Greatest band .. ever. Geddy Lee wishes he was this badass,
Nice clip! Zepplin is pretty tough to compare to, but Geddy Lee hands down is one of the greatest bass players to grace the stage, along with the fact that he'll sing and play pedal notes at the same time. As for his voice some like it and some don't. Peart's lyrics have some real depth to them and as Axe said what's not to like about a little Orwell and Rand stirred in with your rock-n-roll and that's coming from a progressive liberal.
I think over again my small adventures. My fears, those small ones that seemed so big, for all the vital things I had to get and to reach, and yet, there is only one great thing, the only thing, to live to see the great day that dawns, and the light that fills the world. - Old Inuit Song
“Superstitions are religious forms surviving the loss of ideas. Some truth no longer known or a truth which has changed its aspect is the origin and explanation of all. The name from the Latin, superstes, signfies that which survives, they are the dead remnants of old knowledge or opinion” - Eliphas Levi (138 The History of Magic).
“Let no one wake a man brusquely for it is a matter difficult of cure if the soul find not its way back to him”, the Upanishads of ancient India ( 58 Our Oriental Heritage, Durant).
"Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring" – Edward Gorey.
"The bright day is done and we are for the dark" - Shakespeare
"No lamp burns till morning" - Persian proverb.
“The living close the eyes of the dead, but it is the dead that open the eyes of the living”— Old Slavic saying.
'The best place to hide a light is in the sun' – old Arab proverb.
'To thee, thou wedding-guest!
He prayeth well who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast.
He prayeth best who loveth best,
All things both great and small:
For the dear God, who loveth us,
He made and loveth all' - Samuel Taylor Coleridge (VII Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner).
SM: "And what about the voice of Geddy Lee. How did it get so high? I wonder if he speaks like an ordinary guy?"
Spiral Stairs: "Yeah, I know him, he does."
SM: "Well, you're my fact-checking cuz."
And for some further fun... I tend to obsess over two bands at a time, a British band and an American band. In the late 90's, the American band was Pavement and the British band was Blur.
"I woke up in a Soho doorway
A policeman knew my name
He said you can go sleep at home tonight
If you can get up and walk away"