"I approve."
Posted on 01/13/2010 3:43:07 PM PST by My Favorite Headache
Well maybe you can recommend some of their newer work?
"I approve."
Recommend anything? Hey - it’s Rush!
I did like their Vapor Trails album, and LOVED their Snakes and Arrows album (latest). Here’s their song “Malignant Narcissim” - instrumental. Great story to it. They added it at the last minute after Geddy got a trial, fretless bass and was trying it out. The producer got his goofing around riffs on tape and said - hey - that’s pretty good.
Neil was still at the studio so he and Geddy put together a bit, with Neil on a very small practice drum set and they recorded their parts. They sent it to Alex who had already left, and he added his part to it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBQKJjXO1A8
And this on top of welcoming his new daughter into the world not that long ago. Certainly hope (for his AND her sake ) that she doesn’t have the misfortune that his first daughter had.
I got into Rush back in my first go-round in college, and they still have a larger space on my iPod than anyone else does.
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Actually,Permanent Waves was much better because by then Geddy wasn’t screeching so much. I find his early vocals very annoying, very wisely he gave that up right around the time. But La Villa Strangiato is the greatest rock instrumental ever.
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I agree with the posting someone made in that YouTube page...that’s got to be YYZ’s second part.
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Of those that ‘you’ listed, how many are still recording today, with essentially the same personal (drummer change after disc one) as when they were formed? 32 albums and 5 decades later, Rush stands alone. Especially with some of the names you listed. Aztec Camera? Thanks for the laugh.
There were hundreds more to list but why bother? The point is made imo...I can name 20 bands off the top of my head that belong in the rock and roll hall of fame that aren’t and have been eligible for years.
It’s Jann Wenner’s record collection that is in there.
Hundreds more? You think that there are that many are deserving of HOF status? Give you give me a couple of those Bands/Persons?
I don’t know the criteria used to determine is a Band/Person is worthy. I’m sure it’s all political.
Hundreds “eligible”. I would say for sure Rush, Journey, Styx, ELO, Yes, KISS, Deep Purple, Boston, Chicago, Sting, Def Leppard, Bon Jovi, Sammy Hagar, Bad Company, Pantera, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Alice Cooper, Cheap Trick, Moody Blues, Foreigner, Meat Loaf, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Robert Palmer, Kansas, Alan Parsons, Dire Straits, Toto, The Fixx, Robert Plant, Bryan Adams, Barry White, Scorpions, The Cars, Jethro Tull, Pat Benatar, Dire Straits, Weird Al, Duran Duran, INXS, Motley Crue just to name a few off the top of my head.
Not only same members (aside from the late John Rutsey from the first LP), but they are still charting — I think every Rush studio LP has hit the top 10 since the 70s. Their tours constantly sell out, and generations of musicians have been influenced by them. What more do they need to do?
I agree that there are a number of bands that deserve to be in the HOF (Chicago with Terry Kath, *hello!*), but I can’t think of many more deserving than Rush.
Then again, we’re talking about the same institution that waited years to induct Paul McCartney!
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