RUSH: Moving Pictures LP 1981 Second Hand, heavily used, not new. Made in England. Tom Sawyer, Red Barchetta, YYZ, Limelight. Check exclusive video of the 2nd hand LP on sale

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Rush ‎– Moving Pictures
Label: Mercury ‎– 6337 160
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: UK
Released: 1981
Genre: Rock, Hard Rock, Prog Rock
Tracklist
A1 Tom Sawyer 4:33 Lyrics By – Dubois*

A2 Red Barchetta 6:07
A3 YYZ 4:23
A4 Limelight 4:18

B1 The Camera Eye 10:55
B2 Witch Hunt 4:43 Synthesizer – Hugh Syme
B3 Vital Signs 4:45

Marketed By – Phonogram
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Phonogram Ltd.
Copyright (c) – Phonogram Ltd.

Bass Guitar, Synthesizer [Oberheim Polyphonic; OB-X; Mini-Moog; Taurus Pedal Synthesizers], Vocals – Geddy Lee
Drums [Drum Kit], Timbales, Bass Drum [Gong Bass Drums], Bells [Orchestra Bells], Glockenspiel, Wind Chimes, Bell Tree, Crotales, Cowbell, Wood Block [Plywood] – Neil Peart

Guitar [6 & 12-string Electric And Acoustic], Synthesizer [Taurus Pedals] – Alex Lifeson
Lyrics By – Peart*

Music By – Lifeson*, Lee*
Photography By – Deborah Samuel
Producer, Arranged By – Rush, Terry Brown

Back cover has the Mercury logo at top right.

Recorded and mixed at Le Studio, Morin Heights, Quebec during October and November, of 1980.
Engineering assisted by our computerized companions: Albert, Huey, Dewey and Louie
Red Barchetta inspired by ‘A Nice Morning Drive’, by Richard S. Foster.
Witch Hunt, part III of ‘Fear’.

Made in England.
All timings approximate.
Original sound recording made by Cat Productions (1975) Ltd.

Behind “Tom Sawyer” with Alex Lifeson from Rush

Behind “Limelight” with Alex Lifeson from Rush

One of my favourite Rush albums, usually a favourite for almost all fans. Rush’s most mainstream album (after 2112) delivers in practically every song. Peart’s drumming and lyrics are incredible, added along with Alex’s driving solos and effects, and Geddy’s strong singing with a good use of bass/synth/pedals/OB-X.

SIDE ONE
Tom Sawyer: The opening track, with the most memorable opening to a song, also Rush’s “most recognizable” song. Starting with a space-synth chord and Peart immediately drumming along to “A modern day warrior, mean mean stride, today’s Tom Sawyer, Mean mean pride”. Geddy’s singing remains spoken for verses and goes into his usual high-pitch in the pre-Chorus. The space-synth sound returns for the Chorus and after the second time Alex speeds up the tempo with another classic solo. Peart’s drumming speeds up with a great drum solo. The song continues in its usual manner…

Red Barchetta: Opening with some harmonics, and some light synth and Peart’s cymbal tapping. The song drives through with lyrics and sound that feels almost like a real car chase in the future where the “motor law” changes the way of driving. The song in its entirety goes full circle and ends where it began.

YYZ: The instrumental (The first one since “La Villa Strangiato” on Hemispheres). Starts with the band playing in Morse Code spelling “YYZ”. The song has repeating sections, but with Bass and Drum alternating solos before Alex gets his solo in. Song repeats the same ’till the end and a quick “di-da-de-dum” ending the song.

Limelight: Peart’s lyrics do justice in describing mainstream success (ironic, because of how popular the song became) and really “living in the limelight”. Alex does some very nice and slow soloing along with some drum soloing from Peart all the way to the Outro. Ends strong with some synth trailing with Peart’s drumming.

SIDE TWO
The Camera Eye: Rush’s last extended piece (as of now). My favourite track on the album. Some Oberheim combined with OB-X thrown in to open the track. Peart’s starts tapping on the snare and Alex does some more harmonics. Space-Synth is present in the main portion of the song. Then the rhythm changes and synth opens the next section. The lyrics describe our first destination, New York. Peart describes the intricacies of both here and London in the verses. The song remains constant the entire time from the beginning to the end.

Witch Hunt (Part III of Fear): The first song of the “Fear” series that succeeds on the next 2 albums. The song is very quiet for about the first 1 1/2 minutes, then kicks into some very creepy lyrics and strange guitar riff-age. The song is very irregular in terms of structure and sectioning. It currently remains my least favourite song on the album (I really shouldn’t have a favourite and least favourite when it comes to RUSH). Peart’s drumming is really key in this song as there are a variety of different sounds he makes.

Vital Signs: A “last minute” song for the album, and put in the proper place. Geddy runs his OB-X while Alex has some channel shifting while hitting staccato chords. Peart’s lyrics are very static and describe human nature in general, and about “being different”. Peart’s drumming is very reggae as is the song itself. And the song continues until the very end, with Geddy slightly changing the repeated line (that’s said throughout the song) each time “Everybody got to ________ from the norm”. The line is catchy in itself. And the song fades out with the song still driving and concludes the album.

Moving Pictures is a masterpiece within itself. It’s a well-planned, well-written, well-recorded album that has songs that still remain in Rush’s live setlists to this day (The Time Machine tour played it in full and was a very enjoyable experience for me). It remains on my list of favourite albums and I believe is one of the best albums of the 80’s. I give it 5 stars for its composition and genius. I feel that Moving Pictures will stay a classic album for a very long time into the future.


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Classic interview: Alex Lifeson talks  “Moving Pictures” track-by-track

“There’s a brightness about it, which I think is why people respond to it so much”
“It was a beautiful time,” says guitarist Alex Lifeson, recalling the summer of 1980, when he and his Rush mates (singer-bassist Geddy Lee and drummer-lyricist Neil Peart) rented a house in Stony Lake, Ontario and wrote their eighth album, Moving Pictures, together. “We’d spend the weeks working, and on weekends we’d drive back to Toronto. Rehearsing, figuring out arrangements – everything just flowed. Electricity was in the air.”

The past six years had been a tough slog, but by that golden summer, Rush were sailing. No longer an opening act, the group that had worn out cars and vans on a tangled path across North America, winning fans the hard way – knocking ‘em out with their stage show and a string of bold, radio-unfriendly albums that nonetheless found their way onto turntables – was now an arena headliner.

Not only that, they had an honest-to-God hit on their hands: Permanent Waves. DJs were all over the long-player, particularly its ironically titled single The Spirit Of Radio, a masterstroke that managed to cram Rush’s complex musicality into four minutes and 56 seconds while shoehorning in undeniable pop hooks with even a hint of reggae. That Rush succeeded in crashing the mainstream without losing one hardcore fan would play out big-time on Moving Pictures.

“After we felt confident of what we’d written, we started recording at Le Studio [the now-shuttered facility was located in Morin Heights, Quebec] with our co-producer, Terry Brown,” says Lifeson. “We ate well, drank well and we played really well. The whole vibe was fun. We’d gone from playing clubs and theaters and were now selling out big places. We were at that cusp of coming into our own.”

Released on 12 February 1981, Moving Pictures not only saw Permanent Waves’ radio win but raised it one better, packing the classic singles Tom Sawyer and Limelight. “We knew they were good songs,” says Lifeson talking to us in 2011. “Did we think that they’d ever be considered ‘standards’? Not at all. All we tried to do was please ourselves.”

Heres, Alex Lifeson walks us through Moving Pictures track-by-track back in 2011. “It’s a very optimistic album,” he says. “There’s a brightness about it, which I think is why people respond to it so much. Playing it live every night is interesting – The Camera Eye, which we hadn’t performed in a long time because it’s pretty difficult, has now become one of our favorite songs. The bottom line is, we’re very proud of Moving Pictures. Thirty years later, it still feels magical.”

1. Tom Sawyer
“We don’t like to think about the album sequence until we’re done recording everything, but I think Tom was always going to be the opener. Just the way it starts – it had to open the record.

“It was a refreshing arrangement. It didn’t follow the traditional verse-chorus-verse-chorus-middle-outro chorus thing. This spread from a verse to a bridge to a chorus to a solo section and so on – it was a more lengthy setup.

“Neil had worked on the lyrics from an idea that had come from a friend of ours, Pye Dubois. He expanded on that whole theme of rebellion and instinct.

“The recording was pretty straightforward, very comfortable and group-like. The guitar solo is pretty quirky, but I don’t think it took long to do, maybe five or six takes. With solos, I don’t like to be too prepared going in – I like to surprise myself. This might have been a comp of a few takes.”

2. Red Barchetta
“I remember that we really loved this song, and so the writing of it was very quick. It was born from a jam, which is how a lot of the stuff on Moving Pictures came about. We’d go into the studio in the morning, jam on an idea, and then huddle around a little cassette player to see if we had something.

“The parts were quite satisfying to play, which is probably one reason why the song was written so fast. Everything felt very natural and easy.

“The guitar solo was me stepping on the wah-wah pedal and kind of easing back on it a little. It sort of acted like a filter, and that’s how I got that nasal-y kind of sound. When I was younger and tried to get that Jeff Beck tone, that’s what I would do.”

3. YYZ
“Ged and Neil wrote YYZed. I was busy working on my airplane that day – I had a remote control airplane up there that I crashed to pieces, after spending weeks and weeks building it. [laughs]

“They went in early that day and got all worked up about coming up with an intro that was going to be quite unique, which stemmed from one of the times we were flying back to Toronto from Le Studio. We were landing at the Buttonville Airport. There wasn’t an ILS [instrument landing system] at the airport, but it had an NDB, which is a non-directional beacon. You had to tune it in, and you knew you had it by its identifier, which was a Morse code. This particular Morse code was ‘Y-Y-Zed.’

“I think it was Neil who said, ‘Hey, that could make a cool opener,’ and so that’s how the intro and the title came into being.”

4. Limelight
“The opening riff is so typical of something I would write, and the verses sound like something Geddy would write. That’s one of the things about knowing each other so well: we fill in the spaces for the other guy as we go along. I believe that Geddy wrote the chorus part, as well.

“It was another song that came together very smoothly, like most of the record, with the exception of The Camera Eye. Even though it’s a dynamic song with such a sense of optimism, there’s a fragility in the choruses that I’ve always liked. I love the contrast.

I’ve always maintained that the solo is probably my favourite of anything I’ve ever done

“I’ve always maintained that the solo is probably my favourite of anything I’ve ever done. If you can create a visual from a sonic standpoint, that’s really an art. The song has it, as does the solo.”

5. The Camera Eye
“A lot of this song came from separate parts that were written and then connected. I think that’s why we always had a bit of a problem embracing it fully in its early days.

“It was hard work. The opening was easy, and then we decided to build up to a crescendo. There’s a lot going on. It was one of the last really long songs that we would write.

“There’s some very difficult playing here. Neil does an amazing job on it. He plays so dynamically, handling all of the changes and shifts in tempo and time. And Geddy, he’s playing bass, he’s singing, he’s playing bass pedals and keyboards – really something else.
“The guitar solo took me a while to get right. Funnily enough, The Camera Eye has now become one of our favourites, and the crowds really respond to it. Our feeling is, we haven’t just resurrected a song; we’ve improved it.”

6. Witch Hunt
“In Neil’s mind, I think it was always meant to be a part of either a trilogy or a series. He kind of laid out what he wanted to do, but this song, this part of it, ended up where it did.

“It’s kind of cool song for us. It’s got a really rhythmic opening and a strong guitar part, with no bass until the second verse, or the chorus.

“All that mob stuff in the opening, those sounds, that was a lot of fun. We went outside, quite a ways from the studio, down by the rode. It was a freezing cold night in January, and it was the three of us in the band and a couple of crew guys, and we recorded about 20 minutes of us mumbling and grumbling and making all kinds of mob noises. We had a bottle of Scotch with us to try to keep warm, and as you imagine, the more we drank the crazier we got!” [laughs]

7. Vital Signs
“We were into the idea of putting some of that reggae feel into this song, but with a little more ‘oomph’ to it. Dynamically, it was pretty different from the rest of the record, but I think that’s part of the allure of the album: None of the songs sound or feel the same. There’s a lot of diversity.

“Part of me thinks we were working on the song in the studio, as if we started recording the album and we didn’t have Vital Signs totally finished. I believe that was the case.

“Neil was a keener listener of reggae than perhaps Geddy was, and I was probably the least. I enjoyed it. I liked Peter Tosh and Bob Marley; I liked what The Police were doing. We were coming at reggae in a more Anglo way, which is how The Police approached it, too. It’s like the way English bands like The Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin worked the blues.

“As an album closer, lyrically it spoke well. It was a nice sentiment to end the record. The way it fades, it was quite dramatic. The Camera Eye almost ended Moving Pictures, but we finally decided on Vital Signs. It was all about being aware of your surroundings and rising to your highest level. That said something important to us.”

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