Progressive Rock

[Soul Reaper]

OK, I understand why you'd be celebrating.

Great match!!

[Soul Reaper]

I just got a few Rush mp3s.

They're awesome. Anyone recommend a Rush album?

Moving Pictures or 2112?

[Shaun Ponsonby]

2112, yes, if only for the title track.

Permanent Waves was the big successful Rush album (Spirit Of Radio etc)

The Rush In Rio DVD is probably the best introduction to Rush. You see, because the band change their style constantly, it will be very unlikely that you will like EACH stage of Rush. So, the DVD was recorded on the Vapor Trails tour has got tracks from each stage. Great crowd as well.

[Soul Reaper]

Originally posted by Shaun Ponsonby
2112, yes, if only for the title track.

Permanent Waves was the big successful Rush album (Spirit Of Radio etc)

The Rush In Rio DVD is probably the best introduction to Rush. You see, because the band change their style constantly, it will be very unlikely that you will like EACH stage of Rush. So, the DVD was recorded on the Vapor Trails tour has got tracks from each stage. Great crowd as well.

I probably will like all the stages.

I like that Spirit of Radio song. I got it on some Air Guitar compilation (I'm sure you know of it, Shaun).

I heard Moving Pictures and 2112 was supposed to be two of the best prog albums.

I think I will get 2112. I saw it in the shops.

[Shaun Ponsonby]

I think I know of that air guitar album. Is it part of the series that Brian May produced and was in the adverts for?

[Soul Reaper]

Originally posted by Shaun Ponsonby
I think I know of that air guitar album. Is it part of the series that Brian May produced and was in the adverts for?

yeah, the one's with Patrick Moore and Brian May. Those ones.

Air Guitar I, II and III. Awesome albums. Those albums changed my life. I wouldn't have heard Van Halen or Joe Satriani if it wasn't for those CDs. It changed my whole perspective on guitar, (I wanted to be like Munky and Head from Korn, embarassingly. It also saved me from liking rap music)

Now 2 years later, I want to be as good as Shawn Lane.

[Shaun Ponsonby]

LOVED those adverts. Brian May was dressed up as Angus Young in one of them. Brilliant.

[Soul Reaper]

Originally posted by Shaun Ponsonby
LOVED those adverts. Brian May was dressed up as Angus Young in one of them. Brilliant.

I remember Patrick Moore air guitaring on his walking stick.

don't take that the wrong way.

[Shaun Ponsonby]

:D

[Soul Reaper]

I just found this out about Geddy Lee(!!!):

Geddy Lee's parents were Polish Jews who survived a number of concentration camps and were finally liberated from Auschwitz at the end of WWII. They lived in the camp afterward for four years before emigrating to Canada. For a while, the people left in the camp believed that the rest of the world had been destroyed and that they might be the only survivors. The song was not written specifically about their experience, but certainly includes it. In an interview, bassist Geddy Lee said, "My parents were in Poland at the outset of the war, and the Germans came in, and every man they thought could be a threat to them they took out and shot. As the war moved on they were taken to a concentration camp. As the war got a little heavier, they were all moved to different concentration camps. My parents were sent to Auschwitz where they survived, which they thought was a miracle. When they got liberated -- when the war was over -- they didn't know what to do. They still lived in the concentration camp, as most people did, trying to collect themselves. When they liberated them, they thought they were the only people left in the world Can you imagine that? They thought they were the few survivors. They were slowly informed that the world was still going on. Then they couldn't understand why they were saved. How could it happen? How could God let it happen? They gathered up what they could and came to Canada. They were going to go to New York, but someone said it was nice in Canada" - source: Circus Magazine, October 27 1977. (thanks, Patti - South Vienna, OH)

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.lasso?id=3330

[Shaun Ponsonby]

What song are they talking about?

[Wawazat]

I just got some Ozric Tentacle Albums and Dragonforce too.

THX for telling

That is grate stuff

[Shaun Ponsonby]

You get 5 for knowing who Ozrics and Dragonforce are.

[Soul Reaper]

Originally posted by Shaun Ponsonby
What song are they talking about?

Red Sector A

[Soul Reaper]

a 5 stars to Wawzat from me too