Does this sound Familiar, Rush Fans?

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Limbaugh being angry - no, just kidding!

Both parts should sound familiar.  1:12 begins the Rush thing, the section called Monsters from a song from the Hemispheres album.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaC0vNLdLvY

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From Wiki:

The segments titled "Monsters!" and "Monsters! (Reprise)" are an adaptation of Raymond Scott's popular composition "Powerhouse".[2] Although the statute of limitations for copyright infringement had expired by the time Scott's publishers attempted to take legal action, the band paid some monetary compensation to him and his wife, feeling an ethical obligation to do so.[3]

In 2018, Lee said of the piece:

    That was a song where I would have to say our ideas exceeded our ability to play them. We thought: "We're going to write this long piece and then we'll just record it live off the floor and boom!"

    But it was really difficult. It was beyond us. I included it here because it surprised me how popular that song was among our fans. They just love it when we go into that crazy mode.

    Yes, it is an indulgence, but it seemed to be a pivotal moment for us in creating a fan base that wanted us to be that way.[4]

"La Villa Strangiato" translates roughly to "The Strange Village" or "Weird City".[1]

Drummer Neil Peart said of "La Villa Strangiato":

    This is Alex's brain, and every section of that song is different dreams that Alex would tell us about and we'd be, "stop, stop." It was these bizarre dreams that he would insist on telling you every detail about, so it became a joke between Geddy and me. "La Villa Strangiato" means strange city, and there was so much going on in that. There's also a big band section in there, which was absolutely for me because I always wanted to play that approach. And cartoon music. We got in trouble later because we used music from a cartoon from the 1930s.

[pepp5]

Yeah, cool piece.  I heard that Rush actually made a payment to Raymond Scott's estate for quoting his work on Strangiato, I think before it was even released. Not sure of the timeline, but they did the right thing in the end.

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I kind of hate that everyones first instinct in a situation like that is to SUE SUE SUE. Yes included some Brahms on one of their albums, ELP used some Copeland from his famous western opera, progressives roots are in classical and jazz stylings being infused into rock and roll format. And there's a clear difference (which I think is evident in Rush's case) between paying homage to the things one was influenced by in their early days as a musician versus ripping something off or covering it for the safety of sure profits and marketability.

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Yeah Rush did it, from what I heard, to ensure there would be no legal issues and to be fair.

Jake Holmes and Willie Dixon enters the chat. (and a few others)