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Summary: An essential live record from Rush
Comment: As a longtime fan of Rush, I am a proud owner of this live album. Alex, Geddy and Neil just jam on this great live record from one of the best progressive groups ever.
It's great to hear 'By-Tor And The Snow Dog' live. Alex plays some mighty fine slide guitar here. 'Working Man/Finding My Way' features a great drum solo from Neil, who is, in my opinion, one of the best of all-time. The drum solo alone is worth the price of the entire album.
The record ends with 'What You're Doing,' which was the one that was used for compilations. It's a great one; Geddy's vocals are great, and Neil plays a great beat.
Overall, this is one of the best live records ever released. Highly recommended for any Rush fan. An amazing record from one of the finest trios in rock history.
Highly recommended. ENJOY!!!
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Summary: The best of Rush's early Live work.
Comment: All THe World's A Stage is a truly epic compilation of Rush's growth as a progressive rock genre group at this point in thier career. The lyric excellence and outstanding live performance skills of Neil Peart coupled with geddy Lee's vocal and and virtuoso bass and keyboard performances and Alex Lifeson's complimentary guitar abilities make this a truly elevating sonic experience.
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Summary: Rush at their hard rocking best! Yes!!
Comment: If you love early hard-rocking Rush, All The World's A Stage is a must-own album. Recorded in 1976 when the band was still all about heavy guitars and sci-fi lyrics, it is an awesome live hard rock album. It also serves as a nice greatest hits of the early years. All the best of Rush's first four albums are here: Working Man, Bastille Day, Fly By Night, 2112, By-Tor and the Snow Dog, all in blistering live versions. Top-notch musicianship all the way. Alex Lifeson's guitar is stunning as always. If you love Rush's early years when they really ROCKED, do not pass this record by. There are no synths, no pop songs, just heavy prog rock with guitar riffs and solos galore.
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Summary: All The World's A Stage......
Comment: This 1976 live album was as good as RUSH ever got, plain and simple. Be warned causal RUSH fans, this is a vastly different beast from the band they would become a few years later when they became "Rock Stars". ATWAS was/is probably my favorite CD/album of all time, period, and if you give it a try it might be your favorite as well. Nothing in recorded music will ever match the heart, energy and honesty that is captured in this container of wax/plastics+aluminum. I'm even compelled to say that ATWAS was the last and final remnants of the REAL RUSH, when they really rocked hard......, and they never re-captured THAT MAGIC that is ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE.
Why is ATWAS the greatest album by RUSH ever?
1) This is when the three men from Toronto really knew how to ROCK,and ROCK free w/o all the silly pretentious fodder and utterly retarded literature/historic lyrical refrences. They took a simple Guitar, Drum, Bass trio format to it's max here.
2) Way before the FM radio "HiTz" you've heard for the 2,456,456,354,677,345,246,234,776,097,345,345,556th time ala "Tom Sawyer", "Spirit of Radio" or "Closer to the Heart". Lets not even think about atrocities like "The Big Money" and "Time Stand Still"
3) None of the oh-so trendy Mattle "My First Keyboard" electronic synth banks that Geddy loves so much these days.
4)No YYZ.
5)No songs your 15-year-old nephew will know.
6) Related to point 3, before the band oversaturated and bloated their sound with eastern/exotic instruments, polyphonic moogs, 2,455,644,334 different effect pedals, 1,000 piece drum kits with everything including a kitchen sink and a whole bunch of other crap.
7) The preformance of ATWAS is amazing and RAW. WAY before they pulled a KISS ALIVE! on us and edited,pasted up their latter-era live works.
8) Non of the nerd rock of "Moving Pictures" or the angsty teen/highschool themes of "Signals" will be found here. Nor any of the yuppie tendencies of "Presto" or "Roll The Bones".
9)The atmosphere on ATWAS is incredable. No amount of studio trickery or silly ad-on digital noises can recreate this.
10) ATWAS features an organic sounding RUSH, sadly, for the last time and hence would go on to be a hit making machine after this.
Please, do i need to explain anymore? Just go aout and get this thing!
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Summary: A great, great album
Comment: I can still listen to "All the World's a Stage" over and over again without getting tired of it. Not a bad song on the album, and Geddy Lee and Neil Peart (not to mention Alex Lifeson) practically run a rhythm-section clinic--the power and fluidity are just awesome. A monster....
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