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1976 – Part 2.1: Rush – 2112
July 29, 2021 destroyerofharmony1976, 2112, Hard Rock, music, progressive rock, review, Rush, sticking to their guns 4 Comments
The album cover captured my attention immediately.
The "Red Star" was easily associated with the Communist governments of the time. Kids these days would have no idea, but in 1976, Eastern Europe and parts of South East Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Central/South America were under Communist governments or military dictatorships. And these kind of governments like to control everything and everyone.
Coming into 2112, Rush was in a predicament. D
o they stay true to themselves and their art or do they give in to what the label wants?
In the Guitar Legends magazine focusing on Rush, Neal Peart said the following;
"Caress didn't actually do any worse than the albums before it, at that point, all three had sold about 100,000 copies a piece in the U.S.
But if our record company hadn't been in such turmoil I don't think we would have been able to keep our recording contract.
By the end of that year we were unable to pay our crews salary or even our own. Things were dire and we were getting a lot of pressure.
Polygram had written us off before "2112" had come out. We'd seen their financial predictions for 1976 and we weren't even on the list!"
In the same magazine, Alex Lifeson said the following;
"The Fountain Of Lamneth" on "Caress of Steel" was really our first fill concept song and "2112" was an extension of it.
That was a tough period for Rush because "Caress of Steel" didn't do that well commercially, but we were really happy with it and wanted to develop that style.
Because there was so much negative feeling from the record company and our management was worried, we came back with full force with "2112". There was a lot of passion and anger on that record. It was about one person standing up against everybody else".
History shows that they made the right decision.
And for all the hate "Caress Of Steel" got from the label, it was the album that bridged the first era of Rush albums to "2112".
The entire Side One is all "2112". Which is broken up into 7 sections.
I. "Overture"
An instrumental that acts as a summary in which you get to hear all of the melodic pieces which appear on the song.
II. "The Temples of Syrinx"
A sombre melody with the words "And the meek shall inherit the Earth" is sung before the distorted guitars kick in for "The Temples of Syrinx".
This is a future where individualism and creativity are outlawed and the population controlled by a cabal of malevolent Priests who reside in the Temples of Syrinx.
And the way copyright law is going, creativity can be outlawed as every single melody known to the human race has been used and corporations are doing their best to lock them up under ridiculous terms, like life of the creator plus 90 years after death. But they seem to forget that creativity is based on influences.
We've taken care of everything
The words you read, the songs you sing
The pictures that give pleasure to your eyes
The schooling system is designed for conformity, a one size fits millions approach. The schools are factories for degrees later on. You can't even get an Administration role in a Company without a Uni/College degree. And Masters Degrees are the biggest scams ever. A pure profit making product for the colleges.
III. "Discovery"
A classical acoustic guitar announces the arrival of "Discovery", found inside a cave and the founder rediscovers the lost art of music.
I can't wait to share this new wonder
The people will all see its light
Let them all make their own music
The Priests praise my name on this night
Creativity and imagination is progress. Without it, we stagnate.
IV. "Presentation"
This is like Zeppelin Rush which tells the story of how the guitar is presented to the priest of the Temple of Syrinx, who then proceed to destroy it and banish the man who found it.
Listen to my music
And hear what it can do
There's something here as strong as life
I know that it will reach you
But the Priests didn't want to know about his ancient relic. It was the downfall of The Elders. The emotion and escapism that comes from listening to music.
Just before the song finishes, they go into the "Temples of Syrinx" riff and Lifeson solo's over it. Check it out, its guitar hero worthy.
V. "Oracle: The Dream"
A shimmering chorus guitar kicks off the song in which the man who found the guitar dreams of another world in which creativity and individualism is allowed and full of song and laughter.
VI. "Soliloquy"
We are back to the sounds of water running down, like how we heard in "Discovery". But the lyrical theme is heavy. The man who was filled with joy at finding the guitar, is now in despair at living a life that's cold and empty. So the only way for him to be with the world in his dream is for his life's blood to spill over.
Make sure you check out Lifeson's solo. So bluesy, full of bends and emotion. Brilliant.
VII. "Grand Finale"
Major key chords kick off the "Grand Finale". And it's up to the listener to decide what happened.
When I first heard the lines "Attention all planets of the Solar Federation, We have assumed control" I presumed that the "Solar Federation" put down some uprising and assumed control again.
Then I thought it meant that the "Solar Federation" was overthrown by someone and they are alerting all the planets that there is a new government in control.
"A Passage to Bangkok"
It kicks off Side 2.
A great riff to start a song about all the places in the world that grow the best weed. The track names a number of cities and countries, including Bogotá, Acapulco, Morocco, Bangkok and Kathmandu, Nepal.
I just finished watching "The Serpent" on Netflix and how the main character preyed on tourists who came to Bangkok and Kathmandu in the late 60s and 70's to experience those weed highs, kidnapping them, robbing them and then killing them.
I like the harmony guitars to kick off the song.
How good is the music in the section, when Lee sings, "you have entered the twilight zone"?
Use the key, unlock the door
See what your fate might have in store…
I never watched "The Twilight Zone" on TV. I've read some short stories on it and in the 80's a documentary was aired on Australian TV's about strange phenomena and they called it "The Twilight Zone".
It's Lifeson expressing his love for Led Zeppelin. It's got hard rock distorted chords and clean tone strummed verses.
This is a great song.
How good are the verse riff arpeggios?
"Something for Nothing"
The acoustic guitar intro gets me interested. And the way Lee and Peart come in, they change the groove completely.
The song is about freewill and decision making, a topic I write about regularly on this blog when I'm putting my point of views out there on certain songs and the lyrical message.
You don't get something for nothing
You can't have freedom for free
In the end "Freedom isn't free".
If you don't believe me, why does it cost so much to live in a free country.
What you own is your own kingdom
What you do is your own glory
What you love is your own power
What you live is your own story
In your head is the answer
Let it guide you along
Let your heart be the anchor
And the beat of your own song
The lyrics are prophetic. Rush didn't wait for someone to tell them what to do. They did what they wanted to do and they wrote their own story. In the end, it was a backs against the wall album. If it bombed commercially, they would go down in flames. But it didn't.
They stuck to their guns, did what was important to them and built a career from it.
3x Platinum in the U.S and 2x Platinum in Canada.
Press Play, relax and "Attention all Planets of the Solar Federation. We have assumed control."
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1996 – Part 2.2: Rush – Test For Echo
June 10, 2021 destroyerofharmony1996, Alex Lifeson, band, Geddy Lee, Hard Rock, Neal Peart, progressive rock, review, Rush, Test For Echo 9 Comments
"Test for Echo" was released on 10 September 1996 on Anthem Records. Rush was one of the earlier leaders in forming their own label to release and distribute their music.
Anthem was formed in 1977 and Geddy Lee, Neil Peart and Alex Lifeson became associate directors of Anthem. Apart from Rush, they also releases other Canadian acts like Max Webster.
I've already written about the tracks "Test For Echo" here and "Driven" here but I still haven't done a review on it.
After taking a well earned break after "Counterparts", Lee focused on starting a family, Lifeson went to work on a solo album and Peart studied with Freddie Gruber, the guru of swing drumming. Peart's constant reinvention of his style is a huge component to Rush not sounding the same on each record.
"Test For Echo"
Here we go in slow mo
To me, it's the best Rush song from the 90's.
The guitar riffs from Alex Lifeson are so easy to digest, powerful, heavy and groovy, even when they are down tuned a whole step.
Lifeson begins the song with interesting arpeggios. He achieves the unique sounds by combining root five power chords and leaving the 1st and 2nd strings open.
Geddy Lee and Neil Peart lay down a solid foundation, especially in the Chorus, when Lifeson just plays those arpeggios and Lee and Lifeson, set the groove.
Also check out how Peart plays a subdued half time beat in the verses and then starts to pick it up double time. A good drummer could make a simple riff sound fresh by doing just that.
And of course, no Rush song is complete without the lyrics of Peart, a critique of the American justice system which turns criminals into media stars.
Some kind of trouble on the sensory screen
Camera curves over caved-in cop cars
As technology progressed so did the coverage of real time situations. It's one of the big reasons people watched the news to begin with, to see what was breaking.
Don't touch that dial,
We're in denial
We didn't touch the dial at all, we just kept upgrading our TVs, giving the TV makers billions of dollars in revenue. Because we loved having all of this entertainment in our houses. Live news was the first form of reality TV.
Now crime's in syndication on TV
Crime and sex always got eyeballs. It didn't matter the medium. And now with the internet, where everything is available, it feels like we are all so desensitized to it.
It was one of the first tracks finished for the "Test For Echo" album, featuring three separate bass tracks; the main part, the harmony part and the sub bass bottom end, and they sound as one massive bass track.
Neil Peart also plays a little bit behind the beat which gives the riffs a heavier character.
Driven up and down in circles
Skidding down a road of black ice
You know the saying of "going round in circles" well in this case, the feeling is that we are not achieving anything because someone else is controlling the wheel and we keep coming back to the same point or problem.
But it's my turn to drive
We need to take the wheel and be in control of our choices and decisions. We need to learn from them, grow with them and take ownership of our choices and actions. There is no one to blame when it's our turn to drive.
The change from distortion to acoustic is soothing before the fuzz kicks in. And the simple chord progression of F, G and Am makes it so accessible.
Driven to the margin of error
Driven to the edge of control
Driven to the margin of terror
Driven to the edge of a deep, dark hole
How driven or ambitious can we be, that we find ourselves driven to the edge of control, or a deep dark hole?
By the road to somewhere I've never been
A simple meaning of what it means to drive. It offers us the freedom to leave our city limits and go to another city and another.
The road unwinds before me
And I go riding on
It's what we always do, we get up and live and go riding on. And we sacrifice or give up control, a little bit of our freedom each time which brings us back to the first verse and the words of being driven up and down in circles.
And the cycle repeats.
"Half The World"
The mix of acoustics and electric is a Lifeson thing. This song along with "Totem" and "Resist" feature the 10-string Mandola that Lifeson first utilized on "Victor".
"'Half the World' is one of our finest moments as songwriters as far as writing a concise song without being wimpy or syrupy.
It's got a little bit of everything: nice melody, and yet it's still aggressive. It's hard for us to write that kind of song, really. You'd have to go back to 'Closer to the Heart' to find an example of that."Geddy Lee in "Merely Players"
The Color Of Right
It's almost a pop song with its major key Intro and Boston like riff after it.
Make it easy on yourself
There's nothing more you can do
You're so full of what is right
You can't see what is true
So relevant over the last 15 years, especially in our democratically elected governments who tried to pass laws that totalitarian governments have.
This is the Rush I like. Heavy enough to give all of the 90s acts a run for their money and a bit proggy.
The Intro alone is worth the price of the CD. It wouldn't be out of place on a Dream Theater CD.
It's very Celtic like.
The "angels and demons inside my head," line is visual and sums up the song about what people should believe in.
I believe in what I see
I believe in what I hear
Religion is a very divisive subject when it comes up, depending on which side of the discussion you sit on.
"Dog Years"
At the start it's like a punk song. Only Rush can get away with this kind of goofy subject matter.
How good is the Intro riff?
The blues swagger and jazz like swing beat.
And that line "net boy, net girl, send your signal around the world".
I was singing it for years afterwards and whenever anyone mentioned "internet", I would start singing it. And I would cop weird looks I'm the process.
Such an underrated album cut. It's my favourite.
Geddy Lee mentioned it's one of his favorites in the book "Merely Players". Wikipedia tells me that Alex Lifeson states the same.
I like the Celtic like sounds that the Dulcimer brings.
An instrumental, pieced together from different bits of ideas that the group had sketched out but remained unused, but it's not "La Vila Strangiato".
"Carve Away The Stone"
And the album is complete with a song about the Sisyphean myth. I don't what it is and I've never researched it, but I'm sure it will send me down the rabbit hole if I do.
Crank it loud and don't forget to check out "Resist".
1985 – Part 2
June 20, 2020 destroyerofharmony1985, Accept, Bon Jovi, Night Ranger, Rush, Stryper, y and t 5 Comments
With a DeLorean and a Flux Capacitor, the year is set for 1985.
Bon Jovi – 7800 Fahrenheit
JBJ hates this album as none of the songs get played live anymore. But to the fans who were there before "Slippery When Wet", they either like it, understand it or ignore it.
For me, the band needed to get this album written as it pushed the melodic rock/metal sound from the debut to the limit, so a new clean slate was needed.
Check out the melodic guitar work of Richie Sambora on tracks like "The Price Of Love", "Only Lonely", "The Hardest Part Is The Night" and "Always Run To You". And when it comes to balls to the wall riffing, "Tokyo Road", "In And Out Of Love" and "King Of The Mountain" showcase that AC/DC vibe. The only track I don't like is "Silent Night".
Stryper – Soldiers Under Command
I heard "The Rock That Makes Me Roll" on a "Headbangers Heaven" compilation and I became a fan because of the riffs.
"Soldiers Under Command" (the track) is a metal tour de force. That intro riff, influenced by Judas Priest is excellent. "Makes Me Wanna Sing" is another song influenced by Judas Priest and their song "Running Wild". Then again, so is Maiden with "The Wicker Man" intro riff.
"First Love" is a cool ballad. Probably one of their best ones, but it doesn't get the dues it deserves because bigger cheesy ballads came after which got some MTV love.
"Waiting For A Love That's Real" reminds me of "Faithfully" from Journey and "Purple Rain" from Prince, but in a rocking way. And the lead break in this song is guitar hero worthy.
"Surrender" is one of my favourite tracks. It's got this progressive metal/power metal vibe in the vocals.
The riffs are excellent.
Y&T – Down For The Count
I played this album a few days ago for my boys. They are 15 and 14. And they started pressing "like" and saving songs to their playlists. Songs like "Summertime Girls", "Anytime At All", "Hands Of Time" and "In The Name Of Rock".
I guess there is something about this album that makes 14/15 year old teens like it.
From a guitar point of view "Hands Of Time" stood out straight away and I still like it.
And the band that we knew as Y&T was on their way to breaking up. Leonard Haze would depart after this album and Joey Alves would depart after their 87 "Contagious" album. The fan base would also move on and there wasn't enough new fans replacing the ones moving on.
Night Ranger – Seven Wishes
"Midnight Madness" is my favourite Night Ranger album, but "Seven Wishes" really tried to compete with it.
After this album, Night Ranger never captured that attitude and energy they had on the first three albums. And you know the saying, your attitude determines your altitude.
The guitar solos on "Seven Wishes" are wow. "Faces" has an awesome synth inspired chorus. "Four In The Morning" has an addictive vocal melody and the guitar leads, man, if they don't get you playing air guitar, please check yourself for a pulse.
"If "I Need A Woman" was recorded by Robert Palmer, it would have been number 1.
"Sentimental Street" and the solo from Brad Gillis. Triple A, all the way.
"This Boy Needs To Rock" gets that rocking vibe happening again and another guitar solo that makes me play air guitar.
"Night Machine" has some cool guitar riffage and another Triple A lead break.
And I don't know why these Night Ranger albums are not on Spotify. It's the dumbest move ever to withhold em, unless you are in dispute with the label about what you should be paid.
Rush – Power Windows
Even if you don't like the music, you would like the stories in the lyrics.
"Big Money" goes around the world, spreading greed and consuming all. "Big Money" weaves a mighty web and draws the flies. In "Grand Designs" there is so much poison in power.
The "Manhattan Project" tells us about a weapon that would settle the score and how the big bang shook the world at the Rising Sun.
"Better the pride that resides in a citizen of the world, than the pride that divides when a colourful rag is unfurled" is classic Neil Peart from the song "Territories".
In "Middletown Dreams", dreams transport the ones who need to get out of town.
Accept – Metal Heart
Critics panned it, but hey, who listens to critics. The record label told them it's a dud because it didn't reach or outsell their previous efforts. But it's my favourite Accept record.
"Metal Heart" has this open string riff, which defines the song. Lyrically, it's 1999 and the human race needs to face some mysterious truth, like "judgement day" style, man versus machine.
Even when Metal bands tried to be serious or sound serious they still ended up sounding comedic.
With the Beethoven licks in the solo, you either like it or hate it.
"Midnight Mover" is basically Scorpions. The arpeggio lick/riff in the intro gets me interested. The single note riffs with pinch harmonics in the verse keeps the interest going. And even though the Chorus sounds very AOR, it's still heavy metal.
Finally the lead break.
Wolf Hoffman doesn't get the guitar hero crowns he deserves.
"Up To The Limit" is basically AC/DC. The bass from Peter Baltes just rolls along in the verses, while Hoffman and Fischer play staccato like power chords.
"Wrong Is Right" is basically Judas Priest. That verse riff could have come from the "Screaming For Vengeance" album.
"Screaming For A Love Bite" is a terrible title for a song, but I suppose that's what makes it memorable. I've always enjoyed it when metal bands take major key riffs and put them into their mix. In keeping with themes of other bands, this one could have fitted nicely on a Journey album, even a Night Ranger album.
And like that Side 1 ends, with no filler whatsoever.
Side 2 kicks off with the very AC/DC sounding "Too High To Get It Right". And how can you not like it, especially that gang like vocal in the Chorus.
"Dogs On Leads" is so underrated and also in the vein of AC/DC. The bass just rumbles while Hoffman plays jangly chords before it kicks into overdrive. Again, the gang like vocals are so loud, they remain with me long after the song is finished.
"Teach Us To Survive" sounds like it came from a Pink Panther movie. Jazz fusion metal.
Artist's used to do this on albums before, like write a song that was a bit out there, but still rooted in metal. Then when albums became a two to three year cycle, it changed. Suddenly artists either played it safe and stayed true to what came before or they went completely different for the whole next album, not just for a track or two.
"Living For Tonite" has this pulsing bass, guitar and drum groove.
How can you not like it?
"Bound To Fail" is basically a power metal tune in the intro, but when the verses roll around, it's got that blues rock swagger in the Chorus that Guns N Roses would bring to the masses on "Welcome To The Jungle".
Again, how can you not like it?
And that's a wrap for 1985, Part 2.
See you in 1977.
1977 – V1
June 2, 2020 destroyerofharmony1977, AC DC, blues rock, Classic Rock, Foreigner, Hard Rock, Kansas, progressive rock, Queen, Rush 9 Comments
All of these albums I got many years later. Actually all of my 70's music came well into the 90's
AC/DC – Let There Be Rock
I knew the songs before I even heard the album. There was no way you could escape AC/DC.
"Dog Eat Dog", "Let There Be Rock", "Bad Boy Boogie", "Hell Aint A Bad Place To Be" and "Whole Lotta Rosie" were always on in car stereos and jukeboxes. The only tracks that were new to me, were "Go Down", "Overdose" and "Crabsody In Blue" (which was substituted by "Problem Child" for the North American market.
And some of favourite AC/DC riffs are on this album, along with the lyrics, especially the social conscious themes of "Dog Eat Dog". Plus for a blues based rock band, "Let There Be Rock" is an early precursors of speed metal.
Meatloaf – Bat Out Of Hell
In Australia, this album was still massive in the 80's and it got even bigger in the 90's when Meatloaf dropped Part 2. Like 25x Platinum like massive for Australia. And my favourite track (apart from the title track) is the ballad, "Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad".
It was also weird for me to read that another songwriter who is not part of the band solely wrote all the music.
I believe that the success of this album around the world is also down to the resilience that Steinman and Meat Loaf showed to get the album recorded, the band signed and eventually the album released.
Because the project started in 1972 and the songs got rejected because the label heads wanted to hear the typical "verse – chorus" arrangement, which as we know, Jim Steinman didn't really abide by. Instead he relied more on the theatre/opera style of arrangements and the rest is history. In the US alone, the album is 14 x Platinum.
Queen – News Of The World
How do you follow up two successful albums with multi-tracked harmonies?
You go back to basics and rock out, which is exactly what Queen did with "News Of The World".
There was no escaping "We Will Rock You" and "We Are The Champions" but my favourite track on this album is the John Deacon penned "Spread Your Wings".
And a bonus mention for the Roger Taylor penned "Fight From The Inside". Listen to it and you will hear how groovy and hard rock Queen could be. "American Woman" also comes to mind when I hear it. Slash said the guitar riff on this song is one of his favorites and it's not even played by Brian May, but by drummer Roger Taylor, who also plays bass on the track.
Kansas – Point Of Know Return
I picked up the first five Kansas albums all in one swoop for less than $10. The covers got me interested and all I knew about the band was a few mentions by other artists in interviews from the progressive rock family.
I had no idea about "Carry On My Wayward Son" and "Dust In The Wind". And I played "Point Of Know Return" first because the cover was the best of all em and the song titles interested me.
So I dropped the needle and listened and read the credits and lyrics and became a fan.
Musically it's a fusion of so many styles, blended in with the distorted sounds of hard rock and a band in top form.
Without Wikipedia or any form of internet to guide me, I had no idea how successful this band was or how their songs became radio staples in America. But it didn't matter to me, because it these kind of discoveries when you go record hunting that remain.
Rush – A Farewell To Kings
After I was exposed to "Exit Stage Left" I was hooked and I started to seek out the Rush records I could find at the used record shops as CD's in Australia, were still selling for $30. At one stage they got to $38. Seriously, the recording industry really over estimated their value.
This is album number 5 and the follow up to "2112" which was their make or break album. This fertile period of Rush would last to "Moving Pictures" in 1981 and then the synths would take over for about six years before they brought back the three piece sound.
And as a prog fan, I am always into songs which have sections, so "Cygnus X-1" was on my radar, but I was surprised by "Closer To The Heart" and that arpeggio guitar intro.
Foreigner – Foreigner
No one knew Mick Jones until this album dropped. No one knew the pipes on Lou Gramm until this album dropped.
Released in 1977, no one was sure if disco was ending or rock was starting.
And the album has some songs which are forgotten, but they rock as hard as anything I have heard.
A song like "Starrider" would work on any Deep Purple/Rainbow/Whitesnake album. Even on an Y&T or Scorpions album.
"The Damage Is Done" has this outro solo ending that reminds me of Santana or even "Winds Of Change" from Y&T. "At War With The World" could have come from a Rush album. There is so much variety on this album. It's a shame that the first two cuts ruled everything.
Did I mention that "Cold As Ice" is also on this album?
Check out the debut.
That's it for 1977 Part 1 and now we go back into the future for 2000 Part 2.
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February 26, 2020 destroyerofharmonyAlex Lifeson, Rush, Working Man 5 Comments
Alex Lifeson really gets to work on this song in the riffs and the guitar solos.
The opening riff could easily be used on a Metallica or Pantera album, it's that heavy.
I get up at seven, yeah
And I go to work at nine
I got no time for livin'
Yes, I'm workin' all the time
And when you add overtime to the mix which everyone would say yes to, as it added that little bit of extra in the pay, then there is zero time for living because you are working all the time.
But hey, you are thinking that the holidays are coming soon and you will have time for living then and you will go away with your family, but suddenly, you and your partner are disconnected because of all the time you spent away and your kids just don't have that connection with you either.
It seems to me
I could live my life
A lot better than I think I am
I guess that's why they call me
They call me the working man
Live to work or work to live. Jobs in the past provided security. It was the norm that someone would start and retire in the same job. My Dad did. These days it's very different. There is a gig economy, part time work, casual work, full time work and most people have been in more than one job. Sometimes a lot of jobs.
The thing I like about music is when artists are creative.
From the 2 minute mark "Working Man" changes. That whole lead section and that riff from 3.10 is basically a song within a song. And it keeps going, so far removed from the pop formula of verse, chorus and bridge.
Then at the 5.20 mark the song comes back to the original music. After 7 plus minutes, the only option left is to press repeat.
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January 25, 2020 destroyerofharmony2112, do it your way, Rush Leave a comment
It's back in the charts.
Death is a business and the death of a member always gets new people listening because of curiosity and old fans reminiscing about the album which we all know, was a make or break album for the band.
If there is a lesson here, it's to do things your way. Don't give up your vision and your identity and stay true to yourself. This viewpoint led Rush to a 40 plus year career.
And they've sold more albums recently than new releases have in the last week.
As the article states;
From January 10th through January 16th, the band sold 24,600 albums in the U.S., an increase of more than 1,000 percent compared with the previous week. The "2112" LP led the way, moving 12,800 total album units last week.
As for streaming, it's as expected with "Tom Sawyer", "Limelight", "The Spirit of Radio" and "YYZ" leading the way. Because what else would the Spotify algorithm recommend except the most listened to songs.
And the "2112" story about a musician in an oppressive regime gets all the attention, but "A Passage To Bangkok", "Tears" and "Twilight Zone" are also worthy.
That guitar riffs from "A Passage To Bangkok" gets me to pick up the guitar. The intro riff is a great riff and the movable D shape chord progression in the Chorus.
"Tears" has that F major to A major chord progression with an unbelievable vocal melody.
"Twilight Zone" has that Am7 riff in the Chorus when Geddy is singing "Na Na Na, you have entered the twilight zone" section which always gets me to stop and pay attention. It's the mood.
But the best part is Alex Lifeson's emotive guitar solo from about the 17 minute mark in "2112".
January 18, 2020 destroyerofharmonyDriven, Rush 3 Comments
It was one of the first tracks finished for the "Test For Echo" album, featuring three separate bass tracks; the main part, the harmony part and the sub bass bottom end, which sound as one massive bass track. If you need any more evidence about the abilities of Geddy Lee, look no further.
We need to take the wheel and be in control of our choices and decisions. We need to learn from them, grown with them and take ownership of our choices and actions. There is no one to blame when it's our turn to drive.
And how the change from distortion to acoustic in this section is soothing before the fuzz kicks in again. Plus the simple chord progression of F, G and Am makes it so accessible.
And these days, technology companies scan between 150 million and 200 million photos of license plates captured by cameras in malls, parking lots, and residential neighborhoods every month, to amass huge information on the data point locations of cars, which they then use to sell to the police.
If the police want to know the whereabouts of a number plate and where that plate had been in the past, this company can tell them.
That's why we drive on to roads we've never been and cameras have never been.
And after the "Test For Echo" tour, the band was put on hold as Neil Peart would see tragedy with the passing of his daughter and a year later, his wife.
January 15, 2020 destroyerofharmonyAlex Lifeson, Geddy Lee, Neil Peart, Rush, Test For Echo 2 Comments
"There's a lot of different stuff on there. I tuned the guitar down a whole step to a D standard tuning. I got a new Les Paul Custom with beautiful sustain, a heavy tone and a compact, but not too small, sound. In the choruses I used a Godin Acousti-Caster, which has a really interesting sound that is at the same time almost acoustic but definitely electric.
Alex Lifeson In Guitar World
The song works in any style and it could have fitted on any of their earlier albums from "Fly By Night" to "Signals" and it would not have been out of place.
"I feel like we arrived with this record. There's a particular feel that I don't think we had before—a nice groove and a lot of really good Rush songs. I feel like we were all really together on this album. Although we strive for that all the time, it's not always achievable. The mood was so good in the studio, and we were so unified in direction."
"It's about the numbing process that happens when we are exposed to great tragedies and then were exposed to moments of hilarity. I feel that that's the condition of contemporary man now – when we read the paper or when we watch TV, were not sure if were supposed to laugh."
We didn't touch the dial at all, we just kept upgrading our TVs, giving the TV makers billions of dollars in revenue. Because we loved having all of this entertainment in our houses.
Here we go, vertigo
Video vertigo
1978 – Part 2 – "Never Say Die To Infinity" said the Hemispheres
October 25, 2019 destroyerofharmonyAlan Parsons, Journey, Judas Priest, Rush, Scorpions, Styx, Whitesnake 5 Comments
It's hard to believe that in 2019, I still listen to albums released in 1978, 41 years ago, but in the 80's like 1986, I couldn't fathom listening to music from 1945. And I still cant.
My eldest one, who is is 14, listens to 70's music. Last night, "Free Bird" from Lynyrd Skynyrd was cranked. The middle child, who is 13, has been cranking "Sultans Of Swing", "Aint Talkin Bout Love" and "Eruption" as they both fumble around the fretboard learning the songs on guitar. So the 70s are back baby.
Here is part one and now for Part two.
And here is the Spotify playlist.
Journey – Infinity
The wheel in the sky keeps on turning alright. Robert Fleischman was hired as the new vocalist before being un-hired and Steve Perry was in. Fleischman would resurface many years later as part of Vinnie Vincent's Invasion.
This is Journey before the mainstream hits, but the start of what would become the commercial beast. And the bluesy Hendrix like "Lights" kicks it off.
How good is the guitar solo from about the 2 minute mark from Neal Schon?
"Anytime" sounds like an ELO/Eagles song merged with "Who Are You" from The Who. And I like it, especially when Schon comes to town with his bends and legato during the solo.
"La Do Da" comes from out of nowhere, a speed rock track, the anti-hero to the laid back Southern Rock vibe of the first three tracks.
"Patiently" is one of my favourite tracks from Journey, especially from about 2.10 and to the end. Listen to Schon wail with a bunch of sing along licks. And it's progressive in its song writing.
And the piece d resistance is "Wheel In The Sky". It hypnotised me to pick up the guitar and start learning it, from the opening notes. And Perry's vocals are perfect, sorrowful and emotive.
How good is the intro to "Winds Of March"?
It's like "Battery" from Metallica to me. And I am sure Dave Meniketti was listening and being influenced here, for "Winds Of Change". Then it changes into a rocker from about 2.50 minute mark and I am tapping my fingers, and Schon begins to wail about the 3.50 minute mark and its beautiful and inspirational.
Whitesnake – Trouble
David Coverdale is rolling along with his post Deep Purple career. "Trouble" is known as the first Whitesnake album, however after the success of the 1987 album, the David Coverdale solo albums "White Snake" and "Northwinds" got re-released and some still see those as the beginning.
The album is a product of its era.
"Take Me With You" kicks off the album and it's a blast. You just need to listen to it for the lyrics. And I wouldn't be surprised if Slash was listening to this track, as it sounds like certain riffs made their way into "Appetite For Destruction".
"Love To Keep You Warm" ended up as a lyric on the road to "Judgement Day".
"Nighthawk (Vampire Blues) will never sound dated. It's one of those tracks that sounded good in 1978 and it will still sound good in 2019. Greta Van Fleet should cover it.
"The Time Is Right For Love" is a good track that is relevant in any era and I thought it would have been re-recorded for a Whitesnake album in the 80's, going into the 90's, but after "Slip Of The Tongue", Coverdale, dissolved Whitesnake to team up with Jimmy Page, and then when Page went back to Robert Plant for a side project, Whitesnake came back with Adrian Vandenberg and Warren DeMartini on guitars. (Takes a breath).
"Trouble" is very Bad Company like, and I like it, especially the lyrics, "on the road again, looking for a place to hide, everywhere I look, there is trouble, trouble always coming my way."
"Free Flight" is a jazz fusion blues rocker that could have come from "Come Taste The Band". And while it doesn't contain the hits, the album does contain some serious riffage and jamming, which I dig.
Judas Priest – Stained Class
This album was really ignored by the media and the fans, until the 80's satanic panic and subsequent lawsuits brought it back into the public conversation.
For those who don't know the story, and according to Wikipedia, Judas Priest got taken to trial in a civil suit, by the family of a teenager, James Vance, who entered into a suicide pact with his friend Ray Belknap after allegedly listening to "Better by You, Better than Me" on 23 December 1985.
Belknap succeeded in killing himself, and Vance was left critically injured after surviving a self-inflicted gunshot to the facial area, eventually dying of a methadone overdose three years later.
In this case, the events and outcomes are tragic, but there is always someone looking to blame someone else for their predicament. And there are always people (like lawyers and prosecutors) looking to prey on people's weakness and sense of loss.
A lawyer tried to convince a judge that the "Stained Class" album and the song "Better by You, Better than Me" (which isn't even a Judas Priest song, it's a cover) had subliminal messages on it, that said "do it" and that would make kids take their lives. In the name of free speech and the ludicrous nature of the suit (seriously, why would a band want to kill the very people who would buy their product), it was dismissed.
But the album is important in a few ways;
The iconic Judas Priest logo made its debut.
It's seen as an early thrash metal album, with wannabe artists all over Europe lapping up the fast picking and surgical precision of the riffs.
Its darkness and aggression is fuelled by the anti-metal movement that started happening in the UK, as Punk and New Wave was getting all the attention and metal had a few comical mentions.
"Exciter" kicks off the album with double kick and speed pedal point riffs. "Stained Class" has a cool "Barracuda" pedal point riff. "Saints In Hell" is not in the live repertoire of Judas Priest, but the song has a lot of movements, which keeps it interesting.
"Beyond The Realms Of Death" is a favourite, especially with its nod to "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" but also for its song writing and various movements. Chris De Garmo would have been listening very intently to this, as it sounds like "The Warning" album came from influences like this.
"Fire Burns Below" is the embryo of what Judas Priest would become in the 80's.
The Metalian was starting to form.
Rush – Hemispheres
One of their best albums and their most progressive. They knew they had reached a pinnacle here and what would come next would be much shorter and concise songs, sort of like how Metallica reached a pinnacle with the "Justice" album and needed to strip it back, which they did with the self-titled and mega gazillion selling "Black" album.
And the reason why I call this one of their best albums is because of "La Villa Strangiato", a song that took them longer to record than the whole "Fly By Night" album.
I didn't give Rush a good shake until I really got into Dream Theater on the "Images And Words" album.
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18 minutes and all the different musical movements are enough to get me interested for a few reasons. And it's all because of Alex Lifeson.
Alex Lifeson's use of open strings (the high E and B strings) with moving power chords was inspirational. It just made sections sound bigger than what they should. It was a style I incorporated straight away.
His combination of using palm muted arpeggios and single note riffs also proved to be very inspirational. At that point in time, I was very heavily into playing open string pedal point riffs with power chords underneath.
His use of acoustic guitars was unique, bordering on his Eastern European Serbian folk roots, Spanish flamenco, pop music and classical music.
Finally, his unique guitar solos made him sound very different to the blues rock and classical shred like soloists I was used to hearing.
"Circumstances" sounds like the hard rock I listened too, with pedal point riffs in the intro. But from about 50 seconds, the song morphs and I was entranced to pick up the guitar and learn the section. By a 1.15 seconds, 25 seconds later it was all over.
And that's how my Rush relationship is. Sections of certain songs hook me in.
Like the intro to "The Trees". It's acoustic intro sounds like it came from medieval England. And after 40 seconds, the song changes into a rocker. The lyrics made me laugh when I was younger, and they still make me laugh now, especially when Geddy Lee sings, "why can't the maples be happy?" or "the maples scream oppression" or "the maples formed a union".
Goddamn Maples, they can never be happy.
And that section from about 2.20 when Lifeson starts to play this repeating arpeggio lick/riff. Again, I was picking up the guitar to learn it and jam it, but then I started learning Geddy's bass riff, as it sounded so good on distorted guitar and very different to Lifeson's guitar riff.
"La Villa Strangiato" sums up everything about Rush which I love and I am so glad they didn't try to repeat it or try to rewrite it for another album.
It stands out as the RUSH song for me, and if anyone asks what's the big deal about Rush, I play them this song and I comment about each section and movement for a few seconds and allow them to bask in the sounds filling the room.
It's an instrumental but there is no way you could ever be bored by it. It doesn't have any guitar wankery. It just grooves and rolls until it comes up to the 3.18 minute mark where the song slows down.
This is when Alex Lifeson becomes a god.
He starts off the solo with volume swells.
It's eerie, before he brings in a few blues licks to make it sorrowful.
At 4.27, it gets louder, and his bending those strings, bleeding pain out of those frets. In the background Neal Peart, is building the beast.
At 5.15, Lifeson starts this palm muted Am to F arpeggio. Peart is double-time on the drums, and Lee is playing the bass synth until they all join in and start the Swinging 30's section. This is when Bugs Bunny is running away from Elmer Fudd. That is the memory I got from it.
Then there's a bass solo.
Then a drum solo.
Then an unconventional guitar solo at the 6.50 minute mark.
At 7.29, it changes again.
At 7.53, the Swinging 30's is back. First at half time, then at full speed.
And the song transitions back to the main intro riff to close out a 9 plus minute song in perfection.
And the album is over.
Until I dropped the needle again onto the last track.
Scorpions – Tokyo Tapes
I got this dubbed on a cassette from a mate, who had dubbed it onto a cassette from a cousin, who dubbed it onto a cassette from his girlfriend's brother. Quick, call the cops, piracy is on the loose and killing the recording industry.
The end of the Uli Jon Roth era on guitar and a band in top form.
Stand out live performances along with fake crowd noises and claps are "Pictured Life", "In Trance", "Well Burn The Sky", "Fly To The Rainbow", "He's A Woman – She's A Man", "Top Of The Bill" and "Steamrock Fever".
Scorpions – Taken By Force
The last studio album with Uli Jon Roth, kicks off with "Steamrock Fever" and I like the music a lot more than the lyrics. "We'll Burn The Sky" is better lyrically and musically.
Two of my favourite Scorpion tracks are up next in "I've Got To Be Free" and "The Riot Of Your Time".
"I've got to be free to live my life alone" is the catch cry, a very Hendrix inspired song musically and it doesn't sound dated at all. And the acoustic guitars in "The Riot Of Your Time" are perfect, but the chorus, musically and lyrically is brilliant. Listen to it if you don't believe me.
The piece d'resistance from a guitar point of view, is "The Sails Of Charon". But I listen to "Your Light" more, because of its sexy groove, which makes me want to pick up the guitar, especially in the verses. And the way it rolls, it's a rock song, but I feel like I'm sipping Pina Colada's on an island in the Caribbean's.
"He's A Woman – She's A Man" has got some Metallica like breakdowns in it, which is cool.
Black Sabbath – Never Say Die
It's not like it's such a bad album, it's just that they lost their darkness. "Never Says Die" sounds like it could have come from Thin Lizzy or ELO or Styx. "Johnny Blade" musically sounds like a Rush song, hell, the riff in the verses sounds like it came from "La Villa Strangiato".
"Junior's Eyes" is classic Sabbath in everything except the title. "A Hard Road" sounds more like a Status Quo track but it's roots are from the placenta of "Children of The Grave". "Shock Wave" is a Sabbath song through and through.
The best track on the album is "Air Dance". It has this harmony intro which is too good to not like. Then it morphs into an acoustic/piano piece for the verses. It's progressive in its song writing and as fans of artists, you want them to grow a little bit and add some different textures.
Especially at the 3.56 mark, it goes into a prog rock style piece, which is some of the best stuff Sabbath has written. Because that is what Sabbath was/is. A band that pushed boundaries and defied categorisation. Hell, there is a synth lead in it, as I start to cough out the sweet leaf.
"Over To You" was re-written and called "Little Dolls". If it works for Ozzy's solo career, it works for Sabbath for me. "Breakout" has the brass instruments, but there is no denying the power of that riff as it sludge's sleazily along.
Styx – Pieces of Eight
I like Styx as a progressive rock band which has a few "simply" rock songs here and there. This album is a favourite, because it hits both those points for me. It's progressive in its song writing and it has "accessible" songs.
"Great White Hope" gallops along in the intro and it's a product of its time.
"I'm O.K" is interesting with its major key uplifting riffs, and "Walk This Way" style drums in the intro, and then the verses sound like a church sermon."Sing For The Day" has a progressive synth intro which I dig. And the multi-layered Chorus melody is cool, but I'm more of a fan of the music.
"Blue Collar Man (Long Nights) has a riff which is tasty to play on guitar. And how good is the Chorus, musically, lyrically and melodically. Makes me press repeat instantly. "Queen Of Spades" is a combination of progressive song writing and accessible melodies. And the breakdown section from about the 3.20 minute mark is perfect.
But the piece d resistance here is "Renegade".
First the acapella vocals and it sounds like it's coming from the Mississippi Delta.
Then the funk rock fusion riff kicks in and it's time to rock and funk.
And the solo. The music stops, and a dirty sounding guitar unleashes a flurry of pentatonic lines which wash over me. Then the band comes in and it's all systems go. And when you think it's over, it keeps going for a little but more.
Then the drums and vocals section. Jon Bon Jovi would have been listening intently as "You Give Love A Bad Name" has a similar set up after the solo.
Play that funky rock and roll, I say.
"Pieces Of Eight" is a brilliant piece of song writing. It has so many movements in the song, especially from the 2.20 minute mark. It's pure bliss.
The Alan Parsons Project – Pyramid
Alan Parsons got no love in Australia or non that I could remember. I started to hear his work in the early 2000's. And I became a fan. I got what he was trying to do, I really enjoyed the song structures, the jams and atmospherics.
The way "Voyager" starts off in the first 20 seconds, it's how thrash metal acts build their clean tone intros. And the song segues into "What Goes Up", a laid back tune which segues into "The Eagle Will Rise Again" and one of my favourite acoustic arpeggio riffs because it sounds so powerful.
Play four notes, stop and let them ring. But the rest of the song is not as strong as that verse riff. At one stage, I swear I thought "Listen To My Heart" from Roxette came from this song. "One More River" has a clean tone single note riff, which sounds wicked when played with distortion.
"In The Lap Of Gods" is a cinematic instrumental. Well, that's what I call it. It feels like it's written to moving pictures and I like it. Especially from the 4.10 minute mark when those Latin style "Excalibur" voices come in, along with the violins.
I press repeat, to hear it one more time, and to close off Part 2 of 1978.
1984 – V – Grace Under Pressure
April 21, 2019 destroyerofharmonyAlan Parsons, Chris deburgh, Don Henley, Meatloaf, Midnight Oil, Pretty Maids, Rush 6 Comments
If you are curious here are parts one, two, three and four of the 1984 series.
Pretty Maids – Red Hot And Heavy
I didn't hear this album until the early two thousands. I had "Future World" on LP, however any other release by the band was available via an expensive IMPORT price of $50 to $70 Australian. And then Napster came along, and then Audio Galaxy, LimeWire and cloud sites like Rapid Share. Suddenly, people's music collections were available everywhere and at any time.
For this album there was no dropping the needle, it was all about putting on my headphones, plugging them into the computer and pressing play to the mp3 tracks, lined up WINAMP.
It kicks off with what I know as the "Excalibur" theme, and others know as 'O Fortuna'.
"Back To Back" and "Cold Killer" have cool riffs and show off their NWOBHM influences.
"Red Hot and Heavy" shows off it's Thin Lizzy, Judas Priest and Scorpions influences.
"Waitin' For The Time" and "A Place In The Night" are AOR Melodic Rock to a tee.
And that's why I always enjoyed the albums from "Pretty Maids". Like Dokken and Y&T, they lived somewhere in between heavy metal and hard rock and melodic pop.
Rush – Grace Under Pressure
Ernest Hemingway said "Courage is grace under pressure."
And when you are pushing towards the mid 80s, Rush showed true courage in delivering another album full of synth rock. Hell, talk about courage, some songs don't even feature any bass guitar.
"Distant Early Warning" has a keyboard riff which sounds excellent played on a distorted guitar.
"Afterimage" is my favourite track and "Red Sector A" has this riff from about the 1.10 mark, which makes me press repeat on this track.
This is also the track which has no bass guitar
"Are we the last ones left alive? Are we the only human beings to survive?"
And its these first three tracks which still get played to this day.
The Alan Parsons Project – Ammonia Avenue
The album came out in February 1984 and it was meant to capitalize on the platinum success of "Eye In The Sky". And although it went Gold, the album was seen as a failure. MTV was a game changer and if you looked like a studio band, you didn't stand a chance with a new empowered generation of rock and metal heads.
But to me there are always a few cool tracks on APP albums which I can relate to.
On this one, "Let Me Go Home", "Dancing On A High Wire" and Pipeline" are stand outs.
Chris DeBurgh – Man On The Line
Chris DeBurgh doesn't get enough credit as a Rocker because his ballad, "Lady In Red" was so huge, it dwarfed everything else he released. Then again, each album he did release always had more ballads than rockers.
"The Ecstasy Of Flight (I Love The Night)" is the song which stood out for me and I remember hearing it on a music video show and taping it.
Midnight Oil – Red Sails In The Sunset
They write songs about Australia, our environment, our history, our culture and our attitudes.
And it resonated and connected with people.
"Kosciusko" and "When The Generals Talk" are the standouts here.
Meatloaf's "Bad Attitude" didn't have anything earth shattering on it, but the title track and "Surfs Up" are derivative versions of previous Meatloaf songs and are a cool listen.
Billy Squier – Signs Of Life
It all comes back to the "Rock Me Tonite" video.
Cheesy; yes, terrible idea; yes, but did it really kill Squier's career because in the 80s there was a lot of cheesy bad videos for artists.
Squier like many others had some success early on and then struggled to duplicate it. Twisted Sister comes to mind immediately and so does Quiet Riot. That's not to say this album doesn't have good songs, it's just the audience had moved on.
"All Night Long" is excellent while "Reach For The Sky" has a feel and groove borrowed from The Police and Gotye used a similar groove and feel for "Somebody That I Used To Know". Quick call the lawyers.
"Hand Me Downs" borrows from "Long Way To The Top" in the verses. Quick call the lawyers again.
Don Henley – Building The Perfect Beast
"The Boys Of Summer" was everywhere and what a song. I didn't hear the rest of the album until the late 90s. Other tracks which stand out to me are "Not Enough Love In The World", "Driving With Our Eyes Closed" and "Land Of The Living".


Full-size remote control cars – coming soon to a road near you?
Thanks to efforts of groups such as Google, Oxford University, BMW and Continental, we're getting closer and closer to the advent of autonomous cars – vehicles that drive themselves, with the human "driver" pretty much just along as a passenger. Researchers at Germany's Technische Universität München (TUM), however, are looking at taking things a step further. They're developing remote-control cars that could travel along city streets with no one in them at all, their operator located somewhere far away.
First of all, what would be the point of a passenger-less car? As a couple of examples, the scientists suggest that the technology could be used to deliver rental cars or vehicles used in car-sharing programs to members' homes, plus it could be applied to city-center parking services – you just get out when you reach your downtown destination, and your car proceeds to head off to the parking garage on its own.
So far, the TUM team has equipped a prototype Visio.M electric car with six video cameras, five of which are mounted on the back of the rearview mirror (facing forwards or to the sides) and one of which is looking out the rear window. Together, they provide a 360-degree view of the car's surroundings.
A live feed from the cameras is transmitted to a remote operator station that resembles a driving simulator, via LTE wireless communication. At that station, three monitors display the front and side views from the car, while a fourth displays the view out the back. Microphones aboard the car provide live Dolby 5.1 audio, while force feedback mechanisms in the station's steering wheel and brake pedal mirror the forces encountered by the car itself.
Using all this technology, a human operator simply sits at the station and remotely drives the car as if they're playing a video game. If there's a break in communications, the car automatically brakes and sits in place until they're resumed.
The scientists claim that the system isn't very expensive, and that the LTE networks in many cities are already sufficient to transmit all the required video, audio and control data in real time. They add that slower UMTS networks could also work, as they would produce a transmission lag of less than half a second – which admittedly could still make a huge difference in accident avoidance.
Although issues such as legal liability still need to be addressed, the researchers expect the technology to be in use within five to ten years.


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My Career Fit Turns Alexa and Google Assistant into Personalized Employment Agencies
Eric Hal Schwartz
on October 8, 2019 at 12:15 pm
Voice assistants are not a standard tool for finding and applying to jobs, but experiments by companies like McDonald's hint at a future where voice assistants connect employers and job-seekers. The potential for voice as a recruitment tool inspired veteran job recruiter Gordon Collier to develop My Career Fit, a voice app for connecting employers and people looking for a job.
Voice-First Employment
"I've been in the recruiting industry for 20-plus years, currently as CEO of Pipeline Search Solutions, and the biggest challenge in recruitment is the fight for attention from job seekers and folks not necessarily looking for a new job," Collier said in an interview with Voicebot. "My Career Fit is another channel for finding a job using a voice assistant. We provide job-seekers the opportunity to hear directly from employers."
My Career Fit operates much like a job board online, only tailored for voice assistants. Once the app is enabled on Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant, users can ask about jobs available based on location, relevant skills, or the name of the company. The app will then pull an audio file of the hiring manager or a different senior employee from the company to describe the job in a maximum of 77 seconds. In addition to the audio for the specific job posting, the app can also provide the user with general information about the company and will play a separate clip about the company's overall culture and mission if asked.
"The labor force is shifting heavily to Millennials and Gen Z. People today aren't just looking for a job," Collier said. "They want a company with a mission they can believe in and live and breathe it every day. The jobs on the app range from high-level technology roles to entry-level sales and I've partnered with some great companies to share them all."
There are currently several technology and IT consulting firms looking for employees on My Career Fit and Collier said he has brought job opensings from both small and global businesses onto the voice app including Xerox Business Solutions, edX and the design firm AKQA. The app is free for job-seekers. Employers pay to showcase their job opportunities on the voice app similar to an online job board.
My Career Fit is built on the Witlingo voice app platform. Witlingo's microcasting product Castlingo slot perfectly with how My Career Fit should work, Collier said. Witlingo's team has also been crucial for him to build out his idea into a functional voice app that can adapt as he improves upon it.
"I wanted a skill that adds value for job seekers and employers. Voice tech eliminates any and all friction in the search," Collier said. "People looking for jobs get to hear directly from the employers themselves. As a recruiter when you reach out you want to be able to inform people about the company. Voice puts employers in front of job seekers they might never have known of."
Raising Voices for Job Hunt
The McDonald's Apply Thru skill helps local McDonald's recruit employees by making it easier for interested parties to initiate filling out a job application. Prospective candidates can fill out the first part of the application with just their voice. Variations on the job-seeking voice app such as Career Advisor and Government Jobs have been available for some time, but McDonald's dipping a toe in the water could indicate a trend of major companies using voice as a channel for hiring.
"I wasn't shocked by the McDonald's news. This whole space makes the most sense to develop for anyone who comes into contact with brands," Collier said. "It's very interesting to see it happen from my perspective in recruitment, but it's a no-brainer for them. In the next five years, I think of voice in the same way as the internet was 25 years ago when Jeff Taylor created the Monster.com job posting site in 1994. That changed recruitment forever. Voice is going to be big and McDonald's is lending real credibility to the idea."
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Q: Reactjs : this.handleEdit is not a function I am loading data from a DB into a Reactjs table. From that I want to extract out the Rowid and pass it as a parameter to handleEdit function.
Data loads OK, table generates with correct data, including the RowID movies.movieID but I can't pass data to the function.
A very easy thing to do in many languages, except I have been stuck on this for 2 days in Reactjs.
No matter what I do I get the same error "TypeError: _this3.handleEdit is not a function" on the click event.
Using reactjs in ASP.net core 2.2
this.handleEdit = this.handleEdit.bind(this);

handleEdit(id) {
    alert.show("Movie ID = " + id);
    console.log('Click happened');
}

static renderMoviesTable(allmovies) {
    return (

                ID
                Title
                Year
                Plot
                Genre

                {allmovies.map(movies =>

                        <Button onClick={() => this.handleEdit(this, movies.movieID)} className="btn-info">Edit</Button>
                        {movies.movieID}
                        {movies.title}
                        {movies.year}
                        {movies.plot}
                        {movies.genre}

                )};

    );

Here is the entire class with unnecessary things culled
import React, { Component } from "react";
import { Button } from "reactstrap";
import { Table } from "reactstrap";

export class FetchMovies extends Component {
static displayName = FetchMovies.name;

constructor(props) {
    super(props);
    this.state = {
        allmovies: [],
        editMovie: [],
        selectedMovieID: "",
        title: "",
        year: "",
        plot: "",
        genre: "",
        isEditForm: false, //bool to check if you are editing
        loading: true
    };
       this.handleEdit = this.handleEdit.bind(this);

    fetch('api/Movies')
        .then(response => response.json())
        .then(data => {
            this.setState({ allmovies: data, loading: false });
        });
}

handleEdit(id) {
    alert.show("Movie ID = " + id);
    console.log('Click happened');
}

static renderMoviesTable(allmovies) {
    return (

                ID
                Title
                Year
                Plot
                Genre

                {allmovies.map(movies =>

                        <Button value={movies.movieID} onClick={() => this.handleEdit(movies.movieID)} className="btn-info">Edit</Button>
                        {movies.movieID}
                        {movies.title}
                        {movies.year}
                        {movies.plot}
                        {movies.genre}

                )};

    );
}

render() {
    let movieContents = this.state.loading
        ?
Loading Movies...

        : FetchMovies.renderMoviesTable(this.state.allmovies);

     const { isUser, addClicked, isEditForm, helper } = this.state;
    return (

All Movies

            {!isEditForm && movieContents}

    );
}
}

A: I see it!
It's because you declared the method renderMoviesTable as a static method. Remove the key-word static from that method and that should do the trick and then call the function via this.renderMoviesTable instead
Static method don't get access to this like you think they would: https://medium.com/@yyang0903/static-objects-static-methods-in-es6-1c026dbb8bb1

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What Else is on?
July 23, 2020 By David Godfrey
At the end of the 1988 Peter Weir film, Truman, when the Truman Show ends after running for 30 years non stop, the film cuts to a pair of security guards who are avid fans. Whilst munching on a slice of pizza, their response to this show which they have invested so much time and energy ending is simply, "what else is on?" It's a bizarre moment.
Some moments deserve more than a simple "what else is on?"
In just 52 days the city wall of Jerusalem had been rebuilt, the city gates replaced, and the people had discovered their identity. This is the story of Nehemiah. At the end of the 52 days, the people who have worked on the wall return to their homes, but they don't stay there. For six days they reflect on what has occurred and then, on New Years Day, they all start to make their way to the city square in Jerusalem.
What happens next is dramatic. The people celebrate and worship God, for the next eight days. They listen to Scripture, they camp out in the city, they raise their hands, shout amen, grieve at their sin and bow with their faces to the ground. They are a very different people to the ones who two months prior had lived in ruins, oppressed and lost. They now have a sense of identity and purpose under their God.
How did this happen? How did they get to this place where they were so open to God?
Two months before they took a risk, and dared to believe that God would be faithful. Two months ago they dared give themselves to a God given vision of their city, and as they stepped out in faith they experienced the faithfulness of God.
To know God this way is never found in the life without risk. It is never found in the life where you only operate in the realm of what you can do in your own strength. It is found in a life where you step out and trust God.
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The United States Air Force's 261st Combat Communications Squadron (261 CBCS) is an Air National Guard combat communications unit located in California.
The 261st Combat Communications Squadron traces its beginnings to the 96th Signal Company, Service Group. Activated at Reno Army Air Base, Nevada on 1 January 1943. The unit moved shortly thereafter to the Army Air Base at Muroc, CA. Redesignated as the 1096th Signal Company, the unit moved to Great Falls Montana prior to being activated on 17 October 1943. The unit received battle credits during World War II for the New Guinea Campaign, the Southern Philippines Campaign and the Luzon Campaign. Additionally, the unit served in Machinato, Okinawa and Tachikawa Japan where it officially became the 611th Signal Light Company just prior to its inactivation on 25 March 1946. The 611th Signal Light Company was reorganized on 15 August 1948 at the National Guard Center, Alameda California and received federal recognition on 27 September 1948. At the time of recognition, the unit had two officers and ten enlisted members assigned. On 1 July 1952, the 611th Signal Light Company was redesignated the 261st Combat Communications Squadron, (Operations) and on 26 January 1953, became part of the California Air National Guard with its move to Hayward Air National Guard Base, California. On 1 July 1953, the 261st Combat Communications Squadron (Operations) was reassigned to the 146th Fighter-Bomber Wing at Van Nuys Air National Guard Base, California where it remained until its final move to Sepulveda Air National Guard Station on 1 August 1973. During the 34 years that the unit has been located at Sepulveda Air National Guard Station, members have participated in numerous Joint Forces Exercises and Operations. Personnel assigned to the 261st have served in Korea, Thailand, Japan and Hawaii as well as in Europe, Bosnia, and Southeast and Southwest Asia.
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Thinking the unthinkable: hockey, cycling, skating and who else?
Posted by Rowland Jack on 26 March 2014
One after another, sports are thinking the unthinkable and considering radical format changes. It's a positive step but it won't be easy to resolve the conflicting interests inherent in any reform.
In the space of a few days, fundamental variations have been mooted (or adopted) in several sports:
- Field hockey is adjusting the format of matches from two halves of 35 minutes to four quarters of 15 minutes
- UCI President Brian Cookson suggested that track cycling and a handful of other indoor summer sports could be switched to the Olympic Winter Games
- ISU President Ottavio Cinquanta proposed eliminating the short programme in figure skating and removing the longer distances from speed skating
- UEFA is considering a "League of Nations" to replace international football friendlies
What may at first sight appear to be an assortment of unrelated announcements has an underlying pattern: it is sports which feel under pressure whose leaders seem most willing to suggest radical ideas. Last year field hockey found itself on the shortlist of sports under threat of being dropped from the 2020 Olympic programme. The format change is clearly intended to increase the appeal for television and to imitate basketball and American Football.
Cycling has suffered from a variety of high profile issues in recent years and so the newly elected Brian Cookson has a mandate to consider major reforms.
Meanwhile, figure skating is very complex and can be difficult for fans to understand. One argument for abolishing the short programme would be to make the competition more straightforward.
UEFA's plan aims to tackle the issue of dwindling interest from fans (and even players) in international friendly matches.
I believe that it's healthy to think the unthinkable from time to time. As the old saying goes, "never let a good crisis go to waste". Moreover, the International Olympic Committee's Agenda 2020 debate provides an opportunity to air some bold ideas.
However, dramatic changes are difficult to adopt because there will inevitably be important stakeholders who lose out. For example, the removal of any discipline from the Olympic programme results in athletes who have trained and competed for years losing part of their dream. In many instances, government funding and sponsorship will also be cut.
One obvious case of split opinion was the vote earlier this week in which Bundesliga clubs decided against implementing goal-line technology. While half of the top division clubs were in favour, including newly-crowned champions FC Bayern Munich, only three out of 18 second division clubs supported the plan, presumably concerned about the cost.
For the moment, there is a radical mood in the air. It might just be that sports which sense the need to respond to intense pressure right now will be better placed in a few years than those whose crisis has yet to come.


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It was one of the band's many "between album" singles (the last of four in a row), not having natural home on any of the studio albums. It was, however, featured on the Louder Than Bombs compilation released later in the year.
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A. niger-sporen kan også ramme almindelige træer som ahorn, men er ikke så skadelig for mennesker. Dog kan den, ved inhalering, give lungesygdom. A. niger kan også give øreinfektioner.

Den er overalt i jorden og er hyppigt observeret indendørs, hvor dens sorte kolonier ofte forveksles med Stachybotrys, som også er blevet kaldt "sort muld". Nogen stammer af A. niger producerer en indflydelsesrig mycotoxin kaldet ochratoxin.

A. niger bruges i industrien til fremstilling af bl.a. citronsyre (E330) og gluconsyre (E574).

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We don't live in a post-racial society: "I was talking to somebody the other day, and they said to me, 'Silence is an action.' And it is my privilege that I can be silent about this issue. And I'm tired of being silent. I've been silent for a long time about it. Because I didn't want to mess up. Didn't want to say the wrong thing. Didn't want to offend anybody. But it is so imperative right now that we have this raised conversationin America. If we're going to progress, if we're going to move past it, if we're going to truly work together, we're going to have to get past that awkward stage of race conversation. Step up and just have it. And I don't know where that starts, other than just speaking about it. As a white person, we have to listen. We need to direct the attention to people of color who are on the round mobilizing, and listen to those people, and take some direction."


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Q: Accessing extension methods via generics always matches the least specific option?
*

*There is a set of classes that I do not own - I cannot change them.

*I'd like to add an identifying parameter to each, using an existing field in each class that has one.

*So, I created a set of extension methods to fetch this field from each class, with a default for any class that does not have a specific implementation.

This works just fine when accessing the new extension method directly (the first three writes in the example below), but when the instances are first passed into a generic method, then the extension method selected is always the one for object (the second three writes).
Am I doing something wrong, or is this a limitation of the C# compiler?
public class Call { public string Number { get; set; } }
public class Message { public string Address { get; set; } }
public class Unknown { }

public static class Extensions
{
    public static string ID(this object item) { return "Unknown"; }
    public static string ID(this Call item) { return item.Number; }
    public static string ID(this Message item) { return item.Address; }
}

internal class Program
{
    private static void Main()
    {
        var call = new Call { Number = "555-1212" };
        var msg = new Message { Address = "you@email.com" };
        var other = new Unknown();

        // These work just as I would expect
        // - printing out Number, Address, or the default
        System.Console.WriteLine("Call = {0}", call.ID());
        System.Console.WriteLine("Message = {0}", msg.ID());
        System.Console.WriteLine("Unknown = {0}", other.ID());
        System.Console.WriteLine();

        // These all print out "Unknown"
        System.Console.WriteLine("Call = {0}", GetID(call));
        System.Console.WriteLine("Message = {0}", GetID(msg));
        System.Console.WriteLine("Unknown = {0}", GetID(other));
    }

    public static string GetID<T>(T item)
    {
        return item.ID();
    }
}

A: Overload resolution is performed at compile-time. The compiler knows nothing about T, so the only applicable overload is this one:
public static string ID(this object item) { return "Unknown"; }

If you want to effectively perform overload resolution at execution time, and if you're using C# 4, you might want to consider using dynamic - which unfortunately doesn't support extension methods directly:
public static string GetID(dynamic item)
{
    return Extensions.ID(item);
}


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The Transfiguration of Our World:
How a Light Alliance Is Transforming Darkness and Creating a New Earth
by Gordon Asher Davidson
Why is our world in such upheaval today? What or who is causing it, and where are we headed? The Transfiguration of Our World gives a comprehensive overview of the world situation, why we are having such problems, and the solutions now being put in place. According to author Gordon Asher Davidson, the world is being guided by an interdimensional Light Alliance working closely with many members of humanity to release the hold of darkness on our planet. In order to loosen the impasse currently gripping the world, it is essential for us to recognize and understand the purpose of higher beings and civilizations from beyond our planet. Their intention is to help us co-create a sustainable and spiritually fulfilling civilization based on love and aligned with a higher spiritual plan for human evolution.
The Transfiguration of Our World offers new insights into the history and current state of the ancient struggle between the forces of light and darkness on our planet; the cosmic decree following the events of 9/11, which brought about a galactic response that offset the power of the dark cabal; the inflowing powerful, new spiritual energies and resulting movements for planetary liberation; and a detailed outline of the unfolding plan now being implemented for regenerating our planetary life.
The plan for Earth's evolution includes financial, political and media reforms, a more enlightened use of resources, the regeneration of the environment, and a renaissance of spiritual cooperation between humanity and the subtle spiritual worlds, including galactic civilizations.
Based on 20 years of deep meditation and contact with higher beings by the author, this book provides a corrective lens for humanity's vision of the future. Some of the topics explored are:
The formation and cooperative work of the Galactic and Earth Light Alliances – How these alliances were formed, their relationship to Earth's leadership and the plan for the transfiguration of Earth and humanity.
How the matrix of love is being activated – The awakening of humanity to the omnipresent, infinite matrix of love energy which transcends all dimensional limitations of time and space and creates an indissoluble bond between all worlds.
The struggle between the light and dark forces on Earth – How the spiritual Masters and higher beings have offset the influence of the dark forces over millennia.
The true significance of 9/11 – How this event totally transformed the rules of the game for humanity's evolution and catalyzed a galactic response.
Detailed plans for the reorganizing of world systems – Transforming the structures of financial and political systems and reorganizing the use of resources.
What each of us can do – How to use your co-creative power, raise your energy frequency, and use meditation and other techniques to cooperate with the Light Alliance.
WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON BEHIND THE SCENES ON PLANET EARTH?
Q & A with Gordon Asher Davidson
Q: What prompted you to explore these spiritual dimensions you write about so powerfully in your book?
A: I had some very powerful experiences at a young age which opened the door into beautiful realms of light, and I experienced how we are all interconnected, and ultimately one with all the life around us. I have always been interested in spiritual questions of why we are here, what happens to us when we die, and how we can help each other become better, more lighted human beings.
I have explored many different spiritual traditions and I have had a deep meditative practice for most of my life. Through my meditations, I came into contact with spiritual Beings who are deeply engaged in helping humanity free itself from external control and fulfill our evolutionary potential as creative spiritual beings.
Q: What can you tell us about our deeper planetary history and the forces of light and darkness?
A: Earth was created to be a beautiful, garden planet with all of its abundance available to nurture the evolution of life on it. However, due to a time/space wormhole anomaly long ago in our planetary history, a group of predatory aliens from outside the planet were able to enter Earth with the intent of exploiting our people and natural resources for their own purposes.
Although the planet is generally protected by higher spiritual Beings from these types of incursions, the invading ones were originally undetected for some time. Once discovered, it was decided by the spiritual Guardians of the planet that these beings would be allowed to remain in order to further humanity's evolution. They would consistently offer a choice between the way of light, love and the good of all, or the way of darkness, selfishness and control. Humanity would experience the karma of their choices, and thus learn why the higher spiritual path is best.
These predatory forces infiltrated everything and set up control systems throughout the planet millennia ago which have affected our history from the earliest civilizations all the way through the Second World War and the present time.
Throughout our history, spiritual Masters of all traditions have offered lighted teachings encouraging humanity to make a free choice to follow the ways of love and service, which brings about harmony, joy and spiritual and material fulfillment. Thus we have had the struggle between light and darkness for a very, very long time on planet Earth.
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Tyler, the Creator Disses Iggy Azalea on '106 & Park'
Tyler, the Creator's outrageous antics have landed him in trouble once again. The Odd Future rapper had some unkind words to say about Iggy Azalea during his appearance on "106 & Park."
While promoting his Adult Swim show "Loiter Squad" on Thursday, Tyler and his Odd Future crew dressed up in character to mock their fellow rappers, clad in leather, gold chains, and sunglasses.
During one of the segments, they were asked to marry, kiss, or diss one of three ladies including Rita Ora, M.I.A., and Iggy Azalea.
Tyler decided to take a shot at the "Fancy" rapper. "I don't want Iggy. She stink. She got shots in her dump. I want real booty, ya feel me?" he said.
The comments didn't sit well with Iggy, who fired back on Twitter. "Tyler the creator is beyond immature. I've always believed you had something more to offer the world, Shame to see you be so rude," she tweeted. "People that make enemies and talk shit about ppl they've never even said hi to trip me out. I see it all the time… Strange world."
But Tyler blamed the outburst on his character. "@IGGYAZALEA BABY GIRL THAT WASNT ME I DONT DRESS LIKE THAT WHATCHU TALKIN BOUT?" he said.
Iggy responded, "Do ya thing, get your promo no skin off my back. the energy you put out is what you eventually get back…doesn't effect me."
After the offensive remark, he apologized. "@IGGYAZALEA DEADASS I APOLOGIZE THO I DIDNT THINK PEOPLE WOULD TAKE THAT SERIOUS HAHA… IGGY I DIDNT MEAN TO HURT YOUR FEELINGS," he told her.
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The Ministry is divided into the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development and a number of agencies, boards and commissions. The Department is responsible for the management of programs designed to facilitate the development of all components of the agriculture and food industry, to sustain the natural resource base of the industry and to encourage the development of rural communities.
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That mentioned, considering that face clean is, certainly, the most fleeting step in our skincare plan and circles the drain as a substitute of soaking into our facial area, it's just not truly worth expending an arm, leg, and significant portion of our paycheck on. In actuality, there are countless drugstore encounter clean formulation that are just as effective at nixing lifeless cells and any aftermath of makeup—many of which particularly cater to various pores and skin types.
We did you the favor of perusing the deal with wash collection of a few of our preferred inexpensive magnificence merchants (assume Ulta, Walmart, and Amazon) to decide the ideal-of-the-best formulas we possibly use ourselves or would individually advocate to a mate. Continue to keep scrolling for 15 drugstore picks that made our reduce.