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GEDDY LEE!!!!! what a picture!!!
did you know that both of his parents are Holocaust survivors?
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Survived yet another Monday. I need to learn more Rush. I also need a haircut. Hope you all have a fantastic week #rush #riffaday .
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SONG DISCUSSION: The Larger Bowl
I actually have a lot of fond memories surrounding Snakes & Arrows. It was the first “new” Rush album to come out since I became a fan and it led me to seeing them live for the first time in 2007. On top of that, they played a lot of songs from this album on that tour with The Larger Bowl being one of the first songs to get played. (For context’s sake: I went to the concert in Atlanta which is where they actually started the Snakes & Arrows Tour so I actually witnessed the live debut of those songs plus Entre Nous so that’s really cool.)
I’ve always admired The Larger Bowl even if it’s not necessarily one of my favorites off the album. It’s almost a folk-like song with a nice blend of acoustic and electric guitars but it gets pretty heavy and I actually think it’s one of the darker songs on the album. A dark lyric that comes to mind is “Such a lot of pain on the earth”. There’s such an earnestness to the lyrics in this song and throughout the album for that matter.
I love the structure of the lyrics as well. It’s formatted as a Pantoum which, for those that don’t know, is an old poetic structure where the second and fourth lines of each stanza get repeated as the first and third lines in the next stanza, respectively. And of course, the final line is the same as the first line. It’s a pattern that almost gets repeated in BU2B and BU2B2 but it’s not quite a Pantoum in the traditional sense (the fourth lines are never repeated in the next stanzas in those songs, but the second lines are).
But if I’m being honest, I think my favorite memory I have with this song is the Bob & Doug McKenzie intro video that got played in live performances. Bob & Doug McKenzie is always good fun.
What do you all think of this song and do any of you have any fond memories attached to Snakes & Arrows as a whole?
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- Alex (not Lifeson) (@its_galuckitime)
SONG DISCUSSION: Malignant Narcissism
Gosh darn it all to heck, this instrumental kicks some serious bottom. I always hit rewind so I can hear it again.
It’s an intense bass ‘n drum jam with hairy guitar layered above. Geddy nimbly fingers a Fender while Neil shows he don’t need no fancy kit to do his thang.
Yeah, I love this song. It’s short and sweet and I love the drum solo that follows it on live performances.
What do you all think of this one?
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- Alex (not Lifeson) (@its_galuckitime)
Next week on Song Discussion: A song with “Dog” in the title
Rush / Snakes & Arrows
On this day (May 1) in 2007 released
Atlantic : 177084, US 2007
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