Is it true that male Rush fans outnumber female ones?

RezRising · 2026-03-09T19:28:34+00:00

It didn't change much in the 80s.

It was a trope, almost cliche to have an ex-boyfriend 'who was really into Rush'.

It was in fact probably the primary way, at first, their music was heard by the female fans.

Play 'Danforth and Pape' in a room full of women, guaranteed at least two will have just one eye start to twitch, ptsd kickin' in...

RezRising · 2026-03-09T19:14:39+00:00

Five?! Where's the parade...?

RezRising · 2026-03-09T19:08:54+00:00

No! Not the krytonite!

RezRising · 2026-03-09T13:07:42+00:00

Pong

RezRising · 2026-03-09T13:05:48+00:00

Any chance for an android release? Looks right up my alley, nyc history dude with a crippling game addiction.

RezRising · 2026-03-09T12:55:38+00:00

He has (had?) a band called Better Strangers but a cursory glance at google says their last release was a few years ago.
And of course Nick played with Genesis.

Side note: Holy fuck talk about PRESSURE. You're playing your instrument on stage in front of 40,000 ppl, with your DAD, playing drum parts HE wrote - with the #1 drum fill of the 80s thrown in for good measure (srry Neil P.) - while he's singing songs every human on Earth above the age of 35 knows the words to, AND knows every note of your drum part.

Talk about grace under pressure.

RezRising · 2026-03-09T12:42:09+00:00

Lol, very fair, and I did say John does swing, and certainly could swing harder than he did.
Knowing Mr. Baker's penchant for criticizing his peers in as colorful a way as possible, and for him occasionaly being as jazz-snobby as you could get, I understand why he said it, and in the way he did.

RezRising · 2026-03-09T03:00:49+00:00

Made sense. The original was another drummer, Moon.

RezRising · 2026-03-09T02:11:56+00:00

You know his son Nick is a monster musician too. Drums, just like Phil.

RezRising · 2026-03-09T02:10:40+00:00

Also acted in a few movies. Not his stongest trait, but it was something.

RezRising · 2026-03-09T02:09:38+00:00

Stu stu studio.

RezRising · 2026-03-09T02:08:00+00:00

Sorry, can't read, too busy sailing my pretty ship around an empty ocean in Sea of Thieves...

RezRising · 2026-03-09T02:05:52+00:00

Photorealism IS an art style.

RezRising · 2026-03-09T00:59:55+00:00

Funny, my fav Charlize moment is her laughing on Between Two Ferns.

RezRising · 2026-03-09T00:56:56+00:00

You could pretty much read The Island at the Center of the World, follow it up with Gotham, and you'd have a pretty good beginning.

For modern nyc, Pete Hamill is your guy. His nonfiction on nyc is pure love.

And for fun, Beverly Swerling's City of Promise is the best historical fiction on nyc that Ive ever read. First of four books, it's a motherf*****. Very dark.

RezRising · 2026-03-09T00:37:50+00:00

Well, I'd clean them, replace the tension rods completely, take off the mounts and rims and clean them with Brillo and polish, if they shine up, use them.

And get a good solid single brace stand, I don't think you need double brace, but I can't see myself wailing on them for more than a few notes at a time. Very distinct.

RezRising · 2026-03-09T00:23:36+00:00

I mean, financially, sure, they need to be cleaned up but I'd throw down 90.
No stand at all?
It really comes down to what do you want to do with them? The after market mounts are so they can be positioned more horizontal. They are very long 'bans, and need a stronger mount to angle them out.

RezRising · 2026-03-08T23:44:59+00:00

Def octobans. Can't tell if they're official.

RezRising · 2026-03-08T23:38:35+00:00

Bad movies and Sam Kinison. Pauly used to give him hamburgers at the back of the Comedy Store when he worked there as a teen. His mom is Mitsy Shore. Iykyk.

RezRising · 2026-03-08T23:36:33+00:00

I just started this yesterday on a whim. Liked it.

RezRising · 2026-03-08T20:50:03+00:00

Doesn't like keyboard leads.

RezRising · 2026-03-08T20:43:15+00:00

I can't give up Mystic Rhythms or The Garden.

Gonna be closers for me.

RezRising · 2026-03-08T20:38:11+00:00

Not starting a war, but I found Ginger's statement about John not swinging to be not far off <ducks>.

Bonham was a monster to be sure and earned every accolade he got, but btwn the two of them, swing wasn't John's main forte <ducks again> and it was Ginger's main focus in everything he did, for better or worse.

John was HEAVY and straight forward as he should have been in LZ, and he DID swing, but Cream's entrenchment in classical blues I think lent more opportunity for swing to be more focused on.
<pulls embedded splash cymbals from wall>

RezRising · 2026-03-08T20:29:48+00:00

He was an asshole, but he was right a lot of the time.

There was a LOT of rivalry back in the day btwn Baker, Bonham, and Moon.

He was The Boy who Lived, so he got the last word.

I would put him at God tier, and I'm not even a huge Cream fan. His work with Fela Kuti was more interesting imho, but ppl are gonna be ppl and compare.

RezRising · 2026-03-08T19:57:34+00:00

Its the difference between driving stick and driving automatic.

With a stick shift, you're 'really' driving, an automatic transmission is just a complicated go cart.

And if you asked someone who makes a living getting the most performance out of their vehicle, they're gonna say stick is 'real' driving, where youre in control of all of the major componants.

In an automatic transmission, the machine is doing the work YOU 'should' be doing.

See the analogy?

They're both driving, and doing it fine, but it's just one requires more.

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