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  • Location
    Texas
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    Male

Music Fandom

  • Number of Rush Concerts Attended
    19
  • Last Rush Concert Attended
    Clockwork Angels - Houston
  • Favorite Rush Song
    The Spirit of Radio
  • Best Rush Experience
    Meeting Alex!
  • Other Favorite Bands
    Porcupine Tree; REM
  • Musical Instruments You Play
    Guitar
  1. Thanks for posting this. It's interesting to watch Alex struggle with his tuning throughout! Also it sounds like he's using his Leslie cabinet during Temples. Never noticed that before....
  2. Still lots of triggers and samples in there... Notice the pedals? lol "Pedals" do not equal samples. They are bass pedals and for years they were just used to play a simple keyboard line via Geddy's feet. They are also used to trigger sequences (the background keyboards during the chorus of Spirit) and they are used to trigger samples like the fake Geddy background vocals. In this performance they are used as bass pedals and to trigger sequences but they do not trigger any samples (except, maybe, the intro wind noise in Dreamline). Pedals are not fake. Triggering entire musical passages or background vocals are fake and are exactly what the OP asked about.
  3. Look up the Sars concert footage on Youtube. That set was done without triggers/samples so the arrangements are just a little bit different. All the keyboard parts are either played by Geddy directly (hands or feet) but the sequences are still there (the keyboards in the chorus of Spirit). The backing vocals are either not sung at all (like Dreamline) or they are sung by Alex (and, clearly, it's Alex). I'm with the OP.... it would be nice to hear the songs stripped down for a change. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia6MQpN_AtA
  4. Wow. It would have been great to see them in the Houston Music Hall (which is long since gone). The first Rush show I saw was Permanent Waves in the Sam Houston Coliseum (also long gone and connected to the Music Hall). Back in those days you seriously worried about getting mugged if you wandered alone in the upper prom or outside the venue. On the way to the show you could go through these underground walk-ways from the parking lot and there would be these "That 70's Show" looking guys every 10 feet or so hawking "acid?", "acid?", "pot?", "ludes?", "acid?". Very intimidating for a 13 year old kid! And apparently "acid" was very popular at Rush shows back then!
  5. I don't know if its in my top 5 all time... but it's easily in my top 5 of the last few albums although those would be Far Cry and then four from Clockwork. I'm in my late 40s and have been listening to Rush since I was about 13 years old. In high school I was in a band that mostly played Rush covers (without a singer!) and if Headlong Flight had been out back then we would have been all over it. It's just such a great Rush song...
  6. Anyone know what the last bits of Tom Sawyer were? I would have to imagine they were alluding to some other artist/song? Also, anyone else thing the back-beat Neil and Geddy were keeping behind DMC and Chuck D was pretty cool? Rush usually don't stray too far out of their element so hearing that was, IMO, really fun.
  7. Every show but one that's come through Houston in the last 33 years!
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