mikaz

Thanks again y'all ;) Another one from the synth era i forgot to post last year, Mystic rhythms:

Thanks guys, as i said for my previous covers it shows the songs are so well written they can be stripped down to a simple acoustic version. Nice Bowie pic by the way, i play in a Bowie tribute band too...sad days...

here's the link:

ooops, there's a new place for this kind of post i just see... "exercise in self-indulgence" i'll put it there. how do i close this one??

Let me know if you like it friends

A final nice story about this Acoustic version of Subdivisions: Last Thursday I was in Paris to attend a Marillion show (great by the way!) and the opening act was no one else than... Jacob Moon, the incredible guy who did that fantastic rendition of subdivisions on the roof of a building, you must have seen this. So, the day before the show, I sent Jacob Moon a message on his fb page to ask him to play this song at the show and also sent the link of my own version. Not only did he play the song as the final one of his set, making a beautiful speech about Rush music before starting to play, but he spotted me in the pit and said in front of the packed house: "I watched your video man, it's fantastic!", I couldn't me more happy !! I met him again after the show at the Cd stand to buy his album "fascination" (highly recommended, with a great version of limelight too!) and he told me again that he liked my guitar playing and voice, very touching and encouraging coming from such a talented guy!!

"as if all the vocals were done later." - well, that's not true at all. The vocals ARE live. You think it sounds "too good to be live" because the audio was remastered for the DVD release, and the final cut contains some auto tune on the vocals. Sad to think of, but true... You can notice it here (skip to 1:15): I've also noticed few corrections on the Time Machine DVD. The most noticeable one is the "a cell of..." vocal part on Freewill. The vocals on the DVD during that part are different from the one you can hear on the actual show. Here's a front row video of Freewill from Cleveland (1:20): The second dub I've noticed on the TM DVD is on Presto, which is a correction for a little mistake the band made during the song. I think they made this mistake to prove us they're human beans, after all ;) Just checked Freewill, it's true that it's different but it's still amazingly good (full voice, better than the original studio version to me, wich was more a bizarre throat voice..) !! he still CAN sing these high parts when we wants to make the effort ;)The real thing that bothers me and i don't know if it's already been mentionned, is that alex is always doing fake background vocals over geddy's sampled backing vocals during live shows... No need to do that, there are already tons of instrument's samples they trigger themself live with their foot pedals so there's no shame to launch backing vocals and it's part of the performance to do it at the right time! I'd rather hear alex's real voice rather than seeing him behind the mic for nothing! I guess it's better visually but I would more expect that from a Janet Jackon show... :)

Here's Red Sector A!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3bNztxbNos That was sublilme. If Rush ever decides to do an unplugged set, they need to hire to you do the arrangements. Never in a million years would I have thought RSA could translate to an acoustic guitar, but you showed that it can be done beautifully. A+ Thanks so much, that was the challenge with this very keyboard-oriented song, as it was for subdivisions, and it proves how much Rush's music is good, even "naked" like that!!

Thank you miss!!

True...as isn't the original song ;)Thanks for listening anyway.

By request of my friend Ricardo from Holland, here's Available Light too :)

By request of my friend Ricardo from Holland, here's Available Light too :)

Hope you'll like it fellow Rush fans!

Here's Red Sector A!!

Here's Red Sector A!!