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Johnny C:
Don't forget the monkey with the fez.

Guys, I think I have another band I should include in here, and I will write it today and post after work.

redbeardjim:
My band is Rush.

I became a Rush fan in possibly the most stereotypical way imaginable -- I was a D&D-playing teenaged nerd in the 80s. My older brother and his friends were much cooler than any of the people in my grade (for values of "cool" as defined by a D&D-playing nerd, anyway), so I hung out with them by preference and absorbed their music. The Who and Pink Floyd were prominent, Yes as well, but Rush was the centerpiece, as it were. Not too fancy, just three guys playing the hell out of their instruments, making it come together coherently, and making me think the way music hadn't done before.

Why are they still my band? To an extent, I don't know. There's the nostalgia factor, certainly. That wasn't always the best part of my life, but the parts that had Rush associated (including my first concert) were as good as it got.
I love that the same three guys have been playing pretty much whatever they want for more than 30 years now and making a very successful living at it.
I love that they come on stage to the "Three Stooges" theme.
I love the "freeowwww" at the beginning of Tom Sawyer, and the Morse code of YYZ.
I love that they can still set my brain on fire with new material -- Vapor Trails had some remarkable stuff on it.
I love the fact that it takes me three or four listens of a new album before I manage to really hear everything that's going on.
And I love seeing them in concert, both for the music and for the atmosphere. Most folks are familiar with the scene from PCU where a character is told "You're wearing the shirt of the band you're going to see? Don't be That Guy."

At a Rush concert, everyone is That Guy, and we all know we're being That Guy, and nobody cares.

Vantar:
I'd like to talk about two bands that I feel are kind of mine, hence my first post on this forum. They are both Swedish, they are both duos, but they differ alot in type of music.

First I will talk about Johnossi. Two guys, John, guitar player and singer, and Ossi, on the drums. But that doesn't really matter, bacause in some way they manage to sound like being atleast 4 or 5 people on stage or in the studio. And the music shoots straight into my stomach, making me want to jump around and bawl. They sing about being in your twenties and feel that you haven't achieved anything in your life. Pretentiuos maybe, but the frutstration is compelling, and as they offer no way out, no life changing solutions, so I just tag along and bang my head.

http://www.johnossi.com/
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=49632866

Next up is the Knife. I don't know, maybe some of you have heard of them, in Sweden they are getting kind of big. The Knife consists of a sister and a brother, and they play electronica. So for you who can't stand that, keep away. But (musically) they are one of the best things that have ever happened to me. It took some time to get into their music, as it's not allways easy to listen to, espacially their last album is kind of dark, but when I did it was so amazing. I won't even try to explain, I just want to ask you to give them a chance. They get into my head, they mess with my feelings, some songs makes my skin tingle in such a way that I just don't know what to do. It is strange and awsome.

http://www.theknife.net/o0o.html
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=16339226

Kai:
The Knife are hella awesome.

Vantar:
I saw them, the Knife, live just a week ago. They don't give alot of shows, so it was kinda special, and it was truly awsome. They had a big black transparent screen if front of them on stage, with projections on it, and they stood behind it in black clothes, with their faces glowing somehow. It was realy spectacular, and made me love them even more.

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