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It's a typo, the word is "through".

 

e: i am beaten

That riff at 0:56 is my favourite part of the new album, it's just fantastic. I love it when they break away from the undercurrent of distorted heavy guitar to have something like that.

 

Also the bass fills over the main riff are brilliant.

Losing It, perhaps with Alex's interpretation of the violin solo

On the 2112/Moving Pictures Classic Albums DVD Alex explains how they used several guitar tracks with different effects on Tom Sawyer. Limelight must have had something similar.

 

10:35 in this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVNkNquRPr8

There's the section in Cygnus X-1 (3:36 to 4:52) which I think has a repeated sequence of three bars in 11/8 then 12/8 then 11/8.

 

And of course Jacob's Ladder alternates between 6/8 and 7/8 in the middle.

 

QUOTE ("trenken")

Does anyone know what the time sig is at the beginning of Freeze? I never counted it, but always knew it was odd. Never bothered since it's a little tough to tell what the actual start beat is unless you start to break it down and figure it out.

I actually love the guitar at the end of You Bet Your Life...

QUOTE (notgonnaput2112onmynick @ Dec 27 2011, 02:11 AM)

This guy has the Signals guitar solo's isolated tracks! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRQPz3rdU_0

Chain Lightning

Vital Signs on the Vital Dreams bootleg. Alex plays the riff in the second chorus very differently and it sounds amazing. Plus there's the added guitar solo.

 

Dreamline on Different Stages, mostly due to the punch of that bass.

 

La Villa on ESL. The first solo is even better than the studio version! At about 5:10 into the song there's a particular bend in the solo which sounds completely unlike every other time they've played that song and it just adds so much.

There's some really great guitar work on Gerry Rafferty's album North and South:

 

Moonlight & Gold - 5:00

 

Hearts Run Dry - 2:42, plus some amazing slide guitar throughout the song

 

Winter's Come - 3:25 and 5:22, very Gilmour-esque

Afterimage

The Big Money

Kid Gloves

 

top 3

Thought of a couple more, perhaps not for complete beginners but certainly some of Rush's more simple songs:

 

The Pass

Vital Signs

Subdivisions

 

The easiest song is clearly Tears.

This and You Bet Your Life are some of the songs that I like from a purely musical standpoint. The bass in Face Up is pretty fun to play and the guitar work at the end of YBYL is wonderful yet often overlooked.

The PGA Tour YouTube channel has recap videos from the Bridgestone Invitational with various soundtracks. The song at the start of this video is the only one with prominent bass, is this the song you were talking about?

 

The Rush Tablature Project is basically the definitive source on the internet.

 

http://www.cygnusproductions.com/rtp/bass/bass.asp

It sounds like the backing vocals fade in on the second syllable of "reflected", and then I think it goes like this (forgive the very basic notation software ):

 

http://i803.photobucket.com/albums/yy316/EarlCdwards/ChainLightningHarmony.jpg

 

Pretty much any David Gilmour solo, but particularly Time and Take It Back.

 

Also seconding that first solo in Dire Straits' Telegraph Road.

 

And kind of obscure, but I just love the one from Journey's Only The Young.

I love that Alex is playing the final solo in Presto this time around.

 

Excellent filming too, thanks!

Force Ten just came up on my playlist and I remembered how many amazing sections there are in it:

 

Firstly the bass line is just a great opener, and then the second verse has all this:

 

1:59 - The chord sequence with all the open strings

 

2:05 - That short, punchy guitar riff

 

2:09 - Alex's combiantion of harmonic and tremolo

 

2:18 - When that synth kicks in and the verse reaches its full intensity

 

One of my all-time favourites!

Hi everyone, just wondering if I could get some info on what kind of strings Geddy was using in the mid-80s. I think he was using standard .45 to .105 on every album up until Power Windows, when he started using the Wal. Did he use a lighter gauge from PoW up until RtB?

 

I know a lot of people hate the thinner sound he had on those albums but I quite like it!

QUOTE (Lost In Xanadu @ Dec 1 2010, 04:35 PM)

I think it's just an optical illusion 2 triangles, not just 1!

I think it's not so much his voice going, as his voice becoming less reliable. He can still hit the notes perfectly on a good day, but he has more off-days than in the past.

 

Doesn't make him any less enjoyable to listen to though!

Has anyone noticed that Alex seems to have brought back his "infinite sustain" machine for the end of the solo in Limelight? I'm sure I can hear that last note throughout the final chorus. It was one of the best things about the live version on ESL, but I'd not heard it again until this tour.

 

Anyone else hear this or am I imagining it?