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[Michael Rawdon]

Originally posted by Rick and Roll
Not bad.........but I don't agree with the Ice Age. Didn't remind me of Rush. Saw them at Nearfest a while back.....they had no dynamics....have they changed in 6 years? I haven't kept up on them.

Their album Liberation felt very Rush-like to me, particularly in song construction. Its length aside, "The Lhasa Road" felt like it would have fit right in with Rush's late-80s/early-90s albums.

Admittedly, Rush's late-80s stuff is my favorite period in their career, whereas I find their 70s (pre-Moving Pictures) stuff to be (to put it mildly) weak (Permanent Waves is the earliest Rush album I own). So if Rush to you is 2112 and its contemporaries, then I'd say we're just looking at Rush from completely different perspectives.