JARG

3 minutes ago, BastillePark said:

Maybe because it's about something that actually happened vs a guy finding a guitar and learning to play on his own but being rejected by the people in control? Possibly because it was about nobody's hero or even because it trees being angry with other trees? 

Maybe. For me, it's about Geddy's phoned-in vocal delivery. The music is somewhat cinematic, but the lyrics are journalistic and I don't think Geddy knew how to bring them to life, vocally. He cracked that nut by the time they did Manhattan Project.

On 3/5/2026 at 5:56 AM, TheAnarchist2112 said:

What do we think they'll open the show with? I think Spirit is a likely choice but also Time Stand Still or Clockwork Angels would be fantastic, maybe even headlong flight!!

I'm sticking with my choice of One Little Victory.

11 hours ago, BastillePark said:

I've been surprised by how many Rush fans don't seem to like that song. 

I'm not.

50 minutes ago, Principled Man said:

It’s called moonlight.  The Sun is behind the Earth.  From the Earth’s perspective, it is a full Moon night.  Sunlight is reflecting off the Moon and is illuminating the Earth’s surface.  The photograph is a long exposure, which is why the Earth appears bright.  

Sunlight appears in the atmosphere in the lower right hand arc of the Earth.  We can see auroras in the north and south poles.  
 

We see the same thing with Earthlight - or Earthshine.  When a young crescent Moon is in the night sky, sunlight reflects off the Earth and illuminates the Moon’s unlit surface.  

 

Ah, that makes perfect sense. And looking more closely at the photo, I can see city lights.

On 4/3/2026 at 12:45 PM, Principled Man said:

Lovely.

 

This must be an artist's rendition or maybe a composite. The full hemisphere is illuminated, which must mean the sun is roughly behind the camera (meaning this would be a "daytime" photo), but the lower right rim in the photo suggests a different position of the sun. If the sun were significantly left or right relative to the camera, then I would expect part of the globe to be in shadow. And of course, since it's a "daytime" photo, I wouldn't expect to see stars.

14 hours ago, Timbale said:

Perhaps we are into semantics here, but I don’t think Peart made odd times (or straight times) swing. Swing involves some swagger, so give and take within the groove. I think Neil’s playing was about mathmatical precision…very “right on the beat” playing. I think Bonham and Phil Collins are good examples of drummers who make odd times feel great and swing - Phil’s playing all over Selling England By The Pound in particular has it. I think his 7/8 playing is in stake contrast to Neil’s in this context. 

I was thinking along the same lines. Neil made odd times feel less odd, so they "groove" in the sense that you can bop your head with confidence because eventually the beat will line back up, but (and full disclosure I'm a non-drummer) I think swing is a fairly well-defined concept and groove less so. They're not interchangeable concepts. Drummers please correct me if I'm wrong on that count.

Why wasn't this poll multiple choice? 

11 hours ago, Timbale said:

Haha - I love Neil...but "swing" is not something his playing is noted for.

A drummer buddy of mine once said “Neil swings like a rusty gate”. This was in response to Burning for Buddy.

Rik Emmett said that Alex had told him he'll be taking his doubleneck on tour, so I guess it's safe to assume Xanadu (maybe an abbreviated version) will be in the set list.

12 hours ago, losingit2k said:

Fly by Night has not been played live since the Farewell to Kings Tour in 1978. I for one have never heard it played live! It's one of their earlier big hits! I don't understand why they dropped it from rotation? maybe its too high for Geddy to sing? Who knows? Regardless, I don't think there are many out there that wouldn't be glad to see this gem back in the set! What are your thoughts on this?  

It would be hideous now unless Geddy sang it an octave lower. And maybe even then.

3 hours ago, Timbale said:

I hope she means within Rush.  If they wanted a Peart clone, there are countless ones to choose - guys in tribute bands with Paragon cymbals and $1000 R40 signature snare drums.  To me, if you wanna hear Rush with Peart on drums, your options are endless.  I'm excited to hear something new - particularly because Peart's drum sound had been in decline since around '95....

Yes, the sound of his drums really started to decline, but from the videos I've of seen of Anika, I'm not thrilled with the sound of her kit either if it's going to be used for Rush songs. She's got a great sounding kit for fusion and a lighter touch, but in Rush she'll be playing hard rock. She says she's already adjusted her playing style to account for that, but I wonder if her kit is going to sound good without some tweaking.

Neil was very specific about his sound and how to achieve it. How is that for you?
“I have a very clear idea about my own sound and know how to create it. I'm certainly not going to change that, even with Rush. His snare drum sound, his ride sound, and his hi-hat sound are so recognizable, so very Neil.”

That's a fairly bold stance. What would it be like if they had to replace Alex and the replacement guitarist said, "I have my own sound, and I'm not going to change it".

Or is she saying that outside of Rush, her sound will remain her sound?

17 hours ago, Timbale said:

I think that's Alex mistaking remaster for remix...he seemed to be talking in the past tense about the box that's been released, not some hidden away remix that Terry did.  I'd love to be wrong.

 

I find it more interesting that around the 20:48 mark the interviewer mentions Red Lenses and Geddy very quickly says "we were just talking about that song the other day" and then goes right into talking about there being a keyboard player for this tour.

 

Are we going to hear Red Lenses live?!

That would be an easy win: vocals within Ged's current range and no challenging guitar solo.

14 hours ago, Holdyourfireal said:

My all-time favorite remix of anything Rush is One Little Victory by Richard Chycki that appeared on Retrospective 3. Thoughts? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2yjhac_DlI

His AFTK remix is great, too. He really pushed the bass up front and it sounds amazing.

2 hours ago, napoleonj said:

It's not nearly as different, based on this clip, as I would have guessed. The snare seems more prevalent in the DUH NUH NUH section...

Two things that immediately jumped out for me: the vocals are much wetter, and Alex is more up front during the choruses.

As to the topic, I don't know exactly how many guitar and bass tracks there are on each song, but I would eliminate most of them. The songs are too sonically dense. 2112 is not a particularly well-recorded album, but the mix is excellent, and part of that is due, I would think, to the relative sparseness of the guitar tracks.

6 minutes ago, Fridge said:

Can't even remember most of S&A to be honest....

This is a blessing.

It's rare, when I've seen a film based on a novel that I've read, that an actor's portrayal of a character in the novel is better than how I had imagined that character while reading the book, but Duvall certainly delivered on that as Gus McCrae. He, and Barry Corbin as Roscoe, were absolutely perfect casting choices.

I saw him speak on the UT-Austin campus back in the 90s. I think he was stumping for Bill Clinton (who I also saw at UT).

13 hours ago, daBee said:

Hiya folks. Question for the group. 

 

What is this double note sound that's in Twilight Zone at about 1:08?

 

Choose timeline at 1:08

 

Would love to hear your input.  I think I'm missing something.

 

Cheers

Just sounds like typical "fingering" noise to me, though it could instead be a brief, unintended pick slide/scrape, probably coming from the acoustic track. The "double" sound is likely either the result a buttload of reverb or a short echo applied to the acoustic track.

The mix is generally fine. The fixes exist in other places, such as composition/arrangement/instrumentation choices. It's in these areas where a producer has real value.

10 minutes ago, FlowerbedPiano said:

 That's so kind of you. You've been appreciative of my progress with this from the word go. Thanks JARG.

There is a fine community of very talented musicians and composers here at TRF. We're generally pretty supportive of each other.

21 hours ago, FlowerbedPiano said:

I am extremely excited to announce that my "RUSH FOR SOLO PIANO" YouTube project (on my Flowerbed Music channel) is soon to be available as a limited edition VINYL LP. I am also very proud that HUGH SYME, the legendary artist of all Rush's album covers since 1975's "Caress Of Steel", has produced utterly stunning artwork for the front and back covers as well as the labels.

The man who has enabled this to happen is STEVE BROWN, the amazing guitarist with Rush tribute band, 'Moving Pictures' and founder of RUSHFest Convention in Scotland. He has already produced several releases (not least the multi-volume 'Songs For Neil' compilation series) whose proceeds have all gone to Funding Neuro (the registered charity which raises funds for developing cures and treatments of neurological diseases and cancers). Any Rush fan will obviously understand the motivation for that.

I'm honoured to have been approached and invited by Steve to be the next release in the catalogue (with of course all proceeds from my album going to Funding Neuro too). 

So, RUSH FOR SOLO PIANO The Album... is on it way.
All the tracks have been fully remastered by Steve and sound magnificent to my ears. Hugh's art is all done. Next up, hopefully, it all goes off to print and press! I'll provide an update as soon as the release date starts to look imminent! Watch this space!!

Congratulations. You definitely deserve to be a part of this.

1 hour ago, Ron2112 said:

 

It's not magic, folks.  Watch the original video, then listen to the Replay X3 disc.  There are clearly audio patches that were done for the video. On "Kid Gloves" in particular -- if you listen to a bootleg -- Geddy used some different vocal phrasing that they obviously went back in and "fixed." Hence the parts that appear "out-of-sync."

 

Agreed that some here are looking for stuff to bitch about.

The audio in this video doesn't seem to suffer any syncing issues, which is a different thing than punch-ins from alternate takes. What it seems like to me (and full disclosure, I don't what the hell I'm talking about) is that the video uses the same audio throughout, but uses shots from different shows where perhaps the song from each show was played at slightly different tempos. So one audio track, on top of which are shots from different shows where those shots were just haphazardly dropped in and/or where the song from that performance was at a different tempo. 1-0-0-1-0-0-1 is the resident video editor, so his opinion supersedes mine.

19 hours ago, 1-0-0-1-0-0-1 said:

 

 

 

The out of sync shots bother me a lot more as they didn't have to be out of sync in order to get coverage.

 

 

 

 

To what do you attribute the syncing issues? Was the audio from a different show than the video?