toymaker

My condolences as well. Sorry for your loss.

On the topic of recording engineers, this is from Brian May's book Queen in 3-D, from p. 69, about Mike Stone, engineer on A Night at the Opera and a couple of albums following: "Mike had incredible ears for blending sounds. He would just gently touch all the tone controls on the desk . . . and would magically make things blend together in the right way. Quite amazing! He started off as teaboy at Trident Studios, which is the way things were done in those days. You didn't go to university to learn how to be an engineer. You did your apprenticeship by signing up as a teaboy in a studio, and if you were very lucky and worked hard for a long time you got to be an engineer. When Mike was an assistant engineer he was already tuned in to us, and we recognised his talent. In fact the final mix of "Keep Yourself Alive," which is the mix that is on the single, I did with Mike, and no one else. Somehow, instinctively, we knew what we wanted, but it was Mike who had all the technical expertise. He'd just picked it up, playing around in dark time in the studio."

A new band called Yesh...

I'm a bit tired of hearing about things being "leveraged"

Happy birthday, and many more happy ones to come! :cheers:

He doesn't really do the accented singing on this version, though. He just sings it kind of chilled out.

Way to hang around! :cheers:

Hope it was a good one, and many happy more! :cheers:

Hope you had a good birthday, buddy! :cheers:

Happy A :cheers:

I watched this show on the weekend and was digging it quite well, but I'd really forgotten how devastatingly great the encore performances of La Villa Strangiato and Working Man are. Whatever you might say about the playful polka intro, once they get into it it's pretty much a perfect performance. And the unrestrained fury of the lead break in Working Man, where Alex is searching for the lost guitar frets of the cosmos, and that thunderous ending where Peart has that manic look on his face and raises his fists as if to say I ran out of drums but I f***ing need to hit something...its enough to make even the crankiest atheist say Holy Sweet Christ and His Almighty Dad, that was Truly Awesome.

Standouts: La Villa Strangiato (both solos) Necromancer Soliloquy Limelight Jacob's Ladder Freewill Cinderella Man Cygnus X-1 Camera Eye Analog Kid Digital Man Here Again Just to name a few...

I can't remember...what is life again?

I quite like it. Not a ton of virtuoso bass playing, but some solid songs with good hooks and a comfortable sound.

Scholarship? Every semi-literate rock music fan thinks their band is the coolest, most cerebral, musicianly...etc etc etc. Note the quotes.

Isn't anything?

I think it takes a special talent to be able to perceive things that I'm sure lots of people consider fairly abstract - notes have pitch but also tonality and color and depth; there is good "separation" between sounds; things are optimally placed within the stereo spectrum; vocals can be enhanced by reverb, making a "dry" sound "wet"; then there's compression and equalization and lots of other factors to consider. Where should the amps be placed in the room, where should the mics be placed, how do you mix a direct input and input from a microphone. It boggles my mind, actually. When I record stuff, I just get what I get. I don't want to drive myself crazy...

I forget the exact context, but (among other prog songs) I used the lyrics and message of Hemispheres (the song) in a literature paper in college, and got something like an A++ on it, hah Nice job. You should find the essay and post it here.

Hi FleetwoodPC, welcome to the forum! We have discussed this issue on the forum, and people have different views - lots of people could fill in, but it wouldn't be the same somehow, is one take. I think Lee has said they just couldn't call it Rush without Peart.

Just copying my comment from another thread: Someone should compile every TRF post about Rush and publish it as a book. Rush: The Great Fan Debates Rush: The Complete Fan-Generated Ultimate Set Lists Permanent Waves: One Last Blast from the Seventies Or maybe someone can write a book called Rush: The Liner Notes Rush: The Between-Set Comedy Skit Transcripts I suppose it's cool that a band can have such a tremendous body of work that it seems the "scholarship" will never cease...

Moved my original post here to another thread. I think a book like this really says a lot about the dedication of Rush fans...

Hope your birthday was awesome! :cheers:

Flowers. Man, what a whacked show - but totally compelling and with killer acting.

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Just read about this in the paper this morning. I recently bought a Hal Blaine compilation disc - really cool. He apparently was one of those tireless performers. Unless I'm mixing him up with someone else, there's a story that his management had to trick him into taking a vacation. He thought he was going to another session gig, but when he got off the plane, he discovered there was no gig...