irish_matt

Red Sector A won't get played at Neil always uses the back, electric kit for it. And since he's not using a back kit this tour.... -Matt

It's probably a Vocoder.

http://cygnus-x1.net/links/rush/images/concerts/rush-tulsa-ok-05.08.2015/29.jpg DW9000 kick pedals and a DW5000 hihat.

it looked to me that he was changing after almost every song. matt

He was using single DW9000 pedals on each kick drum. There were a couple of overhead shots and a few of his feet and they were definitely single configuration. It would be pretty redundant to have a double pedal set up as the slave pedal would likely connect to the second kick rim for stability. I was actually a little disappointed in the tone of the second kit. There wasn't as much attack from the toms. It also looked like it was a struggle at times for Neil to play. 20 years of having the ride cymbal more up front took it's toll. Great show in STL Matt

Well, we can see what kit will be used for Closer to the Heart (not Xanadu). the KAT being used for TSOR. Both songs looked to be mentioned in a medley with Natural Science on the video credits. Great looking kit.

I think he uses it for counting the band in. It triggers a signal that only the band hears through their monitors. The little red pad is a Dauz trigger pad. He uses it for many things, effects noises in the likes of Time Stands Still to the electronic snare sample in Vital Signs. He doesn't use it to count in the band. He either clicks his sticks to count in or just speaks the count in.

There will still be some electronics on the kit. The new DW set shows the two pads above the floor toms and the single pad under the KAT midi controller. He will also have the Dauz pad by his snare. I don't see the Shark pedal in the new kit which he would use for the likes of "Witch Hunt" for the cowbell. -Matt

John Good from DW was talking about the new snare and Kit for Neil and made mention of it being for "Their farewell tour or whatever they are calling it". Glad I got my tickets for St.Louis.. it will be my 12yr old son's first concert. I kinda agree that they may yet still play live after this tour but it probably won't be any any sort of one off or festival type shows. Even the one offs require starting the whole machine again and rehearsing. When they did the SARS show about 13 years ago, they rehearsed for about a week and Neil rehearsed for a week prior to that by himself therefore, one gig takes two weeks of their time and that was just a 40 minute set. One offs don't make any sense for the way Rush like to work. I could see more of a 5 night run in each city like Toronto, NYC, Chicago and LA.. they would probably be able to gross almost as much as this current tour as long as fans were willing to travel to them. But again, for Neil, that's time spent away from family which he is more reluctant to do. -M

Yes please. They played it on the Signals tour but dropped it during the European leg. I missed out at my two Birmingham NEC shows.

My mistake... there will of course NOT be a second US leg next year because EVERYBODY hated the setlist and they are only playing the European leg because they put it on sale and pretty much sold it out before anyone knew what they would be playing. I mean, really... the only thing that will put butts on seats is if they play a 45 minute extended version of Jacobs Ladder for the first set, period.

I would say a second North American leg is going to happen. I don't believe it's really cost effective for the band to start everything up again 5 months after the US tour to just play 12-14 shows in Europe. They will still have pre tour rehearsals etc. There is a certain number of shows required for the tour to break even and put it into profit. They will likely announce more US dates after the 1st of the year once this leg of the tour is finished. -Matt

odd feel to it throughout, also a wrong keyboard sample in the middle of the guitar solo.

Anyone got The Big Money from St.Louis? I'd like to hear it again as something was really off, tempo or samples or something....

QUOTE (Don Quixote @ Sep 24 2012, 09:18 AM) 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. The Peabody only has a 3500 seat capacity, though I'm sure would have sounded great there. Scottrade looked to had about 10-12K people at it as there were many sections in the upper deck that were blacked out. I would like to have seen them at the new Chaifetz Arean at SLU. Would have been a little more intimate and would have certainly sold it out as it has a 10k capacity.