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New album from Rush nearly ready
Posten on: 2006-12-19 20:11:13
Progressive trio Rush has nearly finished recording its next studio album, which is due sometime in 2007 via Atlantic. The tracks were put to tape at Allaire Studios in upstate New York with co-producer Nick Raskulinecz. "I have never enjoyed the recording process so much, nor been so satisfied with the results," drummer Peart writes on his site.Neil Peart went on to relate an instance in the studio when Raskulinecz pushed him to try something out of the ordinary. "We had been working on a complex, syncopated section in one of the songs -- a part that had taken me hours to learn -- and Nick turned to me and said, 'Do you think you could solo over that?'""Ha -- what a question! Of course I could solo over it. I'd love to! But I would never dare to suggest such a thing myself," he continued. "When Nick pushed me like that, he would say, 'Hey man, I wouldn't ask if I didn't know you could do it,' and of course that was a kind of challenge. All of us picked up that 'can do' spirit, and it came to express the mood of our sessions at Allaire -- brash, confident, determined, inspired, challenged, fired-up, defiant, excited."The drummer previously said that some of his lyrics for the new songs were inspired by his motorcycle journeys throughout America, chronicled in the recent book "Roadshow: Landscape With Drums.""Just seeing the power of evangelical Christianity and contrasting that with the power of fundamentalist religion all over the world in its different forms had a big effect on me," he said."You try to put your own way of seeing the world into some kind of congruence with other peoples, and that's difficult for me," he admits. "I mean, I see the world in what I think to be a perfectly obvious and rational way, but when you go out into it and see the way other people think and behave, and express themselves on church signs, you realize, 'Well, I'm not really part of this club.'" The upcoming studio album will be Rush's first since 2002's "Vapor Trails."
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Lou Reed performs classic 73 masterpiece
Posten on: 2006-12-17 21:51:18
Former frontman with the Velvet Underground, Lou Reed played his 1973 album 'Berlin' at St Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn last night (December 14).The desperately bleak concept album was first released to a critical panning and commercial failure when Reed was at the height of his glam-rock stardom.The record revolves around the story of two dead-beat lovers embroiled in drug-use, domestic violence and prostitution all set to the background of the eponymous city.Until now, Lou Reed had never performed the album live but over 30 years after its release, he was finally convinced to revisit the album by patrons of the venue and the album's cult fanbase.The performance was given a semi-theatrical element thanks to a stage-set and projections, while Reed was backed up by a cast of nearly 30 musicians and singers.After playing the album in sequence, Reed also treated the sold-out crowd to versions of the Velvet Underground staples 'Sweet Jane' and 'Candy Says' - the latter of which featured Antony & the Johnsons' Antony Hegarty sharing the lead vocals.The track list for the venue was:'Sad Song''Berlin''Lady Day''Men Of Good Fortune''Caroline Says (I)''How Do You Think It Feels''Oh, Jim''Caroline Says (II)''The Kids''The Bed''Sad Song''Sweet Jane''Candy Says''The Minuet'
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