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QUOTE (thizzellewashington @ Sep 7 2012, 12:15 PM) If you have an iPhone you can turn on push notifications for specific twitter accounts. That's the best way to get updates since Rush's setlist isn't going to crash twitter like it probably will this site or any other Rush-specific site. i can't figure out how to set the push notifications...anyone?

i will get this audiobook...I have a feeling he wouldn't have read it if he wasnt up to the task of doing it right... this is a really nice extra cool piece to the CA release...

i bought one without buying a VIP ticket the day it went on sale...i got a confirmation, but not sure if I'll actually get one...but $50 for a red hoodie with Rush on it...had to have one...

QUOTE (Jomboni @ Apr 26 2012, 02:18 PM) Lots of independently owned music stores also do not report sales figures to Soundscan. thats why all indy sales are "weighted"...to cover the stores that dont report...no idea if the Soundscan formula for this works really, but its how it is...

good things come to those who wait...

QUOTE (analog guy @ Apr 26 2012, 01:14 AM) QUOTE "If the recording level is too high, then several of the instrument's sounds components are now at the same level. It's rather like being screamed at by many voices all at once." This is a good analogy. Another one I like to use is this. The human voice can scream and it can whisper. A scream is loud, a whisper is quiet. When you compress the hell out of it, you end up with the scream and the whisper being the exact same volume. And that's unnatural. It's the space that gives the noise definition. If you remove all the space, you have too many things happening and it loses much of the clarity and definition. interesting you mention "whispering"...during the xmas season when one is pummelled with holiday songs in stores, the "happy xmas war is over" john/yoko thing came on. now i had that on a 45 and they "whisper" to each other on the beginning, its almost inaudible, really "whispering". now in the store it was like that whisper became a scream, as loud as the vocals on the song...that was just plain wrong...IMHO... dynamic range does matter even in Rock music and though I don't find Headlong Flight a mastering disaster, I'm ok with it compared to other things i've heard done much worse, I do think the vinyl pressing will be really nicely done....and the way to go, will probably needledrop that and that'll be my listening copy...I listen to my fave albums on vinyl or needledropped and they all have a better DR... also the album version of HF might be mastered a bit differently than this single...

QUOTE (rushgoober @ Apr 26 2012, 12:44 PM) I know this might sound silly and TOO SIMPLE, but doesn't someone somewhere keep track of how many albums/cassettes/CD's a band produces, even if they have a harder time tracking how many are actually sold? I mean, don't the companies that manufacture the actual products keep numbers on this stuff? I can't imagine that they produce 2 million copies just to stock stores - they probably make 100,000 or whatever based on estimations of initial demand, and then reprint more copies when more are needed. Can't rough estimates of sales be made over time just based on production? Is the whole system really SO disorganized that no one can accurately determine ANYTHING? well you have to factor in the "returns"...just because they make them and ship them, doesn't mean they sell them. often a label will over ship, especially with a new signing, like Road Runner might do for their new signing...but these just get returned, so Soundscan isn't perfect but it is based on actual sales...though "indy" stores have a different formula, a mom and pop might sell one cd but it'll get counted as a few...stores like Walmart/Best Buy, that is a straight one for one sale, but the indy stores will be "weighted" differently. not sure i quite understand this, but if you want to help Rush sales figures, support your local independent music store, not the big boxes...your purchase will count for more...

QUOTE (snowdog2112 @ Apr 25 2012, 04:27 PM) QUOTE (grand phil-nale @ Apr 25 2012, 02:54 PM) QUOTE (snowdog2112 @ Apr 25 2012, 03:51 PM)QUOTE (grand phil-nale @ Apr 25 2012, 02:25 PM) I doubt S&A sold much over 200,00 copies if that. More than likely RR is budgeting the marketing for CA with a reasonable sales number. Rush is by far their biggest investment minus Nickelback. So it makes sense for them to heavily promote CA. No, it's closer to 400,000-450,000 now. Source? Well, there is no hard source for a lot of this stuff but just piecing together things I've read on RIAB with the fact that it sold 93,000 the first week according to Billboard, there's basically half of your 200,000 claim right there. And hey, I know that sales drop off dramatically after the first week especially for bands like Rush but there's no way in hell it sold as many copies the first week as it has in the 260 weeks combined since then. Plus there are quotes like this around in various places and even this article is apparently fairly old: Their 2007 album Snakes & Arrows reflects both traits, and it is no fluke that it went on to sell an estimated 611,000 copies worldwide, establishing the band as one of Canada's leading exports. http://skyarts.sky.com/rush-snakes-arrows-live-in-rotterdam I think it's safe to say that 2/3 of those were in the U.S. according to Soundscan...Snakes and Arrows has sold 323,000 in the USA, this includes physical and digital. also the Caravan "single" released June 1st, 2010 has sold 7,824 units to date...not sure if they include the cd single sold at shows though, but figure thats the downloads from Itunes...not that high... so this is to date as of yesterday....

QUOTE (chefmb @ Apr 24 2012, 03:36 PM) F3...........gonna try to get some for NC show and if I can get some as close I may just put them up for sale. Live in NC, bought in Brooklyn so I can stay with the folks if necessary and just wanted to make sure I had close tix i wonder if this means the VIP seats with the Live Nation vip thing with all the bells and whistles only includes the first 15 rows in the very center section only then? since I would have thought all three sections were part of the VIP first 15 rows...

QUOTE (danielmclark @ Apr 24 2012, 10:46 AM) QUOTE (snowdog2112 @ Apr 24 2012, 09:15 AM) QUOTE (druid13 @ Apr 24 2012, 08:59 AM) I don't have the legal expertise to definitively say so...but would think Rush almost had to re-record...since the first versions were on Atlantic. The other factor is the whole integrity thing....it would be IMHO really really cheesy to NOT re-record and just slap something most Rush fans already have on a brand new release as part of the whole. Another thing is they played it a ton of times since the recording...there could be a bunch of fun nuances they discovered during this period... PLUS BU2B is almost a full minute longer now....has to be a new version. I'd be pretty disappointed if we don't get new versions on this album. How did Show Don't Tell end up on the Chronicles cd then? Chronicles was a Mercury release but came out in early 1990 and it has SDT on it from Presto which was their first release with Atlantic. You can license songs to other labels on a per-release basis. They included SDT on Chronicles, but Mercury wouldn't have the rights to release it on another compilation. Why Mercury wanted SDT for that set is beyond me. Not that the song is bad, but that they'd effectively be promoting Presto on another label. the band may have insisted on its inclusion. I'm sure by the end of Mercury they had some clout to call a few shots on how their compilations would go.

with Brooklyn being a brand new venue, they probably don't have all their ticket brokers and other scams well in place yet. that room hasn't even opened yet... I did great yesterday with that venue so a couple of little guys win...

The vinyl will probably be the way to go for anyone not happy with the mastering of HF. I think it sounds better than I was expecting it to...I love dynamic range, and it could have had a bit more of that, but I didn't find the "mastered for Itunes" mastering too heinous on this one...it rocks more when i turn it up, it doesnt make me mental... I have high hopes for the vinyl if that was also done at Bernie's mastering place...my favorite sounds has always been on vinyl anyway...

QUOTE (1-0-0-1-0-0-1 @ Apr 24 2012, 10:40 AM) Anyone get both the Amazon mp3 and the iTunes m4a? I got the mp3, I'm wondering which one sounds better. The mp3 is 256kbps and iTunes m4a is 128kbps, but Apple's m4a is considered a better format. got it from Itunes its 256k

i got the exact seats i'd hoped for on the first try...Section 7 row 1 for the Brooklyn show....I NEVER get what I want via a fan pre-sale, maybe cause the venue is new made it so? but love being close to the stage just off the floor... my first post and my first time seeing them since 1978...psyched big time.