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[HIGHLIGHT] Was “The Garden” Rush’s Perfect Final Song? - From EP 380 · Booked On Rock with Eric Senich

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  Speaker 1: Here's a clip from our latest episode of book Don Rock.
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  Speaker 1: Richard James, the author of Rush nineteen eighty four to
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  Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, Every album, Every song, Clockwork Angels from twenty
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  Speaker 1: twelve and that's got Caravan BU two B, which is
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  Speaker 1: one of my favorite titles of a song, Headlong Flight,
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  Speaker 1: the Wreckers, the Anarchists, and the Garden, which I want
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  Speaker 1: to ask you because that closes the album in a reflective,
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  Speaker 1: almost peaceful way. Does it feel like a goodbye even
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  Speaker 1: if it wasn't written that way? But looking back, so.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it mirrors the protagonist of the story.
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  Speaker 2: He's had all these adventures, he's survived, and now he's
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  Speaker 2: taking stock. But it's one of the most beautiful pieces
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  Speaker 2: of music because it just builds and builds, and everything
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  Speaker 2: about it is right. And you're right, I agree, although
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  Speaker 2: we didn't know it at the time, looking back now,
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  Speaker 2: it's kind of the perfect studio farewell if it's a farewell,
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  Speaker 2: because obviously now we've got the rejuvenation of the band
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  Speaker 2: out on tour. Will that lead to a new album?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, But if it doesn't, the Garden seems
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  Speaker 2: like the perfect final song. It wouldn't it wouldn't work
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  Speaker 2: anywhere else on the album. The most of that album
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  Speaker 2: is so astonishingly heavy. It's probably the heaviest thing they've
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  Speaker 2: ever released.
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  Speaker 1: As they get older, they got they got heavier.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't mellow out with it and more determined. Two. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we're old men now, Okay, I have listened to this.
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  Speaker 2: What is this? There is no sense of treading water,
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  Speaker 2: and I think that's that's what I like. Especially they're
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  Speaker 2: just relentlessly pursue something. Also, this was the only album
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  Speaker 2: they ever made which was a concept album. Twenty one
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  Speaker 2: twelve wasn't the first side, but.
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  Speaker 1: The other sid's the first side only exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing to do with what you've just heard at all.
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  Speaker 2: You've got the link of signa Sex one into Hemispheres.
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  Speaker 2: So that's a concept album where it's a size and
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  Speaker 2: the bit of a concept album. Okay, that's good. But
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  Speaker 2: then to actually have best part of an hour? Was
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  Speaker 2: it more than an hour of one story told with
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  Speaker 2: such invention and such power in the recordings? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's an astonishing piece of work.
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  Speaker 1: So final question, when you step back and you look
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  Speaker 1: at Rush from eighty four through clarkwork Angels, what do
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  Speaker 1: you think ultimately defines that error in why should it
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  Speaker 1: still matter today? Oh, there's a question exploration, a period
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  Speaker 1: of exploration.
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  Speaker 2: Constant reinvention, and constant exploration. I think they would get
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  Speaker 2: bored if they made the same album twice. They talk
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  Speaker 2: about some albums being two of a kind, so Farewell
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  Speaker 2: to Kings and Hemispheres were linked, Power Windows and Hold
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  Speaker 2: Your Fire linked. But it was never a case of
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  Speaker 2: because we've made this, we're going to make it again.
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  Speaker 2: We might take elements of what we've been playing and
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  Speaker 2: broaden it and go further. I think it's the fact
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  Speaker 2: that there's I think Geddy said, we're always looking for
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  Speaker 2: the better rush or the best rush. So whatever we've done,
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  Speaker 2: next time we need to do something different, or if
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  Speaker 2: it's not immediately the next time, there will be evolution,
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  Speaker 2: there will be change. Will still be the three of us,
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  Speaker 2: but we're not sitting back and being cautious. We're taking
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  Speaker 2: things head on and for better or worse, you'll like
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  Speaker 2: it or you don't. We'll like it because we'll release it.
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  Speaker 2: But I think, certainly since the band got back together,
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  Speaker 2: that was just an upward trajectory. Vaportrayals started where test
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  Speaker 2: for Eka left off in that they were absolutely going
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  Speaker 2: to make another album and see how it went. Snakes
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  Speaker 2: and Arrows Stronger and then Clockwork Agels probably up there
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  Speaker 2: with the top three albums of their career.
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