These Kids Today
From a record review in this past weekend's San Diego Union Tribune:
"If you try, you can find some good moments in the 11 overly long tracks. There's cool drumming. The singing is very loud and dramatic...And overall it kind of reminds you of your parents' Rush albums." (Italics added by me.)
Your parents' Rush albums? Are they the thing that kids today make fun of - the way I used to pick on my dad for listening to Peter, Paul, and Mary?
posted by Kevlar Pinata @ 10:53 PM
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Yes.
A few weeks ago, the subject came up for me a few different ways. My buddy is writing an article for a not-to-be-named famous drumming magazine about famous roundhouse drum fills. Needless to say, I went a little wacky and forwarded my bud about 4,000 different examples, good and bad, from the Rush canon (yes, I used the word).
Second, the boys have a new single out on their website. My other bud and I listened and critiqued the hell out of it for better and worse. My take: I want to be friends and hang out with Al and Ged, who seem to enjoy their lives, and my childhood hero Neil just seems to be grim and joyless. Not that it isn't understandable. But please. It's just uninspired and stale. And it hurts to write that.
Anyway, the upshot of all of that, for the purposes of this post, is that the entirety of my behavior and time-wasting on this is really fairly sad.
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