Rush: Classic or Dud?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM5W1t1Jiuc

^^^^scroll up to May 8, 2018 for some Rush/Primus talk and some still functional embeds.

That Passaic 1976 show is just scorching. I did a little digging, that abbreviated set was the headline slot of a Montrose/Foghat triple bill.

Buttrock, ho! I bet that venue smelled like a strong mix of weed, beer, denim and beards.

I think this is old, but still awesome:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFGasaaWiTo

This is like me on the steering wheel.

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.

If the comments are to be believed, supposedly Mike Portnoy sent him or arranged to have him sent a kit and cymbals.

That kit sounds pretty good. Love the kick sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48IEOgnpZ84

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".

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.

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.

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.

classic

Where is that video from?

The YouTube video doesn't give origin, but it's Neil's Taking Center Stage DVD. Same clothing/hat.

is it? the footage in Taking Center Stage is mostly taken from concerts

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).

right, the full songs are all from the concert

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

Awww, she was great in the Rush doc

long, incredible life

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.

think you might be overstating tom scholz's place in the public imagination

Lots of lovely direct memories of her on the memorial page:

https://benjaminsparkmemorialchapel.ca/MemorialBook.aspx?snum=137677&sid=206477

There are people alive today who will be alive in the year 2112.

Assuming anyone is by then I guess.

the priests of the temples of Syrinx?

I'm hiding a guitar behind a nearby waterfall just in case.

It strikes me that those guitar strings would have rusted being in a damp environment like that for a century.

Maybe they were gut?

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.

That was their Sarah Brand tribute.

dude in 2112 is the fastest study on guitar in the history of the universe

won't you hear my music

(plays "Smoke on the Water" variants, with awkward silence between chord changes)

Can't remember, do they specify it's an electric guitar? Or could it be nylon stringed?

chapman stick

It sounds like a clean-toned electric, there must have been an amp plugged in behind the waterfall as well.

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.

look Hitler wasn't an Aryan

Haha I always just assumed it was a classical guitar.

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.)

lots of backpack rappers rap about how much they hate rap

I mean, I can hear that it's an electric; just thought it was standing in for an acoustic instrument.

I thought it was an amplified electric standing in for an unplugged electric.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTRluWPw08M

Awesome.

BTW, Geddy has a memoir coming this ... spring?

"How Did My Voice Get So High?: A Memoir"

https://www.instagram.com/p/CUFgwgYAZYs/