The Rush 'Synth Period' Thread

Hans il mercante wrote: Are we going to open the Rush appreciation threat?, c´mon, we got a lot of albums to talk about.

Metalmarsh89 wrote: Mirror Image wrote: What Geddy thinks of the music and what the fans think thankfully are two different things!  Anyway, I believe this interview I saw with him where he said he wished Rush could have continued on with the synthesizers was on the Beyond the Lighted Stage documentary. Fortunately, the same goes for Neil's views on their music.

Metalmarsh89 wrote: Mirror Image wrote: Metalmarsh89 wrote: Mirror Image wrote: What Geddy thinks of the music and what the fans think thankfully are two different things!  Anyway, I believe this interview I saw with him where he said he wished Rush could have continued on with the synthesizers was on the Beyond the Lighted Stage documentary. Fortunately, the same goes for Neil's views on their music. Interesting, I don't think I've heard Peart's view on the band's music. Had to look for it, but here it is, a thread discussing a recent quote from him. http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=97299&KW=down&PID=4948341#4948341

Mirror Image wrote: Metalmarsh89 wrote: Mirror Image wrote: Metalmarsh89 wrote: Mirror Image wrote: What Geddy thinks of the music and what the fans think thankfully are two different things!  Anyway, I believe this interview I saw with him where he said he wished Rush could have continued on with the synthesizers was on the Beyond the Lighted Stage documentary. Fortunately, the same goes for Neil's views on their music. Interesting, I don't think I've heard Peart's view on the band's music. Had to look for it, but here it is, a thread discussing a recent quote from him. http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=97299&KW=down&PID=4948341#4948341 Thanks for this. Man, he's pretty harsh on their earlier work.

The "synth" period is excellent IMO....Its a period of intense experimentation for all three of them. Most of it worked on a very high level, there was some poo-poo in the mix but gads in an experiment mode there is bound to be some brains farts!

We hark on Alex not liking the period but he was a trooper and stayed the course and played some great backup to Geddy's synths.

They were just expressing the times...The Police were huge, synth pop bands were huge, Flock of Seagulls, Devo and the like. Both Neil and Alex had to adjust to the new sound.

When you have been together for that long, new projects were needed to keep them from getting bored with more Tom Sawyer, and us also us getting bored.
It is a distinct period in their phenomenal career.....I keep asking myself how much longer can they go? The fan in me hopes forever , but I see no signs of them looking to start that final farewell tour or "this will be our last studio album.."

There will definitely be a hole in the progressive rock genre when they record that last note or take a bow for the last time on stage.

Rush is amazing..

Inspired by this thread I updated my article about instruments used in Prog (Blogs section) to include Geddy's custom synth console consisting of an Oberheim 8-voice and a Minimoog put together. Here is an interesting interview with him from 1984 from the Keyboard magazine in which he talks at length about his involvement with synths in that period.

Gerinski wrote: Inspired by this thread I updated my article about instruments used in Prog (Blogs section) to include Geddy's custom synth console consisting of an Oberheim 8-voice and a Minimoog put together. Here is an interesting interview with him from 1984 from the Keyboard magazine in which he talks at length about his involvement with synths in that period. http://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/rush/keyboard-09.1984.php

Jeffro wrote: Gerinski wrote: http://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/rush/keyboard-09.1984.php <span style="line-height: 1.2;"> </span> <span style="line-height: 1.2;"></span> <span style="line-height: 1.2;">Interesting article. I may have even had that issue back then.</span> <span style="line-height: 1.2;">I wonder if Geddy would try putting synths back in the band at this point. </span>

After three albums of great hard rockin'...I must admit that would be cool if he did the retro-synth thing circa '81-'84 with actual melodies and sequences, not just shadings and accents.

Catcher10 wrote: Most content of the last few tours have been very heavy to the "synth period". So Geddy has been playing a lot of keys on the tours. I like it, sounds amazing and works well. What I am hoping for is a 2-night stint where 1 night is 70-80s, 2nd night is 90's and up....

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I've noticed this as well from checking out setlists. Do they play anything from the 70's anymore?

Mirror Image wrote: Jeffro wrote: Mirror Image wrote: Metalmarsh89 wrote: Mirror Image wrote: Metalmarsh89 wrote: Mirror Image wrote: What Geddy thinks of the music and what the fans think thankfully are two different things!  Anyway, I believe this interview I saw with him where he said he wished Rush could have continued on with the synthesizers was on the Beyond the Lighted Stage documentary. Fortunately, the same goes for Neil's views on their music. Interesting, I don't think I've heard Peart's view on the band's music. Had to look for it, but here it is, a thread discussing a recent quote from him. http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=97299&KW=down&PID=4948341#4948341 Thanks for this. Man, he's pretty harsh on their earlier work. Not unusual for an artist to bag on their early work. Totally in character for Peart. I think he's batsh*t crazy when he says that about their 70s music. This true and definitely true of Genesis. Don't ask Tony Banks what he thinks about The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway. He has a problem with pretty much everything on every album.