working on a holiday sucks (Rush discussion follows)
Oye.
Because I took Memorial Day off this year to spend in western New York and southern Ontario, I get stuck sitting at work today when any sane person knows that no one will be coming in. Let's face it, Labour Day is 'the last holiday of summer,' and people will be BBQ-ing, drinking, or both...if they haven't been doing it all weekend anyway. I'm sure the first thing they're thinking about when they got up this morning is, 'Boy, let's go get us a projector and screen! I have no idea how to set it up, but it'll be fun!'
Heh.
So it's quiet, and I'm sitting here, and thus I'm getting to play my music a little louder than I normally would. For example, right now I've got in a Rush soundboard from 1994...Darkness and Light I believe it's titled, from Landover Maryland on 26 April 1994. Great great sounding show...I believe it was one of the first Rush shows I got, and I;m reading over the reviews on the DRE site about this particular iteration of the show.
I remember when Counterparts came out in 1994; I had enjoyed Roll the Bones and Presto, but felt they lacked something. Pardon the crudity, but part of it, to me, was a distinct lack of what Mike Portnoy would have called 'balls and chunk.' The songs were great, but even going back to the older proggy albums like 2112 and stuff, there were songs that kicked serious butt and were hard, metal-y songs.
Then counterparts came out, preceded by the radio single 'Stick It Out.'
And I was hooked again.
Counterparts remains to this day my most played, favoured Rush album from the Atlantic period (1989 to date). While Presto, RtB, Test for Echo and Vapor Trails still have a lot of great moments, Counterparts is for me the pinnacle of their newer output.