Cygnus X-1Aust Ag said:
Also, is By-Tor the greatest song they do live?
First time I ever heard "Countdown" was on a ladies shopping bus trip from my hometown in the Eastern Province to Al Khobar, KSA.maroon barchetta said:An L of an Ag said:
It wasn't super critically acclaimed, but I always liked New World Man.
It was literally the first single released off of Signals. I listened to the first play of it on Houston radio.
That sounds funny but I can imagine the torture.maroon barchetta said:
A couple weeks later I had a surgery and ended up with a couple of bad bacterial infections afterwards. A drug they gave me for nausea (IIRC) had a side effect of lucid dreaming for some people. I had a dream all night that I was at The Woodlands watching Rush play Natural Sciences. Over and over. For hours. All night. It was the only song in my dream.
In 1984 it wasRocagnante said:
Pretty sure my older brother drove up for that Texas Jam. Do you happen to remember if Heart was on the bill as well? I had a roach clip he bought there but 10 yr old me had no idea what it was….
Red Sector A is another great song live.
Working Them Angels is an amazing song both lyrically and musically. When combined with the images live, it's as emotionally moving as Losing It.HollywoodBQ said:
I'll throw this one out there as some live in concert imagery that I can't forget. "Working Them Angels" from "Snakes and Arrows" in 2007.
I saw that show at The Hollywood Bowl and during that time, the USA mired in the war in Iraq.
During that song, they showed images of different people in different jobs risking their lives and the people all had angel wings on their backs.
The one that got me right to my core was the American Soldier on a machine gun (I think it was an M249 SAW but it might have been an M240) with Angel wings on his back.
So it was more the imagery than the song but it definitely was great as a total package.
One of my favs off of MP. Witch Hunt is great also.TwoTimeAg said:
The Camera Eye
Big Cat `93 said:
Off topic, but I envy anyone who saw 80s-era Gary Moore. RIP.
maroon barchetta said:
Side 2 is great! How did you never play Side 2?
maroon barchetta said:
The more you post about it, the worse it gets
snowdog90 said:
Okay fellow Rush geeks, got a story for you. It's not very flattering, and it will probably be too long, but hopefully it will be worth the read.
Born in 67, I grew up in the heart of disco, and I loved it. I bought tons of singles - 45's - songs like Heart of Glass, Le Freak, Play that Funky Music. I would send off for the K-Tel albums that had different hits by different bands all on 1 album. The first real album I bought was Saturday Night Fever. This was all in my pre-teen years.
Rush was not in my universe until the fateful day in 1981 when Limelight crashed into my life on Dallas radio. I was blown away. So I did what I had always done. I bought the Limelight single with YYZ on the B side. FINALLY, after hearing Tom Sawyer, I gathered up enough coins to buy Moving Pictures, and I wore out side 1. I listened to it over and over and over.
Fast forward to my senior year in high school, 1985. We had the coolest assembly ever. A group of guys from the Army formed a band and played at our school and many other schools, I assume. They were big Rush fans and did a great cover of Subdivisions. But before the show started, they had a video that played to introduce them. In the background was an obvious Rush song that I had never heard. I was sitting next to a guy who was an even bigger Rush fan than me, and I said, "that sounds like Rush".
He looks at me like I'm an idiot and says, "it is Rush". I said, "what is it"? He says, "it's The Camera Eye". I was again blown away by the music I was hearing and asked him, "what album is it from"? He says, "Moving Pictures".
I was such a dumbass that I argued with him, "that's not on Moving Pictures, I have Moving Pictures". Which was true, but I had NEVER in 4 years played side 2. I think I even bet him $5 or so that he was wrong. I lost $5,
Fast forward 30 years or so. My son, who was 18 or 19 texts me, "hey, this is a cool Rush song I never heard you play". I clicked on the link at near 50 years old to hear a song from 1977 or so for the forst time that my son, born in 1999, turned me on to.
Here it is, underrated as are all Rush songs.
Oddly enough, when I was introducing my son to the music it was Camera Eye that immediately resonated with him. In the bridge where Neil holds the high hat open for a half beat is what got his attention. It's still his favorite Rush tune to this day.snowdog90 said:maroon barchetta said:
Side 2 is great! How did you never play Side 2?
I'm not proud of it, but I loved side 1 so much, maybe the greatest album side ever put to vinyl, that I just never played side 2. Remember, I was used to buying singles, and nobody ever played the B side of a single.
Also, I never bought A Farewell To Kings, mainly because I had bought Exit Stage Left, which had Xanadu and Closer to the Heart, so I didn't want to spend the money on songs I already had. So I was in my 20s when I finally heard A Farewell to Kings and Cygnus X-1, and as I explained, I was around 50 when I finally heard Cinderella Man.
Pretty pathetic, I realize. I was, and remain (although to a lesser extent), a cheap *******.
