From: les@brahms.udel.edu (Matthew Re Templeton)
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
Subject: bootlegs (grovel,grovel)
Date: 16 Apr 92 13:42:56 GMT
Organization: University of Delaware

Howdy folks!  Aside from saying that I finally have a newsgroup where I'm almost
anxoius to wade through 70 posts per day, I'd like to make a quickie grovel
for some *new* bootlegs.  I'm already receiving one RTB show at the end of this
week (thank you cubsfan!) but I need a new supply.  I have tons to tape trade -
anyone interested in making tape trees?  Let me know!  Here's the list of what 
I have (reprinted from a letter I wrote so sorry for the disjointedness:-):

Okay, the Signals tour boot consists of two sixty minute CrO2 tapes.  The sound
quality is not bad - it's rather beefy, not tinny like most audience tapes,
although it probably isn't soundboard.  The set list is:

One:    Spirit of Radio
        Tom Sawyer
        Freewill (great version - really high energy)
        Digital Man (also very intense)
        Subdivisions

        Vital Signs (good)
        The Camera Eye (they cut a verse and missed a few chord changes)
        Chemistry
        The Analog Kid (I love this version - they play *really* fast)

Two:    Broon's Bane
        The Trees
        Red Barchetta
        The Weapon
        New World Man

        Countdown
        Overture/Temples/Xanadu/La Villa/In The Mood

Overall, this is a pretty good show and a pretty good tape (by the way, the
tapes themselves are good quality and I don't play them all that much, so 
I doubt the sound quality has degenerated noticeably since I got them).  I have
never needed tons of EQ to get a nice sound with them.

Now, the Permanent Waves show was recorded in Saint Louis on 3/16/80 from the
soundboard.  The sound quality of this show is the best of my collection - 
good stereo, great balance between instruments, Geddy, and the crowd, and all
instruments are very well distinguishable - you can actually *hear* Alex's
soloing without straining.  The only problem is that there is a little too
much treble in the mix - most notably in Neil's cymbal hits, and some of 
Geddy's
vocals, but overall the sound is the best I've ever heard on a boot (outside of
two of my Zeppelin boots, Dallas 75 and Zurich 80).  Actually, from the level
of crowd noise, I have the feeling that these tapes might have been from a 
radio show.  Anyway, the set list is:

        2112
        Spirit of Radio
        Natural Science (I haven't seen this anywhere else)
        Beneath, Between, & Behind
        By-Tor And The Snowdog
        Xanadu
        Working Man
        Anthem
        Bastille Day
        In The Mood
        Drum Solo (good - I like Gedd's intro "okay kids it's time for
                        Doctor Braino!")
        La Villa Strangiato

The original that I have is on vinyl.  I'm at school right now, so if you 
want a copy directly from that, you can either get me (or trade me) a tape
by next Friday (since I *may* go home for Easter) or maybe wait until summer.
However you want to work it is fine with me.

As for the rest of my collection, I have

        12/1974 from Electric Ladyland Studios NYC.  Their playing is very hot
        on this one especially Geddy on Need Some Love and all on Bad Boy
        The set list is 
                
                Finding My Way
                Best I Can
                In The Mood
                Anthem  
                Need Some Love 
                Fly By Night   
                Here Again     
                Bad Boy (a Beatles tune orig by ?)     
                Working Man (By-Tor outro)     

        Chicago 12/1978 The sound is fairly poor, but the Hemispheres and
        Farewell To Kings are pretty hot.  By Tor and Something For Nothing
        are also really good.  The set list is 

                Anthem
                A Passage To Bangkok
                By Tor
                Xanadu
                Something For Nothing
                Cygnus X-1 (The intro was cut which I find excruciatingly
                        aggravating every time I listen to this)
                Hemispheres
                Closer To The Heart
                Circumstances
                A Farewell..
                La Villa
                2112
                Working Man/Bastille Day/In The Mood/Drum Solo

        (This show is a tape by the way, unknown generation.  I wouldn't 
        recommend it unless you need a Hemispheres or Farewell)


        Geleen, Holland 6/1979 "Pink Top"  - Probably a crowd tape but not 
        too bad, and I have the vinyl

                A Passage To Bangkok
                Xanadu
                The Trees
                "The Sphere - A Kind Of Dream" from Hemispheres
                Closer To The Heart
                La Villa
                2112 - from Discovery on to Grand Finale (even though it isn't
                        complete, I like this version because Geddy's vocals
                        have a little more bite than the 3/1980 show)

After those, I have the '80 and the '82 I mentioned, then I have

        Quebec 1986 - Crowd tape, on vinyl, not the best quality sound, but
        their playing was right on that night.  One of my favorite shows.

                Spirit of Radio
                Limelight
                Big Money
                New World Man
                Subdivisions
                Manhattan Project
                Middletown Dreams
                Witch Hunt
                Bad Sector A (just kidding)
                Closer To The Heart
                Marathon
                Trees
                Mystic Rhythms
                Distant Early Warning
                Territories
                YYZ/Drum Solo
               (cut - turn record over)
                Drum Solo/red lenses (from "and the mercury is rising...")
                Tom Sawyer
                Encore: Overture/Syrinx
                        Grand Designs
                        In The Mood

        Philly 12/87, 4/90, and 12/91.  All crowd tapes, first two not bad/not
        good, third lousy (gimmie a break, it was my first ever boot! :-)

            87 -->      Big Money
                        Subdivisions
                        Limelight
                        Marathon
                        Turn The Page
                        Prime Mover
                        Manhattan Proj.
                        Closer To The Heart
                        Red Sector A
                        Force 10
                        Time Stand Still
                        Distant Early Warning
                        Lock and Key (they missed a chord change here & there)
                        Mission
                        Territories
                        YYZ
                        Drums/(quickie red lenses into--)-->Spirit of Radio
                        Tom Sawyer
                        Overture/Temples
                        La Villa
                        In The Mood

            90 -->      Force Ten
                        Freewill
                        Distant Early Warning
                        Time Stand Still
                        Subdivisions
                        Marathon
                        Red Barchetta
                        Superconductor 
                        Show Don't Tell
                        The Pass
                        Closer To The Heart
                        Manhattan Project
                        Xanadu
                        YYZ/Drums
                        Scars
                        War Paint
                        Mission
                        Tom Sawyer
                        Spirit of Radio
                        Overture
                        La Villa
                        In The Mood


Other than those, I have two interviews - one with Alex in 1987 and one with
Geddy being interviewed by Scott Muni in early 1990.  I also have a RTB show
which I taped myself - believe me it's nothing to shout about :-).  Any
takers (tapers)?

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