Geddy Lee Has A Funny Voice

[Stormwatch]

No. contray to what you think I don't mean funny as in "ha ha". Listen to "2112" and picture Geddy - it just doesn't fit. I can't imagine that voice fitting that guy! "Fly By Night" is even worse. Is it really that camp, large nosed guy singing? I just can't picture it! "Caress of Steel" yes, I can picture it, but..is it just me? Every time I listen to a Rush song I picture Alex Lifeson singing it. Ah well, I'm drunk, and stupid.

 

[Wyvern]

Geddy Lee vocals were awsome! Towards the mid-80's he lost some of the range he had in the 70's. I love his high-pitch notes on 'Cygnus X-1', '2112', 'Bastille Day', etc.

 

[Wicked Child]

When you've seen Rush live as i have, you no longer have trouble fitting the voice to the face. It very much fits after that.

 

[HailIron]

When you've seen Rush live as i have, you no longer have trouble fitting the voice to the face. It very much fits after that.

I agree Wicked. When you see them live, it fits. I love Geddy Lee's voice and is bass playing is outstanding.

 

[sixxswine]

Geddy Lee fabulous bass player, so-so singer, but you ether like him or don't....

 

[Wicked Child]

Geddy is often overlooked as a bassist, which is a shame. He's really an awesome bass player and deserves alot more credit for it than he gets.

 

[freddie boomboom]

i've seen rush 12 times.my absolute favorite band.forever.
geddy is my lord.

 

[The Grimace]

Geddy is often overlooked as a bassist, which is a shame. He's really an awesome bass player and deserves alot more credit for it than he gets.

Geddy's a living god of bass. One of 3 reasons (Cliff and Lemmy) that I would give up $1600 for my Rickenbacker.

When I first saw Rush (I think it was the 'Time Stand Still' video, haha), I freaked over what Geddy looked like, but then I realised that it's a perfect fit... he's as, erm, 'odd' as his voice.

 

[wdiv]

If I'm in the right mood, I can enjoy some of Rush's music, but I'm definately not a big fan.

 

[Wyvern]

Geddy is often overlooked as a bassist

Which to me is ludicrous. The guy plays a mean bass, just hear the lines in the middle of 'Cygnus X-1', they have more feeling that many bass players work throughout several albums.

If you consider Rush as a band during the 70's (and way into the 80's) is an example of what three (not four or five) people with talent and constance can achieve. The quality, complexity and richness of their music is a milestone for the whole prog/metal movement of today IMO.

For as long as I live hearing 'The Temple Of Syrinx' will always be a reason to headbang to orgasm

 

[desert_demon]

Geddy's an excellent bass player - very inventive. He's also a great singer. I like his voice nowdays better, it seems to have gotten a bit more mid-range instead of high pitched as it was in the early days of Rush. Rush has been one of my favorite bands since I heard 2112 in the early 80's (though the album is from the 70's).

 

[Bryant]

I absolutely adore Rush though I think neither Geddy Lee can sing nor can Lifeson play a good solo. They write outstanding songs though.


Bryant

 

[The Grimace]

nor can Lifeson play a good solo.

Have you heard Freewill before?

 

[AngelWitch73]

When you've seen Rush live as i have, you no longer have trouble fitting the voice to the face. It very much fits after that.

I would like to see RUSH someday. Unfortunately whenever they have toured it´s been way too expensive to attend. They must be super live.

 

[Bryant]

Have you heard Freewill before?

Yes and it is certainly one of his bettetr efforts, but extremely mediocre in my ears.


Bryant

 

[Hawk]

Yes and it is certainly one of his bettetr efforts, but extremely mediocre in my ears.


Bryant

What about La Villa Strangiato? To my layman ears that solo sounded like worldclass! I am wrong since first hearing it in 1979?

 

[Bryant]

What about La Villa Strangiato? To my layman ears that solo sounded like worldclass! I am wrong since first hearing it in 1979?

Hmmm..... well if I recall correctly that is an instrumental. The fact that I consider Lifeson a mediocre soloist doesn't mean I don't think he is an incredible instrumentalist. In fact, I think he the MOST underrated musician in the band. His texturing is incredible. Both Neil and Geddy are very "busy" musicians at times and often it is Alex that actually keeps the integrity of many songs as far as retaining the "melody" of the songs.
Having said that.... when he does a typical "solo" he is plain bad at times and mediocre at best. Although I am a guitarist with 20 years of playing under my belt, I don't rate players by technical wizardry, but rather by the same standards any layman has and that is how "good" they sound. Alex sounds great on most of the stuff he plays, but when he does a solo, there are actually a couple I cringe on, simply because it "sounds" bad.


Bryant

 

[Wyvern]

Alex Lifeson is one of the top guitar players of our time, few people can emulate his sound both in studio or life.

Since he never tried the guitar hero pose, most people tend to look to Malmsteen, Van Halen, Satriani, Young, etc. But to me he's high above with Blackmore and Iommi.

'Xanadu', 'La Villa Strangiato', 'The Camera Eye', '2112', are a few examples of the high quality of guitar playing Lifeson has.

 

[The Grimace]

I don't rate players by technical wizardry, but rather by the same standards any layman has and that is how "good" they sound. Alex sounds great on most of the stuff he plays, but when he does a solo, there are actually a couple I cringe on, simply because it "sounds" bad.

So he's not a good soloist because you don't personally enjoy the solos he writes? Well, look at Mr. Fancy Pants over here!

I hate Yngwie. I really don't particulary enjoy listening to him at all, not even from a technical standpoint. I think his solo style is pathetic, but I'd never say he wasn't good, cause I can't do what he does, and I think I'm pretty good.

For the record, I think Alex is one of the most unique and INFLUENCIAL soloists of 70s/80s. His tone is legendary, nobody had so much mid-screech back then.