Distant Signals

QUOTE (SchemingDemon @ Jun 27 2012, 07:13 PM) QUOTE (RUSH-2112 @ Jun 27 2012, 01:37 PM) Hello Ohio Folk, Just a plug to let you know about my Rush Tribute band called Distant Signals from Pittsburgh, PA We will be playing a downtown Cleveland venue called Wilberts on Saturday Oct 27th at 9PM. If in the area or will be in the area (considering Rush is playing the next night at the Quicken Loans Arena), please stop in and check us out. We would appreciate the support and please pass this along to anyone who might be interested. See you in 4 months Oh, and we'll be playing some really obscure songs, for those die hard Rush fans How much are tickets gonna be? Sounds fun Sorry, forgot to mention that. Door cover will be $5.00

Hello Ohio Folk, Just a plug to let you know about my Rush Tribute band called Distant Signals from Pittsburgh, PA We will be playing a downtown Cleveland venue called Wilberts on Saturday Oct 27th at 9PM. If in the area or will be in the area (considering Rush is playing the next night at the Quicken Loans Arena), please stop in and check us out. We would appreciate the support and please pass this along to anyone who might be interested. See you in 4 months Oh, and we'll be playing some really obscure songs, for those die hard Rush fans

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If Rush asked YOU to create 2 sets of music for them to perform, what would you choose. ANY song they ever recorded are fair game and the order doesn't matter. 12 songs each set, but if you pick a lengthy epic song, that is worth 2 regular length songs. Be creative and have fun!!!!

I got 3 tickets in lower lever row R on Geddy's side.

QUOTE (Sir Lerxst @ Jan 3 2012, 10:36 PM) RUSH-2112, keyboardist from the cover band Distant Signals is someone who springs to mind who may be able to help you. He used to post in Making Modern Music quite frequently, and from the synth work I have heard of his I can say it all sounds fairly accurate. Thanks for thinking of me and for the kind words

I would be interested to hear your ideas for The Big Money. What kind of samples did you get?

I am a keyboard player for a Rush tribute. See a list of my keyboards at the bottom of my signature. Because most are all "80's" keyboards, for the most part (except for the Korg R3, but that has some great sounds that came standard), they all work well trying to recreate those sounds. Some sounds I could never even come close to recreating, so yes I have to "cheat" just like Rush does. So for example on The Camera Eye, I use a sampler to trigger some of the keyboard parts that I edited as a WAV file. Other things I have sampled are more just "sounds" that I want to recreate like the "car squeal" in Red Barchetta.... a "crowd cheering" for The Spirit of Radio..... the intro for dreamline... the intro for distant early warning..... the intro for caravan....... 8 seperate WAV files to trigger the "sqaulk talk" for countdown....... intro for 2112........ intro for new world man But for the rest of the songs like Subdivisions, Tom Sawyer, The Analog Kid, etc... they are all played using one of my 7 keyboards. I suppose it is possible to configure the new keyboards of today to mak the sounds, but these older keyboards do a much better job. Hope this helps

Thanks for the responses. It helped

QUOTE (MCM @ Jan 11 2012, 08:35 PM) Oddly we have two here in Pittsburgh, one called Distant Signals and my favorite name for a Rush tribune band, Caress of Steel City.. never seen either one of them, yet.. You should check us out. We have the following shows lined up. 1-21-12 The Beachland Ballroom - Cleveland, OH 2-4-12 Kendrews - Aliquippa, PA 4-21-12 The Hard Rock - Pittsburgh, PA 5-19-12 Kendrews - Aliquippa, PA

QUOTE (gudbuytjane @ Jan 12 2012, 12:01 AM) What songs does your band know? Give a list, this could be fun. I believe good sets are like good plays or movies, they have acts, changes in mood and tone, etc. You can also check out Rush's own setlists from over the years: http://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/rush/setlists.php -Jane Ok, here is what we'll have ready for Feb. 4th Possibly even Jacobs Ladder The Big Money The Spirit Of Radio Fly By Night/In The Mood Medley The Analog Kid Afterimage Between The Wheels Countdown Ghost Of A Chance 2112 Overture/ Temples/ Finale Medley Subdivisions Working Man Dreamline New World Man Caravan Tom Sawyer Red Barchetta YYZ Limelight The Camera Eye Witch Hunt Vital Signs Entre Nous Distant Early Warning Freewill Closer To The Heart

QUOTE (losingit2k @ Jan 11 2012, 11:11 PM) Start Off strong, Keep them Guessing, Something Old Something New, hit them with an Instrumental, Throw in an Epic, End up even stronger! Limelight Analog Kid Driven Cut to the Chase Jacobs ladder Where's my Thing? Caravan Lock and Key Middletown Dream Subdivisions Mal Nar Show Don't Tell Distant Early Warnings Red Barchetta The Trees Natural Science 2112 Overture/ Temples/ Finale You pretty much have most of the songs we know, or will know soon.

Thanks for your input. We have a good mix of classic hits and B-sides for sure. We wanna tend to overload the first 1/2 of a gig with all the hits (for those casual fans) becuase they far out weigh the superfans. Plus after a break the crowd typically thins out and only the superfans will remain.

It always seems difficult choosing an opening song, plus getting the right songs to flow together in set-lists, for my Rush band Anyone have any suggestions for a show coming up on Feb 4th?

As initially stated, its 4 guys the never met, and did an online collaboration project. I don't know any of those dudes eh

Thanks for the reply. You might be the only reply

For your listening pleasure, please enjoy this Halloween treat. This was an online collaboration from 4 total strangers playing individual parts to a master track, then it was mixed down to this final product. Special guest on vocals is Geddy Lee himself (actually, we chopped his vocals out for this song and had them merged with our music. Geddy didn't come in at some of the right places in the first verse, so we fired him LOL). Anyway, hope you enjoy our spooky rendition of Witch Hunt, with Geddy Lee on Vocals. btw, I am playing the keyboards and cowbell in this song. Enjoy!! http://www.trfmusicians.com/components/com..._with_Ged_1.mp3

If anyone will be in the Pittsburgh, PA area over the holiday weekend, check out my band which will be performing at The Hard Rock Cafe in Station Square - Pittsburgh, PA If you can't make it, here is what your gonna miss Set 1 Tom Sawyer (with South Park intro) The Analog Kid The Enemey Within Freewill Between The Wheels Limelight Entre Nous 2112/Caravan Medley (part I and II of 2112 transition into Caravan) Set 2 Dreamline Afterimage Witch Hunt Subdivisions Distant Early Warning Red Barchetta The Spirit of Radio New World Man Closer To The Heart Encore To be determined........

The show was incredible indeed. Lots of energy and the boys were spot on. It was nice to hear Presto If anyone is itching for more music, come check this out: http://www.therushforum.com/index.php?showtopic=59081

Show is tonight. I have the tickets with me. Email me if your interested. rush-2112@comcast.net

Tickets are STILL available

I still have these tickets. MAKE ME AN OFFER!!!

tickets are face value. $300 each ticket w/goodie package Reasonable offers will be considered

I have 2 VIP tickets for sale. Each ticket includes the goodies package and the seat is located in the Row J (10th row) in section 3 (on Alex's side) I will mark SOLD when they are no longer available. Hurry this show is in 4 days