Friday, October 28, 2011
Geddy Lee talks Clockwork Angels, 2012 tour in new Rolling Stone interview
[Rush's Geddy Lee Says New Album Will Be Ready By Early 2012]
Rolling Stone magazine has posted a new interview with Geddy Lee where Geddy talks about the recent Time Machine Tour, the Rush documentary Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage and the status of their upcoming Clockwork Angels album:
... We're almost finished writing [the album]. We wound the machine back up about three weeks ago. After a sluggish start, we've had a very fruitful couple of weeks in terms of writing. I'm very pleased with the direction that the material has taken. And I think we have one or two more songs that we'd like to write, and then we'll start recording in earnest. Hopefully we'll have all of the recording done before Christmas. Then we'll mix it some time in the next year, and then get it out. ... I hope it'll be out by the spring anyway. ... I think [the sound is] a little different than Snakes and Arrows. It's not finished so it's hard to say exactly what it will sound like in totality, but I think that the direction of "Caravan" and "BU2B" sort of points in the direction that we're going....
Geddy also remarks on touring in support of the album:
... there will be a tour. I can't tell you exactly when. Maybe the summer or maybe the fall. We need some time to organize all that, but we have started to do that at the same time. But yes, there will be a follow-up tour to support the record. ...
Great news for Rush fans. Things seem to definitely be on track.
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[Rush sound engineer Rich Chycki on Clockwork Angels recording, Sector box sets]
[Rush producer Nick Raskulinecz: Clockwork Angels in pre-production; start recording mid-October]
[Rush signs with Roadrunner Records]
[Excerpts from Classic Rock's Prog magazine Rush feature]
[Alex Lifeson interview from the Toledo Free Press]
[New Geddy Lee radio interview at the UK's 106.1 Rock Radio]
[Short Rush Clockwork Angels feature in March issue of Mojo]
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Don't really know about 2112 the album in its entirety here.
Geddy seems to be open to the idea but not until it was directly suggested by the interviewer. And then Alex recently said it was kind written off as a one-time thing when they played the song on Test For Echo tour. People will really snooze when the "b-sides" on this album are played. They aren't really the most highly regarded tracks with the exception of "Something For Nothing" and some of them would sound kind of ridiculous "Twilight Zone" being one moment. The guys can add it to their cringe-worthy list of material including "I Think I'm Goin' Bald" and "Madrigal."
On the topic of playing a future album in its entirety again on tour, they may do Permanent Waves all the way through some year. Jacob's Ladder is just asking to be added to the setlist and they've started the whole excercise of avoiding the song in the setlist until the "time is right" like they did with Camera Eye from 2002 all the way to 2010. Leave the audience wanting more.
You probably won't be getting Jacob's Ladder anytime soon. It's in Neil Peart's new video that it was originally on the Time Machine tour setlist, but was scratched because it didn't feel right and the way Neil was talking, didn't seem like he had any interest in revisiting it.
2012 Tour. Hmmm, which album will they play in its entirety?
Great news for all Rush fans!
It's nice to know that Geddy does pay attention, at least to some degree, to fan/petition sites like this one. Of course, all sorts of requests will inundate the band before the next tour. Don't get me wrong, I love 2112, but I think that it might be time to put some of the staple songs to rest for the upcoming tour and embrace a few older songs.
I really enjoyed Presto during the last tour, and of course it was a dream come true to finally listen to The Camera Eye live for the very first time. Now that leaves 5 songs that I need to hear live before I die:
1. Cygnus X-1 Book II
2. A Farewell to Kings
3. Jacob's Ladder
4. The Enemy Within
5. Bastille Day
I think Bastille Day would be a great song for the end of the first set.
Hell, yes! Awesome news.
If the boys choose to play another full album during the tour then anything prior to MP would be a special treat. Permanent Waves would be awesome. However, a short retrospective, a 'mini time machine' if you will, of tracks they haven't played in years (or ever) would be sweeter.
I'm glad to see the guys getting back to work to finish the new album. As far as playing 2112,it would be great to see the WHOLE ALBUM played,although I think that if they were to do another album in it's entirety I think they would pick Permanent Waves before 2112 for,if no other reason,Neil's seemingly slight disdain for 70's Rush in general. He seems far more proud of their 80's records by far,rightly or wrongly. Either way,it will be interesting to see if another classic album in it's entirety "finds it's way" into the 2012 set list! Great news to hear for Halloween weekend! Thanks RIAB.
#28 - YES.
2112 ? They played the whole 2112 song / A Side, whatever you want to call it, during the Test4Echo tour.
I'd want to hear Cygnus X-1 + Hemispheres / Side 1. That plus Clockwork Angels ? That would be the ultimate. Bring out the doublenecks and the old drumkit too.
I know a lot of people here have bitter memories of Rolling Stone and the boys were certainly never well treated by them, but I think we need to accept the fact that maybe something is changing within RS and they are coming to see the errors of their ways.
We need to allow them to prove themselves and see what happens. I wouldn't be surprised if they end up... (gasp!) "on the cover of the Rolling Stone" one of these days.
And then it's only a matter of time before they... (double gasp!) get in the RRHOF.
People, we are witnessing the "Rushification" of the universe and I don't think we have to fear that our boys will loose their integrity. They have made it almost 40 years without compromising themselves. I have no doubt that they can handle RS and RRHOF.
Yeah I don't want 2112 either. And I would guess Geddy was just referring to Side 1. It's hard to imagine Neil agreeing to play Side 2. "Sometimes ya just can't go back." Man, I'm tying, but I can't even recall what Tears sounds like...:)
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