quickfree

Stalk Geddy at the baseball games during their off days.

Finding My Way - Yeaahoooo ooowh yeaahh...Geddy at his peak and not the horrible Roll The Bones tour abomination.

Put me in the camp as an early fan of this song when I first heard it in 92'. Loved the synths and keyboards on this and Where's My Thing mostly. I still like Where's My Thing, but pretty turned off to the rest of the album.

Not really, it would actually be great just as long it doesn't sound awful.

If you know what I mean.

 

They already use so much electronics over the years to enhance sounds in the music and trigger unique sounds like layered backing vocals on the studio album that would probably be impossible to reproduce if they didn't have background singers like the Stones. Shoot me the day that happens.

QUOTE (toonz @ Jun 21 2010, 03:31 PM)

Sometimes I wonder if the band themselves is responsible for some of these "spoilers". You would think there would be pretty tight control on that soundstage. Hard to imagine anyone getting that good of a shot without being noticed.

on Tfe tour they played 2112 to close the first set. now i cant vouch for anyone who didnt see that tour but people which just came to see this song probably wandered out early but the second set had natural science (rarely played at the time) but also neils drum solo. many probaly stayed over for the drum solo, but from what ive seen in terms of crowd respons, natural science doesnt seem to liven them up.

 

they could save jacobs ladder for late in set 2 to keep things interesting.

QUOTE (lerxt1990 @ Jun 20 2010, 07:42 PM)

QUOTE (quickfree @ Jun 20 2010, 06:39 PM) Looks the opener is dead on. Using the other hints you could probably come up with 28 songs just like that. Really question is how many S&A songs and will they repeat certain tracks like Ghost/The Trees. Not much suspense left. Do we think thats what the ^1^ means? I'd more than love to be proven wrong and this won't exactly be the first time.

Looks the opener is dead on. Using the other hints you could probably come up with 28 songs just like that. Really question is how many S&A songs and will they repeat certain tracks like Ghost/The Trees.

 

Not much suspense left.

Its is a great song having seen it before on VT Leg 1 in 2002.

 

I still think the 92 version on the Bones tour, with Alex's extended solo is probably the best they ever did with this song as for the live performance. Roll The Bones was good for something.

God, this thread is still going? I must posted in this 2 or 3 times on impulse.

QUOTE (GrandDesigner @ Jun 18 2010, 10:08 AM)

Unfortunately I think those two songs will forever remain in 1982. Losing It I could see them wanting to do (especially now), but obviously the violin plays way too important a part to just be relegated to a backing track. Chemistry is just too unimportant a song to play 30 years later. Yeah it's cool, but it's probably one of their most underwhelming songs of the 80's and probably hasn't ever been thought of since they dropped it mid-Signals tour.

QUOTE (FOH Lights @ Jun 15 2010, 03:37 PM)

QUOTE (Rush Cocky @ Jun 15 2010, 03:31 PM) QUOTE (shaun3701 @ Jun 15 2010, 03:54 PM) QUOTE (FOH Lights @ Jun 15 2010, 12:47 PM) QUOTE (shaun3701 @ Jun 14 2010, 08:27 PM) umm is it incomplete? It seems to end abruptly, and if Lakeside Park is the opener I think I'm gonna be sick. Yeah... even if it makes it to the show at all, that's not the opener. what is, FOH? You know he can't tell you.   And when he tells you he can't tell you, then we'll start the barrage of his lack of credibility all over again...and if I were him I'd be tired of that by now. HAH, of course I can tell him - no danger in that   FOH = Front Of House. That's that place in the middle of the floor where the sound & light guys set up & operate. Hi FOH Lights,   You wouldn't happened to know Brad Madix of the touring crew? I think Brad worked on the last Snakes tour.   I know he also worked with Queensryche on the Building Empires tour back in 91'. And that tour was mindblowing for the Livecrime set. I never saw the 91' tour but saw the Livecrime video/DVD and did manage to see them on the Road to Promised Land tour in 95. Not sure if Brad worked on that tour. But it was pretty amazing back then. I was really into Queensryche until Chris DeGarmo left in 1997, but they did kind of rebound on their last album American Soldier.

The could tack on the ending or some part in a medley of the other four Fear songs. You won't get the full song but might get one of the cool instrumental parts. I think thats the real strength of the song and the slow build up of the verse "..in a desparate panic or a tempest, etc.."

Best post this week! Amen to that!

For guitars, White Gibson E-355.

 

When I saw it make a return back in 02' for the VT encore, it was quite the sight.

 

I remember it being used on the Trees last tour. Changing it up on a fair amount of songs would be easy enough.

 

Wonder if they'll actually play it. It is a very relevant song and ties in well with the overall theme.

 

the main reason why most people stay at home, save money/headache, and watch the Youtubes.

 

I'm still going to this tour though. Drunks or no drunks.

I'd say the synth period but post-Signals. GUP through HYF but include a bits of Presto through the Test for Echo albums too.

 

Maybe its just me, I've kind of outgrown the GUP album. I loved the album about 10 years ago since rediscovering it in 1998. If I listened to it when it first came out, it probably would've followed the same cycle. 12 years so, around 97'..I'd about had enough of it. But the band loves this album. At least one song in the setlist (most of the time Red Sector A or Distant Early Warning), but they had the gall to unearth Between The Wheels. If we get something more varied chosen from GUP for the Time Machine tour, it would just prove how high they regard it. Along with Moving Pictures, Permanent Waves, and I guess Roll The Bones.

 

I think Vapor Trails was a definite high point in their come back. The album deserved so much more exposure and better production than it got. Snakes to me, wasn't as hard hitting at first but I decided to focus on the lyrical aspect of the songs. And after about 3 years, got tired of it too. VT is defintiely a superior and underrated album. They are far more aggressive and creative with the songwriting and spontaneous jams. I'm hoping some of that rubs off on Clockwork Angels but I think they already have a new songwriting/demo/production process set with Nick R. that they want to use and won't change it anytime soon.

QUOTE (Cowtothesky @ Jun 8 2010, 09:52 PM)

QUOTE (moedrabowsky @ May 29 2010, 12:32 PM) QUOTE (tangy @ May 29 2010, 12:26 PM) QUOTE (moedrabowsky @ May 29 2010, 12:13 PM) QUOTE (tangy @ May 29 2010, 12:04 PM) QUOTE (moedrabowsky @ May 29 2010, 12:00 PM) QUOTE (tangy @ May 29 2010, 11:58 AM) i will say that given the demographics of that state i am not all that surprised at the poor ticket sales. What do you mean by demographics?   I saw them on Counterparts in Las Cruces, which is much smaller than ALB, and the arena was full.   I saw the seating chart yesterday. There are still five weeks before the show. well maybe i am completely wrong but does Rush have a strong following amongst the hispanics and native americans in new mexico?   not trying to stir the pot. i love NM and think its one of the prettiest places i have ever been to and have friends who live Albuquerque.   edit- that and by demographics i also meant number of people i the state itself. NM is a fairly sparsely populated state if i recall correctly. Hispanics are like anyone else -- they like all different kinds of music.   Like I said, when I saw them in 94, the arena was full in a city that has a fraction of the population in ALB.   Demographics probably have nothing to do with it. I am all for diversity and I agree that the Rush crowd is more diverse now than ever.   That said, the typical Rush concert is still a caucasian sausagefest.   Demographics play a part in pretty much all business decisions. Apparently the demographics were there to justify the show. Its a numbers game though and like I said NM is not heavily populated. I saw a list that put them at #36 out of 50. As far as playing in NM, I heard (RUMOR) Geddy got hit with a bottle in Tucson in 2008, which is why they've skipped Arizona.   When I say demographics don't have anything to so with it, I'm talking about ticket sales. Like I said, they sold out an indoor arena 16 years ago in a much smaller city (albeit, one close to the major El Paso metro area).   And people said Jacksonville was only half full on the last tour, and I think there are a lot of white guys in Florida.   Perhaps Rush isn't the major concert attraction in the desert southwest and the deep south the way they are in St. Louis, New York and Cleveland (or even Dallas, for that matter, where both shows in 2007-08 were jam packed). Geddy also got hit with Mardi Gras beads in New Orleans UNO Lakefront back in the 90's, but they came back to New Orleans last tour - NOT this one . I remember a pile of mathematicians jumping on the guy who threw the beads and security carting him out with a calculator attached to his head. This is hilarious. Apparently they remember the polite cities and the really crappy ones. All the stories of fans heckling the band are strange as anything.

Dog Years or Virtuality

 

That fateful combo was responsible for me skipping the T4E tour. Who would have thought a bad album wouldn't be enough for a person to not see that show even with a full 2112 and (I didn't know at the time) return of Natural Science?

 

Honorable mentions:

 

War Paint - cheesy as most songs on Presto, so I'll leave them off this list

You Bet Your Life - as with most of RTB, so I'll just spare the space

Kid Gloves - sounds completely out of place with the dark tone of GUP

Nobody's Hero

Driven

Turn The Page

Ceiling Unlimited

Time Stand Still

Cinderella Man

Everyday Glory

Speed of Love

Alien Shore

Yeah I agree on Earthshine.

 

But they love getting the most out of their money for the stage production on One Little Victory. Far Cry should have already replaced this song with the pyro. Not to mention they got pyro going on Witch Hunt last tour. And how creative they could get with Camera Eye.

 

And Caravan is just crying for another extended pyro set to open the second set with that slow building intro. Almost as if the song was written that way for the live set.

Last book I seriously read front to back was probably American Gods by Neil Gaiman. And that was close to 9 years ago.

 

It wasn't bad. I liked it better than his other works. He should stick to literature and forget comic books.

Sound quality issues aside, I like Rio a bit more because of songs like Cygnus, Freewill and Natural Science.

 

R30 has Xanadu, but Natural Science and Freewill were odd songs to drop from this tour. Especially during a historical retrospective one.

Take A Friend sounds more like Heart than Rush. Not that I hate Heart, but this clearly is a bad imitation.

Play BU2B at a faster speed in Media Player and it kicks much more ass. Even the corny organ part. Why did they add that part? Very Roll The Bones-y.