Rush.

[bubinga5]

40 years of listening to music and I have never heard a RUSH record until now. This is just WOW.. I get it. 

 

Edited February 15 by bubinga5

[paul_5]

Good start, wait ‘til you get to ‘Moving Pictures’!

[Cosmo Valdemar]

8 minutes ago, bubinga5 said:

40 years of listening to music and I have never heard a RUSH record until now. This is just WOW.. I get it. 

 

I LOVE that you've fallen for one of Rush's most misunderstood and neglected albums. 

Not unloved by me, you understand. I adore it 😍

[Bass4real]

9 minutes ago, bubinga5 said:

40 years of listening to music and I have never heard a RUSH record until now. This is just WOW.. I get it. 

 

no matter what genre they play , and unaware of Geddy Lees BASS playing .

Well trust me , you're gonna be hearing alot of great songs one of the best drummers ever a BASS PLAYER extraordinair a great guitar player 

 

Check out this rush song

YYZ 

you'll be a rush fan from that moment on .

I've been listening to and playing RUSH since 1974 

ENJOY the music.

: ? )

 

 

[Beedster]

Deep down everyone loves Rush 👍

[Sean]

Great band. Have a look at R30 Live. It's so uplifting.

I was lucky enough to see them twice on that tour and it was those two shows that converted me.

[bubinga5]

41 minutes ago, Cosmo Valdemar said:

I LOVE that you've fallen for one of Rush's most misunderstood and neglected albums. 

Not unloved by me, you understand. I adore it 😍

It spoke to me because of the drumming. That and his vocals. It's a really interesting record. 

[bubinga5]

This record is fantastic.!!!.  say this is not a jazz bass. Is it a Ricky.? 

 

[Cosmo Valdemar]

13 minutes ago, bubinga5 said:

This record is fantastic.!!!.  say this is not a jazz bass. Is it a Ricky.? 

 

That's absolutely a Rickenbacker. It's all over that album.

Have a listen to Cygnus X-1, long bass intro!

Geddy didn't start using the Jazz until Permanent Waves (it's on The Spirit of Radio) then on Moving Pictures and Signals it's about 50/50 Rick and Jazz.

It's easy to tell the difference on Signals but on Moving Pictures Geddy used quite a different bass tone with a thick, chewy distortion, so it's not as easy to tell them apart. Also on MP Geddy only used the neck pickup on the Jazz so the distictive hollow twang isn't there.

 

[bubinga5]

When did he use that red Jazz Bass.?

[Cosmo Valdemar]

6 hours ago, bubinga5 said:

When did he use that red Jazz Bass.?

It was set up for D standard tuning and used live for 2112 on later tours. 

[paul_5]

34 minutes ago, Cosmo Valdemar said:

It was set up for D standard tuning and used live for 2112 on later tours. 

The triple (yes, triple) live album ‘Different Stages’ has 2112 in its entirety in drop D, and is well worth a listen.

[prowla]

Moving Pictures is generally thought of as their best album; I like Grace Under Pressure and Clockwork Angels too.

 

For bass playing, there are two especially standout tracks:

(The solo is how to make two chords sound nothing like two chords!)

[Skybone]

12 hours ago, paul_5 said:

Good start, wait ‘til you get to ‘Moving Pictures’!

IMO, Permanent Waves is a far better album in the whole, than Moving Pictures, which has some utterly incredible songs, but also some "filler" songs, where PW, all the songs are great.

 

A Farewell To Kings is another brilliant album.

 

The R40 DVD is well worth a watch too, because of the "rolling back" through their career.

[odysseus]

I love me a bit of Rush - currently got a live set from the Moving Pictures 40th anniversary on the deck while eating lunch. 😎

[TrevorR]

14 hours ago, bubinga5 said:

40 years of listening to music and I have never heard a RUSH record until now. This is just WOW.. I get it. 

 

So much great music to explore. This is actually one of my least fave Rush albums so the only way is up… check out Moving Pictures, Hemispheres, Counterparts, A Farewell To Kings, Signals… all so different. Rush were a band that never stagnated and kept on growing through their career.

[ezbass]

25 minutes ago, TrevorR said:

Rush were a band that never stagnated and kept on growing through their career.

This is very true and I think that there is an era of Rush for everyone, but not necessarily all of them. For me, 80-93 (Permanent Waves - Counterparts) is where it’s at, although I’m not mad keen on Signals. There are tracks from the early day and more recently that I like, but not really whole albums (a lot of that has to do with the production though). Discovering Rush is such a lot of fun, as there is so much to investigate. 3 outstanding musicians incredibly managing to more than the sum of their parts.

[Beedster]

What I love about Rush, or one of the things I love about Rush, is that unlike most supergroups, there's not a single track that doesn't sound like Rush. I guess some would see that as a limitation but it's a rarer band in which all parts (vox, gtr, bass, and drums) have a consistent signature. U2 are potentially in the same space in terms of signature, but IMO in nothing like the same league creatively. I will never forget the first time I heard Spirit of Radio, sublime moment, that track grooves, rocks, and transcends all at the same time. 38 seconds in, when the drums and bass lock in, just f***ing glorious.

 

And as if by the magic at your fingers......

 

  

[ezbass]

1 hour ago, Beedster said:

Spirit of Radio

A desert island track for me and the first time I became aware of them.

[prowla]

4 hours ago, Skybone said:

IMO, Permanent Waves is a far better album in the whole, than Moving Pictures, which has some utterly incredible songs, but also some "filler" songs, where PW, all the songs are great.

 

A Farewell To Kings is another brilliant album.

 

The R40 DVD is well worth a watch too, because of the "rolling back" through their career.

 

What are those "filler songs" you speak of on Moving Pictures?

(I like Permanent Waves too though!)

[TrevorR]

1 hour ago, prowla said:

 

What are those "filler songs" you speak of on Moving Pictures?

(I like Permanent Waves too though!)

Perhaps a reference to side 2 which, though less immediate than side 1 is no less glorious!

 

Permanent Waves is one of those albums I really like but want to really love. Funny thing is that Jacob’s Ladder and Natural Science have never grabbed me as much as “the algorithm” of my musical taste says they should.

 

We hear Neil and Geddy (rightly) lionised a lot. Shout out though for Alex. Such a creative player/arranger in terms of fitting his guitar into an already busy space. Strangely I think some of his most creative playing is on those albums where folk complain “it’s all keys and no guitar”. There’s some amazing, creative, tasteful, brilliant playing on there if you remove the blinkers of all guitar needing to riff away like Slash or whoever. Also, I love the fact that he never plays an obvious guitar solo - they always come out of left field and avoid just pentatonic shredding but still shred harder than most. Who other than him would ever come up with the solos on playlist friendly tracks like Tom Sawyer or The Spirit of Radio.

[ezbass]

8 minutes ago, TrevorR said:

Shout out though for Alex.

Massively overlooked.

[prowla]

42 minutes ago, TrevorR said:

Perhaps a reference to side 2 which, though less immediate than side 1 is no less glorious!

 

Permanent Waves is one of those albums I really like but want to really love. Funny thing is that Jacob’s Ladder and Natural Science have never grabbed me as much as “the algorithm” of my musical taste says they should.

 

We hear Neil and Geddy (rightly) lionised a lot. Shout out though for Alex. Such a creative player/arranger in terms of fitting his guitar into an already busy space. Strangely I think some of his most creative playing is on those albums where folk complain “it’s all keys and no guitar”. There’s some amazing, creative, tasteful, brilliant playing on there if you remove the blinkers of all guitar needing to riff away like Slash or whoever. Also, I love the fact that he never plays an obvious guitar solo - they always come out of left field and avoid just pentatonic shredding but still shred harder than most. Who other than him would ever come up with the solos on playlist friendly tracks like Tom Sawyer or The Spirit of Radio.

 

I thought you might say that - actually side 2 are my favourite Rush tracks!

 

As for Alex Lifeson, here's him teaching the solo on Limelight!

 

 

[paul_5]

1 hour ago, ezbass said:

Massively overlooked.

Yes, I think the problem is that he was in a band with Geddy Lee and Neil Peart; any other band he’d have been the star player!!

[mikebass456]

21 hours ago, bubinga5 said:

40 years of listening to music and I have never heard a RUSH record until now. This is just WOW.. I get it. 

 

Keep an eye out for a tribute band called Moving Pictures - a brilliant representation of the band at their very best.  They're currently touring with an R40 style set, where they go through the band's whole catalogue in reverse.......😉🤘

Edited Sunday at 18:52 by mikebass456