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Wed, Jan 25, 2006@2:04PM | comments removed/disabled

[The Canadian Music Scene]

The Canadian Music Scene website has been running a Rush sound survey to determine fans favorite Rush album for its sound. One of the entrants chose Rush's eponymous debut album. The interesting bit is why he chose it. Here's what he had to say:

I was interning that week at Toronto Sound under Terry Brown. I was also the tape op.

When the first muddy stuff done at Eastern was played at 7:00 AM in the morning we all thought the band was going big.

Their studio experience was very limited.

That whole project was done in about one day for pennies, including the rental of the 12 string acoustic from Long and McQuade.

The original guitar tracks were redone in first takes with a 100 watt Marshall head, one 4X12 bottom and a gibson 335 and was double tracked with a 15 IPS echo using a revox A77.

The drums were so muddy Terry ran them through a dolby A deliberatley over driven to add some highs to the drum kit..

Considering the time, budget and poor tracks, the album did amazingly well thanks to Terry Brown.

It truly sounded like shit, but Geddy turned Blue doing the one only take on Finding your way intro scream.

For a $1000.00 project at best I challenge any band to top that success.

We had lunch at the Thorncliffe mall nearby for $2.00 that day in October 1973.

Toronto Sound had previously recorded very well a lot of sessions with other Canadians acts.They sounded good but most went nowhere. It goes to show you how things can work out.

The website owner is a member at Counterparts and said that "I have confirmed from a very reliable source that even though he does not remember the person specifically, the details provided could only be from someone that was there and are indeed correct..." Cool. I've always loved that album - despite Neil Peart not being involved.

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