thebernreuter

The article was funny, truthful, and clearly bitter. The Rush fans dominated the audience and the show. They WERE the story. I can see how that would be a bit of a bummer for the other artists.

 

I wasn't there, but the more I read and hear about it, the more it sounds like all the other artists were the opening acts for Rush, who were the main event.

 

That's exactly what the evening was to me. Rush were the headliner, and everyone else went first because they were less important. It may have been a bummer for the other artists, but they all had control over their own destinies just like Rush did. If they had a problem with being less interesting to the room, maybe they should have made some better music and brought more fans with them.

 

The article wasn't well-written or funny enough to have any tongue-in-cheek value to me. It's just stupid.

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for posting these in such a sneaky way! It made my night. Let's see how long it takes for HBO to figure it out.

A band that has passionate fans is "spun" to be negative. If they had been inducted in a timely manner, none of this would be an issue. I thought the "rock historian" circle-jerk of Rush bashing was behind us.

I had no idea Spin was still a magazine. Who gives a shit?

It's working now. A few hours ago it was automatically redirecting me here over and over again:

 

http://www.anthementertainmentgroup.com/sro/anthem/intro.php

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I can't find it anymore. Every time I try to go to rush.com it sends me to some generic Anthem page. Anyone else having this problem?

QUOTE (ak2112 @ May 1 2011, 12:30 AM)

For some people, louder = better. Not me. I'll stick with the 25.8P and MFSL when I want the best sound.

I think it would be way better if it were called Crimson Tide.

 

Roll Tide.

QUOTE (Soni @ May 11 2011, 07:23 AM)

I'm so f*cking sick to see a new "Is Neil too old." or "This is Rush's last tour" type threads every time I log in on TRF. I joined this forum to talk with other Rush fans, to share my love of the band with others. Not to read stupid trolls. Until this f*cked up trend of stupid threads keeps going, I won't post nor look at this sub forum. See ya in the Pit, Nick. ps rulezzz bitches!!!

QUOTE (thebernreuter @ Apr 29 2011, 07:54 AM)

Geddy's voice. I didn't go this tour because it's gotten to where it's too hard to listen to. I hate to say it because he is one of my all time vocal heroes, but he just cracks too much now. Either they need to space the dates out way more, play for less than three hours (no), play more instrumentals because they're better than ever instrumentally, or just stop. I don't want them to go out as an embarrassment like some of the shit "classic rock" bands; they're way too awesome and important to music for that.

QUOTE (rushgoober @ May 27 2010, 12:46 PM)

QUOTE (Merely Space @ May 27 2010, 10:42 AM) QUOTE (LeaveMyThingAlone @ May 27 2010, 12:40 PM) The Million dollar question everyone will be asking is... Will Vapor Trails be included in this???? I hope so. It would be VT's best bet to finally go gold! Seriously they need to just delete this album and remove it from their catalog - best to pretend it never happened. Remix it, remaster it, do whatever - it will still be their worst album by a very wide margin. Ok, I'll be quiet now. Nope. Still ahead of self-titled, Fly By Night, Hold Your Fire, and Roll the Bones. And Feedback. And Counterparts.

Geddy's voice. I didn't go this tour because it's gotten to where it's too hard to listen to. I hate to say it because he is one of my all time vocal heroes, but he just cracks too much now. Either they need to space the dates out way more, play for less than three hours (no), play more instrumentals because they're better than ever instrumentally, or just stop. I don't want them to go out as an embarrassment like some of the shit "classic rock" bands; they're way too awesome and important to music for that.

QUOTE (That One Guy @ Feb 19 2011, 01:14 PM)

What Rush do you hear on the radio? I'm in SLC and there's maybe 3 stations that put them in the loop. Last night we were driving around and my friend wanted to hear Working Man. It wasn't on any CD in my car. An hour later Working Man pops up on the radio. Later we start some shenanigans and Freewill comes on. When Rush came to town last August... You've never heard so much Rush on the radio.

QUOTE (The Owl @ Jun 1 2010, 12:45 AM)

QUOTE (The Owl @ Jun 1 2010, 12:41 AM) I just finished listening to Caravan for the first time........... sounds great.... One criticism though.......  You could easily tell this was a radio edit..... there are minute skips in the audio where you could tell music was cut out........ The edit was not that bad, but I could tell that it was one.......I just can't wait to hear the whole thing.... (Here's hoping the final version is around 10 minutes long) Just finished BU2B! I like it very much as well...........and the fact that this is an edited version as well is much less obvious. Haha did you hear the cut at 1:56 in "BU2B?" That one hurts. Odd choice to make an obvious cut at the end of a drum fill on a Rush album.

(some of these have been suggested already)

 

Sweet Miracle

Everyday Glory

Losing It

Middletown Dreams

Grand Designs

Different Strings - maybe acoustic?

Prime Mover

Presto

Heresy

 

My mommy is a mammographer. Yay me!

 

I've heard horror stories of the machine getting stuck during the compression phase. Owie. There's an emergency abort thing, thank goodness.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDg1all8-sY

 

QUOTE (iglehart @ Mar 31 2008, 10:09 PM)

Wow, thats horrible

I quote from your own link:

 

"In falsetto, however, the vocal folds are seen to be blown apart and in untrained falsetto singers a permanent oval orifice is left in the middle between the edges of the two folds through which a certain volume of air escapes continuously as long as the register is engaged (the singer is singing using the voice). In skilled countertenors, however, the mucous membrane of the vocal folds contact with each other completely during each vibration cycle. The arytenoid cartilages are held in firm apposition in this voice register also. The length or size of the oval orifice or separation between the folds can vary, but it is known to get bigger in size as the pressure of air pushed out is increased."

 

Geddy is a skilled countertenor.

 

The overlap between the two is called the passaggio range, which is the range one can cover with chest voice and head voice [aka falsetto]. Alot of people's voices just crack here, and this actually done purposely in yodeling and pop music as a tonal note.

 

In Geddy's case [as with mine], the two ranges are the same such that he can sing any note in his upper register any way he wants. If you want I can do a YouTube demonstration using this song as an example.

 

In the Zebra guy's defense, falsetto is more appropriate in acoustic situations because chest voice is usually extremely loud. On the tribute discs he sounds way better. On the other hand, if one develops nodes or nodules on the cords [calluses on the cords that prevent them from ever attaining full contact], it essentially makes it sound like one is singing falsetto all the time because too much air leaks out. This happens to people who belt their passaggio out for too long or while simultaneously having too much tension in the muscles and tendons you can see around your Adam's apple. He could have had nodes in that clip.

 

Minor nodes heal just like regular calluses; stop using it and it goes away. But if you keep singing harder and harder to try to sing the same volume as before, you can "blow" your voice permanently, like Steve Perry, ironically Steve Perry's first replacement, Davy Havok [he had surgery and sounds pretty good right now], and a metric ton of semi-pro and professional musical theater people.

 

I was really close to blowing mine in 2004 when the band I had at the time went on indefinite hiatus [never thought I'd be glad that happen]. If you're stupid like I was, when you start sounding rough and hoarse after a few gigs in a row you think you just need more practice to build endurance. The more you practice with bad technique, the bigger the calluses get and the worse you sound, making you practice even more, until one day *pop* goes the vo-cals. Thank God for college.

QUOTE (Weakly Criminal @ Mar 31 2008, 08:26 PM)

QUOTE (thebernreuter @ Mar 30 2008, 11:47 PM) Oh Geddy is using his falsetto range; no doubt. He just belts the notes out with enough force to where you can't tell. Same thing with Geoff Tate and Bruce Dickenson; their voices are so strong that they can make their falsetto as loud and full as their chest range.  It seems that you don't know the difference between falsetto and full voice. It's simply a matter of natural range. The few guy's with incredible natural range like Ged, etc. are singing in full voice. Singing in less than full voice in order to reach a higher than natural range is falsetto. Obvious examples of falsetto are Jagger in Emotional Rescue or anything by Tiny Tim.   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsetto I'm a professional vocalist, and I know the difference between falsetto and chest voice. "Full voice" is not a vocal range. That sounds like I'm being an ass, and I am an asshole, but I'm not meaning this to come off that way. Just clarification.

QUOTE (Broncos730 @ Mar 31 2008, 01:58 PM)

QUOTE (PuppetKing2112 @ Mar 30 2008, 11:44 AM) I'm disappointed, when I saw this thread I thought you were talking about Randy Jackson the Idol judge. Oh man I'm praying that's sarcasm..     One of them is an immensely talented musician and the other is on TV. Randy Jackson the Idol judge WAS THE BASS PLAYER FOR JOURNEY, for the second time.

QUOTE (PuppetKing2112 @ Mar 30 2008, 11:44 AM)

I'm disappointed, when I saw this thread I thought you were talking about Randy Jackson the Idol judge.

Awesome.

 

Housekeeping: the url for the video is now http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C-pMC_ReD0 . I thought having three videos on the same thing looked a little nuts.