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It won't be 2016. They'll avoid touring that year because it will be 2112's 40th anniversary and they'll be forced to play the song in it's entirety. And they don't want to do that...well Neil doesn't want to...

 

Silly Neil. First Jacob Ladder now 2112. What is next? Limelight?

Afterimage

Bravado

Ummmm anything else?

Mystic Rhythms?

I want Losing It. PERIOD. But for Years... not sure, it could work but how could it fit into a set list is what I'm wondering... This is a job for a special someone.

It won't be 2016. They'll avoid touring that year because it will be 2112's 40th anniversary and they'll be forced to play the song in it's entirety. And they don't want to do that...well Neil doesn't want to...

 

Silly Neil. First Jacob Ladder now 2112. What is next? Limelight?

I want ALL of hemispheres not the prelude! And I also think this could work.

Alright time to make some people cry.

 

Limelight

Scars

Open secrets

Xanadu

Nocturne

Test for Echo

The Trees

Jacob's Ladder

Digital Man

Between the Wheels

Something for Nothing

 

Spirit of Radio

The Anarchist

Carnies

Malignant Narcissism

Cygnus X-1 (both books)

Natural Science

Dreamline

Headlong Flight

Emotion Detector

Cut to the Chase

In The End

 

Everyday Glory

Subdivisions

Countdown

 

 

Please don't kill me

 

Why? That's a great setlist.

Probably the fact that there are a few big ones not included in it, which I myself don't care about but ya know. Some people really like hearing the same songs every tour.

Alright time to make some people cry.

 

Limelight

Scars

Open secrets

Xanadu

Nocturne

Test for Echo

The Trees

Jacob's Ladder

Digital Man

Between the Wheels

Something for Nothing

 

Spirit of Radio

The Anarchist

Carnies

Malignant Narcissism

Cygnus X-1 (both books)

Natural Science

Dreamline

Headlong Flight

Emotion Detector

Cut to the Chase

In The End

 

Everyday Glory

Subdivisions

Countdown

 

 

Please don't kill me

I picked Mal Nar to be different. I still love La Villa and YYZ but I want for them to mix it up a bit.

What's the difference between a mellotron and a moog synthesizer?

 

Second, need to translate it to English.

Xanadu is a nerdy song?

 

I should wash your mouth out with soap.

 

Rush are nerdy! In the coolest way possible.

 

That's what I was told when I came here. They are nerdy and Rush fans are geeks. But I fail to see either one. I haven't found any nerds or geeks here.

 

It all depends on your definition of nerd and geek. I see it as:

Nerd = very smart person who people underestimate

Geek = a person with an obsession of things that require a higher order of thinking.

I wish I could intelligently reply to this topic, but I can't. The only thing I know is that I love that synth sound.

I am with you. I don't have a clue. Some of the synth sound is good. He could be a great synth player or a lousy one and I wouldn't know the difference....

 

Me too. In fact, the longer I am here, the more embarrassed I am getting because I know so little. Is the synth the same as the keyboards?

I think it is. Probably. Not sure.

Rush: Working man, in the mood, finding my way.

Fly by night: By-tor, in the end, anthem.

Caress of steel: Bastille day, lakeside park, the Necromancer.

2112: 2112 (duh), something for nothing, passage to bangkok.

Farewell to kings: Xanadu, Cygnus X-1, A farewell to kings.

Hemispheres: .........Hemispheres, The Trees, Circumstances (La Villa I still love you).

Permanent Waves: Spirit of Radio, natural science, Jacob's ladder.

Moving Pictures: Limelight, Vital Signs, YYZ.

Signals: Countdown, Digital Man, The Analog Kid.

Grace under Pressure: Between the Wheels, Red Sector A, Distant Early Warning.

Power Windows: Marathon, Big Money, Emotion Detector.

Hold your fire: Open Secrets, Force Ten, Turn the Page.

Presto: Show don't Tell, scars, The Pass.

Roll the Bones: Dreamline, Wheres my thing?, roll the bones.

Counterparts: Cut to the Chase, Everyday Glory, Animate.

Test for Echo: Test for echo, Driven, Limbo.

Vapor Trails: Nocturne, peaceable kingdom, Freeze.

Snakes and arrows: Spindrift, Mal Nar, Far cry.

Clockwork Angels: Carnies, Headlong flight, The Anarchist (next is The Garden/Caravan)

I'm stuck with half of the other people here. Xanadu, The trees, and either between the wheels or red sector a. Subdivisions and Countdown also have great keyboard work too. The HYF synth is so so, some good some not so much. Power Windows had decent keyboard. My favorite albums for keyboard are signals and grace under pressure though.

It is ironic. I used to hate majority of the 80's content when I started listening to them, and thought the two worst albums were HYF and Presto, but now I love that stuff. The thing is the keyboard stuff is hard to adapt to. But, HYF and GUP had some killer guitar parts on them. So did signals, but the guitar wasn't dominant enough of a sound. Which of course digital man and analog kid make up for it in a way, but still. Regardless, I still love Countdown and Losing It which are both very heavy with synth. GUP, I like the first side, and between the wheels. Other than that, it is meh. Okay, I guess. PoW had some good guitar on it, from Marathon, but the rest is keyboard everywhere. Don't get me wrong, I like pretty much all of the album, just needed more guitar as usual. This doesn't mean I forgot how much they needed bass over keyboard.

Xanadu is a nerdy song?

 

I should wash your mouth out with soap.

 

Not in a bad way.

I agree with the facts of Xanadu and La Villa being two of the best also, both are just so good and there is of course the fact of Xanadu being such a nerdy song!

Which epic by the group do you consider to be the most intelligently written? I am not asking for your favorite, but which one you think was put the most thought in to. Mine would be Hemispheres. And yes, I intentionally separated books one and two of Cygnus X-1 and am counting them as two separate songs.

Cut to the chase and animate are the most likely to be played, and maybe cold fire or everyday glory. I'd go for the album in its entirety, it is one of my favorite albums, and it seems that I am not the only one who isn't a fan of speed of love. Not a bad song, just rather weak.

Yep, the world is a totally different place these days. Money is king and if you don't got it, move to the back of the room. Was just checking for available seats for Kiss/Def Leppard later this summer and to sit in the first rows will cost you $1250 per seat. And that is from Ticketmaster, not a third party! Back in the day the good seats went to the kids that camped out in front of the box office the night before they went on sale, today its all about money. I just by a decent seat and crash the stage at the appropriate moment. Never fails.

 

As someone who has gotten decent tickets the "honest" way (meaning, I bought VIP tix and got lucky) I think anyone that crashes the stage needs to die in a fire. This happened a couple of times during the CA tour—I paid a whole lot of money for a decent ticket only to find people without tickets (in one case, a guy that was about 6'6") standing in front of me, blocking the view. Seriously, don't do that. All you're doing is screwing over the other fans.

 

I also had a guy on my CA concert I went to that was doing the same. He wasn't cheering or anything, he just stood blocking the view, until he went to some table after the first set to get a bunch of beer and talk... that really sucked cause I loved half of the songs they did in the first set.

Cut to the chase

Scars (if it hasn't been played, can't quite remember if it has) or chain lightning

Alien shore

Open secrets

Freeze (fear)

Peaceable kingdom

Fountain of Lamneth

 

In no particular order.

 

Scars was played on the Presto tour.

Thought so

Cut to the chase

chain lightning

Alien shore

Open secrets

Freeze (fear)

Peaceable kingdom

Fountain of Lamneth

 

In no particular order.

In the mood

In the end / anthem

Bastille day / lakeside park

2112 (maybe entire)

Xanadu + Cygnus X-1

Cygnus X-1 + The trees

Jacob's ladder (how would've known )

Vital signs / red Barchetta

Countdown

Between the wheels / distant early warning

Marathon / mystic rhythms

Open secrets

Show don't tell

Roll the bones

Animate + cut to the chase + alien shore/everyday glory (too many good songs on counterparts!)

Test for echo + driven (limbo also good)

Peaceable kingdom/freeze/nocturne

Spindrift/bravest face

 

And for clockwork angels it is hard to just pick one song so

Anarchist, Carnies, headlong flight

Dreamline

Ghost rider

YYZ

The enemy within

the weapon

Witch hunt

Freeze

The trees

Lakeside park

Jacob's ladder

Limelight

Alien shore

Limbo

Cygnus X-1: the voyage

 

Cygnus X-1: Hemispheres

Spirit of radio

Show don't tell

Manhattan dreams

Open secrets

Malignant Narcissism/Headlong Flight

Igneus Tympanis (drum solo)

Hope

By-tor and the snow dog

2112: overture

Xanadu

Working Man

 

Tom Sawyer

Caravan

In The End

I am officially right now starting on the novel, wish me luck guys.

Scratch that, I am not writing it yet, at the moment I am doing as much research and memorization as I can on the background information of the songs, listening to them over and over to get a feel of dramatic effect that the music brings to the listener. Reading about the black hole, Cygnus X-1, Cygnus the consolation, black holes in general, and even some greek mythology. I may start writing today, but possibly not.

I wholeheartedly support this idea, and I can't wait to read it, however, may I ask why this is in the On The Lighted Stage section of the forum?

Possible error. I generally don't check where I am on the forum when I post. Who knows, maybe here it is out of reach of the "peanut gallery."

I would take Neil's writing over Kevin J Anderson's any day.

 

As far as the concept I think it would be an awesome book. I always wondered why they didn't expand more on the story. You could make a whole series of books set in that world.

 

Maybe the story that exists now could just be the origins of Cygnus. After that, it could be a series of graphic novels with him as an intergalactic superhero.

Sounds like something you could write Ms Light..... :)

 

I'd have to get permission to use the story, though. Also, someone out there has to know how to draw a really kickass Cygnus.

 

How can you draw something that has "no shape or form" ?

A mist or light