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It will most likely not be a full album but an "Extended EP" Something along the lines of 3-6 new songs they can showcase on the upcoming tour.

Nah.. I avoid all the 'cons'. As an avid non-drinker I find them pretty boring :P

Echos on the Stages - Final rehearsal show before the T4E tour (Soundboard) Black Forrest - Hemispheres tour O'Chicago - T4E (soundboard) Any of the St. Louis releases from the original master source (Be sure you're getting a 1st gen master, there are plenty out there) A View From The Palace (Pro-Shot vid from the CP tour)

Not the biggest fan of this one. Everytime I hear the intro I expect to hear Gene Simmons come in with 'HEY HEY HEY HEY YEAH!' Just far too much I LOVE IT LOUD for my taste.

Do you know for sure they're going into the studio in 3 months? Things can change. It has been the plan for quite a while that they would hit the studio in September. Most recent news I heard did not change that.

They're going into the studio in a little under 3 months. NOT going on tour. Dudes buddies friends cousins best friends uncles grandpop prolly told him that and it just got changed a bit down the line.

Dude made it to 61 (almost) and he's still rockin it out. He deserves a double birthday this year!

Sorry Lorraine, that is Geddy in the background! Are you absolutely positive? It doesn't even sound like him. It sounds like a woman. Who is that woman that sang on one of Rush's song background? Are you certain it isn't her doing that harmony? Aimee Mann did backup vocals on TSS, but it ain't her this time. Nope, that's pure Ged Man. It does sound a bit like a woman though That's a pretty high pitch. What part are you talking about? The "video vertigo" bit later in the song? I edited my comment that you quoted to include this: On T4E it's all Geddy.. guaranteed. I met Peter Collins at the Nashville show last year and talked to him a lot about the albums he produced (T4E is one of them) and asked specifically about guest vocalists. The ONLY spot on any of the records he produced that has vocals other than Geddy is TSS. Hmmm...I assumed the female-sounding voice in Force 10 & Tai Shan was Aimee Mann as well. Nope, I asked about Force 10 specifically and he said absolutely not. The giggle is a random patch from a sound pack Andy Richards had on his keyboard... and the rest is Geddy. He made it perfectly clear that other than TSS there were no guest vocalists. Interesting. I'd love to know how they got "rising and falling" at the 2:43 mark to sound so much like a female. http://youtu.be/ZCn7DyDCLyc Sounds like they're running his voice through a phase/octaver. I'll have to take your word for it. can't stand the "sound" of that album...... :( Sound as in the songs or the production? I think the production is decent and some of the songs. The sound. The bass tone in particular. The thinness if that's a word. Mission is a nice song..... Geddy was using a Wal bass on that album which really gave him a much different tone. While I'm glad he dumped the Wal I can appreciate the difference.

I'm guessing just a sound effect from a keyboard. You can buy keyboards now that have cows mooing, ducks quacking, rapper dudes going "yo," women giggling (and a lot of them have the Tom Sawyer thing, too). Patches are what they load onto the keyboards to make all the sounds. You load a patch and a certain key will trigger the giggle... or a cow mooing.. or a jet plane taking off... or Homer Simpson going "D'OH!"

Sorry Lorraine, that is Geddy in the background! Are you absolutely positive? It doesn't even sound like him. It sounds like a woman. Who is that woman that sang on one of Rush's song background? Are you certain it isn't her doing that harmony? Aimee Mann did backup vocals on TSS, but it ain't her this time. Nope, that's pure Ged Man. It does sound a bit like a woman though That's a pretty high pitch. What part are you talking about? The "video vertigo" bit later in the song? I edited my comment that you quoted to include this: On T4E it's all Geddy.. guaranteed. I met Peter Collins at the Nashville show last year and talked to him a lot about the albums he produced (T4E is one of them) and asked specifically about guest vocalists. The ONLY spot on any of the records he produced that has vocals other than Geddy is TSS. Hmmm...I assumed the female-sounding voice in Force 10 & Tai Shan was Aimee Mann as well. Nope, I asked about Force 10 specifically and he said absolutely not. The giggle is a random patch from a sound pack Andy Richards had on his keyboard... and the rest is Geddy. He made it perfectly clear that other than TSS there were no guest vocalists. Interesting. I'd love to know how they got "rising and falling" at the 2:43 mark to sound so much like a female. http://youtu.be/ZCn7DyDCLyc That's just playing with the pitch on the vocal track.

Sorry Lorraine, that is Geddy in the background! Are you absolutely positive? It doesn't even sound like him. It sounds like a woman. Who is that woman that sang on one of Rush's song background? Are you certain it isn't her doing that harmony? Aimee Mann did backup vocals on TSS, but it ain't her this time. Nope, that's pure Ged Man. It does sound a bit like a woman though That's a pretty high pitch. What part are you talking about? The "video vertigo" bit later in the song? I edited my comment that you quoted to include this: On T4E it's all Geddy.. guaranteed. I met Peter Collins at the Nashville show last year and talked to him a lot about the albums he produced (T4E is one of them) and asked specifically about guest vocalists. The ONLY spot on any of the records he produced that has vocals other than Geddy is TSS. Hmmm...I assumed the female-sounding voice in Force 10 & Tai Shan was Aimee Mann as well. Nope, I asked about Force 10 specifically and he said absolutely not. The giggle is a random patch from a sound pack Andy Richards had on his keyboard... and the rest is Geddy. He made it perfectly clear that other than TSS there were no guest vocalists.

Sorry Lorraine, that is Geddy in the background! Are you absolutely positive? It doesn't even sound like him. It sounds like a woman. Who is that woman that sang on one of Rush's song background? Are you certain it isn't her doing that harmony? Aimee Mann did backup vocals on TSS, but it ain't her this time. Nope, that's pure Ged Man. It does sound a bit like a woman though That's a pretty high pitch. What part are you talking about? The "video vertigo" bit later in the song? I edited my comment that you quoted to include this: On T4E it's all Geddy.. guaranteed. I met Peter Collins at the Nashville show last year and talked to him a lot about the albums he produced (T4E is one of them) and asked specifically about guest vocalists. The ONLY spot on any of the records he produced that has vocals other than Geddy is TSS.

Agree to disagree. I assume you mean that the newer records are the best sounding Rush. I whole heartedly disagree. No. I meant Power Windows and Grace Under Pressure. Counterparts was very clean. Am I talking about song quality? Not necessarily. Just the sound. VT-CA have not been produced or mixed to impress. Yes, but Terry wasn't just about the sound of the recording. Terry was way more. There is no way Terry would have let Geddy get away with some of the melody lines on the later albums or Alex's 12 guitar sound. He was the best they ever had. I agree he was their best producer, but I am glad they got rid of him. I'm happy with the music they created after his departure My point exactly. I wholeheartedly disagree.... :) It's not like Rush was all of the sudden going to make AFTK over and over again just because they kept Terry. They had already decided to change their direction, Terry obviously didn't know how to treat the new direction (see Signals), they had to ditch him For me signals was probably the last good album. I didn't like the direction they were moving after Moving Pictures, but the music was still really good. After signals it really didn't excite me any more and it still doesn't. So yes, I think Terry Brown had a huge influence on Rush's sound, even on the keyboard stuff. Once he was gone the band just stopped sounding like Rush, and they've never been able to recapture that. I agree with this. For those of us who got into Rush in the pre-Signals era, Rush had a certain sound and style, and each new album "made sense" in the context of that sound and style...you could trace a somewhat "logical" progression from the debut through Hemispheres. Certainly PeW and MP were deviations from that progression, but the changes still made sense in the bigger scheme, but starting with Signals, that band was gone -- what followed was still called Rush and still had the same members, but it wasn't the same band we'd grown to appreciate. Illusions were painfully shattered, I suppose. In some ways I'm envious of you younger fans who came to know Rush after they began to have a variety of styles to offer. The Rush we old folks came to know and love left the stage a long time ago. Please don't lump ALL fans that got into the band pre-Signals into the same group. My first show was on the PeW tour and for *me* Signals was a very logical progression when you consider how much more prevalent keys were on MP than on the album before. It was the next step and absolutely the same band.. and then P/g! PoW were progressions from that point. Still the same band. Just because YOU don't like the direction the band progressed into doesn't mean it's not the same band or that they're any worse because of the choices they made.

They're all great.. but this is the best so far. And it's considerably longer than the rest.

This is hilarious and brilliant and I love it! http://youtu.be/Wpd2VaFt5iY

Those aren't eras... they're decades. Here's how I break down the "RUSH eras" RUSH - CoS: In The End 2112 - Hemispheres: Prelude PeW - Signals: Red Barchetta P/g! - HYF: Grand Designs Presto - T4E: Available Light VT - CA: Headlong Flight

Never say Die! When it comes to Losing It... DIE! There, I said it :P

RUSH FBN 2112 AFTK Hemispheres (Technically the song is called 'Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres') Presto RTB T4E Vapor Trails (Technically the song is called 'Vapor Trail') Clockwork Angels

Cool. First member to speak up. Any stories? Only a bazillion or so. LOL Pick a good one. lol Have you met the band? I've met each of them multiple times. Pre '97 I had some killer connections.. and since then I've had a couple meet & greets. Ok.. here's a story. PoW tour in Detroit. I didn't have a front row ticket but my buddies did. I had already seen a few shows on that tour so I had a good idea of when the lights were going to go down. About 3 minutes before I expected the lights to dim I walked up to the front row, told the usher I was just going to say hello to my buddies and walked over to them.. dead center.. and didn't leave until the show was over ;) That was fun.. and also in my younger days when I was a bit more brazen then I am now.

Cool. First member to speak up. Any stories? Only a bazillion or so. LOL

Several times. First one was P/g! in Saginaw, MI (GA show) and I've been front row at least once on every tour since with the exception of R30 and Time Machine. (got a couple of 2nd rows on TM, but that still isn't the same as being on the barrier).

Ick! It was painful enough live on the Presto tour.. but on RTB when they abbreviated Xanadu and then broke into Stupidconductor it really solidified my hatred of the song. I mean... c'mon... shorten XANADU to fit in that steaming pile of cow dung of a song?????

The video is bad... but it's eclipsed by the awfulness of the song itself. Stupidconductor is right near the top (bottom?) of my list of the 10 worst RUSH songs.

Scars was played on the Presto tour.

That wasn't technically the Permanent Waves tour. It was... Moving Pictures Warm Up Tour September 11, 1980 - October 1, 1980 It is believed the setlist remained the same throughout this tour. 2112 (Overture/Temples of Syrinx) Freewill By-Tor and the Snow Dog (abbreviated)-> Xanadu Limelight (early version, different introduction) The Trees Hemispheres (Prelude) The Spirit of Radio Closer To The Heart Beneath, Between and Behind Tom Sawyer (early version, different second verse) Jacob's Ladder A Passage to Bangkok Natural Science Working Man (reggae intro) Finding My Way Anthem Bastille Day In The Mood Drum Solo Encore: La Villa Strangiato I stand corrected then. That was the show. Look at that freak'in setlist. I'll have some more of that please..... :codger: :haz: September 26, 1980 Capital Center Landover, MD Not your exact show, but only a few days later.