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''Hold Your Fire'' is the twelfth studio album by Canadian rock band Rush, released on September 8, 1987. It was recorded at The Manor Studio in Oxfordshire, Ridge Farm Studio in Surrey, Air Studios in Montserrat and McClear Place in Toronto. ''Hold Your Fire'' was the last Rush studio album released outside Canada by PolyGram/Mercury. Rush continued to explore new songwriting territory in ''Hold Your Fire''. 'Til Tuesday bassist and vocalist Aimee Mann contributed vocals to "Open Secrets" and "Time Stand Still", appearing in the Zbigniew Rybczyński-directed video for the latter.〔 The album was not as commercially successful as most of the band's releases of the 1980s, only peaking at #13 on the ''Billboard'' charts, the lowest debut for a Rush album since ''Hemispheres''.〔 However, it did eventually go gold. ==Writing== After Rush's 1986 ''Power Windows'' tour ended, the band members took the summer off to spend more time with their families. A few months passed, and the group decided to start getting back into writing material.〔Banasiewicz, Bill (1988). p. 89.〕 Neil Peart began writing lyrics in a cottage behind a still lake in early September. Meanwhile, Geddy Lee started to compose on his keyboard setup controlled on a Macintosh computer using software called Digital Performer,〔 which would be useful for both the writing and production stages, and Alex Lifeson was doing experimental tapes at home.〔 Peart also used the Mac to write some of the lyrics for the album.〔 Peart wanted to do something in the same vein as ''Power Windows'', this time working around the theme of time. However, after writing some lyrics for the first song he wrote for the album, "Time Stand Still", he started to create more material that would turn the theme into "Instinct",〔 which was the reason for titling the album ''Hold Your Fire''.〔Banasiewicz, Bill (1988). p. 90.〕 In an afternoon later that month, Peart and Lee together showed what they had been working on, and they also discussed a few lyrical ideas they weren't able to write on paper, which would be included in "Mission", "Open Secrets" and "Turn the Page". The group started writing sessions in Elora Sound Studio, Ontario on September 27, 1986.〔 Lifeson showed his experimental tapes, while Lee brought his Soundcheck Jams he had done that year. According to Peart, Lifeson's tapes "would yield some good parts for several songs," and Lee's Soundcheck jams were "sorted and labeled as potential verses, bridges, choruses or instrumental bits, and thus they served as a reference library of spontaneous ideas that could be drawn upon at will." Lifeson used a drum machine to write the drum parts, which Lee tracked on a Lerxst Sound recorder. By early November, eight songs had been written, which the group felt wasn't enough for the album to have a good amount of musical variety. Peart said, "We decided we'd go a bit further this time. We were aware of the fact that only a small percentage of people actually buy records any more, the vast majority choosing cassettes or CDs. Thus, we figured, why should we worry about the time limitations of the old vinyl disc? We thought we'd like to have ten songs, and go for fifty minutes or so of music. So we did."〔 Producer Peter Collins came in to Elora Sound in early December to give the band suggestions of improving the songs. Among many small changes, a couple of major suggestions were new verses to "Mission" and chorus revisions to "Open Secrets".〔 With nine songs already written, Collins also suggested the band make a tenth track for the album, and the song "Force Ten" would be written on the last day of pre-production, December 14.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hold Your Fire」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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