Rush fans, convert me!

This is a very personal post, so please don’t laugh at me or mock me (unless you really have to). Many years ago, I used to LOVE the band Rush - I spent all my money on their records and even bought their guitar music books to try to teach myself guitar (and I think I still remember how to play The Trees).

But times change, and I didn’t listen to them for ages. Then I join up this board and it’s Rush rules here and Grace Under Pressure there, and I start to think - maybe I should drag those records out again. But the magic is gone! I don’t get it - I know I used to love the music, but it doesn’t move me anymore. The high pitched singing and overly technical drum work don’t annoy me - they just leave me cold. So here is my challenge to all the Rush fans on the board - please restore to me what I have lost, and explain to me why Rush is still relevant almost 25 years since A Farewell to Kings. It worked for Iron Maiden when I bought their best of, so please make it work for Rush - I’d hate to think I wasted a fortune on a crappy band.

HenrySpencer.

Crappy Band??

Have no fear, crappy they are not. Maybe you could try their more recent material for a new kick? I heartily recommend playing Counterparts at full volume. That ought to get you back in shape. Repeat if necessary :wink:

I like Rush a lot, but if you don’t anymore then that simply “sucks for you”.

All challenges aside there’s no real call for any Rush fan to beg you to please go back to loving them again, telling you how influential they were etc. Nothing anyone could say to you on a message board could reverse a visceral reaction that you recently had. If it were so, then you are beyond suggestible.

Quit fixating on your so-called lost fortune and take those records to the used record store, where some youngster who is just now learning to appreciate Rush can buy them.

Geddy Lee’s nose should be impressive enough to win you back. :slight_smile:

Did you have to mention how long it has been since “Farewell to Kings”? Especially since that’s when I stopped listening to them. Geez, how young was I when I saw them open for Kiss at a high school? (One of the Mortons, not sure of the compass direction.)

Pick up a bass, and start playing the lines on the 1st album, “Caress”, “FBN” and of course, “2112”. One of my toughest experiences in a HS band was when we were closing a set with “Working Man”, and my E string snapped. PANICK!

That said, the only album of theirs I still have is “All The World’s a Stage,” and I can’t remember the last time I listened to it. Same with all my old Queen albums. Times, and tastes, change. Don’t sweat it.

Oh yeah, and get some Pavlov’s Dog albums, and Geddy’s screeching seems dounright mellow.

Have to agree with Coldfire here, get some of the newer stuff if you don’t already have it. Counterparts is probably the best place to start. Oh and I’m glad you’re into Maiden. Just saw them a couple of weeks ago at Madison Square Garden, killer show.

As an alternative you might try Different Stages. It is the last album they put out, and is a live recording of several shows from their 1997 Test for Echo tour. There is also a bonus disk, a recording from an old 1976 (I think) concert. For me anyway, the live element is very exciting.