The Omega Concern

Red Tide Tai Shan Faithless Virtuality BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! What an intro!

The inner sleeve pick from Hold Your Fire (the one with the guy juggling) has a clock on the right side of the picture. It's hands are also at 9:12. That was done intentionally and was way before 9-11. This is well explained at this link. http://www.2112.net/powerwindows/main/Wallpaper.htm

So here is my crack at a CW setlist, the show would be a bit over 3 hours with plenty of time for Ged to rest his vocals, all of CW, a lot of stuff we have not heard in a while (but on a lot of wishlists) without overdoing any one album (other than CA) and retiring overworked songs that I am sure you would not even miss and a whole lot of jamming! Only two albums are omitted and by most posts they are often seen as the weakest of the lot. Set 1 Video: The sketches for this tour are set in a steampunk world controlled by the Clockmaker with Geddy playing a deranged alchemist, Neil as a Carnie, Alex as an Anarchist and Nick R. as the Clockmaker. Plenty of Rush references could be built into these scenes. The first begins with the three meeting in Geddy's alchemy lab and Al the Anarchist shows them something strange he found - an electric guitar! They do not know what to make of it and they try to learn what it does. Neil and Geddy try convince Al to take the guitar to the Clockmaker. Far Cry 5:18 Vapor Trail 4:58 Lock and Key 5:10 Cold Fire 4:26 Workin' Them Angels 4:46 Cut To The Chase 4:49 Time and Motion 5:01 The Body Electric 5:02 Marathon 6:09 Driven 4:27 One Little Victory 5:09 Set 2 Video: This scene is a steampunk version of when the heroes encounter the wizard in "A Wizard of Oz" and present the guitar to the Clockmaker. The Clockmaker rudely says "Don't annoy me further! I have clocks to make, forget about that silly thing, go away for goodness sake!". And banishes them. Caravan 5:40 BU2B 5:10 Clockwork Angels 7:31 The Anarchist 6:52 Carnies 4:52 Halo Effect 3:14 Seven Cities of Gold 6:32 The Wreckers 5:01 Headlong Flight 7:20 BU2B2 1:28 Wish Them Well 5:25 The Garden 6:59 Set 3 Video: Al the Anarchist shows improvement on his new instrument but it is not LOUD enough. The boys start looking for some inventive steampunk ways to power the guitar. First Four Jam 15:00+/- (instrumental, maybe some Geddy "hey, hey, hey's) i. Anthem ii. Bastille Day iii. Something For Nothing iv. What Your'e Doing v. Necromancer vi. By-Tor and the Snow Dog vii. Beneath, Between and Behind viii. Finding My Way Next Four Jam 15:00+/- (instrumental thru YYZ) i. Closer To The Heart ii. Freewill iii Circumstances iv. YYZ (w/ drum solo) v. Different Strings (acoustic) (w/ vocals) vi. A Farewell to Kings (w/ vocal beginning and instrumental jam end) Jacob's Ladder 7:29 2112 9:00 i. Overture ii. Temples of Syrinx vii. Grand Finale Encore Set Video: The Clockmaker hears of Al's work on the guitar and is interested in recording him but does not have the technology. The guys propose to just play a show and give the people what they want. Hemispheres Prelude 3:55 Xanadu (complete!!!) 11.08 Mystic Rhythms 5:54 Video: We see the guys working on powering the guitar with steam (to the sound of Neil's cymbals) and all of a sudden Al shouts out "I know what we need, ELECTRICITY!", to Neil's reply of "BIOLOGY", to Geddy's very sarcastic Alchemist saying "Seems to me it's CHEMISTRY!" Chemistry 4:57 (w/ cool jammy end) Video: Geddy saying "SEE, I told you it was Chemistry!"

Saw this on another site, not sure if it was posted here. "Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson originally worked on the music together in a basement studio, sometimes with Lifeson giving Peart two demos of a tune - one with a drum machine illustrating rhythmic ideas, the other a click-track. "Alex had put together one collection of ideas that turned out to be most of the song Clockwork Angels,' says Peart. "As soon as I heard its rhythmic feel, which was so different for us, my response was 'I want to play that!'" Carnies and Headlong Flight were of 'furious jams', and there was an 'immediate spark of connection' with Seven Cities Of Gold, Alex Lifeson says, "We talked about having a raucous beginning that related to the middle 'solo' section, and as the song evolved it took on the appropriate character; entering the city with all the wild, dangerous sensory experience it offers." Peart asserts that Lifeson's solo on The Garden was, "A few takes recorded casually and assembled into an improvised performance that remains his personal favourite." Audiences throughout the Time Machine tour will have already heard the opening tracks, first single Caravan and its B-side BU2B, which were written early in the process. The Wreckers was the result of Lee and Lifeson swapping instruments during writing sessions but, "Once we switched into recording mode," says Peart, "it was back to the same old us."