They're gonna buy 10 copies for their mothers!

No, that was Nirvana. :wink:

They look ready to follow Dylan onto the cover of AARP’s magazine.

Damn, I was excited for a minute, thinking there was a Dr. Hook reunion. :frowning:

My dad would play Dr. Hook when we were kids. I remember that song, and it brings back memories. Also love RUSH.

If I had points to give, I would share them with the OP.

I wonder if any of their mothers are still alive, honestly: all three of those guys are pushing 60.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?

Perhaps tasteful display at the gravesites?

I think he means it’s irrelevant because we got old and popular music has pretty much passed us by.

But damn, RUSH had to a wait a long damn time to get any respect from the music press.

I have a running (and entirely genial) battle of public notice with a sibling. We gleefully trade clips and “notice by the public” mentions.

He’s got the crown right now, and beating the cover of a very prestigious science magazine is going to be a bitch. That it could well lead to a number of high-profile cover appearances could mean game over for me.

Our mother died some time ago, so there’s that…

Beauty, eh?

I’m not confused. I was annoyed the title got my hopes up so asked the question in reproach. I like the band who wrote the line and was disappointed it was about Rush instead of Dr. Hook.

Me too, Channing Idaho Banks. I still know most of the words to Sylvia’s Mother - I was probably one of the only twenty-somethings who thought “oh, that’s a lot like that Dr. Hook song” when I first heard Ms. Jackson by Outkast :slight_smile:

Living in the limelight…

:confused: Did you post in the wrong thread? Rolling Stone is not a science magazine, and I’m guessing your sibling is not named Alex, Geddy or Neil.

Shel Silverstein wrote On The Cover Of The Rolling Stone and many other Dr Hook And The Medicine Show songs. Check out his Wikipedia entry, he did some great stuff!

“One’s On The Way” - Loretta Lynn
“A Boy Named Sue” - Johnny Cash
“The Unicorn” - The Irish Rovers

I also loved “Sylvia’s Mother” and “The Queen of the Silver Dollar”.

And he wrote the children’s book “The Giving Tree.” Wow.

He counts your repost as a “public mention.”

No, I am not related.

This thread was, like, my idea, eh!

And “Where the Sidewalk Ends”. I once half-joked that the top three American poets of all time are Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, and Shel Silverstein. That’s probably exaggeration, but Mr. Silverstein doesn’t get enough credit given his talent.

Geddy and Alex are 61, and Neil is 62. All their mothers (and Neil’s father too) were interviewed in the movie that came out a few years ago, and Geddy’s mother was his “date” at the R&RHoF ceremony, so it’s possible that they might be.

There’s a story in the article about Alex riding the train to Bangkok :stuck_out_tongue: :D. If I had psoriatic arthritis, which is one nasty disease, I’d be doing that too. :frowning:

Speaking of Neil, there’s a long-running urban legend that he has a Ph.D. He does not, but Geddy’s son Julian Weinrib, who’s in his mid 30s, does. He’s a professor at the University of Toronto in the college of education, so in other words, he teaches teachers. :slight_smile: