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Bit of a disappointment if truth be told. Not the performance by any means, more the set list - I know they have the album to plug but i felt (and a lot of people were agreeing) that there was not enough of the older material. Peart's solo made up for a lot though.

Edit: rubbish spelling due to 3 hours sleep

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I think the new album is very good - step (back) in the right direction for me. I sort of lost interest around Signals and Grace Under Pressure - the odd highlight since. New album reminds me of Permanent Waves (last saw them on that tour at Newcastle City Hall around '81). Would love to see them again but I'm not a fan of stadium gigs.

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I saw them at the SECC last night - I thought they were excellent, and I really liked the setlist - a lot of less "obvious" songs this time round, plenty from [i]Snakes & Arrows[/i] (best album they've made in years, & gets better with each listen), a few seldom-heard gems from the 70s - and the first time in about 25 years Geddy's been seen onstage with a Rickenbacker!

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Seeing them again in Newcastle tomorrow night. :)

Jon.

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I thought it was brilliant, quite a few surprise tunes such as "Natural Science", "Entre Nous" and "Passage to Bangkok". They seem to have updated a lot of the tunes from the original versions. Nice. Neil Peart was outrageously good. Also, Geddy Lee used a bass for one instrumental song that looked like one of those Jaco clones, and sounded the best out of all the basses IMHO, it has a huge fat clunky funky sound. Does anyone know what this bass is?

Jennifer

[url="http://www.jenniferclarkbass.com"]http://www.jenniferclarkbass.com[/url]

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[quote name='endorka' post='69885' date='Oct 5 2007, 10:34 AM']I thought it was brilliant, quite a few surprise tunes such as "Natural Science", "Entre Nous" and "Passage to Bangkok". They seem to have updated a lot of the tunes from the original versions. Nice. Neil Peart was outrageously good. Also, Geddy Lee used a bass for one instrumental song that looked like one of those Jaco clones, and sounded the best out of all the basses IMHO, it has a huge fat clunky funky sound. Does anyone know what this bass is?

Jennifer

[url="http://www.jenniferclarkbass.com"]http://www.jenniferclarkbass.com[/url][/quote]


Fender custom shop made him a fretted & fretless Jaco model.


I'm seeing 'em in Manchester next sunday, can't wait. (I think the setlist I seen looks great.)

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Folk were asking me how it went, and I was saying stuff like "it was great, but..." or "Didn't feel like 3 hours, but.." and then I realised what had been bothering me was the lights. Not the lasers or the pyro's or the suspended 'things', but the basic light show. Like when they crashed into a big chorus, the lighting just didn't seem equally dynamic or sympathetic...

Having said that, it's only the last couple of years that I've really got into Rush, and they played a ton of stuff that I absolutely love.

Biggest problem of the night, however... I now want a Les Paul with a Floyd..!

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