A couple of pics on Flickr topped 1000 views this week.
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1000 Views
A couple of pics on Flickr topped 1000 views this week.
The Professor Calls it Quits
In 2009 English prog rock/jazz drummer Bill Bruford was about to have his 60th birthday and he did something unexpected. He retired.
Neil Peart, a well known Bill Bruford fan, was probably sitting at home reading the news and thinking: Life goal. Retire at 60. I don’t know whether or not that actually happened, but I’ve always imagined that’s how it went down.
That was six years ago. Neil Peart is now 63. It’s about three years late, but it’s finally happened. The Professor has announced his retirement.
I’m happy for him without actually being happy, if you know what I mean. It pleases me very much that we got to see Rush on the R40 tour as it now pretty much looks like Rush is done for good.
I am sad. Very sad. But also pretty happy that I got as much great music and as many great shows as I did.
Thanks, Professor.
1000 Hits
This little picture just reached 1000 hits on Flickr. My 31st picture to do so.
I feel so proud.
R40 and Oggl
Still messing around with using Oggl to hipstafy some of my Rush R40 in New York pictures. Why? Because I’m one sentimental red head, that’s why. Also because as I clean the house I’m listening to R40 New York bootlegs. Why? Because I’m not ready to let go.
What was I talking about? Oh yeah, Oggl. Turns out I am the only Oggl user who used the tags R40 or R40Live. There are thousands of pics with those tags on friggin’ Instagram, but only the few I posted on Oggl. During the Periscope fun last night I tried to Google the number of active users on Oggl and the only numbers I found were for Hipstamatic users at the time Oggl launched in 2013. I don’t think that’s a good sign, do you?
Anyway, here are more hipsta-Rush pics.
Rush R40: It’s Over
Well kids, the Rush R40 tour is over. I was running out of gas during the great periscope viewing of the second set. I turned off the lights and laid down during Jacobs Ladder. I blinked once and suddenly Eugene Levy was introducing the encour. I shut it off after the great “F*ck you, puppet.”
But what does it all mean? Band members have been quoted saying that they are not breaking up, but no one has given any definitive plans for the future. Maybe we’ll make another album. Maybe we’ll do residencies instead of big tours (if that’s the case, get your passports ready as any such residency would most likely be in Toronto, where 2/3 of the band lives). Maybe we’ll tour, just not for months at a time. If the band doesn’t know what’s next, how can we even speculate?
Ray Daniels, who has managed the band longer than Neil Peart has been a member, has let it be known that he thinks an end to touring is a bad idea. Who know, maybe he has enough influence over them to talk them into another full blown tour. I doubt it though. I couldn’t see any signs that age was catching up to them during the 2.5 hours they were playing, but I have no idea what the other 21.5 hours of the day are like.
Here is my hope for the future of Rush, based on absolutely nothing but my own wishes: Take a few months off, start writing, make a new album, rehearse for a month or so, book a week at a smaller arena in Toronto, or Radio City Music Hall in New York, and politely ask your fans to come to you (this fan will be first in line), wash-rinse-repeat for as long as you have the physical ability and desire to do so. That would be pretty sweet.
If not, then we the fanatics have 40+ years worth of music to continue to enjoy for as long as we want. When you think of it, that’s a pretty astonishing gift they’ve given us. I will thank them for it until the end of my days.
I feel like I say this every Friday during the Spring, Summer, and Fall, but I want to try and get up early so that I can shoot the sunrise tomorrow. I keep saying it, yet I haven’t done it since November.
So I want to get up super early tomorrow morning (4:30am-ish) and at the same time I want to stay up super late tomorrow night (1:00-2:00am) so that I can try to catch the last Rush show on Periscope (if someone is nice enough to stream it for us). I also want to mow the lawn, clean the bathroom and the kitchen, and take the cat’s litter box outside and hose the ever lovin’ hell out of it.
Could be a super busy day tomorrow.
I might need to take a nap in the afternoon.
That actually sounds like a super awesome idea! Nap time, kids!
Sunrise
One More Show
On my lunch break, listening to R40 bootlegs, messing with Hipstamatic’s Oggl app, feeling all the Final Tour feels.
I don’t care for this getting old shit.
Inside the Red Head's Head 