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[TBird1958]

I like Rush, especially once they stopped taking themselves so dead-serious. Alex Lifeson's guitar - skillful as it is - doesn't do much for me, but Neil and Geddy were/are fun to watch.

There is something autistic about them as a band. They are incredible musicians who are ironically only good at one thing: Creating and playing their own music. That was enough for them and they hardly ever ventured from it. A musical cult really.

I really like them early on, from the first through Signals, 74-82 I guess, after that not as much, I was of course a huge fanboi and a black '73 4001 was my first good bass. I have to say the I like Alex a great deal, he certainly has a "style" of playing and I appreciate that. The first time I saw them the opened for KISS at The Paramount in downtown Seattle (very near where you and Edith stayed when you visited Uwe), 3000 seats, to say it was vey loud is an understatement, it was almost heaven for a teenage kid out without any parental supervision..........The '70s!

[Granny Gremlin]

Jake, you never like bands Canada is known for ... Guess Who, BTO, Rush, Triumph, Max Webster, Loverboy ... WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU? 

It is the quintessential Canadian (probably just Toronto actually) thing to hate on your own.... until international fame is achieved and a few decades go by, then we give you an award and/or your own radio show.

Triumph and Max Webster always felt like cheese to me.  Like what all the older kids still rocking mullets (aka hockey hair) and 'Canadian tuxedos' well into the 2000s were listenning to (I mean I hung out with some of those dudes cuz they were friend's older brothers and they were good dudes, but damn ya know).  I tried to like Rush, but Geddy's voice and the wankery put me off every time (I thought Roll the Bones was alright when it came out on the radio, he's singing at the bottom of his range).  The Guess Who had some great moments and BTO is good summer day drinking music... also they were the official endorsers/endorsees of Garnet amps, which I love and are the awesome (there was even a model called The BTO, but it predates the band - stood for Big Time Operator).  I'll never change the station on Shaking All Over or Taking Care of Business.

[uwe]

That is the first time you've ever said something nice about BTO, are you mellowing down, Punk, or what?



I always liked their surprise-forays into South American tinged Jazz which had very little to do with the more conventional stuff they had their hits with, kind of like when Tony Iommi of the Sabs pretended to be Joe Pass sometimes.

[TBird1958]

Blue Collar really is a fine song, dammit I remember liking it the very first time I heard it, Frank and I watched that whole show your clip came from, Fred Turner is very impressive, he sings and plays quite well. 

[Granny Gremlin]

That is the first time you've ever said something nice about BTO, are you mellowing down, Punk, or what?

I always liked their surprise-forays into South American tinged Jazz which had very little to do with the more conventional stuff they had their hits with, kind of like when Tony Iommi of the Sabs pretended to be Joe Pass sometimes.

I never said anything bad about BTO - sure I tease Randy Bachman a bit but that's because of his spacey demeanor on his (classic/psyche rock) radio show and how he's a full time smooth jazzer now using colourfully tolexed boutique amps and dumped the Garnets.

Anyway, from the lyrics, as well as being Canadian, we can all tell he can take the jokes.

[morrow]

He used to hang out and study with Lenny Breau in Winnipeg .