagine a US analogue: if Frederick Wiseman had made a film starring a teenaged Tom Scholz, you'd never hear the end of it in the film's publicity.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 5 July 2021 18:39 (two years ago) link
think you might be overstating tom scholz's place in the public imagination
― mookieproof, Monday, 5 July 2021 18:58 (two years ago) link
Lots of lovely direct memories of her on the memorial page:
https://benjaminsparkmemorialchapel.ca/MemorialBook.aspx?snum=137677&sid=206477
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 July 2021 02:45 (two years ago) link
There are people alive today who will be alive in the year 2112.
― we thought that scene needed a little more conflict (Matt #2), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 18:32 (two years ago) link
Assuming anyone is by then I guess.
the priests of the temples of Syrinx?
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 18:38 (two years ago) link
I'm hiding a guitar behind a nearby waterfall just in case.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 3 August 2021 18:49 (two years ago) link
It strikes me that those guitar strings would have rusted being in a damp environment like that for a century.
― we thought that scene needed a little more conflict (Matt #2), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 19:14 (two years ago) link
Maybe they were gut?
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 19:15 (two years ago) link
as much as I love 2112, spending several minutes on guitar tuning in the middle of your epic track is kind of a bad move. I'm glad they didn't replicate that part in concert.
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 19:19 (two years ago) link
That was their Sarah Brand tribute.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 3 August 2021 19:35 (two years ago) link
dude in 2112 is the fastest study on guitar in the history of the universe
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 19:36 (two years ago) link
won't you hear my music
(plays "Smoke on the Water" variants, with awkward silence between chord changes)
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 20:06 (two years ago) link
Can't remember, do they specify it's an electric guitar? Or could it be nylon stringed?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 3 August 2021 20:07 (two years ago) link
chapman stick
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 20:08 (two years ago) link
It sounds like a clean-toned electric, there must have been an amp plugged in behind the waterfall as well.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 3 August 2021 20:08 (two years ago) link
It's a little illogical to write a musical about a place and time where music is outlawed, and have the villains sing about how they hate music.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 3 August 2021 20:10 (two years ago) link
look Hitler wasn't an Aryan
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 20:10 (two years ago) link
Haha I always just assumed it was a classical guitar.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 20:38 (two years ago) link
And I'm not going to argue that 2112 is airtight in its logic but I also thought the Priests are supposed to be chanting and screaming more than singing. (The distinction is debatable in musical terms but they wouldn't be the first religious group to make a distinction like that.)
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 20:45 (two years ago) link
lots of backpack rappers rap about how much they hate rap
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 20:56 (two years ago) link
I mean, I can hear that it's an electric; just thought it was standing in for an acoustic instrument.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 21:01 (two years ago) link
I thought it was an amplified electric standing in for an unplugged electric.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 3 August 2021 21:07 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTRluWPw08M
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 11 October 2021 15:09 (two years ago) link
Awesome.
BTW, Geddy has a memoir coming this ... spring?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 11 October 2021 15:25 (two years ago) link
"How Did My Voice Get So High?: A Memoir"
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 11 October 2021 17:09 (two years ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/p/CUFgwgYAZYs/
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 11 October 2021 17:44 (two years ago) link
So, how did I kill time during the pandemic? Little did I know that as of March 2020 I'd be locked down for over a year and a half—the longest time I'd spent in Toronto since I was nineteen and hit the Northern Ontario bar circuit with Rush.Although Nancy and I had to cancel a bunch of adventures we'd been planning, there were some shiny silver linings to be found at home: teaching my grandson the finer points of baseball and birdwatching, tending to my pups (one of whom was quite ill) and spending the evenings with my lovely better half, glass of Armagnac in hand, as we watched every European mystery show ever produced. Oh, and another thing: I began to write. Words, that is.My friend and collaborator on the Big Beautiful Book of Bass, Daniel Richler, saw how I was struggling in the aftermath of Neil's passing, and tried coaxing me out of my blues with some funny tales from his youth, daring me to share my own in return. So I did—reluctantly at first, but then remembering, oh yeah, I like wrestling with words. It's a less physical version of arguing with musical notes, without a Ricky doubleneck breaking my back! And soon my baby-step stories were becoming grownup chapters. Being the nuclear obsessive that I am, I'd write and re-write them, reassessing perspectives in the narrative not just by scouring my memory banks but my diaries and piles of photo albums too. I was piecing together a mystery of a different kind.I'd then send these improved and even illustrated stories to Daniel, who'd clean up some of the grammar and remove a lot of the swearing (I love to fucking swear), and presto! In a voice that sounded, well, just like me, a presentable, epic-length account of my life on and off the stage was taking shape: my childhood, my family, the story of my parents' survival, my travels and all sorts of nonsense I've spent too much time obsessing over. And Daniel said, "I think you're writing a book. An actual memoir, in fact." To which I replied, “Hmm… I guess I am.”I'm rounding third on this as-of-yet untitled memoir, which will be published by HarperCollins, edited by Noah Eaker, and is scheduled for release in Fall 2022.
Although Nancy and I had to cancel a bunch of adventures we'd been planning, there were some shiny silver linings to be found at home: teaching my grandson the finer points of baseball and birdwatching, tending to my pups (one of whom was quite ill) and spending the evenings with my lovely better half, glass of Armagnac in hand, as we watched every European mystery show ever produced. Oh, and another thing: I began to write. Words, that is.
My friend and collaborator on the Big Beautiful Book of Bass, Daniel Richler, saw how I was struggling in the aftermath of Neil's passing, and tried coaxing me out of my blues with some funny tales from his youth, daring me to share my own in return. So I did—reluctantly at first, but then remembering, oh yeah, I like wrestling with words. It's a less physical version of arguing with musical notes, without a Ricky doubleneck breaking my back! And soon my baby-step stories were becoming grownup chapters. Being the nuclear obsessive that I am, I'd write and re-write them, reassessing perspectives in the narrative not just by scouring my memory banks but my diaries and piles of photo albums too. I was piecing together a mystery of a different kind.
I'd then send these improved and even illustrated stories to Daniel, who'd clean up some of the grammar and remove a lot of the swearing (I love to fucking swear), and presto! In a voice that sounded, well, just like me, a presentable, epic-length account of my life on and off the stage was taking shape: my childhood, my family, the story of my parents' survival, my travels and all sorts of nonsense I've spent too much time obsessing over. And Daniel said, "I think you're writing a book. An actual memoir, in fact." To which I replied, “Hmm… I guess I am.”
I'm rounding third on this as-of-yet untitled memoir, which will be published by HarperCollins, edited by Noah Eaker, and is scheduled for release in Fall 2022.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 11 October 2021 17:45 (two years ago) link
I saw that they had done that but really the OSU band did an amazing job, it was even better than I would have expected. Quite a bit of subtext in the moves of the group like when they formed up the motorcycle during the Limelight section. Very well done.
― earlnash, Monday, 11 October 2021 17:51 (two years ago) link
Ohio State marching band doesn't mess around.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 11 October 2021 17:57 (two years ago) link
That was really impressive but what is the story behind why they did this? Does this university or this band director have some kind of history related to Rush? They're in Columbus, not Cleveland, right? I can't even imagine something like this happening at a Toronto university. Version of "YYZ" with all the drums was awesome.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Monday, 11 October 2021 19:14 (two years ago) link
The stick-figure Peart hitting a cymbal was insane.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 11 October 2021 19:17 (two years ago) link