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Originally Posted by woob
Thanks for sharing. I wish I had seem them that much. You must have been able to experience so many of their albums as they first toured them live. And I can't imagine how cool it would have been to be in on an early listening of Moving Pictures. Amazing.
I'm listening to them again tonight and thought I'd share how I first came to know Rush. It was a summer out at the cabin in Invermere and I had made friends with some guys a few cabins down who were big music nuts. One of the guys, like me, was an aspiring drummer. I was much newer to drumming than him and so he had been in that listening to awesome drummers phase longer than I had. So we're heading into town to go grab some slurpees and he throws in a tape and says listen to this. The song was La Villa Strangiato and I remember just being dumbfounded by it. Of course as the song is playing he's piping in here and there pointing out Peart's amazing play throughout. I remember I asked if I could borrow the tape to record and am pretty sure I had it on repeats every day for the rest of the summer. I'm sure my folks loved that.
To this date, Hemispheres is still my favourite album due to that emotional connection of it being my first Rush album but thankfully I've enjoyed being a fan of Peart and them ever since.
Anyone else want to share how they first discovered Peart/Rush?
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For me it was hearing Subdivisions on the radio. I liked the song so I picked up the Signals CD. Then I picked up Moving Pictures, then I just became obsessed. La Villa is my favourite guitar work by Lifeson, that guitar cuts right into your soul. My favourite drum work by Peart is Red Sector A.