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    • RUSH
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    • Fly By Night
      0
    • Caress Of Steel
      0
    • 2112
      0
    • A Farewell To Kings (still Madri-cal)
      2
    • Hemispheres
      7
    • Permanent Waves
      5
    • Moving Pictures
      4
    • Signals
      3
    • Grace Under Pressure
      0
    • Power Windows
      1
    • Hold Your Fire
      0
    • Presto (change-o)
      2
    • Roll The Bones
      0
    • Counterparts
      1
    • Test For Echo (echo) ((echo))
      0
    • Vapor Trails
      0
    • Feedback
      0
    • Snakes And Arrows
      1
    • Clockwork Angels
      2
    • One of the live albums
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This is a really tough one. I need to break it down a bit.

 

Signals - best recorded drum sound on an album. They sound great. The snare doesn't sound tinny and the toms just sound massive.

Hemispheres - most technical playing. Precision reigns supreme.

Grace Under Pressure - most creative playing in the groove. His playing is precise and is just perfect for what the songs need.

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This is a really tough one. I need to break it down a bit.

 

Signals - best recorded drum sound on an album. They sound great. The snare doesn't sound tinny and the toms just sound massive.

Hemispheres - most technical playing. Precision reigns supreme.

Grace Under Pressure - most creative playing in the groove. His playing is precise and is just perfect for what the songs need.

 

Totally agree with Hemispheres being the height of his technical achievement. I went with Signals overall because the drums do sound great, the playing is technical but still really accessible and the part writing is amazing. Subdivisions might be the finest example of this. The seamless shifting from 7/8 to 4/4 in the intro and verse, the figure leading into the chorus is a 6 bar phrase in 4/4 (24 beats) which gives way to the chorus, 4 bar phrases of 6/4 (24 beats)... Genius! Oh, and that fill at the beginning of Digital Man where the accent falls on the left hand, subtle and very tricky. The Weapon, at least live, has a stick flip as part of the beat! The outro on Countdown... I'll shut up now.

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This is a really tough one. I need to break it down a bit.

 

Signals - best recorded drum sound on an album. They sound great. The snare doesn't sound tinny and the toms just sound massive.

Hemispheres - most technical playing. Precision reigns supreme.

Grace Under Pressure - most creative playing in the groove. His playing is precise and is just perfect for what the songs need.

 

Totally agree with Hemispheres being the height of his technical achievement. I went with Signals overall because the drums do sound great, the playing is technical but still really accessible and the part writing is amazing. Subdivisions might be the finest example of this. The seamless shifting from 7/8 to 4/4 in the intro and verse, the figure leading into the chorus is a 6 bar phrase in 4/4 (24 beats) which gives way to the chorus, 4 bar phrases of 6/4 (24 beats)... Genius! Oh, and that fill at the beginning of Digital Man where the accent falls on the left hand, subtle and very tricky. The Weapon, at least live, has a stick flip as part of the beat! The outro on Countdown... I'll shut up now.

 

You mention Digital Man. Yesterday I was watching a Signals tour bootleg video and noticed Neil's drumming in that song for the first time. It appeared hard what he was doing. It wasn't until I had a good shot of him playing during that song that I noticed it. I don't know enough (hahaha-truth is, I don't know anything :LOL: ) to catch it by listening. I have to see it.

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See if you can find Digital Man from a bootleg called Visual Chemistry. The date is April 9,1983 from a show at The Montreal Forum.

 

He actually does it twice during the song, but the last minute or so of the song - from the words

 

 

He's got a force field and a flexible plan

He's got a date with fate in a black sedan

He plays fast forward for as long as he can

But he won't need a bed -

He's a digital man

 

 

As an aside, I love the way Alex used to bop around on stage back then.

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Cool, that part is definitely sweet! Great beat for that section already, but when he gets playful with it at the outro vamp, even sweeter. Don't have many Rush bootlegs, but I have Music in the Abstract because that setlist is amazing.
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I see Geddy's bass is plugged in during The Trees. I thought that after the seventies they had a way to do it without being plugged to something?

 

Like a wireless unit? Thought it was interesting Geddy was playing a Steinberger on that tour. Always associated that bass with P/G.

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I thought he had his little bass on that tour. I don't remember what it's called.

 

Maybe that's the connection I am seeing (the not so wireless wireless :LOL: ). I thought they both (Alex and Geddy) had their instruments plugged in.

 

Anything I "know" about music I learned here.

 

By the way, are you a drummer? I have a drummer question for drummers here.

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Cool, that part is definitely sweet! Great beat for that section already, but when he gets playful with it at the outro vamp, even sweeter. Don't have many Rush bootlegs, but I have Music in the Abstract because that setlist is amazing.

 

You ought to put your name on the hard drive vine list.

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Cool, that part is definitely sweet! Great beat for that section already, but when he gets playful with it at the outro vamp, even sweeter. Don't have many Rush bootlegs, but I have Music in the Abstract because that setlist is amazing.

 

You ought to put your name on the hard drive vine list.

 

I don't even know what that is, but of course!

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Cool, that part is definitely sweet! Great beat for that section already, but when he gets playful with it at the outro vamp, even sweeter. Don't have many Rush bootlegs, but I have Music in the Abstract because that setlist is amazing.

 

You ought to put your name on the hard drive vine list.

 

I don't even know what that is, but of course!

 

It has almost two thousand bootlegs - mostly audio - from the seventies to present.

 

Here's the link to the thread: http://www.therushforum.com/index.php?/topic/60890-ext-hd-vine-is-here-complete-rush-audio/page__st__1280

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I see Geddy's bass is plugged in during The Trees. I thought that after the seventies they had a way to do it without being plugged to something?

 

Their instruments are plugged into a unit that is usually attached to the back of the guitar strap.

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I see Geddy's bass is plugged in during The Trees. I thought that after the seventies they had a way to do it without being plugged to something?

 

Their instruments are plugged into a unit that is usually attached to the back of the guitar strap.

 

You have that bootleg video. If you watch it, you can see them both plugged in. At the end though, when they have different instruments, I didn't see any wires. So, I don't know.

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I see Geddy's bass is plugged in during The Trees. I thought that after the seventies they had a way to do it without being plugged to something?

 

Their instruments are plugged into a unit that is usually attached to the back of the guitar strap.

 

You have that bootleg video. If you watch it, you can see them both plugged in. At the end though, when they have different instruments, I didn't see any wires. So, I don't know.

 

It was probably during a transitional period. They either have to have the instrument cords connected to the amps or the wireless units. I'm not home so I can't really look at the video, but it has to be one or the other.

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I see Geddy's bass is plugged in during The Trees. I thought that after the seventies they had a way to do it without being plugged to something?

 

Their instruments are plugged into a unit that is usually attached to the back of the guitar strap.

 

You have that bootleg video. If you watch it, you can see them both plugged in. At the end though, when they have different instruments, I didn't see any wires. So, I don't know.

 

It was probably during a transitional period. They either have to have the instrument cords connected to the amps or the wireless units. I'm not home so I can't really look at the video, but it has to be one or the other.

 

From memory on the tour before (ESL) Alex was playing with a cable and on the P/G tour he was wireless. The switch happened somewhere in there for sure.

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I see Geddy's bass is plugged in during The Trees. I thought that after the seventies they had a way to do it without being plugged to something?

 

Their instruments are plugged into a unit that is usually attached to the back of the guitar strap.

 

You have that bootleg video. If you watch it, you can see them both plugged in. At the end though, when they have different instruments, I didn't see any wires. So, I don't know.

 

It was probably during a transitional period. They either have to have the instrument cords connected to the amps or the wireless units. I'm not home so I can't really look at the video, but it has to be one or the other.

 

From memory on the tour before (ESL) Alex was playing with a cable and on the P/G tour he was wireless. The switch happened somewhere in there for sure.

 

You could be right. Makes sense.

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ESLhttp://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/rush/images/tourbooks/signals/signals-8.jpg

 

P/G

http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/bf/90/14/bf9014b128c272f4ab1ee48fabf1000e.jpg

 

*Note the Flock of Seagulls hair

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ESLhttp://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/rush/images/tourbooks/signals/signals-8.jpg

 

P/G

http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/bf/90/14/bf9014b128c272f4ab1ee48fabf1000e.jpg

 

*Note the Flock of Seagulls hair

 

I"m sure after the success of Moving Pictures, they were able to afford new gear.

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