I was watching that R40 video, and the full clips of Alex miming smoking a joint in the middle of "Tom Sawyer" is followed by him shaking his finger and mouthing the words "don't do drugs," and then he bobbles his head and mouths "well, maybe a little."
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 02:52 (four years ago) link
"Geddy Lee: Music was changing, and radio was changing. Our access to great music – the way we were getting it on FM radio, for example – was dying and becoming more commercialised. The Spirit Of Radio carries that feeling, and I think that people related to that song because of the way the music industry was going. It wasn’t about love and getting laid, the typical rock stuff. So it was fresh. And there’s a very positive sound to that song as well. There’s a life to it.Alex Lifeson: The opening riff in that song was based on the movement of radio waves. At least that was the idea!Geddy Lee: The way that song changes from one style of music to another is to replicate an FM dial turning. Maybe it was too subtle. It makes me wonder if we should have been more obvious about it. Alex’s riff set the tone for that song. And while that riff was steadily blasting through, Neil (Peart) and I wrote these counterpoint punctuations all around it, started playing with the time signatures. We thought it was quite innovative. We recorded it live, using a sequencer, which in those days you had to manually program with switches, to get it to work that one time. So you couldn’t screw up."
Alex Lifeson: The opening riff in that song was based on the movement of radio waves. At least that was the idea!
Geddy Lee: The way that song changes from one style of music to another is to replicate an FM dial turning. Maybe it was too subtle. It makes me wonder if we should have been more obvious about it. Alex’s riff set the tone for that song. And while that riff was steadily blasting through, Neil (Peart) and I wrote these counterpoint punctuations all around it, started playing with the time signatures. We thought it was quite innovative. We recorded it live, using a sequencer, which in those days you had to manually program with switches, to get it to work that one time. So you couldn’t screw up."
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 23:59 (four years ago) link
I've got to admit, Peart's death has really made me reassess how much this band has meant to me. I've never not been a fan, but thinking back, and getting older, I recognize what that means.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 30 January 2020 00:04 (four years ago) link
otm
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 30 January 2020 02:21 (four years ago) link
They were truly a lifer band in the best way. And honestly, I don't think any other band would have been able to write "Time Stand Still."
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 30 January 2020 03:40 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHyihY7TJsM
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 31 January 2020 05:17 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOVh_C7XTHA
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 2 February 2020 14:31 (four years ago) link
Ha
― With considerable charm, you still have made a choice (Sund4r), Sunday, 2 February 2020 15:26 (four years ago) link
Neil Peart used to race in the nutty 24 Hours of Lemons ("An endurance car racing series on dedicated road courses for $500 cars") under the name Bamm-Bamm Rubble:
http://www.neilpeart.net/news/september_2014/thumbs/b_belted_in.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 4 February 2020 23:48 (four years ago) link
https://www.rushisaband.com/blog/2020/02/10/5395/Rush-Permanent-Waves-40th-anniversary-box-set-details-and-bonus-content-tracklist
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 21:16 (four years ago) link
Thought this was interesting:
http://www.2112.net/powerwindows/transcripts/19840800guitarplayer.htm
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 22:05 (four years ago) link
Has anyone posted this yet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAPSK_cV5n0&feature=youtu.be
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 17 February 2020 23:42 (four years ago) link
LOL. Here's one that works.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAPSK_cV5n0
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 17 February 2020 23:43 (four years ago) link
Primus will pay homage to prog-rock legends Rush this summer with A Tribute to Kings, a cross-country tour that will feature the Bay Area trio playing Rush's classic 1977 album A Farewell to Kings in its entirety, in addition to their own music."A little over one year ago, Ler Lalonde and I started kicking the idea around of Primus performing a series of shows featuring an iconic Rush album from our youth," says bandleader Les Claypool. "Being that A Farewell to Kings was the first Rush record I ever heard, and that it contains my all-time favorite Rush tune, "Cygnus X1," the choice narrowed quickly. Years ago I had done something similar with Colonel Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade, when we covered Pink Floyd's Animals in its entirety. It was an insane amount of work, but ended up being one of the most enjoyable live endeavors I've ever done. Dubbing the tour 'Primus: A Tribute to Kings,' it was originally scheduled to be performed in the Fall of 2019 but, when we were asked to support Slayer on their Final Campaign, the 'Tribute to Kings' tour was postponed. Geddy, Alex and Neil had been superheroes to Larry, Herb and I in our teens, so when we all became pals while touring together in the early '90s, we were pretty delighted; partially because of the musical geek-out factor but mostly because the three guys whom we had admired so much from afar, turned out to be truly great, down-to-earth humans, and like us, a tad eccentric. The 'Tribute to Kings' tour will be just as it is implied, a respectful and loving tribute to three spectacular musicians, songwriters, legends and friends."
"A little over one year ago, Ler Lalonde and I started kicking the idea around of Primus performing a series of shows featuring an iconic Rush album from our youth," says bandleader Les Claypool. "Being that A Farewell to Kings was the first Rush record I ever heard, and that it contains my all-time favorite Rush tune, "Cygnus X1," the choice narrowed quickly. Years ago I had done something similar with Colonel Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade, when we covered Pink Floyd's Animals in its entirety. It was an insane amount of work, but ended up being one of the most enjoyable live endeavors I've ever done. Dubbing the tour 'Primus: A Tribute to Kings,' it was originally scheduled to be performed in the Fall of 2019 but, when we were asked to support Slayer on their Final Campaign, the 'Tribute to Kings' tour was postponed.
Geddy, Alex and Neil had been superheroes to Larry, Herb and I in our teens, so when we all became pals while touring together in the early '90s, we were pretty delighted; partially because of the musical geek-out factor but mostly because the three guys whom we had admired so much from afar, turned out to be truly great, down-to-earth humans, and like us, a tad eccentric.
The 'Tribute to Kings' tour will be just as it is implied, a respectful and loving tribute to three spectacular musicians, songwriters, legends and friends."
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 18 February 2020 18:43 (four years ago) link
I love the sentiment but tbh I cant think of anything I want less lol
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 20:08 (four years ago) link
play la villa strangiato you wimps
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 18 February 2020 20:16 (four years ago) link
I saw Primus a couple years ago, and they played a bit of Cygnus X-1. I'm strongly tempted to go see this.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 20:19 (four years ago) link
what about the voice of geddy lee? sean lennon?
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 20:32 (four years ago) link
Does tbe singing have to sound like Geddy Lee?
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 20:34 (four years ago) link
i wonder if les speaks like an ordinary guy
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 21:10 (four years ago) link
I know him, and he doesn't
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 21:21 (four years ago) link
Not sure Xanadu would be improved by the addition of slap bass.
― the british empire's coming back, back back! (j/k) (Matt #2), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 22:21 (four years ago) link
Not sure i would expect that at all from Primus. Ive seen them do bits and pieces of various Rush tunes, and they are basically note for note copies. Granted, I have only ever heard them do instrumental segments.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 23:05 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9aqLUOusyQ
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 18 February 2020 23:13 (four years ago) link
I just read that there was a night in Vegas some years back when Rush and Primus were playing the same night, and both out of respect and as a courtesy to their fans, Primus pushed back the start time of their show so that their fans could go to see both bands. That's pretty cool.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 01:26 (four years ago) link
Rush c. 1974:https://external-preview.redd.it/o9LI0sKsPpHIcz6bfoOAhkheePopJ2L3w4QPAiYqT9w.jpg?auto=webp&s=cec68c7ce91784fbbe3e0a70af958ff16bbeb220
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 02:39 (four years ago) link
oh man what a great photohow do we go there
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 02:48 (four years ago) link
Something almost uncanny valley about this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl6vEOKsrik
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 28 February 2020 02:38 (four years ago) link
Dag, check out these nerds:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SWgkyhM1-4
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 8 March 2020 14:50 (four years ago) link
Was thinking about Peart again, and considered something curious. He's a massively creative drummer, with unique fills, great snare work, cool hi-hat bits, trademark ride patterns. And yet, despite having a double bass set up for pretty much his entire career, he's not really known for any interesting double bass work, is he? Single bass drum stuff, sure, but double bass? Not so much.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 15 March 2020 21:30 (four years ago) link
He used it a bit, but pretty rarely.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 15 March 2020 23:54 (four years ago) link
assuming it was for the drum solos mostly?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 16 March 2020 00:13 (four years ago) link
One Little Victory starts with some double bass.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 16 March 2020 00:16 (four years ago) link
For sure. I know he did plenty of double bass stuff, but only in the most fleeting and perfunctory of ways. Whereas for a lot of other rock and hard rock (and of course metal) drummers, double bass gradually became the or at least a significant standard of drum virtuosity. Just surprised that Peart never incorporated more into his style.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 March 2020 00:17 (four years ago) link
Like, I just googled and found this Drum magazine piece on the evolution of double bass:
https://drummagazine.com/double-bass-legends-a-short-history/
Under a picture of Peart is says "Neil Peart was among a new generation of rock drummers to bring more sophisticated techniques to the double-bass vernacular." Was he? I play drums and I like Rush and I can't exactly point to where he does this, not much.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 March 2020 00:20 (four years ago) link
I don't necessarily think he was ever chasing what other people perceived to be standard hard rock/metal "virtuosity"
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 16 March 2020 00:21 (four years ago) link
Well, yeah, duh. Back to my initial post, though, Peart was pretty exemplary on every aspect of his kit *except* the double kick, which was weirdly conspicuous. Obviously it was important enough for him to have a double kick in the first place, so it's surprising it doesn't have a prominent place in his playing.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 March 2020 00:30 (four years ago) link
Their music hardly ever called for it? IMO. I credit that to his good responsive taste in ‘playing to’ Alex and Geddy’s music. I can’t think of many tunes in their discography where I feel double bass was ‘missing’, so to speak.
― Master of Treacle, Monday, 16 March 2020 02:32 (four years ago) link
I totally agree. I'm not complaining or criticizing, wouldn't change a beat, just a notable facet (or lack thereof) in his playing. It's in there, of course, but usually just as fleeting parts of fills.
I mean, tbf, I think many drummers had or have giant kits for show. Peart actually used more of his kit than most. It was all there fore a reason, vs., say ...https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5716/23151918739_bc4c99eae9_c.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 March 2020 02:56 (four years ago) link
https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/fmrg8d/day_5_getting_creative/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 22 March 2020 03:26 (four years ago) link
XP If Cocaine Was A Drum Kit...
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 22 March 2020 03:42 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpjltYzK_RY
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 29 March 2020 22:49 (four years ago) link
So I wondered why Permanent Waves is the #5 album in Canada this week: https://musiccanada.com/charts/#albums. Apparently, a 40th anniversary reissue was released a week or so ago with a bunch of live 70s material?
In other news, Alestorm apparently have the #7 album in the country. I remembered them as a goofy pirate-themed metal band about 10 years ago? I had no idea they were this big.
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 10:12 (three years ago) link
New animated video tie-in
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g_QtO0Rhp0w
― Jeff W, Friday, 12 June 2020 19:32 (three years ago) link
Interview going around with Alex more or less claiming that the death of Neil has made him completely disinterested in playing guitar. He seemed on the cusp of retirement anyway though.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 12 June 2020 20:03 (three years ago) link
poor Alex :(
I ran a music trivia game at lunchtime at work today for fun, and made the fun discovery that one of our senior directors is huge Rush fan <3He emailed me later in the day that he was going to go home and listen to Red Barchetta \m/ Rush brings people together!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 13 June 2020 06:30 (three years ago) link
It's definitely between them and maybe the Cure as World's Biggest Cult Band.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 13 June 2020 13:15 (three years ago) link
now that the Grateful Dead have hung up their boots, I guess so.
― assert (MatthewK), Saturday, 13 June 2020 14:10 (three years ago) link
Honest question, did/do the Dead have much of a following around the world? I have no idea.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 13 June 2020 15:26 (three years ago) link
I remember them playing Wembley Arena in London around 1990(?), and that's a 10,000 capacity venue. Might be because they didn't play outside of the US much around then though. PS I saw Rush play the same venue in 1981, my second ever gig.
― we are the village green evacuation society (Matt #2), Saturday, 13 June 2020 16:01 (three years ago) link