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Roll The Bones 24 KT Gold Disk By Audio Fidelity Now Available

As previously announced, Audio Fidelity's 24 karat gold remastered reissue of Roll The Bones hits store shelves July 19th.  This is sure to become a collectors item, so it you haven't done so already, click here to order.
"Roll The Bones," Rush's fourteenth studio album, released in 1991, is a fantastic blend of tempos, ideas, and musical explorations. The album marks further transition from the band's 1980s style to their sound in the 1990s - it still has Rush's dark mystique but it is a more pop-oriented album.  There are four popular radio staples, "Bravado," "Ghost Of A Chance," "Roll the Bones" and "Dreamline" with the former reaching #1 on the US Mainstream Rock chart, while "Where's My Thing" was Grammy nominated for Best Rock Instrumental.  The band reunited with producer Rupert Hine for his second Rush album and Roll the Bones became their first US Top 5 album since 1981 peaking at #3 on the Billboard Top 200. The album also won the Canadian band that country's 1992 Juno Award for best album cover design.  The album excels in the songwriting and the musicianship is first-rate: Geddy Lee's bass playing and vocals, Alex Lifeson's guitar work and Neil Peart continues his journey for the perfect drum sound.  Rush has been around for many years, and has gone though many musical phases, always willing to try new things  and to experiment musically, lyrically, and technologically. Roll The Bones lives up to its name, Rush took some chances... and still made a great record." - AudioFidelity.net
Roll The Bones is the first gold release by Audio Fidelity, with additional Rush gold releases are expected to follow in the near future.  Rush's previous gold releases, 2112, Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures and Signals were released by Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs, who announced in 2008:
"After literally months of examination and discussions with the artists, due to the age and fragility of most of original first-generation analog masters to classic Rush titles, we've had to cancel plans to release the titles we had planned. They have deemed that the original masters should not be used for any future re-mastering, and we have to respect that decision. We apparently lucked out big-time with Permanent Waves as it was in pristine condition. Sorry for the bad news but we're not feeling so hot about it ourselves. I believe another indie label is now looking into releasing some Rush titles in the future but mastered from copy tapes." - Michael Grantham, Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs, March 2008

6 comments:

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  2. I wish that instead of focusing on "Roll The Bones", SOMEBODY would remaster "Vapor Trails".

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  3. Roll The Bones! I love this album. I know some people would go for other albums, but Roll The Bones is one of my favorites.

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  4. I think this is one of the worst sounding Rush albums, not because you can't hear the details, but because it sounds too tinny, too thin. "Counterparts" is what "Roll the Bones" should have sounded like, so anything helps! And yes, I also would like "Vapor Trails" remastered.

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  5. I agree with Kenneth. Love RtB, but VT sounds like garbage.

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  6. Hope someone posts their thoughts when they hear this...

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