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Zitro 
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Joined: July 11 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 1321 |
 Topic: Did Geddy Lee's vocals improve over time?Posted: January 22 2007 at 22:55 |
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When did Geddy Lee (Rush) sing at his best?
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The T
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Posted: January 22 2007 at 23:25 |
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The 70's find him versatile, high-reaching, but his shrieks were kind of...atrocious. (sorry). The 80's found him better in melody, singing without breaking anybody's timpani, but less high-reaching and less versatile... The 90's found him tired. I'll go with the 80's then.
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trauma0
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Joined: December 11 2006 Location: Chile Status: Offline Points: 137 |
Posted: January 22 2007 at 23:31 |
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same quality
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E-Dub
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: February 24 2006 Location: Elkhorn, WI Status: Offline Points: 7910 |
Posted: January 22 2007 at 23:31 |
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Actually, I liked him best from about Hemispheres through to Moving Pictures. I still like him now, but found there was a happy medium between the highness of his beginnings, to the more mellower tones we've heard since Signals. I put the 80's, but in reality I like from the latter part of the 70's to the early part of the 80's.
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video vertigo
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Posted: January 23 2007 at 00:27 |
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their 90s work was the best vocally IMO but the worst otherwise generally. Vapor Trails was a step backward vocally as he returned to his 70s sound.
Presto is the best Geddy Lee album vocally. Edited by video vertigo - January 23 2007 at 00:27 |
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"The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse." - Zappa
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iguana
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Joined: July 01 2005 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 825 |
Posted: January 23 2007 at 03:28 |
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once he lowered his irritating banshee pitch from "permanent waves"
onwards, RUSH quickly became my favourite group. they were, of course, quite amazing before that, but the "vocals" drove me up the wall! i also liked the "new waveish" slant that they put to their music at that time. |
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progressive rock and rural tranquility don't match. true or false?
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The Whistler
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Joined: August 30 2006 Location: LA, CA Status: Offline Points: 7113 |
Posted: January 23 2007 at 03:31 |
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Whoah, wait...I only own Moving Pictures and Waves...are you telling me he used to sound higher?!?
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"There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson
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Posted: January 23 2007 at 03:53 |
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Always the same...........awful!
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iguana
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Posted: January 23 2007 at 04:22 |
he at times sounded like your nickname  only dogs and bats could
fully enjoy a RUSH-album during the mid- to late-70s
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progressive rock and rural tranquility don't match. true or false?
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Melomaniac
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Joined: May 07 2006 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 4088 |
Posted: January 23 2007 at 10:39 |
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Like Rush's music, Geddy's voice always suited the time period they were in. He has a love or hate voice, I love it.
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"One likes to believe in the freedom of Music" - Neil Peart, The Spirit of Radio
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Blacksword
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Posted: January 23 2007 at 11:10 |
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I think his voice was at it's best in the 80's when he was screaming less.
Moving Pictures remains my top Rush album, but his voice was at it's best between Signals and Counterparts IMO. |
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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Raff
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Posted: January 23 2007 at 11:41 |
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The '90s for me - quite definitely. His performance on "Counterparts", for instance, is really something. And when I heard him sing live in 2004 he really cooked! I know he's a love-or-hate vocalist, but he's really one of my favourites.
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Chris H
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Posted: January 23 2007 at 11:43 |
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The very first album was the peak for me.
But it'll be interesting to see him on this new tour for sure!
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Beauty will save the world.
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bluetailfly
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Joined: January 28 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 1383 |
Posted: January 23 2007 at 11:53 |
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Your question about Geddy Lee reminds me of one lawyers often ask to trap defendants: E.g., "Have you stopped beating your wife yet?"
You question sort of assumes that Geddy Lee at some point was less than "improved."
If one answers yes, then s/he is sort of admitting it was less good before. If one answers no, s/he suggest Lee hasnt' improved.
Kind of funny...
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Jared
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Posted: January 23 2007 at 12:32 |
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On everything up to 'All The World's A Stage', he was just too squeaky for me... when I listen to those early albums, I keep wanting to insert some 3 in 1 into his orifices...
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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yarstruly
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Posted: January 23 2007 at 12:39 |
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I say he was always good, but maybe a bit better in the 80s...
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Mellotron Storm
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Joined: August 27 2006 Location: The Beach Status: Offline Points: 14076 |
Posted: January 23 2007 at 13:10 |
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I chose the seventies,when he could really let it rip!
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"The wind is slowly tearing her apart"
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progismylife
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Joined: October 19 2006 Location: ibreathehelium Status: Offline Points: 15535 |
Posted: January 23 2007 at 13:15 |
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His voice fits the music in any period, and I love it. Same great quality.
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Angelo
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Posted: January 23 2007 at 14:46 |
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Same quality always - although you can't deny it has changed quite a bit over time
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richardh
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Posted: January 23 2007 at 15:14 |
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80's...... when he stopped sounding like a girl
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