Quote from: captainkurtz on December 09, 2023, 02:07:18 PMIn the last week I've listened to Snakes and Arrows and Clockwork Angels.  The former really is poor, the latter just as good as I remembered - a fitting swansong.  Shame the mix is so muddy...

It still annoys me that I attended more shows on the S&A tour than any other visits by Rush to the UK. The whole event had a bit of a grim feel which can only be down to the music. Even the meet and greet left me a bit cold.

Quote from: The Picnic Wasp on December 09, 2023, 07:15:56 PM

Quote from: captainkurtz on December 09, 2023, 02:07:18 PMIn the last week I've listened to Snakes and Arrows and Clockwork Angels.  The former really is poor, the latter just as good as I remembered - a fitting swansong.  Shame the mix is so muddy...

It still annoys me that I attended more shows on the S&A tour than any other visits by Rush to the UK. The whole event had a bit of a grim feel which can only be down to the music. Even the meet and greet left me a bit cold.

I was disappointed at Wembley to see that the back of the arena was sectioned-off (I think it was S&As)

Quote from: The Picnic Wasp on December 09, 2023, 07:15:56 PMIt still annoys me that I attended more shows on the S&A tour than any other visits by Rush to the UK. The whole event had a bit of a grim feel which can only be down to the music.

I saw six shows that tour. At least I got to spend time in Oslo, Stockholm and Helsinki

My aural pleasure today has been derived from:

Megadeth - so far, so good... so what!
Yes - The Yes Album (50th anniversary remaster)
UFO - No Place to Run

I love No Place to Run

The Pat Metheny Group - The Way Up

Pallas - XXV (LP, 2010)


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Quote from: David L on December 09, 2023, 10:13:15 PMI love No Place to Run

When I was 14 I played basketball in a local team. I didn't necessarily like it, but I needed to do 'sports'. Fortunately, the coach, who was 18 or so, liked the same music I did so we got along. At one point he asked me to drop by and handed me 4 LPs he had and wanted to get rid of. I remember it quite well, becuase for usre one of them I could understand why, an album by a band called Rox, title of the album was Violent Breed. It was horrid, the singer couldn't keep a tone and the music was as generic as you could think of. But there was light at the end of the tunnel, because there were 2 albums by UFO there as well:  No Heavy Petting (fantastic!) and No Place to Run. Loved the band ever since.
(the fourth album was Hellanbach's Now Hear This!).

No Place To Run is my favourite UFO album, oddly I was just thinking about that the other day. Much as I love Schenker as a player there's a certain energy and immediacy on that album that I don't think they got on any other record.

Silverburn - Self Induced Transcendental Annihilation
Metallica - 72 Seasons

Quote from: Thenop on December 10, 2023, 06:09:58 PMI remember it quite well, becuase for usre one of them I could understand why, an album by a band called Rox, title of the album was Violent Breed. It was horrid, the singer couldn't keep a tone and the music was as generic as you could think of.

If only Rox hadn't kikked out Kick Ass Kevin Kozak, could have been so much different...

As Geoff Barton said

QuoteDespite – more likely because of – hailing from rain-sozzled Manchester, Rox lived in a fantasy world of exploding dry ice and swirling flashbombs, or vice versa (as Samson would put it). Rox had aspirations to be Britain's answer to Mötley Crüe but in reality they had more in common with Muttley from Wacky Races.

Quote from: The Picnic Wasp on December 09, 2023, 07:15:56 PM

Quote from: captainkurtz on December 09, 2023, 02:07:18 PMIn the last week I've listened to Snakes and Arrows and Clockwork Angels.  The former really is poor, the latter just as good as I remembered - a fitting swansong.  Shame the mix is so muddy...

It still annoys me that I attended more shows on the S&A tour than any other visits by Rush to the UK. The whole event had a bit of a grim feel which can only be down to the music. Even the meet and greet left me a bit cold.

Lots of things to enjoy on that tour...but the number of songs from S&A played one after the other was a real slog.  I did 6 on that tour, I think.

Camel - BBC Radio 1 in Concert/Old Grey Whistle Test
Opeth - Pale Communion (5.1)

Porcupine Tree - Closure/Continuation.Live (Video, 2023)
Spotify


The Tangent - Songs From The Hard Shoulder (LP, 2022)
Spotify


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Peter Gabriel - i/o (LP, 2023)
Bandcamp, Spotify


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Can - Ege Bamyasi
Kiss - Revenge
Elis Regina / Tom Jobim - Elis & Tom