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Saw Rush last night...

birminghambass

birminghambass

Sep 18, 2002
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In Atlanta, great show. I REALLY enjoyed Geddy and Alex playing so many guitars throughout the night. Here's my take on Geddy's tone:
The Ric on Red Barchetta sounded sooo perfect! The right amount of snap, growl, and bottom. Made me want to go out and buy one!
My second favorite was his white Precision (gasp! ). Yes a Precision! I love a P and seeing Geddy with one was great but hearing it was awesome!
My third choice was his red flamed maple jazz. Ah, finally Geddy tonal nirvana. The reason I bought my first jazz 21 years ago.
The other 70s jazzes sounded great, the 60s jazz sounded good, the 2 Gibsons sounded awful in comparison, and his pink (coral? ) P sounded just ok.
For Alex I was surprised at how different his Strats sounded from the Gibsons. Only because I'm not a guitar player, I didn't expect such a difference.
 
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In previous tours he set his gear to optimize his sound on his #1 and left it at that. If he still does that then mileage may vary depending on how far away from the output level and overall tone each bass has compared to #1.
 
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DigitalMan said:
In previous tours he set his gear to optimize his sound on his #1 and left it at that. If he still does that then mileage may vary depending on how far away from the output level and overall tone each bass has compared to #1.
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He must have played 15 basses last night, the first one being his black/maple "Geddy" jazz. He also played a black, Les Paul looking bass, an old Tele (sounded great), and a double neck Ric.
 
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I put this in another post after I saw them in St. Louis but here is his total gear list.
 
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kcole4001 said:
I always preferred Alex's 335 tone to the Strats.
It was his best tone overall in my opinion.

I disagree about the Wal, however, I just don't like their tone at all no matter who plays them.
I thought Geddy's P tone has always been great, even though I'm not much of a P fan in general.
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I also prefer when Alex plays the 335. That's classic Rush tone right there.

As far as the Wal, I liked it. I don't like it as much as the tone that he got from the Ric or the Precision he used on the first album and the Jazz, but I do like it. Even the Steinberger wasn't bad, particularly on the concert video from the Grace Under Pressure tour. But, it looks like he's been aiming for a vintage vibe with his gig basses on this tour, and they would really be out of place in that regard.

It's great that he brought the Ric back for a couple of songs, but also the fact that he's playing some Precisions, which he hasn't done since the early 70's, is very cool. And I also dig the fact that he brought so many vintage basses on tour. It's long been known that he's gone on a collecting spree over the past few years, but he's not leaving them all at home. Very cool.
 
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On this tour the best tone for me has been the Sea-Foam green jazz. 'Orrid colour, great sound. OK......The Ric will always be the one.....And the P will be the other, but that Green Jazz just has something to it. Anyone have an opinion as to why it sounds so sexy?
 

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