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Hey

It’s Liv

I totally forgot about this account I hope everyone is safe and well missing my genesis friends a lot without the tours! Hope to see or meet a few of you along the way :)

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wow 

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❤️

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Missing the professor 😒

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Daniel Craig: A Serious Actor

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Daniel Craig for GQ, April 2020

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DR. NO (1962) | NO TIME TO DIE (2020)

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Geddy Lee on stage during a soundcheck ahead of the band’s gig at Bingley Hall in Stafford, Staffordshire, England, UK, 1979 | Fin Costello/Redferns/Getty Images

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Perhaps the most iconic synthesizer used by Geddy, was this monster:

This behemoth was an Oberheim 8 Voice polyphonic and a Minimoog packed into one giant unit. Two versions of this monster actually existed

The original with the white Oberheim modules integrated into the case, as seen above and also here:

This version was built in 1978 during the recording of Hemispheres by Geddy’s keyboard tech Tony Geranios, and appeared on the album: it was used for the synth solos in Circumstances, The Trees, and the string type sounds during the guitar solo of La Villa Strangiato, and possibly appeared on the title track. It was subsequently used on the Hemispheres tour (of course they took this monster out on tour) and was also then used in the recording sessions of Permanent Waves appearing on every track, most notably for the synth solo in Jacobs Ladder, as well as for another very innovative and interesting use which I will get to in a moment.

This version apparently had issues and according to Geranios “didn’t work very well” so in 1979 with the help of a German engineer Geranios built a new version, this being the version thats probably more widely know:

This version had the white Oberheim modules in a separate case, reducing the size of the unit drastically. It was used starting with the Permanent Waves tour in 1980, and then appearing on all tracks of Moving Pictures (including the famous synth solo in Tom Sawyer), except Witch Hunt I believe, and for the tour. For Signals, the unit was replaced by the much more simple and compact setup of Oberheim OB-X, OB-Xa, and Minimoog.

Now, this is where things get interesting and really innovative. One of the primary reasons for this design was to interface Geddy’s Moog Taurus pedals into the machine, allowing Geddy to play single synth notes with his feet while his was playing bass (this is what people refer to when they say he ‘played keyboards with his feet’)

The pedals were made to be used either as both the Taurus and Oberheim together, or the Taurus switched off and only the Oberheim notes being heard.

This setup appeared all over Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures, Signals (using a different synth) any time you hear a single punchy synth note it was Geddy using the pedals the trigger the synth. Even onward through to 1980s to today the pedal setup continued to be used by Geddy with more updated technology, notably triggering samples.

All this is quite impressive if you consider this was done in 1978, 5 years before MIDI was invented which allowed different synths to be played and controlled by other synths. As Geddy put it “we were trying to invent MIDI before MIDI began”

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Rush photographed in the early 1980’s.

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My New Blog for the genesis adventures Please Follow me 😊

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Currently making a new account for Genesis 2020!

I’m deleting this one but I’ll tag my new one shortly

I’m thinking of making an new account

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I’m thinking of making an new account

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I managed to get tickets for genesis!

I can’t believe it’s actually happening 😱! I’m still trying for Birmingham Manchester and Leeds! I already have Liverpool thank god ♥️

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Hopefully doing 5 dates of this tour and I’m definitely doing Liverpool will be tricky as I know how popular they are over here 😫!

My dream came true after waiting 13 years ♥️

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I’ve found my account again!!

Hey how are we all?

Long story but I took a few months of this account and I’ve been extremely busy with my new blog and hopefully starting a band!

Also what about this genesis reunion that’s supposed to be happening 😱😱