Rush Didact

Yeah, it's quite clear that they're all sourced from the same old video transfer. As much as I appreciate what Stickhits does, no amount of AI upscaling will ever beat a proper remaster from the original camera negatives. God I hope I get to see it done right someday, it could look incredible...

The thing that doesn't make sense is why would they be uploading the old video if they're planning a remaster? Unless they're planning on just re-releasing the same crappy 80s video transfer yet again, which wouldn't surprise me...

That would be amazing news. I would love to see the live albums and videos get some attention, there's so much that can be done to improve them. The studio albums have been done to death, there's nothing else that could possibly interest me in another reissue of them at this point.

Yeah, I just watched and you're right. Two possibilities: - He's actually making adjustments to a tone/volume knob, or: - It's a tic when his hand isn't busy. I'm not sure which. It would be odd to be adjusting those knobs mid-song like that, but the fact that he reaches down there a couple times in a row right at the start of the song lends credence to it. Alternatively, my right hand fidgets a lot while I'm playing bass, and it wouldn't be out of character for it to wander down to check if a knob is in the right place without me even thinking much about it. Could just be an unconscious tic.

The knob on his bass?? I've never noticed that. He's stated he plays with both pickups wide open, so I'm not sure why he would..

That would be a lot of work to sync it with the video, for questionable benefit.

That's truly bizarre. Is it too much to hope that they might be re-releasing ESL? If so, it's disappointing that the video is the same as the DVD release and not a remaster...

Given the amount of studio editing on that album, it wouldn't surprise me at all. Good find.

That's very weird. I wonder if it's a clip from a movie or something...

Risky bet, you sure about that?

Geddy mentioned that something is being done with the Toronto '97 show in that Conan O'Brien thing a couple months ago, so maybe releasing that entire concert is part of the 50th plans. I'd be happy with that. I can say this, though: they really know how to miss a deadline. It'd be a lot more exciting to have something big announced on the actual anniversary, rather than months or years after the fact...

Yep, I'm over this.

My schizophrenia detector is alerting. I've seen this kind of stuff before, sadly...

Wasn't there some guy on Counterparts who showed up and claimed to have written the lyrics to Mission that Neil stole from him? This is feeling very familiar...

It does have a feeling of nostalgia about it, doesn't it?