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What About Geddy Lee's Voice!! |
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twosteves 
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 Posted: April 29 2020 at 20:59 |
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feel the same---his voice shouldn't work --yet somehow it does in this band. Has he ever done solo work and if and when he does would be interesting to see how his singing works |
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Catcher10
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Posted: April 29 2020 at 21:47 |
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Two very good posts  . I have read other articles saying same thing as Mr Buttner about Geddy Lee. It was around '76 when I got into Rush and going forward as a young teenager I never had any issue with Geddy's voice, it never struck me that way. Although I can see (hear) why some might have an issue, but to me that is just digging too deep and trying to find a reason to dislike a band.......His voice fits the era from a more heavy-hard rock/metal band to a more mature sounding 2nd half of their catalog.I am perfectly fine with his tone and style, which as a professional has changed with the times.
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M27Barney
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Posted: April 30 2020 at 01:38 |
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Geddy Lee is definately an aquired taste...but his screech is essential for the music....plus if you listen to his bass playing, especially on Hemispheres very few moments where the bass is boss as complexity...Rush should have got a keysman in after 1980, so that they could have really expanded on prog metal base. Signals was the biggest letdown in my whole prog listening life...miles worse than ATTWT....and that was a big enough sell out...
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M27Barney
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Posted: April 30 2020 at 01:42 |
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Oh and you will get some smart arses on here who wiñl tell you that Rush only became interesting after PW.....words escape me on such flagrant betrayal of the prog ethos...
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Blacksword
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Posted: April 30 2020 at 01:54 |
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When I first heard Rush it was around the Moving Pictures era, and his balls were just starting to drop. I actually really liked his voice. Although, overall, the albums after GUP were not as good as their predecessors, his voice only improved with age.
On the 70's albums, his voice is like Robert Plant throwing a hissy fit in a crack lounge, but, for me it no way impairs the quality of the music. In summary, I have no problem with his voice. |
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rogerthat
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Posted: April 30 2020 at 02:57 |
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Not a favourite, but don't really mind it and maybe even like it a little on the Permanent Waves and onwards albums. Scream Geddy Lee phase is definitely not something I enjoy.
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Posted: April 30 2020 at 03:10 |
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Fantastic musicians but I was never a fan and Geddy's voice for me, is like sandpaper on the soul
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Posted: April 30 2020 at 04:21 |
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Polarizing voice, and I've never minded it at all!
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Posted: April 30 2020 at 05:39 |
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It's the closest thing to Geddy I've heard Then you've clearly never heard or seen Burke Shelley of Budgie, then! I love Geddy Lee's voice. But I was already a big fan of Budgie and anyone who sounds like Burke Shelley is fine by me.
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judahbenkenobi
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Posted: April 30 2020 at 08:58 |
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It is an acquired taste without a doubt. But I practically grew up with the guy, so I find absolutely no problem at all with his voice. On the other hand, if I'm introducing someone to Rush, I tend to avoid the early albums because of his shrieking vocals. Once I have my apprentice on track I introduce the early Rush, so that the voice will be understood within its proper context.
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Posted: April 30 2020 at 09:04 |
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If you're a Rush fan, you're a Geddy fan. You can't have one without the other. Too bad we never got to hear Geddy and Rik Emmett, another excellent Canadian musician from the "high-pitched" lead vocal club, collaborate on something.
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Posted: April 30 2020 at 13:19 |
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Anyone here fans of Thank You Scientist whose vocalist seems to be very influenced by Geddy? I concur with the majority that Rush just wouldn't be Rush without him vocally and bassically.
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Posted: April 30 2020 at 20:18 |
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When I heard my first Rush song, I admit that Geddy's voice hit me like a freight train.
It definitely took a little to get used to, but it wasn't too bad because I listened to a lot of heavy metal before that, so I was used to high-pitched, screamy voices. I don't know why it surprised me so much with Rush though, it just did. Needless to say, I love his voice now, although it can become a bit grating at times.
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Posted: April 30 2020 at 22:59 |
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I adore also Geddy´s seventies & eighties voice, but he sounded terrible in the last days of Rush.
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I don't think anyone is saying that at all  Rush are fascinating for their ability to re-invent and be creative. What is 'progressive' about just peddling a sound and style ad nauseum? Rush didn't do that . There are very clear phases of the music where they concentrated on a particular idea. The eighties did get very electro based but mostly they still put out 'interesting' stuff. Prog ethos is a horrible phrase. Most people reject that flat out. Just be creative , that's the name of the game.
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Yeah but both Genesis (post Hackett) and Rush (after MP) REGRESSED into popular synth/pop/AOR fusion neither band produced anything near what a prog ethesist would consider progression...The reason the likes of me listened to Stardust we are and fell in love almost instantly, is because nostalgically such lengthy bombastic epics took seventies prog and progressed it into mega prog....now it's time for tera prog....only daga band (with a live track which was essentially three half hour suites, one piano, one moog and synths then finally organ, moog and synths) have ventured into tera prog....Paraplasma was the track name and ten times better than anything wakeman or emerson did...Greg Boynton..sadly a forgotten talent, now long dead... |
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Posted: May 01 2020 at 06:27 |
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Nobody here is saying that but Peart did say it.
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Yes he has released a solo album - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Favourite_Headache |
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I remember when I first heard Rush, a friend had bought All The World's a Stage. I must admit when we first heard it we both thought "wtf?" when the singing started, but since then I've had no problems with his singing.
I don't like David Surkamp though.
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Posted: May 01 2020 at 07:54 |
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I quite enjoy his early "castrato with a megaphone" efforts, at least on my favourite Rush LP, Caress of Squeal.
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