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Thanks everybody!

That can apply to more than one RUSH album, I think. :P ...and multiple times to one album in particular. :P I think he's looking at you Roll The Bones. Getting warmer... ;) or Presto.

That can apply to more than one RUSH album, I think. :P ...and multiple times to one album in particular. :P I think he's looking at you Roll The Bones.

Very close between Toys and Rocks but Toys was my first Aerosmith album when I was 13, so....

really good

I thought it was kind of generic and shallow

There it is. Absolute tops for me. One of my fav metal albums ever. Up there with Rust In Piece. I remember what is was like discovering these albums for the first time. I'm jealous

the quintessential version is the Andy Vandette remaster. very hard to find but sounds great. ANDY VANDETTE COMMENTS ON MIX OF LATEST "VAPOR TRAILS" DIGITAL RELEASE On May 14th iTunes released two new digital only Rush collections, Rush The Complete Mercury Years, the complete Rush album collection from 1974-1987, as well as Rush: The Studio Albums 1989-2007. The collections are also available on HDTracks. Upon hearing of the new digital release of Vapor Trails, and reading some of the reviews, I contacted Andy VanDette to ask the big question: is this the long awaited Vapor Trails remaster of the original master tapes, or just a remix?: These are the original mixes, but with a much different treatment. For what it is worth........A typical album takes me about 8 hours to master. I spent 4 days on VT, trying to find a way to emphasize the positive, and downplay the negative, with a "car test" every morning on my way in to the studio. I knew this album in particular would receive tremendous scrutiny. Being a musician, growing up on the other side of Niagara Falls from the band, Rush had a huge influence on me. I hope I have done their catalog justice. Check it out. I hope you will agree that VT sounds much less 'overblown'. I tried to design it to be more open and dynamic. I hope you enjoy it. Cheers, Andy VanDette Chief Mastering Engineer Masterdisk NYC

The little guitar solo that was added into Ceiling Unlimited -- recorded during the original sessions, I'm assuming, but omitted in the original mix -- kills that section of the song for me. There's a reason why it was omitted in the original. And that's just an example of why the remix fails on certain songs. Why didn't Alex and/or Geddy supervise the remix instead of just handing it off to David Bottrill to do it by himself? As talented as Bottrill is, he wasn't there during the original recording sessions and wasn't privy to some of the decisions that were made during the mixing process, like the choice to not include that guitar solo in Ceiling. They probably would have said to not add that solo back in. And that goes for some vocal parts that were added in or over-emphasized on other songs. Other songs like OLV sound better remixed. It still sounds like the OLV that we knew, but it sounds BETTER, and that's what frustrates me. That's what we wanted out of the remix for all the songs. Don't change the songs, just make them sound better. Some songs benefitted, others got neutered, most notably Out Of The Cradle. The remix is not endlessly rocking.

enjoyable

Carpet Crawlers and Slippermen, but I have always been partial to Fly On A Windshield. Gives me goosebumps to this day

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I enjoy this show. Episode 2 made me squirm a little.

yeah except the bass is non-existent on that album

the Stevie Nicks pick was odd. Nothing interesting about the bass in that song

im ready

this classic album from 1975 features Keith Relf from the Yardbirds on vocals. He unfortunately was electrocuted shortly after its release Armageddon was the last band to feature The Yardbirds' (the band that launched Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page) vocalist Keith Relf. He had founded Renaissance after the dissolution of The Yardbirds in 1968, and left Renaissance after two albums (actually half way through the second album) - to produce bands like Medicine Head (for whom he also played bass), Hunter Muskett and Saturnalia.[2] Pugh and Cennamo had broken up Steamhammer in 1973 - they then decided, with Relf (who had assisted them in the production of the final Steamhammer LP), to leave England for L.A. They tried out a few drummers in California, and decided upon drummer Bobby Caldwell to complete the Armageddon lineup.[3] According to the booklet in the Repertoire Records CD reissue of the album in 2001, Frampton and Dee Anthony recommended Armageddon to A&M Records, and it is likely that because he was their top selling artist at the time, they agreed to sign the band.[4] Although the group's self-titled album was well received by critics and fans, the band did not tour to support it - consequently, sales suffered,[5] and Relf returned to England due to poor health shortly after the album was released. He died shortly after returning to England, when he was electrocuted while playing guitar,[6] although he did record one more song "All the Falling Angels" that is included on an album by Illusion called Enchanted Caress. (Illusion was the name the original members of Renaissance chose when they reunited, as the Annie Haslam incarnation of that band was still active at that time). After Armageddon folded, bassist Cennamo reunited with his Renaissance bandmates (the aforementioned Illusion), and later worked with Jim McCarty in the bands Stairway and Renaissance Illusion. Drummer Caldwell returned to Captain Beyond for an album and tour[7] - and although guitarist Pugh appears to have retired from music after 1975, he did emerge to play guitar on sessions alongside legendary American rock guitarist Geoff Thorpe[8] of Vicious Rumors in American rock & roll band, 7th Order[9] on their debut CD, The Lake of Memory - released on the Big Island Sounds label in 2007.[10]

really cool prog band from Australia. Voyager

I enjoyed this movie. It was a little hokey but I enjoyed it enough

1. Rush- 2112 2. Yes- Tales From Topographic Oceans 3. Genesis- Foxtrot 4. Rush- A Farewell To Kings 5. Yes- Fragile 6. Yes- Close To The Edge 7. Rush - Hemispheres 8. Genesis-The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway 9. Pink Floyd-Dark Side Of The Moon 10. Porcupine Tree-Fear Of A Blank Planet 11. The Beatles - Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 12. Mars Volta - Frances the Mute 13. ELP - Tarkus 14. Jethro Tull-Thick As A Brick 15. Spocks beard- the light 16. Between the buried and me- colors 17. The Alan Parsons Project - Tales Of Mystery And Imagination 18. Genesis - trick of the tail 19. Ozric tentacles - erpland 20. King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King 21. Jethro Tull - Songs From The Wood 22. Jethro Tull - A Passion Play 23. Marillion - Misplaces Childhood 24. Van Der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts 25. Genesis - Nusery Cryme 26. Mekong Delta- Dances of Death (and Other Walking Shadows) 27. Gentle Giant - Three Friends

Wife made me suffer through this :)

Great interview

KICK ASS