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I know i'm late, but happy birthday to one of my favorite singers!

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Yeah, they HAVE! Yay.

So is it just the full R40 shows taken down, or were there more?

I hope no other shows get taken down, and that the R40 ones were the only ones.

I'm REALLY angry at this. Taking down the commercially available Rush videos is one thing, but full R40 concert videos that AREN'T AVAILABLE ANYWHERE ELSE? Soon enough they'll be taking down old bootlegs, amateur video, and covers. This has to STOP. Any other bootleg vids affected other than the full R40 shows?

The Vapor Trails tour sounded really bad. His voice, especially when he went high, was very nasal, weak, and whiny, and his tone was terrible. It seems like he was using that more nasal tone to prevent yodeling, but he shouldn't have bothered. Also, he often went far outside his vocal reaches, such as in "By-Tor" and "2112".

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Here's Rush live tours ranked from best to worst Drive 'Til You Die Tour (His absolute vocal peak, incredible tone, power, control, range, nails every song every night, some gigs marred by sickness) All The World's A Stage Tour (The first few shows are among his best ones ever, and most are good, but some are marred by him trying to sing more masculine) 2112 Tour (Not enough bootlegs to tell, but the ones we have are excellent) Rush Tour (Much more uncontrolled and raw, sometimes doesn't even sound like singing, but great on the whole) Fly By Night Tour (Roughly the same, but not enough bootlegs) Down The Tubes Tour (Only 1 low quality bootleg, probably the same) Tour Of The Nadars/New World Tour (His best post 70s tour, can still sing high, and with more power than Hemispheres-MP, showcases his lower tone well) Hemispheres Tour (High range sounds much weaker, but some good shows) Moving Pictures Tour (Mid-range sounds top-notch, but high range is very weak and airy) Exit Stage Left Tour (Roughly the same) Permanent Waves Tour (Same, but worse) Roll The Bones Tour (Put above due to great performances of songs like Subdivisions and Xanadu) Presto Tour (Ditto) GUP Warm-up/Grace Under Pressure Tour (Roughly the same as his other post Signals tours, but has more high range) Second Tour Of The Nadars/Power Windows Tour (A typical '80s tour) Hold Your Fire Tour (Same, but really struggles on some songs) Counterparts Tour (Many bad gigs put this below) R40 Tour (His best post 1994 tour, showcases his lower, richer voice, and he pulls off very demanding songs well, yodeling is sometimes an issue, but not much) Clockwork Angels Tour (Put lower due to less demanding songs) Time Machine Tour (Same, but cringeworthy Freewill) Test For Echo Tour (Nasal-ness creeps in, but not as bad as follow-ups) Snakes and Arrows Tour (Put lower due to his weaker, nasal sound on the early shows) R30 Tour (Same problems as VT, but has some good performances from time to time) Vapor Trails Tour (His absolute low point, very nasal, weak, whiny, goes for notes he can't hit) How would you rank them?

I know my vote is late, but here's how i'd rank them 1. Tom Sawyer 2. YYZ 3. Witch Hunt 4. Red Barchetta 5. Limelight 6. The Camera Eye 7. Vital Signs

1. Natural Science (One of their best songs ever) 2. Jacob's Ladder 3. The Spirit of Radio 4. Freewill 5. Entre Nous 6. Different Strings

About his voice on since the Time Machine Tour, I actually feel it's his best voice since the Roll The Bones tour! The Counterparts tour had lots of cringeworthy concerts, the TFE tour, and especially the Vapor Trails and R30 tour, had a very dominant nasal tone, The Snakes and Arrows tour had some of that left. The only songs on the R40 tour that sounded consistently bad were Temples of Syrinx and Anthem. His voice now is much lower and richer than from 1996-2004, and he doesn't go for notes he would usually miss (Temples D5s, Xanadu D5s) and songs that he often struggled with, like Freewill and By-Tor, have been dropped from the set. Yodeling can sometimes be too much (Closer To The Heart from Toronto) and sometimes he uses too much "old-man vibrato", but other than that, great!

BUMP! Continuing with my last post, how are Judas Priest, Daft Punk, Kraftwerk, or Led Zeppelin progressive rock? How are Daft Punk and Kraftwerk even rock?

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He was still shrieky in 1978, listen to Hemispheres.

I'd do it like this. Funny intro movie What You're Doing In The Mood Anthem or By-Tor And the Snow Dog Lakeside Park 2112 Overture/Temples/Presentation/Grand Finale A Passage to Bangkok or Tears Xanadu Closer to the Heart Hemispheres (full song, tuned down a step) The Trees The Spirit Of Radio Jacob's Ladder Natural Science SET TWO: Tom Sawyer Limelight YYZ/Drum Solo Subdivisions Countdown Red Sector A Mystic Rhythms or The Big Money Force Ten Show Don't Tell Dreamline Roll The Bones Animate Resist (Acoustic) One Little Victory Far Cry ENCORE Headlong Flight The Garden Outro

Acoustic Resist (Came close to crying when I first heard it)

The 1970s, in particular 1976-78. Incredible power and range. 76-78 were better than the earlier albums as his early live singing was very uncontrolled, bordering on screaming. The 80s and onwards were good, but don't have that extra oomph.

Best studio performances: (In chronological order) - Finding My Way - Here Again - Anthem - In The End - Bastille Day - The Necromancer (Under The Shadow) - 2112 - Tears - Something For Nothing - A Farewell to Kings - Xanadu - Cygnus X-1 - Hemispheres - Battle Scar - Resist - Headlong Flight - The Garden Live: Virtually any performance between 1976-78, in particular Xanadu from Manchester 1977, Cygnus X-1 from DS, and 2112 from Passaic 1976 - Here Again from Seattle 1974 - Resist from Rush In Rio

2112 from Passaic 1976 (Found on R40 Box Set)

My least favorite genre. Haven't found any rap songs I like.

It was not just until then, though! Continued: "...Canada's heavy metal answer to KISS and Led Zeppelin...rejected by every label for being too heavy...we try to come up with heavy metal on acoustic guitar" (Circus Magazine, 4/27/1976) "...2112 is Rush's chance to upgrade heavy metal..." (Scene Magazine, 6/9/1976) "...Canada's most popular and loudest heavy metal band... Warning to heavy metal fans, some parts can be enjoyed without earplugs..." (Canadian Composer, 6/30/1976) "...We're trying to make our music as good as it can be within the confines of heavy metal..." (Sound Magazine, 7/1/1976) "...Wrenching out the chords that define heavy metal music... Working Man, I Think I'm Going Bald, and By-Tor And The Snow Dog were all heavy metal gems that had the crowd on their feet... heavy is the core of the band's sound... (Record Week, 7/5/1976) "...There's more to the band than heavy metal guitar riffs..." (Billboard Magazine, 8/28/1976) "...everything from shimmering slide guitar to scorching metal... Rush is one of the few contenders to Led Zeppelin's spot as the king of heavy metal... (Cheap Thrills, 10/31/1976) "...The heavy metal trio had foresaken Canada in their quest for stardom... (Winnipeg Free Press, 11/9/1976)

Wow! Nice archive! Wait a minute... "...Rush are a three-piece heavy metal band, similar to Uriah Heep and Led Zeppelin..." (Eye Magazine, 3/21/1974) "...Here Again and Working Man are extended workouts which will appeal to heavy metal fans..." (Canadian Composer, 6/1/1974) "...We have what appears to be another average contender in the heavy metal final heat... Heavy Metal trio Rush decided it was time to find out what heavy metal means" (Beetle Magazine, 12/1/1974) "...Rush play the kind of music critics loathe. Heavy metal. Radio stations play little of it, writers compare them to Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and Uriah Heep, and complain about them..." (Canadian Composer, 1/1/1975) "...From Mercury Records, the folks who brought us BTO, we get Canadian heavy metal... Classic three-man heavy metal..." (Creem Magazine, 2/1/1975) "...This band is making a lot of heavy metal noise" (Circus Raves, 2/1/1975) "...It is almost impossible to write loud metallic music using acoustic guitars" (Music Canada Quarterly Magazine, 3/1/1975) "...Blistering heavy metal... a thundering metal riff starts the opening cut, "Finding My Way" and they don't look back..." (Melody Maker Magazine, 3/15/1975) "...Their heavy metal material tends towards highly pretentious compositions..." (Statesville Record and Landmark, 3/29/1975) "...as mindlessly brutal and punishing as your average heavy metal fan would wish for..." (The Brandon Sun of Manitoba, 4/14/1975) "...Rush are BTO's heavy metal challengers...record companies were much more interested in Gordon Lightfoot than a heavy metal trio" (Circus Raves, 11/1/1975) "...Now that The Guess Who are gone, and Lighthouse split up, BTO is the only other band that can compete with Rush for the best Canadian heavy metal band... They deliver clean and tough metal..." (Hamilton Place concert program, 2/9/1976) "...Neil doesn't think Rush will be strictly heavy metal for much longer..." (Creem Magazine, 3/1/1976) "...This trio brings hard, crashing heavy metal... After the success of Aerosmith and KISS, it's difficult to count another heavy metal band out..." (Billboard, 3/27/1976) "...Rush's new album 2112 should give them a good position near the top of the heavy metal heap..." (RPM Weekly Magazine, 4/24/1976)

http://youtu.be/03r5VM_-nPg It was also performed live on the Hemispheres tour

I say his absolute best vocals were from 1976-1978. Before then, he had lots of power, but his voice was EXTREMELY uncontrolled, and sounded more like he was screaming rather than singing. 76-78, he had all of his power, but was much more controlled, and used lower/mid range more.