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I'm curious - Why are people complaining about syncing issue with audio and video? This seemed to be an issue with the Snakes & Arrows DVD as well for some. How does audio and video go out of sync on a concert film? Is the other older Rush concert videos this way as well? I think a lot of it comes down to the machines playing the concert, not the actually movie or DVD itself. If the guys in Rush view/hear the final result and they cannot detect syncing problems with audio and video, what's up with that?

QUOTE (WCFIELDS @ Nov 2 2011, 05:55 PM) QUOTE (metaldad @ Nov 1 2011, 12:23 PM) I just went to see Ace last Wed. He had to restart 2 songs because he f-ed up He sang the same verse for an Entire song He fell off the stage Sober My ASS NO CHANCE he is sober... Ace appeared on VH1's That Metal Show recently. Check out the bit from 7:30 to 7:45 here.

Rushisaband posted the Ace Frehley story here. The photo of Alex with 'The Bag' is there too.

QUOTE (GeddyRulz @ Nov 2 2011, 06:13 AM)In related news, Lindy Young (one-time member of Rush and still Geddy's brother-in-law) has been playing gigs in bars all these years. I think you can find pictures of him and his band(s) on the Net. (But please please please, don't anybody post that old picture of Rush with former rhythm guitarist Mitch Bossi labelled as "Lindy Young." I hate that misleading pic!) This was corrected back in 2009 here.

I emailed Jeff awhile back and also submitted an article I found in a book on Canadian music to his website which discussed his band 'Ocean'.

Former Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley's book 'No Regrets' has come out today. Rush gets a mention in the book on page 188: 'I have so many road stories, but one that always comes to mind is the tour we did in the summer of 1975 with Rush opening for us. I always liked Rush and still do. After a few weeks on tour I started to get to know the guys in the band, and their funny tour manager, Howie. One thing lead to another and before long Peter and I were getting visits from the Rush boys. It usually turned into late evenings filled with beer and grass and whatever else was around. Alex Lifeson, the band's guitarist, used to do this hysterical routine with a large paper laundry bag. He'd draw a ridiculous giant face on the bag with a black marker and put it over his head with a couple of holes poked in it so he could see and breathe. Everyone in the room at this point was either drunk or stoned, but usually a little of both. Anyway, Alex would go into this routine with the bag over his head and while smoking a joint out of his eye he put everyone into total hysterics. He really milked the routine until everyone was grasping for air!' There's also a photo of the above in the book as well. Geddy Lee's brother Allan Weinrib also gets a mention in the book for producing the video for 'Rock Soldiers' by 'Frehley's Comet'.

This was posted by Scott who runs the Max Webster Fan Page. MAX WEBSTER TO PERFORM AT CHARITY CONCERT!! There is going to be a charity concert at the Mod Club in Toronto on Dec. 6th. Proceeds will be going to Prostate Cancer Canada. The main reason Max Webster are playing at this event is that drummer Gary McCracken was diagnosed in August with prostate cancer. He recently had surgery to take care of this and is now recuperating with a clean bill of health. More information about the charity concert will soon be posted on the Prostate Cancer Canada website as well as the Max website. Please share this and spread the word about this great cause. Guys - if your doctor suggests a PSA test on your next blood work test, JUST SAY YES! Related article: DRUM! - November 2007 Drum Parts: Peart & McCracken

Alex is playing '2112' in standard tuning in the key of 'A' like the studio recording, which has not been heard that way for awhile. The band has always played the song live in the key of 'G' a step down from standard tuning since the 'Test For Echo Tour'.

NOTE: this interview shows a rare humorous side to Neil Peart, note his comments regarding Rolling Stone, aging, early Rush lyrics, etc. In addition, it is key in that it includes Neil's comment regarding Kurt Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron and it's inspiration on "The Trees".]

Interview With Neil Peart - Modern Maturity Magazine Now the most controversial one of all. What were you referring to in "The Pass" with "Christ, what have you done?" To tell you the truth, that line wasn't even in the original lyrics. What happened relates to food again. The day we recorded that song, we split some Hunan chicken for lunch. All through the take, Al is letting rip with some nasty broccoli farts. The stench made it over to Geddy and me just as the verse was ending. We were barely able to keep playing, hence the stop-time there, and Ged turns to Al and screams: "Christ, what have you done?!" The tape was rolling and we kept it.

I highly recommend this book to anyone. It appeals to the individual who's maybe into science fiction novels or not. An excellent review from geek.com below: Book review: Ready Player One

There is a book that has come out recently titled 'Ready Player One' by author Ernie Cline of Fanboys fame. The book is described about Willie Wonka meets The Matrix with 80's pop culture references which include Rush. I found these Rush related stores on Ernie Cline which were posted on Rushisaband. eMusic Q&A: Ernie Cline He discusses '2112' in the above interview. Cline was featured recently on the cover of the Austin Chronicle wearing a Rush 'Time Machine Tour' jersey here, which features an interview with him titled "The Geek Shall Inherit the Earth". He made a soundtrack of the 'Ready Player One' book which features 'The Temples Of Syrinx' and 'Subdivisions' here. Cline has been doing the book tour circuit in the United States traveling from place to place in his souped up Delorean - the ECTO88 - which contains many rare '80s pop-culture artifacts. He gives us a tour of the car in that was recently posted at kut.org. At about the 1:15 mark of the vid, he shows off the cassette tape collection in the car which consists of only Rush tapes. This is from the film Fanboys which Ernie Cline co-wrote. More info on the tape collection here. Click here to see a close up photo of all the tapes. There are excerpts of the book that came be read on the 'Ready Player One' Facebook Page. Here are a couple of interviews from Wired Magazine about the book: A Few Minutes With Fanboys Writer Ernest Cline on Ready Player One Fanboys Scribe Pens Ultimate Nerd Sci-Fi Novel, Ready Player One (MOD EDIT: link fixed)

If Rush performed 'Jacob's Ladder' this way here, it would have been balanced out with the 'direct to the point' and meaningful elements of 'Presto' that the band was going after. This would have been the best of both worlds.

The Canadian prog rock band FM. The song has a 'Subdivisions' vibe to it.

I posted that Alex Lifeson and Alan Frew of Glass Tiger resemble each other here.

Here is a piece done recently on Alex Lifeson's guitar tech Scott. From The Canadian Music Scene: Scott Appleton - Alex Lifeson's Guitar Tech I sent Scott this article and this was his reply: "As for the forum posts, I find that 99% of people's posts are based upon conjecture and misinformation, so I pay no attention to them. Everyone is entitled to their opinions but the only opinion that means anything to me is the one of the guy holding the guitar."

QUOTE (presto123 @ Sep 10 2011, 01:47 AM) I was going to say it would be the opposite at a Madonna concert but I just thought the mens room would still be full of gay guys. LOL.....BTW....I have been to a Madonna concert and it was great but I had no idea she had that big of a gay following. LOL I thought it would be a lot of middle age couples and such. Neil Peart is a Madonna fan according to his book 'Traveling Music : The Soundtrack to My Life and Times' and he's straight. The San Francisco Chronicle posted something about the differences with the men's and women's washrooms at a Rush concert here.

If fans do not like the whole step down tuning of '2112' and 'Circumstances' from the audio CD of 'Rush In Rio', 'R30' and 'Snakes & Arrows', here is what I would recommend. Extract the two above songs to your computer from the CD's. Download a free legitimate program called Audacity to your computer. Open Audacity and import the songs into the program and there is an option to raise the pitch to the normal studio version keys. Save the files and then play the songs. This will be the best solution to the problem.

The website featuring the episodes of the show is here. Alex does not appear in the show.

I think it is highly unlikely that the band would perform 'Permanent Waves' in its entirety. They had that opportunity last year for a proper 30th anniversary of that album but they did 'Moving Pictures' in its entirety instead. It's a classic album that many Rush fans like but not seminal (meaning highly influential in an original way), like '2112' and 'Moving Pictures' are. Both of the 'above' albums had the 'play a full album live' 1996-97 (Test For Echo Tour) and 2010-11 (Time Machine Tour) and the 'Classic Albums' DVD treatments for a reason, because of the impact they had beyond anything else. No other albums in the band's career have come close to the above in the bigger picture of things. Performing nine songs off of 'Snakes and Arrows' on that same tour does not count as attempting to perform a full album in its entirety. That was done for different reasons.

I saw Rush for the first time in Vancouver, BC on the current 'Time Machine Tour'. It was the greatest milestone in my life. I don't go to concerts a lot because they are expensive. I went with another Rush female fan that lives nearby in which we saw a Jacob Moon solo concert together first in November 2010 locally. Then we went to an April Wine concert back in April of this year and then saw Rush together in June with others. The surreal moment for me at the Rush Vancouver concert was meeting musician/producer Ben Mink (who played the electric violin on 'Losing It', strings on 'Faithless' and collaborated on the 'My Favorite Headache' album). Ben was a row behind me two seats down, and is most known for producing k.d. lang. I had the opportunity to shake Ben's hand and say thank you for his contributions to Rush and other great musical acts he has worked with such as the Canadian folk band Stringband, the Canadian progressive rock band FM, k.d. lang, Dan Hill and most recently Heart. Here are a couple of clips from the recent Heart DVD 'Live At Sky Church' which featured appearances by Ben Mink on violin and guitar. Safronia's Mark - Heart feat. Alison Krauss Your Long Journey - Alison Krauss feat. Heart

Gil Moore of Triumph - Surviving As A R&R Musician, Rush mention How to Survive as a Rock & Roll Musician in the '80s - by Gil Moore The following is what stands out: 2. DEVELOPING A STYLE (But can they play "Stairway to Heaven"?) How much original material should out group play? The bar owners and our agent want us to play the Top 40 Hits. Sound familiar? Unfortunately, there are two types of musicians: Type A I've got to get a pay cheque ever week. Type B I want to do my own thing. Between these two extremes is a better place to be. The jobs that new bands get are largely a result of supply and demand. If an audience obviously doesn't like an original song, then there is not much sense in playing it. I think the best way to go is to sneak orginals into your repetoire gradually. Triumph got started playing Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin. Orginals were added one by one. When I first saw Rush at the Gasworks years ago in Toronto (this was sometime in Spring 1971 according to the Power Windows Tour Archives), they played lots of covers. Now they are one of the most musically original and artistically unique groups in the world. If Rush had played "Tom Sawyer" at the Gasworks back then it probably wouldn't have worked. An audience needs time to accept a group for their own music. Don't forget, mass exposure comes via the airwaves, and when you've reached that level of success, nobody outside of your home town will know that you didn't start off playing 100 per cent original material. If you do start off playing 100 per cent original stuff, don't expect too many jobs to begin with. If you start off playing 100 per cent Top 40 Hits, you can expect to wind up in The Hav-a-Nap Motel Lounge somewhere in Lower Dogpatch within six months. In summation, to be successful you must be original. You must achieve originality gradually. Always remember something isn't good just because it's original. Music is sometimes like premium Scotch whiskey, it takes twelve years to come of age.

Gasworks Crowd Responds to Triumph's New Original Sets By Wilder Penfield III From The Toronto Sun - September 10, 1976 Triumph is getting ready for a career worthy of the name. The power-rock trio made its dance-and-dive reputation slugging out effective carbons of Deep Zeppelin and Led Purple. This week, though, for the first time, whole sets of original material are being included. Not only does the new music sound like it belongs in the same league with the metal masters, the Gasworks crowds are also responding to it just as eagerly. After their last set Wednesday morning, even the house lights and loud closing-time music didn't deter the inmates, who banged and pounded and whistled and shouted for almost ten minutes total to win themselves a couple of encores from the band. Part of the acceptance undoubtedly comes from the release of a first-rate debut album of home-cast ingots call (wait for it!) Triumph. Inevitably, Triumph makes its maximum impact live. Digestion is short-circuited while the threesome beat their ploughshares into swords; beer disappears like magic in the shadow of their wall of sound. But this is one of few such bands which delivers on record what it promises in concert. Guitarist Rik Emmett, a mane-waving sex-appealing punk of 23, is the visual focus of the trio. Musically, bassman Mike Levine and drummer-vocalist Gil Moore are tight and equal partners. Mike also served as producer on the album, and he deserves special credit for capturing their live vitality on vinyl; all three contributed to the nine-song selection. Other performers were part of the audience. Singer Geddy Lee from Rush, checking out the competition while he awaits the release of his own band's live-at-Massey Hall album, brought a couple of members of Blue Oyster Cult with him. The Dishes dropped by, Shirley Eikhard was introduced from stage, and Artful Dodger caught a set before catching up with the Kiss entourage. Triumph is a relative newcomer to such company, barely a year old. It is still shopping for a manager, an agent, an American deal, and an opening slot on a national tour.

Kim Mitchell shaved all his hair off when he was balding over the years.