petsounds75

Where's My Thing - the keyboard swirly jangly sound. The Pass - (turn around and turn around turn around) catchy hook. Hemispheres - a section where Geddy sings (I have memory and awareness, but I have no shape or form) - that airy foggy keyboard sound, then the guitar comes in with Geddy's voice upfront and kills it. Natural Science - the changing tempos By Tor - the bluesy guitar last section of the suite before it goes into reprise of first section. Cygnus - the intro with the bass guitar starting the 1 odd time hit, then does 2, then does 3, then back to 1. You Bet Your Life - tail end of the song where Alex goes higher up on the scales picking great notes and Neil starts his trademark flying around the kit fills. I guess I like the sort of surrounding loopy sounds in their music because it adds so much color and dimension to their sound. I know that there's names for the sections I mentioned on some of the songs, but I can't think of them right now...or really, know what they're called, yet I've heard them all a million times before.

I have a list: Presto Anagram Mission Marathon You Bet Your Life Anthem Vital Signs Losing It Afterimage Open Secret/Second Nature/Prime Mover (sounds like a three part suite)

I don't know. Different Stages sounds sort of "hallow" like it was recorded for some FM live airplay. It's great musicianship as usual, but the sound is sort of one dimensional. I'm big on sound. R.I.R. seems to have a lot more dimension and more variety. The only great thing I think of D.S. is 2112 in it's entirety and Analog Kid. The rest? Just standards it seems. Ok, Natural Science was added. D.S. has nowhere near the clanky high dimension of Show Of Hands, doesn't have the warm feel of Exit and doesn't have the balls that A.T.W.A.S. has. As far as the DVD goes...man, I have the Grace Under Pressure tour VHS, Exit Stage Left VHS, Show Of Hands VHS and various boots...it's good for live, but after you've seen so much live footage of them, the documentary, for me, is a major nice break. It was my first time of seeing the group just speaking straightforward. You have to admit, they're not big "interview one on one" guys unless it's Rockline or something like that.

Just got R.I.R. today! More entertained by the interviews and things. I've never really seen Neil talk straight ahead to an interviewer, nor did I know Geddy was so gracious. Alex, of course, is always a goofball. I've had the CD since it came out and sorta like it better than Different Stages, which seemed to me like a Test For Echo tour with a 78 show thrown into it whereas when I heard it was coming out in 1998, I thought it was going to be songs that didn't end up on All The World's A Stage, Exit & Show of Hands along with a few T4E stuff. At any rate, the DVD seems very sweet! Glad I got it...for 15 bucks, no less!

I dated a chick who loved Geddy. I mean LOVED the guy. Although, as much as I loved Rush, I think she would have Annie Wilkes him if the Misery situation presented itself. Just reading this stuff gives me flashbacks. Oh well, I delved into it knowing clearly what the thread was all about. My fault!