BOC: BOC vs RUSH

[Torgo Sedler]

Out of lurkerdom for a brief second.....

I have told myself that I should post more often than I do, but time has
been very tight for me lately. Lets see if I can say what I want to say
and then dissapear for awhile again.

This whole RUSH vs BOC thing is very entertaining indeed. I like both
bands alot. Yes, BOC is my fave band, but one of them had to get saddled
with that term so I decided it would be them since I like their music so
damn much. RUSH is right up there on my list of faves as well.....

It has nothing to do with how popular they are or aren't........

It has nothing to do with how "brainy" they are or aren't.....

It has everything to do with how my ears hear them, how my brain
interprets the impulses from the ears, and what happens on down through
my nervous system to the hairs on the back of my neck.

This is how I decide if I like or dislike something. It is very similar
to the way the taste buds trigger responses in the brain. When I bite
into something quite tasty, and someone asks "Do you like it?", I don't
have to ask for a history of the food, and how popular it is with the
unwashed masses. No research or further information necessary. It's a
gut reaction. It's shooting from the hip. It's flying from the seat of
my pants. Ifind life much more enjoyable this way.

It seems that is how many people decide what music is good and what is
not these days.

I have no problem with hating, indeed even despising Rush's music, as
long as it is hated with honesty.

In fact, as a younger man I REALLY disliked RUSH. Then again I really
disliked Yogurt too. You couldn't get it past my nose. Now I eat a
Yogurt each and every day, and my RUSH collection is quite large.
Geddy's voice is an aquired taste indeed, that I won't deny. But I find
that most things are "easy come, easy go", and if I like them right away
I tend to forget about them easily, while things that I aquire a taste
for seem to hold my interest longer. It's this reason that my fave album
of most bands is almost always one that I disliked when I first heard
it.

It's because brain impulses mutate as we evolve. It's the same reason I
now can say I like yogurt. Imagine that!

So, with all honesty, and with no fear of flame, I can say that I
dislike Motorhead, and Lemmy's voice. What my ears tell my brain that I
am hearing does not produce a favorable chemical reaction, and no matter
how "unpopular" they are, and no matter how much I don't hear them on
the radio, I can't force myself to like them for those reasons.

In fact, I dislike them so much that a long time friend of mine, who is
also on this list, used to crack me up with his Lemmy imitation. It was
a good example of how you could carefully edit almost any 3 Motorhead
songs and if you did it carefully enough, you could slip it by someone
and they would not know the difference. Yes, how I would howl with
laughter when my good friend would sing his Motorhead masterpiece
"Killed by death on the road by the Ace of Spades". ;^)

So, that is why I like and dislike certain types of music. "Seems to me
it's Chemistry".

Back to Lurkerville. Hold all calls please.

Torgo

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