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Posted: September 18 2014 at 11:52

Clever usage of the ol Trojan horse is my guess.

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Posted: September 18 2014 at 11:55

Intruder wrote:

Rush was a hard rock/heavy metal band that had prog leanings.....think Zep on Houses or the Sabs on Tech Ec. They streamlined their sound in the 80s but it really wasn't a giant leap away from what they were doing. In fact, a lot of Hemispheres and Farewell hint at that streamlined sound that started with Moving. Similarly, Crimson streamlined their 80s sound, but, man, the jump from Red to Discipline is vast.....like Evel Knievel jumping the Grand Canyon.

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Posted: September 18 2014 at 12:15

Davesax1965 wrote:

Hi Steve, you're right, there are no 3 minute songs, etc. However, it all seems so "designed to please a crowd", ie product rather than music. Other posts here have noted that Rush indeed did play to an audience. I think my dislike of 80's Rush is more a dislike of the music of that period in general.

I don't read that...Rush have always been about what they want to do as a band. Not really what fans and certainly the record companies want. If they played and designed to please a crowd, we would have seen more releases like 2112, Hemispheres and AFTK.

The vast majority of Rush fans progressed along with their musical progression into that 80's sound. Their concert crowds and popularity continued to grow during this time and it is when they went to an "Evening with Rush" concert format as fans wanted to hear more, so rather than the 1.5hr show with opening act it is now a 3hr show.

Its fine to dislike that period but I don't believe it is because they designed a sound to please the fans.....That is when bands fall apart, I doubt that ever happens to them.

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Posted: September 18 2014 at 13:33

^Sometimes I think that the eighties to people, and I include myself with this group at times, regrettably, is automatically seen as a poor time in rock music and dump eighties era Rush with the rest of the trash.

I think it's important to keep in mind that eighties artists like KC and Peter Gabriel (The Last Temptation soundtrack) were doing some incredible stuff at that time and that Neo-prog, even though it's not a favorite genre of mine, put out incredible albums from Marillion's Script to Soltice's first album (a personal favorite from that era.)

Perhaps we all need to get over the eighties and get just on with it.

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Posted: September 25 2014 at 13:46

Rush: How did they conquer the 80's with integrity

with some comedy...oooooohh, scarrry!

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