VALENTINE ROCKREM's barnburning tour across South America will likely be a hit, and a lot of fun for the three-piece with bad hair, but in no way will it compare with another gringo three-piece band's success down here: RUSH.
The top progressive rock band of all time, according to a recent FBO poll, pulled out peppy classics like 'By Tor & the Snow Dog' to delight over 100,000 mostly 20-year-olds in Rio for a triple-live album. If you don't believe that model-looking young women and men can't go ga-ga for Rush, watch this priceless video of 'YYZ':
I mean, really.
Today in a north Bogota hotel's breakfast area, FBO overheard a young Venezuelan/American couple -- maybe 21 or 22 -- chatting over eggs. The Venezuelan guy suddenly broke into this, copied into the FBO diaries in real time:
'In Canada there's this progressive rock band with an unreal drummer. Some drummers just sound like drum machines [simulating a 10-tom fill], but this band Rush's drummer is different. Neil Peart. I don't have any of their music on my iPod, but I have some songs from my old band like that I can play for you. Our drummer was like that too. It's amazing.
The Colorado blonde countered:
'Sounds cool.'
For REM, everybody hurts. But only Rush fosters young love, young international love.
Rush4ever.
FBO Admin
Mobile HQ -- Bogota, Colombia
* More evidence of how well Rush translates to the southern America:
3 comments:
this post brought a tear to my eye. it also brought me closer to the heart.
It hurts us not to have used 'Closer to the Heart' as the headline here. Couldn't get 'Cygnus X-1' off the mind, when thinking of apt comparisons...
Awesome video!
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