In a message dated 8/18/2003 10:41:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time, wkargel@xxxxxxxxx writes: > I think that the "acid test" here is this: how do the > songs from that era sound LIVE and In Person? Let us > use songs from 'Hold Your Fire' for specific > reference...how do tunes like "Time Stand Still" CHand "Mission" sound live and in the flesh? Well, part of the problem with the production of those albums is that Rush couldn't really play those songs live and in the flesh without lots and lots of technological assistance from seqencers to store keyboard parts and canned backing vocals. CH