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ramses · January 31st, 2008, 09:39 AM

Don't have the first Rush album, eh? I wouldn't bother. When they started in 69, they were into Cream, The Yardbirds, and Zeppelin. The first album has a few good songs on it, but John Rutsey's drumming is just average...at best. And there's a lot of oooh babe, and yeah on it from Geddy. Their first album was delayed, and supposed to come out 2 years earlier, but there was a problem with OPEC, crude oil/gas shortages. As you know, records were made out of some kind of petroleum by-product. They were still back in the early 70's, mimicking Zep, and didn't start developing their sound till the next album. The reasons Rutsey left was that he had diabetes, and couldn't take "road food" anymore, and he wanted to go in a more Bad Company Direction. Geddy and Alex wanted to go prog like Yes, Elp...etc. I'll listen to the first album about once a year, and only listen to three tracks. I'm like you Razoredge....even though I heard the poor man's Deep Purple criticisms, I got Demons and Wizards anyway. Hell, I figured then, if they sounded like Purple great, it would be an added bonus if they did. But, no, they're not really much like DP at all, just a little. Win-win situation!! I like Deep Purple's Fireball a lot as well, you?

January 31st, 2008, 09:39 AM	#80 (permalink)
ramses Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 901	Don't have the first Rush album, eh? I wouldn't bother. When they started in 69, they were into Cream, The Yardbirds, and Zeppelin. The first album has a few good songs on it, but John Rutsey's drumming is just average...at best. And there's a lot of oooh babe, and yeah on it from Geddy. Their first album was delayed, and supposed to come out 2 years earlier, but there was a problem with OPEC, crude oil/gas shortages. As you know, records were made out of some kind of petroleum by-product. They were still back in the early 70's, mimicking Zep, and didn't start developing their sound till the next album. The reasons Rutsey left was that he had diabetes, and couldn't take "road food" anymore, and he wanted to go in a more Bad Company Direction. Geddy and Alex wanted to go prog like Yes, Elp...etc. I'll listen to the first album about once a year, and only listen to three tracks. I'm like you Razoredge....even though I heard the poor man's Deep Purple criticisms, I got Demons and Wizards anyway. Hell, I figured then, if they sounded like Purple great, it would be an added bonus if they did. But, no, they're not really much like DP at all, just a little. Win-win situation!! I like Deep Purple's Fireball a lot as well, you? Last edited by ramses : January 31st, 2008 at 09:41 AM.