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r.i.p. john rutsey.
― tipsy mothra, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 23:32 (sixteen years ago) link
RIP duder -- never knew that's why he had to leave the band.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 23:35 (sixteen years ago) link
on a whim bought tickets for Rush at the Excel Center on Thursday nite!
SOOO OOOO OOEXCITED : ) : ) : ) : )
― M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 20:27 (fifteen years ago) link
I think Rush have a bunch of great songs, but I wouldn't call myself a fan: their fans tend to be kinda obsessive. But that's awesome. One of my regrets is that a friend of mine was a huge Rush fan (also Dream Theater and Jethro Tull) when I met him, and I turned him on to alternative rock in the mid 90s and he just gave up on Rush and the others. That's too bad: I found his Rush obsessiveness interesting. So I'm glad that there are still Rush fans out there.
― Euler, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 20:37 (fifteen years ago) link
They still bring it live. too bad about Rutsey, the first album was a beast.
― Bill Magill, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 20:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Seeing them on Sunday! For the first time ever, I might add.
I'm starting to think their new live album just might be their best to date.
― A. Begrand, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 20:42 (fifteen years ago) link
All the World's A Stage is a nearly unbeatable live album. So if you say that, I guess I gotta hear this new one.
― Bill Magill, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 20:51 (fifteen years ago) link
so freakin awesome - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mav12Hm8fSs&feature=related
― will, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 21:05 (fifteen years ago) link
one of my very first concerts (back in the Hemispheres days)...practically wore out my copy of All The World's A Stage before I caught the "back in the dressing room" banter at the end of Side 4...("oh man, what a show!")...sad about Rutsey...I recall rumors about Neil Peart having leukemia...maybe true, maybe fans confusing him with Rutsey...
― henry s, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 21:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Granted, my taste in Rush is a bit on the weird side, I tend to prefer their 82-87 output. I guess because those were the years where I first got into the band.
― A. Begrand, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 21:13 (fifteen years ago) link
AB-I think your tastes are in line with this thread, nothing weird about that. I'm more of a '70s fan, with 2112 being, in my opinion, their best. But I also love the 80s stuff.
― Bill Magill, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 21:53 (fifteen years ago) link
My favorite album is still the first one I got by them -- A Show of Hands, of all things. I think they're a band that you end up loving whatever you get into first.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 21:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Thought I'd seen it all Til I saw that video Finding My Way smokes
― Bill Magill, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 21:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Cool to see Peart on a small kit too.
― Bill Magill, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 22:00 (fifteen years ago) link
I haven't listened to their recent stuff much, but they were truly awesome in the '70s. Agreed that All the Worlds... is incredible, one of the most underrated live albums by any band in any genre. Also, I agree with Ned's second sentence -- I think they're a band that you end up loving whatever you get into first -- with one caveat: provided you can like or grow to like Geddy's voice, especially on the earlier stuff when it was higher.
― Lostandfound, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 22:06 (fifteen years ago) link
I tell you, I'd freak if they ever pulled out stuff like "Red Sector A" and "The Enemy Within". They are doing "Between the Wheels" and "Digital Man", which is cool.
And yeah, Ned's comment is dead on...Grace Under Pressure is the album I'm most fond of precisely because it was my first. Even though "Red Lenses" kind of blows.
― A. Begrand, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 22:13 (fifteen years ago) link
One thing I always liked about 80s Rush is that Lifeson actually takes great advantage of that super chorus/compressed post-Andy Summers sound that every guitarist was flocking to then.
First Rush album I ever heard was Exit... Stage Left. Signals was the first one I ever bought (and am fond of the most)
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 22 May 2008 00:02 (fifteen years ago) link
That's for sure. There's this effortless transition from one style of Big Epic Music to another that lesser souls failed at constantly.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 22 May 2008 00:05 (fifteen years ago) link
That was weird watching them be so Zeppelin-ish in that You Tube clip.
― Bimble, Thursday, 22 May 2008 00:10 (fifteen years ago) link
it's weird how so many of the dino-chops-rockers of the 70s made a transition into quasi-new wave moves but still maintaining their own sort of spin on it -- rush, dudes from asia, yes, king crimson, etc
― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 22 May 2008 00:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, I think Lifeson was the best at that early-80s new wave guitar style. On Grace Under Pressure, Power Windows, he really nailed that tone.
That's what I found so exciting about the last album, you had subtle glimpses of that very sound, like on "Armor and Sword".
― A. Begrand, Thursday, 22 May 2008 00:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Aye. "The Manhattan Project" always sounded like a McGeoch-era Siouxsie song to me - especially with that string break in the middle.
OK, I'm going to have to fish out my Rush albums tonight.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 22 May 2008 01:48 (fifteen years ago) link
My favorite may actually be A Show of Hands... talk about an all killer, no filler set list. I love their 70s stuff, but a lot of the live albums from then had spotty material. Hands really encapsulated the very best songs from that era of the band.
― Jeff Treppel, Thursday, 22 May 2008 02:06 (fifteen years ago) link
i got into these guys thru my classic rock lovin' older sisters back around the time of Farewell To kings & hemispheres. these guys were HUGE in my jr high/high school years in my blue collar/lower middle class environment. i would rate permanent waves & signals as things i would still like to listen to, tho i don't own anything by them anymore. i saw them at the Meadowlands back on the signals tour (i think). anything post-signals sounded like shit to me but i know that's when a lot of you younger guys got into them. Take off,to the great white north.
― gershy, Thursday, 22 May 2008 05:47 (fifteen years ago) link
love this guy who plays acoustic rush riffs in his suburban kitchen.
― tipsy mothra, Thursday, 22 May 2008 07:24 (fifteen years ago) link