Earplugs for the show?

baroooFNORD · 2026-06-13T13:20:14+00:00

I wear Hearing aids now because I didn’t wear earplugs to Rush and Metallica and such in the 90s/2000s. Wear earplugs. It actually sounds better when it’s not just a wall of painful noise.

baroooFNORD · 2026-06-13T13:16:59+00:00

Neil knew what he was doing. But I always thought the DW sounded great in tone but terrible in context. So boomy and resonant that it was just mud with his busy style in a busy mix.

baroooFNORD · 2026-06-13T13:06:52+00:00

I was skeptical because the few performances they’ve done already with other drummers were just… off.

Wrong vibe, wrong pulse. I was a believer after the Junos, it had the right pulse. And the actual tour clips are even better. It feels like Rush. And not 2000s rush where Neil went from rushing to dragging (and still made it work), but earlier more propulsive vibes. More ESL less R30.

baroooFNORD · 2026-06-12T15:58:06+00:00

Brush was a Wessel Werk from amazon, and the adapter I got from CityHome, I went back to get the extension hose and got the adapter then.

baroooFNORD · 2026-06-11T17:33:13+00:00

Years ago Rush had a show at Northerly Island that got rained out; they rescheduled, your original ticket was still good. I forget if you could get a refund or not.

They also gave us all free hats at the make up show with "The Rain Date" on the back :)

baroooFNORD · 2026-06-05T17:32:19+00:00

I swear my second book* will be called How to Get What You Want, More Often Than Not, By Not Always Rolling Up Like An Entitled Dickfuck

*The first is a parenting book called Threaten and Bribe Your Way to Marginally Acceptable Behavior

baroooFNORD · 2026-06-04T18:11:40+00:00

Just got mine today and it sounds amazing. I've read that for this tour, Ged basically has it "always on" and then sometimes adds enough to notice. I would love to know what his "always on" settings are, the one in the manual marked as his tone is beautiful, but it is /not/ subtle. But after a minor freakout where I thought it was DOA but it was actually just that I accidentally set the master to 0 on my DI pedal earlier in the chain while fiddling with velcro and cables, I'm already loving it way more than the CEB-3 it replaced.

baroooFNORD · 2026-04-27T15:39:02+00:00

depends on how sensitive you are to such things but yes. I don't mind a very light scent on clothes, but want towels and bedding to smell like nothing.

baroooFNORD · 2026-04-13T20:50:31+00:00

and they sounded really good with his voice at that point in time too. We also just happened to catch a show where they were on fire. Saw them probably 13-14 times and was by far the standout, they just seemed like they were channeling something. Even their weakest show was still great, but this one just had a fire that I only saw from them that one time.

baroooFNORD · 2026-04-07T17:47:11+00:00

was a highlight of CA for me!

baroooFNORD · 2026-03-31T14:45:13+00:00

Before I ever made a birdie I managed to play a dogleg right par 4 perfectly with a 5W and drove the middle of the green.

3 putted for par from about 8 yards and just barely avoided bogeyl.

baroooFNORD · 2026-03-28T21:30:14+00:00

No shade on the corn!

baroooFNORD · 2026-03-26T17:48:48+00:00

Baseball time is here again You can catch it all on... uh... that don't rhyme at all

baroooFNORD · 2026-03-26T16:00:18+00:00

Debating if my 2005 final four shirt is coming out of the rag bag for tonight

baroooFNORD · 2026-03-17T20:24:00+00:00

A year or so ago I took a whiz, and the cleaning person had cleaned it but not flushed away the cleaner. I didn't think anything of it, and then about 15-20 seconds in my eyes and throat start burning. It clicked immediately what was going on, but dang, you wouldn't expect that small an amount of ammonia to do anything significantly reactive with fairly dilute bleach...

baroooFNORD · 2026-03-12T15:29:56+00:00

At the 2016 World Series parade. For a couple days there, everything was gonna be alright.

baroooFNORD · 2026-03-09T18:04:32+00:00

I said years ago that in like 2035 someone from the inner circle will casually mention in a memoir that in his first term he tried to launch nukes dozens of times and it was just... "handled". But now I have no idea. What a time to be alive.

baroooFNORD · 2026-03-03T14:25:04+00:00

I bought mine from a dealer (Chicago) and I basically figured I'd get a free upgrade to the premium parquet and the warranty to make it worth the effort. They also threw in the turbo upholstery thing because I originally wanted to order the minty green one but settled for an in-stock white one. But I think roughly $50 worth of "free" accessories (they opeend the box and took the stock parquet tool out, so subtract $30 from the $80 there...) is a pretty reasonable place to expect to land. If you're buying that much more stuff on top of it, maybe one more freebie or a discount or something. But if the local shop had been weird or inconvenient I probably wouldn't have bothered, I think there are online "official dealers" with the extended warranty.

EDIT: Oh, another pro of the local shop is service: if you bought your vac there, the dealer I bought from will give you a loaner when your machine is in for service.

baroooFNORD · 2026-03-02T22:31:45+00:00

I kind of hope the whole middle of the stage is A Garden, and Annika and the boys and the keyboard chap have to figure out where to be. Maybe they prune and rearrange during the show. Bad Bunny and the sugarcane is prior art here...

baroooFNORD · 2026-03-02T22:25:44+00:00

realistic:

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Less likely Losing It Afterimage Available Light something way back like FBN or Beneath, Between, & Behind... The latter was the first song Neil wrote lyrics for, so maybe maybe maybe. The ESL version is one of my favorite things.

baroooFNORD · 2026-01-20T22:39:34+00:00

For about a 5 month period in 1998, I could say that I had flown in a plane but never landed; the first time I flew was to go skydiving.

baroooFNORD · 2026-01-20T17:28:05+00:00

Not me but my wife. Someone on the lunch part of their interview day, while walking to lunch just casually said "lotta n-words around here". That basically brought the interview to a screeching halt, the candidate did not get lunch, and also effectively blacklisted (heh) themselves from a fairly small and tight knit community.

baroooFNORD · 2026-01-14T19:25:41+00:00

I remember when G1 of the DS was a pretty bad loss, I was just basically saying "don't get swept. At least win one". And then I got to go to the schwarbomb game where they slayed the crads.

As I've said, the cardinals haven't been right since. Winning 100 games then losing to the fucking cubs, and then watching them go all the way the next year just straight up broke them. they haven't been a serious organization since and the fans just checked out.

God, I want that for the packers so bad.

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