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08-20-2009, 01:45 PM
STEPHEN HOLDEN
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ROCK: RUSH, CANADA POWER TRIO
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By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Published: May 21, 1981
IN its seven-year recording career, the Canadian power trio Rush has grown in popularity to the point that today it ranks as one of the 10 best-selling North-American rock groups. But judging from its sold-out Madison Square Garden concert on Monday, Rush's success has less to do with music than with teen-age ritual.
The vast majority of the audience was made up of rowdy teen-age boys who had come to worship at the altar of hard rock at its most macho.
The trio delivered a crude parody of Led Zeppelin, the founder of this supermacho genre, with decent enough skill. Science-fiction imagery infuses many of the songs, which the group illustrates with rudimentary psychedelic visuals. The lead singer and bassist, Geddy Lee, has a bansheelike yelp that is similar to that of Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant, and their stronger material has a viscerally anthemlike fervor. But because Led Zeppelin did all this 10 times better 10 years ago, one came away with the depressing feeling that the ritual, not the music, was what mattered.
What a twat. So at this point he is a 41 year old Frank Fucking Sinatra fan and decides to do a freelance review of Rush. Thank you so much Stevie.
So what do we learn from this review? That Frank Sinatra fans don't like Rush? I'm pretty sure even in 1981 Rush were not a supermacho teen band.
Hahaha I'm ranting about a review from 28 years ago! :D
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ROCK: RUSH, CANADA POWER TRIO
http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee43/Seshmeister/tosspot.gif
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Published: May 21, 1981
IN its seven-year recording career, the Canadian power trio Rush has grown in popularity to the point that today it ranks as one of the 10 best-selling North-American rock groups. But judging from its sold-out Madison Square Garden concert on Monday, Rush's success has less to do with music than with teen-age ritual.
The vast majority of the audience was made up of rowdy teen-age boys who had come to worship at the altar of hard rock at its most macho.
The trio delivered a crude parody of Led Zeppelin, the founder of this supermacho genre, with decent enough skill. Science-fiction imagery infuses many of the songs, which the group illustrates with rudimentary psychedelic visuals. The lead singer and bassist, Geddy Lee, has a bansheelike yelp that is similar to that of Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant, and their stronger material has a viscerally anthemlike fervor. But because Led Zeppelin did all this 10 times better 10 years ago, one came away with the depressing feeling that the ritual, not the music, was what mattered.
What a twat. So at this point he is a 41 year old Frank Fucking Sinatra fan and decides to do a freelance review of Rush. Thank you so much Stevie.
So what do we learn from this review? That Frank Sinatra fans don't like Rush? I'm pretty sure even in 1981 Rush were not a supermacho teen band.
Hahaha I'm ranting about a review from 28 years ago! :D