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Here's some of the
gubbins required to keep Pod jumping and shrieking!! |
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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, there's the Yamaha for the string sounds and some other stuff, and there's the lovely Creamware MiniMax which does all the Moog lead and bass pedal earth-shaking mullarkey. Very nice. Now, both of those can be played from the keyboard's keyboard or either of the two sets of pedals. The Function Junction sees to who does what. 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. |