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I have seen Rush 14 times in the last 24 years. Next to The Beatles, they are my biggest influence.

Geddy's bass sound on the last tour(Vapor Trails) was IMHO the worst I have ever heard it(thru the Sans Amp). Maybe it was an off night with the mix, but his sound was LOST in the mix, whearas when a real amp was used on previous tours it seemed to be there where it belongs, up front, with definition. I have used a Sans Amp in the studio and liked it....but in this application I have no faith in it whatsoever.

Leftybass, I agree with you, I am a huge Geddy Lee fan, and I saw him with Rush on this last tour and I could not hear his bass either, unlike the last time I saw him over 20 years ago during the Moving Pictures tour where you could clearly hear his 4001.

I'd seen Rush 9 times through the late 70's and early 80's. I even met Geddy and Alex in a Holiday Inn lobby in Dayton, OH somewhere around '82... Chris Squire and Geddy Lee were major factors in my choice of bass tone back then and I have to say, once Geddy put his Ricks away, I think his tone went away with it. The last time I saw them live he was playing a Steinberger. He had a "decent" tone, but to clean and thin for their classics. I was very disapointed, and never went to see them live again

I saw them four times, the most recent being in 1977, and in all of those shows, he played the Black Rick predominantly, with the 4080, and this other bass that looked like it had kinda melted, sort of a bass in the shape of a traditional Indian sitar, but it was a solid body. I never found out what kind of bass that was...

It was a P bass before he had the horns sawed off. He said in an interview once that "it was the cool thing to do around 75 or so"

I hear that in Asia those bring top dollar, for their reputed aphrodeseic qualities....

Gene. You call 1977 recent? I saw them during Power Windows. At that time he was playing one of those headless basses with a small black rectangle body. Remember those? Can't remember the maker.

Steinberger. When I was a kid I always just called them "box guitars."

Thanks. Just looked at their website. Cheap basses and they are all sold out. Whack.

I remember when people whacked off the horns on the Fenders, it was in the middle 70's, I almost bought one, now that would have been a good investment.