Rush La Villa Strangiato / Neil Peart's Roadshow

cybercoder: If there was one album, and especially one song that had a major impact on me, it had to be the Hemispheres album by Rush, and the key piece of music was "La Villa Strangiato." I was already a fan, Rush 2112 was my very first concert and I went to see them a total of 6 times over the years. I just had to convince my older brother, the drummer to check them out....



mikiesoft: My younger brother told me to see Rush live in concert, to truly experience this awesome band. Of course, I knew their music from radio, because I didn't have any of their albums, at the time. Then I saw Rush on their "Test For Echo" tour. Man, Neil Peart's drumming just blew me away!

This September Neil Peart is releasing Roadshow: Landscape With Drums, A Concert Tour by Motorcycle. Neil relates his tour experiences onstage with Rush, and on the open road with his BMW motorcycle.

My most memorable metal albums are probably Black Sabbath's Paranoid album. I must have worn the grooves off that LP. Deep Purple's Machine Head album made "Smoke On The Water" a standard for every garage band in the country. My personal favorites are "Highway Star" and "Space Truckin."

Iron Butterfly "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" was the standard for drummers from the late sixties into the 70's. If you could play that drum solo, you earned the respect of other musicians and your peers. That song was truly a "defining moment" in heavy metal history.



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