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   Crap to you, not to the millions of Rush fans who love Progressive Rock. Eg.   
   If a fan of Rap called The Beatles crap, would you blindly accept their   
   opinion? IOW, there are opinions, and then there are educated opinions. The   
   arrogance of you to call a    
   RNRHOF inductee crap!? I wouldn't mind your uneducated opinion had you   
   actually sat down and listened to RUSH. You are obviously not a fan of   
   Progressive Rock, despite having once claimed that you also grew up on Classic   
   Rock from a young age. Having    
   attended HS during the Big 80s, many already had RUSH patches on their denim   
   jackets. I had Zep and Hendrix.>>    
      
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   Triumph & Zebra immediately come to mind. The late Steve "Steamin'" Clark from   
   Def Leppard cited Alex Lifeson as his favorite guitarist. The same Lifeson who   
   was one of the few lead guitarists to give Eddie Van Halen a run for his   
   money. Consistently    
   voted in Guitar Magazine poll as one of the Top guitarists of his era. Les   
   Claypool of Primus cites Geddy & RUSH as a major influence. Also one of the   
   few lead singers/bassists to have success in Rock. Billy Corgan used to play   
   RUSH for his parents as a    
   teen, because he was fascinated with the musical & lyrical depth of Geddy,   
   Alex & Neil Peart in particular. The one who wrote almost all of their lyrics.   
   In the end, the human ear does not stray that much when it comes to good   
   music. Then again, you're    
   the same shnook who believed that Billy Joel (umpteenth sweet, Jewish NYer) is   
   in the same musical genre as Barry Manilow ("" eh). LOL! You're tone-deaf! eh   
   -D, "I was born in Willowdale, Ontario. I was a quiet nebbishe kid. My parents   
   were both    
   Holocaust survivors and emigrated here after the war. They basically arrived   
   with $10 in their pocket. Worked their way up to lower-middle class kind of   
   income and raised me in the suburbs. When we first moved in we were one of the   
   first Jewish families    
   to live in our neighborhood. We were constantly living in terror with being   
   beat up because of that. It was an exciting time (sarcastic laughter). When I   
   was 12, my father passed away and I had to go to synagogue in the morning and   
   evening every day. I    
   was not really allowed to listen to music. So that whole year was devoid of   
   what all the other kids were just starting to get turned onto" - GEDDY LEE (b.   
   Gary Weinrib), RUSH: BEYOND THE LIGHTED STAGE   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)