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Reviving an old topic, not sure if this was discussed?? I tried searching but couldn't find.... anyway... The point is that "2112" from Hemispheres 40th Anniversary, as advertised on Rush Backstage Club link where is says: "LP 3 – SIDE F Live in Arizona – November 20, 1978 1. 2112*" this is surely incorrect -- the recording of 2112 certainly appears to be taken from the May 28, 1979 Stadhalle, Offenbach, Germany performance and as mentioned above, this version on Hemispheres 40th Anniversary plays back a little slow which is unfortunate.

I hope Alex feels better soon!!

Oh boy, it doesn't appear he's selling autographed books at the event..

Now it's very possible there was some kind of minor mistake, and the audio was attempted to be repaired, but they made (another) mistake (?); speaking of fixing mistakes, like on Different Stages on Xanadu live, where they covered up Neil's dropped drumstick on Different Stages, but once we got the same recording on A Farewell to Kings 40th, the mistake was instead preserved.

This post is ridiculously inconsequential. In Jacob's Ladder (Live In Missouri, 1980) from the Permanent Waves 40th anniversary, after the quiet synths section, why does the 6/7 guitar arpeggio section actually start off in 6/7, then inexplicably shift to 6/6 just one time right when the china symbol comes in? It's supposed to be in 6/7 throughout there.. what happened? Or more importantly why do I care?!?! LOL I don't care, just thought it was completely weird. Here I've linked to the exact moment below..

My main takeaway I think is that, his departure from the band wasn't exclusively because of future concerns of managing diabetes and rock 'n roll antics on the road. His current sidelining due to illness and how diabetes can affect your mood also was a factor. Plus musical differences which John himself calls out. Illness Diabetes can make you feel like crap; he was ill for months in 1974: - Alex link - Alex link Mood: Diabetes can affect your mood dramatically.. - John talking about the ripped up lyrics link only viewable if you 'View Page Source' - Alex link - Alex link - Geddy link Musical differences We've all heard quotes from Alex and Geddy, but straight from John: John - " link only viewable if you 'View Page Source'

This is something I have never read. For some reason this web page doesn't show the text content, but it's only available if you 'View Page Source'. This is straight from John and then a comment from Alex.. http://www.2112.net/powerwindows/transcripts/19880404banasiewiczvisions.htm

Sorry this continues with more interesting stuff from Alex: http://www.2112.net/powerwindows/transcripts/19850100gettsuccess.htm

And another good reference here from Alex: http://www.2112.net/powerwindows/transcripts/20130400prog.htm

I think I found the Alex interview I was thinking about: http://www.2112.net/powerwindows/transcripts/20130513musicradar.htm Kind of no reason? A couple of months? How are you going to be in a band with a guy like that? You think maybe it was from the diabetes? He kind of had enough.

I did find this, which is not exactly aligned with my original rememberance, but it's a little close: http://www.2112.net/powerwindows/transcripts/20150700classicrock.htm

So the reason I'm asking is that my friend was asking me about details, and I wanted to give him an informed response, that's all.

Sorry to bring this up .. but a year ago, I recollect reading an interview (I think with Alex) where he said in the early days, John Rutsey was kind of unpredictable and wouldn't always return phone calls or (perhaps) show up for practice etc. I'm trying to locate this interview. Does anyone have it?

The Trees/Xanadu -- LOVE IT!

I recognized By-Tor and the Snow-Dog at least.. Darn I wish we had audio-samples synced throughout =)

I saw this on social media photo

Happy Birthday to you, Geddy!!!!!!

Geddy - please consider meeting up with Rick Beato on his youtube channel for an interview. It would be great! Maybe bring along Big Al. You guys can bring some beer too =) I think Rick is based in Atlanta.

Geddy, please do a book tour. It would be awesome! Thank you.

The 8mm footage is video only, the audio is taken from All The World's a Stage.

I don't recognize it, it doesn't look like a promotional item from the record company, looks homemade... let me know if I'm wrong here..

What does Alex say after Geddy says "I don't know why?" in this George Stroumboulopoulos interview (saying they still feel like outsiders regarding their fame), and afterwards Ged laughs and the crowd cheers? I can't freaking make it out!?! Ugh LOL Time index:

Oof, no live tracks. They are certainly putting a great deal of effort and time into these anniversary releases and I appreciate that . I guess they just didn't have any Signals tour recordings, or if they did they were lost, in bad shape, or had serious flaws.

Yeah per this source "so when we went over to Britain, we recorded about ten dates so we've got about 50 reels of tape sitting around somewhere." So in June 1980, about 10 shows were recorded. Who knows if all these tapes still exist, we know some do: of course the Permanent Waves 40th live tracks include Manchester (Jun 17/18) and London (Jun 4-8) + one song from St Louis Kiel Auditorium (Feb 11-13). (2112 Deluxe Edition also came with A Passage To Bangkok (Manchester Apollo, Manchester, England - June 17, 1980) + it's duplicated on PW 40th) So with PW 40th anniv + the St. Louis Kiel Auditorium bootleg + side2 of ESL, yes I think we're getting a fair representation of what this live album may have sounded like.

This source from 1981 says it came from Neil: "Something got into Neil about doing a studio album instead and the more he thought about it, the better the idea seemed. He brought it to us, and Alex and I started getting excited about it." This one from 202x says the idea came from Cliff Burnstein: "I remember we had played New York, and he came to the gig and we were talking about doing a live album. And he kind of said to us guys, ‘You know, Permanent Waves was so great that maybe you should think about going straight back in the studio to do another record.’ " [Edit]: ahh some clarity from this: "Originally it was going to be a live album then somebody put a bug in Neil's ear about maybe we should not do a live album and he got thinking about it and he got real fired up about it and he talked to us and we got real fired up about it and we said "Hey yeah! Let's cancel all our plans and do a studio album" so it was some of the sort of excitement of changing horses in midstream that led to this album being..." Thank you Cliff and Neil =)