Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rdlvax.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!qantel!hplabs!sdcrdcf!psivax!rdlvax!salzman
From: salzman@rdlvax.UUCP (Gumby)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Science Fiction References in Music
Message-ID: <127@rdlvax.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 3-Aug-85 22:30:08 EDT
Article-I.D.: rdlvax.127
Posted: Sat Aug  3 22:30:08 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 6-Aug-85 08:43:18 EDT
References: <1189@pucc-k> <1000012@ndm20>
Organization: Research Development Labs, Culver City, CA.
Lines: 50

> 
> A few SF references that spring to mind:
> 
>    Rush
>       many (most?) of their songs. A few examples:
>       2112 (based on a short story by Ayn Rand)
>       Cygnus X-1, and Hemispheres (Cygnus part II), (anyone know if there is 
>          a direct connection to the Rosinante books?)
>       The Necromancer (fantasy, are you including that?)
>       Rivendell (Tolkien reference)
>       The Fountains of Lamneth (fantasy)
>       

	Lots of stuff from Rush! In fact, just about everything from
Fly By Night to Hemespheres is pretty much sci-fi, fantasy, or even
science fact. 

	Cygnus X-1 (Book One - The Voyage) - A Farwell to Kings

	Invisible to telescopic eye. Infinity the star that would not
	die. 

	All who dare to cross her course are swallowed by her fearsom
	force.

	Through the void to be destroyed. Or is there something more?
	Atomized - at the core. Or through the Astral Door. To soar...

		- Neal Peart.

	Any astro experts out there? I'd call that a pretty accurate
description of a black hole.

	Also, Xanadu (A Farewell to Kings), is based on the poem Kubla
Kahn (author??). By-tor and the Snowdog from Fly By Night was actually
their first real song of that type. 

	Any more hard core Rush heads around? Send me some mail!!!
How about a net.rushfans group (just kidding)....

"...One likes to believe in the freedom of music. But glittering prizes
 and endless compromises shatter the illusion of integrity..."


       
-- 
* Isaac Salzman (Gumby)
* UUCP: ...!randvax!ttidca!rdlvax!salzman or
*       ...!sdcrdcf!psivax!rdlvax!salzman
* ARPA: ttidca!rdlvax!salzman@Rand-unix.arpa