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I don't really notice.

Four stars. Great pop song with great riff, some of Geddy's best vocals, and a good solo, but overshadowed by songs like Anthem, By-Tor, and In The End.

The remastered footage is on Youtube, I watched it. It looks AMAZING! So beautifully detailed, WAY, WAY better than the bootleg. I'm so glad to have another vault release! This opens up the possibility for MORE in the future! All I wish is that it was the full show. Some shows I KNOW they have: Agora 12/16/1974 (FM Broadcast) All three Massey Hall shows in full All three St. Louis shows Glasgow, 6/10-11/1980 (Second Side of ESL) The full Montreal show (ESL) Manchester, 6/17/1980 (Bangkok on Deluxe 2112) Edmonton 6/25/1981 (2112 on 2112 Deluxe) East Rutherford 1986 (Show of Hands) New Orleans, Phoenix, and San Diego 1988 (On Show Of Hands) Mountain View 1990 (Pro-shot) Auburn Hills 1994 (Pro-Shot, plus The Analog Kid on DS) Miami 1994 (Show Don't Tell on DS) Dallas, Mansfield, Molson, and Cinncinati 1997 (On Different Stages) Hartford 2002 (Pro-shot) Phoenix and Quebec 2002 (Bonus tracks on Rush In Rio) Atlanta 2008 (Bonuses on SnA live) Full Phoenix, Dallas, and San Antonio 2012 (CA live) Kansas City, Buffalo, and Los Angeles 2015 (R40)

Others: YYZ: Grace Under Pressure Live Bastille Day: Different Stages Working Man: Any '70s version where the full song is played Subdivisions: Probably Show Of Hands Xanadu: Not sure if studio wins or Different Stages. Resist: Rush in Rio (by FAR)

Yeah, he still definitely sings high. This topic was worded kinda poorly. I meant when he stopped singing in his '70s range.

The Hemispheres Tour is actually where it started to slip, honestly. That was were he really started to struggle on songs like Cygnus X-1, 2112, and Something For Nothing. By the GUP Tour, his really high range was gone, 2112 was sung all in a lower octave, Finding My Way and In The Mood too, and he even struggled to hit highs on songs like Spirit of Radio and Tom Sawyer. I think he lost his throaty voice because of overtouring, they played over 600 gigs between the 1974-1979 period. I also read once that he was a smoker in that time.

We're only immortal for a limited time. The hours tick away, the cells tick away... You can surrender without a prayer, but never really pray without surrender You can fight, fight without ever winning, but never really win without a fight.

Dio wins for me. Most metal singers either sound like an angry elf or Cookie Monster, he doesn't.

Listening to more bootlegs, he started to lose that high wail around 1978, during the Hemispheres Tour, and it completely vanished around Signals.

Distant Early Warning was rehearsed on the Counterparts Tour, but didn't make it. It's not hard to see why Farewell to Kings didn't make it, lots of high parts. "EYES cast out on the path of LEAST, RESISTAAAAANCE" "WITHERED HEARTS AND CRUEL TORMENTED EYES" "BEATING DOOOOOOOOWN the MULTITUDE and, SCOFFING AT THE WISE" "HOW CAN WE LEARN, to feel what's right, AND WHAT'S WRONG! WHAT's WROOOOONG?" "CAN WE RAISE OUR EYES, AND MAKE A SONG!" "CAN WE FIND THE MINDS TO LEAD US CLOSER, TO, THE HEART" I'd DREAD hearing that on Snakes or CA. and Something for Nothing on R40... Whew.

Have been listening to A Passage to Oslo (5/22/1979) and found two AMAZING parts: First at 44 minutes in we get a STUNNING version of "Cygnus" in Hemispheres And at 1:21:45 we get a MINDBLOWING solo in "2112: Presentation" The Tour of the Hemispheres had the band in top form!

The Necromancer

I think they get all the praise they deserve. I do wish the Rush-COS albums got more, though.

1. That's not Paul 2. He's 74, not 76.

I hate both songs, both bland Police impressions. Vital Signs is the lesser of two evils, I like the outro, especially on GUP live.

Best: 2112 (Greatest song ever candidate, along with Shine on You Crazy Diamond and The Show Must Go On) Worst: Fountain of Lamneth (Good but not AS good)

BUMP! For heaviest, i'd say it's Vapor Trails or Clockwork Angels, lots of heavy stuff on those albums. Lightest is probably Signals through Roll the Bones.

1. In terms of melody writing, they were the best in their class. They could create an epic, dramatic feel like no other. Hard to put in words, but stuff like the intro to Xanadu, Natural Science, the Overture of 2112, Subdivisions, Tom Sawyer, etc. They could deliver scorching hard rock in stuff like Finding My Way, Anthem, Temples of Syrinx section of 2112, The Big Money, Something For Nothing, etc. And they could write beautiful, tender ballads like Tears, Resist, and Losing It. 2. All of their instrumental skills are amazing. Lifeson has a bottomless pit of amazing riffs at his disposal, and his soloing is often a highlight. Neil Peart is a great drummer, who's complex, jazzy yet powerful rhythms helped boost their sound a ton. And Geddy Lee was a top-notch bassist, and his keyboard playing in stuff like Subdivisions was stellar. 3. Geddy Lee is one of the greatest vocalists of all. His '70s singing was truly incredible, power, control, and range second to none. His '80s and '90s voice was lower, with less range, but at the same time richer and warmer. And his '00s and '10s voice is deep and mature. 4. Diversity. From the Hard Rock of Rush-2112, to the prog of AFTK-Moving Pictures, to the synths of Signals-HYF, to the pop rock sounds of Presto and RTB, to the alt-rock and grunge of Counterparts, TfE, and VT, to the return to the Rush of old on SnA and CA. 5. Great live performances. Instead of going off into long, self-indugent jams, they would stick to the original arrangements, but add tons of power and energy, especially in the Signals-GUP years. Those are what made Rush my favorite band.

Yay! Hope you sort out your life issues. I also have a new bootleg review I think you'll like.

I miss her! A great poster.

- Most of the debut, glad Neil started writing the lyrics. "Well, you make me crazy, the way you roll them eyes" is the bottom of the barrel. - "Anthem" is basically "Ayn Rand" the musical. Lowlight: "Well I know they always told you selfishness was wrong, and yet it was for me, not you that I came to write this song". - The first verse of "I Think I'm Going Bald" - "2112" has some groaners. "The Elder race of man" anyone? - "Natural Science" sounds too much like attempts at being cool as possible with no coherency. "A quantum leap forward, in time and space, the universe learned to expand" sounds like teenage sci-fi. Part III has GREAT lyrics though - "Vital Signs" also has pretty much no coherency. Though I like all of those songs, sans Vital Signs.

Probably Xanadu

5 stars! A Passage to Bangkok's great fun with a great riff, Lessons has great shifts between soft and loud, and crazy vocals, The Twilight Zone captures the feel of the show perfectly, Tears is a STUNNING ballad, with some of Geddy's best singing, and Something For Nothing's a blast of heavy rock! 2112 is easily my favorite Rush album, and possibly my favorite album EVER (either this or Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here)

Vital Signs. Bad imitation of the Police, a band I don't really like. Plus the fake accent Geddy puts on is really distracting. Outro's great, though, and the Grace Under Pressure Live version's better (but still not good) All the others are great. I REALLY like Witch Hunt, the main riff has got to be one of the most menacing i've ever heard (Only second to Yes's "Machine Messiah")

They celebrated the moment, as it turned into one more.