Canadian music pioneers … first homegrown all-Canadian "superband", I think? OK … my age is showing.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2012/12/11/rush-rock-hall-of-fame.html
Canadian music pioneers … first homegrown all-Canadian "superband", I think? OK … my age is showing.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2012/12/11/rush-rock-hall-of-fame.html
I like Rush, but any rock band that isn't in it for the ladies (or dudes if that's their thing) I find highly suspicious.
I like Rush, but any rock band that isn't in it for the ladies (or dudes if that's their thing) I find highly suspicious.
I love you, man.
Beyond The Lighted Stage has a great segment with Gene Simmons talking about what it was like to tour with Rush (they'd just go back to their room and read books!) and Rush talking about how much they learned from touring with Kiss (hard work pays off).
Beyond The Lighted Stage has a great segment with Gene Simmons talking about what it was like to tour with Rush (they'd just go back to their room and read books!) and Rush talking about how much they learned from touring with Kiss (hard work pays off).
:lol: That is where my statement above came from. It was funny to see how confounded Gene was that they had no interest in the groupies.
Saw them on the 19th. What a great show. Great playing, excellent sound, spectacle, chops, music, it was a treat.
Kiss was just in it for the money [HTML_REMOVED] the sex, whereas Rush are master musicians. For me it's hard to compare the two bands. Kiss was just a sideshow of freaks. Rich freaks, but still freaks. I can't see how Geddy can play the bass, keyboards [HTML_REMOVED] sing all at the same time.
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Kiss was just in it for the money [HTML_REMOVED] the sex, whereas Rush are master musicians. For me it's hard to compare the two bands. Kiss was just a sideshow of freaks. Rich freaks, but still freaks. I can't see how Geddy can play the bass, keyboards [HTML_REMOVED] sing all at the same time.
Neil Peart is a monster drummer - such a perfectionist.
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Kiss was just in it for the money [HTML_REMOVED] the sex, whereas Rush are master musicians. For me it's hard to compare the two bands. Kiss was just a sideshow of freaks. Rich freaks, but still freaks. I can't see how Geddy can play the bass, keyboards [HTML_REMOVED] sing all at the same time.
Bingo, how many good songs did Kiss really have? 3 (if you include their ballad Beth)?
Their music is juvenile and their lyrics are basic, whereas Rush's music was technical
bordering on pedantic and while many of their lyrics were fantasy based, some (as in fly
by night, limelight, and closer to the heart) were poetic.
Like all music there are people that either don't get them, or just plain don't like them
but they do IMO deserve to be in the R[HTML_REMOVED]RHoF.
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Their music is juvenile and their lyrics are basic
And this detracts form Kiss's music? Do bands have to have mature technical music and complicated lyrics beset with deeper meanings to be good?
Fuck no I say. That would ruin half of what music means to me.
I think Rush got better at sounding less pedantic in later albums I mean they only got 3 players but they managed to sound way bigger as they got better
Kiss and Rush are hard to imagine on the same bill, different focus group of fans, different type of music, personaly I have rush but I don't have any Kiss
they all had families and wives, one of them lost his family but I don't remember the particulars
they all had families and wives, one of them lost his family but I don't remember the particulars
Neal Pert lost his wife to cancer and teenage daughter in a car accident within the space of a few weeks, I think. He stopped composing and left the band for a couple of years, but came back in the end.
they all had families and wives, one of them lost his family but I don't remember the particulars
The guys is KISS all had wives too. They had wives, sisters, mothers.. whoever fit in their hot tub.
OK, seriously though, for all you die hard Rush fans, do you guys just pretend the synthesizer period didn't happen, like Christians pretend Jesus was white and move on, or do you embrace it?
Kiss and Rush are hard to imagine on the same bill, different focus group of fans, different type of music, personaly I have rush but I don't have any Kiss
That's what makes that segment in the documentary so interesting. Lee basically says that even though most people dismiss Kiss and their music, they were one of the hardest working groups out there at the time, and knew how to put on a show, which had an influence on Rush.
Neal Pert lost his wife to cancer and teenage daughter in a car accident within the space of a few weeks, I think. He stopped composing and left the band for a couple of years, but came back in the end.
I think they died about a year apart. He went on a massive motorcycle road trip to get his head straight.
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