Neil Peart down on band's 70s work

Finnforest wrote: ... "Those were the growing years. I often equate that to children's drawings on the refrigerator that hang around too long, you know? I really wish they would just go away.  I think we really started....wow, given my druthers, I would make our first album "Moving Pictures."  I can't think of a single reason not to do that!" ...

Roger Waters has also said something similar about a lot of Pink Floyd's early material.

I, personally, (not that you have to care or pay attention!) do not think that we do not learn something from the young days or not. It seems pretty hip and interesting that when these folks get big and rich, they can say that they were not that good and that it was overblown.

Even Roger has said that AHM was total crap. Probably because he doesn't want to five Ron Geesin any money at all for some things they did when they were ripped, drunk, or simply playing around with microphones up their a$$es and then call it "Our Song".

There is something that one learns from all this, and in the end, Roger and PF learned how to play with sound effects and eventually created the ne plus ultra of all sound effects, by creating a story around it, and calling it The Wall, on top of it, because behind it, is a whole other story. Roger would know that intimately, but why would he not admit to it?

It is, in my book, a bit of self-righteous attitudes and a lot of the rock fame BS thing, that hurts and makes these comments appear so bad and sometimes stupid. In the end, it is hurting one's own creative juices, because it is like saying you don't like a piece of yourself, and it is crap, but it IS a part of who you are. You denying that is stupid, and eventually will hurt your creativity more than anything else out there.

I just think that this is more about the "rock press" and their 4 minute song, than anything else. It is cool for all these tune places to trash that stuff and mis-quote musicians left and right, because it supports their business model, which in turn gives the bands more money!

You have to stick with the art of it all, not always the money, and this is one of the reasons why I have not enjoyed RUSH for almost 20 years! It died a long time ago, and it's talent diluted to nothingness, and an overblown design of lyrics, that are supposed to be meaningful! And hearing Neil say that, makes me feel like I was right to ignore them all this time! They don't believe in their own art any more anyway. They are too rich, fat and famous, to have to tell you that all of their work is important and is a part of who you are!