From: joemahoney1950@gmail.com   
      
   My fellow Americans, a few sermons back I reminded you of Rush's fondness for   
   the New Wave genre; their admitted efforts to incorporate some of this into   
   their music; and of the basis for this affinity in Doctor & the Medics smash   
   cover of "Spirit in the    
   Sky."  It was the Christian sentiment of the lyrics as much as the music that   
   generated Rush's enthusiasm.     
      
   But Neil & his cohorts did not love all New-Wave.  There was one song in   
   particular that provoked their ire.  This was "Mexican Radio" by the Wall of   
   Voodoo.   
      
   Many fans of the genre enjoyed this off-beat song, and the quirky video,   
   featuring a coked-up Stan Ridgeway on lead vocals and footage of typical   
   Mexican scenes: the dirty cities, the low-riders, pots of bubbling beans, and   
   bullfighting.     
      
   The trio from Canada, however, were incensed to see a band from the STATES   
   promoting this drug- and rapist-ridden, crime-infested culture.  Geddy and   
   Alex planned to make Rush's next concept album an expose on the evils of   
   Mexico -- and on the need to    
   create some sort of BARRIER to keep the inhabitants of the BARRIO out!   
      
   But while composing lyrics for this rebuttal one evening, Neil re-examined   
   Wall of Voodoo's video, and noticed the following couplet:  "I wish I was in   
   Tijuana/Eating barbecued iguana."   
      
   Neil, perhaps rock music's greatest Biblcal scholar, quickly recognized that   
   the "iguana" represented the Bibilical SNAKE - a symbol of evil, knowledge,   
   and chaos.  Wall of Voodoo's suggestion that this being should be eaten   
   revolted Neil; but the idea    
   that it should be barbecued (killed) delighted him.   
      
   Neil also noted the scenes of Mexico's favored sport, bull-fighting, in the   
   video, and discerned that this was an endorsement of the Christian idea that   
   Man has Dominion over Animals.   
      
   Neil phoned Alex and Neil, and suggested they hold back on their planned   
   attack on Wall of Voodoo.  He instead took pen to paper and began work on a   
   new album...   
      
   "Hold Your Fire," it would be called.   
      
   Joe "Spiritual Not Religious" M.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)