The thing that I always admired about Rush, is that after all that time they were still genuinely friends and you can tell they are still genuinely having fun on stage and love each other. That’s what separates them from everyone else.
Snakes And Arrows Live is a awesome DVD. Another great DVD is Clockwork Angels Live. If you want Moving Pictures in its entirety live, you must get Time Machine Tour which was between Snakes And Arrows Live and Clockwork Angels Live. Nothing like a Rush concert.
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One of my favorite RUSH tunes and one that is just badass LIVE!! Neil wrote this for his new wife at the time. They had just been married after he had lost his first wife to cancer a few years earlier.
I love this song and this performance especially! As for the backing vocals, I am almost positive they piped in Geddy's background vocals from the album --it sounds too much like him, and I have heard fans say that Alex's mic is either off or very low. That said, I have heard Alex sing background before (during the live performance of 'The Garden', for instance) and during the live performance of 'La Villa Strangiato from Rio, Alex does a bunch of vocal ad libs for fun.
About the chickens: before anyone repeats the urban legend that they are real and that they fed the crew or the homeless or whomever, the chickens are fake. This information comes from the mouth of Geddy himself in his recent autobiography "My Effin' Life". That said, the joke is that with the advent of new tech and massive improvements in the sound systems at the modern venues, Geddy no longer needed stacks of amps behind him and chose to utilize the house system, while Alex preferred his stacks. Geddy thought it looked unbalanced on stage, and also felt a good way to tease his buddy was to add odd things to his side to take up the space. Vending machines and Maytag dryers are but a couple of the items filling that side of the stage in the last 1/3 of their career. It was always fun to see what was going to be next and how they would incorporate the appliance into the show. The rotisserie chickens would see crew members dressed in costumes "basting" the chickens randomly during the show, or they would have honored guests do the task. Their sense of humor resonates well with the fans for the most part.
That look from Neil at 5:26 gets me every team. You caught the nasty bass lick coming in from Geddy too, and that outro…. This song just gets better every time you listen to it. I am convinced that if this song came out during their Moving Pictures era, it would have been massive! Thanks!
As a mention. Most of the songs from Snakes and arrows follow Neil’s journey on his bike when he left after his wife and daughter died, but not in a direct way, but in an indirect way. Remember Neil writes the Lyrics to all Rush songs.
This was the album that was so poorly mastered and mixed originally that we needed to hear them live to appreciate it. Thankfully it got a full remixing and released which fixed so many issues. The album is pretty heavy for Rush and has become one of my favorites. Was a very important time in their history as it was the first album they did after Neil lost his daughter in a car crash and his wife from cancer. Glad someone recommended this song as it’s incredible. The bass playing is a lot of chords and insane. Still have no idea how he plays all this and sings ant the same time.
Vapor Trails was the album they remixed and re-released. I love their last three albums, Vapor Trails, Snakes and Arrows, and Clockwork Angels. They were all pure rock.
Secret Touch came from RUSH's worst sounding studio album - Vapor Trails. That isn't my subjective opinion - Geddy messed up in the studio. The album came out with distorted audio that only completely remixing it could fix - which did eventually happen around ten years later. Anyway, the one song that I think did not benefit from the remix was Secret Touch. It's the heaviest song on the album and the distorted audio suited it better.
