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if a band puts seats in a non seated venue then absolutely no one should moan at people for wanting to sit - they are putting seats in so that they can charge ridiculous amounts of money for front row positions - that is so far from rock 'n' roll as you can get rock and roll shows in non-seated venues should be just that, non-seated d

fantastic

wow what did all us old dudes do before the internet - oh yes - that's right we just bought tickets to see bands we were fans of - good god i despair!!

as someone old enough to have shot film as well as video - can i just knock on the head this idea that somehow people who used to shoot with film didn't understand how long we had to shoot - utterly fk'n ridiculous - if this was the case you would not have had a woodstock film!! i am sure all of esl was captured on film - however they may not have liked what was shot and so may very well have chosen not to release it all - and in the intervening years it may have been scrapped d

QUOTE (canadianice @ Jun 18 2012, 01:45 PM)Comparing the production of Rush albums to Nickleback is totally assinine. why is comparing the mastering of a modern rock album to nickelback assinine? - i think it's actually a very valid point that many people on this very forum have made - i.e. that the album is being mastered to appeal to the modern commercial rock world rather than some audiophile sub section of rush fans? d

QUOTE (ArrowSnake @ Jun 18 2012, 01:41 PM) I'm going to buy Oceania in a couple of days. Heard some good things about it. I love the early Smashing Pumpkins albums. It just annoys me that Jimmy Chamberlin isn't drumming on this album. I love his drumming, he's such an important part of the Pumpkins' sound to me. Billy Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlin are The Smashing Pumpkins. Without Chamberlin he should just call it a Billy Corgan solo album. i do entirely get where you are coming from but mike byrne is fantastic in my opinion and has added something new - a youthful energy perhaps? - anyway will wait till you hear it - but i love it

QUOTE (trenken @ Jun 18 2012, 01:06 PM)The Nickelback comment he made was very appropriate. He's just talking about the SOUND, not the songs themselves, and this does sound like a Nickelback album with the safe production style Nick has and heavy guitars. This doesnt sound like some off the wall creative production. It sounds like a regular rock album. well said - i sometimes wonder if people actually bother to read the words before commenting the rs guy was talking about the production not the music - god is that so hard to grasp!!

april 79 glasgow apollo, hemispheres tour - then june 80 again at apollo two of the greatest gigs i have ever been to - (the 80 gig was on exit stage left - glasgow chorus of course ) d

having purchased this on my way to work today - i then sat down with a mug of coffee, and with some artwork to do, and plugged myself in for the day utterly, utterly brilliant, this is what rock albums should be in 2012 rush should bite billy's arm off to do a support slot d

permanent waves - because they at that time were the greatest band in the world

i find all of the negativity to strings quite amazing - i remember being in the front row at the secc when plant and paige toured - it was fk'n awesome - i saw mike oldfield on tour in the 80's with a string section in the apollo glasgow again bloody awesome - neither of those tours were some "dilution" of the artists involved d

i have seen a lot of comments on various threads about the sound quality of CA and have seen quite a bit of "muddying" the waters when it comes to discussing it (you see what i did there ) my goal here is just to "try" and explain certain concepts/terminology - (that people are bandying about in various posts at the moment) - in very simplistic terms for those that have no reason to know what they are i.e. the ordinary listener please don't shoot me down - i am not trying to be patronising to anyone and i am not claiming that what i am attempting to explain here is a definitive explanation - audio engineering is very complex subject and i am not in any way trying to claim this is definitive - i am just trying to add some clarity to terms used in any debates first of all when people are commenting/complaining that the cd has been mastered to be too loud - this is called upward compression - i.e bringing parts that are not as loud as others up in volume level - so the quiet bits are not as quiet - this reduces the dynamic range (i.e. loudest to quietest) to normally around a 6 - 10db scale on modern rock cd this type of compression has nothing to do with bass/treble per se, it does not directly limit the frequencies available within the audio - (that would be frequency compression) - it just tends to limit the light and shade in an album - less room to breath here enters the multiband compressor this is where you are applying the principles i have described above but to specific frequency bands - now normally this would be applied to an instrument or a particular problem frequency in the mix where you are trying to compensate for uneven "loudness" playing. i'm not sure any of this is useful at all probably not - but thought it was worth trying to clarify best to all d

QUOTE (alphseeker @ Jun 13 2012, 11:42 PM)Speaking of Billy i'm listening to Smashing Pumpkins Oceania right now - Itunes is allowing me to stream it free - First song is potent - - album is real good - can't wait until tuesdsay me too - been listening to it all day - fantastic album an oceania / ca tour would be cool

fantastic interview - many thanks for posting d

QUOTE (danielmclark @ Jun 9 2012, 06:13 PM)QUOTE (Sin City @ Jun 9 2012, 03:08 PM) No. Only the egotists who ordered in enough time and wanted their name on the poster. Do you have any idea how many Daniel Clarks there are on the planet? Having my name on the poster means nothing. I ordered the UK pack for the magazine and for potential collectable status. I'm not even going to open it for a few weeks so I can see if there's any interest on eBay for these things. If there is, I'm selling - I've got the domestic CD and the vinyl on order as well, so I'll still own the album. says it all - pathetic people always looking for a buck - i hope you end up penniless dude d

i loved both originally - but the remixes on the album and put into context in the album make them even more amazing for me d

QUOTE (Tony R @ Jun 9 2012, 03:16 PM)I thought I opted out, but obviously not as my name is on there. well given this was a worldwide offer, there could be someone who shares your name that bought it no? d

for me it is just amazing - i personally have not felt this way about a rush album for many many years. like others have said in other threads, i got goosebump moments when listening to it. it is one of those albums that has made me sit down in front of my hi-f- and listen while looking at the glorious internal hugh syme artwork and reading the lyrics - again something i have not done for a long time with a rush album. glorious stuff d

QUOTE (metaldad @ May 17 2012, 03:36 PM) QUOTE (jjgittes @ May 17 2012, 11:46 AM) Every time we all lament about ticket prices, it reminds of what a dj said about Bruce Springsteen being a "hyprocrite." Springsteen wails about the rich abusing power and keeping people poor but now the only people who can afford to see him are the very people he whines about. I am No fan of Bruce but that is not true . My friends wife is a Huge fan. They go every tour and they got 2nd row for $100 each on the last tour he did. well said

QUOTE (Snaked @ May 17 2012, 02:57 PM) QUOTE (s_b_g @ May 17 2012, 03:45 PM) i really think we need to knock the idea on the head that the cost of the ticket has to do with the cost of the "lighting rig" i have been to spectacular shows in the SECC at waaay below these ticket prices. they charge this money in the hope people will pay it - fair enough i have no argument with that but please stop trying to justify these prices as something to do with the light show!! utter bollox It's not bollox at all. Higher production value = justification for charging a higher ticket price. I would bet you 5p that it is in their contract with LiveNation that the production cost must be at least a specific dollar amount. i repeat - i have been to concerts at the same venue with way more spectacular light shows that have cost less - point proved!! and anyway a rock show is not about the lights - that must be someones's choice - i'm sure most rush fans would rather see them without an expensive light show for less money d

QUOTE (dakota2112 @ May 17 2012, 02:41 PM) To the original poster... just remember, there are always two sides to every coin. I'm a working stiff, and I put in a lot of hours. I have a busy, complicated life, and I don't have TIME to go camp overnight to get tickets, or to show up 8 hours or the night before at the venue doorstep hoping for a good spot by the stage. The only chance I have for good tickets is to pony up the dough. Everything has to come down to either time, or money. I'm not rolling around in the cash, but I probably have less free time than I have money. Just sayin' totally with you - but young people tend to have time more than money - and to be honest i would rather young people got to see the bands they love in the same way i did when i was young - it would surely be horrible if rock and roll gigs were full of rich old people in the front rows with young people relegated to the back

i really think we need to knock the idea on the head that the cost of the ticket has to do with the cost of the "lighting rig" i have been to spectacular shows in the SECC at waaay below these ticket prices. they charge this money in the hope people will pay it - fair enough i have no argument with that but please stop trying to justify these prices as something to do with the light show!! utter bollox

QUOTE (Snaked @ May 17 2012, 02:32 PM) QUOTE (s_b_g @ May 17 2012, 03:13 PM) QUOTE (Snaked @ May 17 2012, 02:11 PM)you can thank LiveNation for the current state of affairs in the music industry. but bands don't have to go with them - they can choose their approach to touring - and that what disappoints me the most d LiveNation controls a large percentage of the major venues in the US and several in other countries. If a 'major' band wants to tour they have little choice but to get in bed with LN to some degree and at that point they might as well sign with LN for a more substantial stake. It's not by accident that LN has positioned themselves in this manner. They control the venues, TM controls the ticketing thus they are able to inflate the guarantee to the artist which in turn trickles down to the consumer by way of higher ticket prices. Until something is done about the LN/TM virtual monopoly concert prices will continue to rise and we will see more gimmicks such as VIPNation, tiered/dynamic pricing for Platinum seats and so on. The question I have for anybody bitching is this: You have 2 choices... 1. Go with smaller regional promoters and at the end of the day you make 10Mil for a 35 date tour 2. Go with LiveNation/TM and be GUARANTEED 18Mil for the exact same schedule. This is a job for the artists and like RUSH most of them have created relatively large corporations around themselves. There are managers, lawyers and office staffs which rely on the business continuing. For the average Joe a better analogy is this. Company 1 offers you a job. $20/hr Company 2 offers you a job. $70k/year. Same job.. basically the same type of business. Which job do you take? well this simply is not true for the "large" venues in scotland - as i have been to numerous gigs in the same SECC without these stitch ups d

QUOTE (mlc @ May 17 2012, 02:18 PM) Please keep in mind bands used to make a much larger portion of there money from selling records. That has now changed and they make most of the money from touring and as a result the tickets are more expensive. That doesn't explain it all but a good bit of it. Kevin i appreciate what you are saying in general - but i go and see loads of bands every year who don't charge anywhere near these rates - and don't buy into the "platinum ticket" shit - and this is what pisses me off most rush i am sure have way more money than many of the bands i go to see live who don't rip me off rock and roll is not about how much money you can afford to drop on a ticket d