The National Midnight Star #346

Errors-To: rush-request@syrinx.umd.edu Reply-To: rush@syrinx.umd.edu Sender: rush-request@syrinx.umd.edu Precedence: bulk From: rush@syrinx.umd.edu To: rush_mailing_list Subject: 10/01/91 - The National Midnight Star #346
** ____ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ** ** / /_/ /_ /\ / /__/ / / / / /\ / /__/ / ** ** / / / /__ / \/ / / / / /__/ / \/ / / /___ ** ** ** ** __ ___ ____ ** ** /\ /\ / / \ /\ / / / _ /__/ / ** ** / \/ \ / /___/ / \/ / /___/ / / / ** ** ** ** ____ ____ ___ ___ ** ** /__ / /__/ /__/ ** ** ____/ / / / / \ ** The National Midnight Star, Number 346 Tuesday, 1 October 1991 Today's Topics: Administrivia Tour Dates! Midwest Tour Dates Sonar pulses in Dreamline... Tour Dates & Opening Band.... electronic and review buf-jobs; what's new? SOME STUFF Mobile Homes Don't believe Ticketbastard tour dates? Pittsburgh Show/Hamilton Question Dogs barking? Nay..... Xanadu Indy tour dates Re: 09/30/91 - The National Midnight Star #345 ** Part 2 of 2 ** Rush in Milwaukee Some musical notes on RTB Re: 09/30/91 - The National Midnight Star #345 ** Part 2 of 2 ** Live Under Pressure Rush in Rochester 10/26! Dates...etc ---------------------------------------------------------- From: Editor, The National Midnight Star <rush-mgr> Subject: Administrivia Well, I'm still getting caught up on my administrative mail; if you've sent in a request, please be patient. I've got over 100 items to catch up on! :-( rush-mgr ---------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Tour Dates! Date: Mon, 30 Sep 91 19:27:07 -0400 From: "Keegan" <jmkeegan@mailbox.syr.edu> Hi...First, I'd like to subscribe to The NMS...and secondly, from the offices of Atlantic Records, I give you the following tour Dates for Rush's 91-92 Roll The Bones Tour...: Oct. 25--Hamilton Ontario.... Oct. 26--Rochester, NY.... Dec. 6--NYC... Dec.10- Boston!... Dec. 12--Albany, NY... Dec. 15--Buffalo, NY >....I'm going to see the opening show...so to all of you who can't make it... HA! Hehe...just kidding, I'll make a report, as I'm sure many people will... Also, to set a few things straight...The "rapper", is in fact Geddy Lee.. By simply sampling the part and speeding it up about 200%, you can easily make out Geddy's distinct voice, just like Alex Lifeson at the end of Chain Lightning... Oh Yeah....In DREAMLINE, what someone thought were dogs, I'm relatively sure are in fact a keypad sound triggered by Neil Peart..I'm sure we'll see this is true in concert... Well I hope I've helped some people out. Please share the wealth.. Why are we here? Because we're here... JMKEEGAN ---------------------------------------------------------- From: Matthew E. Moses <moses@donald.cs.umn.edu> Subject: Midwest Tour Dates Date: Mon, 30 Sep 91 18:59:05 CDT For the Rush fans in the Minnesota or Wisconsin area here are the confirmed dates for there tour: Minneapolis - Target Center Nov 3rd 7:30pm tickets are 21.50 for good seats. Milwaukee - Bradley Center Nov 10th tickets are $19 and $25. I am happy to say I'll be seeing Rush here in Minneapolis from the first row!!! My friend camped because I was working, and got our seats. He was there 15.5 hours before they went on sale. In both cities the tickets went on sale on the 28th. ************************************************************************** * * * * * Matthew E. Moses * moses@donald.cs.umn.edu * __() * * U of Minnesota * ar705@cleveland.Freenet.edu * _ \<,_ * * Air Force ROTC * * (_)/ (_) * * * * * ************************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 30 Sep 91 22:34:14 -0400 From: as511@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jay T. Millar) Subject: Sonar pulses in Dreamline... I strongly agree with a recent posting that the so-called 'barking' in Dreamline is not barking, but three cleverly placed sonar pulses. I believe that these were placed in the song to accentuate the theme of searching for a purpose in life As a submarine searches the sea, the youth in the song search for meaning and purpose. -- Jay T. Millar - University of Notre Dame - ||| [RUSH Fan and Atari Afficiando] ||| jmillar@degas.helios.nd.edu / | \ ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 30 Sep 91 21:53 CST From: <RSIVAKUM%UTSIV1.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU> Subject: Tour Dates & Opening Band.... Hi all, The local Rock station (KSHE-95) here in St.Louis announced that RUSH will be on concert on Thursday, November 7, here at the St.Louis Arena. Tickets go out on sale this Saturday, October 5 at 10:00 am.($19.50 a piece).... And guess what, Eric Johnson is opening for the boyz..... Should be an awesome show, can't wait. Ram ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 30 Sep 91 23:35:19 EDT From: jaeger@buphy.bu.edu (Gregg Jaeger) Subject: electronic and review buf-jobs; what's new? Thanks to everyone who answered my question about getting all the sound on one side of a recording (especially Adrian)! I'm a physicist and should be able to figure out such things. Thanks for teaching me something about vinyl records! Now can anyone explain how a _cotton gin_ works? ;) On another note, I couldn't believe: >Also, I just picked up The new Metallica album(yes, it was a Big step for >me), and I really like it! Good Music. But I also noticed some familiar >phrases in the song "Holier Than Thou": > > "Point the finger, slow to understand > Arrogance and ignorance go hand in hand" > >Does anyone hear echoes of Witch Hunt? This is a great song nontheless. I >It says pretty much the same thing as WH. I think these guys need to put more time into their lyric-writing. Imitation is supposed to be flattering, but I bet this one made Neil wretch. >I waited out in the ass-numbing cold this morning for 6 hours for Rochester >tickets (October 26th). I got on the ticket computer at 9:10, 10 minutes >after sales officially started, and it looks like I ended up with about >25th row.. Couple this with my 28th row tickets for the opener in Hamilton, >and you're looking at one dejected camper. Bummer from Hell, Shane. Got the money to get some good scalps? Sorry that all I can do is `turn the page' of my NMS and hope I'm not similarly screwed. Sometimes I miss festival seating dammit. I had first and tenth row position for two Signals tour shows (ah, the good old days...) Thanks for the tour dates, Craig -- you set me a bit at ease until I read about your and Shane's electronic ticket buf-jobs. I'll be rolling _my_ bones soon enough! > Various people have recently been saying that Ghost of a Chance >is a love song dealing with the relationship between a man & a woman. >This may be true, but there's another interpretation of the lyrics >of this song that occurred to me when I first heard it. It might >just as easily refer to the group Rush, and the relationship of the >3 members to each other (brotherly love?). The 'we' and 'our' in the >lyrics could be plural, referring to the 3 boyz, rather than just >one man and one woman. >Any opinions or comments on this? Love song and a damn good one, too. The other theory is one hell of a stretcher, IMHO. A reviewer reportedly `commented' on Neil's lyrics: > On the whole, >however, Peart's quasi-mythical lyrics about kings and future heroes are >hardly profound. It seems that this guy had been reading too many reviews from past albums (presumably so he knew what to say :) ) as there is no mention of any `king' on the album. I guess that's why he didn't find anything in the lyrics, eh? Quasi-mythical? Wha?? Gregg ---------------------------------------------------------- Subject: SOME STUFF From: wilkinso@darkside.com (Sean Flanegan) Date: Mon, 30 Sep 91 18:36:44 PDT I am almost posistive that the sound in Dremline is a sonor(sp?) blip thing. And definately no the sound in Owner of a Lonely Heart which is a cow bell. Any bay area Rush dates? sean e a n ---------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Mobile Homes From: easy@darkside.com (Phil D. Croix) Date: Mon, 30 Sep 91 21:38:09 PDT These are Not the Original lyrics to any Rush song, but they seem to work out best when sung to the tune of "Roll The Bones". Coincidence? I think not my friend! Mobile Homes Lyrics by Matt Van Horn Well you can fill that tank Good wheels are the key to good tourin' Campers take less space Boats, they seldom clear the bank If they don't think it's rank Then pack the kids, don't tell the detination Give them bags and tents And make 'em sleep down where it's dank We go out on the road and take our houses Lock up the house, leave it to the mouses We buy those little lap dogs for our spouses! Mobile Homes Don't hit that deer! You hit the deer. Mobile Homes Our bikes were stolen So was the coleman Mobile Homes Well dinner's cold as ice- Mom just had to ruin our supper To tend to little Billy And his head of lice Well, wouldn't space be nice? I'm sick and tired of bunking with my sister She got sick from Poison Ivy and the threw up twice. Kids- relax Just eat your Apple Jacks The variety packs and PB Max /e Even though there's a tax on all those snax Just Relax Makin' fat that gluteus max Those are the facts- you dig? You scarf it down your butt gets big. You're a PIG It's destructive, convulsive, Watching you's repulsive. So who's afraid of a little expansion Can't get no indigestion You got gas! You'd better not pass boy, It spreads fast In a Mobile Home boy! What's the deal? Hear it squeal! If the brakes are hot- better stop! Cool 'em down and try to flag a cop If you're stallin' Or you're tires are baldin' Don't go callin' Tripple A while bawlin' They're slow as mold. It's cold Gott a massive loan To go out and buy this Mobile Home Turn the key and ROLL Back on the road! Get Sleazy! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Well there you have it! Moble Homes! I'm Off! Matt(EASY of Darkside!) ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 1 Oct 91 03:31 EDT From: <ERL%CRNLNS.bitnet@CORNELLC.cit.cornell.edu> Subject: Don't believe Ticketbastard Comment: forwarded by CRNLNS/FMailV2.4 Comment: REPLY may not work. Comment: Network-Source: _LNS62::ERL (HEPnet/SPAN) Comment: Originally-From: ERL "Ed Lovell" Comment: Originally-To: BITNET%"rush@syrinx.umd.edu" Well, I'm excited! Miraculously (without the NMS), I heard of the Rochester concert date and started calling Ticketbastard (yes, I hate them as much as the next guy) 30 mintutes before they opened. After listening to their recording for 30 minutes, I reached an operator at 9:02. I ordered the maximum number of ticks (8) and when I asked how close she could get me, she told me that they were seating IN ROWS "A" thru "G"!!!! (1-7). While I agree that Ticketbastard may be run by blood-suckers, they *do* seem to get a decent selection of seats from the promoter. Their service charge is high, but for good seats, it's worth it. When my fiance got thru to Ticketbastard at 9:20 and ordered four more tickets (we've got a lot of friends :-), the operator told her her *exact* seats (1-4 in row U). So I called back around 9:45 to see if they could tell me the exact location of my original 8 seats and they told me I'd have to wait until 1pm to call cust. service. When I reached CS, they told me that there was *no* info except for "floor", and "not-floor". I told him what the operator had told me, and he told me that the promoter would allow no seating information out (bullshit, my fiance had her seat #'s). When I hung up, she called an reached another CS rep. and found out that Ticketbastard had decided at 9:45 that they weren't going to give out any seating info so that scalpers wouldn't be able to sell tickets based on how close they were. Weird. You'd thing that someone who sold as many ticets for as many concerts as TB does would have consistant, official policies, wouldn't you? Then again, I gotta remember who we're talking about. Regardless, I'm going to the 2nd RTB show and sitting up front!! Maybe my seats will be better then the 3rd row I had for Presto (but, man, did those seats cost me!). Good luck, everyone! #&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&# Ed Lovell \ ERL@CRNLNS.BITNET Laboratory of Nuclear Studies / ERL%CRNLNS.BITNET@CORNELLC.CIT.CORNELL.EDU Cornell University \ EL8@VAX5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU #&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&#&# ---------------------------------------------------------- From: sasaki@server.cs.jhu.edu Subject: tour dates? Date: Tue, 01 Oct 91 09:59:38 EDT Thanks to supriya to posting them tour dates! Now, I know there's a phone number for me to call (but it's long distance and I'm poor) for additional dates, but I was hoping one of you people would be able to help me out. I have a friend in Germany who's looking for some European tour dates. Are they on the second leg of the tour? Do they not play there? Should he fly home and see them in Largo? :) So, if you have any information (or hear any rumors) about some European dates, I'd appreciate hearing about it. -- Erin ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 1 Oct 91 10:17:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Barry Lowell Brumitt <bb1v+@andrew.cmu.edu> Subject: Pittsburgh Show/Hamilton Question Waited out for tix, first in line... and THIRD ROW! (1-C-1,2) for Pitts. Yeeha! I am just terribly psyched for this show. I'm planing on driving up to Hamilton to see the openner, and buying scalped tix. Any idea what I can expect to pay for "acceptable" seats? Later. Barry ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 1 Oct 91 10:35:51 EST From: bigal@wpi.WPI.EDU (Nathan Charles Crowell) Subject: Dogs barking? Nay..... I'm sorry, but the sound at 1:11 into "Dreamline" just does NOT sound like a dog barking. That is unless you have a dog that barks like a keyboard sound and/or electronic drum! If you do, I suggest you train that animal and make some money off of it! Nate (a.k.a. Big Al) OBRQ: "The world is a cage for your impotent rage But don't let it get to you SNAP!" - "Neurotica" ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 1 Oct 91 10:04:35 EDT From: sunri!cadreri!mjv@sunne.East.Sun.COM (Michael J. Vargo) Subject: Xanadu Hello, I would like all the info and insight all you Rushians have on Xanadu and the poem Kubla Kahn it is taken from. What do you think Neil is trying to get across to us? What do you think Coleridge is trying to get across to us? Any ideas and insights will be helpful. Could I also get the words from both from someone? I don't have ftp access so could someone mail them to me? I would really appreciate it. Oh, BTW, if you're wondering why I need this stuff, I am giving a presentation on it in my Romantics class. Pretty cool, eh? Well, it would be very helpful if I could get this info. Thanks ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I Michael Vargo II Internet: sunri!cadreri!mjv@sunne.East.Sun.COM I I CADRE Technologies, Inc. II Bitnet : -- Don't send here -- I I Providence, RI 02903 II ICBMnet : 41 Deg. 50 min. N I I (401)-351-5950 x220 II 71 Deg. 10 min. E I ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ PLEASE keep your .sigs to <80 columns!!! :rush-mgr ] ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 1 Oct 91 11:26:59 -0400 From: eric@ovl.osc.edu Subject: Indy tour dates If anyone knows of a tour date for Indianapolis post it or send it to me at eric@osc.ovl.edu . Thanks sooooooooooooooo much!! By the way, keep the parodies coming, Neil would love them, I bet. He's a guy who doesn't seem to take himself too seriously to be the object of a parody. We only stop for the best!! ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 1 Oct 91 12:00:53 EDT From: Todd Fantz <fantz@athena.cs.uga.edu> Subject: Re: 09/30/91 - The National Midnight Star #345 ** Part 2 of 2 ** ACK!!! All the tour dates so far are in cold places! Any news on something down South? Atlanta? Greenville? Something within a three hour drive? Todd Fantz Athens, GA ---------------------------------------------------------- From: bold%astroatc.UUCP@cs.wisc.edu (Jeff Beck) Subject: Rush in Milwaukee Date: Tue, 1 Oct 91 11:39:30 CDT Hi Rushians! How's things goin? Well, Rush is going to be in Milwaukee with Eric Johnson on Nov. 10. Sat. And I've got tickets for the floor. You would not believe the pain-in-the-ass it was to get tickets for that show. Ticketmaster is handled by Boston Store, whereas Ticketron used to be handled by Sears. They give you a number (I was 19th,. in line) and you go in tebn people at a time to get tickets. Tickets went on sale at exactly 10:00 a.m. and they had sold out ALL of the higher priced tickets by 10:06. I got pretty good tickets on the side/center row. How many of you would like to see ticket prices reflect the quality of the tickets? In other words, would you rather have to stay up all night waiting for tickets and pay $25.00 per tickets, or would you rather have, say, the first 10 rows at $50.00 a tickets, and maybe decrease the price by $5.00 per ten rows back? Then, by the time you're done, the rows way in the back would only cost about $10.00. That seems fair to me, since I don't think it is fair that *I* have to pay the same amount for tickets in the clouds as someone in 3rd. row. Any comments? -- ****************************************************************************** * Jason Bold - Madison,WI= [(rutgers||ames)!uwvax||att!nicmad]!astroatc!bold * * "A strawberry mind, a body that's built for two" - Michael Hedges * ****************************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 01 Oct 91 12:12:40 EDT From: Joe Maruschek <00063306@YSUB.YSU.EDU> Subject: Some musical notes on RTB First of all, I'd like to say that I feel that RTB not only covers new ground for Rush, it contains all the things that were and continue to be part of their music. I'd just like to share some of the neat musical ideas I find exciting in the new album. Take 'Dreamline', for example. Rush and other rock bands have always been accused of a lack of dynamics in their music. A lot of the time, the music just goes by at one volume: loud!, and ingores any other setting of the dials except at a crunching '11'. Rush has been guilty of this at times, but not on this song. Each of the verses are very soft and subdued, which makes the loud chorus that much more exciting when they crash in on those three chords (syncopated, too, to really jar the listener). The crescendo into the bridge ('When we are young') is a great device to hilight that vocal hook, and to make you feel that the song is really going somewhere. If that isn't a dog's bark, sampled, and perfectly played in time with the music, then those aren't jackhammers in the beginning of "Force Ten"; they are the sound of my head hitting the wall! The placement of the bark, right after after Geddy sings "hometown," is all one needs to bring the images of one's own howetown to mind; a perfect example of the music and lyrics complementing each other. I really like "Where's My Thing?" and I think an instrumental like this was expected since this is the way Alex and Geddy write now. No wonder Neil can always find lyrics to go with their songs. I really think that "Thing" has a lot in common with "YYZ" in that both songs are well structured and thought out. "La Villa" is a great song and all, but all those different themes don't make that much musical sense in that they are played once and then forgotten about. If you strip the song down to just the "Strangiato Theme" and "Monsters!" you'd have a much more concise and exciting song like "YYZ" and "Thing". And I mean the theme itself, not just that named part of the music, since the Strangiato theme can be heard in parts that have other names. Not to completely cut down "Strangiato", I think of "Thing" having it's different parts named as follows: I. The Fablulous Riverboat II. The Search (for My Thing) Theme III. Back on the Riverboat IV. The Search Continues V. Gangsters! VI. The Battle for the Riverboat VII. The Search Ends VIII.Never Turn Your Back on a Gangster! Didn't think I'd have this much to write, but there is a lot on RTB to talk about! I'll be back with more! ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1991 10:41:08 -0500 From: tmadson@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Todd Madson) Subject: Re: 09/30/91 - The National Midnight Star #345 ** Part 2 of 2 ** Rush shall be playing Minneapolis, Minnesota on Sunday, November 3rd with Eric Johnson as the opening act. Ought to be an interesting show. Can't wait for the rendition of "Plumbers of the Temples of Syrinx". UUCP: {amdahl!bungia, crash}!orbit!pnet51!tmadson ARPA: crash!orbit!pnet51!tmadson@nosc.mil INET: tmadson@pnet51.orb.mn.org ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 1 Oct 91 14:23 EDT From: <JAC142@PSUVM.PSU.EDU> Subject: Live Under Pressure Hi, all, I was just wondering of those of you out there who have the Live Under Pressure album, my girlfriend just bought it for me, but I'm not getting it until Christmas, how good is the sound quality? Is it like A Show of Hands, or was it something not so good. It has "Excellent Noise" written on it, but I was just wondering. Also, I(we-my girlfriend and I) were wondering if anyone knew of where I(we) might be able to buy or order a copy of Russian Roulette from. Thanks, Jefe' (jac142@psuvm.psu.edu) OBRQ: "It's a.... seven!" -Alex from the RTB Rockline Premiere ---------------------------------------------------------- From: stedmant@LONEX.RL.AF.MIL (Terrance A. Stedman) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 91 16:03:15 EDT Subject: Rush in Rochester 10/26! I got my tickets for the Rochester show at the local TicketMaster in Rome, NY. I couldn't believe that there was still not one person in line at 8am! I left and came back at 9am only to find 2 people in line, one of which was there for Van Halen at the Knickerbocker in Albany! So I was the third person in and got Section 73 - Rear Floor - Row D. The sweet young girl who opened the store pumped four tickets out of the machine and hid them in the back storeroom before opening the doors to let any of us in. I've got to get a part time job at a ticket outlet someday! Anyway, if anyone familiar with the War Memorial in Rochester could tell me how good/bad the above seats are, I would very much appreciate it. The aforementioned girl was of little help in this regard. Terry Stedman Internet: stedmant@lonex.rl.af.mil ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I ) I I <~ I_I "It is my will which chooses, and the choice of my will I \ I_I _> I I is the only edict I must respect." - Rand from _Anthem_ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1991 16:28:01 -0400 (EDT) From: John Michael Santore <jsbh+@andrew.cmu.edu> Subject: Dates...etc Greetings... Couple of things: 1) Tour date info.. I've got a number for Atlantic Records in NY, they'll tell you any city you want. They will stop touring on Dec 16, break for the holidays, and hit the south and west during the new year. Dates I remember that haven't been posted already Nov 16-Toledo OH Nov 17- Cleveland Dec 7(? I'm not sure of this one...)- Largo MD I will post the Atlantic # later...they were really friendly and informative. 2) Yup, Ticketmaster and the knobs they have running the machines really suck. I camped out in Pittsburgh for 24 hrs only to have the bitch who runs the machine screw it up. I guess I shouldn't bitch with 8th row seats on Geddy's side...but damn, can't they get anything right. 3)We definitely need another Pittsburgh Rush Party!! Any info on one would be welcome...email me at jsbh@andrew.cmu.edu or call 268-4292 4) During my ticket camp out, I compared the voice on the end of 2112 "We have assumed control...." and it sounds very similar to the RTB rap....If I remember correctly, it was Terry Brown who did that (if it isn't Broon than it's Neil, but I'm pretty sure it's Broon). So my guess on the mystery rapper is Terry "Broon" Brown!! Rollin' the Bones- John Santore ============================================ "We break the surface tension with our wild kinetic dreams" -Rush, Grand Designs John Santore (jsbh@andrew.cmu.edu) ============================================ ----------------------------------------------------------
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