My Favorite Musician

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder I guess you could say music’s beauty is in the ear of the listener.

On my way in to work today I heard a song that my initial reaction was how can someone like this @#$%?

But really who am I to say that anything on the radio is bad?  If there is a market for that song that must mean someone likes it.  So again who am I, who is anyone to say that something is bad?

This brings me to my favorite musician or band in this case.  My favorite band is and has been for about 30 years RUSH.  I remember someone saying to me upon looking at my concert tee shirt, “Rush huh?  They sure make a lot of noise for 3 guys.”  Obviously not a fan, but a pretty accurate statement.

RUSH truly proves my point that musical beauty is in the ear of the listener.  Some of my music, to me is so melodic, or has such a catchy beat that my first thought is how can anyone not like this?  I don’t think that about RUSH.  Again I love them but I can see how someone could totally hate them.

Here are some reasons why I love RUSH:

Animate / Analog Kid / Available Light / Chemistry / Distant Early Warning / Entre Nous / Freewill / Ghost Rider / Leave That Thing Alone / Limelight / Malignant Narcissism / Manhattan Project / Natural Science / New World Man / Red Sector A / Roll the Bones / Show Don’t Tell / The Enemy Within / The Spirit of the Radio / The Weapon

So many more…