It's kind of amazing how private these dudes were for all those years, about the writing process, about their friendship. All I ever really knew as a fan was that they were best friends, and that's really all I needed to know. But it's super cool to learn in recent years that, say, Alex was a really adept drum machine programmer and would do all the drums on (at least his) demos. That's just a neat sort of detail to hear about a guy whose parts were often last to get added to the track, that he might have been last but so much of the stuff still originated from him. Similarly, I recall reading one of their recent producers noting that on the last few albums Neil just wasn't that interested in having total control over his arrangements, and how he actually started welcoming suggestions for fills or parts. In this new interview Geddy mentions "One Little Victory," and I kind of remember that being an example of the producer hearing Neil warming up or something and suggesting he put it in the song.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 29 January 2021 19:48 (three years ago) link
I think it took a good number of years for Geddy to learn the concept of singing within his natural range.
Some glass-shattering (and raging versions of "Anthem" and "2112") here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrBWZscNR18
My wife declared herself a new fan after listening to this + the live version of "Subdivisions" that Youtube's algorithm went to after this.
― Inside there's a box and that box has another box within (Sund4r), Sunday, 31 January 2021 00:17 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I think that *is* his natural range! There was that interview with Les Claypool last year or so, because Primus was going to tour a cover version of "Hemispheres" or the other one, and he contacted Geddy to ask how much was falsetto, and Geddy was all, no man, that's just me.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 31 January 2021 00:46 (three years ago) link
Originally we’d always kind of joked around about doing Hemispheres. That record has always had a very big place in my heart and head. But as we got to thinking about the record and how to tackle it — because it’s not going to be an easy feat, on many levels: A) I gotta try to sing Geddy Lee shit (laughs). His older stuff is up in the stratosphere. I was texting with Geddy and saying, ‘Man, is any of this falsetto, or …?’ And he was like, ‘Nope, that’s my full voice.’ So I might need some help from the audience on some of this stuff.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 31 January 2021 00:47 (three years ago) link
Yeah, none of it sounds falsetto to me.
― Inside there's a box and that box has another box within (Sund4r), Sunday, 31 January 2021 00:50 (three years ago) link
Claypool didn't want to just change the key or sing an octave down?
― Inside there's a box and that box has another box within (Sund4r), Sunday, 31 January 2021 00:51 (three years ago) link
He could have done some chest/head hybrid but his voice was naturally reedy
― if Spaghetti-Os had whammy bars (Neanderthal), Sunday, 31 January 2021 01:01 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM5W1t1Jiuc
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 31 January 2021 01:50 (three years ago) link
^^^^scroll up to May 8, 2018 for some Rush/Primus talk and some still functional embeds.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 31 January 2021 02:22 (three years ago) link
That Passaic 1976 show is just scorching. I did a little digging, that abbreviated set was the headline slot of a Montrose/Foghat triple bill.
― A. Begrand, Sunday, 31 January 2021 20:11 (three years ago) link
Buttrock, ho! I bet that venue smelled like a strong mix of weed, beer, denim and beards.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 31 January 2021 20:54 (three years ago) link
I think this is old, but still awesome:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFGasaaWiTo
This is like me on the steering wheel.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 24 March 2021 19:51 (three years ago) link
The open hi-hat on that kit is really magical, also the bass and snare, but when the first OHH comes in I was sold 100%. Great cover.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 20:17 (three years ago) link
If the comments are to be believed, supposedly Mike Portnoy sent him or arranged to have him sent a kit and cymbals.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 24 March 2021 20:39 (three years ago) link
That kit sounds pretty good. Love the kick sound.
― earlnash, Thursday, 25 March 2021 02:04 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48IEOgnpZ84
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 24 June 2021 13:14 (three years ago) link
There's a Your Favorite Band Sucks podcast on Spotify. Scrolled through the list, listened to a bit of the Rush one, and lost interest when the two hosts threw out "none of the three are talented musicians".
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Thursday, 24 June 2021 15:38 (three years ago) link
Good way to know to avoid that podcast. I mean, I get Rush not being everyone's cup of tea but to insist that none of them are talented is just bizarre.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 24 June 2021 15:42 (three years ago) link
That's Tyler Mahan Coe, right? I just assumed from one or two episodes that it was a prolonged pointless troll. Like, I think I heard the Police one, and almost everything was anti-Sting (fair) but then he did the same thing, dismissing Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland as the worst guitarist/drummer ever, which is just stupid. Same with one on the Smiths, largely anti-Morrissey (fair again) but then dismisses the rest of the band as talentless or something, just to be stupid.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 24 June 2021 15:53 (three years ago) link
Tyler, yes. The description includes Some algorithm randomly assigns a band to deconstruct and that's all Mark and Tyler are doing in every episode. From what you say re: The Police and The Smiths, doesn't sound like a deconstruction as much as lining up straw men. I'd rather watch drum-only clips. I think the one above is from the Peart "Taking Center Stage" doc, which is great.
Wish I lived in the alternate reality where Peart's still around, ailment-free.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Thursday, 24 June 2021 16:18 (three years ago) link
classic
― cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Thursday, 24 June 2021 16:42 (three years ago) link
Where is that video from?
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Thursday, 24 June 2021 17:52 (three years ago) link
The YouTube video doesn't give origin, but it's Neil's Taking Center Stage DVD. Same clothing/hat.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Thursday, 24 June 2021 19:14 (three years ago) link
is it? the footage in Taking Center Stage is mostly taken from concerts
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Thursday, 24 June 2021 20:15 (three years ago) link
and I'm pretty sure that includes a concert performance of "Subdivisions"
Mix of concert and drum only. For each song, key grooves and fills are analyzed by Neil in an interview setting with Hudson's Joe Bergamini. For each groove and fill discussed, both full-speed and slow-motion drums-only demonstrations are included, coupled with PDF icons that allow the viewer to analyze and practice the patterns using the included PDF eBook. At the end of each song discussion, the viewer is transported onstage to a Rush concert to see the actual live performance of the song from the perspective of the drum cameras only (with an exclusive, custom audio mix that features the drums heard slightly louder than a normal concert DVD mix).
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Friday, 25 June 2021 00:10 (three years ago) link
right, the full songs are all from the concert
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Friday, 25 June 2021 00:57 (three years ago) link
Survived slave labour at Auschwitz, ran the town’s favourite variety store for decades, plugged for her bass-player son Gary who, because of her Yiddish pronunciation of his name, changed it to “Geddy” https://t.co/Eo1CJmdR42— Doug Saunders (@DougSaunders) July 5, 2021
― mookieproof, Monday, 5 July 2021 16:45 (three years ago) link
Awww, she was great in the Rush doc
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Monday, 5 July 2021 17:10 (three years ago) link
long, incredible life
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 5 July 2021 18:17 (three years ago) link
Thinking about Rush's parents, it's a sign of how separate the film and rock worlds are (in Canada, at least) that for years I had read about the documentary Come On Children, without anyone making the connection that young Alex Zivojinovich in the film had grown up to be one of the most famous musicians in the country. I remember reading an article about the filmmaker, Allan King, probably written in the 80s, which described Come On Children something like "a portrait of aimless youth, destined to make nothing of their lives". Even when there was an Allan King retrospective at TIFF, maybe around 2000, the Come On Children write-up mentioned Alex as a cast member, without making the Rush connection.I mean, imagine a US analogue: if Frederick Wiseman had made a film starring a teenaged Tom Scholz, you'd never hear the end of it in the film's publicity.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 5 July 2021 18:39 (three years ago) link
think you might be overstating tom scholz's place in the public imagination
― mookieproof, Monday, 5 July 2021 18:58 (three years ago) link
Lots of lovely direct memories of her on the memorial page:
https://benjaminsparkmemorialchapel.ca/MemorialBook.aspx?snum=137677&sid=206477
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 July 2021 02:45 (three years ago) link
There are people alive today who will be alive in the year 2112.
― we thought that scene needed a little more conflict (Matt #2), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 18:32 (three years ago) link
Assuming anyone is by then I guess.
the priests of the temples of Syrinx?
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 18:38 (three years ago) link
I'm hiding a guitar behind a nearby waterfall just in case.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 3 August 2021 18:49 (three years ago) link
It strikes me that those guitar strings would have rusted being in a damp environment like that for a century.
― we thought that scene needed a little more conflict (Matt #2), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 19:14 (three years ago) link
Maybe they were gut?
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 19:15 (three years ago) link
as much as I love 2112, spending several minutes on guitar tuning in the middle of your epic track is kind of a bad move. I'm glad they didn't replicate that part in concert.
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 19:19 (three years ago) link
That was their Sarah Brand tribute.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 3 August 2021 19:35 (three years ago) link
dude in 2112 is the fastest study on guitar in the history of the universe
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 19:36 (three years ago) link
won't you hear my music
(plays "Smoke on the Water" variants, with awkward silence between chord changes)
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 20:06 (three years ago) link
Can't remember, do they specify it's an electric guitar? Or could it be nylon stringed?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 3 August 2021 20:07 (three years ago) link
chapman stick
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 20:08 (three years ago) link
It sounds like a clean-toned electric, there must have been an amp plugged in behind the waterfall as well.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 3 August 2021 20:08 (three years ago) link
It's a little illogical to write a musical about a place and time where music is outlawed, and have the villains sing about how they hate music.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 3 August 2021 20:10 (three years ago) link
look Hitler wasn't an Aryan
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 20:10 (three years ago) link
Haha I always just assumed it was a classical guitar.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 20:38 (three years ago) link
And I'm not going to argue that 2112 is airtight in its logic but I also thought the Priests are supposed to be chanting and screaming more than singing. (The distinction is debatable in musical terms but they wouldn't be the first religious group to make a distinction like that.)
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 20:45 (three years ago) link