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post #61 of 141
9/22/05 at 11:31am
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I'd pay $50 for Exit... Stage Left on dvd with Natural Science!!!


Best. Song. EVER!!!!!!
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post #62 of 141
9/22/05 at 12:12pm
Right on.

"In their own image/The world is fashioned/No wonder they don't understand"

Know what would really gimme a hard on? A good 5.1 mix of Permanent Waves released on DVD-A or SA-CD.

-p
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post #63 of 141
9/23/05 at 7:06am
A good 5.1 mix of Permanent Waves released on DVD-A or SA-CD.


There were several older albums listed as upcoming SACDs, including 2112 with a 5.1 mix. The band decided they didn't want to remix all the albums into 5.1 and felt that the cd remasteres were good enough and decided not to pursue SACD releases.
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post #64 of 141
9/23/05 at 11:01am
Yes Kyle thanks, I'm quite familiar with that odd history of catalog title SA-CDs (PW was not one of them) having been announced and then canceled. It was a shameful tease. I'm not quite sure how that could happen--maybe UMG tried to do it without the band's permission and then the band put the kabosh on it.

It's yet another technology I wish the band had embraced more readily, a la Metallica.

-p
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post #65 of 141
9/24/05 at 10:54am
I read on the Power Windows fan site that there is definitely a remaster for Vapor Trails, but that they are going to wait until the next album is released to give us that one, since there are still plenty of original Vapor Trails CDs in stock.

Also, I KNOW there is footage from the Test for Echo tour, because I've seen a video of Closer to the Heart with audio from the live CD and footage from three different decades, including the 90's T4E tour. So hopefully we can have that DVD as well, since it is the only live recording of 2112 in its entirety.
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post #66 of 141
9/26/05 at 9:10am
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I KNOW there is footage from the Test for Echo tour


The band didn't feel the footage was good enough to put out. Many fans have been salivating for that footage since the T4E tour. I think originally, the dvd was going to be released with or at the same time as the live album. Maybe some of it will surface as a dvd extra or something of that nature.
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post #67 of 141
9/26/05 at 9:32am
From what I heard, there was a problem syncing the audio and the video that couldn't be fixed acceptably for a DVD release, which is why it was scrapped.

Jason
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post #68 of 141
10/13/05 at 9:24am
Thread Starter 
Trying to keep this thread alive and well.

Found this at the usual site (powerwindows):
Producer Sheds Light On Working With Rush: "...producer and director Pierre Lamoureux...is responsible for the huge undertaking of not only the R:30 package but the DVD releases of Exit Stage Left..., Grace Under Pressure Tour - 1984, and A Show of Hands all of which are being released in 2006 in both a special box set and individual package. 'There is a lot of work that has gone on with the band over the last year,' Lamoureux says...'We have the entire Rush catalog in our hands. Not just the studio material they have released on albums, but every single demo or song that has not been released as well. We are setting Rush up for the future for releases that will be able to have 5.1 audio mixes along with SACD formats down the road....I can't get into every detail about the band's business and future but I can assure you the concerts that we are re-releasing are not straight VHS to DVD transfers. These are color touched, remastered, and re-mixed in 5.1 stereo and we are deciding which extras we will add to each in the coming days. We are basically done with everything except the extras and that decision lies with the band...'I approached the band's management SRO about filming Rush on their anniversary tour and they turned me down being so close to their Rush In Rio project. As the tour went on they decided it would be a great idea but it was too late to film Radio City Music Hall and Red Rocks although we talked about it, we just couldn't get crews into the cities at the right time.'"


Well, Paul, it looks like you might get your SACD of Permanent Waves.
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post #69 of 141
10/14/05 at 8:07am
Thx, Brett.

The concern now re SACD is the imminence of high definition DVD (namely Blu-ray): are any hardware manufacturers besides Sony and Philips--if even those two--going to include SACD playback capability in their high def DVD players. If not, the decline of the number of players with SACD playback capability is going to track with the rise of high def DVD . . .

-p
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post #70 of 141
10/14/05 at 11:30am
Thread Starter 
Here is some information about Anatomy of a Drum Solo:

Anatomy Of A Drum Solo: The Hudson music website has details regarding Neil Peart's new instructional DVD, Anatomy Of A Drum Solo. "Anatomy of a Drum Solo presents newly-recorded, in-studio footage of Neil discussing, in detail, his approach to soloing. Using a solo recorded in September, 2004 in Frankfurt, Germany, as a framework, Neil talks about each segment of this nine-minute tour de force that is a feature of each Rush performance. He describes the inspiration and the conceptual thinking behind each part of the solo and discusses, and often demonstrates, the technique necessary for playing that segment. Also included are two 'explorations' - completely improvised workouts at the drums, each over thirty-minutes long; a never-before-released solo recorded in Hamburg, Germany in September, 2004 ("Ich Bin Ein Hamburger"); 'O Baterista', Neil's Grammy Award-nominated solo (previously released on the Rush in Rio DVD); two full Rush performances from Frankfurt ’04, all shot from the perspective of the drum cameras; interviews with Lorne Wheaton, Neil’s drum tech, and Paul Northfield, Rush co-producer and engineer; a full-color booklet, a photo gallery and more." - Oct. 13, 2005

Rush fanatatics may be especially excited to hear that the special features will include home footage of J.R. Flood, circa 1970, as well as audio-only bonus marimba tracks, "Momo’s Dance Party" and "Pieces of Eight" (visit the "Solo Projects" page for more information on these latter two tracks. The DVD is scheduled for release Dec. 13th from Hudson music.

DVD Disc 1 - Tracklist (Running Time: 3:22)
Anatomy of a Drum Solo
Der Trommler (recorded September, 2004, Frankfurt)
Neil’s analysis and discussion of Der Trommler and of his approach to soloing
Sidebar 1-Exclusive Hamburg solo (Ich Bin Ein Hamburger)
Sidebar 2- Exploration #1
DVD Disc 2 - Tracklist
Bonus Features
Exploration #2
O Baterista (solo from Rush in Rio)
Interview with Paul Northfield, Rush co-producer and engineer, and Lorne Wheaton, Neil’s drum tech
Lorne Wheaton setting up and talking about Neil’s drumkit
Two Rush performances from the perspective of the drum cameras
A Previously Unreleased Solo from Rush’s 1994 Counterparts Tour

Special Features
Alternate Edits-During parts of Neil’s analysis of "Der Trommler," the viewer can choose between two different edits, one with related playing examples in full screen and one with Neil in view while the playing example is shown in a separate inset. These spots are identified by an on-screen icon.
Audio-only bonus marimba tracks, "Momo’s Dance Party" and "Pieces of Eight," composed and performed by Neil, which can be accessed at various points in the program.
Camera-Option---During Neil’s performance of "Der Tommler", the viewer can choose between the program edit and two, isolated cameras, for different views.
Home footage of J.R. Flood, one of Neil’s first bands, circa 1970.
Two Rush performances ("Tom Sawyer" and "Subdivisions") recorded Frankfurt, September, 2004 from the perspective of the drum cameras.
Bonus Footage-A previously unreleased solo from the Rush Counterparts tour recorded March 27, 1994 at the Palace of Auburn Hills in Michigan [most likely this is footage originally filmed for the scrapped "Different Stages" DVD release]
Photo Gallery
Web Links
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post #71 of 141
10/20/05 at 9:46am
I think this is the set that diehard Rush fans have been waiting on for all these years. I was wishing for a 4 CD boxed set with extra tracks, live and unreleased stuff, but this is even better. Bring it on.
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post #72 of 141
10/20/05 at 10:04am
While I would have preferred to have the entire concert with the missing 8 songs, if the quality is great I won't complain. I hope SRO is able to restore some missing songs to ESL and GUP dvds. That would be very nice.
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post #73 of 141
10/22/05 at 7:51am
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http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7000499636

Exclusive: Producer Sheds Light On Working With Rock Band Rush

October 12, 2005 8:04 p.m. EST


Douglas Maher - All Headline News Staff Reporter

Montreal, Canada (AHN) - Rush's producer and director Pierre Lamoureux sheds light on the upcoming "R:30 - Rush Live In Frankfurt, Germany" DVD package that is set to hit stores November 22.

Lamoureux is responsible for the huge undertaking of not only the "R:30" package but the DVD releases of "Exit Stage Left...," "Grace Under Pressure Tour - 1984," and "A Show of Hands" all of which are being released in 2006 in both a special box set and individual package.

"There is a lot of work that has gone on with the band over the last year," Lamoureux says in an exclusive with All Headline News.

"We have the entire Rush catalog in our hands. Not just the studio material they have released on albums, but every single demo or song that has not been released as well. We are setting Rush up for the future for releases that will be able to have 5.1 audio mixes along with SACD formats down the road."

The news is obviously going to make every Rush fan shine from Bangkok to Lakeside Park in Canada, but Lamoureux insists it only gets better from here.

"For obvious reasons I can't get into every detail about the band's business and future but I can assure you the concerts that we are re-releasing are not straight VHS to DVD transfers. These are color touched, remastered, and re-mixed in 5.1 stereo and we are deciding which extras we will add to each in the coming days. We are basically done with everything except the extras and that decision lies with the band.

Lamoureux reveals that the "Grace Under Pressure" DVD in particular might hold special surprises for fans down the road; some suprises, never thought to be possible.

"We found the footage for 'Grace'," Lamoureux says.

"The concerts will be released in the same format as the original releases including track listing and running time of the actual concert. But down the road when Blue-Ray technology becomes more popular and we are able to extend things out to levels beyond where we are at currently...we can then go back and release the found footage that was not on the original release."

Lamoureux adds that the frustration of the job has been finding the footage to begin with. As a matter of fact, he is asking for any information leading to people who worked on the crews of the filming of "Exit Stage Left..." and "A Show of Hands" to please come forward and contact them.

"We know someone has the film from those shows... we just need to get them at this point. It could be someone who worked with a former producer, a film crew member... anyone at this point. We didn't expect to find the 'Grace Under Pressure stuff... and we did.'"

Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson and engineer Rick Chycki did the engineering for the 2-audio CDs for the deluxe package of "R:30" and Lamoureux's brother Francois did the audio chores for the recording of the concert itself.

"The band decided they wanted to do this half-way through the tour so it was a matter of getting things going quickly and trying to find venues," Lamoureux adds. "I approached the band's management SRO about filming Rush on their anniversary tour and they turned me down being so close to their "Rush In Rio" project. As the tour went on they decided it would be a great idea but it was too late to film Radio City Music Hall and Red Rocks although we talked about it, we just couldn't get crews into the cities at the right time."

Lamoureux admits that the DVD was almost filmed in Montreal but the band opted for Germany instead.

"It was a great crowd in Frankfurt and the DVD will display that. It was originally going to be even shorter (R:30 is not a complete concert) but the band decided they wanted to add even more material from the concert because it all came out so well, thankfully we didn't have a glitch the entire night... so that material will probably be used somewhere down the road."

Stating the fact that a Rush show is not an easy task (clocking in at over 3 hours and 15 minutes) Lamoureux says,"I have never worked so hard in my life, it was like working two concerts in one night..a double shift, but watching the guys in Rush perform is just an amazing experience."


So the label found extra footage for GUP video, but they aren't adding it to the dvd release, they're waiting for Blu-Ray. They have not found any extra footage of ESL and ASOH. ASOH is nearly the entire show, so I wounldn't expect more footage to show up. Why are they waiting to add the extra footage to GUP? It's only 60min now, why wait?

Also, there is a preview up at rush.com of the new R30 dvd.
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post #74 of 141
10/23/05 at 1:48pm
Thx, Kyle.

Lamoureux mentions what they may do "somewhere down the road" several times. I'm very happy to hear that they're considering hi def (re-)releases of this material in the future. But, on top of the concerns I mention in my post #69, the future is sort of amorphous as to how/if Blu-ray will be solely victorious in that "war" and whether it will achieve significant enough market penetration to justify niche music title releases.

I guess I'm agreeing with you, Kyle: if they've located footage and have prepped it for release, why not put it out now on (a) multiple-disc standard def release(s).

Also Brett, I tend to think that the SACD reference is to the possible future release of live material already mixed for 5.1 on SACD as a companion release to a DVD-V. If Ged's past posture on the subject is any indication, I'm not holding my breath for hi rez 5.1 re-releases of Rush studio albums.

-p
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post #75 of 141
11/15/05 at 12:00pm
Amazon is now listing....

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...v=glance&n=130
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post #76 of 141
11/15/05 at 12:43pm
Thx, Kirk.

Of course it's largely speculation, but the absence of separate CD release for this is telling IMO. It augurs for exactly what I mention above: a separate 5.1 SACD release "somewhere down the road." Perhaps they don't want a separately available CD on shelves confusing some consumers/(possibly reducing SACD sales?). I wish they'd just do the SACD right now, dammit.

And wow it sure would be impressive if this turned up on Universal's first BD slate! (I can dream, can't I?)

-p
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post #77 of 141
11/16/05 at 5:41am
I think they're releasing the cds with the deluxe version of the dvd because they released a live album with their last tour and they wanted to do something different than that.
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post #78 of 141
2/20/06 at 12:02am
Any word on ESL, G/P and ASOH?
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post #79 of 141
2/20/06 at 6:58am
Last I heard was spring of this year.
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post #80 of 141
2/20/06 at 7:32am
Yeah that's the last we all heard, I believe via Lamoreaux. Spring is right now as far as I'm concerned.

I'm looking for new word of actual street dates or word of delay.

Or word of Blu-ray releases. Ha!
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post #81 of 141
2/23/06 at 7:35pm
I'm cranking R30 on the HT system while the girlfriend is away. Pretty much the only time I can play this as loud as I want (she is decidedly NOT a Rush fan, and she certainly wouldn't be any more of one at 85 decibels . Just thought I'd let everyone know that I read on Power Windows that Geddy Lee is thinking of re-releasing, in one video format or another, the songs that they didn't include on the DVD from the R30 tour.

Sounds like the whole show will be on some HD disc soon.

Damn. Yet another reason why Hi-Rez is in my near future.

Goodbye, wallet.
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post #82 of 141
2/23/06 at 11:51pm
Jan:

Just thought I'd let everyone know that I read on Power Windows that Geddy Lee is thinking of re-releasing, in one video format or another, the songs that they didn't include on the DVD from the R30 tour.


Link please?

Here's hoping this doesn't get filed in the same place as that anamorphic re-release of Rush In Rio highlights that was supposed to happen in the spring following the 'first' (read: only) release.
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post #83 of 141
2/24/06 at 6:30am
Here you go, Paul:

www.2112.net/powerwindows/News.htm
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post #84 of 141
2/24/06 at 9:22am
From:
www.2112.net/powerwindows/News.htm

New Life for Test For Echo Concert DVD and "complete" R30 Release: In the March issue of the Dutch Heavy Metal magazine Aardschok, Geddy Lee states that the long shelved Test For Echo concert film, originally intended for release as the Different Stages DVD, may eventually be released as soon as later this year (the project was shelved in 1999 when it was discovered there were problems with the sound recording). Later in the interview, Lee states that the band made a mistate not releasing the full Frankfurt concert on R30, and that the show may be reissued in the future in its entirety.

"Alex Lifeson has made [the DVD reissues] his personal project. Some of it will be the recordings we just discussed, but we have other things in the vault as well, such as a concert that we recorded on the Test For Echo tour, with which we weren't satisfied at the time, but that's been replaced by its historical value...The lion's share will come out in 2006...Some of the songs were dropped from R30 due to technical reasons but also we didn't want to have too many similarities with Rush In Rio. Why not? Well, I think now that it was a dumb decision of ours. In fact I regret not having put the whole show on those disks. But I promise you, all those songs that were cut will eventually see the light of day, in some shape or form." - Geddy Lee, Aardschok Magazine, March 2006
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post #85 of 141
2/24/06 at 11:22am
Officially there is three more weeks of winter.
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post #86 of 141
2/24/06 at 2:16pm
Jan:

Sounds like the whole show will be on some HD disc soon.

Although we've heard some comments from Lamoreaux that would lead some to believe that R30 may be released hi def at some point in the future, I wouldn't put too much HD stock in Ged's "in some shape or form" comment. I think that's his way of saying that the songs will be released perhaps on an a la carte basis as supplements on a different title, even if they don't get folded back into a re-release of the entire R30 show.

To address my own earlier question:

Delay...Stage Left: Apparently someone jumped the gun when originally giving a release date of February 7th; the Exit Stage Left DVD now has a tentative release date of March 7th in the US. Original reports that the DVD was to be released by Zoe/Rounder were incorrect, as Power Windows has learned that Zoe Vision/Rounder Records states they have no plans whatsoever to release this Rush VHS on DVD; we'll pass along the correct information after learning what label will be releasing the reissues. - Jan. 5, 2006
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post #87 of 141
2/24/06 at 3:57pm
So is that March 7, 2007? I don't see it up for preorder.
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post #88 of 141
4/10/06 at 9:15am
Thread Starter 
Here is some interesting info:
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Rush Replay X 3: "Three vintage Rush home videos will make their DVD debut as part of the boxed set Rush Replay X 3, due June 13 via Mercury/UME. The collection will include 1982's Exit ... Stage Left, 1985's Grace Under Pressure and 1991's A Show of Hands, plus a previously unreleased audio CD version of Grace Under Pressure. As previously reported, Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson created new stereo mixes for the releases, which are presented in 5.1 Surround Sound. Tour booklets from the three concerts have also been reprinted for the set..." - Billboard.com, Apr. 5, 2006
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post #89 of 141
4/10/06 at 9:57am
Sweet! I am all over those. (Perhaps they'll make it out in time for the DDD summer sale -- R30 missed it by a week!) Thanks for the info!
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post #90 of 141
4/10/06 at 11:00am
Thx, Brett.

Odd that tour program reproductions are supposedly going to be included in this set when a coffee table-type book of all of their programs has just been released.

Guess it's finally time to part with my laserdiscs of these three titles.
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