BFrank Posted April 27 Report Posted April 27 Excellent new album from the former "db", "Contental Drifter" and producer of indie rockers like REM, etc. Quote
HutchFan Posted April 28 Report Posted April 28 Just picked up this gem: Mickey Newbury - Live at Montezuma Hall / Looks Like Rain (Elektra, 2 LPs, 1973) I love Mickey Newbury's music. Quote
Rabshakeh Posted May 2 Report Posted May 2 Porter Wagoner – The Cold Hard Facts Of Life Carlos Paredes – Guitarra Portuguesa Cameron Winter – Heavy Metal Exuma – Exuma Quote
Holy Ghost Posted May 12 Report Posted May 12 On 4/26/2025 at 7:56 PM, HutchFan said: More Rush: Hutch Fan: Playing now: Quote
Holy Ghost Posted May 12 Report Posted May 12 On 4/30/2025 at 2:29 PM, Aggie87 said: Talking Heads - Live on Tour 78 One of the greatest bands of the 80's. On 4/23/2025 at 9:22 PM, jazzbo said: Yes “Tales of Topographic Oceans” Atlantic 2 LP, LP 1 I have a long history with this 2 LP set. I was in a band with a great guitar player that I had spent a year beforehand just jamming with and helping him work out his original songs and favorite covers. We were blues guys who had that as our bedrock, but when he launched the band he wanted to branch out into more rock territory. Before he had urged me into a Mitch Mitchell style, and I had been practicing to Kenny Clarke and Jack DeJohnette drumming and shifted some of that into my “style.” All of a sudden he asked me to study this Yes release because he thought he and I both needed to “reign in our busy playing” and he also liked how Alan White had a bit more of a laid back “feel” and how he structured the drum patterns for each segment of these long full-side recordings. I liked Yes, but I was mourning the departure of Bill Buford, and I didn’t “get” what my friend was after for a while. I made tapes of the four sides here and did practice to them, and listen to them over and over and then tried a new approach in practices and what I thought was not a great idea at first became a good thing for us. And then the bass player quit. The first bass player that quit. It seemed with this band every time we would get “there” and get a gig someone LEFT. Sigh. That was a long time ago! My vinyl playback is the best it’s ever been and I’m enjoying revisiting this music and hearing it so well reproduced. Yes. Love progressive Yes. From to 5 minutes ago, Holy Ghost said: One of the greatest bands of the 80's. Yes. Love progressive Yes. From to Albums are switched, but you get were talking about the seventies. Saw them live in '86 and they put on an incredible show. Great stuff. Quote
Holy Ghost Posted May 12 Report Posted May 12 On 4/26/2025 at 6:53 PM, HutchFan said: Now spinning: How do you follow up Moving Pictures? This way. Brilliant follow-up record. Subdivisions is a brilliant follow-up track to Tom Sawyer. I love both records. Neil Peart is a genius writer and drummer, even went to relearn how to drum with Buddy Rich. Never got the naked dude standing on a brain, but this is the most progressive Rush got in my opinion. Behind 2112, this is the next best record, pre Moving Pictures. Quote
Holy Ghost Posted May 12 Report Posted May 12 On 4/26/2025 at 6:53 PM, HutchFan said: Now spinning: How do you follow up Moving Pictures? This way. Brilliant follow-up record. Subdivisions is a brilliant follow-up track to Tom Sawyer. I love both records. Neil Peart is a genius writer and drummer, even went to relearn how to drum with Buddy Rich. Just now, Holy Ghost said: How do you follow up Moving Pictures? This way. Brilliant follow-up record. Subdivisions is a brilliant follow-up track to Tom Sawyer. I love both records. Neil Peart is a genius writer and drummer, even went to relearn how to drum with Buddy Rich. Blessed to hear Rush play side one of 2112 live. Coolest moments in live concert music ever. Quote
Holy Ghost Posted May 13 Report Posted May 13 Post Joy Division, New Order was bad ass, Peter Hook is amazing, keeping this reconfiguration astoundingly hip throughout the 80's & 90's. Peter Hook was a badass himself. Love this dude. This record exemplifies exactly what I mean: Quote
HutchFan Posted May 16 Report Posted May 16 (edited) Back to Rush: On 5/12/2025 at 7:13 AM, Holy Ghost said: Never got the naked dude standing on a brain, but this is the most progressive Rush got in my opinion. Behind 2112, this is the next best record, pre Moving Pictures. I think I'd rate both A Farewell to Kings and Hemispheres ever-so-slightly ahead of 2112. My two cents. As for the naked guy, he's a contrast to the banker-like figure. Like the two hemispheres of the brain, the two figures represent opposite ways of thinking & being. The banker is rational, uniform, conventional. The dancer is artistic, unselfconscious, natural. The naked figure on Hemispheres also hearkens back to the Vitruvian Man-like imagery on the cover of All the World's a Stage. It's another image about duality, contrasting the uniformity of the star and circle shapes with the naked human figure, who appears to be trying to escape from -- or at least resist -- their controlling confines. Or at least that's how I think about it! Edited May 16 by HutchFan Quote
BFrank Posted May 17 Report Posted May 17 I don't know their music that well, but this album is pretty impressive Quote
Kevin Bresnahan Posted May 17 Report Posted May 17 2 hours ago, BFrank said: I don't know their music that well, but this album is pretty impressive Being an engineer, I always thought that the nut was way too thin for that sized bolt. Quote
Holy Ghost Posted May 19 Report Posted May 19 (edited) On 5/16/2025 at 2:56 PM, HutchFan said: Back to Rush: I think I'd rate both A Farewell to Kings and Hemispheres ever-so-slightly ahead of 2112. My two cents. As for the naked guy, he's a contrast to the banker-like figure. Like the two hemispheres of the brain, the two figures represent opposite ways of thinking & being. The banker is rational, uniform, conventional. The dancer is artistic, unselfconscious, natural. The naked figure on Hemispheres also hearkens back to the Vitruvian Man-like imagery on the cover of All the World's a Stage. It's another image about duality, contrasting the uniformity of the star and circle shapes with the naked human figure, who appears to be trying to escape from -- or at least resist -- their controlling confines. Or at least that's how I think about it! Hutch Fan, Thank you for providing that perspective to me, didn't see it all this time, but totally see it now how the Hemispheres album cover makes total sense from that perspective, wow! Brain (haha) blown 🤯. Also, even deeper is your view on All the World's a Stage, (Vitruvian man) facing (not inscribed) a star (instead a square) and a circle, great insight. This has got to be Neil Peart's intriguing conception through and through. Thank you again, makes RUSH just that more deeper for me. HG Edited May 19 by Holy Ghost Quote
BFrank Posted May 19 Report Posted May 19 On 5/17/2025 at 3:24 PM, Kevin Bresnahan said: Being an engineer, I always thought that the nut was way too thin for that sized bolt. 😆 Quote
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