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After putting out a request for a new track to learn the other day, someone suggested a Rush track.

Since then I have been discovering more Rush tracks I like (Geddy Lee is just brilliant)

I have the following tracks so far

Leave that thing alone
Far Cry
YYZ
Driven
Freewill
Tom Sawyer
The Spirit Of Radio.

Save me trawling through gazillions of albums, can anyone suggest any other tracks worth downloading (especially those that show off Geddy Lee's playing)

The only one gripe is that his voice tends to annoy after a while.

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[quote name='bass_in_ya_face' post='58567' date='Sep 11 2007, 08:36 AM']After putting out a request for a new track to learn the other day, someone suggested a Rush track.

Since then I have been discovering more Rush tracks I like (Geddy Lee is just brilliant)

I have the following tracks so far

Leave that thing alone
Far Cry
YYZ
Driven
Freewill
Tom Sawyer
The Spirit Of Radio.

Save me trawling through gazillions of albums, can anyone suggest any other tracks worth downloading (especially those that show off Geddy Lee's playing)

The only one gripe is that his voice tends to annoy after a while.[/quote]
I'd say the whole 2112 and Farewell To Kings albums are worth a listen.

Cheers

Mark

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Some of my favourites are:

[b]From A Farewell To Kings:[/b]
Xanadu
Cinderella man
Cygnus X-1

[b]From Hemispheres:[/b]
All of it

[b]From Permanent Waves:[/b]
Freewill
Jacob's Ladder
Natural Science

[b]From Moving Pictures:[/b]
Tom Sawyer
YYZ

[b]From Signals:[/b]
Digital Man

[b]From Power Windows:[/b]
The Big Money

[b]From Presto:[/b]
Show Don't Tell

[b]From Counterparts:[/b]
Leave That Thing Alone!


Some hotshot covering Circumstances on bass:
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd_3XslPB_0"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd_3XslPB_0[/url]

Same hotshot covering Digital Man on bass:
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRTXlMJaL-M"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRTXlMJaL-M[/url]

Same hotshot covering YYZ:
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHPhyRyGAfc"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHPhyRyGAfc[/url]

Same hotshot covering the solo fro Show Don't Tell:
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cikmJqSm9EE"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cikmJqSm9EE[/url]



Rush are great. Every album has something for the bassist.

Mark

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Splendid - another Acolyte of the Temple of Syrinx. Bwahahahaha... :)

My first Rush bassline was [i]Grand Designs[/i] (Power Windows), and I had great fun with much of Hold Your Fire and Presto. The production on Presto is squeaky-clean with the bass up front - great for study. Another personal fave in [i]Where's My Thing?[/i] (Roll The Bones), the predecessor to [i]Leave That Thing Alone[/i]. :huh:

Re the older stuff: not much to add to Phaedrus' list, but Freewill is very interesting for what Geddy is doing under the guitar solo: a lot of notes, but not too many. I think I mentioned The Main Monkey Business ([i]Snakes & Arrows[/i]) already?

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