Lol

oh, he's just Ged huh...you guys are bros?

roman14032 that was the best conversation ever

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Roasted

'one of the most' , Eh, try the most.

@@craigmanning2439 I agree. Rush has always been my favorite band.

I was just going to write that, glad I scanned comments. Now there's two!

I thought he was going to mention, I think I'm going bald.

I agree. Have always loved Tai Shan. Beautiful song. Never understood why they don't like it or are embarrassed by it.

They don't like Tai Shan, but I Think I'm Going Bald is fine?

Agreed. Love that song. It fits in with the rest of the album. I can think of way worse songs of theirs.

I agree, and Hold Your Fire was a really odd album, there were lots of tracks that were pretty 'poppy', they changed with the times and I know many people didn't like it but Hold Your Fire and Presto I thought were great albums, you don't always need ten time changes or be seeing about incomprehensible things. I think a folky tribute version of that should be done beacsue I always hear them putting it down, although right now China is kind of not the same as it was in the eighties.

+MICHAEL LENTINI i think he said it was early laryngitis at a new york radio station

Totally agree. I’ve been listening to it nonstop, only song I can’t seem to learn to love is High Water.

You’re not alone good Sir

Never been a big fan of hyf but idk its rush and all rush slaps

@@jamesgoulet2254 I love high water… tai Shan I can listen to. HyF is a great album.

Neil Tipton kings among men

Truly great musicians don't have to brag. They just play.

I totally agree with you. I love Hold Your Fire for every song. Tai Chan changes it up a bit. cool they made it sound Chinese

Cheers, Netboy Steve! Alex does some great clean and percussive electric guitar work (bathed in delay and reverb) on "Tai Shan", kind of reminiscent of his playing on songs like "Territories" and "Mystic Rhythms". Yeah, HOLD YOUR FIRE is a sonic delight.I love that record as well.

+GiantSpaceMonkey you have to watch all this analysis stuff with grain of salt. the more you hear their side the initial magic starts to dissipate

Oh, I totally agree. DEspite what it may appear here, I really don't take this stuff THAT seriously. Also, I'm fascinated by what the guys like/don't like from their past catalog and I'd rather know than not know.It's just a big surprise sometimes (what they do or don't recall with a sense of fondness).

Agreed!

I Think I'm Going Bald?

@@gmanthatguy3937 Listen to that song again. But imagine that they called it, "So Involved With Life". Listen to the guitar groove, and the great drumming. Great song, bad title.

Kiss is Dead Mr. Simmons

They both do.

Yeah but 7 years later I think Gene was right though.

Always!

I love Entre Nous

Hey the guys been threw hell and back again. He's thinking of himself and his wife and young daughter. He's been threw it once before the touring and missing his other daughter, who sadly died. I guess he doesn't want to miss Olivia growing up.

Geddy said in one interview that he cringes when he hears lakeside park. In fact, im pretty sure he's said that he dislikes caress of steel in general, which confuses the hell out of me because I adore that album lol

@@vincefosterd same here! At least they played lakeside park at R40

Si, Es la verdad!

Please don't compare Rush to Bill Gates--it's insulting to Rush.

Their music was sophisticated.

@@bachandl1 Even more so now... The guy is the most evil evil can be.

Yeah, can't see ANY way thats a compliment or even analagous. Rock is not dead, its just not the same anymore. Radio rock is still playing the same stuff from the eighties for some reason. Rock CAN be as simple as punk, thats people like the Ramones who know only one or two chords. There's no way there aren't a million bands putting out stuff, its just not on radio for mass consumption.

+bachyutt I can't say I love it but it's far from their worst song. Those guys are bitter for not getting to go on Neil's vacation!;-)

+VoodooCrab from your opinion, what is there worst song?

+Bryan Van Ek There are a few songs on Snakes and Arrows I can't listen to.

+bachyutt its more like a Chinese tourism jingle.

I love snakes and arrows

4224.

Baldness comes from the mother's side of the family.

Not officially retired.

Ray Jonas I just hope they do something next year for the 50th anniversary of Rush

Nah. Lots of great bands out there, the sounds and styles have evolved into all kinds of different varieties. There are bands like Opeth, and Gojira, or Mastodon, and all these other modern progressive heavy bands that carry on the torch Rush lit decades ago. Let's keep the ball rolling.

It will Spring backup and I'm trying to do that with my band

Ray Jonas yesiagree

Well by you calling the last 25 years of music garbage then technically you're saying it is dead or is that there was some sort of dead zone! I mean I'm certainly not going to defend everything of the last 25 years but I will say I'm more of the mindset that I seem to believe that there is an order generation that's primarily stuck on itself and that's why their bands are selling tickets! Is it good music yes I'm not going to deny that or even attempt to argue that it isn't good music however I can also say that like all fashions of the past including pop cultures of the past eventually it will end up on the scrap heap of society! So it's like periodically once in a blue moon I will listen to muddy Waters I'm 37 but muddy Waters probably hasn't been super relevant since the 50s and maybe a couple of comeback shows and the 60s! So you can still listen to it it's still there it's not going to go anywhere really it's just unless you yourself happen to conduct a little research and come by it nobody older may feel compelled to tell you about it honestly the majority of music that I have discovered since I was a kid my father never even heard of however my ambitions of discovering a lot of music as actually turned him on to the idea that there's more out there than just Black Sabbath Rush led Zeppelin Hendricks etc! Though I will say I did get encouragement from him after all he did happen to show me big band music though he is an avid Black Sabbath fan so everybody can sort of go and listen to the other stuff and get something out of that! So when I say it'll end up on the scrap heap of society I just mean that it's not going to be current did someday we're all going to look at KZfaq videos and go wow too bad those guys aren't around! You know it's like within the past decade it's become acceptable that in the grocery store or even at home Depot you're hearing a lot of this music whereas somewhere in the 90s I remember is a kid joking wouldn't it be cool if they played led Zeppelin or something at the grocery store or over at the lumber yard? Well now it's happening and I thought it was cool at first and it really is in one respect but on the other hand it's kind of like now it's background music at the grocery store I mean look at it from that perspective and you can't help but laugh!

He's right.

Chris Pinto emotion detector is great idk what your talking about

Presto is their most underrated album

i was just listening to it today, there are some gems and some disappointments. overall still a great album i'd say

Superconductor is a great song

Presto is underrated album for me, so disagree in your opinion.

Holy shit I love Presto