A Rush thread, woo hoo! I have seized control of the list...
Christopher Hill wrote:
> You say recycle, I say homage. Potayto, potahto. Anything that
> interests kids in searching out books... blablabla. Fun to have
> read "The Fountainhead", then sought out the Gary Cooper film, as
> a kid, because of that band's influence.
Yeah, for better or worse, my early Rush thang got me to read
some stuff I probably otherwise wouldn't have. Not that I understood
much of it, but....
> Personally, I've been disappointed with the last few Rush albums,
> particularly _Test for Echo_. "Dog Years" gets my vote for worst
> Peart lyrics. Silly metaphor, bad rhymes, etc. Hoping they
> spring back to "must buy" status in my book.
I stopped buying records after Grace Under Pressure. Though, a
friend made me a tape of Roll The Bones ("no synths!") which I
liked well enough. My fave stuff is the Permanent Waves-Moving
Pictures-Signals trio, it's been downhill since then.
> In college, I seriously lusted after a hanging poster of Peart w/
> drum kit on a wooden raft in the middle of a river - it was a
> promo for Tama (I think), hung in the window of the local music
> shop. Very cool image.
In high school, I stole a poster of Peart from a local drum shop. I
remember lots of kids begging the same shop for Peart posters
after he made the big move to Ludwigs (or was it from Ludwig to
Tama?), a decision that was as monumental to drummers as Al
Gore switching parties would be to Dems.
Living in the limelight,
Dave
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