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It's Ole Squeaky & his ...
« on: May 29, 2011, 09:40:48 AM »
two Cannuck friends, one of them a hotel bar brawler, the other an Ayn Rand disciple, I am about to see here in Festhalle Frankfurt (sold out to the brim, all 10.000 capacity of it) in a few minutes ... It's been thirty years since I saw these guys last ... Permanent Waves tour it was I believe ...
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« Reply #1 on: May 29, 2011, 11:07:58 AM »
It's amazing what noise three men can make these days!!! Geddy is still in good voice, hitting those helium falsettos on the oder stuff, though frankly I prefer him singing lower as on the new stuff. His righthand technique seems all wrong from up close, single finger picking unless he does something fast in which case he seems to claw with three fingers, lots of lower arm and wrist movement, yet you can't knock his chops. Lifeson still can't play "normal rock guitar" to save his life, he's closer to The Edge, Andy Summers and Robert Fripp than to any more conventional rock guitarist I know. And Peart works his drums - that is a whole lot of drums, let me tell you - as an accountant would on an end of financial year weekend shift "don't disturb, I have work to do!" Lavish light show, backdrop film screen and stage setup (emulating HG Wells' time machine) ... And of course a devoted, largely male audience ...
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Re: It's Ole Squeaky & his ...
« Reply #2 on: May 29, 2011, 11:21:29 AM »
What's Gedddy's current "backline"?  I know he's moved on from the laundramat stuff, and perhaps even the rotisserie chicken ovens.  I think the last thing I saw was vending machines :)

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« Reply #3 on: May 29, 2011, 11:48:55 AM »
Some tubular, copper/brassy stuff with horns, hydrometers, mechanical clocks - you could probably both do your washing and broil a chicken with it ...
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« Reply #4 on: May 29, 2011, 12:37:15 PM »
Well, we're thru all of Moving Pictures, a nine minute entertaining drum solo culiminating in a big band brass ending and a Peart'esque robot drummer on the screen, Closer to the Heart played as a shuffle in part, a huge descending spider light show, a galloping 2112 and a healthy share of their last studio CD Snakes & Arrows plus two new songs from the coming album and the usual suspects of greatest hits and classics ... Now into encore time - some instrumental, I always forget the names of Rush instrumentals - the Rush audience digs bass solos and drum solos ... The mind boggles. And Geddy went through about five different maple board J Basses. We're currently being treated to a reggae version of Working Man ... Now back to its original hard rock shape and form ...
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« Reply #5 on: May 29, 2011, 12:39:39 PM »
Rush fans also take a pornographic interest in close ups of fretboards in shredding mode ... I'm immersed in one huge never-ending drum, guitar and bass clinic!!! LOL
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« Reply #6 on: May 29, 2011, 04:40:49 PM »
Thanks for the review - I gave it a miss this time (played London earlier this week) as it clashed with other commitments...
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« Reply #7 on: May 29, 2011, 06:13:36 PM »
I saw them in London during the Roll the Bones tour with Primus. How much bass insanity is too much you may ask? Whish they would tour here.
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« Reply #8 on: May 30, 2011, 04:19:06 AM »
First pic, lefthand lower corner is Geddy's "backline".



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