MATRIXSYNTH: Xanadu - RUSH - Live 81 / Exit Stage Left


Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Xanadu - RUSH - Live 81 / Exit Stage Left


Oberheim solo comes in at 4:26 into it. I'm guessing that's a black FVS with a white programmer. Feel free to comment if you know what it is.
YouTube via Prognoir. Sent my way via Edgar.

7 comments:

  1. I have seen a picture of this rig. I belive it's a Mini Moog he's playing.

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  2. geddy lee - best nose in rock
    i love how he couldnt be outdone by alex's double neck guitar, he had to have a double neck as well!!!

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  3. So help me God, I still have this concert taped off TV somewhere. It's probably covered in mold. It was inspirational to me back when I was 10-12 years old... good old Rush. Nothing beats Rush.

    New Rush... meh.

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  4. It's an 8-Voice.

    Geddy did play the original solo on Farewell to Kings on a Mini, and on that tour the Mini and the two sets of Taurus pedals were all the synths they had. (At that time, they were dividing their concerts into two sets. In the first set, they played all the stuff that they used the synths for, including a version of "Lakeside Park" to which Geddy had added some synth parts. Then, there would be a ten-minute break while the techs took all the synths off stage, and they would come back and do a set of the older power-trio stuff.) But starting with, I think, the Moving Pictures tour, they no longer traveled with the Mini, and Geddy covered all the Mini's parts on the Oberheim.

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  5. Geddy did in fact use the Minimoog live up to the Grace Under Pressure tour, May to Nov 1984.

    The big rig seen in the video consists of a custom-built case with in the upper part a built-in Minimoog and obie programmer, and in the lower part the keyboard controller for the Oberheim
    8-voice synthesizer.
    The case housing the eight SEM modules isn't visible in the video but it's there somewhere.
    Geddy also has an Oberheim OB-X on his left-hand side as well as a set of Moog Taurus pedals which was interfaced with the 8-voice synth.

    On the previous 2 tours (Permanent Waves (1980) and Moving Pictures (1981) he additionally used an Oberheim OB-1, Oberheim digital sequencer DS-2 (replaced with a Roland CSQ-600 for the MP tour).

    The Exit...Stage Left Tour (Oct to Dec '81) was afaik the last tour where he used the 8-voice.

    For the Signals tour
    (Sept '82 to july '83) the Minimoog and OB-X were joined by an OB-Xa and DSX seq, Roland JP-8 Synth, and a Roland TR-808 working in conjunction.

    Micke

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  6. I love Alex' banjo playing!

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  7. I love old rush.. nothing like it. brings back those memories. rush was the first band i ever got into..

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