YYZumbi Posted June 20, 2014 Author Share Posted June 20, 2014 Anyway..is it someone that can answer my question? All The World's A Stage or Different Stages CD3? What one is the best and why? I answered your question. don't you read your own thread? I do, but you are the only one that have answered :P I want some more to answer... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorraine Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 I do, but you are the only one that have answered :P I want some more to answer... :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YYZumbi Posted June 20, 2014 Author Share Posted June 20, 2014 I have still not listened to a single live album of RushWhy bother? They haven't really earned the reputation of a great live band. You kidding right? They are awesome live! Better live then on studio! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Analog Cub Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 It's a tossup for me. ATWAS has good versions of 2112, Something For Nothing, By-Tor, and In The End. Don't really care for the rest of it past those songs. DS3 has shittier versions of songs that were also on ATWAS, mostly because of Geddy's voice. Poor guy was sick that night and sounded like a dying cat at times. However, it has some wonderful versions of the stuff from AFTK, especially the title track and Xanadu. Still don't like Cinderella Man. The farthest I like to go back as far as the live albums go is Grace Under Pressure Tour. Exit Stage Left could've been so much better if it didn't sound so awful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xanadoood Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 I have never heard Different Stages CD3 but I just looked at the setlist. It looks like something I could like.... Youve never heard the Different stages CD?..good lord...You have how many Rush T shirts?..but you dont have this Cd?.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xanadoood Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 I actually like the DS show..Ive read that geddy had a cold for this show, and the vocals are better on ATWAS..but i think the performance is just a bit more powerful on the '78 show...especially Neil..He is just laying into the kit on every song. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EagleMoon Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 This is a tough one. I would pick ATWAS on the merits of By-Tor but then also pick DS3 because of Cygnus X-1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toymaker Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 A very difficult choice. All the World's a Stage was something I listened to when I was 14, with the tri-fold album spread out and checking out all the photographs. It's a seriously raw sounding—maybe even "trashy" is the word—album, but there is a ton of passion. By-Tor's solo section is deadly good, and working man...killer. But I voted for Different Stages disc 3 because it was such an unexpected gift at the time. This was before we were treated to all of the bonus videos on the DVDs; getting a live version of Cygnus X-1, A Farewell to Kings and Cinderella Man—tunes you might only have heard on crappy sounding bootlegs otherwise—was just the most amazing thing. There's some seriously energetic playing here, too. Lifeson starts Bastille Day at what sounds like double speed—I think Neil tries to slow him down, and Alex says "no way!" Geddy is screaming in all his youthful glory—a bit rough sounding, sure, but amazing. The crowd is all over it. Neil's toms sound wicked. By-Tor is scorching. The instrumental section starting at the two minute mark, Geddy's all up and down the neck and Lifeson's doing his trademark pick slides—this is the stuff I used to get completely lost in—still do. Neil at 4:09—that's like, Buddy Rich-level speed. Then a slight disappointment—a segue into Xanadu cutting off the "Epilogue" section of By-Tor—but that's fine because I love Xanadu so much I can forgive them omitting one of my favourite Lifeson solos (the slow solo in the All the World's version of By-Tor is the album's highlight for me). So now I'm digging Xanadu and checking out the big black and white Rush poster I have in the office with the double-necked guitars and the Hiwatt amps and Neil framed in his tubular bells. Geddy's voice sounds a bit tired on this one, maybe, but he still sounds great while he's muscling that heavy 4/12 guitar and working pedals with his feet and he gets his second wind. A Farewell to Kings—total treat to hear this—Geddy recovers nicely from a slip on the keys (give him his props—he hadn't been playing keyboards very long) and Lifeson's guitar distortion is of the face-melting variety. Cygnus X-1: man oh man, heavy. Tight instrumentation. Another example of Rush's uncanny ability to take three interesting chords and play them over and over and somehow keep it interesting. Some of Geddy's highest singing, maybe ever? That ultra cool vibrato. Spinning, whirling...I could go on and on—this album is a treat and a delight. One of my favourite Neil fills is in (strangely enough) "In the Mood" at 40 seconds in. I just think that's the coolest. So, it was a tough choice, but I have to go with the Hammersmith Odeon show.I really need to go to bed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babycat Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 I have still not listened to a single live album of Rush. *ducks from spear thrown by Narpski* What? You kidding me? :o Zumbi, give Segue some of your finest boots from your private stash. He really should start with the official ones first. *A well aimed claw in his booty* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Your_Lion Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 A difficult choice. I love them both.....but if I had to make a choice...well, only one of them has Xanadu on. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyclonus X-1 Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 Definitely ATWAS. Geddy's sickness-plagued, behind-the-beat vocals bring DS3 down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorraine Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 A difficult choice. I love them both.....but if I had to make a choice...well, only one of them has Xanadu on. But, of course! What other criteria is there? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troutman Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 I love both, But ATWAS was my first love! :D 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rushman14 Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 I love both, But ATWAS was my first love! :D that and Geddy does sound like he's struggling on DS3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troutman Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 I love both, But ATWAS was my first love! :D that and Geddy does sound like he's struggling on DS3 I don't think so, But you never know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorraine Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 (edited) Maybe you had to be there in the seventies to know what it was like, but I am listening right now to Cygnus from DS. I can only imagine what it was like being in the audience when they were doing this back then. We had a lot more freedom to do stuff at concerts in those days. I wish I had been at this concert. :musicnote: Through the voidTo be destroyedOr is there something more?Atomized - at the coreOr through the Astral Door -To soar... :musicnote: Edited June 20, 2014 by Lorraine 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toymaker Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 I wish I had been at this concert. Me too. I listened to the whole thing last night on headphones (explains the long post), and for me any shortcomings that might be present are overwhelmed by the energy of it plus what I imagine it must have been like! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorraine Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 (edited) I wish I had been at this concert. Me too. I listened to the whole thing last night on headphones (explains the long post), and for me any shortcomings that might be present are overwhelmed by the energy of it plus what I imagine it must have been like! Well, the thing is I am a year younger than Alex and Geddy, so I was there in the seventies. But the only song I ever heard from Rush on FM in those days was Closer To The Heart. That was the song that DJs chose to promote from that masterpiece AFTK. Poor choice, and one which didn't get me interested in hearing more of them. Edited June 20, 2014 by Lorraine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troutman Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 I wish I had been at this concert. Me too. I listened to the whole thing last night on headphones (explains the long post), and for me any shortcomings that might be present are overwhelmed by the energy of it plus what I imagine it must have been like! It was awesome!! :haz: :codger: Click on the link and go to September 26th. You can view the set list and a photo of the ticket. $6.50. :D :rush: http://www.2112.net/powerwindows/tours/Tours.htm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorraine Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 I wish I had been at this concert. Me too. I listened to the whole thing last night on headphones (explains the long post), and for me any shortcomings that might be present are overwhelmed by the energy of it plus what I imagine it must have been like! It was awesome!! :haz: :codger: Click on the link and go to September 26th. You can view the set list and a photo of the ticket. $6.50. :D :rush: http://www.2112.net/...tours/Tours.htm Troutman, you were there??? Luck lucky lucky man! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rushman14 Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 (edited) I wish I had been at this concert. Me too. I listened to the whole thing last night on headphones (explains the long post), and for me any shortcomings that might be present are overwhelmed by the energy of it plus what I imagine it must have been like! It was awesome!! :haz: :codger: Click on the link and go to September 26th. You can view the set list and a photo of the ticket. $6.50. :D :rush: http://www.2112.net/...tours/Tours.htm Troutman, you were there??? Luck lucky lucky man! you have to click on the AFTK setlist link though I was there 10/1/77 same set list though :) Edited June 20, 2014 by Rushman14 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troutman Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 I wish I had been at this concert. Me too. I listened to the whole thing last night on headphones (explains the long post), and for me any shortcomings that might be present are overwhelmed by the energy of it plus what I imagine it must have been like! It was awesome!! :haz: :codger: Click on the link and go to September 26th. You can view the set list and a photo of the ticket. $6.50. :D :rush: http://www.2112.net/...tours/Tours.htm Troutman, you were there??? Luck lucky lucky man! Yep, And I forgot how I lost all of my concert tickets. I believe they were lost along with so many other Rush collectables. When I left to come to Alaska I asked my sister to hold most of my belongings. She was behind on her rent and was evicted and the owners kept all of what she had in storage. Posters, albums ect. I even had a COS belt buckle. :D When I saw the photo of that ticket I felt like I went back in time. :rush: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troutman Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 I wish I had been at this concert. Me too. I listened to the whole thing last night on headphones (explains the long post), and for me any shortcomings that might be present are overwhelmed by the energy of it plus what I imagine it must have been like! It was awesome!! :haz: :codger: Click on the link and go to September 26th. You can view the set list and a photo of the ticket. $6.50. :D :rush: http://www.2112.net/...tours/Tours.htm Troutman, you were there??? Luck lucky lucky man! you have to click on the AFTK setlist link though I was there 10/1/77 same set list though :) We were so lucky to be around back then! :codger: :haz: :7up: :rush: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorraine Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 (edited) I wish I had been at this concert. Me too. I listened to the whole thing last night on headphones (explains the long post), and for me any shortcomings that might be present are overwhelmed by the energy of it plus what I imagine it must have been like! It was awesome!! :haz: :codger: Click on the link and go to September 26th. You can view the set list and a photo of the ticket. $6.50. :D :rush: http://www.2112.net/...tours/Tours.htm Troutman, you were there??? Luck lucky lucky man! you have to click on the AFTK setlist link though I was there 10/1/77 same set list though :) You really can have no idea how envious I am. :( The same setlist and concert wouldn't be the same today. The seventies had a certain "atmosphere" that is long gone. Edited June 20, 2014 by Lorraine 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorraine Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 I even had a COS belt buckle. :laughing guy: A collectors' item to be sure! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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