Gemari77

Oh boy…..

Just finished. VERY enjoyable read and very informative… and yes, the parts that you assumed would be sad, were extremely sad…. But, plenty of cool nuggets and joyous moments. Finding out that they had “certain” habits and vices that were similar to other Rock bands of the day was a bit like finding out that Santa Claus wasn’t real… but, very honest and human.

Ha ha… I finally had a chance to immerse myself in it tonight. I have to admit, I thoroughly enjoyed it…and getting it at the discount certainly helped. Sitting in my home theater and listening to the surround mix and hearing things that I never heard before and different phrasing in Geddy’s vocals, along with the on screen animation/art accompanying each track was fun. A sweet tribute to Neil in the Losing It portion. A bonus for me, and I must have overlooked it in the description, was a ‘cleaned up’ version of the Countdown video (and Subdivisions) included on the Blu-Ray. I haven’t seen it in ages and was impressed by the quality of it. Even the NASA footage looked better on my 4K. Actually getting the box in my hands and physically going through the content (photos, book, vinyl..etc) made all the difference for me personally… I’m happy that I got it, after all.

Hope I’m not breaking any rules… But the Signals Super Deluxe is currently $112 on Amazon… I initially passed on the set (for the same reasons as others have mentioned) but I couldn’t resist this deal. Go for it, if you’d like.

That was sooo enjoyable. And Chris asked the right questions and put Al at ease… I actually heard things mentioned that I’ve never heard or read in an interview before.

I’m hoping that that’s some kind of mistake and the release info will get updated … I can’t imagine that they’d record the previous tours and not this one… Or, perhaps they didn’t and that’s why a Signals tour soundboard hasn’t surfaced after all this time.

Ha ha!! Since Geddy is such a collector, in my mind, I created a scenario where Ged might have snagged 1 or 2 of these iconic guitars from the auction, as these are part of his legacy too… It’d be nice if my fantasy scenario had some truth to it. He doesn’t even need to let it be known publicly.

I know right? Those of us who are interested in this sort of thing wouldn’t mind buying 2 in one year… One in the Spring and one in the Fall. Ha ha…

So the pre-order is now out there on the Backstage Club website. What do you guys think of the bonus content? Especially on the Super Deluxe. YYZ video??? That intrigues me…and the full 1981 concert audio.

Yeah… Back in the day, he was on Rush forums frequently (as was I). If I’m not mistaken, he was the first to post the Power Windows demo.

It doesn’t really bother me… To be honest, I’ve heard “Purrt” all my life. Just like PEARL is pronounced “Purrl” or the name Earl… It wasn’t until I started listening to interviews and even hanging out on these Internet forums that I learned the proper pronunciation. I’d be willing to bet that the vast majority of us didn’t start off pronouncing Neil’s last name properly. I’ve even seen people that knew him personally mis-pronounce it.

Yes… because if you notice, the songs that were omitted are songs that are available on other DVD releases. That was also a common thing with Rush as they didn’t seem to want to put too many repeat songs on their live releases. So, I have no doubts that this whole show is sitting in the vaults, perfectly fine.

I suspect he was talking about the Albany boot, not the official Toronto film. For years the story was that there were issues with audio and video synchronization and it would be too much work to fix it. As I understood it, the entire show was affected. That always sounded a little weird to me, sync issues aren't hard to fix in the computer era. And lo and behold, we eventually got an hour of perfectly fine footage, which makes the original claim even more mysterious. If it's expensive to fix, wouldn't it make sense to make a standalone release out of it to try and recoup as much of the cost as possible? You don't put a lot of pricey work into something just to make it a bonus feature. Plus, if you're going to fix it, why not fix all of it? So there are two possibilities: either they couldn't fix all of it, or they didn't want to fix all of it. With any other band, I'd say the former makes the most sense. But Rush have a habit of releasing live shows in dribs and drabs, so it wouldn't surprise me at all if they just decided to only do a bit of the show and the rest of the footage is sitting in the vault.

For the record, the three tracks you identified- “Animate”, “Resist”, and “Natural Science”- are indeed on the “R40 Completist” disc, within the R40 blu-ray version of the release. See the packaging/contents list here: https://progarchy.com/2014/12/19/review-rush-r40-the-completistocd-set/ Amazing!! Wish I was aware of that before I bought the standard version. As you can tell, the ‘97 footage is my major interest. I’m a 90’s Rush fanatic and this was the first tour I attended.

You found Closer To The Heart from the Echo Tour? Could you please link it? Sorry, let me clarify.... The Closer to The Heart video released for the Different Stages album (where they mix in older footage), when compared to the audience camcorder CTTH from Molson Amphitheater, it appears to be the exact same show. So, I’d personally add that to the other official Molson ‘97 footage.