^I know what you mean, but they can't compete with many of their peers either. Collectively they all fit well because their skill levels are similar.

No question Alex Lifeson is awesome, but I think that Neil Peart is a much better drummer than Alex is a guitarist.

Meh. I'd say they're all equally sophisticated with their approach, but what they're playing is still early 70's rock with certain progressive quirks. Now how that transfers over between drums and guitar is relative. Over all though I would say all 3 of them but in the same amount of "creativity"

[QUOTE=SugarCoatedSour;15571127]^I know what you mean, but they can't compete with many of their peers either. Collectively they all fit well because their skill levels are similar.[/QUOTE]

And who would you consider to be their peers?

i've just got into Rush this year and i'm really enjoying them, i've got 2112, Caress of steel, Hemispheres, A Farewell to Kings, Power Windows and their latest one. I seem to enjoy Power Windows and Caress of Steel the most. Their latest album Snakes & Arrows seemed more like a collection of great songs rather than multi-minute epics

Snakes & Arrows has more of an alternative sound to it, but I still love it. My Favorite Rush album right now is Moving Pictures.

[QUOTE=lak89;15573749]i've just got into Rush this year and i'm really enjoying them, i've got 2112, Caress of steel, Hemispheres, A Farewell to Kings, Power Windows and their latest one. I seem to enjoy Power Windows and Caress of Steel the most. Their latest album Snakes & Arrows seemed more like a collection of great songs rather than multi-minute epics[/QUOTE]

Yes, it is. Rush haven't done anything 2112, Farewell to Kings, Hemispheres, and Caress of Steel style for years.

rush has a cool song its like salesmen!! zoom zoom

Bump

I recently got Permanent Waves, it's such a great cd Natural Science is one of the most underrated Rush songs.

It's a hell of a song.

Just bought The 30th Anniversary DVD for one of my friends for Christmas. He's become obsessed with Rush lately.

That's great, I wanna get a Rush Dvd one day, from what I've seen on youtube it looks like Rush is a hell of a great live band.

Rush was by far the best live act I've ever seen.

Yesterday was 21.12 :)

Damn yesterday was 2112, I should of known that, I'm learning Freewill right now on bass, I just need to remember all of the parts.

That's a really fun song to play on bass. I love how it's in 7/4 but flows so smoothly.

I wish I knew about time signatures, I've been lazy on my time signature studies.

Rush is cool.

Times signatures is like dum dum crash dum dum crash

Lol, sounds like a hip hop song.

It is, but with [I]time signatures [/I].

How much bass theory do you think Geddy knows?

[QUOTE=Gonads;15577404]My Favorite Rush album right now is Moving Pictures.[/QUOTE]
That's my favourite Rush CD. I saw them in September and it was definitely the best concert I've seen.

As for "Natural Science", they play it all the time so they definitely know its greatness!

-DM

I really enjoy this interview with Geddy Lee
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YotuwZw7Iuc[/url]

That is a cool interview.

That's pretty sweet that he bought his J Bass in Kalamazoo because that is where I live. I got really excited when I heard that.

[QUOTE=Gonads;15577404]Snakes & Arrows has more of an alternative sound to it, but I still love it. My Favorite Rush album right now is Moving Pictures.[/QUOTE]

Most of that album is great, but I hate "The Camera Eye". Grace Under Pressure is my favourite album right now - I love the synth.

Today I got Hemispheres and Farewell to Kings for a christmas gift, both are amazing albums, every single song by Rush is great or good.

Power Windows is my favorite thus far, accesible but NOT mainstream, every song's perfect

I got Hemispheres for Christmas, I haven't listened to it yet, listening to my new Who CD right now. Hopefully your guys' recommendation works out for me!

Hemispheres is so fukn amazing. It's my favorite Rush album. It's definitely their most progressive. You will enjoy it.

Every Rush cd is amazing so far for me, Snakes & Arrows has been growing on me a lot lately.

its taking me a long time to get into S&A :\