RUSH - Beyond The Lighted Stage

[Kloppsta]

Watched this over the weekend and I must say I was very impressed! Highly reccomended!

Infact i enjoyed this more than "It Might Get Loud"

check it out - http://www.rushbeyondthelightedstage.com

[sty]

I really really want to see this, but it's going to have to wait till I can afford the Blu-Ray unless I can find someone in CHCH with a copy they'd lend me.

I've read a number of really good reviews of it and it's right up my street since I love Rush and I really liked Flight666 that was done by the same production team.

[Tonemaker]

Wow that was great!!!! Great story too!!!

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Rush were always one of my favourite bands and I saw them live in Canada when I was 15. Awesome.

Then they turned wank in the 80's 2112 was my 2nd most shagged to album in my formative years, perhaps it was the inevitable "I'm shagging your best mate" tragedy that tainted it.

But I stopped shagging her mate and still couldn't listen to 80's Rush.

oops no actually it was Exit Stage Left, had a bit more variety in it... I listened to 2112 in private

[dayl]

I have been pretty well aware of Lifeson and Lee since I was buying guitar mags.. 20 years... and that trailer was the most Rush I have heard to date

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I have been pretty well aware of Lifeson and Lee since I was buying guitar mags.. 20 years... and that trailer was the most Rush I have heard to date

yeah shame that just means you're missing out on the classics like 'Bastille Day' When I could play that I thought I was awesome. Then I learnt the entire 2112 album and my mates thought I was awesome. Then I got married for the first time and didn't touch the guitar again for 20 odd years. ah well...bout time I cranked out Xanadu again

[sambrowne]

Ok I want to care about Rush - best album to start with please? i.e. most awesome not their debut release.

[dayl]

Well.... sounds like it's the 2112 album... at least BGs mate will think you're awesome

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Ok I want to care about Rush - best album to start with please? i.e. most awesome not their debut release.

for me Exit Stage Left, live culmination of their best up to that date. Bear in mind they were classed as prog rock. Geddy Lee's bass alone is worth the trip.

[Tonemaker]

Ok I want to care about Rush - best album to start with please? i.e. most awesome not their debut release.

If you can watch the Beyond the Lighted Stage... I liked fly by night, 2112, spirit of the radio, and snakes and ladders, but I think there are some I am leaving out, just too early at the mo. If you have some awesomeness headphones put on 2112. Like what the guy says in the video, the way they change time sigs and phrasing so smoothly is awesome.

I met them I think it was in the early 90's and I thought Neil was a "" for not showing up backstage but after watching this video he says he has a hang up about fans that feel they know him as a friend from being hard core fans and I guess he sees them as OCD fans or something and cant deal with it. When we were waiting for him, Geddy told me he was just really tired from the show and went to the bus. Alex on the otherhand, very very nice guy, and it was cool how he blew off everyone to hand out with this kid in a wheel chair for a very long period of time and then came to chat with everyone else.

For those that dont like Rush, on the video you can hear what Zakk, the guy from Tool, FooFighters, Trent Reznor, Gene Simons....ummm forgot who else was making comments but some really cool people...

[NZRS-Dave]

I have the Rush in Rio double DVD here if anyone wants it.

It's not my cup of tea.

[sty]

Ok I want to care about Rush - best album to start with please? i.e. most awesome not their debut release.

for me Exit Stage Left, live culmination of their best up to that date. Bear in mind they were classed as prog rock. Geddy Lee's bass alone is worth the trip.

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Absolutely start off at Exit Stage Left.

Rush for me are very much a live band and I got completely addicted to them when I started listening to Exit continuously. It spans the period of time up until Signals which is where they did quite a big change in style.

I like all their live albums but exit is the best followed by Rush in Rio and I love the R-30 30th aniversary tour DVD (I'm just getting hold of the CD at the moment) which was from about 6 years or so ago I think.

The studio albums I like most are:

2112 - Their first really successful prog stuff, very good
Hemispheres - This is the album that really got me into them first as it has The Tree and La Villa Strangiato on it (big prog stuff)
Moving Pictures - lots of their greatest hits on this and a lot more song focused
Signals - I like this album quite a bit, love Countdown for the over the top video/show, The Weapon, Losing It, Chemistry - lots of synths
Power Windows - I use this to audition hi-fis (I'm that sad )
Presto - I have a soft spot for this later album, I think Anagram is a fun track lyrically.

pretty much everything before Signals is great but I cherry picked three up there.

But all said and done I'd start off with Exit Stage Left, just a shame the CD doesn't have my all time fave Rush song on it "Limelight" but the DVD does if I remember right.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0367IUSue5s[/youtube]
(the song actually starts at 2:00 but the intro is fun to see the roadies setting up etc.)

[Hot_Grits]

I have been pretty well aware of Lifeson and Lee since I was buying guitar mags.. 20 years... and that trailer was the most Rush I have heard to date

One of the great things about being a New Zealander. We're all very lucky down here.

Then I got married for the first time and didn't touch the guitar again for 20 odd years. ah well...bout time I cranked out Xanadu again

That marriage was god's way of rehabilitating you away from Rush and improving you for better integration into society. Play Xanadu and all that good work will be lost.

Ok I want to care about Rush

No you don't.

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That marriage was god's way of rehabilitating you away from Rush and improving you for better integration into society. Play Xanadu and all that good work will be lost..

but.... if I just do it once? I'll be fine with just one listen won't I? nah you could be right, best leave it.

[Hot_Grits]

That marriage was god's way of rehabilitating you away from Rush and improving you for better integration into society. Play Xanadu and all that good work will be lost..

but.... if I just do it once? I'll be fine with just one listen won't I? nah you could be right, best leave it.

Good onya, mate.