Rush.

[prowla]

3 hours ago, TimR said:

 

It's weird isn't it.

 

Moving Pictures and Power Windows are probably my 2 favourite albums. 

 

Moving Pictures being technically an 80s album and probably in the top 10 (if not number 1) of every Rush fan. 

 

 

 

Moving Pictures and Power Windows are two of my favourites; also Clockwork Angels and Grace Under Pressure.

Feedback is the one I just plain don't "get".

[prowla]

4 hours ago, Misdee said:

I first saw them live on the Permanent Waves tour in 1980.

 

I remember my older brother's friends going to their gig at Sheffield City Hall on the Farewell To Kings tour, and that was their first ever UK performance. I also remember my school friends going to the  one-off show at Stafford New Bingley Hall in the autumn of 1979, also now a legendary gig.

 

Rush were a special band in those days, they had a certain mystique that probably couldn't exist nowadays in the post-internet age of unbridled access. That was their golden age.

 

I saw them at that Sheffield gig; I remember they carpeted the stage.

I also saw them at Stafford New Bingley, on the Permanent Waves tour; from that one I remember Geddy starting singing and doing a big cough so they had to restart the song!

 

3 hours ago, visog said:

Permanent Waves tour my first Rush concert too! Deeside Leisure Centre for me. (Or as Geddy pronounced it, 'Leezure'. To be fair, back them we called him, 'Jeddy'.)

 

I saw them there on The Moving Pictures tour.

 

1 hour ago, wateroftyne said:

I agree. They started stitching together riffs, rather than writing songs.

 

Curious - I think a couple of their best "songs" are on Presto: "Red Tide" and "Available Light".

However, the album recording is abysmal!

[Musicman666]

8 hours ago, prowla said:

I thought they just played music, regardless of the decade.

(Some of their fashion sense and hairdos were always a bit dodgey though.)

they were in a good place at the end of the 70s but like many bands during that period felt the need to reinvent themselves to try and stay relevant and in many ways from an economic point of view they were correct to do so. Rush were a bit obsessed with the police and the similarities were there ...the shift was obvious. This did indeed keep them more acceptable to new audiences but somehow, hard to put a finger on it but for me their sound got diluted and homogenised with too many other influences ...that bit of rush that i initially latched onto ...that hard rock edge got mellowed out and caused me to lose interest ...it was the changing of the guard from one set of fans to another ...genesis was another band who trod a similar path ...the parallels are hard to ignore. Some fans stuck the course and no doubt will defend rush to the end ...i honestly wouldn't mind seeing them again in this new format but this time around it will be more to do with a change within myself than them. 

[Misdee]

6 minutes ago, Musicman666 said:

they were in a good place at the end of the 70s but like many bands during that period felt the need to reinvent themselves to try and stay relevant and in many ways from an economic point of view they were correct to do so. Rush were a bit obsessed with the police and the similarities were there ...the shift was obvious. This did indeed keep them more acceptable to new audiences but somehow, hard to put a finger on it but for me their sound got diluted and homogenised with too many other influences ...that bit of rush that i initially latched onto ...that hard rock edge got mellowed out and caused me to lose interest ...it was the changing of the guard from one set of fans to another ...genesis was another band who trod a similar path ...the parallels are hard to ignore. Some fans stuck the course and no doubt will defend rush to the end ...i honestly wouldn't mind seeing them again in this new format but this time around it will be more to do with a change within myself than them. 

Rush trying to be the Police worked pretty well, I agree. It was a refreshing shift in direction. By the time they were trying to channel the Foo Fighters, however, the game was up. 

[Musicman666]

16 minutes ago, Misdee said:

Rush trying to be the Police worked pretty well, I agree. It was a refreshing shift in direction. By the time they were trying to channel the Foo Fighters, however, the game was up. 

i think rush at some point early eighties must have crossed paths with king crimson just long enough for the spirit to jump ship ... crimson were on fire early 80s. 

[prowla]

21 minutes ago, Musicman666 said:

they were in a good place at the end of the 70s but like many bands during that period felt the need to reinvent themselves to try and stay relevant and in many ways from an economic point of view they were correct to do so. Rush were a bit obsessed with the police and the similarities were there ...the shift was obvious. This did indeed keep them more acceptable to new audiences but somehow, hard to put a finger on it but for me their sound got diluted and homogenised with too many other influences ...that bit of rush that i initially latched onto ...that hard rock edge got mellowed out and caused me to lose interest ...it was the changing of the guard from one set of fans to another ...genesis was another band who trod a similar path ...the parallels are hard to ignore. Some fans stuck the course and no doubt will defend rush to the end ...i honestly wouldn't mind seeing them again in this new format but this time around it will be more to do with a change within myself than them. 

Sort of the other way round for me - they evolved and matured over time.

They were influenced by a number of bands over their career but remained Rush identifiably and unquestionably. 

[prowla]

1 minute ago, Musicman666 said:

i think rush at some point early eighties must have crossed paths with king crimson just long enough for the spirit to jump ship ... crimson were on fire early 80s. 

Led Zeppelin, Yes, The Police, Genesis, Tolkien, Dylan Thomas, wandering around London, synths, whatever; it just makes up for an interesting and enlightening experience. 
I saw King Crimson when they did some shows as Discipline. 

[Musicman666]

7 minutes ago, prowla said:

Sort of the other way round for me - they evolved and matured over time.

They were influenced by a number of bands over their career but remained Rush identifiably and unquestionably. 

yes rush will always be rush ...but my point was that for me they had lost their edge ..it was now rush minus the mojo.