Rush news and rumor mill
This is from the Power Windows site at 2112.net:
RUMOR - NEW ALBUM WORKING TITLE: "SNAKES AND ARROWS": Although nothing has been announced officially, there are rumors that the new Rush album's working title is "Snakes And Arrows" or "Snakes And Ladders". Interviews with Neil Peart have stated that religion in America will be the primary lyrical topic. This explaination of "Snakes and Arrows" sheds a bit of light on the revelance of such a title:
"Chutes and Ladders, the popular children’s game, is derived from the ancient Hindu game Leela, or Snakes and Arrows, which charts the ups and downs of the soul’s path toward reunion with the Infinite. Snakes and Arrows was designed by the seers and saints of India as a tool for understanding the relationship of the individual self to the Absolute Self. For thousands of years the 72 spaces on this game board have enabled players to chart the paths that represent the course of their lives. Each space represents a virtue or a vice, an aspect of consciousness, or a plane of reality and is accompanied by a commentary explaining its meaning. The player’s progress on the board is dictated by the fall of a die corresponding to the forces of karma. Repeated encounters with the snakes and arrows on the board reveal the full meaning of the commentaries and can give shape to habitual patterns of the player, resulting in greater self-understanding and even a gradual detachment from the ego’s delusions."
In other news Marillion's new record, "Somewhere Else" comes out April 9. Unfortunately the band is not, at this time, planning a North American tour.
Porcupine Tree's new record (which also drops in April) is to be called "Fear of a Blank Planet."
Finally, I think I'm coming down with a cold from yesterday's temperature drop. Achoo.
All for now
P
RUMOR - NEW ALBUM WORKING TITLE: "SNAKES AND ARROWS": Although nothing has been announced officially, there are rumors that the new Rush album's working title is "Snakes And Arrows" or "Snakes And Ladders". Interviews with Neil Peart have stated that religion in America will be the primary lyrical topic. This explaination of "Snakes and Arrows" sheds a bit of light on the revelance of such a title:
"Chutes and Ladders, the popular children’s game, is derived from the ancient Hindu game Leela, or Snakes and Arrows, which charts the ups and downs of the soul’s path toward reunion with the Infinite. Snakes and Arrows was designed by the seers and saints of India as a tool for understanding the relationship of the individual self to the Absolute Self. For thousands of years the 72 spaces on this game board have enabled players to chart the paths that represent the course of their lives. Each space represents a virtue or a vice, an aspect of consciousness, or a plane of reality and is accompanied by a commentary explaining its meaning. The player’s progress on the board is dictated by the fall of a die corresponding to the forces of karma. Repeated encounters with the snakes and arrows on the board reveal the full meaning of the commentaries and can give shape to habitual patterns of the player, resulting in greater self-understanding and even a gradual detachment from the ego’s delusions."
In other news Marillion's new record, "Somewhere Else" comes out April 9. Unfortunately the band is not, at this time, planning a North American tour.
Porcupine Tree's new record (which also drops in April) is to be called "Fear of a Blank Planet."
Finally, I think I'm coming down with a cold from yesterday's temperature drop. Achoo.
All for now
P