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I’d be very interested if one of you guys did what I did for Bob Dylan- you don’t have to do 100 songs but maybe the top 20? Love to read something like that.
I would do a top 100 countdown list if there is enough interest. Would give me an excuse to throw a list together and talk more Rush.I’d be very interested if one of you guys did what I did for Bob Dylan- you don’t have to do 100 songs but maybe the top 20? Love to read something like that.
Fly by Night always gets way overrated because it remained a classic rock mainstay, but while it's a good tune, I don't think most fans consider it one of their best. Hell, the band put it to bed in the live sets in the late 70's and never played it again.Here are their top 10 greatest songs per Ultimate Classic Rock:
1. Tom Sawyer
2. The Spirit of Radio
3. Fly By Night
4. Limelight
5. 2112 Orchestra/The Temple of Syrinx
6. Red Barchetta
7. Closer to the Heart
8. Freewill
9. Subdivisions
10. Time Stands Still
Thoughts?
I have thought about this, but it would be more like the Beatles thread. More a personal list than the expected. I would write a little bit about why or how some of the songs impacted me or the nostalgia they bring when i hear them. I would eliminate live songs and Feedback from the list, with a few exceptions where i actually like the live version of a song better.I’d be very interested if one of you guys did what I did for Bob Dylan- you don’t have to do 100 songs but maybe the top 20? Love to read something like that.
I rank Presto as their most underrated album. Some great tunes in there but it gets very little love. I relistened to Hold Your Fire recently after reading some praise for it on this thread and Presto is every bit as good. For me, still a (big?) tier below Signals and prior, but still good.Like everyone else, I have been listening to a lot of Rush since Neil's Death. Rediscovered Presto. Really like "War Paint", both the music and the lyrics.
Super cool.
I never looked at the thread because I'm not a Rush guy. But 14yo floppinho is a drummer/percussionist...and now I wish I'd been following along.One more with the micro kit, this time with Stanton Moore playing them. That tiny bass drum sounds fat here, yay tiny bass drums:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PMNTFS-SB0
I never looked at the thread because I'm not a Rush guy. But 14yo floppinho is a drummer/percussionist...and now I wish I'd been following along.
He has a Ludwig questlove breakbeat set...kinda like what you linked above. We live in a tiny NYC apt, and even that small thing takes up a bunch of space...but sounds great and breaks down easy.
He's been doing some jazz (at school and at Jazz at Lincoln Center) and rock (school of rock performance classes and now with friends at school). He went to a crazy NYC public school called the Special Music School for middle school- played percussion, including a lot of snare and tom etudes, marimba and other random stuff. Playing now in the Juilliard pre-college program- just saw his percussion ensemble and the symphony play over the last week...some insanely talented kids there.
Ill be sure to keep checking back in...and I'm sure I'll be asking questions, now that I've found where the drummers are hanging out!
Thanks, man. He's a great kid, and apparently a really good musician- mostly just flat out loves performing.If he is growing up in NYC, man there are a ton of great drummers who play there that he can check out and learn from. All the major cats play and/or live there, cutting edge cats who are changing the game. Sounds like he is getting some great education too, props. Julliard? Congrats man, you should be very proud of him, that's awesome that he is in programs like that one.
Swear to God, drummer, was wondering what you thought of his drumming and him while I was reading your posts. Then you mentioned him and a light went on. Be interested to hear what you think, though the technical details are lost on me.as drummers like Questlove use kits like this:
Thanks, man. He's a great kid, and apparently a really good musician- mostly just flat out loves performing.
Yeah- we live in the thick of things. Mercury Lounge is across the street, and we're walking distance to a ton of spots. His first jazz experience was with an outfit called NY jazz academy. They were cool...but cooler still was where they practiced- a place called Michiko Studios right off times square. Up a couple flights of stairs into two floors of a warren of rehearsal rooms for every pro NY musician you could imagine, from opera to Broadway to jazz to heavy metal. All just pouring out of the rooms into the hallways where I'd wait for him. I'd constantly see folk walking by that I KNEW were probably massive in their field. You get accustomed to seeing stuff here, but every time I walked into Michiko I was just blown away and felt like a tourist visiting NYC for the first time.
Do you gig, teach, do it professionally?
Amazing....can't wait to show him all of these- thank you!I stopped playing for a number of years other priorities came into focus, but before I used to gig and studied with cats like Tony Williams and other name instructors when I lived in San Francisco. I used to teach way back in the day, but what I taught back then would be completely different to what I would teach today. I am currently trying a new approach not just the drums but to music. I sing more now than I used to, and I plan to be a vocalist and a drummer, and to do that requires my technique to be more relaxed on the drums, and how I express both my voice with the drums should sound as one.
I am not the kind of cat who at my age can play bar or weekend stuff with other cats. I like modern, cutting edge music. I really dig drummers like Chris Dave, Stanton Moore, Mark Guiliana, Ari Hoenig, along with all drummers like Tony, Billy Cobham, Vinnie Colatuita, there are just too many out there to mention (except Dave Grohl, he's basically Sib Hashian of the band Boston, but worse in the way that he has to force himself into every conversation to promote Dave Grohl, like Henry Rollins).
Your son is growing up during a time where drummers are creating new and exciting styles, it's as groundbreaking today as it was during the late 60's and early 70's. Or during the birth of be-bop jazz, or during the jazz age when drummers led 30 piece orchestras. PLus he has YouTube, I didn't have the internet when I was a kid, but it didn't stop me from buying records with all of my fave drummers.
Chris Dave leads his own band, and he's phenomenal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXdJBHVm44k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGv366y_UjQ
Sput Searight leads a few of them, and he is unreal. He also plays keys and composes music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql_WbyrlNWU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI0B-M5bmeQ
Larnell Lewis composed this tune:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fit9lDhXCQ8
And he can play "Enter Sandman" by hearing only once:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd_UcjMusUA
It's a great time to be a drummer. It always has been, because of the drums.
Amazing....can't wait to show him all of these- thank you!
I'm from Marin...so I may have even seen you play!
Swear to God, drummer, was wondering what you thought of his drumming and him while I was reading your posts. Then you mentioned him and a light went on. Be interested to hear what you think, though the technical details are lost on me.
Vain? They were Bay Area, and still kicking around. One of my guilty pleasures. Love 'em. Davy Vain. Was a thrash producer, too. Produced Death Angel.The only hair bands left up in the Bay Area existed in Marin County. That and thrash. But Bay Area thrash ruled back then. The best thrash out there.
Vain? They were Bay Area, and still kicking around. One of my guilty pleasures. Love 'em. Davy Vain. Was a thrash producer, too. Produced Death Angel.
I'll bet @NYRAGE might know what or who you're talking about as far as the label goes.
All those names sound vaguely familiar, but I really don't know. That's cool about the metal. Keep on rockin' in the free world!
Music is subjective. There is no right answer. It is about what turns you on or inspires you.I just listened to When the Levee Breaks again and disagree with the thread starter's brother.
Still a great drummer though.
Just saw this. Too late. Drummer got it.I'll bet @NYRAGE might know what or who you're talking about as far as the label goes.
All those names sound vaguely familiar, but I really don't know. That's cool about the metal. Keep on rockin' in the free world!
As a Rush fan, I absolutely loved that article and loved the reaction to it. Very, very funny stuff. My guess is that Geddy and Alex had a good laugh at that article and took it in the humorous vein in which it was intended.Tom Servo said:
Sorry for your loss, but we remember him in the music and we dedicate this thread to his memory.This thread makes me sad. I miss my brother.
I realize it's zero consolation and does nothing, but every time I see this thread I get a sick feeling in my stomach. It's so sad you lost your brother. My partner lost her 50yo brother and even after a couple of years it's still hard for her and her mom. I've given you so friendly natured crap over the years, but I absolutely hate that you lost your brother and that you have to live without him.This thread makes me sad. I miss my brother.