25 - Rush - Hemispheres (1978)
Autor: Vince Garcia | Publicado: 2011-08-01T21:56:00-03:00



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Os melhores músicos do mundo estão reunidos aqui.

&nbsp;Rush é uma banda de rock progressivo com uma musicalidade infinita, pois mescla estilos e estilos de forma aceitável para quem curte Rock / Metal. Geddy Lee tocando baixo, cantando e tocando teclado com mãos e pés, Alex Lifeson na guitarra, tocando de forma única, se destacando dos outros guitarristas, buscando timbres e harmonias que apenas sua criatividade pode proporcionar, e ele... o melhor baterista vivo desse mundo, o senhor tímido, fechado e 'anti-social' Neil Peart, com vários prêmios nas costas. Melhor baterista de rock de 1980 até 1986, sendo que de 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 e 2010, ele venceu na contagem de votos, mas é inelegível, só pra dar oportunidade para os outros bateristas ganharem também né, rs.&nbsp; Vou pôr aqui as premiações dos músicos do Rush.

Fonte: Wikipedia.


NEIL PEART&nbsp;
Revista Modern Drummer pelos leitores:
Hall of Fame: 1983
Melhor Baterista do Rock: 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 2006*, 2007*, 2008*, 2009*, 2010* (*venceu na contagem de votos, mas é inelegível)
Melhor Multi-Percussionista: 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986
Melhor Percussionista instrumental: 1982
Baterista Revelação: 1980
Best All Around: 1986
1986 Honor Roll: Rock Drummer, Multi-Percussion (Como membro do Honor Roll, Neil não é mais elegível nas categorias acima)
Melhor Vídeo Instrumental: 2006, por Anatomy of a Drum Solo
Melhor gravação de bateria dos anos 80: 2007, pela música "YYZ" do álbum Exit... Stage Left
Melhor performace em gravação:
1980: Permanent Waves&nbsp;
1981: Moving Pictures
1982: Exit...Stage Left
1983: Signals
1985: Grace Under Pressure
1986: Power Windows
1988: Hold Your Fire
1989: A Show of Hands
1990: Presto
1992: Roll the Bones
1993: Counterparts
1997: Test For Echo
1999: Different Stages
2002: Vapor Trails
2004: R30
2007: Snakes &amp; Arrows

Junto com seus companheiros de banda Geddy Lee e Alex Lifeson, Peart foi nomeado Oficial da Ordem do Canadá em 9 de Maio de 1996. O trio foi a primeira banda de rock a ser honrada com tal ordem.


GEDDY LEE
Bass Hall of Fame - Guitar Player Magazine
Por seis vezes: "Best Rock Bass" - Guitar Player Magazine
1993 - "Best Rock Bass Player" Bass Player eleição pelos leitores.

ALEX LIFESON
1983 - "Best Rock Talent" - Guitar for the Practicing Musician
1991 - Foi incluido no the Guitar for the Practicing Musician Hall of Fame


Rush em 1978, na turnê do álbum Hemispheres. 




&nbsp;É tanto prêmio que eu esqueci de falar do álbum.&nbsp;

Hemispheres é o álbum o qual marca o fim das músicas épicas do Rush, é o fim daquela fase de músicas exageradamente longas, é onde eles chegam ao limite musical deles na época, o trabalho foi extenso e ambicioso para gravar Hemispheres. A banda foi gravá-lo no País de Gales, se afastaram de suas famílias e passavam dias e dias só pra gravar uma faixa, mas foi um trabalho que deu muito gosto a eles. E após essa fase, terminava os anos 70 para o Rush, saindo de forma vitoriosa, após o Hemispheres, veio os álbuns de maior sucesso que foram o Permanent Waves e o Moving Pictures, espero que tenham paciência e apreciem esse grande (em todos os sentidos) álbum que é o Hemispheres e que maravilha é a música desse power trio canadense que parece que se multiplicam em 20 homens para tocar. Esse é meu play favorito deles! =)





Rush - Hemispheres (1978)

Geddy Lee - Vocals / Bass / Synthethizer
Alex Lifeson - Guitars
Neil Peart - Drums

1. Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres
2. Circumstances
3. The Trees
4. La Villa Strangiato





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1 - Cygnus&nbsp; X-1 Book II: Hemispheres




I. Prelude
When our weary world was young
The struggle of the ancients first began.
The gods of Love and Reason
Sought alone to rule the fate of Man.
They battled through the ages,
But still neither force would yield.
The people were divided,
Every soul a battlefield.

II. Apollo Bringer of Wisdom
"I bring truth and understanding,
I bring wit and wisdom fair,
Precious gifts beyond compare.
We can build a world of wonder,
I can make you all aware.
I will find you food and shelter,
Show you fire to keep you warm
Through the endless winter storm.
You can live in grace and comfort
In the world that you transform."
The people were delighted
Coming forth to claim their prize
They ran to build their cities
And converse among the wise.
But one day the streets fell silent,
Yet they knew not what was wrong.
The urge to build these fine things
Seemed not to be so strong.
The wise men were consulted,
And the Bridge of Death was crossed
In quest of Dionysus,
To find out what they had lost.

III. Dionysus Bringer of Love
"I bring love to give you solace
In the darkness of the night,
In the Heart's eternal light.
You need only trust your feelings;
Only love can steer you right.
I bring laughter, I bring music,
I bring joy and I bring tears.
I will soothe your primal fears.
Throw off those chains of reason
And your prison disappears."
The cities were abandoned,
And the forests echoed song.
They danced and lived as brothers;
They knew love could not be wrong.
Food and wine they had aplenty
And they slept beneath the stars.
The people were contented
And the Gods watched from afar.
But the winter fell upon them
And it caught them unprepared,
Bringing wolves and cold starvation,
And the hearts of men despaired.

IV. Armageddon The Battle of Heart and Mind
The Universe divided
As the Heart and Mind collided,
With the people left unguided
For so many troubled years.
In a cloud of doubts and fears,
Their world was torn asunder into hollow Hemispheres.
Some fought themselves, some fought each other.
Most just followed one another,
Lost and aimless like their brothers,
For their hearts were so unclear,
And the truth could not appear.
Their spirits were divided into blinded Hemispheres.
Some who did not fight
Brought tales of old to light.
My Rocinante' sailed by night
On her final flight.
To the heart of Cygnus' fearsome force
We set our course.
Spiralled through that timeless space
To this immortal place.
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V. Cygnus Bringer of Balance
I have memory and awareness,
But I have no shape or form.
As a disembodied spirit,
I am dead and yet unborn.
I have passed into Olympus
As was told in tales of old,
To the city of Immortals,
Marble white and purest gold.
I see the gods in battle rage on high
Thunderbolts across the sky.
I cannot move, I cannot hide,
I feel a silent scream begin inside.
Then all at once the chaos ceased.
A stillness fell, a sudden peace.
The warriors felt my silent cry
And stayed their struggle, mystified.
Apollo was atonished;
Dionysus thought me mad.
But they heard my story further,
And they wondered, and were sad.
Looking down from Olympus
On a world of doubt and fear,
Its surface splintered
Into sorry Hemispheres.
They sat a while in silence,
Then they turned at last to me.
"We will call you Cygnus,
The god of Balance you shall be."
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VI. The Sphere A Kind of Dream
We can walk our road together
If our goals are all the same.
We can run alone and free
If we pursue a different aim.
Let the truth of love be lighted,
Let the love of truth shine clear.
Sensibility, armed with sense and liberty,
With the Heart and Mind united in a single perfect Sphere.

2 -&nbsp; Circumstances


A boy alone, so far from home, 
Endless rooftops from my window. 
I felt the gloom of empty rooms 
On rainy afternoons. 
Sometimes, in confusion, 
I felt so lost and disillusioned, 
Innocence gave me confidence 
To go up against reality. 
All the same, we take our chances, 
Laughed at by Time, 
Tricked by Circumstances. 
Plus ca change, 
Plus c'est la meme chose, 
The more that things change, 
The more they stay the same. 
Now I've gained some understanding 
Of the only world that we see. 
Things that I once dreamed of 
Have become reality. 
These walls that still surround me 
Still contain the same old me, 
Just one more who's searching for a world that ought to be.&nbsp;

3 - The Trees

There is unrest in the forest,
There is trouble with the trees,
For the maples want more sunlight
And the oaks ignore their pleas.
The trouble with the maples,
(And they're quite convinced the're right)
They say the oaks are just too lofty
And they grab up all the light.
But the oaks can't help their feelings
If they like the way they're made.
And they wonder why the maples
Can't be happy in their shade.
There is trouble in the forest,
And the creatures all have fled,
As the maples scream `Oppression`
And the oaks, just shake their heads
So the maples formed a union
And demanded equal rights.
"The oaks are just too greedy;
We will make them give us light."
Now there's no more oak oppression,
For they passed a noble law,
And the trees are all kept equal
By hatchet, axe, and saw.&nbsp;



4 - La Villa Strangiato





1. Buenas Noches, Mein Freunds!
2. To sleep, perchance to dream...
3. Strangiato Theme
4. A Lerxst in Wonderland
5. Monsters!
6. Danforth and Pape
7. The Waltz of the Shreves
8. Never turn your back on a Monster!
9. Monsters! (Reprise)
10. Strangiato Theme (Reprise)
11. A Farewell to Things_