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I actually created a CD combining PoW and HYF years ago. If I recall correctly The Big Money Time Stand Still Manhattan Project Marathon Territories Force Ten Mission Turn the Page Grand Designs Mystic Rhythms

I pass the time by not listening to either. Roll The Bones has more good songs and more bads songs in comparison to Presto. Presto always seemed to me to be Rush's attempt at pop music. I think Anagram works as a pop song, but most of the record is substandard, except for The Pass which is truly great.

Hold Your Fire. Listened to it once when it came out and had no real interest in listening to it again, whereas all previous albums I got I would listen to over and over for awhile. I wasn't thrilled with Power Windows and, for me, each album was a step down from the prior one after Moving Pictures. I wanted them to rock and they were obvioulsy off exploring other things. So they lost me at that point and I stopped buying albums when they came out as I had always done until VT got me going again.

I like both records a lot, but the best songs on CA are better than the best songs on VT. In particular, there's nothing on VT that is in the same league as Headlong Flight or The Garden.

I'd put it below everything from 2112 to GUP, but above everything else except for CA. I've always liked the songs on VT, but I stopped playing it a long time ago because the distortion, etc., hurt my ears. I think there's a lot of quality music here, a lot of depth, but the better songs are not quite up to the level as the better songs from the glory days and CA.

I've had the chance to listen to it through twice, the second time with some wine and I can attest it gets even better with wine! Seriously though, I'm not one to read lyrics sheets that much so I tend to come up with my own lyrics as I misinterpret what I hear. Must have been 10 times so far that I've said to myselft "Oh, so that's what he's singing." Geddy's vocals are so much better now. My only nit other than the solo on CU covering my favorite part is Alex's guitar getting a little too low in the mix at times on Secret Touch. The Stars Look Down, How It Is, Sweet Miracle and Freeze are sooo much better.

Very happy with what I've heard so far, although it is ironic that the one little jam I was most looking forward to hearing cleaned up has been covered by a guitar solo. That sure came out of left field. I guess it gives me a reason to hold onto the original version. Can't wait to crank this while driving in my car. The old VT is such a sonic mess at high volume.

A friend, who was both a drummer and a huge Rush fan back in the day, met Neil a few years back at a dinner party. Said Neil was talkative and relaxed. It was completely random, he had no idea Neil would be there. Unless it was that type of situation I would never think of approaching any of them. I'd feel uncomfortable bothering them. As someone else said, on a personal level they are strangers to me and I'd just let them go about their business.

For me it's one of the biggest hit and miss records in their catalog. Force Ten, Time Stand Still, Second Nature and Mission are great. The rest are forgettable or worse. This one sent me into the wilderness for over a decade as I stopped buying their records until VT and only heard Roll the Bones as it was given to me as a gift. I've come to appreciate most of the albums during this period as I rediscovered the band (Counterparts is particularly good), but I never listen to this one (or Presto or RTB) from start to finish.

The second night at the Nokia Theatre in 2008 for S&A was probably 4,000 or less. They had played the Hollywood Bowl in 2007. The first night at the Nokia was probably 80-90% full, but the second night they closed the upper level and there was still quite a bit of space on the floor. Just over saturated the market a bit by the end of that tour. But I wasn't complaining as I was able to get 4 free tickets to that second show.

The complaint threads about the remix are inevitable and will be epic.

I like my ex-wife more than Dog Years.

I hadn't seen them since the 80s and had pretty much lost interest in them for a long time after listening to HYF. But I had brought and liked Vapor Trails and decided to see them again. I saw them at Staples Center. Not a great venue sound wise. The show was great though. I was disappointed that they only played 4 new songs. Back in the 80s they had always played most of their new records and I was expecting the same. No Ghost Rider that night. No Freeze. No Vapor Trail. Would have enjoyed hearing those, particularly in place of songs like Roll the Bones and The Big Money. Highlight was definitely them playing Natural Science. I was unaware they brought it back on the TFE tour and wan't expecting it at all. Wasn't thrilled with the encore at the time, but it holds up when I watch Rush in Rio. Alex's rant that night was about meat bees and it was thoroughly bizarre. Cracked me up.

Permanent Waves Moving Pictures A Farewell to Kings Hemispheres CA The first four on my list are the "classic period" for me. Geddy's tortured vocal style from the first four albums subsides and the musicianship rises to its pinnacle. CA benefits from being most recent. There was a time that I would have said S&A is close to top 5. Now it wouldn't be in my top 10. The other top albums for me are Signals, GUP, Counterparts and Vapor Trails.

8 (Signals, GUP, Vapor Trails, S&A (3 times), Time Machine and CA). The break between GUP and Vapor Trails was largely due to me losing interest in the band after HYF was released. They really lost me on that one. Only Counterparts was of mild interest for me thereafter until Vapor Trails came out and I fell in love with the band again.

I believe he's singing along to a sample, with his voice buried in the mix. It creates an "illusion" of sorts that it's his voice you're hearing. I don't particularly like it either. Generally, songs with the Geddy chorus that Geddy can't recreate live (because he's singing lead) are the weakers ones to begin with. Wish they would just drop that style altogether. I've read others speculate that maybe by singing along he "triggers" the sample, but I seriously doubt that. Maybe one of our tech-nerds/wizards would know if that's even possible.

Its amazing really. When they released VT back in 2002, they released what?...maybe 5,000 copies on vinyl? Who knows? (actually, if anyone does know, I'd really be curious at the numbers). There were some who bought it back then when vinyl was a niche item. Likely fans and true vinylphiles. Who would have thought that this one particular album is considered a "grail" for most Rush collectors? The prices certainly support that theory. Now, granted, the poor audio from this recording is well-documented. However, I liked the music from this album...I liked the direction they were going; especially Neil and his lyrical escape to try to put closure on the trauma in his life. I recently picked up a copy of VT on vinyl sealed in the original wrapping. I paid ALOT of money for it. Like you, I "got the itch" and had to have it. It was a missing piece to my vinyl puzzle. I haven't broken the seal yet. I'm not sure I will. Its the ultimate conflict...music lover vs. collector. I suppose I have to consider how this disc is most valuable to me...as a valuable artifact on a shelf; or as a sonically frustrating record that I might listen to once. I'm leaning to the former right now. I'm in a somewhat similar boat with the CD, as I just can't bring myself to listen to it anymore. ;) I like to crank music and at high volume it's become unlistenable to me.

For some dumb reason I bought the MVI version of S&A. Never done a thing with it. From what I understand, the slight glitch in We Hold On that's found on the regular CD was fixed. That's about it. You have the documentary, don't you? I've watched that at least a dozen times. I have watched it, but you can find it on youtube as well.

For some dumb reason I bought the MVI version of S&A. Never done a thing with it. From what I understand, the slight glitch in We Hold On that's found on the regular CD was fixed. That's about it.

I have every studio release, although for Counterparts I only have a cassette. That worked fine when I had a car with a tape player, but that ended a couple years ago, so I need to pick up a CD so I can listen to it again. I have all the live DVDs except for the Time Machine Tour. For live albums I have ESL, Different Stages and Snakes and Arrows Live. I also have the live disks that came with the R30 DVD and the CD for the Grace Under Pressue tour, which was included in the Replay X3 reissue. No interest in getting ATWAS or A Show of Hands. Not a big enough fan of that material to want to listen to them and the studio albums are enough for me. I have zero interest in the compilations.

Supposedly the Galen Center at USC intends to pick up some of the slack.

Different styles bass wise, but they're both great. Don't forget that Jones played some guitar as well. And Jones is the better keyboardist. So I'll give the nod to Jones.

When I saw him on the video monitors at the show on Monday, I did notice that the back of his head seemed to have more hair. Still real thin, but it looked different.

My four-year old son loves looking at videos on my iPhone. So I recorded 2112 from the gig for him. I played it for him last night. He's holding the phone and watching intently. About a minute after Temples starts he turns it off. I ask him "why did you turn it off?" His response? "That guy singing is creeping me out."

Another great show last night. I haven't been to this site since the tour started, fearful of stumbling across spoilers. I did guess that they'd open the first set with Subdivisions and close it with Far Cry, but other than that I was really surprised with that set. I didn't see the Power Windows tour, but it seemed like I was transported back to 1985 for a while there. I like how they set up the string section. It provided a lot of energy for the second set. I thought Headlong Flight was the highlight of the entire night. Carnies was visually spectacular. Doing a couple songs out of sequence I thought worked well. My only nit with the CA material was that I thought The Garden was too loud and lost some of it's dynamics. (Overall, I thought the volume of the show was lower than the Time Machine Tour and sounded better.) As for the rest of the second set, I really didn't need to hear Red Sector A again. I thought that was the only dud of the night. Manhattan Project was a pleasant surprise. I liked Neil's solos. But why only three? I guess he's getting old. :D Some people walked out in the middle of 2112, trying to beat the traffic I guess. I really don't get some people. These 59-60 old guys are up there kicking ass and you leave? Crazy. But thank you to the people right in front of me who sat down the entire show. They were the only ones around us that did that and it made by view better. When I saw them last year I thought they were nearing the end of the road. Geddy's voice was better this time. It gave me hope for at least another couple of tours.