re: Rush announces 50th Anniversary tour

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Geddy can’t sing his famous falsetto anymore.

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You mean his, "Prostate Exam Squeal" falsetto? Thankfully now the dead (and living) can't be awakened anymore.

The Trees
New World Man
Subdivisions

Those three are among my favorite. Don't get me wrong I like all their songs but those three stand out for me.

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Strong Point.
And most of the Songs on the Top Selling Album, Back in Black, were Written before Bonn Scott died.
Brian Johnson, was the 1st guy they audtioned for the part and the rest is history.

Dude really took the even further with a whole new generation of fans.
Its nuts.
When you compare the Singers they are very different. But both very good.

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I've heard varying stories about "You Shook Me All Night Long".

The first I heard was that Brian Johnson was tasked with writing it, but he got writers block. The band took a vacation to the Bahamas, which coincided with the time where American colleges are on Spring Break.

He saw American college girls on the beach, which is where the line "knocking me out with your American thighs" came from.

Others claim they saw some of Bon Scott's notes where he had written "she told me to come, but I was already there."

Bon Scott was well known for his double entendres.

He received no credit for that song.

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Do they have more than two good songs?


By my count it's a big fat goose-egg.

Most overrated, unmelodic band ever. They make KISS seem like the Beatles. Geddy Lee's vocals are like fingernails on a chalk board.

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Good thing folks that know music believe different....

Bands such as Alice in Chains, Anthrax, Dream Theater, Fishbone, Foo Fighters, Iron Maiden, Jane’s Addiction, Living Colour, Megadeth, Metallica, No Doubt, Pearl Jam, Pixies, Primus, Queensrÿche, Rage Against the Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sepultura, Smashing Pumpkins, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, System of a Down, and Tool have all cited Rush’s innovative sound as a touchstone.

Trent Reznor in the 2010 documentary Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage, hailed Rush as a favorite band. Reznor specifically credited their early 1980s work for inspiring his integration of keyboards and synthesizers into hard rock, a hallmark of Nine Inch Nails’ industrial sound that revolutionized alternative music in the 1990s.

My ears are still ringing from a Rush concert in Monroe back around 1990 I guess. That was by far the loudest concert I ever went to.

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I missed seeing Zeppelin live by days. My cousin was taking me to the show in 1977 when tragedy struck just a few days before.

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What tragedy?

I saw AC/DC live at the gulf coast collesum, Im ashamed, I never got to see them again.

It was gerat.

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Yeah, what do I know? I'm only a musician and collector of music from Bach to Johnny Mathis to the Monkees to Zeppelin.

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I'll take your word for it. But that is really sad, if true, that a person making those claims can't find anything good to say about Rush.

The Monkees? Seriously? I assume you understand that they were fake?

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Cell of Awareness

Rush required one to search for their musical taste rather than be spoonfed.

When you look how many albums Rush sold and the number of acts that cite them as an influence it is impressive. And they did it without allowing a label to be their master.

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Name checks out.

Can't believe no one posted this yet.

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"Fake" in what sense?

Everyone knows they were first assembled originally as a TV band. So what?

Their vocals were top notch and real. Mickey Dolenz was arguably one of THE voices of mid-60s pop-rock. Their song catalog is some of the most melodic in Rock history (have you checked it out?)

Mike Nesmith was an accomplished song writer. Peter Tork was a legit musician. The Monkees eventually cut their own albums and played their own instruments.

Rush's limited sense of melodies and success and inability to write a single memorable ditty remains an enigmatic. They were jut one more band back in to day who had most of us scratching our head. But then again, music is art. And to that to each his own.

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What are your thoughts on the Partridge Family? Just kidding.

I know all about the Monkees. I was born in 1960 and watched their TV show religiously. I enjoyed their songs.

But there is no comparison in terms of quality between the Monkees and Rush.