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Idiots guide to Rush

#21
You really cant go wrong from start to finish. However, here would be my favorite 6 albums that also spans their career:

2112
Permanent Waves
Moving Pictures
Signals
Grace Under Pressure
Snakes and Arrows

Of course, the live albums would help really give you a broad taste of material. Exit Stage Left is a great one to get and maybe something recent like Rush in Rio or the Snakes and Arrows Live CD's/DVD/s to hear material that came after that too.

So far, no love for Snakes and Arrows, which I think is their best since the early 80's. There are also some compilation cds' that run the gamut of their career.
 
#24
StingrayDerek said:
2112, A Farewell to Kings, Permanent Waves, Hemispheres, and Moving Pictures.

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check out their 3 retrospective cd's

retrospective 1 ( 1974 - 1980 ) and
retrospective 2 ( 1981 - 1987 ) and
retrospective 3 ( 1989 - 2007 )

for a decent overview of their career

or listen to the cds that stingrayderek lists ( and include fly by night ) as those are my favorite rush cds.
 
#25
NOLA Bass said:
So far, no love for Snakes and Arrows, which I think is their best since the early 80's.
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It's a very strong album. I agree. They obviously think so too because they played 8 or 9 songs from it on the S & A tour.

Another live album to check out is Different Stages. There is a bonus CD of a show from the London Hammersmith Odeon in '77 or '78 that I just love. It is very raw, early live Rush. Very metallic.
 
#31
Stay away from compilations. Every Rush song is worth having, and compilation albums often miss the best songs. Buy any Rush album from the 70s - mid 80s these years are Rush's golden age. I'd say the first album to get would be either Caress of Steel or their debut album RUSH. One reason to pick Caress of Steel over RUSH would be the lack of Neil's lyrics. The reason for picking RUSH over Caress of Steel would be the symbolism of your first Rush album being their first album.
 
#34
Red Barchetta is the song you want to learn. I believe it was still the Rickenbacker which you will have a hard time reproducing the tone. Learn this line from go to woe. You will be a bass player if you can transcibe this line by ear. I did. And I don't have a good ear. I even played this in a cover band. It was glorious to reproduce those lines.
 
#35
enemybass said:
Im loving all of it so far
been one or two tracks i didnt get into and skipped but every band has to have tracks that grow on you
sorry to be a geek
but does anyone know what albums he used what basses
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Mostly Rickys at first - all the way through Permanent Waves. I think he may have used something different on the first album but I'm not sure.

In Moving Pictures he switched to his infamous "Geddy Lee Jazz", but the Ric shows up for a few songs as well. I'm pretty sure Red Barchetta is still with a Ric, with the Jazz being used for most of the other songs.

After that he switched around a fair amount and I lost track. Wal, Steinburger, eventually back to his Jazz.
 
#37
enemybass said:
Im loving all of it so far
been one or two tracks i didnt get into and skipped but every band has to have tracks that grow on you
sorry to be a geek
but does anyone know what albums he used what basses
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RUSH - Fender P

Fly By Night" throuh Permanent Waves - RICK (Fender J on Spirit..)

Moving Pictures - All Fender J except "Red Barchetta" and Camera Eye" (both Rick)

Signals - Rick except "Digital Man" (Fender J)

Grace Under Pressure - Steinberger

Power Windows through Roll The Bones - Wal

Counterparts through Snakes and Arrows - Fender Jazz
 
#40
duff beer said:
There is always someone who doesn't understand the question. When someone asks for an "introduction" to a band, telling them to get the entire catalogues misses the point completely... :rollno:
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You are correct! That is why I gave the link to Rush Radio. One can listen passively to what ends up being a sampling of the entire music catalog. Not just my opinion of the songs someone must hear. I am so glad I found that website, I have heard a bunch of stuff I had forgotten about, a bunch of live stuff I might never have heard and much of Geddy and Alex's solo Cd's...
 

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