It seems to me he made a career out of recycling Ayn Rand (Anthem)
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
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,
Dave Purcell writes:
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
Yup. I, too, place my high school/college-era interest in Rand's
stuff squarely on Peart's shoulders. She doesn't
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.
Living in the limelight,
Dave
Ditto,
Yup. I, too, place my high school/college-era interest in Rand's
stuff squarely on Peart's shoulders. She doesn't cast nearly as long a
shadow on me at 35 as she did when I was 22, but the influence still pops
up here and there. It'd be interesting to figure out what percentage of
younger
It'd be interesting to figure out what percentage of
younger fans (say, under 40) of her stuff would have ever heard of her if
it hadn't been for "2112."
Hey Jon,
count me in as a big fan of Rand's, under 40, and completely clueless of
what "2112" is
meshel
nashvegas
getting literary points
Why don't we discuss the deep meaning behind the Rush song "Trees".
Oh. What's that about? I just can't figure...
