From: gjs8818@Msu.oscs.montana.edu (Jared Shockley)
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
Subject: Re: Queenryche and Rush (was Re: Proposal for alt.music.queensryche)
Date: 23 Jul 92 08:16:07 GMT
Reply-To: gjs8818@Msu.oscs.montana.edu (Jared Shockley)
Organization: Montana State University


In article <1992Jul22.165510.3631@muddcs.claremont.edu>,
 jstimson@jarthur.claremont.edu (John Stimson) writes:
>Yes, Queensryche is an intellectual rock group, and are comparable to
>Rush in their ability to write and play good music.  Rush is damn good, 
>and so is Queensryche.  One is not "better" than the other, that sort
>of judgement is better left to the kids back in high school on their
>local BBSs.  In fact, everyone I know who is a big Rush fan, or even
>a minor Rush fan (ie, own fewer than 50% of all albums) also likes
>Queensryche (specifically, Openration: Mindcrime).
>
>The postings that Mr. Ruiz was so violently objecting to were no more
>than requests to form a new group so that he wouldn't have to read 
>any more about Queensryche or any other bands that infringe on the idea
>that Rush is the only competent band in the Known Universe.  They
>were posted to several newsgroups where there might be interested parties,
>and alt.music.rush certainly qualifies for having interested parties.
>
>Now I understand what some people have said about Rush fans being very
>obnoxious about claiming that Rush is the only good band and that all
>others suck.  I'd always believed that Rush fans were reasoning 
>individuals who understood and believed in what the band had to say.
>Now I'm convinced that rush-fandom isn't necessarily correlated
>with rationality or intelligence; it's just the same as people in general:
>95% are clueless arrogant bastards.  (A slight variation on Sturgeon's
>Law, that I observed to be true at an early age).
>
>Don`t worry, Denny and Noah, they'll go away soon enough, at least if
>you don't provoke them into sticking around and -attempting- to 
>broaden your perspectives.

Its not that they don't want to broaden their perspectives; its just that 
why should we sit and talk about a band who has only one good album, Empire,
and their earlier stuff is a bunch of non-thinking metalhead speed metal.
The roots of both bands are totally different. Neither band has the same 
begining nor the same style. The Queensryche style is a Pink Floyd sound 
whereas the RUSH sound cannot be pinned down because they change it every
album giving the listeners a chance to hear something new. Queensryche is 
starting down a road that RUSH travels daily. As for rush-fandom being just
clueless arrogance, tell me please all of the albums that Queensryche has
put out. I bet that not all of the people know of all of them. I grew up in
Seattle and I have their first two albums. Both of these just happen to be 
speed-metal. It was not til recently that their sound changed. Get back to 
me if you can find some thought provoking lyrics or mental-aweing music sheets
from any Queensryche album before Empire. It is not that we don't like other
bands but no other bands seems to give us the same feeling like listening
to RUSH gives us.
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   JARED SHOCKLEY

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