ILSnwdog Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 There are so many spectacular Geddy moments. The first that come to mind are: The section where everyone goes nuts in Freewill. All over in La Villa, YYZ, and Mal Nar. All of Digital Man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
In A Tidewater Surge Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 Prime Mover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Good,bad,andrush Posted March 29, 2011 Author Share Posted March 29, 2011 QUOTE (In A Tidewater Surge @ Mar 29 2011, 06:20 PM) Prime Mover X2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnals Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 The Big Money Driven Alien Shore Middle of Tom Sawyer (love that riff) End of red lenses Show Don't Tell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USB Connector Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 Vapor Trails Peaceable Kingdom La Villa Strangiato Hemispheres Cygnus X-1 (LOVE the opening) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enviro_tech Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 Oooh lots of great picks here.. My favorite live bass moment during Time Machine Tour has to be Leave That Thing Alone, especially the ending. Without the intro into Neil's drum solo, Ged's been getting some great bass time in (kinda why I decided to go out and find a bass last year around christmas). Vital Signs, that juicy chorus bass Ged gets is awesome to hear every time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeddyLeeFender Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 QUOTE (usb_connector @ Mar 29 2011, 06:35 PM)Vapor Trails Peaceable Kingdom La Villa Strangiato Hemispheres Cygnus X-1 (LOVE the opening) ^ THIS THIS THIS! Though I need to add Power Windows (Marathon, Manhattan Project, Emotion Detector, Big Money) as a worthy star of Geddys skill as well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todem Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Good,bad,andrush Posted March 30, 2011 Author Share Posted March 30, 2011 The Enemy Within, the final chorus, when he murders those bass strings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New Digital Man Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 I would add the entire Hold Your Fire album, every track is a bass players delight, Natural Science, and agree that Circumstances has a great bass part which is Geddy playing in his early trademark style, a style which he unfortunately left behind in the nineties to pursue this one-dimensional single finger back and fourth thing which now sadly dominates every performance of old material and new! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rushman14 Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 the outro of Out Of The Cradle has some killer bass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bastille Dave Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 QUOTE (GeddysMullet @ Mar 29 2011, 10:24 AM) Oh heavens. So many. As others have said, too many to list! At the moment, I'm slightly obsessed with the isolated bass audio track from The Camera Eye. I'm particularly fascinated by the bits punctuating the line "So light yet endless from a leaden sky" at 2:05 on this YouTube clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ieVlpixUEs That's some pretty darned bassy bass right there! Ive always loved the bass in that song, especially during the guitar solo near the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priest2112 Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 I always considered Middletown Dreams to be an absolute masterclass in playing the bass. Almost makes me want to pick one up and learn................ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Del_Duio Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 Even though we've heard them a bazillion times the bass for both Closer to the Heart and The Trees is amazing. Also Big Money, Turn the Page, Territories, Open Secrets, Where's my Thing?, Digital Man, Analog Kid, Hemispheres, the solos for LVS and Show Don't Tell.. My favorite YYZ part is the 2nd bass solo, so fast and badass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilbertk Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 Um..... all of the above? Driven, Limelight, Working Man, Xanadu, YYZ, Leave That Thing Alone, Mal Nar, Far Cry, Animate Gosh..... No point, I'm just going to name them all! Heck, even Scars has an awesome bassline, and that's not even a real bass! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StellarJetman Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 No love for "Leave That Thing Alone"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Good,bad,andrush Posted April 1, 2011 Author Share Posted April 1, 2011 The ending of spindrift. Certain moments in the larger bowl when the bass just gets really loud and plays a short complex pattern. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jnoble Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 QUOTE (New Digital Man @ Mar 30 2011, 12:25 PM) I would add the entire Hold Your Fire album, every track is a bass players delight, Natural Science, and agree that Circumstances has a great bass part which is Geddy playing in his early trademark style, a style which he unfortunately left behind in the nineties to pursue this one-dimensional single finger back and fourth thing which now sadly dominates every performance of old material and new! unfortunatly I have to agree....I havn't really liked his change of style starting with Counterparts. Too many notes played too fast on almost every song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Show Don't Tell Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 QUOTE (rushfanNlv @ Mar 29 2011, 12:21 AM) Turn the Page on A Show of Hands. Anyone with any experience playing guitar or bass can appreciate the fact that Geddy is playing this amazingly complicated riff on the bass during the verses and singing a melody that is a complete counter rhythm to what he's playing on the bass. He never misses a note - vocally or on his bass. Trust me this is very, very hard to do. This was the first that came to mind for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snyder80 Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 Digital Man, Vital Signs, La Villa Strangiato, the solo section from Freewill, the pre-chorus sections in Subdivisions, the end of Red Barchetta, The Big Money, Lock & Key, Marathon, The Trees, and dozens of others never fail to send chills down my spine. His most beautiful piece of work, imho, is Vital Signs. The bass playing in that song is just gorgeous, I can hardly describe how alive that bass playing makes me feel and I've never played a bass guitar in my life. The way he sings that tune has a big effect on me too. He kind of elongates the vowels and it really adds a nice round end the words he's singing. The ending of Red Barchetta and the final verse of Earthshine are the same way. I'm not ashamed to admit the intensity of the vocals and the music in those three songs kind of chokes me up on occassion. The lyrics are a big part of that. So inspiring, I can hardly take it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kooma Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 His bass playing on Hold Your Fire is out of this world, listen again and again and be amazed I cannot get better than this... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Good,bad,andrush Posted April 2, 2011 Author Share Posted April 2, 2011 5:16-5:19 I f***ing cry when I listen to that. Like the entire song he's not doing much with bass, it just sounds really nice...but here, it just comes out of nowhere and captures the essence left after the solo so perfectly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranger J Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 QUOTE (Priest2112 @ Mar 31 2011, 08:27 PM) I always considered Middletown Dreams to be an absolute masterclass in playing the bass. Almost makes me want to pick one up and learn................ Damn you beat me to it. The first time I listened to it intently, I wished I had learned to play the bass and not the drums. Such a smooth, smooth riff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ioc Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 There needs to be subcategories of "bassiness." While it's not the most technically challenging, when I think "bassiness" I think Animate. The balls on that sound is something else. It just dominates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Good,bad,andrush Posted April 4, 2011 Author Share Posted April 4, 2011 Some of the stuff he does in Anagram is pretty intense if you can hear it (not difficult, but beautiful) and same goes for where's my thing (not beautiful but intense) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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