Most of the songs are by a future super group 'The Winery Dogs'.
I have this tribute album and it's mostly pretty well done. I don't think the point was to ape the originals - it was to do something a bit different with them. Which was fun to listen to once or twice.
Always thought Rush was one of the hardest bands to take a song and do something fresh with. They are so unique it's tough to go somewhere with their music.
I found a cheap used copy a looooooooooong time ago, listened to it once, found a couple of interesting moments on it but didn't really care for the metallic sheen that most of the songs had. Overall I found it mostly boring and never understood why anyone would want to listen to this over the real deal. haven't touched it since.
Now if there were a Rush tribute of artist coming from different genres other than prog-metal like Smashing Pumpkins, Dinosaur jr, Flaming Lips or even Brad Paisley (you know, like the Bad Plus killer arrangement of Tom Sawyer) that would be far more interesting imo.
This is at least one reason I avoid tribute albums like the plague. Totally pointless, added NOTHING new to the songs, mindless note-for-note sound-for-sound Xerox copies, why bother. WORTHLESS with a capital W.
Never play slap bass around bears, you'll make them VERY angry.
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