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This is the dumbest thread, why don't you compare Alex with Satriani or Vai then, smart arses?

EVH is a noodly shredder and is a highly technical guitarist but Alex is the 'greater' guitarist because he has more feel. I hear a zillion kids doing what EVH does but not many playing with the feel Alex does, and some of Alex's solos are a lot harder than you think. For example if you don't land that massive fret jump at the beginning of the solo in The Trees, you're headed for a car crash. People say Power Windows is a synth album but some of the guitar work is amazingly difficult.

But I challenge any of you to play Steve Howe's lead lines. I've attempted the solo in Awaken and almost got a hernia trying to do it.

Being told it's his original cherry red one and it's the lighting making it look darker. Possibly the solo from Xanadu and it's lucky the edit fits.

Slow Saturday, was watching the original video for Limelight when during the solo spotted a short take of what appears to be Alex playing the solo on what appears to be a black double neck, could be the lighting. Did this ever happen and did he ever own one?

Wrong, it started with British audiences and around Hemispheres tour. Also similar is the oi in Bastille Day which arrived at the same time.

Like his delivery on Limelight

I'm on the video, you just catch a glimpse of me as the camera pans across the audience before CTTH. Live version of songs from Power Windows and Hold Your Fire miles better than the studio versions.

Seeing this thread has been resurrected, I haven't listened to 2112 for decades. To me it's a simplistic shriek fest that scarily has become the bible for right wing American Rush fans. Now wait for the reaction, thankfully I'm in Tasmania.

You should be here in Australia, there's no information that the retailers have acknowleged this release even exists.

It's not the vinyl, it's the turntable. I listen to a CD with the volume knob at 9 o'clock but the turntable has to go up to 12 o'clock to get the same volume. Dynamic range on Signals is way better on vinyl and really clear, the open string on the arpeggio in New World Man hovers beautifully.

SACD is a joke... I bought Presto SACD, and I could not hear any different on it and the latest remaster on normal CD... I just bought those and left them in the wrapper the SACD Golds, hopefully they are worth something in sometime!!!!!! Don't know about Presto but Hemispheres sounds good to me.

Dreamline starts off well, the verses are great but the 'We are young bit' is terrible. I keep adding love is a battlefield. Not a song I jump to when I think of a Rush song to listen to.

I have no love for either Counterparts, which I sold or Test For Echo. Counterparts was a sort of grunge knee jerk reaction to Roll the Bones then Cringe for Echo, at that stage I thought the next album would be called Testing Your Patience. But fortunately things turned for the better slowly afterwards, Vapor Trails with it's remix, a bit better, then Snakes and Arrows which on the whole I like, and Clockwork Angels which could have done with a trim.

I bought a Marantz TT5005, under $400. No preamp needed. My old vinyl sounds fine, few pops and crackles.

Dutch pressing of Signals sounds really crisp and clear, awesome.

...and Signals on vinyl arrived, sounds really awesome and crisp. Dutch pressing, guitar is really clear.

Hawkwind concerts were the worst. I had to come out of one because I was having trouble breathing. There was a fog of pot smoke lying like a cloud above the audience.

High Water off Hold Your Fire, where it changes key. sounds like Geddy's hyperventilating.

I'm still wondering if anyone else was at Stafford Bingley Hall 1981 and Rush followed up The Trees with The Forest that became Subdivisions.

There are so many, I've always loved the fade out on Red Barchetta. One I've noticed recently is the fade out to Digital Man, it really starts to kick ass, as you yanks say, towards the end of the fade out.

Those three guitarists are my three major influences although I have many. Of the three, Steve Howe is the hardest to play especially when he goes all jazz fusion. To me they are iconic guitarists, you can add Tony Iommi and Ritchie Blackmore, in that they are recognisable, can play a range of styles, and know when to go simple or solo away. My Dad played the guitar, and as a kid, I began too .... Dad was into Chet Atkins, Les Paul, Wes Montgomery, Tal Farlow - and the one guy that bonded my Dad and I guitar-wise was Steve Howe .. Around 1982 we got our first VHS machine, and YesSongs was the first video we bought - we would watch that tape over and over together ... To this day, Steve Howe, and the guitar parts he created, do not cease to amaze me Yes, the solo in Awaken is very hard, harder than any of that shredding noodling.

(cont.) So, Lorraine, Neil is famous for his use of rudiments and the very of percussion (drum) instruments he builds into his song parts. He has great complexity and "musicality" in that sense. Where Neil falls short of other drummers is in his "feel", or the way he plays those parts that he constructs. If there's one valid knock against Neil it's that he is almost always pounding on the drums. He hits them so hard that it lacks subtlety. And that pounding actually impacts the sound of the drum - or cymbal. Think of a piano being pounded on versus lightly played. There's also a question of timing. Some drummers play slightly behind the beat - intentionally - which gives a sense of swing to the rhythm. Neil is almost always driving the rhythm. This constant driving, combined with the forceful pounding, comes across as harsh. It's technical...scientific playing. I think something that makes La Villa Strangiato so special is that it is a rare moment where Neil does swing. He backs off, and the variation in striking power brings emotion to the entire piece. I like Presto for that reason. On Presto, Neil's drumming has great feel, in my opinion. OK...enough of that for now. Great question, Lorraine. This is fun for me. Don't go yet. If Neil plays without "feel" - please tell me which drummer you think does so I can listen to him to see if I can hear any difference. I realize this isn't directed at me, but I will bite. I'd try some of that Phil Collins stuff in the first half of the 1970s with Genesis. I hear a similar building approach to those songs but with more spontaneity (ROIOs will help with this if one wants to take it that far). Neil is an excellent composer, but not the best and his approach to the drums for a lot of his career has been a bit rigid (by his choice). Was watching Return of the Giant Hogweed yesterday, mad almost free form and spot Steve Hackett finger tapping at the beginning.

Those three guitarists are my three major influences although I have many. Of the three, Steve Howe is the hardest to play especially when he goes all jazz fusion. To me they are iconic guitarists, you can add Tony Iommi and Ritchie Blackmore, in that they are recognisable, can play a range of styles, and know when to go simple or solo away.

Here's Legs and Co dancing to Spirit of Radio, couldn't be worse than this, could it? Sorry double post for some reason.