RushFanForever Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 (edited) In the latest issue of Canadian Musician magazine here, there's an article on the Barenaked Ladies discussing the making of their new album Detour de Force, which is being released today. Bassist Jim Creeggan wrote this song titled 'Big Back Yard' for the new album. The following bit elaborates more on this on page 36 of the article. For Creeggan perhaps one of the most exciting parts of the process was getting to borrow and use Geddy Lee's personal Moog Taurus pedals. "That was an out of body experience. On 'Big Back Yard', I was actually playing bass and the Taurus pedals at the same time, so it was this wild experience of almost being an organ player!" Here's the song below. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHUFPjJ6UzM On the Making of Detour de Force electronic press kit video; beginning at the 0:14 mark, you can briefly see Creeggan playing the pedals. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NXFxdU8Sdo I can hear the Moog Taurus pedals being utilized with headphones on as they have this low note droning sound, like when Geddy uses them while playing rhythm guitar on the Rickenbacker 4080 double neck guitar/bass during Alex's guitar solo on 'Xanadu' and 'A Passage to Bangkok' from Exit...Stage Left. Edited July 16, 2021 by RushFanForever 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisible airwave Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 Love their nod to Tom Sawyer before the last chorus of Grade 9. "I went out for the football team to prove that I'm a man. I guess I shouldn't tell them that I like Duran Duran." :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RushFanForever Posted July 16, 2021 Author Share Posted July 16, 2021 (edited) Love their nod to Tom Sawyer before the last chorus of Grade 9. "I went out for the football team to prove that I'm a man. I guess I shouldn't tell them that I like Duran Duran." :lol: That song is from the first full length debut studio album Gordon where co-founders Steven Page and Ed Robertson were both members of the band. Page left the band in 2009 and has a solo career now. Edited July 16, 2021 by RushFanForever 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjbear05 Posted July 17, 2021 Share Posted July 17, 2021 Moog Taurus, cool. A far cry from the Crumar PB-1 rig my buddy John used in his gigs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chemistry1973 Posted July 17, 2021 Share Posted July 17, 2021 A band that I cannot get into no matter how hard a tried. Maybe that’s the point - they’re a Canada thing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timbale Posted July 17, 2021 Share Posted July 17, 2021 A band that I cannot get into no matter how hard a tried. Maybe that’s the point - they’re a Canada thing. Not for all of we Canadians. I'm like you - they're just not my thing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jnoble Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 I **LOATHE** their hit 90's song It's Been Been One Day or whatever they name is. HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RushFanForever Posted July 26, 2021 Author Share Posted July 26, 2021 From the Sept 2021 issue of Bass Player magazine here. Jim Creeggan interview excerpt. Which bass players influenced you? I admired the jazz players like Paul Chambers, mainly. Edgar Meyer was a great inspiration for me, because he had a real wide breadth of feeling in his playing, which I think comes with classical. He also played bluegrass and stuff, which was great. But Geddy Lee was the first guy that I was air-bassing to, before I even played bass, you know. Actually, Geddy’s gear is on this record. We asked him if we could use his Taurus pedals, and he was generous enough to give them to us. On the song ‘Big Back Yard’ I’m actually playing his pedals and playing bass at the same time. He’s a remarkably nice guy. Yeah – he was very generous to us when we were coming up as young players. Rush gave us a bottle of champagne when we sold out this big concert venue in Toronto, Massey Hall. You know, here’s Rush giving us a bottle of wine, saying ‘Way to go!’ And Geddy inducted us into the Canadian Hall Of Fame. He didn’t have to do that, but he really cares. I remember watching him play, and I noticed that he threw in this little triplet. I couldn’t figure out how he did it, so I emailed him and he got back right away, saying ‘I hold my hand like this, and sometimes that triplet happens, and sometimes it doesn’t!’ That was so cool to hear. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YYZ Working Man Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 BNL - awesome - They put the sprinkler on the lawn and ran through with their gym shorts on.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vectorman Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 I see it was Geddy's newer Taurus 3 pedals, the ones Moog put out around 2008-ish. (But then, who knows if he even still has any sets of the original Taurus pedals by now.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YYZ Working Man Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 Big backyard - my Summer song of 2021 - love the back story of geddys pedals and the song Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisible airwave Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 A band that I cannot get into no matter how hard a tried. Maybe that’s the point - they’re a Canada thing. Not for all of we Canadians. I'm like you - they're just not my thing. Still better than Bieber, Simple Plan and Nickelback. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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