Rush: Classic or Dud?

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.

for historical purposes, this is a good post about power windows

Imagine a POLL Where It All Began: Rush- Power Windows Poll

Great interview!

After decades of sentimental favoritism, I'm willing to admit that "Hold Your Fire" is relatively weak. However! The entire first side (give or take "Second Nature") is some great songwriting and arranging. "Hold Your Fire" is lovely. "Force Ten" is rousing, "Open Secrets" is some great lyrics writing and features a neat coda, and "Prime Mover" is of course awesome. Side two ... "Mission" is kind of a weaker "Marathon," though of course "Turn the Page" is cool. The rest of the songs are pretty eh. The band would get better at conventional songwriting with "Presto."

it’s a pretty uneven record imo. first side is indeed so awesome

Heh, I meant to say "Time Stand Still" is lovely. Why is this not a classic rock/AOR staple?

I'm not ashamed to admit that time stand still is the song that triggered my rush fandom at the belated age of 35.

It's really a good song, and much of it comes down to Peart's lyrics. If they were bad the song would only be OK.

just as well it wasn't made five years later, or aimee mann's part would have been given to a computerized 'rapper' voice

Hold Your Fire is the first LP in their discography that I don't like - I pretty much like to love everything before that, even the first three albums.

I like "Mission" they did it once when I saw them live

there's a doc about the last tour called "Time Stand Still" on Showtime, was nice, didn't know how much pain Peart was in

I still haven't watched that doc. Worried it will depress me too much.

Nah, it's good. Peart has gone through worse than physical pain.

watch it, it's not depressing

Heard "Tom Sawyer" on the radio yesterday. It was Two-for-Tuesday, so I readied myself for "Freewill" or "Spirit of Radio" or "Subdivisions," but then they played "Time Stand Still!" I'm not sure I've ever heard that on the radio before, it was awesome.

Pretty much was all over classic rock radio in 1987/88 (along with "Force Ten") -- but that's time and place for you.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DxEJkvWUwAI6pEo.jpg:small

hell yeah

spoiler alert

Lol josh

yeah I feel like Time Stand Still is probably the one song outside of Tom Sawyer that I ever heard on classic rock radio with any regularity (maybe Big Money at the time it came out too). Great song.

My earliest memory of rush was limelight on the radio in the garage while my dad was doing something mechanical and that definitely had to be KQRS so limelight must have been on classic rock radio at least once