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There's a biiiiiiiig difference between redoing six-year-old material and redoing 44-year-old material. You really think Geddy could handle any of that stuff vocally? I'm not generally huge on bands re-recording old material, but if they wanted to do some synth era stuff with their heavier live sound, I'd be up for that. Of course, all of this is moot because the band is done.

I'd honestly just be down for another Geddy solo album whether or not Alex is involved.

I'd settle for audio of a full Permanent Waves show. That's the best setlist they've ever played.

My guess would be that it would include some MFH stuff and maybe a couple of Rush songs that Geddy wrote, like Different Strings. Maybe a reprise of the acoustic Resist.

Like this guy? Have you listened to Harry Styles' album? I don't think it's great or anything, but stylistically, it's a total 70s classic-rock throwback. It wouldn't surprise me at all if he actually liked Rush.

I remember not being very impressed with the original when it came out, but I'm a huge Drama fan so I'll check out this version.

I will not be purchasing this

I do this a lot.

"Witch Hunt" rules. Especially the versions on S&A Live and Time Machine. Alex's guitar tone on recent live performances of it is so filthy.

Us diehards who post on message boards are really into the obscure parts of their catalog but sometimes there's a reason an album is a band's biggest. As OP says, it's every element of Rush on one album in its best form. Hard rock, synths, an epic, some short radio songs, a crazy technically complex instrumental, it's all there. If someone doesn't like this album, they're not going to like Rush.

I have to be in the right mood to want to listen to Hemispheres but it's a pretty undeniable album.

I have it. I never thought to scan it though. I guess I just thought of it being part of Different Stages. Fair enough. I have them as two separate things in my iTunes, since the first two discs are approximating a mid-90s show and the third disc is an unrelated show from the 70s.

Awesome work. I'm going to replace mine with some of these. What about the Hammersmith Odeon bonus disc of Different Stages?

two things: 1. Geddy and Alex have said a million times that they'd never do Rush without all three of them, and they literally released a documentary about coming to terms with R40 being the end of the band, so it's probably time to give it up. 2. On the actual topic of the thread: I like MFH. If it were a Rush album, it wouldn't be the worst Rush album. "Grace to Grace" is better than any song they released in the '90s except for maybe "Driven" or "Ghost of a Chance."

70s: A Farewell to Kings 80s: Power Windows 90s: I guess Counterparts? No great options here. Can I take My Favorite Headache instead? 21st century: Clockwork Angels

That's certainly an opinion someone could have

If it's a Hemispheres deluxe edition that comes with a 5.1 mix and/or a complete concert from that tour, I'm in. Otherwise I'm good.

Ice game cold as a polar bear / Sun hit my chain, watch it make a solar flare

The best part is you can tell Neil and Geddy were totally blindsided by it but by the end they were just looking at each other like "Yup, that's Lerxst for you."

Update to this: I'm in the second set now and he mostly sounds pretty good on the older material, which is weird and unexpected. The first set he sounds awful.

Neil's lyrics are usually either incredible or jaw-droppingly terrible. Not much in-between. More of the former than the latter, obviously, but there isn't much middle ground.

I don't feel like looking through 49 pages of this thread to see if this is popular or unpopular but as someone who's thought Geddy sounded great on pretty much every recent tour, I'm rewatching the R40 blu-ray for the first time basically since I got it and he sounds...rough. Not sure if they caught him on a bad night or what. I saw them twice on that tour and he sounded fine both times. But the vocals on that show are not good. Even on the newer stuff.

April 12 is a week from Thursday . . .

Did not know that. Pretty cool factoid.

I watched the Dream Theater episode and it totally captured why I don't like that band at all.