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(YouTube) Spiffy Geddy Lee turns 55 today and you Rush fans are OOOOLLLLD. Rock out to this bass solo from Driven, but be careful not to break a hip   (youtube.com) divider line 52
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DslainteC [TotalFark] 2008-07-29 11:09:15 AM  
When I rock out to Rush, I break my hip tragically.

 
Not Available [TotalFark] 2008-07-29 11:49:15 AM  
Guilty as charged. First concert I ever went to was Rush (for Signals), back in 82 or 83. 7th grade. My dad drove me and some of my buddies. We sat in the nosebleed section. Everyone around us was sparking up, and we all went home stinking like dope. Good times.

 
GAT_00 [TotalFark] 2008-07-29 12:07:58 PM  
Hey, not all of us are old. Some of us Rush fans are of the 80's.

/Happy Birthday Geddy

 
PYROY 2008-07-29 12:55:41 PM  
"I'm not the one who was an old time punk rocker
I was listening to Rush and trying to feather my hair back
When all that stuff went down"


-Nerf Herder

 
AliasUndercover 2008-07-29 12:59:19 PM  
Hey, I resemble that remark...

 
bv2112 2008-07-29 01:00:24 PM  
OF SALESMEN!!!

 
tbookman 2008-07-29 01:10:33 PM  
55 BELLS!!!

 
Ratfart 2008-07-29 01:24:23 PM  
Geddy Lee turns 55 today and you Rush fans are OOOOLLLLD CANAAAADIAAN. Rock out to this bass solo from Driven, but be careful not to break a hip play hockey

FTFY

 
Drummer 2008-07-29 01:36:51 PM  
It's HIP to like Rush. :) (my buds)

 
The Glass Dragon 2008-07-29 01:40:25 PM  
Submitter: Geddy Lee turns 55 today and you Rush fans are OOOOLLLLD.

I'm 29. I don't think I'm that old...

 
Waddell 2008-07-29 01:41:50 PM  
Rush should be in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
/of Salesmen

www.toyboxleadership.com

 
NigelTufnel 2008-07-29 01:45:47 PM  
that was a bass solo? I think I saw that in a Mel bay's Bass for Beginners book. I think this might be a bass solo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veLGBk1mE5U

 
NigelTufnel 2008-07-29 01:55:53 PM  
Turns out i was wrong... that Billy Sheehan clip was retarded as well

/goes back to Victor Wooten
// enjoys his first slashes

 
degreeless 2008-07-29 02:02:42 PM  
Happy B-day. I love older Rush. Anything after moving pictures is not on my playlist.

 
DrZiffle 2008-07-29 02:04:21 PM  
I put the hip in hip replacement, muthafarka.

 
Marisyana 2008-07-29 02:07:32 PM  
poopalacarte: bv2112: OF SALESMEN!!!

Waddell: /of Salesmen

oooooOOF SALESmen!!


Win.

/happy b-day, Geddy

 
TheHopeDiamond 2008-07-29 02:25:31 PM  
First, Happy Birthday!

Second, even though there are maybe 7 Rush songs I like, I have seen Rush in concert twice.

Mr. Lee is a talented and skillful bassist.

 
bv2112 2008-07-29 02:29:28 PM  
WOOSHEMI!!!

 
ModernPrimitive01 2008-07-29 02:50:48 PM  
I just saw Rush last week on their Snakes and Arrows tour. One of the best shows i've ever seen.

/i'm 23, does that make me old?

 
ModernPrimitive01 2008-07-29 02:54:01 PM  
degreeless: Happy B-day. I love older Rush. Anything after moving pictures is not on my playlist.

If you haven't heard Snakes and Arrows you are missing out my good sir, if you don't believe me go to youtube and listen to "armor and sword"

 
FunkyColdMedinosaur 2008-07-29 02:54:24 PM  
Not Available: Guilty as charged. First concert I ever went to was Rush (for Signals), back in 82 or 83. 7th grade. My dad drove me and some of my buddies. We sat in the nosebleed section. Everyone around us was sparking up, and we all went home stinking like dope. Good times.

Were you sitting next to me?

/Signals my first concert, too.
//Surprised when only three guys came out on stage.

 
YoTengoId 2008-07-29 03:32:26 PM  
where's all the haters?

this is disappointing.

 
guitar 2008-07-29 03:36:52 PM  
Dagnabit. I thought I'd be the first in this thread to say
"...of SALESMEN!"

 
lerxst2112 [TotalFark] 2008-07-29 03:47:00 PM  
DslainteC: When I rock out to Rush, I break my hip tragically.

What you did there.......I see it.

 
GA Chick 2008-07-29 04:03:24 PM  
Woo-hoo! Happy Birthday Geddy!!!
I went to see Rush just last week for MY birthday! Amazing, awesome, biatchin', cool, fabulous, fantastic, incredible...wonderful.

 
peewinkle 2008-07-29 04:03:31 PM  
Rush could have been a really great band. But then Geddy Lee starts singing and it just wrecks everything.

 
adamjwiseman 2008-07-29 04:03:44 PM  
Rush fan here.

/24

 
SynthLord 2008-07-29 04:22:59 PM  
"Deep within the womb of time, a creature thus be born.
The seed of life is united with the egg of tyranny
Gestates forth from within the womb of life for three-quarter and nigh a year,

The creature thus be formed!
The creature thus be born!

And ye of years fifty-five bells will chime!
When the heavens open up and drink from the silver cup,
The creature thus be born!
And blow the magic horn!

To alert the spirit deep within the cycle of life.

The creature has begun it's journey deep forlorn
Upon this day which he be formed,
In the sea of mucus the spirit rides down from the mountain and unites with the creature in the womb,
A holy union, dark mortality, until the dark mortality breaks the chain of life ...

The creature thus be born!

And every year raineth down the celebratory tears,
A celebration of the years from mere mortal sky ..."


/Happy Birthday, Geddy

 
SilentStrider [TotalFark] 2008-07-29 04:41:57 PM  
i'm only 31, i'm not THAT old.

/saw them live not quite 2 weeks ago.
//they still rock.

 
Silicon Sam 2008-07-29 04:52:26 PM  
First Rush concert for me was Moving Pictures Tour.

Would have been cool to see the stage setup guys wearing red coveralls...

 
Valdes 2008-07-29 05:32:00 PM  
I would just like to say that Rush is the worst band in the history of music. The lead singer can't "sing" and the drummer is nothing more than a souless Joe Satriani clone with a drum kit.

All Canadian music sucks.

And there's not a single popular Canadian musician that can sing.

 
priestrape 2008-07-29 05:37:58 PM  
Valdes: And there's not a single popular Canadian musician that can sing.

Joni Mitchell stubs out her cigarette in your eye

 
Damien not Evil 2008-07-29 05:44:44 PM  
First thing that came to mind (pops)

Sound quality of the song itself sucks, but it's worth just seeing the intro if you haven't.

Happy birthday Geddy

 
gbiewer 2008-07-29 05:47:22 PM  
Valdes: And there's not a single popular Canadian musician that can sing.

Bruce Cockburn would like to launch his rocket at you.

/that is *IF* he had one

 
Bhasayate [TotalFark] 2008-07-29 05:48:10 PM  
I saw RUSH play on the Roll The Bones tour. Primus opened for them. Primus Sucked, as usual. But, really, they had a rough crowd. Some fans were yelling Primus sucks, and then some non-fans thought they were really saying "Primus Sucks!", so some of the people there didn't get it all. I think this was right before "Tommy the Cat" hit the airwaves.

Anyway, RUSH is a great band. And yeah, Geddy has one of those voice you either like or don't. Lot's of people hate Kurt Cobain's voice or Peter Cetera's, too. And I really, really, can't stand Billy Joel. And OMFG I LOATHE Celine Dion and Cher, too.

Geddy's voice hasn't aged that well, for one thing. But, back in the day, he could hit the high notes real good.

He gets bonus "No Thanks" points for looking like a girl in the "Time Stands Still" video, you know, the one with Amie Mann in it, and they're all flying around in the air looking like uberdorks.

But, say what u want about that band, and his voice, but Geddy is DAMN farkING GOOD bass player, if you like rock, progressive, etc.


NICKLEBACK is the worst band in the history of music btw



NICKLEBACK is the worst band in the history of music btw


NICKLEBACK is the worst band in the history of music btw


NICKLEBACK is the worst band in the history of music btw


NICKLEBACK is the worst band in the history of music btw


NICKLEBACK is the worst band in the history of music btw

 
WhyteRaven74 [TotalFark] 2008-07-29 07:31:46 PM  
Valdes: All Canadian music sucks.

The Guess Who and Bachman Turner Overdrive would like a word with you.

 
whatshisname 2008-07-29 07:50:49 PM  
Valdes: I would just like to say that ...
All Canadian music sucks.
And there's not a single popular Canadian musician that can sing.


I would just like to say that you're talking out of your arse.

 
Not Available [TotalFark] 2008-07-29 08:46:03 PM  
FunkyColdMedinosaur

Not Available: Guilty as charged. First concert I ever went to was Rush (for Signals), back in 82 or 83. 7th grade. My dad drove me and some of my buddies. We sat in the nosebleed section. Everyone around us was sparking up, and we all went home stinking like dope. Good times.

Were you sitting next to me?


Maybe, if you were in Detroit.

/ can't recall if it was at Cobo or the Joe.

 
floorpie 2008-07-29 08:50:03 PM  
Happy Birthday, Geddy! From a fellow Canuckistanian
www.supercable.es

/apologetically hotlinked without a real sense of identity

 
craigdamage 2008-07-29 08:55:08 PM  
Hey Ged,

please turn that neck pickup up little will ya.

Bass ain't supposed to sound like a banjo.

 
Valdes 2008-07-29 09:24:45 PM  
Me:
All Canadian music sucks.

WhyteRaven74: The Guess Who and Bachman Turner Overdrive would like a word with you.

Me:
If that's all you can come up with, well... that's pathetic.


If the UK wanted to have a pissing contest over better bands, they might win. Canada even coming up with a 1/2 decent band is impossible.

 
frostus [TotalFark] 2008-07-29 09:31:30 PM  
Hey, I'm not that old. I won't be 55 for two more years!

/my first Rush concert, they were opening for BOC
//my second Rush concert, they were opening for Aerosmith
///the next five, headliners of course

 
TheHopeDiamond 2008-07-30 04:10:43 AM  
Actually, I'd listen to Geddy Lee before any of the soundalike posers currently popular.

Different is good.

 
TSE 2008-07-30 12:24:36 PM  
craigdamage: Hey Ged,

please turn that neck pickup up little will ya.

Bass ain't supposed to sound like a banjo.


haha... unknown farker has suggestions for Geddy Lee's bass tone. ha. ha. ha.

 
bv2112 2008-07-30 02:27:03 PM  
THE RIVER!!!

 
Mega_Doof 2008-07-30 02:48:37 PM  
A quick question here. Shouldn't the Elder Race have our planet by now to learn and grow so they can return in 2112? Because they only have about 100 years to leave and then get smart and then come back and show everyone how to play guitar.

 
Mega_Doof 2008-07-30 02:49:35 PM  
A quick question here. Shouldn't the Elder Race have left our planet by now to learn and grow so they can return in 2112? Because they only have about 100 years to leave and then get smart and then come back and show everyone how to play guitar.

/Bah!

 
coffee fiend 2008-07-30 05:39:45 PM  
Geddy and I are the same age(almost; I'll be 56 in October), and I'd give my eye teeth to have half of his energy and a quarter of his talent.


Valdes: Me:
All Canadian music sucks.

WhyteRaven74: The Guess Who and Bachman Turner Overdrive would like a word with you.

Me:
If that's all you can come up with, well... that's pathetic.


If the UK wanted to have a pissing contest over better bands, they might win. Canada even coming up with a 1/2 decent band is impossible.


There's a little three-piece ensemble called Triumph that would vehemently argue with that last point.

 
jpawlikowski 2008-07-30 07:44:06 PM  
poopalacarte: bv2112: OF SALESMEN!!!

Waddell: /of Salesmen

oooooOOF SALESmen!!


I love you guys.

/and china sang to me.
//not even remotely OOOOLLLLD- just shy of a second decade.
///ya rly

 
ImagiC 2008-07-31 12:42:20 AM  
Subby says: Geddy Lee turns 55 today and you Rush fans are OOOOLLLLD.


Geddy Lee may turn 55 today, but this Rush fan is only 32.


/and female (yes, we exist!)
//happy birthday Geddy!!

 
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