Got a 20℅ off coupon for mucisians friend and was going to get a Rick, I figured why not? Wanted to put it on my musicians friend card and get the no interest option. Sweetwater and GC always give my 12 or 24 months interest free. MF only gave me 6, said nothing longer if I use a coupon. Needless to say, not getting the Rick. No biggie though and will get one eventually.
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Got a 20℅ off coupon for mucisians friend and was going to get a Rick, I figured why not? Wanted to put it on my musicians friend card and get the no interest option. Sweetwater and GC always give my 12 or 24 months interest free. MF only gave me 6, said nothing longer if I use a coupon. Needless to say, not getting the Rick. No biggie though and will get one eventually.
Ok I really dig Cinderlla Man and Farewell. And Xanadu, I guess...
Ok and Bastille Day, and The Trees.
I dig a mess of Rush... But they have their campy moments. Those are the ones my younger kid giggles at. Don't bash my kid, Ok?
This thread grew two pages while I was posting my last message!
Nice Lull! Welcome to the island of misfit toys.
I was joking... I never heard that band before now.
Everything's better live, though... right?
Exactly. Appreciate talent. That doesn't mean you have to listen to it. By recent example, Lady Gaga's Superbowl performance. She is very talented. She respected her audience and the venue. Very professional. That doesn't mean I liked it. If I don't hear another of her songs for ten years, it will be to soon. Just sayin'.
Wonderful. I still can't believe he's gone.
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I'm convinced I came into music backwards. I like a reslly, really wide variety of misic, but within any genre, the number of artists I like is really, really slim. I think I'm figuring out what it is I do like, though: dynamics.
David Ellefson (who I'm a huge fan of) said metal fans come up through either Black Sabbath or Aerosmith. I hate both those bands, and tons of others in a huge range of styles. LOL!
Like what you like, but if you can figure out why you do, you might find deeper enjoyment. Or maybe not.
David Ellefson (who I'm a huge fan of) said metal fans come up through either Black Sabbath or Aerosmith. I hate both those bands, and tons of others in a huge range of styles. LOL!
Like what you like, but if you can figure out why you do, you might find deeper enjoyment. Or maybe not.
Got into Zappa pretty early on, the guy was a genius IMO. But certainly not for everyone.
The birdbrains are getting quicker than the Spector club! And that's saying something!
Saw Zappa twice in 74, I was 12 or so. We had the live album Roxy and Elsewhere, almost same band and material. Was a fan on the strength of that record... don't love everything, but he's mostly been interesting.
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I never got to see him live. I didn't get turned on to FZ until the late '80s. I don't know when he stopped touring, but I never heard of him playing anywhere near where I lived (not too far from Boston), then, the bass player in this band I just joined (I played keys until they mustered up the courage to fire their bassist... amusing story for another time) rolls into rehearsal wearing a FZ T-shirt. I said: "No way, you like Frank Zappa??" He says: "Yeah man, I just saw him play the other night at [I don't remember where]!"
I was gutted. I had no idea I missed it! And that was the last time Zappa went on tour. He was diagnosed with cancer after that. About a year or so later, I called the Barking Pumpkin number to see if I could find out when Frank was going on tour again (It wasn't commonly known he had cancer yet). I got the impression that the Barking Pumpkin line rings at Zappa's house (or someone's house). A woman answered the phone and I could hear a TV in the background and kid talking to someone in the room. I asked when Frank was going to tour again and she said: "We don't know, Frank hasn't been feeling well." I thought maybe she meant he was tired or needed to rest or something (to me, he was 'old', so...). So I asked: "Do you think maybe next year?" Then she got kind of irate and said "Look! Frank's sick! He's not going on tour! Ok??" Or something to that effect. I felt awful and just hung up the phone. I felt even worse later when I found out he had cancer, and I may have been harassing someone in his family for tour info...
I have seen Dweezil, though. On one of the "Zappa Plays Zappa" tours. That was a great show. The apple didn't fall far from the tree in terms of musical/technical ability. But he didn't have the same stage presence and charisma as his dad. I don't know how his songwriting/arranging compares. It just occurred to me that I've never heard any of Dweezil's original stuff.
I love Sabbath, but I'm similar in that in any given genre, I like relatively little of it. I say I like metal, but I don't like most metal bands.
Rush is my favorite band, geddy lee's influence for tone and aggression and melodic busyness really came in handy for me playing punk. My avatar pic was taken at a show opening for angry Samoans. The singerand rhythm guitar player in that band (one I was in, not the Samoans),/HATED rush, but the drummer and lead guitarist loved them. Our singer required
$30k of production and several months to track vocals on the album, drummer was done in 3 days (though required much pro tools afterward) and I took 4 days, the first day was a wash because I didn't bring my rig because I thought we were going to just use Greg Heston's vintage flip top like we did for a single on a comp the year before (yes he was co producing it, we brought in big ones, all on the singers labels dime).
Rush fans, 3 days, rush hater, several months.
There was a large portion of punks who didn't like rush, then they all started buying geddy Lee basses, likely for the look and the fast neck and bright sound. But that is a digression. I wore a 2112 button proudly among my punk rockabilly psychobilly and a few metal band buttons on my punked out dickies jacket. I was not punk enough for studded leather and a 77-82 band logo stencil painted in the back, such as the crimson ghost. The misfits and the descendants were my favorites. I went on 2 warped tours. In 2004 our last day was at chula vista's amphitheater parking lot, and the next day I drove back down to see rush there. The timing was perfect, turns out we were at the same venue as them the day before or after for most of that tour.
Generally thunderbirds are very punk, and hard Rock/metal, UFO, Crue etc... So I'm not surprised there are some prominent rush haters on this thread.
I like Rush. Just don't like a lot of the lyrics.
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