Rush to Meet in Los Angeles to Discuss Future
By
Newsferatu,
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009 @ 9:59 AM
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Rush drummer Neil Peart recently updated his website with with the following:
"In this autumn of 2009, the three of us are poised on another kind of 'reinvention.' We have agreed to meet in Los Angeles in November, and discuss our future. We learned many years ago that when we finish one long project - like a two-year tour following a year or so of writing and recording for Snakes and Arrows - we don’t make any further plans for a while. It’s good to feel truly free for a time, and to clear your mind to focus on what you’d really like to do next. Of course, these are parlous times in the music business, so our time-honored pattern of touring, recording, and touring is no longer the obvious way to do things. The music world - or at least the business of it - is very different now, even since 2006, when we began work on Snakes & Arrows. The importance of 'the album' is not what it was, and there is currently a reversion to a musical climate rather like the 1950s, when only 'the song' matters. Radio, downloads, and 'shuffle' settings are inimical to collected works. Because of that reality, record company advances that used to pay for album projects are a thing of the past, so if that was what we wanted to do, we’d be on our own......To this point, the three of us haven’t even discussed what we might discuss, so to speak - so our ideas and shared enthusiasm for the entity of Rush will be fresh, spontaneous, and quite likely exciting. For myself, I’m open to anything we can all agree on (I’ve pointed out before that in a three-piece band, we need consensus, not democracy - it’s no good having one outvoted and unhappy member). My favorite group activity is always songwriting and recording, and I’ve got some lyrical ideas and those new drumming frontiers to explore. However, those rhythmic concepts would also be inspiring for a new drum solo, if we decided to do a tour of some kind, maybe with an orchestra. We could write and record just a few songs, and release them some way. Or there were a couple of film-and-music projects we had discussed in the past. In any case, there are enough possibilities for future collaboration, and I am curious to see what we’ll come up with."
CemetaryGate - 11/14/2009 7:02:37 AM That's a lot of fake names JIZZGAG...except that the intellect reflected in those rants makes you as inconspicuos as a steaming pile of horse shit!
PetSemataryGate - 11/13/2009 8:38:34 AM Yes,JIZZGAG.Never mind that you went rant for rant with Reddog who also "dont care".I only have eyes for you,fecesgig!Do you love me too,guv?Huh?Somebody called me a 'motherfucking asshole' the other day and Im sure its you.Thats how devoted I am.Arent u impressed?
Anoyinglilbitch - 11/13/2009 8:25:19 AM What can I say, I have a name to live up to.
CemetaryGate - 11/12/2009 9:20:56 PM Feces, for somebody who doesn't care, that's a lot of rants!And no,I'm not counting 10-just the 5 people here, INCLUDING your fake identity- and 3 think you're a douchebag, so that's a clear majority!And then,your own dumbass already said that a minority,however vocal (and including a clone)doesn't matter, so that's that.
fizzgig - 11/12/2009 4:07:54 PM I type fast, what can I say? With all my fingers. Anyway, I pretty much only pointed out typos in actual articles, which should've been proofed. Rants, not so much. So there goes another gripe.
reddog - 11/12/2009 2:59:05 PM It might be the wrong word, but, at least it's a real word.
fizzgig - 11/12/2009 2:26:37 PM Good idea, Skull, and you can load it up with all your fake names. Or "than," as Red would say.
reddog - 11/12/2009 2:05:27 PM I can see your point about my list idea, seeing how it's about you and all. Just trying to come up with new material... don't want to keep rehashing the same old thing... I'll leave that to you.
Ownedbyskull - 11/12/2009 2:00:55 PM Shut up FIZZ I think its a great IDEA! Then after we make the list, we could make list of the list and put them in a safe place where only we would know the names on the list.
reddog - 11/12/2009 2:00:30 PM Hey, at least I spell those words right.... and I do know the difference between them. I may use the wrong one every now and than, but, that's beside the point.
reddog - 11/12/2009 1:54:34 PM Still Rehashing those points I see...
fizzgig - 11/12/2009 1:51:34 PM "Maybe we could make some lists ..." Really, Red, how pathetic! You oughta be embarrassed, even having a junior-high idea like that, much less voicing it.
fizzgig - 11/12/2009 1:30:52 PM But what do you want to go doing all that for? You don't care, remember? You've got better things to do.
fizzgig - 11/12/2009 1:30:08 PM Maybe you can figure it out, after you get done with the difference between "their," "they're" and "there." As for your lists, my money's on the third one by a long shot.
reddog - 11/12/2009 1:26:54 PM Maybe KNAC can make that a Poll question??? Lord knows, they need a few new ones.
