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  1. QUOTE (Lost In Xanadu @ Jun 20 2012, 07:03 PM)
    In Caravan, he's a "young man"... in Carnies, he's a "young boy"


    Hmmmm?

    and 30 years ago he was a "digital man"... wtf Neil

  2. Don't get me wrong, it's a good album... and it blows away S&A (which isn't hard to do). But I'm just feeling a bit underwhelmed. Maybe I expected too much... maybe it was all the anticipation. I also feel like the 3 singles we got to hear ahead of time are the main highlights of the album, so everything else is just "meh". I don't know... maybe I need to give it more time.
  3. QUOTE (AndroidOnTheRun @ Jun 19 2012, 01:12 AM)
    Okay, first of all, if this has been addressed elsewhere already, I apologize. I searched the forum lots and found nothing. Second, please forgive my buying albums in MP3 format -- I don't particularly love live albums, so I thought I'd save some cash but still find out what's going on with Rush's live stuff.

    The issue:

    My Amazon MP3 copies of Different Stages and Rush in Rio are not right, and as far as I can tell, any commercially available downloads of these have the same issues.
    • Different Stages has a weird "skip" between Presentation and Oracle that I can't fix completely even with some Audacity magic. Downloaded these two from iTunes as well and found the same problem. (Amazon could not resolve this issue, but did give me a refund.)
    • RiR has goofy volume "jumps" at a lot of the track transitions... is this a problem of the CD as well, or am I imagining things? Again, the iTunes version had the same problem as Amazon.
    • There's an odd "skip" at the beginning of Dreamline on RiR as well, also present in both Amazon and iTunes versions.
    Anyone else experience these issues / have any solutions?

    that's the problem with live CDs... there's no "gap" between the tracks, so the skip is always noticeable when you listen on MP3. I always hated how the split 2112 up into different tracks on DS. My fix was to use iTunes to rip the song from the CD, and there's an option where you can combine tracks... so I just combined all of them into one song. Now I have all of 2112 live on my iPod, intact and without skips.

  4. QUOTE (Mystic Slipperman @ Jun 18 2012, 06:38 PM)
    Agreed.

    10 years since VT means 10 years since my dear friend (and fellow bandmate and RUSH fan) Tom passed away from a brain tumor.

    One of the last things we got to do together was see Rush in Irvine that September.

    Tempus fugit indeed.....

    I was at that show in Irvine. I remember the rain we had that day, getting soaked walking into the venue... then like magic it finally cleared up right before Rush took the stage and launched into Tom Sawyer. Geddy even made a comment later on about bringing the weather with them from Canada. Man, that can't have been 10 years ago! Where does the time go

  5. Virtuality = hey its the mid-90s, and I hear there's this new thing called the "world wide web"... people can send messages to each other through a computer! wow... I'm going to write a song about this. - NP
  6. QUOTE (arushhead @ May 24 2012, 04:56 PM)
    look around this world we're made..equality! no stock no change...come and join the brotherhood of man...

    the bitches that give pleasure to your eyes...

  7. QUOTE (ioc @ May 23 2012, 09:20 PM)
    "and the spherical servants...the feverish flocks"

    "A tired mime become a shade shifter"

    I thought it was "feverish f*cks"

  8. QUOTE (rushgoober @ May 21 2012, 09:43 PM)
    QUOTE (ReflectedLight @ May 21 2012, 07:41 PM)
    the fact that they used an orchestra for part of the song, i guess there's a good chance they will bring the orchestra along.  facepalm.gif

    i would seriously doubt that - the added expense would be enormous, not to mention the difficult logistics. i'm guessing either they won't play those tracks or they'll just do them more stripped down live.

    Geddy will just trigger the "orchestra" with a foot pedal

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