As a drummer, this album was a huge influence on me. It came out when I was 10 years old and convinced me to switch from saxophone (which I played for just a few months) to snare drum, and then expand to the full drum kit. I bought a book called 'The Drum Techniques of Rush' that broke down all of the drum parts in sheet music, and I analyzed every note over and over again. I played along with the album on my drums, going back and replaying every section until I had it figured out note for note, for probably more than a year. I would even spend most of the day, some days, tuning my drums to get the same sound as Neil's (used to have 8 toms). I almost kind of made myself sick of it after a while, but after so long, it's still a blast to put it on all these years later and check it out, especially in surround. Not the best surround, but a close second to 'A Farewell to Kings' in my book.
Wish we could get Steven Wilson remixes for all of them, at least up through Signals or Grace Under Pressure.
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The BD, but I have all of my surround music ripped to flac files on a hard drive and use Kodi to play everything on my HTPC. Anything with video, I have ripped to mkv's, anything without video is ripped to flac. I also use Foobar for SACD ISO's too.
That's awesome. Probably the two toughest ones for me to play on drums is Freewill and parts of La Villa Strangiato.I got my Les Paul when I was 16 and started figuring out Rush..I could do a decent "Tom Sawyer" but forget about the solo in "Freewill"!!!!!, then I switched to bass when I was 22 and then we were talking (still have a tough time with "Freewill"
Yes, I remember back when they used to SELL books with the score for piano, gtr tabs etc. I had "Permanent Waves" and "Exit Stage Left"- taught myself how to read music...come on, it's not that difficult (sight reading is another animal)
I still enjoy the album a whole lot, and on my setup it does sound pretty decent, but out of all of the Rush albums in surround, on my particular setup this one seems to give me a bit more ear fatigue than the others. I do really love all of the little noises, effects, and dialog at the very beginning of Camera Eye in surround. :upthumb
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