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From: jaeger@buphy.bu.edu (Gregg Jaeger)
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
Subject: Re: CD or LP
Date: 16 Oct 92 19:10:22 GMT
Organization: Boston University Physics Department

In article <61210@mimsy.umd.edu> tms@cs.umd.edu (Tom Swiss (not Swift, not Suiss, Swiss!)) writes:
>cka52397@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Slartibartfast) writes:
>>In article <1992Oct15.191154.22552@ulrik.uio.no> solan@smauguio.no (Svein Olav G. Nyberg) writes:

>>>Does anyone have an opinion on whether Rush is best on
>>>CD or on LP?

>>>On CD you miss frequencies above 20.000 Hz, and thereby
>>>the feeling of "air" in the music. On the other hand,
>>>LPs don4t always give accurate reproduction.

>     Anyway, you get "turntable rumble", not to mention hiss and pop,
>with LPs.


This is true. However, there is a certain warmth to my Japanese 
pressing LPs that's not to be found on CD.



Gregg

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Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
From: cka52397@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Slartibartfast)
Subject: Re: Music
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 03:35:48 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.182305.1@vax1.umkc.edu> tbeaudoin@vax1.umkc.edu writes:
>In article <BvzzB7.1MH@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, cka52397@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Slartibartfast) writes:
>> 	I would like to start a new thread, so here goes:  What kinds of 
>> music, other than RUSH, of course, do you listen to?
>> 
>> 
>
>	Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
>
>	this thread has been 'round before ... and what we got was a straight
>month of endless screens of groups.  May i humbly ask that we not start 
>this all over again?  Or am i just being an old curmudgeon?
>
>Thomas Beaudoin

I know this is a repeated thread, its just that there are new users this year,
and it is interesting to find out the tastes of your fellow fans.  It seems
that we all listen to some of the same music (YES, etc), but our tastes diverge
a lot.  So I guess you are just being an old crumedgeon...  Just kidding.  At
least you didn't flame me.
-- 
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* c-amin1@uiuc.edu*********************Peter Gabriel, "Family Snapshot"*******
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Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
From: cubsfan@camelot.bradley.edu (Michael Silverman)
Subject: Re: Caress of Steel
Organization: Priests of the Temples of Syrinx
Date: 11 Oct 92 05:02:26 GMT

When I read the "B" Mans book it was the only albulm I hadn't
heard yet.  HE sort of put it down or at least described as you
did how it failed when it was released.  He also mentioned
those people who insist it is there best.  I Kind of made
fun of it.  Then I got it and I think that it's there best!
It covers a wide variety of topics for a 5 song albulm.
The songs also musically vary in style.  NOt to mention   
Fountain which is truly a work of art.  I love it!

-Grge Greenberg using cubsfan's login.

--
cubsfan@camelot.bradley.edu

"One likes to believe in the freedom of baseball" - Geddy Lee
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
From: chub@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Charles Ray)
Subject: 2112 == Twenty-one Twelve or Two One One Two?
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 16:10:51 GMT

Basically the subject says it all ........

Is it pronounced Twenty-one Twelve or Two One One Two?

Or something else?


-- 
 . .                                       "You say times are tough,      
  U     Charles Ray                         we've got the best of both    
 (-)    chub@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au          worlds here."     -- Midnight Oil
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From: tj@alpine.b17a.ingr.com (T.J. Higgins)
Subject: Re: General Admission (was Opening Bands)
Reply-To: tj@alpine.b17a.ingr.com
Organization: The Ernest P. Worrell Institute for the Study of the Vernal Equinox
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 18:20:08 GMT

In article <Bw66Kt.6wp@acsu.buffalo.edu>, dianetti@acsu.buffalo.edu (Donald J. Dianetti) writes:
|> I am very surprised at this.  I thought that Rush never allowed 
|> general admission at any of there concerts due to safety factors.
|> All 8 shows I have seen (since 1984) have been reserved seating  
|> exclusively.

Up until the tragedy at the Who concert in Cincinnati (1981?  I can't
remember), Rush did indeed play general admission shows.  I saw Rush 
in 1978 with g.a. seating (standing, really).  However, all Rush
shows since the Who tragedy have been (to my knowledge) reserved
seating.

Rush was scheduled to play in Birmingham just a few weeks after the 
Cincinnatt incident, and I had a g.a. ticket for the show.  When I
got to the arena, I was told that the concert had been switched to
reserved seats and I would have to trade in.  Fortunately they had
the good sense to save the best seats for the early ticket buyers,
and I was awarded a seat on row 7 right in front of Alex.
-- 
T.J. Higgins | tj@alpine.b17a.ingr.com | Intergraph Mapping | Huntsville, AL
"I'm in a groove now -- or is it a rut?" -- Rush
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
From: d40374w@kaira.hut.fi (Tero Valkonen)
Subject: Re: Neil's depth (was Re: neil's cross?)
Organization: The rational midnight star
	<D40374W.92Oct6224007@kaira.hut.fi>
	<1992Oct6.222945.27821@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Date: 8 Oct 92 23:23:51

In article <1992Oct6.222945.27821@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> fes9s@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Frank Erick Sellin) writes:

   Tero, I was just curious. How well does Rush go over among folks in Finland?

Not very well. I always shocked my classmates at school, when I brought
songs like La Villa Strangiato etc to the class (on the days when we
were allowed to do so). I guess a Rush show would sell perhaps 5000
seats in Finland. RTB was second on the charts for two weeks, then it
disappeared. 

   Also, pardon my ignorance (especially as an American of Scandinavian descent)
   but I confess my inability to figure out your gender from your name. 

Oh, that's nothing to be sorry about, really. I'm a male.
--
Tero Valkonen
d40374w@kaira.hut.fi
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
From: vcf1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Victoria C Fike)
Subject: Re: Music
Organization: Columbia University
Reply-To: vcf1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Victoria C Fike)
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 01:44:17 GMT
X-Posted-From: cunixa.cc.columbia.edu
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In article <BvzzB7.1MH@news.cso.uiuc.edu> cka52397@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Slartibartfast) writes:
>	I would like to start a new thread, so here goes:  What kinds of 
>music, other than RUSH, of course, do you listen to?

Didn't we do this last spring?  :-) :-)  But okay, I'll bite:

Blue Oyster Cult, Hawkwind, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Queen, ELO, Aerosmith,
Manowar, Jethro Tull, Sisters of Mercy, Jane's Addiction, the Outlaws, 
Peter Schilling, AC/DC, Ratt, Anthrax, the Who, (old) Duran Duran, Adam Ant,
and the occasional Irish folk music. :-)

Tori

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From: wsaker01@terra.spd.louisville.edu (Willard S. Akers)
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
Subject: Re: Presto
Date: 16 Oct 92 17:54:42 GMT
Distribution: alt.music.rush
Organization: University of Louisville

In <leo.719156775@galaxy> leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart) writes:

>wsaker01@starbase.spd.louisville.edu (Willard S. Akers) writes:

>> For example, RUSH used the Macintosh for a while, primarily on
>> SIGNALS i think, to compose their music. 

>Since SIGNALS was a 1982 album and the Macintosh didn't exist until
>1984 I find this highly unlikeable, to put it mildly.

>>> First of all, you obviously did not see the words I THINK.
>>> Secondly, what do you mean by unlikeable?

>> Rap has b [ecause rap is] a very popular form of music.  RUCH
>> decided to see if they could mold it into their music, and they did
>> so quite successfully.

>>> Rap has b[ecome] a very popular form of music.

>Stick around until the monthly "RTB Rap Flame War" rolls around again,
>and then tell me again if the rap was so succesful. Maybe *you* think
>it was succesful, but you shouldn't assume that everyone feels that way.

>>> You obviously missed my whole point.  I was not necessarily trying
>>> to prove RUSH's innovativeness.  I was simply trying to illustrate
>>> the fact that they were in it for the music.  Does success mean
>>> millions of people like your work?  I think if you were to ask RUSH
>>> they would say no.  They success mentioned in RTB's was implying
>>> that the rap section was added to their style of music in a smooth
>>> manner.  When RUSH wants to try something that is new to the world 
>>> of music or new to them only, they will do it without wondering what
>>> you or other mindless fans will think about it.

>Other than that I think the rap section is just about the worst example
>you could have come up with if you want to prove Rush's innovativeness.

>Not only has rap been an established musical form for many years now,
>but the last three years or so *a lot* of white rock/pop bands have
>been using rap-sections or breaks in their music. Rush was merely
>following a trend, not setting it. Now if they had done it in 1981...
>(A better example would in my opinion have been the reggae-influences
>on Moving Pictures and Signals. Too bad they didn't continue in that
>direction.)

>The fact that many of Rush's fans are so atrophied in their tastes that
>*they* consider rap to be the ultimate innovation/heresy (depending on
>who you talk to) is completely irrelevant to all of this.

>>> Again, refer to the above statement and try to see that the point is
>>> not what you or I think about what is done but the fact that it is 
>>> done at all.

>-- 
>Leo Breebaart  (leo @ ph.tn.tudelft.nl)

>>> W. Stephen Akers
From: jlwoodal@garcia.warfield.edu
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
Subject: Re: Opening Acts
Date: 16 Oct 92 15:53:49 GMT
Reply-To: jlwoodal@eos.ncsu.edu
Organization: Solar Federation
Originator: jlwoodal@c00007-118dan.eos.ncsu.edu


CHARLOTTE, Power Windows Tour: Blue Oyster Cult
CHARLOTTE, Hold Your Fire: MSG
CHARLOTTE, Presto: Mr. Big
CHAPEL HILL, Suck the Bones: Primus
CHARLOTTE, Suck the Bones: Mr. Big

YEP!!  Mr. Big TWICE!!  Lucky me!
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
From: cmermag@eng.umd.edu (Christopher Mermagen)
Subject: Re: Since Signals is the topic of conversation...
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 92 23:22:12 GMT
Organization: College of Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park


The warren Cromartie school I guess is in the Borough of Schmeng,
Subdivision plan A- where the Lerxtwood mall is going to be built?

Chris
:)
From: dianetti@acsu.buffalo.edu (Donald J. Dianetti)
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
Subject: Re: that is sick.
Date: 14 Oct 92 17:04:09 GMT
Organization: UB

In article <Bw346K.B67@ns1.nodak.edu> rorvig@plains.NoDak.edu (By-Tor) writes:
>
>	When we had this discussion this past summer, I posted that 
>a friend of mine had convinced my parents that RUSH stood for Rulers  
>Under Satan's House ...
>
>That is sick, sick, sick, sick. That person needs to get a life!
>
I was on a bus once and a fellow started a discussion with me about
music, and I mentioned Rush.  He promptly told me they were Satan
worshippers and RUSH was an acronym for Run Under Satan's House.
I could never figure out just what that was supposed to mean.
I like Rulers better, it makes more sense.


-- 
Don Dianetti  --  SUNY at Buffalo  --  dianetti@acsu.buffalo.edu
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From: gjr@st-andrews.ac.uk (Graham James Reilly)
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
Subject: Re: Music
Date: 12 Oct 92 15:10:46 GMT
Organization: St. Andrews University, Scotland.


OK:

Floyd, Blue Oyster Cult, Fish, Marillion, Rolling Stones, Bobs Dylan and 
Marley, Doors, Primus, Simon and Garfunkel, Sisters of Mercy, Dream Theatre,
Eagles, Queensryche, Nirvana, Mike Oldfield, Genesis, Runrig, Tull, 
Jean M Jarre.....

Hey, this looks just like all the others.  Does anybody like Rush
as well? :-)



Dylan
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
From: bryanm@natasha.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Bryan Mau)
Subject: FAQ
Originator: toml@radian
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 21:17:52 GMT
Organization: Radian Cormp.


Could someone please post the Rush FAQ or mail it to me (I don't have ftp access)

Thanks a million!
From: Brian.K.Sward@dartmouth.edu (Brian K. Sward)
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
Subject: Re: Since Signals is the topic of conversation...
Date: 9 Oct 92 18:32:39 GMT
 <1992Oct09.023835.18554@eng.umd.edu> 
 <1992Oct9.053824.23355@muddcs.claremont.edu>  <98087@bu.edu>
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
X-Posted-From: InterNews1.0a5@newshost.dartmouth.edu

In article <98087@bu.edu>
jaeger@buphyk.bu.edu (Gregg Jaeger) writes:

> >Also... Where is the Warren Cromartie Secondary School?
> 
> It is fictional. Cromartie (I believe) is the name of a Canadian
> baseball celebrity. Anyone with more knowledge care to elaborate?


He is not a celebrity, just a journeyman who I believe was with either
the Expos or the Blue Jays at the time Signals was released. 
Unfortunately, my Baseball Encyclopedia is at home, so I don't have any
stats handy.  Also check out the list of who plays on Signals.  There's
a full baseball team listed.

Brian
brian.sward@dartmouth.edu
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
From: d40374w@kaira.hut.fi (Tero Valkonen)
Subject: Re: Rush trivia
Organization: The rational midnight star
	<0uH8RB6w165w@mintir.new-orleans.la.us>
	<92280.135106MWEINTR@auvm.american.edu>
Date: 8 Oct 92 23:10:18

In article <92280.135106MWEINTR@auvm.american.edu> <MWEINTR@auvm.american.edu> writes:

   Is Neil left handed?

Judging from his drumming, no. I am. 
--
Tero Valkonen
d40374w@kaira.hut.fi
From: jaeger@buphy.bu.edu (Gregg Jaeger)
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
Subject: Re: Rush Mortality?
Date: 15 Oct 92 18:06:29 GMT
Organization: Boston University Physics Department

In article <Bw66Dr.6qu@acsu.buffalo.edu> dianetti@acsu.buffalo.edu (Donald J. Dianetti) writes:

>2) Roll the Bones' main concept
>   - the main concept of the album is a subjective topic and 
>     thus invalid as the basis for any logical conclusion 

I'd have to disagree with this statement despite the fact that
I agree that it isn't sufficient basis for saying that Neil has
a fatal disease. Since when has the main concept of an album
been subjective? Everyone may have his or her opinion but if
there _is_ a concept than its nature should be capable of
being discovered. And once it's discovered one can draw
logical conclusions from that (though not necessarily about
the state of health of bandmembers!)

Gregg

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Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
From: jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)
Subject: Small remixed RTB heard on end credits of MTV comedy show
Reply-To: jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 05:29:38 GMT

On the end of MTV's Half Hour Comedy Hour (during the end credits) they had  
some remixed Rush tunes playing.  It was the music directly around the rap from  
RTB and a little bit of Show Don't Tell, I think (the cable was cutting in and  
out then, so I'm not sure of this).

It was nice hearing the music, but I was expecting to hear Geddy's  
electronically lowered voice and they mixed it so that the rap was just missing  
from the tune.  No lyrics, no royalties, I guess.

I was so in the mood for hearing Rush then, I kept the TV on MTV hoping to see  
some Rush video(s), but no luck.  I turned the whole thing off after about a  
half-hour.
-- 
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From: tbeaudoin@vax1.umkc.edu
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
Subject: Re: _2112_ Cover
Date: 13 Oct 92 22:00:01 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City

>  
> So my question is, did the members of Rush intend that red star as Satanic
> imagery? I've followed the recent discussion here, but I didn't see it reach
> any definite conclusion. And have any of you had similar experiences with
> people turned off to Rush because of perceived Satanism (or maybe drug
> use--Passage to Bangkok)?
>  

	When we had this discussion this past summer, I posted that 
a friend of mine had convinced my parents that RUSH stood for Rulers  
Under Satan's House ...

	Zany, eh????
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
From: manitp@sage4c.its.rpi.edu (Philip Joseph Manitta Jr.)
Subject: tab req: Analog_Kid
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 18:41:39 GMT

HEY!

anybody have bass.tab for Analog_Kid or know where it can be found?????

-- 
Philip J. "Ralph" Manitta Jr. (RLF)     _|_       " For me to live is
88 14th st.                              |        Christ, to die is
Troy NY, 12180                           |        gain!"   (manitp@rpi.edu) 
" Don't even think of copying this! The band NEEDS money! " -Fluffy
From: tms@cs.umd.edu (Tom Swiss (not Swift, not Suiss, Swiss!))
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
Subject: Re: CD or LP
Date: 16 Oct 92 17:58:53 GMT
Organization: The Reality Liberation Front (pixels to the people!)

cka52397@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Slartibartfast) writes:
>In article <1992Oct15.191154.22552@ulrik.uio.no> solan@smauguio.no (Svein Olav G. Nyberg) writes:
>>Does anyone have an opinion on whether Rush is best on
>>CD or on LP?
>>
>>On CD you miss frequencies above 20.000 Hz, and thereby
>>the feeling of "air" in the music. On the other hand,
>>LPs don4t always give accurate reproduction.
>>

     You can hear 20kHz??????????????????????

     Anyway, you get "turntable rumble", not to mention hiss and pop,
with LPs.

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Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
From: s14258bc@UMASSD.EDU
Subject: Re: MTV and Opening acts
Reply-To: s14258bc@UMASSD.EDU
Organization: UMASS DARTMOUTH, NO. DARTMOUTH, MA.
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 20:26:22 GMT

In article <1bl33gINNo04@bigboote.WPI.EDU>, satch@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Michael Victor Corbin) writes:
>Why is everyone so concerned that MTV doesn't play enough Rush.  Rush is the 
>highest form of no Bull s**t music and MTV is the lowest form of B.S.  

For a moment there, I thought you were saying that Rush is b.s. music...
and I do agree 100% that MTV is *overloading* in the bullshit category.

>I am proud to say MTV rejects Rush because to me that only complements Rush.
>So MTV freaks goe blow yourself until you impload!!!!!!!!

I'm not sure what you mean by "complementation by rejection", unless you're 
implying that every time Rush gets a video killed off, they say, "Yeah, thanks 
for rejecting us!"

BRIAN COLBY (S14258BC@umassd.edu)
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
From: cka52397@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Slartibartfast)
Subject: Re: Opening Acts
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 06:34:09 GMT

In article <1992Oct15.151217.461@ziff.com> glenn mcdonald <gmcdonald@zdi.ziff.com> writes:
>When I saw Rush (Hold Your Fire, tour, I think it was), the opening act
>was Steve Morse, who was eminently forgettable.
>
>As for Marillion albums, you pick a good time to be introduced to them,
>as their 10th anniversary greatest-hits album, "Six of One, Half a Dozen
>of the Other: A Singles Collection", came out a couple of months ago, and
>should be available in any vaguely competent CD store.  It has one song
>each from the first two albums, two each from the third and forth albums,
>and three each from the fifth and sixth albums.  There are two extra
>songs, a cover of "Sympathy", by Rare Bird, and a new song.  The title
>refers to the departure, after Clutching at Straws, the forth album, of
>the band's original vocalist Fish (who has two solo albums since), and
>the arrival of new singer Steve Hogarth, who used to be in the Europeans.
> Six songs with Fish, six with Hogarth.
>
>They just played here (Boston) on the 11th.  I think it was the best
>concert I've seen.
>
>glenn

Speaking of Solo albums from Fish, is he black?  I saw album by a person/band
named _Fish_, and it had a picture of someone in dreads on the cover.  I
don't really care about his race, I just want a positive ID for that album...

THANX
-- 
**RUSH**YES**METALLICA**PINK*FLOYD**PEARL*JAM**PETER*GABRIEL**PAUL*SIMON**REM*
* "If you don't get even, you learn to take, and I will take you..........." *
* c-amin1@uiuc.edu*********************Peter Gabriel, "Family Snapshot"*******
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From: fjs@nighthawk.ksu.ksu.edu (Frank J Sereno)
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
Subject: Re: 2112 cover and the name RUSH
Date: 13 Oct 1992 09:56:33 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: nighthawk.ksu.ksu.edu


In article <1687E10C8F.PRAETHE@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu>, PRAETHE@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (Ethan Evan Prater) writes:
>Like most topics, I assume this has been discussed before, but I just had an
>experience that prompted me to bring it up again.
> 
>I'm trading some tapes with a guy who's really into Yes, Genesis, Peter
>Gabriel, and the Police, other groups I associate with Rush fans. I asked him
>why he didn't like Rush, and he said that ten years ago he saw the cover to
>_2112_ and decided then and there that he didn't want to hear a Rush song. So
>he's never heard one. His reason was that the cover was Satanic (he thought),
>and that some people he didn't like were listening to it. I sad that he was
>missing out on a lot of good music based on the cover of a twenty year-old
>album that isn't even Satanic, but that didn't persuade him.
> 
>So my question is, did the members of Rush intend that red star as Satanic
>imagery? I've followed the recent discussion here, but I didn't see it reach
>any definite conclusion. And have any of you had similar experiences with
>people turned off to Rush because of perceived Satanism (or maybe drug
>use--Passage to Bangkok)?
> 
>I appreciate your comments.
> 
>--Ethan
> 
>    "The sign of Eth is rising in the air..."


I seem to remember at a show in Kansas City some time in the early 80`s
(perhaps the Signals or P/G tour) that a few `religious' folks were passing out 
pamphlets asking the reader, "What is your Rush?"

Although I can't specifically remember what the pamphlets said, (I didn't give a
hoot!)  the overall tone was that Rush was somehow promoting drug use with their
name, and that, in general, Rock and Roll music was going to send me to Hell.

Oh well, I thought after reading this garbage, at least I can look forward to 
having a few beers with the band someday..........



Frank Sereno
Kansas State University