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Here's
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 "Well, the
basses go into the bass chorus and through the SansAmp
straight into the PA. There, that was easy. "But the keyboards...ah, erm... well, it starts with the Clavia Nord Lead 2X, which does a bunch of Oberheim impressions and all the Moog lead and bass pedal earth-shaking mullarkey. Four at once, in fact. Very nice. Now, this can be played from the keyboard's keyboard or either of the two sets of pedals. Oh, and then there's Paul's pedals too, they play the Nord. The Function Junction sees to who does what, and the Midi Mouse (bless it) changes the patches. Oh, and I can trigger samples on Dean's Electronicky Pad thing from the pedals. Or the keyboard, actually. And sometimes Paul triggers it too. Oh dear. "Cup of tea, anyone?" |
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"Being Gary Weinrib" "How hard can it be?" Standing on one leg playing bass pedals and keyboards and bass guitar and singing a top F# in a piece of music wantonly written in a time signature made of two random prime numbers, I realise that this ranks with "The war will be over by Christmas" and "This ship is unsinkable" as the stupidest thing said by anyone in the history of the World, ever. For the record, I have always harboured a guilty desire to play Rush's music, but it only occurred to me very recently that the only way to do it is how they do it - three guys playing everything for real without a safety net. Simultaneously, it occurred to me that finally after 30 years of music (both for them and me) I'd found musicians I wanted to do it with: literally, if it hadn't been Dean and Paul, you wouldn't be seeing this show . The "Live In Rio" release reawakened my illness, and since meeting Alex and Geddy at the 2004 Manchester show, I've become a born-again Rush Bore. I've seen the way people look at me and edge away. Soaking up facts and figures and studying videos and DVDs just to get into Geddy's headspace - believe me, that's the only way if you're not going to fall over in "Tom Sawyer". You have to learn when to take your hands off and move, and of course how to do the one-legged hop dance and when. It's like "Being John Malkovich" but not. Sort of." Pod would also like to acknowledge the tremendous if unknowing support of Paul Theakston and Émile Remy-Martin. |
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