Come on...Rush uses either pre-recorded tracks or hidden musicians

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nice! :slight_smile:

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'twas a joke, but that reminds me of an episode of Darryl’s House. Darryl was playing a song with another artist and right before they started playing, someone suggested playing it another key. Afterwards, the other commented that he had to think about every.single.chord as he played it to make the key change. He was concentrating the entire time, he asked Darryl if he had to do that as well, to which he replied with something like ‘nope, I can just do it automatically, without thinking’. Granted, Darryl Hall has been playing guitar professional for longer than the other guy has been alive, so that’s probably part of it.
If I can think of who it was, I’ll have to see if I can find the clip.

Also, yes, I know, in that case, it was switching to an agreed upon key, not just having someone (or a synth track) pick a random key for you when the song starts.

But still, it was a joke.

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Man, here I was coming in with righteous indignation to defend them and there I was already doing so in post #8.

Nice to know I’m consistent.

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I think this post is done but I get scared for younger generations of music fans. I watched as Rush progressed using keyboards, pedals, loops, triggers, and midi drum sounds thru the 80s. Rush never used backing musicians,except when Clockwork had an orchestration. One of the things that made Rush the best live act was they could reproduce the sound at the concert. I went from finding that amazing, to boring, and then wishing to God I could see them again. The larger bands that still tour have watered down the live shows so badly that it is now kareoke…U2, Stones, Macartney, Fleetwood Mac,. I now have returned to going to bars and watching the new kids or the old dogs carrying thier own amps. Nothing better than buying merch from a hard working band these days.

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I read recently where Alex recommended Greta Van Fleet as a new and upcoming band who is true to those old ideals of musicianship. Give them a listen. They’re pretty darn good. They’re not the holy triumvirate obviously, but they’re still pretty good.