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Though it may not be historically accurate that moment belongs to Glasgow since it was immortalized on Exit..Stage Left just as Rio owns a bunch of their moments because of that live album.

21 hours ago, taurus said:

Didn't see this anywhere here but didn't want to start a new thread. Geddy on PBS News Hour

 

 

Thanks.

This one is much better.

On 12/13/2023 at 6:36 AM, BigMontanaSKY said:

I'm glad he got to do this tour.

Going to one and watching the half-dozen or so others that are on you tube I kind of get the sense that this book tour is a victory lap and giving him the closure that he didn't get from R40.

On 12/9/2023 at 10:39 PM, Nova Carmina said:

I'd buy that book, too! I wonder if it is a "general release" thing or if it's a limited/special release just for auction purchasers. 

I might. Not really interested in baseball but if he's written for it it might be interesting.

I have Alex's auction catalog and that's really cool though not as meticulous as Geddy's Big Book Of Bass

On 12/12/2023 at 12:42 PM, edhunter said:

With the polka intro? Yup. 
 

I should add that I felt that they were lazy with the Setlist on that tour. The first I saw was in Chicago with a friend of mine who is an executive for Harrah’s  and a friend of his who is a freelance reporter working the concert. He had a temporary pass to get up by the front of the stage to take some incredible photos (which I have), and then reviewed it for an independent Chicago paper. As we were walking out, he asked me what I thought of the show, and I told him that I felt a little bit like they mailed it in. He put that in the review!
 

La Villa is one of my all-time favorite songs, but they never once played it legit on any of the tours that I saw. It was always altered or abbreviated in one way or another.

That was the best part. Rush needs more polka.Don't want to hear rearrangements listen to the record. If it weren't for the rearrangements it might not have been played at all.

Unfortunately, We had the leave that show early (only time we ever left early even though the R30 encore sucked) Pushed it to the point where we had to actually run for the last train out which we barely made.

On 12/9/2023 at 4:52 PM, Time Stood Still said:

Oh yeah I heard about rushradio.org, that's sad, I never got to use it, well there's still rushradio.net, this is the only other one I know of. 

https://rushradio.net/mob_smart.php

 

Thanks. I'll try that one of these days.

20 hours ago, taurus said:

If you haven't hard this yet, here is something that will make up for Live Magnetic Air falling a  little short

 

 

Check this set list out

 

1) Charmonium (tape)

2) High Class in Borrowed Shoes

3) Oh War!

4) Here Among the Cats

5) In Context of the Moon

6) Gravity

7) Coming Off the Moon

8) Diamonds Diamonds

9) Toronto Tontos

10) Rain Child

11) Astonish Me

12) Waterline

13) The Party

14) Beyond the Moon

15) Hangover

16) America's Veins

17) Let Your Man Fly

18) Research (at Beach Resorts)

Thanks! I'm going to listen to this.

Aside from Live Magnetic Air I've not listed to a lot of live Max. I've never thought that CD did them a lot of justice as a live band.

What happened to Rush Radio? Are they done? I usually listen to them when I want the out of context Rush experience but the site says the server "retired."

Kind of a bummer. Usually listened to them once or twice a month. Are there any more stations like this?

On 12/6/2023 at 2:33 PM, Holdyourfireal said:

 

My expectations are as high as they can get. If we don't get an audio CD of the full GUP show and a blu-ray which includes the found footage, I will be beyond crushed. I suppose most of the Terry Brown era fans will never get this but the GUP era is MY Rush and this is my grail.

All that I can do is wish you well...

I'd love to have these on CD but I'd settle for vinyl. Be a cool CD reissue with these bonus tracks and maybe add the lyrics this time.

About 40 percent through now and still on 2112. Seems like a lot of stuff is not going to get covered. Quickly running out of real estate.

Actively not reading because I don't want to finish. Rationing myself to a chapter every once in a while.

Somebody needs to get their road crew together and write a book.

Watched all 80+ minutes. At least he plays a little bass and indulges himself in some humor.

Depends on the context.

Dick Dale- Better Shred Than Dead (The Anthology Disc 1) Disc two will be next.

On 11/18/2023 at 1:30 PM, ytserush said:

US Tour please.

East Coast US Tour please.

On 11/29/2023 at 1:52 AM, Holdyourfireal said:

To all that think the 2005 article about the recovery of the lost GUP footage is BS, here's a response from the author:

 

"Since I was on the phone with Pierre Lamoureux for 90 minutes I should know it's true and not only did Fogo use the interview and article in press releases from Zoe Records and over 700 news wires at the time but it helped draw traffic to their other releases. If it wasn't real I would have been fired and they would have issued a statement from Fogo and Anthem SRO that it wasn't real.
It's hysterical to me that this is still being debated. Businesses and artists and labels change their mind on things constantly. As a matter of fact Pierre himself even said in the article and quote the final decisions are left with the band.
Pegi one day in a long phoner I did with her said if we release the unreleased stuff now (this particular conversation with her took place around 2006-07) we might as well close shop because there's not a ton of rare video on hand as it is. Audio was and is a totally different story.
The band never did any forward thinking. Ever. They put the money for budgets for filming into the show. They threw what they didn't use for Exit Stage Left in the dumpster. Mercury/Polygram didn't do promo videos for Permanent Waves although the band was getting huge because they did videos for A Farewell To Kings and Hemispheres and it didn't help or really see airplay anywhere. The band had the decision to invest in their own show or film promos on their own dime. They were told City TV was dumping all of their tapes in the 2000s and to get down there because there was a TON filmed by them over the decades.
You know who they sent?
Nobody.
So yes, Pierre said they had the missing Grace footage but were still looking for who had the ASOH. Grant Lough lives in Boca Raton. I spoke to him at great length about Exit and the Signals video shoots. He said the concert was cut for television only. Not with any future technology in mind and that if anyone had any of the footage it was either stolen or went to some storage facility but his memory was that it went to the cutting room floor and tossed.
Trust me. I wish MANY shows were released. The Counterparts show, the RTB shows from Auburn Hills, the one that Atlantic recorded while also shooting a Mr. Big video.in Irvine. They totally forgot they had the 3-D film they show at the Molson Amphitheatre for Snakes and Arrows in July 2008. A lot of this stuff the labels or the management didn't want to spend the money doing anything with it. So when they sold to Ole/Anthem it all went into their hands.
The Signals box set didn't even make the Top 200 albums chart on Billboard. It was so outrageously over-priced. Every box set before it sold well. Budgets budgets budgets. The fan base isn't getting younger. It's infuriating that Anthem hasn't brought in a team of historians to do their archives correctly."

First of all I would expect such a denial. (I've only ever had an issue with that one quote not the entire article.Unless you are reading carefully it's easy to miss.) Just because that article was replicated hundreds or even thousands of times on various platforms does not mean it is not a single-sourced article that has not been supported in nearly 20 years. There has never been any independent verification from anyone.

Except for the first two paragraphs, the rest of the argument undercuts that specific quote and supports what many of us have been saying for the last 20 or 30 years. While it's certainly  possible that there may be this footage how much care was taken to preserve it and is it even usable?

12 hours ago, HalfwayToGone said:

There were actually a bunch of preorders exactly like this from various online booksellers for the same price—they are hand signed with the signature on a separate dedicated page bound into the books (that were provided by Harper Collins I believe).  They must have had him sign a gigantic stack of the pages before they were bound into the book.  They aren’t numbered at all so I am clueless how many might be out there, but not charging extra for them is especially sweet—the signed editions normally are vastly inflated with extra do dads, so it’s nice to see them at no extra charge at all.  The fact that everyone can’t get them is sadly the limitations of Geddy being only human and not wanting to sign millions of copies.  People who were on the lookout vigilantly were rewarded.  I actually grabbed 2 signed copies but only after bookends ripped me off for $300 prior to my realizing I was stupid and should have done a little google search and saved myself $260.

Missed out on the backstage sale. I'd go a little bit more than $40 but not much more for a signed copy since they don't seem to exceedingly rare.

1 minute ago, Holdyourfireal said:

 

Ummm...we got live material we were told was never going to happen because of sync issues: the Test For Echo Tour footage on the R40 box set.

That's because the footage was a lot more recent and probably well protected. (Technological advancement likely helped there too.) It's not even the whole show. Besides what does this have to do with the one unsupported quote in question?

If you want to believe there's a 4K transfer of the full show from Exit...Stage Left, Grace Under Pressure and A Show Of Hands that's great, but I'm going to need a lot more evidence than is currently available.

2 minutes ago, Holdyourfireal said:

Spoke to him last night. He's back! He didn't give me any info on Grace which is understandable but...he IS back!

Then you're in a position to ask if those things are in the vault from someone who would know. and you'll have your definitive answers.

18 hours ago, Holdyourfireal said:

 

Here ya go: https://bravewords.com/news/rush-producer-director-talks-about-upcoming-dvds

 

Though, beware. Many in RUSH fandom hate the author of this article for whatever reason. Be that as it may, everything he has ever told me has absolutely come true. Hey, I don't like the author's politics but I do enjoy when he contributes info like this article.

 

PS: Listening to the Geddy audiobook and just got through a chapter where he discusses when they started doing "proper" demos which was Power Windows. Those, most of us have heard on bootlegs and or YouTube (see below).

PSS: I don't think the Tom Sawyer stuff they were discussing in that interview above were "demos" but more works in progress on tape.

 

 

At least that specific quote in that article is fake. Doesn't matter who wrote it. There is also NO supporting evidence in nearly 20 years that has come out about this claim from ANYONE. The video posted recently that the Rush stuff that has been cataloged does not even mention anything about any live material.

I'd love to have "works in progress" material but I'm sure Geddy refuses to have it see the light of day. After just reading about his dismissive attitude on the first single it seems very unlikely there will be an official release of that either.

18 hours ago, Holdyourfireal said:

 

Yes, he did indeed leave after the Permanent Waves Super Deluxe. I've seen that in print and he has told me that himself. No hard feelings or anything. He just had other projects to which he wanted to devote his time. I do not believe he is credited on the Moving Pictures Super Deluxe and I didn't buy the concertless Signals Super Deluxe so I don't know about that one. I just know he told me he did not work on that one.

There are at least several interviews where he said that he left (But never mentioned it was more of a hiatus.) Haven't seen an account that he returned but that doesn't mean that he didn't.

If he told you that maybe he'll tell you what is still usable in the vault since he's in the position to know what is and isn't there that has not deteriorated.

19 hours ago, snowdog2112 said:

“The band's bassist/vocalist Andy Curran spent several years working at Rush's Anthem record label after Coney Hatch called it quits. In more recent years he moved on to Ole Music, a publishing house that took over the Anthem back catalog, including everything by Rush. He ended his tenure there last year and is now out on his own as a music industry gun-for-hire. “

 

https://www.rushisaband.com/blog/2020/10/02/5503/Coney-Hatch-front-man-and-former-Anthem-AR-rep-Andy-Curran-talks-Rush-in-new-interview

 

This is from the Rush blog in 2020. He’s evidently still gone unless he came back and no one was told. 
 

 

One of at least several other accounts that he said he left though to be fair he seems to been pretty quiet lately. Not heard from a credible source that he went back but I suppose it's possible.

12 hours ago, Weatherman said:

Biggest surprises:

 

3) Alex drunkenly destroying the hotel room in England for no reason sounded suspiciously similar to his felony charges at the Florida resort 

Haven't gotten that far yet but he covered that part in his live readings.  Florida was the first thing that came to mind too.

Rush (Geddy Lee) -- 93.3's Pierre Robert Interview CD from December 18, 2000. This CD was only given out to people who were invited to the interview (I wish I was) and/or in the fan club for that radio station.Basically this is a recording of the live interview promoting My Favorite Headache in front of a selected studio audience and at the end some fans (including the ubiquitous B-Man) get to ask Geddy some questions.

For those of you into interviews. This is one of the better ones.  -- $40.

2 hours ago, caskof43 said:

I waited and he delivered. Got my original 1982 copy of Signals autographed! 

That's awesome.

Thought about waiting myself in Philly but didn't want to take the chance of missing the last train out.