Joe G Posted May 30, 2004 Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 The Trees! Forgot about that one. However: "Mountains come out of the sky; they stand there..." ...is not much richer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe G Posted May 30, 2004 Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 I thought the Small Faces were the poor man's Who, and anyway I actually prefer the Guess Who's version of "Summertime Blues"... Oh, just kidding about all that anyway. I kind of like No Sugar Tonight, but that's about as far as it goes. I've never owned an album by the Who, or the Guess Who. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted May 30, 2004 Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 What??? You don't own an album by The Who??? You must go out and buy Who's Next and W-O-R-S-H-I-P it! Poor man's Yes? Don't even put these two bands in anywhere near the same category. Rush started out as Zeppelin clones until developing a definite voice of their own. Love them or hate them...they are true originals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wesbed Posted May 30, 2004 Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 (edited) If robots played rock-n-roll music, they would sound like Rush. A group made of, in my opinion, very fine musicians. Very technical and tight playing. And, unfortunately, very machine-like and robotic. For me, Rush doesn't swing and has no soul. Neil Peart, quite the accomplished drummer. Peart plays like a machine, with all the style of a machine. Geddy Lee, the screeching vocalist -- like that of a broken machine. Maybe, add some oil to quiet the squeaking? I wonder if Geddy is in as much pain as it sounds like he's in? Rush. Musicans with much promise, skill, and technical agility. But, again, with all the heart & soul of a lifeless robot. Edited May 30, 2004 by wesbed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjarrell Posted May 30, 2004 Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 (edited) I thought the Small Faces were the poor man's Who... ?!?!?! Maybe early on, but they shed any similarities soon after they signed with Immediate. For me, there's nothing in the Who's catalogue (with the exception of "Armenia City in the Sky") to match the Small Faces' Immediate recordings. The SFs ended up a great psych band before Rod Stewart came along and Humble Pie happened and it all just went to hell. The Who were never the rich man's psych band. I've always thought of them as the somewhat less imaginative man's Kinks... Edited for early Sunday syntax issues. Edited May 30, 2004 by sjarrell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kulu se mama Posted May 30, 2004 Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 i agree with all of the criticisms of rush, and yet they remain one of my guilty pleasures. i grew up with rush, and while i can no longer listen to their early harder stuff, i do still own the middle period stuff (permanent waves to big money). i saw them on the permanent waves tour when they were one of my favorite bands and even at 15 i didn't like how they played each song as if they were in the studio recording it for an album. the lyrics are dopey, they take themselves far too seriously, and geddy lee can't sing, now i think i'll put on grace under pressure anyhow. go figure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe G Posted May 30, 2004 Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 Well said. B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Alfredson Posted May 30, 2004 Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 Rush is the poor man's Yes... that's funny. What does that make ELP then? I think Mountain might be the poor man's Steppenwolf. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Alfredson Posted May 30, 2004 Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 Is REO Speedwagon the poor man's Super Tramp? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris olivarez Posted May 30, 2004 Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 Has there been a thread on Rush? No, until now we've thankfully been spared that... Jazzmoose,Jazzmoose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Dolphin Posted May 30, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 ELP were the rich man's "The Nice" and made those of us who sat through "Works" time poor! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Dolphin Posted May 30, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 Is REO Speedwagon the poor man's Super Tramp? I always liked the piano on Roll With The Changes... Were Mahogany Rush the rich man's Rush(what with all that tropical hardwood)? Has there been a Frank Marino thread??????Only joking.......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceH Posted May 30, 2004 Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 In this, as in so many things, I defer to the opinion of Harold Weir: "Neil Peart couldn't drum his way out of a paper bag." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Dolphin Posted May 30, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 Well.......when you're 11 and ain't come across Elvin,Max,Tony etc. yet, he sounded like he sure could Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danasgoodstuff Posted May 30, 2004 Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 sjarrell, Yes i meant the 'poor man's Who' jibe re the v. early 'mod R&B band' Small Faces, the Immediate period being more a psych-ed up Kinks, kinda 'Music Hall on acid'. Re the Kinks and the Who (who I see as having many similarities and/or parallels), perhaps the Kinks realized before most that staying with the (relatively, for then) heaviness of "Really Got Me", etc. would only lead to inadvertant silliness so they decided to short-circuit the process and go straight for overt silliness...? This 'poor man's' thing works for jazz too: the Charles Lloyd band with Jarrett and DeJohntte always struck me as 'the poor man's Coltrane Quatrtet', except the rhythm section consistantly outplayed the leader... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Posted May 30, 2004 Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 I have tried to lsiten to them off and on. Nothing really happens for me. But ... Spirit of Radio is one hell of a pop song. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Dolphin Posted May 30, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 ...big kit an' all,think I'll go play YYZ,or,hah,Freewill...music....such a personal thing...is it us?is it itself?is it good?is it crap?heaven help us is it mediocre?guess that's why we're here-thanks for the responses to the thread,but seriously and perhaps sadly I am off to hear some Rush now,not for long tho'... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceH Posted May 30, 2004 Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 "Allaboutjazz"----the poor man's Organissimo? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Dolphin Posted May 30, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 "Allaboutjazz"----the poor man's Organissimo? :D I've thought about it...Speedwagon were the poor man's Journey(but nice to hear some good Brit bands being perceived as "rich").Has there been a Journey thread?(he says in all innocence) Rush have one more tune then they're outta here......now where's that laser etched Styx record? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Dolphin Posted May 30, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 (edited) Styx...who were they poor to?plenty of choice Edited May 30, 2004 by Green Dolphin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe G Posted May 30, 2004 Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 Oh my God. STYX just sucked. Plain and simple. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danasgoodstuff Posted May 30, 2004 Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 STYX did suck, as you would expect of a band made up of former engineering students, BUT I saw Dennis DeYoung doing the schill thing on PBS in connection with some orcastrated renditions of their tunes and he was a hoot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted May 30, 2004 Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 Oh my God. STYX just sucked. Plain and simple. I went to see them in their heyday, someone else paid for the ticket. I survived by digging the timbre of the synths. Analog heaven! But the band sucked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Alfredson Posted May 30, 2004 Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 Styx is the poor man's Kansas. I figured it out.... ELP is the poor man's Introduction to Classical Music, 101. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris olivarez Posted May 30, 2004 Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 Styx and Kansas-all they are is dust in the wind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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