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View Poll Results: Favorite Live Rush/Geddy Lee Bass Tone? | |
EXIT STAGE LEFT
|    | 19 | 50.00% | |
DIFFERENT STAGES
|    | 4 | 10.53% | |
RUSH IN RIO
|    | 4 | 10.53% | |
R30
|    | 5 | 13.16% | |
OTHER...ELABORATE
|    | 6 | 15.79% |
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04-12-2006, 07:20 PM
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Pretty simple question for all you Geddy Lee / Rush fans.Which of the listed albums features your favorite Geddy tone.My favorite is Different Stages
1) Exit Stage Left
2) Different stages
3) Rush in Rio
4) R30
Last edited by Hemitom : 04-14-2006 at 12:34 AM.
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04-12-2006, 08:20 PM
| | | | I don't feel there's enough of a difference between the Rio and R30 tones to warrant giving them seperate choices...
But anyway, I like every recording of Geddy live that I've ever heard. The man has always had an excellent sense of what sounds good on bass. However, as his tastes and equipment evolve, I'd have to say his sound just keeps getting better. So I vote R30/RiR. Different Stages in a close second, then Exit Stage Left. |
04-12-2006, 10:03 PM
| | | What about "A Show Of Hands"???? 
or the "Grace Under Pressure Tour" with the Steinberger??? |
04-13-2006, 07:36 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Michigan, USA | | | In all honesty, I love the A Show of Hands tone the best, even though at that point in their career they're so goddamned synth heavy that there's barely any bass playing!
The Wal's tone is just so snappy and thick, I love it. The other tones are great too, just different.
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04-13-2006, 08:50 AM
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04-13-2006, 03:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Bells Corners (Nepean) ON | | | A Show of Hands is my favorit Geddy Tone. I love that Wal. I voted other. |
04-13-2006, 03:55 PM
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All The World's A Stage is good, but murky.
Don't like the Show of Hands sound at all.
Actually, I'm not too enamoured with the Jazz sound either... 
As far as Different Stages is concerned, the Loose (70s) disc has superb bass tones.. The 90s ones are too rattly and toppy... Just my opinion!
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04-13-2006, 06:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Branford, CT | | | R30 has an AWESOME sound so I figured I'd vote for that.
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04-13-2006, 06:57 PM
|  | TalkBass' resident Bongo + Cowbell player | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Bucaramanga, Colombia, South A | | | It's hard for me to vote because I think that Geddy's tone has passed through "Different Stages" and each one is great on its own. The only thing I dare to say for sure is that his most refined and "exquisite" tone can be heard on "Power Windows" (I know that the question points to live recordings but again, it is hard for me to vote). |
04-13-2006, 09:47 PM
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Originally Posted by pdusen ...I like every recording of Geddy live that I've ever heard. The man has always had an excellent sense of what sounds good on bass. However, as his tastes and equipment evolve, I'd have to say his sound just keeps getting better. So I vote R30/RiR. Different Stages in a close second, then Exit Stage Left. | +1 Better every time I hear him. I had to vote for R30.
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04-14-2006, 12:40 AM
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Originally Posted by Nino Valenti ESL, without a doubt!!!!!!
Damn you, now I want a Ric. | Yeah I know ! I just picked up a blue 4004L .....I should never have sold my MapleGlo 74 4001...... Damn.  |
04-14-2006, 04:06 PM
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04-14-2006, 04:15 PM
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04-14-2006, 04:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Finland | | | Exit...Stage Left for me too. Just great Ric-O-Sound sound. But is it Jazz on "YYZ"? Haven't played that album for a long time and I recall reading that he favoured Jazz for that song live.
I find his Wal sound way too clinical and clean on Show Of Hands. On the other hand it suits that period pretty well. |
04-14-2006, 06:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: BC,Canada | | | Yes,he used the Jazz on YYZ.
Did he not go back to the Ricky on Signals,Subdivisions,New World Man,etc? |
04-14-2006, 08:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Hemitom Yes,he used the Jazz on YYZ.
Did he not go back to the Ricky on Signals,Subdivisions,New World Man,etc? | Pretty sure the jazz is used on all of moving pictures. Pretty sure the Ric is on all of signals.
or I could be wrong. |
04-14-2006, 09:38 PM
| | | | Oh, had to vote Exit Stage Left since that album/video is part of what made me want to play bass.
Taking nothing away from his other tones though. Geddy's always sounded awesome no matter what he's playing. I like his current overdriven Jazz tone - it sounds all juicy n' stuff. |
04-15-2006, 09:01 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Ohio | | | I thought this thread was about concerts. As far as albums--Signals' got them all beat.
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04-15-2006, 01:57 PM
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Originally Posted by musicman5string Pretty sure the jazz is used on all of moving pictures. Pretty sure the Ric is on all of signals.
or I could be wrong. | On Moving Pictures, the Jazz is on Tom Sawyer, Vital Signs, and Witch Hunt.
On Signals, the Jazz is on New World Man, Digital Man, The Weapon and Losing It.
The rest, I think, are all Rick. 
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04-15-2006, 02:32 PM
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Originally Posted by PhR Exit...Stage Left for me too. Just great Ric-O-Sound sound. But is it Jazz on "YYZ"? Haven't played that album for a long time and I recall reading that he favoured Jazz for that song live.
| Playing bass in a Rush tribute, I've investigated this more than any sane person would normally do.  As far as I've been able to discover, around the time Geddy was using both the 4001 & the Jazz, this is where he used the Jazz:
Jazz on Spirit of Radio & Between Us on PW
Jazz on All of MP except Red Barchetta & Camera Eye
Jazz on Digital Man and New World Man on Signals
However on the tours recorded for ESL, it seems to have been only the Rickenbackers that were actually used. Although the Jazz is listed in the programmes, I'm sure I saw Geddy using only the 4001 (or 4080/12 when required), even on YYZ.
Oh and I voted for ESL - love that awesome Ric tone.
Edit: Just seen Kink Rimson's post - perhaps it is the Jazz, but what bass there is on Losing It is rumoured to be the 4002.
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