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

[John Majka]

ahhh... Hemispheres.... an incredibly quirky masterpiece!
John Majka

that concert just blew me away, but lucklily not out of my seat like Triumph
did
I recorded it and I hope it is now destroyed as my squeaky little 13 year
old voice was on it (all over it)
I remember making David Shin (I hope he is alive and well) take the (stupid
looking) official hemisphers t-shirt that I failed to get at the show, right
off his back one sunny day in exchange for marijuana or the use of my
motorcycle


On 5/14/09, Jonathan Jarrett <jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>
> 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
>