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Chemistry.

Everyone's citing this is just the first leg, but I'm afraid it is likely the only American leg of the R-40 tour. Possibly the only leg of the entire tour. But I think, they might do a limited run in Europe too.

Aw yeah. Think between Irvine Meadows and the Forum in SoCal, I'll take Irvine this time....always better to see Rush outdoors. :) Last time I saw Rush in the OC, it was Roll the Bones tour!

This is a joke right? Um. No. Ask any drummer on earth, I guess. Well, I'm a 30 year drummer and there are no best drummers period....only favorites....and Neil seems to rule amongst drummers in this category. I find it amusing too that people who don't even play the drums would think they are qualified to judge. Nobody said I didn't play the drums. But what I think doesn't matter. I have never met a professional drummer (the guys who can play the forum, not someone's mom's basement) who has ever disputed Peart as the living master of percussion. Not once. And I have met a lotta drummers in my time. The big boys. I find it amusing that there are Rush fans on this forum who believe otherwise. :)

This is a joke right? Um. No. Ask any drummer on earth, I guess.

NO. For the 18 milliionth f*cking time. No one is suggesting to get rid of anyone. But your all for having another singer? Have you read any of my posts??? At all??? YES. And the band would still be the same. (Where have I heard that before). My suggestion was simply to bring a singer on tour (only), to sing a few older songs that Geddy apparently can't sing any more. And Geddy would still sing most of the songs.(I know I've said that at least three times already). Geez. Is it ever possible to have a casual speculative conversation here without half the population (who apparently don't even bother to read the previous posts) getting unduly upset and treating their own viewpoints as common fact? I think not. :outtahere: You're splitting hairs on semantics. You ARE suggesting that someone besides Geddy sing the older songs...but you're adding the caveat that it'd be okay as long as Geddy was still there onstage playing instrumentation?You're suggesting that an ADDITIONAL singer would be just fine, not a REPLACEMENT singer. We get it. It still doesn't wash, but it doesn't matter, it'd never happen. But it's interesting you'd be okay with it. Geddy certainly wouldn't. :)

What is this fresh hell? Are there truly bona fide Rush fans who can envision other incarnations without any one of these three guys? I thought it was pretty much universally accepted that there are certain bands whose frontmen are irrevocably irreplaceable. There can be no Zep without Plant, much to the chagrin of Page and JPJ, apparently. There really can't be any Queen without Freddy, even though Brian May has tried and tried and failed miserably (as if that American Idol kid was any better than Paul Rodgers). And really at the top of the list...Geddy Lee and his singularly unique voice cannot be replaced. Ever. Is this not obvious?

There are no drummers better than Neil. Sheesh.

As far as the Rush gold CD's go: MFSL's PW, MP, 2112, and Signals are a MUST OWN. The Audio Fidelity gold and hybrid SACD's of RTB, Counterparts, Hemispheres, and Presto? Not so much. :/

Oh, I think they're gonna tour this year. :) Neil doesn't like touring. Nothing new about that. He likes playing, though. There's a difference. But as mentioned elsewhere...there's nothing wrong with them scaling back some. Tour for a month, not for a year. Do a two hour set, not a three hour double set. There are ways for Neil Ged and Alex to have their cake and eat it too. They've earned it.

The R 30 overture was the best opener ever, yes. I too hope they come up with a similar R-40 medley.

Haha. It's been a long long time since I threaded a setlist thread. For any band. The Canuck boys are getting old per their own admission. Why they need to stick with a two set + intermission song structure is questionable. It's great, nay, it's awesome they wanna put out that much content so fans get maximum bang for their buck. But really, it's okay to scale down some in their elder years and just do the industry standard 20-22 song set. That way, they can power through the flashpoints (especially on an R-40 type tour) and get Neil on his bus in time for an 11 pm supper. So in that regard, presuming they scale down to one set approximately 2, 2.5 hours long: (btw, the love for Far Cry is interesting...I gotta say, I'm okay with the set passing on SnA stuff), and mixing casual fan must-plays with my own preferred cuts): Spirit of Radio Digital Man Red Barchetta Subdivisions Superconductor The Anarchist Freewill Limelight Red Sector A Natural Science 2112 medley Distant Early Warning YYZ (into drum solo) Afterimage Roll the Bones Cut to the Chase Tom Sawyer (Encore) New World Man Chemistry La Villa

Yes, I did. :) Yes, it would be. :( So am I. :) I would love to hear anything up to and through Signals that hasn't been played to death the past few years. Agreed. Like Chemistry. Or Countdown. I agree with the poster who cited Cut to the Chase, too. Always light on Counterparts. I could stand Alien Shore for that matter.

LOL. Exactly. There will be no Rush without any one of the three players. Period.

South Americans love their concerts. Never a bad time down there, they are JUBILANT when it comes to global legends playing their arenas. However, that said, I doubt there is a finer place on earth to see Rush than Red Rocks in Colorado.

So the rumor that Signals will be played in its entirety ala the Time Machine/Moving Pictures tour is just that, a rumor? Apologies if this has been covered extensively elsewhere.

I got mine yesterday from Amazon. As an audiophile myself, I can attest that gold pressing CDs are almost uniformly better mastering than original mixes. ALMOST. Not always. Sometimes the remastering tends to spice up the high end and fails to equalize the deep end in commensurate measure. Particularly with the newer venture Audio Fidelity, which I don't quite understand since Hoffman did such stellar work with DCC offerings. That said, I have several of the AF discs because I'm a gold CD whore, basically...it's ALWAYS warmer on gold than aluminum (for best results, stick with 180 gm vinyl and a top of the line modern turntable with a diamond needle). As far as RTB...well, they punched up the treble for sure, it's crisp no doubt, in fact in parts Neil's snare is too spiked and it sounds more electric than it ought to. Last AF releases I picked up were the Doors' Morrison Hotel and Yes' 90125, and neither of those discs suffered from bass mud. RTB does, alas. But still....it's a Rush gold CD. Rare they are. If given a choice, I'd always prefer an MFSL edition, they're consistently the best at what they do (i.e., Permanent Waves). Seeing as how you can only get 2112, MP, PW, Signals, and now RTB in gold...I'm holding out hope for an MFSL remastering of GUP, myself.

Yeah, about a couple million Toshiba players moved at Xmas. I would imagine some folks are pissed. Like me, who got a nice Toshiba HD A30 from the little lady, plus several HD titles, and then in January Warner decides to back Blue Ray. Sigh. Betamax all over again. Really, the only reason I was even interested in upgrading to HD players was to see the newly released Blade Runner collection. Which admittedly looks kick ass. I really didn't want to replace my entire DVD collection with HD dvds, apart from Blade Runner and possibly the Indiana Jones trilogy. Then I got to thinking when Tarantino flicks finally come out on HD, particularly Pulp and Kill Bill, I'll be wanting those in HD too. Samsung makes a combo HD / Blue Ray player, but they still want over six or seven hundred bucks for it.

Alien Shore. But CTTC and LTTA are great too.

Signals. By a country mile. MP is the defining landmark effort, but Signals is their best collaboration in tems of tone, flow, and depth. Pure perfection. The core of absolute Rush: 2112, Waves, MP, Signals, GUP. Personally, I think Kings and Hemispheres get a lot of overblown credit, but that's just me.