All,

Bob Dylan called this ****.

Ballad of a Thin Man

You mean By-Tor?

Goin' out by request

Holy crap that's a blast from the past. Another good one:

But the best:

RUSH was my brother's favorite and he had big speakers and bad hearing so I heard a lot of it. Working Man may indeed be their best, but it's a shame Neil Peart wasn't in the band yet.

I don't know if I'm smart but I think I can see
When someone is pulling the wool over me.

You're a fan of juvenile Objectivist lyrics and rote drumming?

The drumming part. Though I'm not like a huge fan of drumming, so I'm not up for a derail on whether he was a rote drummer or not. I was never a huge Rush fan generally.

"Rote drumming" seems a little sour grapes for someone considered the best rock drummer ever...

'Neil Peart couldn't drum his way out of a paper bag!"

He's technically proficient, and boring as hell. It works for prog rock I suppose, but prog rock is awful.

I reckon. He's no Keith Moon or John Bonham, but that drumming on Working Man is plenty boring without Neil, so there's nothing to lose there and there's technical proficiency to gain.

What did you grow up with so we can **** on it for you? Just asking...

Unfortunately, I grew up with Rush. I even saw them live once, on the Hold Your Fire tour (that makes me old, but still not as old as suzzer).

Must have been weird going to a Rush show with all those teenagers when you're in your 40s.

Keith Moon had incredible manic energy but his time keeping was all over the place (and that's according to Townshend).

Bonham had the power of a bulldozer but little subtlety.

Charlie Watts was a much more musical than either, but the best rock drummer of all time was Jaki Liebezeit who died this year. You didn't get to work with Stockhausen without being a special talent.

I have my doubts non-musicians can tell one drummer from another. There I said it.

Apparently for an actress - being 15 years younger than the actor who plays your love interest is still too old.

It does help to come from a musical background, but most people can learn a musical instrument to a reasonable level if they persevere with it.

In doing that, they'll develop a better critical ear for music.

I just know if the song moves my butt around in my seat. Drumming is part of that I'm sure. But I can't consciously separate it out. I'd be willing to bet money the same goes for my dorm room debate partners when the topic of "best drummer" came up in college.

Now guitar - you can parse that out a little easier - mainly through solos or extended isolated riffs. Or just because it takes the place of lead vocals in a lot of rock songs.

I used to play tuba. I view it a lot like drums. 99% of the time the casual listener doesn't notice you unless you screw up. Which I did a lot unfortunately.

That's what rock needs - more tuba. Like Jethro Tull with the flute. But with a tuba.

Varoufakis did everything he could to make the situation in greece worse. he's completely deluded

I stopped reading at suzzer's butt moving around.