i wonder if les speaks like an ordinary guy
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 21:10 (four years ago) link
I know him, and he doesn't
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 21:21 (four years ago) link
Not sure Xanadu would be improved by the addition of slap bass.
― the british empire's coming back, back back! (j/k) (Matt #2), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 22:21 (four years ago) link
Not sure i would expect that at all from Primus. Ive seen them do bits and pieces of various Rush tunes, and they are basically note for note copies. Granted, I have only ever heard them do instrumental segments.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 23:05 (four years ago) link
play la villa strangiato you wimps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9aqLUOusyQ
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 18 February 2020 23:13 (four years ago) link
I just read that there was a night in Vegas some years back when Rush and Primus were playing the same night, and both out of respect and as a courtesy to their fans, Primus pushed back the start time of their show so that their fans could go to see both bands. That's pretty cool.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 01:26 (four years ago) link
Rush c. 1974:https://external-preview.redd.it/o9LI0sKsPpHIcz6bfoOAhkheePopJ2L3w4QPAiYqT9w.jpg?auto=webp&s=cec68c7ce91784fbbe3e0a70af958ff16bbeb220
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 02:39 (four years ago) link
oh man what a great photohow do we go there
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 02:48 (four years ago) link
Something almost uncanny valley about this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl6vEOKsrik
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 28 February 2020 02:38 (four years ago) link
Dag, check out these nerds:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SWgkyhM1-4
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 8 March 2020 14:50 (four years ago) link
Was thinking about Peart again, and considered something curious. He's a massively creative drummer, with unique fills, great snare work, cool hi-hat bits, trademark ride patterns. And yet, despite having a double bass set up for pretty much his entire career, he's not really known for any interesting double bass work, is he? Single bass drum stuff, sure, but double bass? Not so much.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 15 March 2020 21:30 (four years ago) link
He used it a bit, but pretty rarely.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 15 March 2020 23:54 (four years ago) link
assuming it was for the drum solos mostly?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 16 March 2020 00:13 (four years ago) link
One Little Victory starts with some double bass.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 16 March 2020 00:16 (four years ago) link
For sure. I know he did plenty of double bass stuff, but only in the most fleeting and perfunctory of ways. Whereas for a lot of other rock and hard rock (and of course metal) drummers, double bass gradually became the or at least a significant standard of drum virtuosity. Just surprised that Peart never incorporated more into his style.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 March 2020 00:17 (four years ago) link
Like, I just googled and found this Drum magazine piece on the evolution of double bass:
https://drummagazine.com/double-bass-legends-a-short-history/
Under a picture of Peart is says "Neil Peart was among a new generation of rock drummers to bring more sophisticated techniques to the double-bass vernacular." Was he? I play drums and I like Rush and I can't exactly point to where he does this, not much.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 March 2020 00:20 (four years ago) link
I don't necessarily think he was ever chasing what other people perceived to be standard hard rock/metal "virtuosity"
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 16 March 2020 00:21 (four years ago) link
Well, yeah, duh. Back to my initial post, though, Peart was pretty exemplary on every aspect of his kit *except* the double kick, which was weirdly conspicuous. Obviously it was important enough for him to have a double kick in the first place, so it's surprising it doesn't have a prominent place in his playing.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 March 2020 00:30 (four years ago) link
Their music hardly ever called for it? IMO. I credit that to his good responsive taste in ‘playing to’ Alex and Geddy’s music. I can’t think of many tunes in their discography where I feel double bass was ‘missing’, so to speak.
― Master of Treacle, Monday, 16 March 2020 02:32 (four years ago) link
I totally agree. I'm not complaining or criticizing, wouldn't change a beat, just a notable facet (or lack thereof) in his playing. It's in there, of course, but usually just as fleeting parts of fills.
I mean, tbf, I think many drummers had or have giant kits for show. Peart actually used more of his kit than most. It was all there fore a reason, vs., say ...https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5716/23151918739_bc4c99eae9_c.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 March 2020 02:56 (four years ago) link
https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/fmrg8d/day_5_getting_creative/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 22 March 2020 03:26 (four years ago) link
XP If Cocaine Was A Drum Kit...
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 22 March 2020 03:42 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpjltYzK_RY
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 29 March 2020 22:49 (four years ago) link
So I wondered why Permanent Waves is the #5 album in Canada this week: https://musiccanada.com/charts/#albums. Apparently, a 40th anniversary reissue was released a week or so ago with a bunch of live 70s material?
In other news, Alestorm apparently have the #7 album in the country. I remembered them as a goofy pirate-themed metal band about 10 years ago? I had no idea they were this big.
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 10:12 (three years ago) link
New animated video tie-in
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g_QtO0Rhp0w
― Jeff W, Friday, 12 June 2020 19:32 (three years ago) link
Interview going around with Alex more or less claiming that the death of Neil has made him completely disinterested in playing guitar. He seemed on the cusp of retirement anyway though.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 12 June 2020 20:03 (three years ago) link
poor Alex :(
I ran a music trivia game at lunchtime at work today for fun, and made the fun discovery that one of our senior directors is huge Rush fan <3He emailed me later in the day that he was going to go home and listen to Red Barchetta \m/ Rush brings people together!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 13 June 2020 06:30 (three years ago) link
It's definitely between them and maybe the Cure as World's Biggest Cult Band.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 13 June 2020 13:15 (three years ago) link
now that the Grateful Dead have hung up their boots, I guess so.
― assert (MatthewK), Saturday, 13 June 2020 14:10 (three years ago) link
Honest question, did/do the Dead have much of a following around the world? I have no idea.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 13 June 2020 15:26 (three years ago) link
I remember them playing Wembley Arena in London around 1990(?), and that's a 10,000 capacity venue. Might be because they didn't play outside of the US much around then though. PS I saw Rush play the same venue in 1981, my second ever gig.
― we are the village green evacuation society (Matt #2), Saturday, 13 June 2020 16:01 (three years ago) link
there's something to the couplet theory ~
https://www.progressiveears.org/forum/showthread.php/25872-My-RUSH-album-couplet-theory
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 13 June 2020 16:03 (three years ago) link
Huh. I can get with that!
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 13 June 2020 16:34 (three years ago) link
Thanks, now I'm watching people do Rush covers online. This bass nerd remains my fave:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAJzIYNQofA
As he says, I don’t know what he was thinking - writing this bass-line with the knowledge that he’d have to sing over it, but that’s why he’s one in a million."
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 13 June 2020 16:45 (three years ago) link
Only quibble with couplet theory is I'd pair Snakes with Vapor Trails, Clockwork Angels stands alone.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 13 June 2020 16:59 (three years ago) link
Huh, obviously Aimee Mann is on "Time Stands Still," but the laugh at the beginning of "Force Ten" is apparently a sample of her as well, as is (I never noticed this) a brief vocal part (maybe backwards) on "Open Secrets" (around the 4:00 mark).
Man, I miss Neil Peart.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 25 June 2020 03:52 (three years ago) link
("Time Stand Still;" thanks a lot, beer)
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 25 June 2020 03:54 (three years ago) link
permanent waves was remastered recently, is the non-extra version of it on this 40th anniversary set any different?
― j., Thursday, 25 June 2020 04:28 (three years ago) link
Did anyone actually have a problem with the mastering on the original release?
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Thursday, 25 June 2020 04:31 (three years ago) link
you never know what little lifeson fiddlies they might uncover
― j., Thursday, 25 June 2020 04:34 (three years ago) link
Speaking of fiddles, I was watching a little Lifeson tutorial on the intro to "Spirit of Radio," and he self-effacingly describes it as a Celtic sort of thing. And now every time I hear it, yeah, it's totally this Celtic sort of thing.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 25 June 2020 04:40 (three years ago) link
Wasn't that intro meant to be mimicking radio waves?
― tired of waiting for icu (Matt #2), Thursday, 25 June 2020 08:51 (three years ago) link
Loosely, I think. But when describing it from a melodic/technical standpoint (since he was teaching) he used "Celtic,' which is probably more useful than "radio waves."
I found some other good stuff to explore, namely the tour books posted (I hope all) online, where Neil, at least, gives little making-of accounts. For example, I learned (and maybe knew already) that Alex programmed all the drum parts in the band's demos, which Neil would sometimes use for inspiration, and also that Neil sometimes went into each album with an overarching theme (as opposed to concept). For example, a lot of the lyrics of "Power Windows" hinge on (duh) notions of power. He writes:
Having enjoyed writing around the central theme of "Power" last time, I decided to try something like that again, this time working with the theme of "Time". I set to work first on "Time Stand Still". I'd been thinking about this for some time now; how so often the richness of a period of time or an experience seems to lie in looking back at it. Or conversely, sometimes you might know that you are enjoying a wonderful time, but just wish you could make it last longer. I'm sure you know how that goes. But as I set that one aside after a while, and went on to work on other ideas, it was strange to see that what I had thought was my theme suddenly turned itself into something else -- without even asking me! With the development of ideas for "Second Nature" and "High Water" the theme suddenly changed to "Instinct", or perhaps "Temperament" -- the idea of primeval or subconscious drives. Well okay, I thought, if that's what my brain wants to work on -- go ahead!
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 25 June 2020 12:58 (three years ago) link
It's really awesome that Clockwork Angels was their final album, what an amazing way to go out.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 23 July 2020 23:40 (three years ago) link
I mean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSWn9qbaFu8
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 23 July 2020 23:42 (three years ago) link
I was watching the Rick Beato episode about "Limelight," and not only does he isolate Geddy's harmonies, he isolates a *lower* harmony with a British accent, which he figures must be producer Terry Brown!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P-yUOlOC5M
Around the 15 mark.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 14 December 2020 02:40 (three years ago) link
she sings tom sawyer pretty good!
― xzanfar, Monday, 14 December 2020 03:59 (three years ago) link
Oh wow, I never noticed harmony vocals there.
― The New York Times' effect on man (Sund4r), Monday, 14 December 2020 18:07 (three years ago) link
A very moving read.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/neil-peart-rush-dead-cover-story-1110496/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 8 January 2021 03:50 (three years ago) link
oh man <3
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 January 2021 04:23 (three years ago) link