The National Midnight Star #348

Errors-To: rush-request@syrinx.umd.edu Reply-To: rush@syrinx.umd.edu Sender: rush-request@syrinx.umd.edu Precedence: bulk From: rush@syrinx.umd.edu To: rush_mailing_list Subject: 10/03/91 - The National Midnight Star #348
** ____ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ** ** / /_/ /_ /\ / /__/ / / / / /\ / /__/ / ** ** / / / /__ / \/ / / / / /__/ / \/ / / /___ ** ** ** ** __ ___ ____ ** ** /\ /\ / / \ /\ / / / _ /__/ / ** ** / \/ \ / /___/ / \/ / /___/ / / / ** ** ** ** ____ ____ ___ ___ ** ** /__ / /__/ /__/ ** ** ____/ / / / / \ ** The National Midnight Star, Number 348 Thursday, 3 October 1991 Today's Topics: Administrivia A clearing house and a hook Rush and Rockline Best Parody Yet by Ed Chang Pittsburgh Rush parties: Seeing double? (none) Barbeque Metallica-Fans of Rush tour date info BOSTON ???? Re: Xanadu Re: 10/02/91 - The National Midnight Star #347 Ticket Bragging Tickets && purchases Boston Show? Press Booklet/Packet/Release RTB Memorabilia!!!/Etc... Dogs in Dreamline and Stranger Things ---------------------------------------------------------- From: Editor, The National Midnight Star <rush-mgr> Subject: Administrivia Well, this was supposed to go out yesterday, but for some reason didn't, so here we go again. There will also be a Friday NMS following this. The FAQL will come out early next week. Probably. Ok, so who's paying attention this time ? One, two, three ... :-) First of all, if any of you Pittsburg people have a free ticket and a place to crash, I'll be willing to take them off your hands! Now, down to business. I am still waaaayyyyy behind on the administrative mail, so if you're wondering why you haven't gotten a response to your request/suggestion/flame, it's probably because yours is #94 in the queue. (There are a few special ones out there whom I will contact directly from another account I'll be working on it, but dunno when I'll get back even (if ever). Also, preparing to teach a short course next week doesn't help me any... For all those readers having heart attacks because their city/state/country wasn't on the tour list posted, relax just a bit. At the risk of stating the obvious, Rush is well known for doing thier tours in legs instead of contiguously. I would bet good money (unlike what my job pays) that come the 2nd-3rd week in January they'll start the second leg of their tour, hitting many places in CA and the SE US. Now, as for overseas, that's another ball of string; they indicate they now tour on the basis of sales, so I guess it depends upon how well their album did in your country, and the surrounding ones as well... Well, enough blabbing from me, on with the show! rush-mgr ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1991 16:10 EDT From: DMTUSSEY@MIAVX1.ACS.MUOHIO.EDU Subject: A clearing house and a hook In response to the imports someone mentioned recently, I have both Life/Live Under Pressure and Rushian Roulette from Metal Memory (both on CD). As an aside, this was the company that set aside a portion of the profits for the original artists... LUP is from the GUP tour, specifically the Civic Arena in Pittsburgh, July 8th, 1984. The sound is pretty good. It is strikingly like the GUP tour video (Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto) minus the medleys. The song list is: Spirit of Radio, The Enemy Within, Witch Hunt, New World Man, DEW, Red Sector A, Closer to..., Tom Sawyer, Free Will, and Finding My Way (47:20) Rushian Roulette is from the Pinkpop Festival in Holland, May '78: A Passage..., Xanadu, The Trees, Closer to..., La Villa, 2112 "part 2", In the Mood (plus drum solo), and Something for Nothing (55:44). There are some minor this-song-starts-here errors, plus they perform The Sphere (part 6 of Hemispheres) and aren't credited. The sound quality is very good, even though Geddy is singing like he sat on a toilet plunger. As far as the Dreamline 'sound effect' goes, I thought it was a dog barking the first time I heard it - and still do. Sure, they probably sampled a single bark and triggered it three times, but it still sounds like a bark to me. And, it fits the "hometown" theme that it follows in the song much better than any other theory put forth. All this speculation took me by surprise... And as for hidden lyrics, I was following the fade-out special effects in Neurotica a few days ago and found something of almost certain uninterest. Milliseconds before YBYL begins, the very last sound in Neurotica is Geddy shouting "Stop!". This can be found by continually turning up the volume as the music fades out (ooooh, slick :). I'd look up the exact time, but hey, would that help? Be quick with the volume knob though - the opening drums to YBYL can hurt if played around 8 or 9 :-) This seems vaguely similar to the end of Batdance... AND, I've been meaning to mention this for quite some time, but never got around to it. Someone from ages gone by mentioned a special bonus lyric at the end of Red Lenses. Well, I checked my CD, and at 4:33, as the music is fading out, I could hear (mixed very closely with the bass) Geddy saying (in an almost southern accent) : Everybody can suck my Everybody can suck my d*ck I can assure you it wasn't dack, deck, dock, or duck. I was very surprised to hear this, and listened several more times just to be sure. But sure enough, sung *very* closely with the rhythm and pitch of the bass, I heard those two lines. (Make sure you employ the nifty turn-voulme-up trick to hear this). Maybe my speakers are brighter than most or most people haven't checked, but I definitely heard it. This seems like a good make-'em-sweat Rockline question. Speaking of which, when are they on Rockline!? And, is it just me, or did everyone else who listened to the CD launch notice some technical errors, e.g. we heard some chatter we weren't supposed to. I listened to WEBN in Cincy and noticed several 'mishaps', most notably a long silence between the preceding commercial and the very start of the show. Studio chatter fades in with Geddy : "They're professionals." then some unintelligible stuff, a faint gasp and silence again. Some other things happened, like the chatter fading in again during the beginning of Dreamline (host: "You sound like you just woke up"). I assumed everyone else heard it, but no one has mentioned it yet... Tickets went on sale for the Tue. Oct 29 show in Cincinnati at 10 am Sat. Sep 28. I got through to Select-a-Seat (513-721-1000) at 10:25. The girl didn't mention anything about good/better seats so I assume they were all $19.50. Unfortunately, I know nothing about Riverfront Coliseum's seating arrangement, so if you know anything about section 114, row F, seats 1,2,3 drop me some mail. -- dmtussey@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu ONPQ: "I've got a car as big as a whale..." (reference NMS #317 for details) ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1991 19:38:57 -0400 (EDT) From: "Philip M. Simon" <ps3q+@andrew.cmu.edu> Subject: Rush and Rockline Has anyone out there heard about when and if the boyz will be appearing on Rockline? I know they did during Presto, but I haven't heard anything about RTB. Any information greatly appreciated. Phil "Everybody got to deviate from the norm." Rush ---------------------------------------------------------- From: yackob@ic5.ee.UManitoba.CA (kerry yackoboski) Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1991 19:30:17 CDT Subject: Best Parody Yet by Ed Chang Kudos to Ed Chang for what I consider the best parody yet, Pitch Bunt. This'll be a tough one to beat. -- Mysterious Moon Man of Manitoba <yackob@eeserv.ee.umanitoba.ca> The Canadian Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 2 Oct 91 20:59:39 -0400 From: "John W Connelly" <connelly@unix.cis.pitt.edu> Subject: Pittsburgh Rush parties: Seeing double? Seems Pittsburgh's got more parties than it knows what to do with... Doug Schwabe and I didn't consult each other when we each posted to the NMS yesterday about having Pgh Rush Party #2. He proposed having one the Saturday before the show, October 26. I proposed having one just before the show on Monday, October 28. Doug's place is where we had the first party, in August, and I think it's a fitting place for Part II. However, I plan to party just before the show anyway, so my hosting a party *also* makes sense, and it's closer to the bus than Doug's anyway (for those of us without cars). So... (are you ready for this?) we're thinking of having Pittsburgh Rush Parties #2a and #2b! (Please, bear with me... :) #2a will be at Doug's on Saturday. Contact him (cschwabe@unix.cis.pitt.edu) if you wanna go to a weekend party. #2b will be at my place on Monday. Contact me (connelly@unix.cis.pitt.edu) if you wanna go to a day-of, pre-concert party. Got all that? Good! We Pittsburghers sure know how to party, don't we? --JC /===========================================================================\ | John W. Connelly | "If you choose not to | connelly@unix.cis.pitt.edu | | 511 LRDC Bldg. | decide, you still |+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=| | U.of Pittsburgh | have made a choice" | CONNELLY@Pittvms.BITNET | \===========================================================================/ ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 2 Oct 91 21:04:30 -0400 From: jtkung@caf.MIT.EDU (Joseph Kung) I just saw Eric Johnson a few nights ago in Boston, and I've seen him on the _Ah_Via_Musicom_ tour last year [July 1990], and both times, he was fantastic on the guitar. He definitely is no Jimi Hendrix or Prince in terms of stage presence, but no less than Rush has been in previous tours. In terms of guitar playing, I would say that no guitarist I have ever seen or heard comes close to the level of virtuosity in both feeling, melody, and technical skill than EJ. He blew the crowd away with an assortment of songs from pop to cool jazz to fusion to country-western to hard rock. Of course, most of us in the audience were guitarists or people who were guitar fans, so we were a bit biased. But his tone and sound were so impressive, and his playing so crisp, clear, and blazing that I was stunned once again. I would say that having Eric Johnson as the headliner is probably going to be a real treat for most Rush fans who appreciate technical virtuosity without forsaking melody and feeling. This guy really cooks on guitar. It's like having Steve Morse as the headliner back in '85 for the Power Windows tour. And that was great! The boyz really know how to choose their headliners ... - Joe ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 2 Oct 91 18:27:26 PDT From: changed%robotics.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Chang... Ed Chang.) Subject: Barbeque In counting up the parodies that have been written for rtb, I noticed that the only two songs (with lyrics) that haven't been defaced were "Bravado" and "Neurotica." (Forgive me if I missed any parodies of the aforementioned songs.) In an effort to enter my submission for the Hall of Infamy, I wrote this up in about an hour. Enjoy... Barbeque -------- If we burn our wings Trying to cook 'em well-done >From the heat of the charcoal Forgotten in all of the fun If the dinner's done -- Though everything is lost We will order out, But we will not count the cost When the smoke has cleared And edible food denied A burger too blackened Chicken a little too fried If we keep our pride Though all the food is lost We will order out, But we will not count the cost And if the fire stops There's only the smell of the flame All the steaks and drumsticks, All the barbeque in vain And if the guests remain Though everything is lost We will order out, But we will not count the cost Ed "Well, you can claim that steak -- " ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: 02 Oct 91 22:35:31 EDT From: Thomas Regina <71530.417@CompuServe.COM> Subject: Metallica-Fans of Rush Hello, In reference to Metallica's "borrowing" from Rush on their song "Holier Than Thou": I think Metallica are fans of Rush. Remember "Master Of Puppets"? They borrowed the Tom Sawyer bass line for the song "Welcome Home(Sanitarium)". They also thanked our boyz in the "thanks to:" liner notes. Well, better them to borrow from Rush, than Vanilla Ice! Metallica reminds me of early Rush; refining their music from album to album. Finally, do people really like Marillion? In the Rush 1983 week at Radio City Music Hall, they were nearly booed off the stage! (Not saying they are bad, just stating facts). ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: 2 Oct 91 23:52:00 EDT From: "MAPLE::ARTROCKER" <artrocker%maple.decnet@pine.circa.ufl.edu> Subject: tour date info Hello all, I was just wondering, with all the talk of Rush's upcoming tour, does anyone know when the boyz will be rocking the southeast (i.e. Florida)? If so, great, but if not, I would greatly appreciate someone sending me the phone number for Atlantic records or someplace that would know when Rush is coming to a town near me. By the way, does anyone else besides me think that "You Bet Your Life" is simply Rush's worst effort to date? FYI, I am as obsessed with Rush as any of you on here, I just don't see the point in liking something JUST BECAUSE Rush wrote it. A select few Rush tunes to date (Anagram, Superconductor, and several from RTB) just don't do anything for me :-(. (Unlike 100% of pre-Rubert Rush) Gregg Brown ORQ: "Can't feed the people but we feed the machines, can't really feel what international means..." ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 2 Oct 91 21:09:11 PDT From: "Why are we here, Because we are here, ROLL THE BONES" <vaghini@scoman.enet.dec.com> Subject: BOSTON ???? Hi Folks, Does anyone have any idea when Boston tix go on sale ?? And are you sure it's Boston and not Worcester ? John "Don't ask me, I'm just improvising" "Almost, but not entirely, unlike tea" ---------------------------------------------------------- From: atz@clmqt.marquette.MI.US (dweezilbub) Subject: Re: Xanadu Date: 3 Oct 91 01:51:04 EDT (Thu) sunri!cadreri!mjv@sunne.East.Sun.COM (Michael J. Vargo) writes: > I would like all the info and insight all you Rushians have on >Xanadu and >the poem Kubla Kahn it is taken from. What do you think Neil is trying >to get >across to us? What do you think Coleridge is trying to get across to >us? I never read the actually story, but I always felt that Neil was just simply talking about a place (like the fountain of youth) where one could become IMMORTAL, if they want too. It seems that it could be a BIG choice for one. I get the feeling from the lyrics, and Ged's singing that he totally regrets it afterwards... I like to think of Xanadu as a pre-cygnus song. You know, become immortal, THEN onward to a place where you become a God. I would also like to relate to something that someone posted about Xanadu awhile ago, seeing it live (finally). I think Dave mentioned in between about goose bumps or something, but that was the same feeling I had, after seeing them 8 times and never seeing Xanadu live, just the first 30 seconds of the song when they started playing, almost made me cry. [ I felt the same way - I hadn't heard it live since the Hemispheres tour. :rush-mgr ] I started yelling instead (but only for a few seconds). ;) -- \_._____._____._____. ==== ==== ===== .____._____.___.___/ \__The Enterprise BBS == == == ,===~ This space for rent!__/ __-__________-__ ==~~== == ===== ____-_____-___-__ \ \ \atz@clmqt.marquette.mi.us/ / / / ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 3 Oct 91 00:23 MST From: "IAN D. BJORHOVDE" <IANBJOR@ccit.arizona.edu> Subject: Re: 10/02/91 - The National Midnight Star #347 Hello. I am sorry to say this, but lately the NMS has been getting lame. WHO CARES whether the sound in Dreamline is a stupid DOG or a PING?? If you like the music, then what is the point? Noone will EVER know what it actually was, unless of course they have the luck of asking Geddy, Alex or Neil. As far as I am concerned, it might as well be a DEAD DOG. Ian D. Bjorhovde ianbjor@ccit.arizona.edu Department of Materials Science & Engineering University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85720 ---------------------------------------------------------- From: stedmant@LONEX.RL.AF.MIL (Terrance A. Stedman) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 91 09:04:08 EDT Subject: Ticket Bragging I don't know about the rest of you, but I like to hear that at least SOME Rush fans got really good seats for shows in their area. No matter how long I wait in line or how early I get to the computer, I always seem to miss out on the first ten rows or more. Thanks go to Shane for info on my tickets for the Rochester show. Terry Stedman Internet: stedmant@lonex.rl.af.mil ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I ) I I <~ I_I "It is my will which chooses, and the choice of my will I \ I_I _> I I is the only edict I must respect." - Rand from _Anthem_ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------- From: ccmsean@hamlet.ucdavis.edu (Sean A. Matheis) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 91 08:21:55 -0700 Subject: Tickets && purchases I must agree...I'm tired of seeing "oh look at my big pen*s - I've got 3rd row seats." My opinion: Good for you. Enjoy the show. But we really don't need to see half of this mailing list go bat-crazy over their wonderful tickets. Some of us don't even know when they're going to be able to see the show. I doubt they're coming back to Sacramento, CA. My response: Pththth...I've got tix to see Metallica, Queensryche, Faith no More and Soundgarden in the same show :). [ Ahhh, but Shawn Cassidy is coming to Max's on Broadway in Baltimore, MD next Monday! Top that!! :-) :rush-mgr ] Sean ccmsean@hamlet.ucdavis.edu ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1991 11:40 -0500 From: BJENKINS@ecs.umass.edu Subject: Boston Show? I saw a December 10th date in someone's post for a show in Boston (or Boston area). Anyone know where this show is gonna be? (Centrum?) Also, I haven't heard anything about when tickets go on sale. Anyone with info please e-mail me. Thanx. Brett BTW: I've heard Eric Johnson is "pissa" in a small setting; not so good in an arena. Anyone ever seen this guy? ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1991 13:43:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Matthew W Cushman <mc7l+@andrew.cmu.edu> Subject: Press Booklet/Packet/Release Hi. This is my first post on here, and I'm probably going to sound like an ignoranamus, but can someone tell me how I can get ahold of one of those press booklets that everyone seems to be talking about? I'd appriciate it... Matt "And the Trees were all kept equal by hatchet, axe and saw..." ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: 3 October 1991 12:52:57 CDT From: "RUSH HEAD " <U24129@UICVM.uic.edu> Subject: RTB Memorabilia!!!/Etc... Hi All! Guess everyone is awaiting for the day where Rush will come and play in their town. Don't blame you guys/gals one bit! Well, in the meantime just thought everyone would like to know the memorabilia that is available for Roll The Bones: Roll The Bones Promo CD (the entire album) has the 2 Atlantic stickers on the front just like on the CD cellophane wrap Dreamline Promo CD single (Atlantic vers.) has the wishbones on the front cover of the album Roll The Bones Promo poster (same as the Front cover) except its 24 * 36 " size thanks to Mr. Riker for this present! My Bday is Oct. 5. :) and I'll be 24. Roll The Bones Press kit (about 8 pgs long) printed on 8.5 * 11 " size paper w/ a little story by Neil in the beginning, then the rest is the same as the Roll The Bones CD booklet, but at the back it contains a beautiful 8 * 10" promo glossy black and white group foto of the Boyz thanks John for letting me know where to find this one! The Scroll (a nice promo scroll) written in Old English type style and printed on old paper. thanks again John on where to find this one! Roll The Bones LP , yep you got it, you can actually get it on Vinyl but only for the People in the UK. The entire album w/ 10 songs! Roll The Bones Tour Program (this one will only be available after the tour has started which shouldn't be too long from now) I'll have mine on Oct. 26 after the first show from a good friend who's going and picking one up for me. :) Roll The Bones CD on Sony/Epic Japanese import (this should be available within the next few months but may be a little pricey! but worth it, where else can you get the lyrics translated in Japanese!) I guess thats about it for now, I'll post more memorabilia as I'm able to get it myself. If any one has any questions on where to find the above mentioned items feel free to email me direct! I can't believe they are doing the Midwest so soon in the tour, they really caught me off guard this time, but I still managed to get 25th row main floor for the Rosemont Horizon show in Chicago, Il. on Oct. 31, 3rd row main floor for the Bradley Centre in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Nov. 10, and last but not least 1st row Mezz seats for the Red Bird Arena, Normal, Il. (thanks Trav!) on Nov. 9, but I'm sure you don't want to hear about the rest, so I'll stop while I'm ahead! Ready to rock out Mr. Riker? :P ps: Adrian, I have tried sending mail to you, but my system here at college is rejecting it! Did you change your address? If so please reply if you read this. I have been able to obtain most of the items you have requested and I would like to know where to send it (snail mail). thanks (sorry Rush Manager for this private post, but I couldn't get a hold of him) [ No problem. For anyone, if you are having problems sending mail to someone, you can send mail to the administrative address. Sometimes the address is either incorrect in the header, or different than where they normally get mail. "From" addresses are funny creatures sometimes. :rush-mgr ] hsuRhsuRhsuRhsuRhsuRhsuRhsuRhsuRhsuRhsuRhsuRhsuRhsuRhsuRhsuRhsuRhsuR p Internet:u24129@uicvm.uic.edu p - "I was lined up for glory but the Bitnet:u24129@uicvm.bitnet - g tickets sold out in advance. Genie: P.Choy g p The way the big wheel spins." p - Patster - g g RushRushRushRushRushRushRushRushRushRushRushRushRushRushRushRushRush ---------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Dogs in Dreamline and Stranger Things Date: Thu, 03 Oct 91 14:31:29 EDT From: wbarnes@sura.net (Wow! My *second* post ever to TNMS! I think I should celebrate! 8-) Well, IMHO, those are, in fact, dogs barking in Dreamline right after the line "Far away from her hometown." I've listened to that song God knows how many times through a good pair of headphones and every time I grow more and more convinced it's a dog. Maybe a sampled dog, maybe some weird electronic percussion instrument burping, hell, maybe Alex is playing with his thing, but IT SOUNDS LIKE A DOG TO ME!!! Well, enough said about that. I would've enclosed my multiple parodies of "Where's My Thing?" including: "Where's My Fling?" detailing a tortured, frustrated man's attempts to have a meaningful extra-maritial affair and the dissatisfaction inherent within, resulting in his final, bitter decision to settle for cheap sex; "Where's My Ring?" about the frantic efforts of a groom to figure out what to do after learning the best man hocked the wedding bands for a wild night in Tijuana; "Where's My Ping?" which talks about a musician who cannot seem to get his digitized sonar sound to come out properly and instead it keeps sounding like singing goldfish; [ ... or barking dogs. (sorry, couldn't resist!) :rush-mgr ] "Where's My King?" a stirring epic about a knight's frantic, desperate search to find and rescue his leige-lord; "Where's My Ming?" about the theft of a precious, stolen, ancient Chinese vase and the hard-boiled detective's attempts to track it down, done with a gritty, B&W-movie-era feel; "Where's My Wing?" about an angel which has lost one of its wings, a symbol of its purity and fall from grace, and must attempt to regain it in order to re-enter heaven or be stuck in a pop music group as punishment; and "Where's My Zing?" about a carbonated soft drink which has lost its fizz. Unfortunately, I don't know how to do ASCII representations of sheet music and can't figure out the proper silly sound effects to use instead ("What the *hell* was that?!" "I dunno, sort of a `dunalunadun!' I think"). Viva les Boyz! -------------- Bill "Life bites intergalactic moose turds..." Barnes wbarnes@sura.net Disclaimer: Don't assume anything I say is truthful, accurate, or worthwhile. Datclaimer: My employers wouldn't WANT to share some of my opinions. ----------------------------------------------------------
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