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acroyearThe original video releases for Rush concerts back in the 80s were mixed by Terry Broon (Exit State Left, Grace Under Pressure) and Geddy Lee (Show of Hands), who (in the first and third case) also mixed the cds.
Trouble with mixing at the time was that the keyboards were always so new and so different that it was easy for them plus the bass to swamp Alex's guitar, such a strong part of the live show in person, into a muddy morass of mush and indistinction.
Well, for the new 5.1 mixes in the Replay 3-DVD set, Alex himself did the mixing, and wow, what a difference! This is the live Rush I remember seeing in '87, as opposed to the over polished keyboard wash of a sound that the Show of Hands videotape managed, given the limitations of VHS analog at the time. Of course, now having such better equipment to play it on also helps. :) (on the other hand, a vhs tape doesn't have to freeze for a second while switching into the second layer!)
So anyways, I'm still in my own little bit of 80s reliving, with memories actually now of all of those Rush fans @ JMU that I loaned my videotapes to (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dwenius , Rushfan and that oper_nazi agentplaid come to mind). At least for that I got those back every time.
I'm still missing 6 cassettes, 2 cd's, and about half a dozen 80s-era concert t-shirts (including an awesome Roger Waters '87 3/4 sleeve I *really* miss) from those days...
Still, the immortality remains: "oh cool, is that Rush?"
At the Cap Centre HYF show, in November '87 (for myself, the last "nosebleed" show I ever saw), like all shows of that tour, they dropped red balloons with the album cover on it over the floor seats. Two guys at my high school caught about 10 of them. The most they kept at home deflated within a month. But the *one* they put into an empty locker in the band hall? That was still perfectly sized by June when we all graduated. Go fig.
Yeah, the odd memories one holds on to...
Trouble with mixing at the time was that the keyboards were always so new and so different that it was easy for them plus the bass to swamp Alex's guitar, such a strong part of the live show in person, into a muddy morass of mush and indistinction.
Well, for the new 5.1 mixes in the Replay 3-DVD set, Alex himself did the mixing, and wow, what a difference! This is the live Rush I remember seeing in '87, as opposed to the over polished keyboard wash of a sound that the Show of Hands videotape managed, given the limitations of VHS analog at the time. Of course, now having such better equipment to play it on also helps. :) (on the other hand, a vhs tape doesn't have to freeze for a second while switching into the second layer!)
So anyways, I'm still in my own little bit of 80s reliving, with memories actually now of all of those Rush fans @ JMU that I loaned my videotapes to (
dwenius , Rushfan and that oper_nazi agentplaid come to mind). At least for that I got those back every time.I'm still missing 6 cassettes, 2 cd's, and about half a dozen 80s-era concert t-shirts (including an awesome Roger Waters '87 3/4 sleeve I *really* miss) from those days...
Still, the immortality remains: "oh cool, is that Rush?"
At the Cap Centre HYF show, in November '87 (for myself, the last "nosebleed" show I ever saw), like all shows of that tour, they dropped red balloons with the album cover on it over the floor seats. Two guys at my high school caught about 10 of them. The most they kept at home deflated within a month. But the *one* they put into an empty locker in the band hall? That was still perfectly sized by June when we all graduated. Go fig.
Yeah, the odd memories one holds on to...
