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11-03-2006, 07:04 PM
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Which Rush album has the best playing by Geddy?
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11-04-2006, 12:44 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: San Francisco, CA (finally!) | | | my personal favorites are what I call the 'triumvirate'
Farewell to Kings
Moving Pictures
Hemispheres |
11-04-2006, 12:57 AM
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Love the way the bass carries everything at times during Distant Early Warning. |
11-04-2006, 06:14 AM
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11-04-2006, 06:56 AM
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Seriously. His playing started out great and it's continuously gotten better ever since. |
11-04-2006, 07:07 AM
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Originally Posted by pdusen Vapor Trails.
Seriously. His playing started out great and it's continuously gotten better ever since. | +1.
Still amazes me the way Geddy has expanded his vocabulary.
Traditional fingerstyle, flamenco-like technique, chords, bass multi tracks and everything arranged in a musical, tasteful way.
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11-04-2006, 08:35 AM
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Originally Posted by peteroberts my personal favorites are what I call the 'triumvirate'
Farewell to Kings
Moving Pictures
Hemispheres | My favourites too. Tone for days on those albums.
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11-04-2006, 09:20 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Marathon Man | | | Hold Your Fire.
I could talk all day about how beautiful and moving the songs are, but we're here to talk about the bass playing. It's Geddy Lee at his most innovative and passionate. The songs are played with such conviction, every line crafted with melody in mind. Geddy gives a performance that not only shows off his technical ability as a bassist, but also gives as masterclass in using the bass as a melodic instrument.
Whats more, the bass tone is utterly stunning. Yeah, it's probably my favourite album. |
11-04-2006, 11:14 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Toronto | | | Thanks for the responses guys. Looks like I have a lot of listening to do.
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11-04-2006, 11:25 AM
|  | TalkBass' resident Bongo + Cowbell player | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Bucaramanga, Colombia, South A | | | In terms of playing, I think you must give a listen to the whole Rush catalog. Geddy is pure genius and you can find bass playing gems in every album. Now, in terms of tone, a choice is more feasible since it's a pretty subjective matter. From that point of view, My suggestions are (in no particular order) Moving Pictures, Exit... Stage Left and Power Windows. |
11-04-2006, 12:39 PM
| | Poop? | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Toronto, Canada | | Yup.. take a listen to them from CD 1 to CD 17 (and 18 if it comes out by then).. You then get to hear him changing and you get to catch a few of the gems that people may not discuss because the rest of the CD isn't as spectacular as that one track, kind of thing. A lot of their olders tuff was more like epic tales and whatnot, but they haven't had a track over 10 minutes since..... moving pictures i think? Check out every album you can (it may cost a lot if you're buying them but it's worth it to support those 3 me who hail from my neighbourhood  ) |
11-04-2006, 08:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Central Illinois | | | A Farewell to Kings
Hemispheres
Permanent Waves
Signals
Hold Your Fire
I should stop there. Really, my fingers just want to type in all of them. The ones listed above are my faves for overall quality of Geddy's playing.
My favorites for tone would be A Farewell to Kings, Exit Stage Left, and Hold Your Fire.
What would the world be like if Rush had never existed?!
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11-05-2006, 05:52 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Avondale Estates, GA, USA | | | I always end up going back to the aforementioned "triumverate" of classic Rush albums, but I think some of Geddy's most badass playing is on Signals. Think about the bass lines on "The Analog Kid" and "Digital Man". Not to mention "Subdivisions" and "New World Man", of course. And, the grinding, snarling bass tone in the instrumental post-choruses of "Countdown" is killer!
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11-05-2006, 11:47 AM
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turn the page is one of my alltime favorite bass lines
i really like the new geddy sound also
love his tone in vapor trails and rush in rio
anyway, i love evertything about ged
cheer
and forgive my english
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11-07-2006, 04:34 PM
| | | | Gotta say Moving Pictures. Hands down.
I will always cherish my vinyl copy and the remastered CD is simply amazing sounding. (I've also got the gold Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab version...also highly cherished). VERY ANALOG, in other words, BETTER IMO. The lines he plays are so rhythmic and musical from that album that they can completely stand on their own. Who needs drums and guitar!?!!? (of course, I mean no disrespect to the equally astonishing in their own rights, messrs. Lifeson and Peart). Really, if I was ever lucky enough to get my hands on the master tape the first thing I'd do is make a recording of JUST THE BASS LINES. That's how good his playing is from that record. Period.
also noteworthy: I believe he recorded the bulk that masterpiece using his Fender Jazz Bass. |
11-07-2006, 05:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: NH | | Some of my favorite Geddy bass moments are in Signals and Grace Under Pressure.  |
11-07-2006, 06:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Michigan, USA | | | Oh man, they're all good in their own right.
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11-07-2006, 06:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Tomah, WI | | | This is probably the most impossible thread to agree upon. I've been a fan since '81--so Permanant Waves and Moving Pictures lead the way for me as far as the vinyl goes and his playing is great on all the albums---BUT--check out the R30 or Rush In Rio DVD--there are Geddy only views on Rush in Rio, and he's truly amazing to see in action.
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11-07-2006, 06:31 PM
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Originally Posted by peteroberts my personal favorites are what I call the 'triumvirate'
Farewell to Kings
Moving Pictures
Hemispheres | + 100
Add Permanent Waves too!
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11-07-2006, 06:44 PM
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