A Show Of Hands DVD

[New Digital Man]

Also: raccoon hair Geddy with his horrible Wal basses. No thank you. Probably my least favorite live offering from them after Exit Stage Left (the album, the video of ESL makes it better)

 

Horrible Wal basses, obviously you know nothing about what makes a good bass guitar and good tone, they are incredible instruments, each one hand built with the best woods and crafted to perfection! It's a shame Geddy has stayed with Fender for so long and has to put his bass through endless effects to get the tone that he desires but most of us think is unnecessarily harsh and brittle!

[Lorraine]

I'll give you two words - GEDDY LEE. Speaking for myself, and I do emphasize that as I know the ladies here have different ideas, Geddy never looked as sexy either before or since that concert. Something was going on with him around that time. What it was, only he knows.

 

Again, in my opinion, after that concert tour, they all changed a lot look-wise. A Show of Hands was their swan song to the sweetness of their youth.

 

Was that about the time Geddy started wearing his glasses and cut his hair shorter?

 

No. No glasses. I think he started that in the early nineties. His hair still looked like it does in Grace Under Pressure, but he has it back in a pony tail. He was still wearing his Don Johnson jackets. He was still thin, and it is the only time in all of the concerts that I have watched that I look at him and think he exudes sex. Again, only my opinion (obviously)!

 

What I have found interesting is to watch how their stage persona changed through the years.

[RushFlyer2112]

Ahhhh yes the 80's Geddy Lee (ha!!!) which I very much loved still as I think Geddy look very cute!!!!!!!

[Babycat]

I think it's a shame we don't have better videos of them from years ago. I would love to have a good quality concert from about 76 or so. At the very least, somebody needs to contact The Doctor and have him take the Tardis and an iPhone back a few decades and get one for us.

Right now I am listening to Xanadu from, a 1978 concert A Desert Passage. Considering the year and the limited technology, it sounds pretty good.

Is that the show when the stage is about to collapse so everybody needs to back up? I love that show.

Is that one for real? I saw an animated video showing it, but I wasn't aware that it really happened.

[EagleMoon]

I'll give you two words - GEDDY LEE. Speaking for myself, and I do emphasize that as I know the ladies here have different ideas, Geddy never looked as sexy either before or since that concert. Something was going on with him around that time. What it was, only he knows.

 

Again, in my opinion, after that concert tour, they all changed a lot look-wise. A Show of Hands was their swan song to the sweetness of their youth.

 

Was that about the time Geddy started wearing his glasses and cut his hair shorter?

 

No. No glasses. I think he started that in the early nineties. His hair still looked like it does in Grace Under Pressure, but he has it back in a pony tail. He was still wearing his Don Johnson jackets. He was still thin, and it is the only time in all of the concerts that I have watched that I look at him and think he exudes sex. Again, only my opinion (obviously)!

 

What I have found interesting is to watch how their stage persona changed through the years.

 

Oh right that's true. I'll have to watch that again and see what I think about it. I haven't seen it in a long time.

[ytserush]

I think it's a shame we don't have better videos of them from years ago. I would love to have a good quality concert from about 76 or so. At the very least, somebody needs to contact The Doctor and have him take the Tardis and an iPhone back a few decades and get one for us.

 

You mean this?

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VFG0PEIa8Y

 

That's a cool video but I mean the quality of the ones we have today.

 

The technology we have now didn't exist then.

 

Still, there's that pro-shot clip from All The World's a Stage/ A Farewell To Kings in the doc that nobody seems to have identified yet.

 

There's also that La Villa Strangiato clip from 6/4/79 which I think is on R30. Other than that there are those soundstage videos for A Farewell to Kings and Hemispheres and some 8 mm footage, but I think that's it.

 

Did I miss anything?

[Lorraine]

Can someone here tell me why the video someone sent me from this concert and the songs that are on the actual album are different?

[The Analog Cub]

Can someone here tell me why the video someone sent me from this concert and the songs that are on the actual album are different?

 

Just the way things are. I think on the album they wanted it to focus on songs from that musical era (Signals-Hold Your Fire). On the video they allowed more room for older songs, but on the album there was also live material from the Power Windows Tour.

 

 

I personally think it's dumb they didn't put a whole concert on there. I want a live version of Lock and Key :(

[Bangster of Goats]

Also: raccoon hair Geddy with his horrible Wal basses. No thank you. Probably my least favorite live offering from them after Exit Stage Left (the album, the video of ESL makes it better)

 

Horrible Wal basses, obviously you know nothing about what makes a good bass guitar and good tone, they are incredible instruments, each one hand built with the best woods and crafted to perfection! It's a shame Geddy has stayed with Fender for so long and has to put his bass through endless effects to get the tone that he desires but most of us think is unnecessarily harsh and brittle!

 

Yup, incredible wood quality aside, Wals have some seriously awesome pickups and electronics. Sooooo versatile. I too wish Geddy would pick them up again... or at least SOMETHING else... I'm a little burned out on the processed, buzzy, Fender sound. But, it's Geddy's choice in the end...

Edited June 20, 2014 by Bangster of Goats

[Geddy's Soul Patch]

Also: raccoon hair Geddy with his horrible Wal basses. No thank you. Probably my least favorite live offering from them after Exit Stage Left (the album, the video of ESL makes it better)

 

Horrible Wal basses, obviously you know nothing about what makes a good bass guitar and good tone, they are incredible instruments, each one hand built with the best woods and crafted to perfection! It's a shame Geddy has stayed with Fender for so long and has to put his bass through endless effects to get the tone that he desires but most of us think is unnecessarily harsh and brittle!

 

Yup, incredible wood quality aside, Wals have some seriously awesome pickups and electronics. Sooooo versatile. I too wish Geddy would pick them up again... or at least SOMETHING else... I'm a little burned out on the processed, buzzy, Fender sound. But, it's Geddy's choice in the end...

I don't get how Geddy got sick of the Rick but he hasn't gotten sick of the Jazz! The Rickenbacker was Geddy's ultimate bass, he really had great tone back then. And it sounded soooo perfect when he busted it out for Passage! Edited June 20, 2014 by Geddy's Soul Patch

[toymaker]

I don't get how Geddy got sick of the Rick but he hasn't gotten sick of the Jazz! The Rickenbacker was Geddy's ultimate bass, he really had great tone back then. And it sounded soooo perfect when he busted it out for Passage!

I love the sound of that bass, too.

[ytserush]

Can someone here tell me why the video someone sent me from this concert and the songs that are on the actual album are different?

 

Not entirely sure, but at the time the video format was 90 minutes and the CD format 80 so they wanted mix it up a bit. Also they had recorded Power Windows shows and wanted to represent the era a bit more fully.

 

Actually, now that I think of it Neil addressed this (at least the CD part of it) in his release for the album. That may be online somewhere. I'll try to remember to dig out my copy for next time.

[The Analog Cub]

Also: raccoon hair Geddy with his horrible Wal basses. No thank you. Probably my least favorite live offering from them after Exit Stage Left (the album, the video of ESL makes it better)

 

Horrible Wal basses, obviously you know nothing about what makes a good bass guitar and good tone, they are incredible instruments, each one hand built with the best woods and crafted to perfection! It's a shame Geddy has stayed with Fender for so long and has to put his bass through endless effects to get the tone that he desires but most of us think is unnecessarily harsh and brittle!

 

 

Excuse me? I believe I'm entitled to my own opinion here. I don't like the Wal basses because of their tone, and saying that I don't like them doesn't mean I'm uneducated on the subject of bass guitars. I like the Fenders and the Rickenbacker.

 

While I respect your opinion on the Wal basses, don't discredit me because I don't share that same opinion. Thank you.

[New Digital Man]

Maybe it would have been clearer if you had expanded your comments to 'i don't like the tone of a Wal bass' then rather than suggesting that they are inferior instruments by using the word 'horrible'! A bit like saying 'i saw Neil driving his horrible Aston Martin through Santa Monica' or something! Edited June 22, 2014 by New Digital Man

[ytserush]

Can someone here tell me why the video someone sent me from this concert and the songs that are on the actual album are different?

 

Not entirely sure, but at the time the video format was 90 minutes and the CD format 80 so they wanted mix it up a bit. Also they had recorded Power Windows shows and wanted to represent the era a bit more fully.

 

Actually, now that I think of it Neil addressed this (at least the CD part of it) in his release for the album. That may be online somewhere. I'll try to remember to dig out my copy for next time.

 

Here's a short quote from that press release which some of you might remember (The Drummer Sounds Off (not him again)):

 

"Choosing the material was difficult. We didn't want to use anything that appeared on previous live albums with the exception of Closer To the Heart , as it has that snappy "improv" bit at the end which we liked.......

 

....The CD giveth and the CD taketh away.

While the growing popularity of CDs and cassettes allowed us to make a record a little longer than a record likes to be, this time we were in a quandary of making a double record set that we wanted to fit on one CD so that you the hard-pressed consumer wouldn't be obliged to shell out for two CDs. So we had to keep the time down to around 74 minutes.and be fairly selective about what songs we included. There are some we had to leave off which we would like to have included, and no doubt some of you will be disappointed not to find one or two you would have liked too but we had to be ruthless (and now we have no more ruths.)"

 

 

 

 

 

 

Of course shortly after that CDs became 80 minutes and one more song could have been added (and in the case of the first CDs of the first two live albums they would have been left originally intact)