Rush: Classic or Dud?

i've never heard the first yes album but i assume it isn't 100 percent prog either

(Wasn't going to go there but, yeah, so was Yes, arguably. xp!)

So, by that logic, since Status Quo were a psychedelic pop band before they were a boogie rock band, their default state is psychedelic pop.

SCIENCE!

there you go turrican you're getting it :)

I'm p sure ums was joking but also worth noting that "progressive rock" is by definition a fusion of aesthetics, i.e. not a genre that is about being 100% anything in the first place.xp

I was going to make the same point about Genesis. Yes is a trickier one - their first album isn't exactly Close to the Edge but it's unmistakably a Yes record.

wait what genesis isn't proggy? from genesis to revelation is very 60s but i'd put it in the protoprog moodly blues camp

(unless there's earlier still i haven't heard)

i mean compare this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lUJ9f0B3jo

to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5njyO9h9Ys

there's an innate fancypantsedness to genesis even then

Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers both spent time in prog bands before the Police, and Sting was even in (at least in his mind) a fusion band. By the end they were singing about Jung and dinosaurs and spots on the sun. In their early days people used to call Sting Jon Anderson, because he has a high voice. You know who else has a high voice? That's right, Geddy Lee. And Peter Gabriel, come to think of it. Ergo, the Police are as prog as they come.

Science.

from genesis to revelation is very 60s but i'd put it in the protoprog moodly blues camp

fair!

I think of The Moody Blues as "post-psychedelic" rather than "proto-prog" ...

Procal Harum is somewhere in that transition, too.

Procol Harum, too.

Well, the Moody Blues with Justin Hayward anyway, not so much Denny Laine. I can hear 'em as an influence on the wetter end of prog - the Canterbury stuff. Procol Harum definitely part of that transitional period!

APOLLO WAS ASTONISHED!
DIONYSUS THOUGHT ME MAD!

a quantum leap forward!
in time and in space!
the universe learn to expand!

of salesmen.

OF SALESMEN!

oooooooooooOOOOOOF SALESMEN!

new wonders in the world they
wonders in the WORLD THEY
wonders in the world
they
WROUGHTTTTTTTTTTTT

Better the pride that resides
In a citizen of the world
Than the pride that divides
When a colourful rag is unfurled

Think about it!

SPIN-NING! WHIRL-ING!
STILL DE! SCENDING!
LIKE A! SPI-RAL!
SEA UN!!!1!ENDIIING!!1!!!1

I heard "Manhattan Project" on the radio when I was doing a long drive a little while ago and was struck by how clear and precise Geddy's enunciation of that text came across, relative to most of what I was hearing.

If there's anything I want to break out into singing, it's the "Didacts And Narpets" section of "Fountain Of Lamneth"

"Stay!
Go!
Work!
No!
Think!
Live!
Earn!
Give!
Wait!
Fight!
Laugh!
Right!
LISTEN!!!"

Wish that part was longer. I'm sure there's a band that based their career on it.

Years ago, Mr Big was on tour w Rush on their Presto tour, Geddy was late for soundcheck -- stick in traffic from LA to San Diego. They asked me to get up and jam w Neil & Alex for sound check, and recorded it. I played through Geddy's rig on his... https://t.co/3clsOIxrxo

— Billy Sheehan (@BillyonBass) May 7, 2018

la villa strangiato book ii: addicted to that rush

Alfred's latest "Worst Songs" post is also a celebration of one of Rush's best

https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2018/05/08/worst-songs-ever-arcade-fires-we-used-to-wait/

"I think of The Moody Blues as "post-psychedelic" rather than "proto-prog" ..."

watching justin sing nights in white satin on that hall of fame thing and all i could think of was the first king crimson album. the flute! the mellotron! greg lake's justin homage!

procol harum in 1967 and moody blues in 1967 = most prog to come!

'Grand Designs' came up on shuffle earlier and... fucking hell, I love this band.

By the way, that Billy Sheehan clip I posted, that's one of the very few times I've heard Rush playing anything but Rush songs with anybody but the core three members, let alone jamming.

i saw that tour. sheehan did a bass solo with a power drill

I think he and Gilbert both did!

That may have been the last time Rush even bothered with an opening act.

I saw Primus open for Rush on the Roll the Bones tour. I think Primus toured with them again in 1994.

ooh, that sounds right. I wasn't sure if they traded off with mr. big behind presto.

I had to sit through Vinnie Moore on that tour, horific.

I can't spell...

the first big rock concert i ever went to. i made my dad take me. now i can listen to a bad bootleg of it on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwmEQTCf8bU

Jealous

I saw Primus open for Rush on the Roll the Bones tour. I think Primus toured with them again in 1994.

― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, May 8, 2018 3:49 PM (three hours ago)

check the intro y'all:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ato_YTBQpu4

When I saw Primus at Lollapalooza, they played a bit of A Passage To Bangkok.

Huh:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piLUfNc-96w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IOKT_sC9ac

that rules, schroeder's keybs
brown's shredding, pigpen's peart, snoop
doggy dog's bass damn

last time I heard Madonna's "Ray of Light" the only thing I could think of was how much it sounded like Rush

xxp So many perfect touches to that, not least the running time :)

Neil Peart Completely Dominates Subway Busker With 20 Bucket Setup

hemispheres rules so much

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/rush-geddy-lee-interview-prog-rock-hemispheres-738828/

Cool interview. Hemispheres is where it really all coalesced for them.