Another rock legend passed away: Neil Peart of Rush at the age of 67 from brain cancer. So sad, especially coming right after the death of Ginger Baker, another iconic drummer. Thanks for all the great music, Neil. Another part of my youth gone...
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He was one of the greatest rock drummers .I have seen Rush live 4times first time was in the late 70s for a ridiculous price of$ 7.50 .R.i.P.
You saw the new stuff. It was August 28th, 1979 at Pine Knob. Musically, it was my favorite concert and my friends and I had row 10 center stage the entire row. It was perfect.
We have assumed control. We have assumed control. We have assumed control
It was such a fucking great concert. I remember they rushed the stage and we fought for our row. It was a near riot.
2112
Freewill
By-Tor And The Snow Dog
Xanadu
The Spirit Of Radio
Natural Science
A Passage To Bangkok
The Trees
Cygnus X-1: Book I: The Voyage
Cygnus X-1: Book II: Hemispheres
Closer To The Heart
Beneath, Between And Behind
Jacob’s Ladder
Working Man
Finding My Way
Anthem
Bastille Day
In The Mood
Drum Solo
Encore: La Villa Strangiato
CBS is playing "Limelight" as they segue to commercials during the KC-Houston NFL game. From the "Moving Pictures" album in 1981 which IMHO was Rush's best work.
My favorite Rush tune. Simple but beautiful in it's brevity:
Closer To The Heart
And the men who hold high places
Must be the ones who start
To mold a new reality
Closer to the heart
Closer to the heart
The blacksmith and the artist
Reflect it in their art
They forge their creativity
Closer to the heart
Yes closer to the heart
Philosophers and plowmen
Each must know his part
To sow a new mentality
Closer to the heart
Yes closer to the heart, yeah, oh
Whoa whoa
You can be the captain
And I will draw the chart
Sailing into destiny
Closer to the heart
Closer to the heart
Well closer to the heart, yeah
Closer to the heart
Closer to the heart
I said closer to the heart
Well closer to the heart, yeah
Closer to your heart
Closer to your heart, whoa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syEBKVIZO34
Until you've seen this live at an open air concert theater during the calm of a perfect summer evening you haven't seen anything. When the percussionist plays the xylophone at the beginning and then at the 1 minute mark. It is an open air concert and you are with your first love and your best friends high on life and everything else...You raise that red solo cup and say Whew!!! in between stanzas when you you hear the the bells and the perfect clarity of that tune.
I will never get tired of that song from the A Farewell to Kings album.
Thank you Neil Pert for that memory. I'm going to PM my old girlfriend. I'm so glad I didn't merry her. She was such a beauty back then.
Closer To The Heart
And the men who hold high places
Must be the ones who start
To mold a new reality
Closer to the heart
Closer to the heart
The blacksmith and the artist
Reflect it in their art
They forge their creativity
Closer to the heart
Yes closer to the heart
Philosophers and plowmen
Each must know his part
To sow a new mentality
Closer to the heart
Yes closer to the heart, yeah, oh
Whoa whoa
You can be the captain
And I will draw the chart
Sailing into destiny
Closer to the heart
Closer to the heart
Well closer to the heart, yeah
Closer to the heart
Closer to the heart
I said closer to the heart
Well closer to the heart, yeah
Closer to your heart
Closer to your heart, whoa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syEBKVIZO34
Until you've seen this live at an open air concert theater during the calm of a perfect summer evening you haven't seen anything. When the percussionist plays the xylophone at the beginning and then at the 1 minute mark. It is an open air concert and you are with your first love and your best friends high on life and everything else...You raise that red solo cup and say Whew!!! in between stanzas when you you hear the the bells and the perfect clarity of that tune.
I will never get tired of that song from the A Farewell to Kings album.
Thank you Neil Pert for that memory. I'm going to PM my old girlfriend. I'm so glad I didn't merry her. She was such a beauty back then.
Mr. P I was just about to post that Red Barchetta is my favorite RUSH song. Here is the music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAvQSkK8Z8U
Absolute masterpiece and best song on Moving Pictures.
When I was in college, the 3 rock albums I played over and over again were Moving Pictures by Rush, Days of Future Passed By the Moody Blues, and Diary of a Madman by Ozzy Osbourne. Of those 3 I probably played Moving Pictures the most.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAvQSkK8Z8U
Absolute masterpiece and best song on Moving Pictures.
When I was in college, the 3 rock albums I played over and over again were Moving Pictures by Rush, Days of Future Passed By the Moody Blues, and Diary of a Madman by Ozzy Osbourne. Of those 3 I probably played Moving Pictures the most.
Yes EB I think MOVING PICTURES is probably the best RUSH LP track for track. Limelight is probably my favorite song of theirs. Apparently Peart wrote the lyrics reflecting on his unease with being famous, and Lifeson said he loves his solo because it sounds so sad and almost exists outside of the realm of the song itself, something I noticed as well. I also really like GRACE UNDER PRESSURE. Plus their covers EP FEEDBACK is really underrated....their version of Summertime Blues is amazing.
^^^ I love it P. Fly by Night's another one. It is another song that is just perfect in it's simplicity and sounds so good.
Listen to Xanadu. There is about a 5 minute instrumental than at 5:55 he sings Xan-aaaa-duuuuu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEuOoMprDqg
And the sounds they make with the synthesizer and the lyrics:
Xan--a--duuuu
To stand within the pleasure dome
Decreed by Kubla Khan
To taste anew the fruits of life
The last immortal man
To find the sacred river Alph
To walk the caves of ice
Oh, I will dine on honey dew
And drink the milk of paradise, oh paradise
There is about 3 different tunes in one song. A Fucking masterpiece.
Correct me if I'm wrong but only Yes who had a similar style, put as much into the lyrics and the album art and providing an overall mind blowing experience like Rush.
I was told I went to at least one other Rush concert. I don't know. They are all blending together. I went to a couple of Alice Cooper concerts and there was one, the Mad House Rock tour where I was on a hallucinogenic and the stage show blew my mind. Alice used to jump out through slits in a screen and he would perform and then he would jump back through the screen and he would be on video...I went to so many concerts and a few times I had to cancel. I couldn't spare the brain cells....but That first Rush concert and the Alice Cooper concert made such an impression on me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK1hmDpa8bo
La villa Strangiato.
Listen to Xanadu. There is about a 5 minute instrumental than at 5:55 he sings Xan-aaaa-duuuuu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEuOoMprDqg
And the sounds they make with the synthesizer and the lyrics:
Xan--a--duuuu
To stand within the pleasure dome
Decreed by Kubla Khan
To taste anew the fruits of life
The last immortal man
To find the sacred river Alph
To walk the caves of ice
Oh, I will dine on honey dew
And drink the milk of paradise, oh paradise
There is about 3 different tunes in one song. A Fucking masterpiece.
Correct me if I'm wrong but only Yes who had a similar style, put as much into the lyrics and the album art and providing an overall mind blowing experience like Rush.
I was told I went to at least one other Rush concert. I don't know. They are all blending together. I went to a couple of Alice Cooper concerts and there was one, the Mad House Rock tour where I was on a hallucinogenic and the stage show blew my mind. Alice used to jump out through slits in a screen and he would perform and then he would jump back through the screen and he would be on video...I went to so many concerts and a few times I had to cancel. I couldn't spare the brain cells....but That first Rush concert and the Alice Cooper concert made such an impression on me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK1hmDpa8bo
La villa Strangiato.
Yes Hungry Fly By Night is a fantastic song! You just brought a memory flooding back. I was a radio DJ at college and I used to play that song all the time. We had to follow Can Con rules and play something like 40% Canadian content. I would always play Rush or Triumph...or sometimes Lee Aaron or Anvil haha.
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