For a film with a demon bunny in it, Kelly manages to almost completely avoid any histrionics.
He's such an effective player, he doesn't need the histrionics.
His solution appears to be to eschew the histrionics, the grandstanding, and play it as a downbeat slightly quizzical damaged human being.
Histrionics are not his style, he drinks tea, chairs meetings, takes things under advisement and commands his troops to 'make it so'.
No Lifeson histrionics here just superb rhythm electric and acoustic guitars backed up by Geddy 's synths and more restrained vocals.
No longer an arena for fancy and risk taking, the face of chart pop changed to gray, empty, gestural rock histrionics.
Suffice to say that these were all the constituents we needed for a night of raucous binge drinking and eye-popping vocal histrionics.
The histrionics of today's mostly continental players are a direct result of what began that summer of '74.
Within this new context, Dave's guitar histrionics work well adding considerable flavor to the original compositions.