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Whaaaaaaaaaaat??!! Caress of Steel (especially) and all the other '70s albums sound 10 times more organic and lively than anything Rush has put out in at least the last three decades! To imagine the '70s material with such a polished, processed, bland, clinical, overblown and muddy wall of sound like Clockwork Angels is truly and utterly horrifying. In fact, this suggestion seems absolutely like a joke or else someone is in extreme need of ear irrigation. "Better bass tone." I can't even describe how wrong that is. Both Geddy and Alex had their best, most organic tones back in the day. I wish they sounded like that again today. "A better mix" Yeah well, if you call everything mashed together with hardly seperation a great mix, then I guess you're right. Lol. How wrong you are. The first four albums sound like they were recorded with toy guitars, paper drums and and utter guesswork as to proper mic placement. The synth sounds on AFTK and Hemispheres sound primitive and forced. It wasn't till PW they figured out what they were doing in the studio. You are wrong. All of there stuff is great! Where did I criticize "their" stuff? It's the sound of "their" stuff I have issues with.

Whaaaaaaaaaaat??!! Caress of Steel (especially) and all the other '70s albums sound 10 times more organic and lively than anything Rush has put out in at least the last three decades! To imagine the '70s material with such a polished, processed, bland, clinical, overblown and muddy wall of sound like Clockwork Angels is truly and utterly horrifying. In fact, this suggestion seems absolutely like a joke or else someone is in extreme need of ear irrigation. "Better bass tone." I can't even describe how wrong that is. Both Geddy and Alex had their best, most organic tones back in the day. I wish they sounded like that again today. "A better mix" Yeah well, if you call everything mashed together with hardly seperation a great mix, then I guess you're right. Lol. How wrong you are. The first four albums sound like they were recorded with toy guitars, paper drums and and utter guesswork as to proper mic placement. The synth sounds on AFTK and Hemispheres sound primitive and forced. It wasn't till PW they figured out what they were doing in the studio.

Nah, I see at least two new "farewell" tours followed by a breakup and reunion tour.

Why at all would any of that affect your enjoyment of a tour? I heard all of that for R40, and I still look at it as the best Rush show I've seen over the last 30 years. I've bitched in the past, mostly about the Time Machine Tour setlist, but to let anyone else's words affect how you enjoy a particular show is nonsense.

For the ticket prices they would most likely charge, I damn well would want 3 hours, no break, no opener and no stupid videos. Instead, although this would never happen because of finances, I'd love to hear re-recorded instrumental tracks to a lot of the older albums. Take something sterile-sounding like Caress of Steel and give it the 2016 treatment with added guitar parts. Better bass tone. Livelier drums. A better mix. Don't touch the vocals. I think the best one could hope for is a new record. Or maybe, possibly a new tour with a new drummer, one that has been given Neil's blessing. Live at least, he's the most replaceable member.

I've tried reading several of Neil's books and I am utterly convinced that he has some sort of social personality disorder. I've never seen someone whose writings are so far off base from what his buyer base desires. Halfway through Ghost Rider I skipped to the end because I was sick of reading "letters to Brutus". I know he's trying to reach a target audience that appreciates travelogues, but that number is so incredibly insignificant that he would never get more than one book published if he were some nobody. His publishers take advantage of the fact that there are enough delusional Rush fans who will buy anything with his name on it that they will still turn a profit. I got fooled once with Ghost Rider. Never again. Luckily I sold it on ebay for just under what I paid for it.

Agreed I understand if they take down officially released stuff, but stuff like covers, bootlegs, and concert footage does not need to be taken down. 1) What if someone wanted to share there music talents with the world. How would they do that if people will keep taking it down? Then they can post their own original material. Showing how well you can mimic another artist's music is a sign of ability, not talent.

In the 90's I paid $25 for imports of Runrig CD's, and I may have spent that much for a bootleg before they were freely tradeable.

If they could sync the technology so that Neil could set up his drums in his basement, mic them and transmit live to the arena where the others are, we might see a tour...

I'm not a big fan of the distortion. I actually roll the tone knob on my Geddy bass all the way down.

I'd tell them I just wrote my very first song. It's called Superconductor, and play them a shitty demo of it. Hopefully that'd be enough to discourage them from doing it themselves.

I don't care if it's the chick from the White Stripes back there. I'll go, as long as they adjust ticket prices accordingly, with a $50 max.

Neil is a selfish prick.

38 Special and Fred Turner from BTO were incredibly nice when we opened for them. Same with Doug Clifford, the drummer for Creedence. Bela Fleck and the Flecktones are all insanely nice.

Terry Brown

Compton

When I worked for Terminix in Salt Lake City, I had about 50 multi-million dollar homes that I treated regularly. At first I thought it would be cool to see them all. Within a month I hated almost every one of them. They were a wasted hour of my day. Mansions are just houses with lots of rooms. I'm not a car nut so Ferraris and Porsches and the like didn't do much for me. I started to notice a pattern in a lot of them. The husband was never home, and the wife was always wearing workout clothes, and was somewhat frazzled. I figured it was the stress of trying to keep from being traded in for a newer model. The coolest things I remember seeing were an enormous indoor slot-car track, and a 2 lane bowling alley. Another guy had a poster on his wall of a celebrity charity golf tournament he'd played in. One of the celebrities was OJ. Simpson, and the date was early June 1994, about a week or so before he killed his wife. And then there was one where the house sound system was synced to where it would follow the woman around the house Whatever room she was in, the system would play in that room, and the room on either side of it, and nowhere else.

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I have the entire catalogue on vinyl on the wall. Whatever wasn't released on vinyl I had made at Kinkos. I have a red Moon debut cover and a sealed copy of Moving Pictures. I used a tour book cover for R30. Haven't made anything for R40 yet. Haven't gotten around to framing them yet. At 8 bucks a pop, that's about $250.

This is the first time in history the word "soul" has ever been used in connection with Rush.

I'll let you know in September. I'm seeing Emmett in a 270 seat venue.

Trivia quiz ORF. In what city will you find the world's FIRST KFC? Salt Lake City. Drove by it once. Winner. Utah fried chicken wouldn't have the same ring to it...

Trivia quiz ORF. In what city will you find the world's FIRST KFC?

Here's your chance to name drop about your brushes with celebrity. If you haven't met anybody go ahead and make something up! I'll start… Overall biggest celebrity: Ty Burrell from Modern Family. I was his pest control guy for a year when I lived in Salt Lake City. I had never seen the show so I didn't know who he was. Super nice guy. Sports: Charles Barkley (a-hole) pUtah Jazz coach Jerry Sloan, and I went to high school with Toronto Blue Jays pitching coach Pete Walker. Musicians: my old band opened for Steppenwolf, BTO, Peter Frampton, Stephen Stills, Creedence Clearwater Revisited, Bad Company and 38 Special. 38 Special's bass player, Larry Junstrom used my amp because he fried his own during the soundcheck. They were super nice as well, and Invited me in to the breakfast tent with them. Geddy, Rik Emmett, at shows. Victor Wooten many times at shows. Carmen Electra and Corey Feldman got onstage with us and sang 2 songs. The singer for Weezer was in a college class of mine and the bassist for Panic at the Disco lived in my apartment complex up until he joined them. He's not exactly famous, but I grew up with Southern California radio DJ Sean Valentine (real last name O'Keeffe). My biggest near miss was Iron Maiden in '96 with Blaze. After their show, I took my date to a club we always played at nearby for about a half hour. The manager told me a week or so later that the whole band came in a few minutes after I left. That really sucked.

I saw them open for Maiden in SLC in 2012. I'd never heard them before. I remember thinking the singer sounded like Ronnie James Dio. Then I finally recognized a song they did. They covered Heaven and Hell. Go figure.