The only shame in that last tour was that the Calgary show got moved to Red Deer because of the flood. I was really pumped to see them play in front of a sold out crowd at the Dome, as their two previous shows there were woefully under sold.
I couldn't believe they played to 6k when they came here for the Snakes and Arrows tour. That's two thirds empty. Pretty big embarrassment on our part.
That was my one and only Rush show, and honestly you could have told me there were 100 people or it was fully sold-out and I wouldn't have noticed. The band itself was so captivating and entertaining. I could only imagine how great they were live in the 80's.
My wife (at the time) is a big rush fan and was supposed to go to the R40 concert on 15/7/15 with her bigger Rush fan father, but couldn’t make the show. Because her and I were at the hospital while she gave birth to our son who passed away inside of her.
He brought her back a shirt (kind of a nice memorial actually if you understood the Rush love in our family) but proceeded to put it on (he’s a big guy). I recall she said something about stretching it out.
This mother####er defined a new level of hatred for me when he took it off, threw it across the room at her and told her to not be so grumpy. Yes, the father of the daughter who just returned from the hospital after a stillbirth threw what was supposed to be a memorial thing at her and told her to not be grumpy. Less than 24 hours after we held our son the one and only time.
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The video tribute had a pic of Neil and his bike in Africa. It reminded me of fantastic book he wrote about the trip. If you haven’t read any of the 3 books he wrote I can’t recommend them enough.
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The video tribute had a pic of Neil and his bike in Africa. It reminded me of fantastic book he wrote about the trip. If you haven’t read any of the 3 books he wrote I can’t recommend them enough.
He actually wrote four, and there's a few collections of his website's essays, all worth reading. Ghost Rider is a tough read, but worth it.
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So i didnt know where to put this but....
Primus is doing the entire Farewell to Kings album live at Massey Hall.
I mean...could there be a bigger tribute?
Claypool is one guy who can be in the conversation as best bassist to ever plug into an amp, and him describing how to figure out Geddy's parts is damn funny.
Primus is doing the entire Farewell to Kings album live at Massey Hall.
I mean...could there be a bigger tribute?
Claypool is one guy who can be in the conversation as best bassist to ever plug into an amp, and him describing how to figure out Geddy's parts is damn funny.
Primus is doing the entire Farewell to Kings album live at Massey Hall.
I mean...could there be a bigger tribute?
Claypool is one guy who can be in the conversation as best bassist to ever plug into an amp, and him describing how to figure out Geddy's parts is damn funny.
I remember back in the early 90s when Primus was really big and someone asked him in an interview who he thought was the best bass player in the world and he said Geddy Lee, and that every time they got together, Geddy would teach him something new.
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I didn't get into Rush until I started collecting vinyl in my 20s as a hipster. Still not that big into them but I recognize the talent of all of them, especially Geddy as I also played keyboards and bass in a band.
I tried drumming once and I gave up. My limbs don't want to work independently.
Primus is definitely a Niche Novelty Sound but fun to listen to in sample sizes and would love to hear this Rush Set.
Not to sidetrack the thread but, claypool technically a wizard especially at combining slap, tap and strum. Geddy another wizard on bass. Flea my favourite. My favourite bass riff Roundabout by Yes.
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Primus is doing the entire Farewell to Kings album live at Massey Hall.
I mean...could there be a bigger tribute?
Claypool is one guy who can be in the conversation as best bassist to ever plug into an amp, and him describing how to figure out Geddy's parts is damn funny.
I wonder if it's just purely that album or other Rush songs as well. Tickets are not cheap at all. ($227 in the front, $114 for most of the other parts of Grey Eagle and $87 in the back).
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I wonder if it's just purely that album or other Rush songs as well. Tickets are not cheap at all. ($227 in the front, $114 for most of the other parts of Grey Eagle and $87 in the back).
Just FTK.
They are doing it as a set following a set of their own stuff.
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Primus will head out on an extensive, 46-date, coast-to-coast extension of its wildly popular ‘A Tribute To Kings’ Tour, paying homage to prog-rock legends, Rush. ‘A Tribute To Kings’ will find Primus performing Rush’s 1977 album ‘A Farewell To Kings’ in its entirety, following a set of their own music. As bassist Les Claypool told Rolling Stone, the tour is about paying tribute to a band that has given him so much inspiration over the years.
Rush is pretty awesome though, not sure I want to see a cover version though.
I saw an article recently about Alex and Geddy possibly doing something again, maybe with another drummer, Mike Portnoy for one is itching to do it I think. Maybe not Rush but something that’s respectful of Neil.
Rush is pretty awesome though, not sure I want to see a cover version though.
I saw an article recently about Alex and Geddy possibly doing something again, maybe with another drummer, Mike Portnoy for one is itching to do it I think. Maybe not Rush but something that’s respectful of Neil.
I think it's different when there is a band with the stature of Primus doing it. That would be money well spent to go see.
Especially as it seems they worked with Rush on learning aspects of the songs.
So here is the whole interview with Strombopolous. Stumbled onto it last night.
Its long so be aware but it is awesome and really gets into the difficulty of Neils illness and the pandemic really affecting creating new music together.
But there is a lot of good news on that front as well.
Thanks for sharing that D. I have so much respect for that relationship. Two guys that genuinely love each other and the music/business/money has never screwed that up. I think it's extremely rare in that dynamic.
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Geddy and Alex have played together live for the first time since Neil passed. It was at the South Park 25th Anniversary show at Red Rocks with Primus. Matt Stone played drums.
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