Daily Music video Blog For Saturday June 21st
Current mood:  awake
Category: Music

Inducted into the Canadian Music Hall Of Fame in 1994, the rock group "Rush", the members have been acknowledged as being some of the most proficient players of their instruments.
Rush possesses 24 Gold Records and 14 platinum (3 of them being multi platinum) records. These stats place Rush Fifth behind The Beatles, The Rolling Stones,Kiss, and Aerosmith for the most consecutive gold and platinum albums by a rock band.
Neil Peart, whom is my biggest influence of drummers, is also in my opinion the most precise drum player in the rock world of the past and present. He is also the primary lyricist for the group, Geddy lee and Alex Lifeson have little interest in that part, they just like what they do.
2112, which is my favorite album by Rush was the first album to enjoy commercial success and was their first platinum album.
Rush's popularity reached its pinnacle in 1981 (the year I graduated by the way), with the release of "Moving Pictures" that contained the songs Tom Sawyer (you ALL know that one), and "Limelight", also another song that is the video i have lined up for you today.
Here is a paste that Alex might find interesting in light of out previous discussions of synthesizer and drum use:
Musically, although Geddy Lee's use of sequencers and synthesizers remained the band's cornerstone, his focus on new technology was complemented by Neil Peart's adaptation of Simmon's electronic drums and percussion. Alex Lifeson's contributions on the album were decidedly enhanced to act as an overreaction to the minimalistic role he played on Signals.^[32] Still, many of his trademark guitar textures remained intact in the form of open reggae chords and funk and new-wave rhythms; "Distant Early Warning", "Red Lenses", "Red Sector A" and "The Enemy Within" serving as prime examples.
In case you're wondering Alex, this was from the years 1982-1989 that Rush used more synths to change their musical direction and evolve and to become more into new wave. They later in 1989, started leaving the keyboard style with the release of Presto and Roll The Bones albums, going back more to the guitar sound.
To me, it was Rush's way of saying that the 80s was the synth age and I totally agree, but it was time to put away the keyboards and see what they could do with the 90s.
Another paste:

Peart is commonly regarded by music fans, critics and fellow musicians as one of the greatest rock drummers. He is also regarded as one of the finest practitioners of the in-concert drum solo. Initially inspired by Keith Moon, Peart absorbed the influence of other rock drummers from the 1960s and 1970s such as Ginger Baker, Carmine Appice, and John Bonham.

For two decades Peart honed his technique; each new Rush album introduced an expanded percussive vocabulary. In the 1990s, he reinvented his style with the help of drum coach Freddie Gruber. It was at this point that Peart began emulating jazz drummer Buddy Rich.

If Iron Maiden wasnt my favorite group, Rush would be it, and in fact they WERE before Iron Maiden climbed to the top of my list.

Neil Peart will always be my favorite drummer though in rock.

Just a stupid little story for you readers:

When I was 19, I once put on my Rush 2112 album, (after I had smoked some pot), turned the lights off, put a bedside lamp in front of my hands and proceeded to do a "shadow-puppet show", for my cousin to the entire first side of the album, including making the "Oracle" much larger than the guy who found the guitar!! (go ahead and laugh!! it IS funny!!

Video on Supplement:

My uncle has a country place, that no one knows about
He says it used to be a farm, before the motor law
And on sundays I elude the eyes and hop the turbine freight
To far outside the wire, where my white-haired uncle waits.

Jump to the ground
As the turbo slows to cross the borderline
Run like the wind,
As excitement shivers up and down my spine
Down in his barn
My uncle preserved for me, an old machine ---
For fifty-odd years
To keep it as new has been his dearest dream

I strip away the old debris, that hides a shining car
A brilliant red barchetta, from a better, vanished time
I fire up the willing engine, responding with a roar
Tires spitting gravel, I commit my weekly crime...

Wind in my hair ---
Shifting and drifting ---
Mechanical music ---
Adrenalin surge ---

Well-weathered leather
Hot metal and oil
The scented country air
Sunlight on chrome
The blur of the landscape
Every nerve aware

Suddenly, ahead of me, across the mountainside
A gleaming alloy air-car shoots towards me, two lanes wide
I spin around with shrieking tires, to run the deadly race
Go screaming through the valley as another joins the chase

Drive like the wind
Straining the limits of machine and man
Laughing out loud
With fear and hope, Ive got a desperate plan

At the one-lane bridge
I leave the giants stranded
At the riverside
Race back to the farm
To dream with my uncle
At the fireside...