Caught three of the US shows, including the final two in Boston. I had a really good floor seat for the 2nd Boston show, which I thought when I bought it would be the final Genesis performance....
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Caught three of the US shows, including the final two in Boston. I had a really good floor seat for the 2nd Boston show, which I thought when I bought it would be the final Genesis performance....
I picked this up (iTunes) based on recs in this thread. I've only listened once so far, it's a high-energy show and I basically enjoyed it, but it suffers from that "wall of sound" eq & mixing that...
This was shocking. Way too young. I'm not a Lakers fan, but Kobe was a dazzling player for sure. I'd say one of the 10-15 most noteworthy athletes in major American sports over the past 30 years. And...
I think I'll be doing the same. I took it out of the library many years ago, read 79 pages, and got too busy to finish it. But now that I'm in the midst of a Rush/Neil obsession, I think I'll read...
I saw Collins last year, and it was sad to see someone who was once such a dynamic performer, and one of the greatest drummers in rock, walk on stage with a cane and perform the entire show from a...
As part of my deep dive into all things Rush, I might start checking out some of the latter-day live albums that I never bothered to pick up. Any recommendations from you guys on which of the...
A few shows I recall really enjoying last year were Joe Jackson, Jon Anderson, Steve Hackett, Adrian Belew, ZZ Top, and Tool.
I have a few of their tourbooks from the '80s, which all begin with a several-page essay (if that's the right word) by Neil about the writing and recording of their most recent album. These give...
From Donna Halper, the Cleveland DJ who initially 'broke' Rush in the US by heavily playing "Working Man" in 1974, and has been friends with the band ever since:
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I saw Tool in Glendale, AZ last night, and was disappointed they didn't do any sort of tribute to Neil. I guess that was a one-time thing. A decent number of fans with Rush shirts, though.
If they take it to the US, I'll go. I've never seen them play the side 2 stuff ("To Be Over" is a vastly underrated Yes song that would be a treat to hear, and I think this lineup could pull off that...
I definitely would. I wouldn't want it to be purely a Rush nostalgia show, though. I'd love to see them do an album where they pull in various collaborators and do some surprising things. Not under...
I think I will have revisited their entire catalog before I'm done mourning Neil, but some of the later ones will probably be a chore. Roll the Bones, Test for Echo, and Snakes and Arrows in...
Kind-of surprising, since I recall their Record Guide pretty much savaged Yes. I'm pretty sure it rated these 1-star albums. Even Close to the Edge only got a tepid 3 stars (out of 5).
Today it was Signals (my favorite Rush album) and part of the Clockwork Angles tour video, which I'd never watched before.
I love stuff like this. A surprisingly recent (October 2019) reminiscence by Neil's dad about the year his son worked as the parts manager in his farm equipment store, just before joining Rush....
Carl Palmer studied classical timpani at the Guildhall School of Music in London in 1973. Before BSS was recorded, I think. It's covered in The Manticore Special they put out, which you can find on...
I wish I could 'like' so many of the posts here. It's a wonderful commiserative gathering of serious music fans who have all been touched in some way by his life's work.
With Neil's death, Rush is...
As far as I know a lot of the 'Old Guard' are still around. Dave Marsh and Robert Christgau are probably sitting at their vintage Smith Corona typewriters right now fuming about something or other....
Millions may be an exaggeration, but I'm sure there's probably a hundred thousand people out there - mostly, but by no means exclusively, white male GenXers who grew up in American suburbia - who...
I'm glad that Neil lived long enough to see Rush earn some mainstream appreciation and even critical respect. When I began listening to them in the early '80s, aside from a few songs in FM rotation...
I like this idea, and hope you get traction with it, but I humbly suggest you change the date to Neil's birthday, September 12. Birthdays are just a lot more celebratory than the dates people die on,...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHUPY6yN7_4
Our fearless leader Sean shared this lovely rendition of "Closer to the Heart" on Facebook a few hours ago. I think it makes a nice elegy.
"I will...
I think this one hit me in the gut more than any other celebrity death during my life. More than when other prog luminaries such as Squire, Emerson, Lake, and Wetton all passed a few years ago. More...
Of the highest ranked albums (by Gnosis Modified Mean) on Gnosis with 70+ reviews, the only ones in the top 25 that I haven't heard are #17 Magma's Hhai/Live, and #19 Area Arbeit Macht Frei.
I've had the box set (well, the iTunes version anyway) for a while, but finally found the chance to really delve into it over the holidays. Good lord, what a treasure trove. I don't care much about...
Haven't seen any incarnation of TD, but have all of their recordings up through '86 or so, as well as the post-Froese release Quantum Gate, which is quite good. I wouldn't put it on a par with their...
I always thought the Croydon show from Oct. 22 1975 formed the entire base layer of Ricochet, with studio overdubs completing the recording. Certainly listening to that show on the first Bootleg Box,...
World Without End by Ken Follett
It's the (first) sequel to his hugely popular Pillars of the Earth, which I read back in the '90s and loved. I started this when it came out in 2008 or so, but...
Thanks, Greg! Happy New Year!
"Sunsets on Empire" for me. Honorable mention to "Internal Exile"
I remember soon after I joined in 2003 or 2004 there was a thread that erupted into a no-holds-barred, air-all-grievances, take-no-prisoners, kill 'em all let the mods sort 'em out flame war that...
As one of the MIA old timers who has just seen this thread for the first time, I can't believe how nostalgic it's made me. I haven't read it all, but page after page, I recognize about 90% of the...
Keith Emerson had a phase where he was really into contrapuntal music. His own "Fugue", Gulda's "Prelude and Fugue", and the organ intro to "Karn Evil 9 1st Impression Pt. 1" are some obvious...
I'm looking forward to this as well. Love the venue, and never get tired of that era of Genesis music.
One thing that makes it great is that when Yes closes with it I can head to my car and drive out of the venue without getting stuck in the post-concert traffic, secure in the knowledge that I've...
Front row center for the Montclair, NJ show. Can't wait!:cool
They aren't on regular rotation in my house, but when I do go on a GH listening kick every few years, I'm always surprised by how good they are. Chronomotree, Inconsolable Secret, and If are...
I miss them too. I respect that he's doing what he needs to do, and continue to buy his albums and see his tours, but Wilson solo will never be as near-and-dear to me as the music he made with...
I preordered it on iTunes a while back, they've trickled out a couple of tracks in advance so far - "Central District" and "The Lesson", as well as the Italian versions of those. Decent...
Can't answer for him, but I drove down from CT via Yonkers (picked up a friend) on Friday evening, and took the GWB. The Cross Bronx Expressway was a total mess, as usual, and we barely made the...
Got my copy in the mail yesterday, listened to it once so far. Probably nothing essential, but a mostly enjoyable collection of eclectic odds & ends nonetheless.
I managed to catch the Glass Hammer set on Friday evening. Very good show, though I was not familiar with their most recent music at the time (I've since been catching up). Too bad the turnout wasn't...
I remember running out to the record store to buy HYF as well as Pink Floyd's "Momentary Lapse..." the day they BOTH were released (I'm sure someone has already pointed this out somewhere in the...
I picked this up when I saw Crimson in New Jersey a couple of weeks ago...very good live album, and a perfect memento of this KC incarnation, the way "Eyes Wide Open" is of the previous one...
Shylock - La Somme des Parties
La Maschera di Cera - The Gates of Tomorrow
Raccomandata Ricevuta Ritorno - Per...Un Mondo de Cristallo
Quella Vecchia Locanda - s/t
Compared to the heights Rush would reach over the next decade, CoS is juvenilia. They were beginning to assemble the raw materials, though, particularly with the full integration of Professor Peart's...
Brain! Salad!! Surgery!!!
For me, it's not even close. Trilogy is very good, but BSS is the kind of transcendent pinnacle that few artists ever reach. There is nothing misplaced on this one, even...
I'm really enjoying these releases. I was not about to spring for the $600 box set, but getting the individual sets on iTunes for under $100 total was irresistible! I know it's not everything, but I...
Rough news. RIP to rock's golden-throated choir boy. A key contributor to two of the greatest recordings ever made (IMO) - In the Court of the Crimson King & Brain Salad Surgery.
It's staggering...
I saw them in Westbury, NY last night, a little 2000 seat theater-in-the-round they've been playing on the past few tours. They played tight. Sherwood is fully integrated now, the stand-in drummer...
RIP, maestro. Thank you for all of the wonderful music.
I caught the last hour of the show (stuck working late, then horrendous traffic coming in from CT). Came in on the end of some song I didn't immediately recognize, then I think it was something...
I haven't read all 30 pages of this thread, so apologies if someone has already posted this, but here is the current legal entity that Yes operates under:...
I've felt that way for a long time, that the rock music from the mid-'60s through the mid-'80s (some here may set the cutoff earlier) was something really special, where the zeitgeist and technology...
It's a shame that the true "classic Yes" lineup (IMO...not here to argue with anyone :) ) with Anderson, Howe, and Squire made their final recording 14 years ago, and took their final concert bow 11...
I knew he was not well, but the suddenness shocked me. One of the true giants of prog, and as a central figure in all incarnations of Yes, someone whose music has brought immeasurable pleasure to me...
First TD experience was likely one of their '80s soundtracks - maybe Risky Business or Firestarter. First TD experience that made me buy an album was hearing "Bent Cold Sidewalk" and "Madrigal...
All cream of the crop Yes, except for "Revealing Science" (IMO).
The breakdown might look something like this...
60% iTunes
20% CD
15% mp3
2% streaming
2% terrestrial (FM) radio
1% other digital file format
If I still had a functional turntable, I'm...