I don't know, actually. I wouldn't be surprised if they do, though, given that they've got a new record to promote for the first time in five years.
― 誤訳侮辱, Monday, 10 September 2012 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
Picked up the Clockwork Angels book for some airplane reading this week, interested to see how it stands up.
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 1 October 2012 15:05 (eleven years ago) link
I'm looking forward to your review, haven't checked it out yet.
― Moodles, Monday, 1 October 2012 15:13 (eleven years ago) link
I reviewed Sunday's Rush show for MSN:
http://social.entertainment.msn.com/music/blogs/live-music-blogpost.aspx?post=1efe1a16-81a7-45d3-807a-0dc3f9349123
― A. Begrand, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 23:49 (eleven years ago) link
why does rush hate saskatchewan
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 23:58 (eleven years ago) link
Nice review!
― ~ (Matt #2), Thursday, 4 October 2012 00:03 (eleven years ago) link
Great review! I can't believe I still have nearly 2 months before I get to see them.
The new issue of Guitar Player has a really nice cover feature on Alex Lifeson.
― Moodles, Thursday, 4 October 2012 00:05 (eleven years ago) link
Wow "Clockwork Angels" even got a positive review in the Wire. a) Would not have expected it to get reviewed in the Wire b) and yeah, they dug it.
― grandavis, Thursday, 4 October 2012 00:08 (eleven years ago) link
Rush song on a car commercial yesterday. It was a little jarring, I wouldnt think Peart would be up for that.
― One Way Ticket on the 1277 Express (Bill Magill), Thursday, 4 October 2012 14:16 (eleven years ago) link
yeah my roommate was watching football and suddenly i heard FLY BY NIGHT AWAY FROM HERE from the other room and i was like whaaaat
― ciderpress, Thursday, 4 October 2012 14:18 (eleven years ago) link
"Tom Sawyer" was used in a Nissan ad about 6-8 years ago.
― 5-Hour Enmity (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 4 October 2012 14:19 (eleven years ago) link
yeah but at least that one is a classic rock radio staple, 'fly by night' is pretty deep digging commercial-usage-wise
― ciderpress, Thursday, 4 October 2012 14:22 (eleven years ago) link
"Fly By Night" was a classic rock staple in MN when I was growing up and to my knowledge is still one of Rush's better known songs
― Technology of the Big Muff (DJP), Thursday, 4 October 2012 14:28 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, heard that one quite a bit on the classic rock station I listened to in the late eighties.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 4 October 2012 14:29 (eleven years ago) link
ok i guess its just not played on the stations here then
― ciderpress, Thursday, 4 October 2012 14:30 (eleven years ago) link
might have to go see them this time out, I never have, and I like the new album a lot, and haven't liked a rush album since Power Windows.
― akm, Thursday, 4 October 2012 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, "Fly By Night" is one of the half dozen Rush songs I knew before seeing them live for the first time in 2011, and it was all based on radio airplay.
― 誤訳侮辱, Thursday, 4 October 2012 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
akm, you should absolutely go. I've seen them many times starting with the Roll the Bones tour and can honestly say that their live show just keeps getting better and better in every way: song selection, sound quality, musicianship, overall spectacle.
― Moodles, Thursday, 4 October 2012 16:08 (eleven years ago) link
So I gotta go with a "meh" on the Clockwork Angels novel. It does help get a better understanding of the album and the lyrics, a lot of the lyrics I was unsure about snapped into place, but as a sci-fi novel its pretty bland. The story is your fairly standard "lonely boy thinkin' baout things goes on a journey" trope and it unfolds fairly predictably (though a couple plot twists near the end spiced it up a tad). The "moral" of the whole thing is pretty hamhanded, but kinda par for the course for Rush I guess. There are a lot of sly references to other Rush albums and lyrics sprinkled throughout, so kind of a bonus for Rush nerds. Thing is, it just doesn't hold up as a good sci-fi novel.
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 5 October 2012 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
The art looks pretty cool though.
Is there any greater several minutes of Lifeson than the middle section of "La Villa Strangiato"?
― Clarke B., Sunday, 7 October 2012 14:52 (eleven years ago) link
No-that song is a work of genius
― One Way Ticket on the 1277 Express (Bill Magill), Sunday, 7 October 2012 15:08 (eleven years ago) link
I can't stop listening to it
― Clarke B., Sunday, 7 October 2012 15:19 (eleven years ago) link
Hemispheres I just picked up the other day; it was the only record (besides the debut) of theirs up through Presto I didn't have on vinyl, and I've really enjoyed just happily grabbing their stuff when I've found it used rather than rabidly seeking it out. I can easily see this record being the one that pushes me from solid fan into crazed fanboy, though. Something about it clicked with me immediately in a way none of their others did; maybe I'm used enough to their sound, their playing, their themes to where I just heard this one in a more "pure" way. It made me go back to A Farewell to Kings, too, which I feel like I heard with new ears...
― Clarke B., Sunday, 7 October 2012 15:25 (eleven years ago) link
aerosmith band outing to the Rush show on our night off in Philly tonight, fuck yes
― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 12 October 2012 20:40 (eleven years ago) link
lucky
― Moodles, Friday, 12 October 2012 20:57 (eleven years ago) link
Rush's live medleys are some of my favorite concert experiences ever (I mean the whole shows have been great, but the medleys are like all-time live highlights)
― grandavis, Friday, 12 October 2012 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
what Moodles said
― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Friday, 12 October 2012 21:03 (eleven years ago) link
So sorry I missed this leg. Stupid camping trip ...
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 12 October 2012 21:27 (eleven years ago) link
So I gotta go with a "meh" on the Clockwork Angels novel.
me too. it's way too young adult. i wanted something more steampunk/clockwork orangey, the way it's been billed. i'm only halfway through, but the interminable kid running away and joining the circus episode would be more fitting for a novelization of brain salad surgery ("karn evil 9") than it is for clockwork angels. still, i love the fact that they did this, and there's no way i wouldn't read a novelization of a rush album, even if the world's worst writer wrote it
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 12 October 2012 21:30 (eleven years ago) link
oh yeah, which is exactly why i bought it! but its really not that great.
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 12 October 2012 21:35 (eleven years ago) link
why do I keep avoiding and then giving into this thread?
re: Hemispheres and Farewell to Kings above -- these were my favorite records by the band back when I would consider myself a big fan (mostly high school really). In retrospect, along w/2112, they are far and away their proggiest records, which is probably what I was latching onto. I think I even read (or was it in doc?) Alex Lifeson saying that after Hemisphere, they never wanted to make another record like that -- and then came Permanent Waves, which backs him up.
Still think "Xanadu", "la Villa Strangiato", "Cygnus X-1" among the best stuff they ever did.
― Dominique, Friday, 12 October 2012 21:49 (eleven years ago) link
hemispheres is by far my favorite of their albums. it's too bad prog has such a bad rep because people are really missing out. the sidelong suite is a major highlight for me in all their stuff
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 12 October 2012 21:53 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah,.I'm amazed Rush still gets pegged a prog act. It's been decades since they fully embodied the traits people associate with the term. I think the band wanted to move on for the same reason Metallica did. Songs got too long.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 12 October 2012 22:01 (eleven years ago) link
aero going to see Rush after complaining about them on the Rush/Dead/Yes thread??
― Faster than food (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 12 October 2012 22:13 (eleven years ago) link
That's the thing about Rush: complain all you want, but when someone gives you tickets, any sensible person says "yes."
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 12 October 2012 22:24 (eleven years ago) link
rush peg themselves a prog act. they just released a concept album with a novel tie-in. that's pretty proggy!
geddy lee's favorite album list is pretty telling
http://thequietus.com/articles/09210-rush-geddy-lee-interview-favourite-albums
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 12 October 2012 22:26 (eleven years ago) link
they don't call themselves a progressive band. but yes, the new 1 is a throwback. also, the band first concept album.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 12 October 2012 22:42 (eleven years ago) link
Circumstances is such a jam
― rap game klaus nomi (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 12 October 2012 22:51 (eleven years ago) link
plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 12 October 2012 23:09 (eleven years ago) link
I might be interviewing Alex Lifeson next Saturday. Not confirmed yet. Definitely going to the show (Newark, NJ) though.
― 誤訳侮辱, Saturday, 13 October 2012 01:06 (eleven years ago) link
Lifeson seems like such a chill interview. You should ask him about the lightbulb moment that lead to his shift from flashier lead stuff to more subtle shading and Andy Summers-y stuff. Also, Rush may be the most mysterious songwriters outside of New Order; I'm just not sure how their tracks come together, and they're one of the very few bands that has not left behind a trail of demos. Ask him how songs with so many different parts come together as cohesive 5-minute compositions. I've always thought sprawling 3o-minute prog epics were, ironically, sort of easy, because there's the luxury of time and space. But Rush's stuff, busy though it may get, has always been remarkably efficient.
Man, "La Villa Strangiato" really is some sort of apotheosis, isn't it?
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 13 October 2012 02:22 (eleven years ago) link
lol I think I just said Peart's philosophy was gross which I got corrected on. show was really something, really fun
lol I paid for these seats myself!!
― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 13 October 2012 03:04 (eleven years ago) link
music should be like business. efficient. how dare bands "waste" notes!
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 13 October 2012 03:23 (eleven years ago) link
Glad you got your money's worth aero! :D
― Faster than food (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 15 October 2012 15:17 (eleven years ago) link
Aero, did they do a medley? Haven't seen Rush in a number of years and am just curious if they still do this.
― grandavis, Monday, 15 October 2012 17:41 (eleven years ago) link
Ticket for Rush on Saturday night in Newark, NJ: CONFIRMED. Request for interview with Alex Lifeson: still pending...
― 誤訳侮辱, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 21:47 (eleven years ago) link
cool!
― rap game klaus nomi (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 21:56 (eleven years ago) link
This really was one of the best shows I've seen in a long time. Bit of a dream setlist really.
― A. Begrand, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 22:02 (eleven years ago) link
More haikus!
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 19 October 2012 00:48 (eleven years ago) link