The Rush appreciation thread

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^ I loved Maxell chrome tapes too. There was a brand over here, it must have been Chinese, called SMAT. I loved their black cases and their neat sound. I wasn't too much of an audiophile. Instead I had to focus on economy, and those SMAT cassettes were quite sturdy, and kept an acceptable quality even if recorded over and over again 

@Catcher. You had to bring up chrome and metal cassettes again. Some of the best memories of my life are from my teen years and recording vinyl to cassette. Bands like Rush were a huge influence on my artistic personality. I miss those days. What I would give to go back in a time machine.   I can see the scenery as I go back in time riding my bike to the hi fi store. Also the Maxell tapes turning in the Onkyo recording Lakeside Park. A virtual time machine.
                     I was big into recording from vinyl to cassette as a teenager. I do remember riding my bike to the hifi store to buy my hifi equipment as a kid. I was 13 and 14 years old. Had two paper routes, cut lawns and worked at the community pool. I would save my money for vinyl and buy vinyl, equipment and cassettes. My first cassette deck was a double deck Onkyo. I also took a ride to buy my equalizer a dual 12 band ADC. The rest of my system consisted of a Pioneer SX 680, Onkyo belt driven turntable with graphite arm and Pioneer HPM 60 speakers. The 70’s are unmatched for affordable hi fi equipment. Seems pretty much everything sold was mid to hifi quality.
                     I loved buying the chrome and metal cassettes using the eq to fine tune as I copied my vinyl to cassette. Recording with the eq produced pretty much vinly quality cassettes. I believe I used the Dolby B though I had Dolby C also. May have used the C some.    I liked the chrome better than the metal. The metal wasn’t as smooth. They were louder though. A bit more dynamic range. Super expensive though. I think the cassettes were sold in packages of 8 or 10.   I would get the Maxell chrome cassettes. They had Memorex and TDK too. The Maxell were my favorite.
                      Was a big Rush fan. I loved Caress of Steel, 2112, Hemispheres and the first album Rush. The rest of them too. I remember A Farewell to Kings and Hemispheres being released. What a time for music. The live release All the Worlds a Stage was a favorite too. Just got the 40 year editions of A Farewell To Kings and Hemispheres. It felt good buying Rush releases again even though I had the vinyl and first and second cd releases already. The quality of the new remasters is decent. The bonus live, eh.   The music is timeless. What a group of original musicians. Talk about teamwork too. Rush isn’t Rush without any one member and Neil Pert is Sorely missed. Thanks again for the memories Catcher.

verslibre wrote: Catcher10 wrote: verslibre wrote: I wish I still had the stuff I dumped during my big tape purge in the '90s. In hindsight, that was an oops! I never dumped anything, regardless of media. Back in the early 90s I was focused on raising a family so all music took a back seat, except Rush concerts. I didn't buy much music, CD or LP, but everything sat in boxes. I never really knew about going to a record store and trading or selling my stuff.....I'm so glad I didn't do that!!  I have all my records that I bought as a kid and teen, some although were lost in a couple house moves but I have replaced almost all of them. I never had a lot of vinyl...but I did have a sh*t-ton of cassette and VHS tapes. Some of them are worth some money now, especially the Varèse Sarabande soundtracks, many of which I upgraded to CD, but still... The '90s were all about buying CDs by the bazillion new prog bands crawling out of the woodwork in North & South America, Europe and Japan.

Catcher10 wrote: verslibre wrote: I wish I still had the stuff I dumped during my big tape purge in the '90s. In hindsight, that was an oops! I never dumped anything, regardless of media. Back in the early 90s I was focused on raising a family so all music took a back seat, except Rush concerts. I didn't buy much music, CD or LP, but everything sat in boxes. I never really knew about going to a record store and trading or selling my stuff.....I'm so glad I didn't do that!!  I have all my records that I bought as a kid and teen, some although were lost in a couple house moves but I have replaced almost all of them.

verslibre wrote: Catcher10 wrote: verslibre wrote: I wore out my VHS of A Show of Hands! I still have my copy.....plays fine. I love Geddy's bass sound on this section, you can hear the Chris Squire influence easily. I wish I still had the stuff I dumped during my big tape purge in the '90s. In hindsight, that was an oops!

verslibre wrote: I wore out my VHS of A Show of Hands!

Jared wrote: ^^ that red Barchetta is really quite diminutive; you can just make it out in the picture...

^^ that red Barchetta is really quite diminutive; you can just make it out in the picture...