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The textures he used on presto take some beating!

Really..? Why?

If you like your music with a jack of structure and absence of melody then you'll love Victor. Headache has a few really good songs on it, and if Ged can produce something approaching the quality of that album I'll certainly buy it.

Thanks Earl, I am kinda new round here and I realised that you had some kind of Peart rudeness..which is what it is.. If any stranger acted like he does it would be considered rude.. At least he didn't lower himself to smile at you..I mean really.. That's all he would need to do. A simple smile.

Seconded.

Being a keyboard player, the synth era was my favourite also, and although technically there is nothing challenging to play the use of textures and light and shade brought another dimension to the sound. The songs were stronger, with some great melodies and poignant lyrics, and the sound was balanced to serve the whole piece, not simply to serve an ego and to see who could sound the biggest, which for me is why some of the later albums sound messy.

Tears is one hundred percent mellotron, used for the string sounds and woodwind parts. It used looped tapes of the actual instruments to recreate the sound. A very primitive sample of you like!

Actually it was an ARP Odyssey synthesiser... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARP_Odyssey I seem to recall reading that it took a bit of time to assemble it, I would imagine it would be tough to recreate live. A similar synth was used by Pete Townshend on Won't Get Fooled Again, which The Who always played live using a tape. Geddy said in an interview years ago that the 2112 intro was in fact the soundtrack of the accompanying film. Yes, it was an ARP. What the hell was I thinking? Mellotrone... that's a "Watcher of the Skies" Genesis type deal. Tears has mellotron, I believe.

Must admit if you look at earthshine from the rush in Rio tour, it looks as though Ged mimed that song.. Although not sure how that is technically possible! Have a look!

The best era with the best songs, best melodies and best playing. The instruments served the songs and not the players ego.

The human voice is not designed for 200 shows per year for 20 years. This and a combination of age and vocal cord change has dictated his range and style of singing. He shouldn't be able to sing the stuff he sang 30 years ago!

It's a shocking album soundwise, recorded through a reverb chamber with the bass too loud and non existent vocals. Contrast that with GUP live which sounds superb.

He's a mass of contradictions, would like to shake his hand and simply say thanks. Like most fans would. We aren't all nutters.

When you met Neil, was it covered in one of his books? We're you one of those dudes that got kicked out? What happened?

Sorry, but Rush is done. Finished. Accepted it a long time ago. Those two may get together, Geddy may write again, but you won't see Neil behind a kit again.

Half the world, colour of right!

It was obvious to me that Geddy was upset with the fact that Neil was done with the band, and he was in denial for the first few months. Perfectly natural to feel bitter about this seeing as Ged was the only one that seemed to enjoy touring, and was lucky enough to have no health issues that got in the way.

Anyone think that the little kit used by Neil on Mal.Nar. sounds better than his main one!?

Just shows you, bravest face is my favourite track of that album! Quite like the lyric too..

Complete nonsense as Neil wrote in his book how he felt how good Geddy sounded and how he had managed too preserve his range (!)

Alex's pick that he threw into the second row at Sheffield UK on Snakes tour.

After test for echo for me, when maybe the producer gave the band too much say in how they wanted it to sound, if you get my drift.

Problem with the later records is that each player wants that big sound, Alex wants a huge guitar that occupies so much of the soundscape, Ged demands his fat bass sound with a little fuzz that also fights against frequencies that the guitar stomps over. Never been a fan of the DW drum sound that Neil raves about, really feel sorry for any producer trying to get the mix right, and then get vocals on there too!