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    AI Generated Bootlegs - Impossible or Imminent?

    I took the time to watch that interview a while back, an I thought it was very insightful! It didn't occur to me that this tech could be far more advanced behind-the-scenes than what the public has access to. Now that it's been a couple months, things are probably even further along... Kind of...
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    Footage of Rush at Ivor Wynne Stadium 1979

    I hope this isn't too redundant, but this popped up in my YouTube feed this morning. 30 seconds in, this video has slightly more of the Spirit of Radio soundcheck than what was previously posted here.
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    AI Generated Bootlegs - Impossible or Imminent?

    This topic isn't necessarily confined to Rush, but I thought it might be of interest to this forum. The other day, a bizarre album got me thinking. I was browsing R.E.M.'s YouTube Music page, and was caught off guard by this supposed "latest release..." R.E.M. - Live in Athens, 1980 (I tried to...
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    Audio August or September 1979 - Unknown Location [Soundcheck] [Audience]

    When I first listened to this recording, I assumed Alex was playing all the guitar parts, but is it possible that Geddy is playing during track 2 at least? I'm not familiar with his double-kneck usage on Xanadu, but I'm pretty sure that small section of A Passage to Bangkok is the guitar solo...
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    Audio 5 March 1976 - Randhurst Ice Arena, Mount Prospect, Illinois [Audience]

    Finally got around to playing this recording from start to end, and I gotta say, it holds up pretty well to my ears. As intriguing as the old Rockford '75 bootleg with a full performance of The Necromancer was, I think having that piece back-to-back with By-tor and the Snow Dog really killed...
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    Rush Songs Never Played Live

    I'm realizing that my comments toward Genesis apply to several bands of that decade. It seems that many bands from the 70s downplayed their back catalogues in the 80s. Even then, I can already think of a couple exceptions, like Emerson, Lake & Powell or Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe (oh, what...
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    Rush Songs Never Played Live

    Oh jeez, you're 100% right. Everything I know is a lie?? Your observations 80s tours are completely true as well, don't know why that decade keeps slipping my mind. A Show of Hands indicates how the band felt at the time pretty blatantly. The only pre-Signals songs on that CD are Witch Hunt and...
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    Rush Songs Never Played Live

    Actually, this might be the best example of what I'm getting at. They played most of The Lamb (title track) and a good chunk of Firth of Fifth, but you're not going to convince me that the rest are uncompromising performances of the songs. As for I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe), I'm not a...
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    Rush Songs Never Played Live

    On second thought... I think you're right. I think recency bias is coloring my opinion, because their 80s tours were chock-full of medleys. Even then, they still did a Cygnus-X1 medley and chopped 2112 down for R40. Perhaps I never thought about Rush's medleys, because they still felt like...
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    Sections of La Villa Strangiato

    And here I thought Alex was trolling us in the liner notes. I didn't realize the sections were real! Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is the earliest use of "A Lerxst" that I am aware of.
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    Rush Demucs (AI Separated Stems)

    Ah well, thanks for giving it a try. Wow, that turned out way better than I expected! The drum track in particular is super insightful, I couldn't make out the kick drum in the original track. The bass track in particular has moments that make me ask, "where the heck are they pulling this...
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    Rush Songs Never Played Live

    P.S., I'm not a fan of how much attention Snakes & Arrows got. In my opinion, that album was painfully mediocre compared to the other two current century Rush albums, and is the only one of the three that doesn't stand toe-to-toe with their back catalogue in my eyes. How could they do Vapor...
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    Rush Songs Never Played Live

    Of all the songs that made this list, Different Strings always struck me as the strangest omission. That and Entre Vous were always a couple of my favorites, but I respect Rush for putting that time towards their longer pieces like Jacob's Ladder and Natural Science. Rush were never as...
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    Sections of By-Tor and the Snow Dog

    I didn't even realize Of the Battle was divided into it's own sections, let alone where it started and ended, and the first two sections are only half a minute each? In my mind, if a song needs timestamps to communicate where its sections start and end, then the song isn't really structured...
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    Thin Sounding Rush

    I read "Presto" and "low frequency information" on the same post and knew I had to hear this. I'm all ears!
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