The LOVE Of The Band RUSH
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Yes I know many on here cannot stand the band 
, however many others including my nerdy self love them and the chick lead singer. 
: *Our Fans Feel Vindicated*
The same could be said in the case of Pearl Jam in that they also have their legion of fans and outsiders. The bond PJ and their fans have is super strong and the same can and is said about and their fans it's only going on 40 years now. Never been on the cover of Rolling Stone or in the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame and they will never need either one of those so called status positions. I hope they never get it in the RARHOF they sure don't need it.
So LOVE em or HATE em they are STILL a great band touring and STILL recording some 30+ years later. Still a classic album.....2112...
Dedicated to the few fans on here...
Peace
, however many others including my nerdy self love them and the chick lead singer. : *Our Fans Feel Vindicated*Rush, and Rush fans, are long used to being the butt of the joke – kimono-wearing, book-learning, heavily moustachioed Canadian prog-rock overlords never seemed likely to be at the cutting edge of cool. But what's really interesting is how their fan archetype – that nerdy, computer-club, Dungeons and Dragons-playing, comic-reading, sci-fi geek – has moved from the margins right into the very heart of the mainstream. Rush have been uncool for so long that they are, finally, perhaps the coolest band in the world.
"We've been vindicated!" laughs guitarist Alex Lifeson down the phone from his home in Toronto a few days later. "A lot of fans feel vindicated, too. There is a segment of our audience that are outsiders and some have grown into power and influence, but that bond they feel to us is still there. It's very, very deep and I don't think it's like that for a lot of other bands."
The same could be said in the case of Pearl Jam in that they also have their legion of fans and outsiders. The bond PJ and their fans have is super strong and the same can and is said about
and their fans it's only going on 40 years now. Never been on the cover of Rolling Stone or in the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame and they will never need either one of those so called status positions. I hope they never get it in the RARHOF they sure don't need it.So LOVE em or HATE em they are STILL a great band touring and STILL recording some 30+ years later. Still a classic album.....2112...
Instead the band locked everyone out and wrote 2112, an album whose entire first side was taken up by a concept piece about a brutally dystopian future in which a group of elite priests exert total control over the meek and mediocre: excellence and individualism have been traded in for a numb, cowardly security. One man finds an old guitar, is fascinated by the sounds it makes and begs the priests to let the people make their own music. They respond by crushing the guitar beneath their feet. A voice at the track's end intones: "Attention all planets of the Solar Federation: we have assumed control."
The sleevenotes offered thanks to the rightwing novelist Ayn Rand, while critics also detected nods to Dostoevsky and Nietzsche. Peart's ultra-libertarian stance was construed by the NME, never one to shy away from a ludicrous argument, as being dangerously close to Nazism, despite Rand – and Lee – being Jewish. "I believe in the sanctity of the individual," Peart said later. "In freedom of action without harming anyone else." While this debate raged on, in England at least, Rush displayed their desire for individual freedom on 2112's sleeve where they were pictured wearing silk kimonos, in what they admit in Beyond the Lighted Stage was an attempt to have an image, any image. As a young fan I found that picture a far more powerful message and, to this day, I've never met a Rush fan who ever gave two hoots for Rand or objectivism, but I know plenty for whom Rush's brilliantly openhearted, unafraid ludicrousness was just as much of a draw as their staggering technical aptitude.
Dedicated to the few
fans on here...Peace
*We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
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If you have not seen this documentary....check it out:
http://www.rushbeyondthelightedstage.com/
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It depends on what albums you already have and what you've already heard. I could give you a few to give a try, if you would like.
Peace
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
Malignant Narcissism is such an amazing song.
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What does FS mean and I have that very same album on vynil? I love that album but to me Exit Stage Left is much better......La Villa Strangiato is awesome with Alex's solo.
Peace
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
I didn't know they weren't in the HOF. Why the he'll are they not?
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That's a damn good question that's why the RARHOF is such a joke but since they are NOT I hope they never get in. I think they'll become famous for that. They do have a star on the Hoolywood walk of fame....is that what it's called?
Peace
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
Neil Peart did an interview on our local radio a few years back and was asked about the RRHOF and said it doesn't matter because they play in front of sold out venues on a nightly basis, to paraphrase him.
"Life Is What Happens To You When Your Busy Making Other Plans" John Lennon
I have/heard: 2112, Hemispheres, Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures, Signals, Roll the Bones, Snakes and Arrows, and the Caravan/BU2B single.
If you haven't heard them already you can't go wrong with Moving Pictures, Permanent Waves, and "side 1" of 2112. I'm also a big fan of their snakes and arrows album.
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'16 Ottawa, Toronto 1 and 2, Chicago 1 and 2
'18 Chicago 1 and 2
'22 Hamilton, Toronto
i've only heard the stuff they play on the radio (tom sawyer, freewill (I think thats the name of that song), limelight, etc..), snakes and arrows, and part of moving pictures.
also watched the new documentary and thought it was pretty cool, it's made me want to hear more.
They are bands that come up with classic songs and lyrics...in fact just about every band has one. To me this is the ONE for RUSH even more than Tom Sawyer....Limelight is also another song that is a classic but not as much as SOR.
The words here are just perfect....
Begin the day
Wth a friendly voice,
A companion, unobtrusive
Plays the song that's so elusive
And the magic music makes your morning mood.
Off on your way
Hit the open road,
There is magic at your fingers
For the Spirit ever lingers,
Undemanding contact In your happy solitude.
Invisible airwaves
Crackle with life
Bright antennae bristle
With the energy
Emotional feedback
On a timeless wavelength
Bearing a gift beyond price-
Almost free...
All this machinery
Making modern music
Can still be open-hearted
Not so coldly charted
It's really just a question
Of your honesty
One likes to believe
In the freedom of music,
But glittering prizes
And endless compromises
Shatter the illusion
Of integrity.
"For the words of the profits,
Are written on the studio wall,
Concert hall -
Echoes with the sounds...
Of salesmen."
Peace
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
You still have made a choice
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I was about to post this exact statement. The lyrics ring so true, I don't even think they could have imagined how corrupt the music industry would become when they wrote it. One of the 10 greatest songs ever written by any band in my opinion.
But Tom "Soy" can go away.
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Sammi: Wanna just break up?
You better run home boy,
That's a fact from Nome to Rome
gets to me every time
Every life is falling down
Brown to black, it's coming back
Dies to be part of the ground
Seed to seedling, root to stem
They're not playing my favourite Rush song this tour, but that's OK, because I heard it in 2002. The mighty Distant Early Warning.
Was really into them before PJ took over. I admit....have not really stayed up to date with them so am more into their older stuff. The Trees, Subdivisions, New World Man, Red Barchetta are some of my faves.
Where I'm not ugly and you're lookin' at me
All terrific songs!
Here are a few photos from the MSG show the other night:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jlbnyc/set ... 472654048/
6/24/08 (MSG1)
6/25/08 (MSG2)
7/1/08 (Beacon Theater -NYC)
10/30/09 (Philly3)
5/18/10 (Newark, NJ)
5/20/10 (MSG1)
5/21/10 (MSG2)
10/18/13 (Brooklyn 1)
10/19/13 (Brooklyn 2)
5/1/16 (MSG 1)
5/2/16 (MSG 2)
3/30/20 (MSG)
9/3/24 I(MSG1)
9/4/24 (MSG 2)
You gotta love a lead singer who STILL wears Converse Allstar sneakers while playing his shows. BTW was this show a sellout like the opener I saw here in Sunrise Florida March 30th?
Awesome pictures btw....
peace
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
Thanks! Yes, I believe it was sold out.
6/24/08 (MSG1)
6/25/08 (MSG2)
7/1/08 (Beacon Theater -NYC)
10/30/09 (Philly3)
5/18/10 (Newark, NJ)
5/20/10 (MSG1)
5/21/10 (MSG2)
10/18/13 (Brooklyn 1)
10/19/13 (Brooklyn 2)
5/1/16 (MSG 1)
5/2/16 (MSG 2)
3/30/20 (MSG)
9/3/24 I(MSG1)
9/4/24 (MSG 2)