Posted on 07/28/2018 9:04:50 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Geddy Lee’s Bass astounded me, Burke Shelly too
Just not even close to my taste in "singing".
These guys made it into the Rock and Roll hall of Fame before Rush. How Effed up is that?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gvTQFtGEac
LOL know these people
Me & my best buddy saw them in the old Met Center in Minneapolis - the ‘Moving Pictures’ tour.
After the warmup band was done, we walked up and found almost the entire 3rd row on the right-side was empty, so we took some seats right in front of the stage - fully expecting to get kicked out - but we never did. What an awesome concert.
A year later, I was in the Marine Corps and my “buddy” was dating my girl-friend. How the worm had turned...
Hah!
Yeah - the high voice grates on some. As the years went by Geddy Lee had to sing things a bit lower - but still too high to some.
Here is their version of “Crossroads” (live) from 2013 (33 years after Tom Sawyer!) - so Geddy’s voice has mellowed a bit here. Can’t say that about their playing however. I think they played better than ever on their latest shows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmzgNTGwh3M
March 17 & 18, 1983 Hollywood Sportatorium, Hollywood, Florida
Rush is my favorite band...
All I can say is never trust Robbie Gustavson to hold yer Lynryd Skynerd tickets
Geddy is a musical God
I was checking tour schedules online. I remember that the Hollywood shows were added after WSHE raised a stink about no Miami shows on the tour. Coulda been.
I saw them when Moving Pictures came out at Cobo Hall in Detroit. Later, I saw them at Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre in Colorado and at DTE Music Theatre in Clarkston Michigan. Truly one of my favorite bands among many.
I saw a lovely lady this AM
She was kinda looking out of the door, Lazy, And I said why aint you beating yer banjo?
And she did! Not a banjo, but a guitar, she sang songs about the rain, CCR, Hank Williams...Lovely lady
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpe5SRJQ224
Studio version of Malignant Narcissism. I’m sure you know the story -
Geddy gets some bass guitar at the studio to try out. A fret-less bass. He picks it up and starts noodling around with it, and the sound guy hits “record” for 10 minutes or so. He plays it back to Geddy and they both agree that they could build a song (instrumental) around it.
The album was pretty much done though. Alex had left, and Neil just had a small warm-up drum kit. So Geddy and Neil jam, and they pick the best parts out of it. I think they might have just recorded the “jam” with both the bass and drums playing at the same time?
They sent the recording to Alex who listens to it and then figures out some guitar that will work with it. Recorded that IIRC at his home studio. I’m not sure where/how they did the final production.
I can’t recall the song now from their last album, but Geddy and Alex switched spots in creating the music - Geddy did the guitar and Alex the bass. Or maybe Geddy did both. (They just play - I don’t think either one can read music. I know Alex doesn’t.) For the actual recording though they each play their normal instrument.
Saw the Stones in ‘81. They were great. Boulder, Cao
I am a bassist in my heart, no talent to do it, My Buddy Doug played Bass for Lena Horne and Big Bill Broonsey.
Hey I can play “Wipeout, Pipeline, Hey hey My My and Money Money Money LOL” and not very well...
Doug Played at the damned whitehouse LOL
Wonderful fellow
Found the story on creating with different instruments:
Two songs on the album feature Lifeson playing instruments he is not publicly associated with. “The Anarchist” is built around a drum pattern he put together and “The Wrecker” sees Lifeson and Lee switch guitar and bass duties during the writing process.
Lifeson talks about “The Anarchist,” “The drum pattern on that song is one that I put together and Neil connected with it. I think I come from a different place than Neil does and sometimes he will find what I do as an interesting approach that he would have never thought of himself. It gave him a launching point.”
On “The Wrecker” Lifeson admits that by switching things up, both Lee and him learned something about their main instrument, “On the original demo, Geddy played guitar and I played bass. When it was recorded, Geddy played the bass but he learned my bass part. He said, ‘I would never play this song like this.’
“I learned something from him from the way he played the upstrokes on the acoustic, as I tend to use mostly down strokes. I found that with the Nashville tuning that he used, the upstroke had a particular effect on the song and the shimmering quality. The song eventually evolved and became a different thing but it is still great when you can evolve and influence each other on your instruments just by looking in a different direction.”
Hey, Keef and Charlie kick ass
Poor old John Rutsey gets no respect
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