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Title: a farewell to pop Queens a Grandiose Greeting to thee, my King of Muzak
Review: The transistion albumn between conventianal hard edged gitar rock and Geddy's new talent of synthisised midi moogs. Nice thing about the late 70's is both were in play in rock music. The ancher of the hard gitars and the ethearic moogs and bass strums which were a bit more than just for volumn as in most bands. Alex still playes gitars with a velocity and vigor rivaling other bands like Led Zepplin, Aerosmith, and Queen's tomfoolery "Byt'n the Dust". Most of the sound is nulled out in the 80's by Geddy's synth and Neils percussive work. But here the gitar playes the roll it should in additon, not subtraction to the more evolved high tech devices in the later part of the 1970's. Cygnus X-1 uses gitars, not synth to make those unearthly sounds. Only Xanadu actually uses Geddy's Moog with that Fargo sound later ringing in my ears in "Hemispeheres".
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