19 posts tagged “rush”
Who deserves to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?
That's an easy one.
Few acts that aren't already in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame can match Rush for longevity, instrumental prowess quality of recorded output, and influence.
Other worthy bands include: Yes, Genesis and Kiss.
Audio: It's 70's music Wednesday.
Audio: Share your favorite track from a live album.
Submitted by -Lisa.
How about this classic, the last song on Rush "Exit.. Stage Left"? It doesn't get any more progotastic than this.
You're trapped in a (temporarily) out of order elevator - who would you like to be trapped with?
Submitted by tbtissimus.
The following people, so we could have a round table discussion on the meaning of life (and possibly even a jam sesion):
Robert Pollard
Kevin Smith
Jesus
Neil Peart
Dalai Lama
Josh Homme
Lindsay Lohan
Jane Austen
Showing what you could do with just MacPaint and an ImageWriter.
Afterimage was my friend Toshio Omori's band and these were my designs for a cassette single of a song that I also wrote the lyrics for.
Unfortunately I don't have an mp3 of the song itself, but I can share the lyrics with you:
close enough (to be far away)
there's a girl i saw the other day
she lives down the block
seems pretty near to me, but
she's close enough to be far awaythink i know where she lives
know everyone there but her
i think she might like me
but how can i be sure?i know her name
and i know her face
but she doesn't know mine
i have to talk to her
but now is not the right timenow we're getting closer
close enough to be far away
i'm gonna start all over againshe's near enough for me to see
but too far to say "hi"
she's close enough to bother me
but too far to trythink i've waited long enough
i've got to decide
didn't know it would be so tough
is now the right time?i know her name
and i know her face
but she doesn't know mine
i have to talk to her
but now is not the right timenow we're getting closer
close enough to be far away
i'm gonna start all over againi don't know if she likes me
i'm looking for some kind of sign
i have to talk to her
but now is just not the right time
now is not the right time
just not the right time
just not the right time
just not the right time
will it ever be the right time?
just not the right time...music by Clement and Omori
lyrics by Hall
What's your favorite song to sing karaoke-style? If you don't have one, why not?
I've never done it, but I would love to do "Hemispheres" by Rush. This eighteen minute and eight second progotastic orgy of lyrical and musical self-indulgence, represents a high-water mark in a certain kind of 70s pretension, even more than Pink Floyd "Animals" or Yes "Tales of Topographic Ocean." It explains why the hell punk rock emerged and what exactly they were so angry about.
Doing this song Karoake style would be gauranteed to clear the room because not only is it nearly twenty minutes long, and require you to attempt to reach Geddy Lee's (described famously by a Rolling Stone reviewer as sounding like "Donald Duck booting crystal meth") upper ranges, but it much of the song consists of long instrumental passages during which I would play air bass, drums and guitar, often at the same time. It would be an event of legendary proportions, a "can't bear to watch/can't look away" kind of thing. It might signal the end of western civilization, and the beginning of another. It might be posted on Vox with the tag "whytheyhateus." It might cause YouTube to be able to buy ABC/Disney. It might not.
If you had a band, what would you call yourselves?
Question submitted by Zoot.
The first time I tried naming a band was my friend Toshio's band in high school. They went by Afterimage, but then decided they didn't want to be named after a Rush song. They considered the name Greenleaf, which I didn't like because it was too stoner-y. I came up with the name The Force, which my friend liked for a bit, but then decided was too Star Wars, so they went back to Afterimage, and I learned a painful lesson in the process of branding and how difficult it can be.
I thought of the name Indigo Dream in college. I kind of like that-very 80s, REM-esque.
Recently I thought the name Moving In Stereo would be good-like Guided By Voices, it's a six letter word followed by a preposition followed by a six-letter word. Plus it's a Cars song.
