Cold and flu when it's 45C in the shade outside is never good news , and even worse on a weekend. What saved me yesterday was digging into an old CD i hadn't heard in some time. Rush and The Spirit Of Radio. And did i dig ! Its still playing now , more than 24 hours later. Start to finish and over again. Can't say that virus is gone but heck who cares now ..
Lee , Lifeson , Peart - three more consummate musicians you'd be hard pressed to find in a single band. Rush - can't say they are underrated but somehow they're not in the first few names that leap at you from out the pages are they..and yet the influence they've obviously had on music and musicians is immense. They're one of the few 70's Prog bands that cut through to this day. Yeah i guess they had their share of epic length songs but somehow it comes across (at least to me) as without the indulgence that so screwed up that genre back then. My only gripe (of sorts !) is the vocals. Hmm , that high pitch doesn't do much for me at times, Geddy - especially when you combine them with some super earnest lyrics from time to time ! :) LOL. But seriously thats the only minor thing that goes against them for me. And very minor , mind. But in the end , that doesn't matter much. The complexity and richness of the music just takes you to another place each time.
Here's the incredible Tom Sawyer - catch the mist , catch the myth , catch the mystery , catch the drift !
Last studio album I heard was Roll the bones, 1991,(magnasound, big tape) has a chase of an instru called Where's my thing. Much as I liked that album, it didn't make me buy more.
ReplyDeleteI think Rush, like a lotta great 70s bands, takes you back with their new material, not fwd. Reckon they'll still be fab live, animated videos, Lee bass and vocals wrapped around, some sight.
NC : Yeah i didn't much like Roll The Bones .... Very true about old bands ...i guess every musician / band's got a shelf life and they just cant extend it forward ...cant think of too many - maybe ,anyone - who successfully migrated over to a new sound ; come to think of it , cant think of too many who even tried... Maybe the Dead (with Built To Last onwards with synths and stuff. ..).
ReplyDeletePS - LOL on Magnasound , ha ha :) very well reminded - maybe a post on that some time..:)