Rush is the real article. What you see (and hear) is what you get. In this era of “alternative facts,” religious and political hypocrites, and legions of performative actors and rage-baiters (“blankers and boasters / all the bluffers and posers”), this band remains a breath of fresh, very real air.
(more…)Tag: music
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I learned that one of my favorite musicians passed away a couple of days ago: Máire Brennan of Clannad. Not very big news in the States, I’m afraid, but it’s a big loss for anyone with an appreciation for traditional Irish/Celtic music.
Her name is often Anglicized as Moya—which I guess was to help the rest of the world pronounce it properly—and I got to meet her in 1998 when she was promoting her album Perfect Time. She had a brief performance and a CD signing at Borders Books & Music at the World Trade Center store, where I was working at the time.
A strange voice calling ‘Journey’s at an end…
Foreshadowed and Foresung 