At what point do you think Geddy had his best voice?

[YYZumbi]

At what point do you think Geddy had his best voice?

 

I am not thinking about the material of the albums now, only Geddy´s voice!

[YYZumbi]

My vote will go to Test For Echo

 

His voice might have been most powerful around 2112 - Hemispheres. But he did not really have the skills back then on how to sing.

 

But during the Test For Echo Tour he is singing perfect! Both with a strong voice and skills!

[rocket ignites]

This is hard to say without witnessing all of these tours, but Presto studio + tour boots is a good choice. T4E era is great also.

[driven_to_xanadu]

I think he was pretty consistent on the studio albums up until Vapor Trails (where he was still good but no longer at his peak).

 

 

For live, I'll go with the Hold Your Fire tour. He sounds awesome on A Show of Hands and I really love his vocals on that album.

[Digital Dad]

Really early 80s for head voice and late 80s for his normal range.

[Ancient Ways]

Almost the best of everything rush related is moving pictures era including this.

[EagleMoon]

I don't think there's necessarily a best, that's personal opinion. He has had several different stages of voice development but I think his widest range was around Counterparts. Things started to decline around Vapor Trails.

[Maverick]

Before the first album.

[Bigbobby10]

Hemispheres, he was at his peak, and I loved it the most Edited July 19, 2015 by MagicSpree101

[Crimsonmistymemory]

This is another poll that is way too hard to pick just one. They all have levels of brilliance but with knowing that young Geddy was not so nice to old Geddy I will pick the Middlie of the pack from Moving Pictures to Counterparts. But in reality I love all the different stages of his voice

[Blue J]

I think he sounds best between about 9:30 and 10:00 PM.

[Digital Dad]

Hemis > Signals is peak everything Rush!!!

 

 

[bluefox4000]

To me it's Hemispheres through HYF. Live it was all good Thourgh VT tour. Snakes tour he was good but showing wear. then TM Tour Happend. Wowzer, lol

 

Mick

[rocket ignites]

To me it's Hemispheres through HYF. Live it was all good Thourgh VT tour. Snakes tour he was good but showing wear. then TM Tour Happend. Wowzer, lol

 

Mick

Signal for the TM - Time Stand Still footage...noooooooooo!

[bluefox4000]

To me it's Hemispheres through HYF. Live it was all good Thourgh VT tour. Snakes tour he was good but showing wear. then TM Tour Happend. Wowzer, lol

 

Mick

Signal for the TM - Time Stand Still footage...noooooooooo!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuQhabV3gSk

 

Tee hee.

 

Mick

[Relayer2112]

I think he was at his peak around Permanent Waves. He could still sing all of the old stuff, but he had matured enough to know that sometimes less is more.

[rocket ignites]

To me it's Hemispheres through HYF. Live it was all good Thourgh VT tour. Snakes tour he was good but showing wear. then TM Tour Happend. Wowzer, lol

 

Mick

Signal for the TM - Time Stand Still footage...noooooooooo!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuQhabV3gSk

 

Tee hee.

 

Mick

Dammit...I don't have the nerve to watch that today. lol

[AnEggplant]

To me it's Hemispheres through HYF. Live it was all good Thourgh VT tour. Snakes tour he was good but showing wear. then TM Tour Happend. Wowzer, lol

 

Mick

Signal for the TM - Time Stand Still footage...noooooooooo!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuQhabV3gSk

 

Tee hee.

 

Mick

 

 

 

As weird as it sounds I actually like that performance. Oh well.

[Sonatine]

The early 80s I'd go for: especially from "Signals" and stretching into "T4E"

 

Am currently listening to "Presto", and I have to say his voice is pretty outstanding, even though the album itself is sadly lacking

[DirkPrattLerxst]

Around the R30 Tour he sounded phenomenal.

[EagleMoon]

July 21st. 1989

[Lorraine]

I don't think there's necessarily a best, that's personal opinion. He has had several different stages of voice development but I think his widest range was around Counterparts. Things started to decline around Vapor Trails.

 

Why do you say he had his widest range around Counterparts? If i remember from the bootlegs from that tour, he had a very hard time singing one of the seventies epics. Can't remember which one it was right now, and I don't have my stick handy to check.

[Lorraine]

His voice has changed a lot throughout the years.

 

I agree with the person here who said he was at his best around Permanent Waves. He could do things with his voice back then that you rarely heard later on. I'm thinking a lot of the trilling (or warble).

 

When I think of Geddy sounding his best, I think of him singing Freewill on the album. That is the Geddy Lee I always want to remember.

[Lorraine]

And even though I don't care much for Presto, I think his voice was excellent on that album as well.

 

In the nineties, he started to sound different and have trouble. It was a little at first, but that's when it started. If you listen to bootlegs from the nineties, you can hear it.

Edited August 6, 2015 by Lorraine

[EagleMoon]

I don't think there's necessarily a best, that's personal opinion. He has had several different stages of voice development but I think his widest range was around Counterparts. Things started to decline around Vapor Trails.

 

Why do you say he had his widest range around Counterparts? If i remember from the bootlegs from that tour, he had a very hard time singing one of the seventies epics. Can't remember which one it was right now, and I don't have my stick handy to check.

 

I say that because I think his voice had matured and it was before the decline. I'm not talking about his ability to sing the old stuff, but the general range and timbre of his voice.

Edited August 6, 2015 by EagleMoon