What rock music are you listening to? Non-Jazz, Non-Classical.

[jlhoots]

Elton John & Brandi Carlile: Who Believes In Angels

[Holy Ghost]

On 4/26/2025 at 7:56 PM, HutchFan said:

More Rush:

Hutch Fan: Playing now:

[Holy Ghost]

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

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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. 

[Holy Ghost]

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. 

[Holy Ghost]

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. 

[Holy Ghost]

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:

   

[HutchFan]

[HutchFan]

More Willie:

[HutchFan]

 

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

[HutchFan]

[JSngry]

Walk right out...

[BFrank]

I don't know their music that well, but this album is pretty impressive

[Kevin Bresnahan]

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.

[Holy Ghost]

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

[BFrank]

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.

😆

[EKE BBB]

Random listening from my Spotify rock list, which contains over 3,400 tracks as of today.

 

[Dub Modal]

On 5/20/2025 at 5:45 PM, EKE BBB said:

Random listening from my Spotify rock list, which contains over 3,400 tracks as of today.

 

That's a helluva playlist 

[EKE BBB]

2 hours ago, Dub Modal said:

That's a helluva playlist 

Thanks! It started more than 10 years ago as a playlist for my long-run training when preparing for my first marathon, and it is been continously growing since then, as eclectical as possible. 

[Dub Modal]

8 minutes ago, EKE BBB said:

Thanks! It started more than 10 years ago as a playlist for my long-run training when preparing for my first marathon, and it is been continously growing since then, as eclectical as possible. 

Marathon in more ways than one 👍

[EKE BBB]

A few Neil Young classics to start the day...

[Holy Ghost]

Still working on understanding this dude. Deep.

 

[EKE BBB]

Neil Young-dude? Why? Surely I am missing something...

 

[felser]

6 hours ago, Holy Ghost said:

Still working on understanding this dude. Deep.

 

 

5 hours ago, EKE BBB said:

Neil Young-dude? Why? Surely I am missing something...

 

I get HG's point.  He is truly deep and contradictory in many ways - very human.  I have 80-90 % of his official recorded output, have seen him live three times.  His activity level at almost 80 is stunning.  And the musical diversity of his canon is amazing.  My favorite couplet by him remains

"A while ago somewhere I don't know when, I was watching a movie with a friend.  I fell in love with the actress, she was playing a part that I could understand.", though not far behind is "Don't feel like Satan, but I am to them".

[BFrank]

I always liked this album. There's a relatively recent remaster that sounds great, too.

[Simon8]