Geddy Lee - Paramount+ (weeeee!)

[NancyJohnson]

Just saw an advertisement on my Instagram feed.  Paramount+ 5/12/23.

 

Geddy Lee; 'Are Bass Players Human Too?'

 

This looks good fun.

 

 

 

[hiram.k.hackenbacker]

An ideal time to sign up for a free trial with Paramount +

[cetera]

35 minutes ago, hiram.k.hackenbacker said:

An ideal time to sign up for a free trial with Paramount +

I want to see the new Frasier series too.... so this could a double win!

[NancyJohnson]

To this day, I still really enjoy early Rush (aside from Caress of Steel), but fell out of love from Signals on.  The one overriding thing with them though - Neil Peart included - is that it's obvious there's huge chemistry between them, there's humour and they really don't seem to have any issue in poking fun as themselves.  Just look at the dinner film they did.  It's hilarious.

 

Like many of us here, we've seen the Beyond The Lighted Stage documentary and from this and the many interviews with Geddy and Alex, like Taylor Swift, they seem incredibly likeable - the Dan Rather thing with Geddy Lee was great too.  I'm of the belief that the joy we can get from Geddy transcends music itself. 

 

Looking forward to this.

[odysseus]

This looks great - thanks for the heads-up! 👍

[fretmeister]

1 hour ago, cetera said:

I want to see the new Frasier series too.... so this could a double win!

 

Yeah.... about that....

 

Err.....

 

I hope you take soul crushing, world ending disappointment with a smile.

[RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE]

Thanks for this . Looks like I'll have to  sign up for the free trial and cancel when it expires . 😼👍

[odysseus]

1 hour ago, RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE said:

Thanks for this . Looks like I'll have to  sign up for the free trial and cancel when it expires . 😼👍

 

Probs a dumb question, but.... as a non-TV owner can I do this on a PC? 

[fretmeister]

4 minutes ago, odysseus said:

 

Probs a dumb question, but.... as a non-TV owner can I do this on a PC? 

 

Yes.

 

I have no idea about the TV Licence legalities for only streaming though.

[odysseus]

8 minutes ago, fretmeister said:

 

Yes.

 

I have no idea about the TV Licence legalities for only streaming though.

Thank you, good sir. I shall investigate!

[NancyJohnson]

 

[Conan]

1 hour ago, NancyJohnson said:

 

"Pork belly".

 

"What did you call me?" 😆💜

[Thump]

I cancelled my sub to paramount no less than 3 days ago as there was nothing I wanted to watch on it. Looks like I'm subbing again 🤷

[fretmeister]

18 minutes ago, Thump said:

I cancelled my sub to paramount no less than 3 days ago as there was nothing I wanted to watch on it. Looks like I'm subbing again 🤷

Different email address, another 7 day trial.

[paul_5]

Saw this advertised elsewhere today; very much looking forward to it.

[NJE]

Sign me up (for a free trial), that looks great, thanks for sharing.

[toneknob]

Somehow I get Paramount+ through my Sky box, it's pretty much impossible to find anything though as it's not an actual "channel" and Sky's search thing isn't great. I'll try looking again on December 5th!

 

[BillyBass]

I was keen to do this but ultimately I had to tell Geddy I was too busy with my covers band so he got some bloke from Metallica instead.  I'll try and make series 2.

[NancyJohnson]

I watched three of these this evening; Les Claypool, Melissa Auf der Maur and Krist Novoselic.  They're barely 22 minutes each, so an easy enough watch; while I understand the format is more about what these people are doing away from music rather than the playing element, it was an entertaining enough hour or so, given the bass-centric subject matter. 

 

I'd say the Les Claypool one was by far the best of the three that I watched.  Of the other two, you wouldn't have known Krist Novoselic was in one of the biggest bands in the last 30 years and of Melissa Auf der Maur - who hadn't played in ten years or so - I did ask myself why they actually chose her (she could just have easily have been any another middle-aged women with an interest in her local arts/music scene).

 

Geddy seems to be everywhere at the moment.  As I've posted elsewhere, he seems a nice, agreeable bloke with some interesting pursuits (music, wine, collecting etc.) and he an Alex seem to be involved with some interesting stuff, but this show falls well short of what it could actually have been.  Rather than 20 minutes, I could happily have sat through 45-60 minutes of Les Claypool.

 

If there is a positive, at least the makers didn't go to the standard fallback position of hitting up Flea.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited December 12, 2023 by NancyJohnson