RUSH vs. YES vs. THE GRATEFUL DEAD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-UcVt6or6I&feature=fvwrel

xp: I used to hate this song, but now it feels to me like a better Jeff Airplane tune. Or a hippie James Bond.

ooh I do not care for that'n

Yes at its best is better than Rush or Grateful Dead at their best.

Bingo. I mean there's only one Close to the Edge, y'know?

Pretty sure all the members of Yes are still alive and occasionally tour together...

Yes to the former, not really the second point. Buford, who was key to their two untouchable records, hasn't toured with them since "Union" eons ago, and of course there have been line-ups sans Howe, sans Wakeman, sans everyone until, most recently, Anderson, with Squire the only original member in every line-up. And god knows the classic line-up hasn't recorded together in ages.

"he hums/there are drums" is a pretty terrible line though.

U2, of course.

U2's first album was 1983 or so, right? Rush has been together with Peart since what, 1975?

Oh, sure. It's just that the number of bands even as relatively young as U2 with their membership intact is pretty low. Just wanted to throw them in the mix. I mean, Rush, U2, ZZ Top and Golden Earring is a pretty short list!

(Regardless, U2 was together in the late '70s, first album well before 83. First release 79?)

Boy was fall of '80, unless it came out in UK earlier?

Formed in 1976

!

Maybe I was confusing U2 with REM??

REM is almost that old, too! Formed 1980.

REM has broken up and also changed line-ups at one point.

did you Deadheads see this?

Spring 1990

― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, August 1, 2012 5:24 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm listening to 3/24/90 this morning (some of which is on Dozin' at the Knick, but the "Help/Slip/Frank" and "Loser" are not, and they are excellent this night. Brent helps this band in myriad ways. Between this and the first JGB (also recorded spring of '90) I've come to think this might be my favorite Dead-related era, probably some kind of hippie heresy.

REM has broken up and also changed line-ups at one point.

Really? When did this happen? You sure?

Sarcasm aside, I was responding to this:

Maybe I was confusing U2 with REM??

That is, even confusing U2 (which was mistakenly cited as starting in 1983) with REM, both formed a surprisingly long time ago, regardless of subsequent break-ups or line-up changes.

Yeah, I just read back in the thread. I missed a couple posts of context.

berry left in 97, and wiki says they called it quits last year

xxp

Their first album was released in 1983, which is what I was thinking of.

berry left in 97, and wiki says they called it quits last year

No, pretty sure the band has not broken up. Wiki is wrong. REM has definitely not broken up.

I mean, if they had broken up, we all would have heard about it.

Months ago.

huh. i have no way to know, and you're speaking as though you do, so i defer. but NPR carried the breakup story (source for the wiki page), and the announcement is still hosted on REM's site. curious as to why you're so certain...

Because I'm taking the piss?

that'd explain it, yeah

"sarcasm aside"

^ igin

ZZ Top is really the only one, because Rush isn't the original lineup.

UK peeps: Does Status Quo have original members? They are one of those bands that's around forever right? Or are they like a Kansas thing where it's like 2 dudes left?

i love the hell out of rush but the dead take this

curiously unaffected by yes

The Quo have 2 original members but are actually touring later this year with the original rhythm section, just a one-off though I think.

ooh do ppl say The Quo over there? that's dope i'm adding that to my repertoire

ZZ Top may have had the same dudes longer, but they also performed at a Republican National Convention, while Rush demanded that their music not be played by those sorts of folks.

And nobody misses the late John Rutsey on drums.

i find it hard to believe three pervy hot rod driving weirdos from texas have less than progressive politics

Not quite sure how political views have any basis in quality music. I personally couldnt care less what a band's politics are.

what if they were nazis

Theyre not

but yr cool w/liking nazi skin music, like r3sist@anc3 records shit?

Never heard it to tell you the truth. I dont need to apply a political litmus test to entertainment I enjoy, be it music, sports, movies, etc.

but if you liked nazi music you would listen to it?

what if there were a band that all the proceeds of their record went to nambla?

hahahahahaha, yeah, sure

id say those examples are a little more extreme than "playing at a Republican convention". I like Ted Nugent's music, but i think he's a total idiot when he opens his mouth politically.

reallllly nervous about the outcome of this poll guys

You have already voted in this poll and cannot vote again.

>:-(

feel like it might be a three way tie and then we'll all have to fight in some sort of classic rock thunderdome

and i will kill you if i have to

yes.

not even close for me. close to the edge is amazing ("siberian khatru"!!) and the other albums from that era ain't too shabby. could never really get with rush but the dead are aiight I suppose.

expect yes to annihilate this, tbh

Not quite sure how political views have any basis in quality music. I personally couldnt care less what a band's politics are.

what if they were Red Wings fans

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice