Rush - (Progressive Rock / Heavy Prog / Canada)

sole-survivor пишет:Вот это очень правильную тему, Михалыч начал!
Может мне, наконец-то, под эту мазу, удастся Rush переслушать... А то, который год собираюсь.

Rush - Rush (1974/1997)

Rush's debut album is the kind of generic hard rock power trio exercise that most likely would have gone permanently out of print ages ago had the band not become popular for their subsequent work. This is the Rush album that came out before Neil Peart joined the band, and the Lee/Lifeson/Rutsey version of Rush doesn't seem to have been interested in doing much more than trying to sound like Led Zeppelin.

In my opinion, this album isn't as abysmal as is sometimes reported (truly bad albums offend, and I don't detect anything at all pretentious or revolting about this album) nor is it the hidden treasure that plenty of Rush fans claim it to be. I just think it's a pretty boring, unimaginative hard rock record that, except for a few moments here and there, is generally unsatisfactory. Not that I have anything against hard rock; I like plenty of that stuff, especially from the 1970s. But Rush's debut sounds to me like the work of a group that hadn't yet found themselves and was content to pound out a high-decibel, second-rate version of yeoman boogie that better bands had long since perfected. Thus, while "In the Mood," "What You're Doing" "Working Man" and "Finding My Way" aren't bad songs, I find them to be redundant and, considering that they're scattered among even weaker material, I think that this album is somewhat of a chore to sit through.

There is, however, a certain morbid fascination to be had from experiencing Geddy Lee's voice at its most piercingly shrill. For that reason alone, the first Rush album is certainly worth a spin.

sole-survivor пишет:Вот это очень правильную тему, Михалыч начал!
Может мне, наконец-то, под эту мазу, удастся Rush переслушать... А то, который год собираюсь.

Прошу пардона, что вклиниваю этот альбом вне очереди...

Geddy Lee[Rush] - My Favourite Headache (2000)



На сегодняшний день - это единственный сольный альбом бас-гитариста группы RUSH - Geddy Lee.

Geddy Lee biography:Born in Toronto, Ontario, on July 29, 1952, Gary Lee Weinrib is one of the founder members of legendary Canadian art rock trio RUSH. His stage name, Geddy (which later became his legal name as well), comes from the way his Polish-born mother pronounced his first name. Both of Lee's parents were in fact Polish Jews, who had met at the end of World War II after having survived an experience in the Nazi concentration camps of Dachau and Bergen-Belsen.
Geddy Lee is widely recognised as one of the most gifted, influential bassists on the whole rock scene. He is also the band's lead singer, his trademark, high-pitched vocals being something of an acquired taste among rock fans (although in later years he has started singing in a lower, to my mind more pleasing range). In addition to that, Geddy also plays keyboards, which were a distinctive feature of the band's '80s output. He has experimented with various models of bass guitar, his favourites being however the Fender Jazz Bass and the legendary Rickenbacker; has also made frequent use of Taurus bass pedals, which are especially of help on stage when he has to perform both bass and keyboard duties.
Like his fellow band members, guitarist Alex Lifeson and drummer extraordinaire Neil Peart, Geddy has remained remarkably faithful to Rush. His first and, to date, only solo project, "My Favourite Headache", was released in 2000 during the 5-year hiatus following the tragic deaths of Neil Peart's wife and daughter. A strong effort, in a way reminiscent of Rush's '90s output while at the same time quite individual in flavour, the album features occasional Rush collaborator, fellow Canadian multi-instrumentalist Ben Mink, and current PEARL JAM drummer, Matt Cameron (formerly with Soundgarden).

spAceLover пишет:

sole-survivor пишет:Вот это очень правильную тему, Михалыч начал!
Может мне, наконец-то, под эту мазу, удастся Rush переслушать... А то, который год собираюсь.

Аналогично! Я тоже основательно взялся. Когда учился в школе, был у нас только один "продвинутый". Помнится, он слушал RUSH, GENESIS и YES. Я баловался электроникой, но в целом ничего не хотели знать, кроме Accept, AC/DC и т. п. Нет, это тоже здорово, конечно, но до большего тогда не доходило...

spAceLover пишет:Ну что тут можно сказать? Всё классно и актуально, как никогда!