u/WinchelltheMagician

I've watched a ton of video content of Anika's triumph. I've been aware of Rush since 1975, and I watched some friends become deep Rush fans who constantly quoted lyrics from 2112--that concept album totally took over their imaginations in the way Supper's Ready would occupy mine. I never became that level of Rush fan, but I saw them a few times starting around the late 70s. Anyhow, after watching some recent footage, I checked out old footage of the band playing Xanadu. Within a few seconds, I recognized the music as an extension of material on the Lamb. I had never heard the Genesis, or maybe just Hackett, influence so clearly before. That atmospheric intro was very familiar sounding. I knew Geddy and Alex were influence by 73 era Genesis and Yes....but, didn't quite hear the influence in their music. Are there other songs by Rush that reveal the influence of early Genesis?

photo by Haywood Magee

"In an email, Wilson confirmed that CREC’s version of Christianity doesn’t include Mormons. “We would consider the Mormons to be a non-Christian faith with Christian terminology,” he wrote, and added that his church would consider LDS people to be “polytheists.”"

Here's What Pete Hegseth's Religion Believes about Mormons"-current Mother Jones article

I was just listening to Peter talk about his latest song released (Hard Lesson to Learn) and it struck me how I began to lose interest in his output as his output became less immediate, more polished, more tinkered with and perfected slowly (current release began in the 80s!) [So was the start of it] involves multi participants-the expert at this type of bass, the expert at this reed mouth flute, etc, etc. I think his music is amazing, the sonics and production are incredible, and all of that carefully tweaked sonic perfection has left me missing the emotion, rawness and dissonance of Melt as a rare special moment.

Nothing against any of his "band" but I would love it if PG dropped Manu, David, Tony, and others for some new blood, new input, ideas and sounds, new rawness and less old and polished perfection.