OFF: Rush (was Re: OFF: A Legendary Pinktroduction to The Legendary Pink Dots)

[Jonathan Jarrett]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:20:54PM -0500, Carl Edlund Anderson typed out:
> On 17 Apr 2009, at 10:57, Christian Mumford wrote:
> >Rush is a band I heard much from friends who listened to them and  
> >never 'caught onto' way back when. I just a few years ago got their  
> >early stuff, the remasters real cheap. My faves are the 1st, 2112  
> >and Moving Pictures. Definetly a cool group.......
> My experience is similar. I have a "greatest hits" compilation, and I  
> definitely appreciate the band's talents -- they have some great  
> tracks -- but somehow I just never got the fire for them. (And that's  
> despite Geddy Lee's status as an occasional Rick bass wielder!   
> Though he's a Fender flag-carrier nowadays, which is much less  
> interesting.)

	I confess that an ex bought me an LP copy of _Hemispheres_ 
because she'd heard of Rush and thought it would be my sort of thing, 
and I still occasionally play it after a tune from it surfaces in my 
head. (This happens especially after I use the phrase `plus ça 
change...") It's quite hard to take seriously but there's some clever 
and catchy music there, which is not something everyone can do in tracks 
that size. Yours,
		  Jon (who has not, as yet, ever let this send him after 
buying any more)

-- 
"When fortune wanes, of what assistance are quantities of elephants?"
	    (Juvaini, Afghan Muslim chronicler, c. 1206)
 Jon Jarrett, Fitzwilliam Museum, jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk