Cars and meaning in the Rush song "Red Barchetta."

Let's see, Ferrari no longer makes a manual transmission so if the song is to become true, it would be within 50 years of now.

Also Neil had never heard the word "Barchetta" pronounced, only read it. Hence the mispronunciation.

I believe this was noted during Victory By Design.

I'm just going to leave this here.

Full text of 'A Nice Morning Drive'.

http://www.mgexperience.net/article/nice-drive.html

The part that has just about come true:

It hadn't taken long for the less responsible element among drivers to discover that their new MSVs could inflict great damage on an older car and go unscathed themselves. As a result some drivers would go looking for the older cars in secluded areas, bounce them off the road or into a bridge abutment, and then speed off undamaged, relieved of whatever frustrations cause this kind of behavior. Police seldom patrolled these out-of-the-way places, their attentions being required more urgently elsewhere, and so it became a great sport for some drivers.

Many people are so convinced that having forty eleventeen airbags everywhere (including the cupholders so their little angel's Big Gulp of diabeetus doesn't get spilled) means that they are invincible. Add to that how they have been trained since birth that personal responsibility is an impossibly old fashioned and outdated concept and that's a recipe for disaster.

The motor law has outlawed fuel burning motor vehicles and the boy has taken the hidden Barchetta out of the garage and the police begin chasing him in their big flying cars.

A rush album is a musical storybook and they are fans of being mentally stimulating. We are doing exactly what they wanted their fans to do.

The song quite obviously uses cars as a metaphor for sexuality and freedom!

And I have proof, strait from the horses mouth-

Neil Peart on Red Barchetta:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djVGhqvl_8A

Shaun wrote: The song quite obviously uses cars as a metaphor for sexuality and freedom! And I have proof, strait from the horses mouth- Neil Peart on Red Barchetta: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djVGhqvl_8A

Everything always goes back to sex, doesn't it?

Tom_Spangler wrote:

Shaun wrote: The song quite obviously uses cars as a metaphor for sexuality and freedom! And I have proof, strait from the horses mouth- Neil Peart on Red Barchetta: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djVGhqvl_8A

Everything always goes back to sex, doesn't it?

I'm my head, yes.

Now playing in the editorial department: Rush. (And yes, I have my ticket for the upcoming tour.)

They are really funny guys...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb-MwVUUy3g&feature=related

'The oaks are just too greedy We will make them give us light'
Now there's no more oak oppression
For they passed a noble law
And the trees are all kept equal
By hatchet, axe and saw

Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: By hatchet, axe and saw

Life, Liberty and The Pursuit of Apenis?

Rush rules.

Being a drummer and bass player (with a little guitar on the side), I obviously love these guys. I have listened to Red Barchetta hundreds of times, and not truly understood the lyrics until this thread. Usually, I'm busy analyzing Geddy's bass lines or deciphering the insanity that is Neil's drumming.

They are musical geniuses.

Horrible quality, but still a quality Rush moment:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pIMVZZRb7Y

He pronounces "Barchetta" wrong. I never cared, but I had a knew a kid growing up who had an Italian mother, and the song drove her crazy.

Little known fact, Rush has never made a song about love or falling in love or sex. I'm pretty sure this is almost impossible to do but they did it. I challenge someone to prove me wrong (wouldn't be surprised if you do).

Brett_Murphy wrote: He pronounces "Barchetta" wrong. I never cared, but I had a knew a kid growing up who had an Italian mother, and the song drove her crazy.

It's amazing how many people pronounce "Lancia" wrong, even people who own them here in the U.S..

Who would have thought GRM would enlighten me on one of my favorite bands on a song I loved for decades.

Pretty sure it's about bacon.

I'm actually thinking that the air-cars mentioned are actually the Toyobaru twins.

And of course in his Ferarri Barchetta he smokes them at the one-lane bridge.

Lyrics must have been written by Road&Track.

(kidding, kidding!

Tell me, does anybody really like their new song? No matter how many times I hear it, it still sounds like noise.

Story of when the author of "A Nice Morning Drive" meets Neil Peart:

http://www.bmwbmw.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=8693&hilit=drummer

In reply to Lesley:

Which new one? Two off the current album were released as singles a while back. I think they've released one more off the album. The album is a concept album. Some of the tracks make more sense in context.

This album and the last couple have been heavier than their '80-90's stuff. I like it, but I'm biased.

I also have a pretty wide variety of stuff I like. Their catalog covers a large portion of that. There's really only a couple songs of theirs I don't like, and mostly are on the same album.

I've always liked Moving Pictures / Exit Stage Left and Roll The Bones best, even though they're completely different albums...

Haven't heard the new one (yet).

frenchy wrote: Little known fact, Rush has never made a song about love or falling in love or sex. I'm pretty sure this is almost impossible to do but they did it. I challenge someone to prove me wrong (wouldn't be surprised if you do).

"Cold Fire" from Counter Parts