Friday, March 22, 2013
Rush on their fellow 2013 Rock Hall inductees in new Rolling Stone article
There's a short 1-page article in the latest issue of Rolling Stone magaazine (Issue 1179 - March 28, 2013) titled Rush's School of Rock where Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson are played one song from each of their 5 fellow 2013 Rock Hall inductees and asked to comment on them. In typical Canadian fashion, they have nothing but mostly nice things to say about all the inductees. They played them Heart's Barracuda, Donna Summer's Last Dance, Randy Newman's You've Got a Friend in Me, Crosscut Saw by Albert King and Public Enemy's Fight the Power. Here's what they said about Public Enemy:
LIFESON: I never listened to stuff like this, but I always found it fascinating.
LEE: You can groove to this. I know people who were really into this kind of music and had lots of respect for Public Enemy. Obviously it's a different way of delivering the message, and the rhythms were so infectious. I do a little rap on "Roll the Bones", and even "Tom Sawyer" to a certain degree has a spoken-word intro. It's not rap, essentially, but in a way it's our version of it.
LIFESON: Yeah, we invented rap [laughs].
You can read the entire article by clicking on the thumbnail above. Thanks to RushFanForever for the heads up and the screenshot.
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It's hard to believe that is has been almost 16 years since I had first started creating my website. Even in those days, "progressive rock" websites were very few in number. There was the GEPR of course and some of the band "rings" were just starting. This was back in the days before front page, when one had to use Corel DRAW and Photoshop and learn HTML, in order to create your web pages. Even so, for those of us who had enjoyed "progressive rock" music, it had represented a golden opportunity. After starting link this page, I was contacted by individuals who were interested in starting a campaign to induct Rush into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame. I was absolutely 100% behind their effort and had signed the petition a very long time ago. Why wouldn't I support Rush's induction, after all they are the greatest "progressive rock" band of all time, in addition to being one of the most consistently excellent groups in history.
Say what you may, but in the early part of 1981, Rush, Abba and Heart were three of my favorite groups. My other favorite band was The Moody Blues. "This Is The Moody Blues" was on constant rotation in my primitive cassette player. I had also liked some of the songs by the Electric Light Orchestra. I had also been introduced to the music of Donna Summer, and I remember owning her compilation. Even so, I was also interested in Styx and had owned "The Grand Illusion" on cassette, my favorite song by Styx was and still is 'Man In The Wilderness.'
For those who're wondering about the phrase 'Strange Brew' that Alex is referring to in the article:
Eric Clapton admitted in an interview that when Cream recorded 'Strange Brew', he was emulating the blues guitar style of Albert King during that period.
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If you listen to 'Crosscut Saw' and 'Strange Brew', the guitar lines are similar.
What a great time to be young
#15 cheers!
Cafeteria jukes where the only thing played was rush, thin lizzy, bad co, deep purple, 3 dog night, foghat....
Pipe down jupeguy! Hey, woman enough to admit it.....after years of therapy.....oh, i remember the days. Back when there were smoking areas in schools, cherry bombs & firecrackers going off in staircases, and gym class consisted of dodgeball and dancing. Oh, the 70's.....
#12 - Well said!
#6- Is that kjbird or kjnerd!! kj.....the disco queen, yaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! LOL.
It's fair to say that their comments about the *inductees* themselves are all complimentary. They're just not so positive about the genre of music in question. Fair enough. I can think of plenty of artists I don't care to listen to personally but I would recognize for their talent and/or importance to their respective genres.
Hahahaha-nice one, Ed. I wish i had access to the cross-off feature with some posts! Alex did make up for their distaste for disco by complimenting the late Donna Summer on her voice and arrangements ;)
#10 - yeah, i could see it now; Joan's "encore" would lead to Neil retaliating, on behalf on his bandmates, being the extrovert he now is (kidding, kinda) and using her noggin as a drum head and executing some mean triplets. Now THATS a funny scenario.
Haha. I just noticed that Ed revised the summary, he crossed out the "nothing but" and replaced it with "mostly".
That's one of the fun parts about getting an eclectic group of musicians together. It sure would have been entertaining if Joan Jett got inducted in the same HOF class as Rush. She could piss on their guitars for old time's sake.
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