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View Poll Results: Favorite Rush Epic?
The Necromancer (from Caress of Steel) 5 10.00%
The Fountain of Lamneth (from Caress of Steel) 1 2.00%
Xanadu (from A Farewell to Kings) 8 16.00%
2112 (from 2112) 20 40.00%
Cygnus X-1 (from A Farewell to Kings) 1 2.00%
Cygnus X-1: Book II - Hemispheres (from Hemispheres) 6 12.00%
The Camera Eye (from Moving Pictures) 9 18.00%
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Old 01-10-2011, 12:44 PM   #231 (permalink)
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It sits adjacent to Buffalo, NY doesn't it? I would consider that East Coast.
It's about as far from the ocean as Tucson, Arizona. Would you consider Tucson a west coast city?
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Old 01-10-2011, 02:05 PM   #232 (permalink)
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Despite what its considered, what does Rush and the east coast have to do with it anyway......whats the connection between Rush and the east coast of Canada or USA musically? Undertow says he/she is from the west coast of Canada............isn`t that where Nickelback is from?
BUUUURN!!!

Rush is from Toronto, and they were first played on the radio in Cleavland, so I see how someone who doesn't know very much about them might think that maybe they had a big following on..

screw it, too much of a stretch. You would have to be tres ignant to think that.
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It's about as far from the ocean as Tucson, Arizona. Would you consider Tucson a west coast city?
There are no good surfing spots in Tuscon.

Rush is insanely popular worldwide, I don't even know why this conversation is taking place. I've encountered copious amounts of hardcore Rush fans in just about every place I've ever been.

They're not some regionally famous bar band or something, it's fucking Rush!
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Old 01-10-2011, 02:33 PM   #234 (permalink)
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There are no good surfing spots in Tuscon.
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Rush is insanely popular worldwide, I don't even know why this conversation is taking place. I've encountered copious amounts of hardcore Rush fans in just about every place I've ever been.

They're not some regionally famous bar band or something, it's fucking Rush!
Heh. I agree. Not only are they hugely internationally famous, but they've been that way for decades.
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hey, I dunno if you guys think this as well, but everyone I have come across who doesn't like Rush has only heard a limited extent of their catalog. For example my parents both didn't like Rush, then I played Permanent Waves for my mom and now she likes them.

It proves how good they are even if this is mostly true.
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hey, I dunno if you guys think this as well, but everyone I have come across who doesn't like Rush has only heard a limited extent of their catalog. For example my parents both didn't like Rush, then I played Permanent Waves for my mom and now she likes them.

It proves how good they are even if this is mostly true.
Yes, its always from people who have heard 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Spirit of Radio' a handful of times and have made the determination they don't like the band based on that alone. More often than not, irritability for Geddy's voice gets cited as the reason more often than not, which I can underastand, it's an acquired taste. But still, the same people saying this are the same people who either can't, or choose not to listen to music beyond the vocals, which isn't really Rush's target market in the first place.
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BUUUURN!!!

Rush is from Toronto, and they were first played on the radio in Cleavland, so I see how someone who doesn't know very much about them might think that maybe they had a big following on..

screw it, too much of a stretch. You would have to be tres ignant to think that.
The thing is there is nothing really North American about Rush anyway! Being from the UK, I tend to think of American bands as sounding East coast, West coast, Midwest or Southern. This is a generalization I know, but it does hold true for a lot of bands given the sheer size of the USA.

In the case of Rush though, most of their influences are British and their early hard rock stuff certainly had Led Zeppelin and Cream influences. Their prog sound is distinctly Yes influenced, so in essence the group is actually very British. They really didn`t sound North American until their 80`s power pop phase.
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The thing is there is nothing really North American about Rush anyway! Being from the UK, I tend to think of American bands as sounding East coast, West coast, Midwest or Southern. This is a generalization I know, but it does hold true for a lot of bands given the sheer size of the USA.

In the case of Rush though, most of their influences are British and their early hard rock stuff certainly had Led Zeppelin and Cream influences. Their prog sound is distinctly Yes influenced, so in essence the group is actually very British. They really didn`t sound North American until their 80`s power pop phase.
You obviously don't know about Canadians!

Think of us as 40% American, 60% British

and FYI we get angry when you group us in with Americans
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You obviously don't know about Canadians!

Think of us as 40% American, 60% British
Why not just think of you as 100% Canadian?
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Why not just think of you as 100% Canadian?
Sounds like an identity crisis here!
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