Buffalo Boy's Blog

I have been ignoring Mandatory Music Monday's the last few weeks and for that I apologize. Either I don't have time to post or like the Obama events of this week, I just plain forgot.

So, today Im just going to give a little Youtube music video with the promise that I will start to make regular or at least semi-regular attempts to get back to doing the Monday thing.

Today, I give you Rush's Show Don't Tell. Like most my age I started listening to Rush as a middle/highschooler back in the 80's. My first Rush purchase was Hold Your Fire, then Power Windows. The two synth heavy albums that to this day are still two of my favorite Rush releases.

Then in 1989 as a sophmore in highschool, Presto came out. In many ways it was still synth heavy material but the opening track brought them back to the drums, bass and guitar they were always known for and really got me into the older Rush like Caress of Steel and their self titled release. Since Presto they have slowly but surely gone back to a heavier drums, bass and guitar sound.

Show Don't Tell was awesome, starting with a little quiet Neil drum thing and explodes into the heart of the song, check it out: