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Don Quixote

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  1. FWIW - I contacted a Rich Dalton of St. Louis radio station fame sometime back and asked him about the 1980 show. I specifically asked if the radio stations had the full concert and to his knowledge they did not. It's too bad Rush isn't going back to the venue that the 1980 show is from - it's been renovated and reopened, and the acoustics are much better than the Scottrade Center, which is primarily a hockey arena (excepting right now).
  2. Finding My Way - to remind those assclowns that the first album came out in 1974.
  3. QUOTE (LedRush @ Oct 5 2012, 12:48 PM) I think the explanation is simple - Geddy can't sing the 70s stuff anymore and he likes the 80s stuff more. I am looking through my CD pile and can't tell - which 80's albums are 2112 and Working Man on again?
  4. I live in the area; I'm wondering if they could have done the show at Peabody Opera House instead. They've played there before (if you have the 2-14-1980 bootleg it's from there) and the sound is a lot better there. The venue they were in is designed for hockey and sounds like it.
  5. I've read on more than one occasion that Alex's guitars are all standard tuning with one or two exceptions for Drop D. The changes in his sound are with effects and pickup configurations.
  6. QUOTE (drbirdsong @ Sep 23 2012, 01:17 AM) The GPS said the venue was a mile away and we had free parking on the street so we hoofed it. At least it was daylight - no way in hell do you make the walk from the Tap Room to ScottTrade in the dark.
  7. Just got home...wasn't planning to go but ended up there. I'm wondering if the show was taped - there were several guys with huge cameras at different points in the venue. Good show - although I think Middletown Dreams just isn't that great of a live song. I was happy to see the string section comes through nicely - they're mic'd up and you can easily hear them. Headlong Flight just SMOKES live. Wow.
  8. Ok...if they can play Working Man there are other things from back then they could have put in. Ending with "In The Mood" would have been a total jaw dropper but no...
  9. If then can drop tune Circumstances and butcher the crap out of it, they can try AFTK.
  10. After watching the 2nd disc of Beyond the Lighted Stage, I'd place a vote for Between the Sun & Moon. Great energy on that track and Alex's guitar sounds nasty as hell on parts of it.
  11. I could see them doing the new album in entirety in the first half, but after a couple of familiar songs. David Gilmour did this very thing with his tour for "On An Island" - early in the tour he was opening with the new album in entirety, but after a handful of shows he changed the setlist a bit and moved the Dark Side of the Moon stuff to the beginning. Then after intermission he pulled out the standards. The "Remember that Night" DVD is spectacular.
  12. QUOTE (Workaholic Man @ Apr 12 2012, 09:19 AM) They might be stealing a page from Tool....... Putting in short periods of strange sounds in between songs...... Just to add to the mystique...... Alex has been on record more than a few times that he's a big fan of Tool so you might be on to something.
  13. QUOTE (Cyclonus X-1 @ Apr 10 2012, 08:39 PM) Looks like A Farewell to Kings is making a lot of lists. It almost made my mine. It's a shame that Geddy (by his own admission) can't do the vocals for it anymore. When did he say that? Just asking...I've never seen / heard anything about it. If they can butcher up Circumstances they can try A Farewell to Kings.
  14. I'd love to see them blow everyone off the map and open with Finding My Way or Anthem...Ged could hit either one of those early in the night and dropped a half step it would sound uber crunchy.
  15. QUOTE (BigBob @ Jan 23 2012, 12:28 AM) Here Again! The whole bluesy guitar solo is just awesome Heard that on the radio Sunday - it had been years since hearing it at all, as I don't have the first album on CD and the cassette is long trashed. I forgot just how good of a song that is.
  16. 6 songs from a new album to open the 2nd set including an epic? You might lose half the building with that - the seats cleared out somewhat on the S & A tour when they did 5 in a row. "Distant Early Warning" - its' never been plural! I highly doubt we ever see Different Strings live, but given sampling and triggers anything is possible. I think that late in the set list it would be a downer though. Maybe in the first set? Doubtful we ever see a full version of Xanadu again - while Alex would be probably be game to tour the EDS-1275 I don't think Geddy wants to pull the Rickenbacker doublenecks from storage.
  17. QUOTE (KTMMan @ Dec 6 2011, 11:13 AM) Kinda like ESL way back when. I love that live album but was overproduced to make it sound too studio like versus All The World's which is just raw and they way it went down. Given the stash of stuff they have in the vaults somewhere, you have to wonder if there is a full concert film recording of the Moving Pictures Tour. I would ***REALLY*** like to see that.
  18. Circumstances stunk tuned down a full step - Hemispheres would suffer with that. I'd say they try a half step and go from there. That would be interesting...because that first open G barre chord (the 'Lifeson Chord') would have people thinking - "I've heard that before" Yep - "Rooster" by Alice in Chains.
  19. QUOTE (driventotheedge @ Nov 11 2011, 05:32 PM) Yo Rog, the whole is ALWAYS greater than the sum of the parts. If it was true for John and Paul, it's true for you and Dave too. Watch David's "Remember That Night" DVD and the full blown version of Echoes and you get a great example of the whole exceeding the sum of the parts. It's just amazing. David's voice is still in great shape for a guy in his mid 60's.
  20. QUOTE (Steevo @ Nov 6 2011, 12:49 PM) QUOTE (sonicjams @ Nov 7 2011, 05:11 AM)wish he'd do animals Animals would kill for sure. Only way that would work would be to go out with David to do it...and that'll never happen. If you've ever heard any of the boots from the Animals tour you'd understand why - David flat out tore it up on those tracks live.
  21. IMO, Paul Simon is another one of those very overlooked musicians because of the strength of his songwriting as a whole. You get so absorbed with the harmonies when he's with Art that you forget he's a wonderful musician. I can only play a few S & G songs but they're terrific to pick around with. America is probably my favorite. Get the 'Old Friends' DVD if you like them together - it's a LONG show and their band is terrific.
  22. QUOTE (amish_ashaman @ Oct 20 2011, 10:57 AM) I still don't see why they can't just play the damn songs and Geddy can just do the best he can. A less than perfect Bastille Day would beat no Bastille Day at all. Agreed - if they can tune Circumstances down a full step (which sounded awful to me), then pull out Bastille Day or some other cruncher from back then. I'd love to hear on the next tour at the end of the intro video (and this should have been their Time Machine Tour intro) - "Would you please welcome from Toronto, Canada - RUSH!" Then shred up Bastille Day or Anthem. Dammit.
  23. We bought Paul's "Good Evening New York City" CD / DVD set last week...and it is just incredible. Sure he has some years on him, but he does just fine, and his current band is just outfrigginstanding.
  24. If they keep the encore, ditch the funky intros. I'd rather see them rip it up on LVS, and then do like they did on R30 and let Alex stand out there with the spotlight shredding the crap out of the intro to Working Man, cranked to 11.
  25. Every show has had the reggae intro. I don't like it - I like the R30 one where the blistering lick starts the song.
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