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    Exit Stage Left audio

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    That tour actually opened with 2112, but in the ESL video, Limelight is the first song. So, right there, I didn't like it because it didn't seem like a true concert. Also, no drum solo on the video. I guess they had time issues, but to omit the drum solo in a Rush show? That was a bad choice.

     

    Full setlist. If only they could unearth the unused film....

     

    2112 Part I: Overture

    2112 Part II: The Temples of Syrinx

    Freewill

    Limelight

    Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres Part I: Prelude

    Beneath, Between & Behind

    The Camera Eye

    YYZ

    Drum Solo

    Broon's Bane

    The Trees

    Xanadu

    The Spirit of Radio

    Red Barchetta

    Closer to the Heart

    Tom Sawyer

    Vital Signs

    Natural Science

    Working Man

    Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres Part IV: Armageddon

    By-Tor & The Snow Dog

    In the End

    In the Mood

    2112 Part VII: Grand Finale

    Encore: La Villa Strangiato

    Oh man, that would probably be the crème de la crème of all their concert videos, just based on pure nostalgia alone. Much less the fact that it's the full Moving Pictures Tour and set list. Just seeing some of the songs on the video that were not on the album is a tease that there probably was a lot more footage originally shot from those shows. They should dig it up and put it together. I'd certainly buy it and watch the hell out of it!

     

    we all would but that footage is long gone. back then videotape was expensive, very bulky and hard to store, so it was routinely recycled. no one thought anyone would care forty years later about the rest of that footage so the tapes were probably degaussed the day after the thing was edited.

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    Man, you can really hear the punch-ins

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    In this example you'll notice a complete difference in the tone and feel of the bass solos in YYZ. It's like they went to fix them a week or two after the original track was recorded and couldn't remember the board settings or something.

     

     

    You don't think the change in tone was intentional? I do.

    When Terry Brown was producing Rush albums everything was intentional.

     

    yeah, recording book 1 in the wrong key, what an intentionally genius move, eh?

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    Geddy Lee's Book Signing Event

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    For $80, I want a picture with Geddy.

     

     

    I've been to book signings where you hand your phone to an assistant and they will take a photo ( of you and the musician ) right after your book is signed. It's quick and really doesn't delay the line.

     

    i agree, no picture is a dealbreaker!

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    Geddy Lee's upcoming "Big Beautiful Book of Bass"

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    Rumour has it Geddy will be at Sirius, and I just wrote to my local (nj) bookstore that does signings (including Bruce Dickinson last year and Roger Daltry next mth) and asked if they were going to get Geddy and they quickly replied "stay tuned!"

    I'm going Roger's signing on the 25th.

    Ohhh, I considered it, but decided not to, it’s Thursday night and I hate to miss band rehearsal. But tell me all about it afterwards !

     

    what bookstore is this, please?

    Neil's drumming on Secret Touch

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    I like the tasty double-bass work around 4:00.

    It's pretty muddy on the original mix, but the remix cleaned it up.

     

    That last fill at 6:00 is pretty nice and seems off-the-cuff.

     

    Alex kicks ass on this this track. :yes:

     

    Love the sparse, driving drumming on the entire cd. In a weird way it reminds me of Keith Moon (on the Who Are You album especially), there is a sort of driving desperation underneath it all.

     

    Vapor Trails regular or remixed is a damn good listen, despite a few flaws.

     

    I'm somewhat mystified by the acclaim of Clockwork Angels, which is just as much of a brick-wall of a listen, but with less memorable melodies.

     

    vapor trails and clockwork angels are both in my top 5 rush albums

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    Controversial Rush Opinions

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    2112, Moving Pictures, Permanent Waves... are the 5 worst Rush albums.

     

     

    Dang...I mean I know I said controversial but that opinion there isn't gone make you a lot of friends around here. Those three are pretty much the most publicly renowned albums in their discography, and you'll be hard pressed to find many others who don't think they're among the bands best works, especially PeW and MP...I mean idk if I've ever heard anyone around here say they didn't like those two.

     

    i'm not a big fan of moving pictures. except for limelight which is one of my favorite rush songs.

    Alex confirms Rush is "basically done"

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    ^^^ thou dost seem defensive. Are you sure he was referring to you? Because long before I ever knew who you were there were posts on CP by a guy who was trying to figure out how not to miss his 100th show that was on his wife's due date. I've long since forgotten his name, but he always wore a red Rush hockey jersey in his pics.

     

    everything is about earl, don't you know that?

    fentanyl - take that s**t off the market

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    That's just unfair. Tom was just trying to do right by his fans and forgot to do right by himself in the process, meanwhile his doctor/doctors were giving him things they weren't sure were safe but must not have told him that part of it.

     

    I'm probably making a couple assumptions there, but I hate to hear that's how he went out. :(

     

    You're making a massive assumption here...Remember Doctors don't want to be sued more than anyone else....I find it impossible to believe that he wasn't explicitly instructed on the correct dosage and the medicine itself would have been very clearly labelled...I also note that he had Oxycodone in his system too...he could have been taking too much of that for breakthrough pain.

     

    He always struck me as a fairly intelligent man, so he must have been aware of the risks...in this case "doing right by his fans" backfired spectacularly, as now they will have no more chances to see him, ever, whereas a short break for hip replacement surgery would have sorted his problem and extended his career...after all, it worked for Paul Stanley.

     

    the guy had coronary artery disease and emphysema, maybe he didn't have very much longer to live in any case and a final tour was what he wanted. and maybe the od wasn't entirely an accident.

     

    i agree that there's a problem in america with overprescribing of medication for absolutely everything, and also agree that personal responsibility comes into play.

    Something that shocks me about RUSH...

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    What about Tears?...it's quite clearly a romantic ballad about love and loss, particularly the "my body was weak, for you...the truth" line.

     

    geddy wrote tears

     

    Al and GED are clearly great friends. Are they really that good of friends with Neil? I’m not so sure.

     

    i think that all three were probably closer friends in the earlier days but then they grew apart especially as neil started to lose interest in music and regard it more as a way of making money than a calling while meanwhile al and ged were still just as passionate about music as they ever had been.

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