andreww Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Was thinking the other day that Ive got tons of slides and negatives sitting in my basement from various rush shows I attended back in the 70s and 80s. These pictures have never been seen by anybody by myself, so I thought it was about time I shared them. Hope you enjoy! Ill add pics as I dig them up and scan them, but for now here is a set that were taken over two nights at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto during the Moving Pictures tour I believe. I believe the dates were March 23 & 24, 1981. http://i761.photobucket.com/albums/xx257/andreww1962/RUSH040_zpsf9a043e5.jpg http://i761.photobucket.com/albums/xx257/andreww1962/RUSH039_zpsb347694a.jpg http://i761.photobucket.com/albums/xx257/andreww1962/RUSH034_zps8131cfa4.jpg http://i761.photobucket.com/albums/xx257/andreww1962/RUSH031_zpseb56fecf.jpg http://i761.photobucket.com/albums/xx257/andreww1962/RUSH033_zpsae655ed5.jpg http://i761.photobucket.com/albums/xx257/andreww1962/RUSH016_zps0af3d33a.jpg http://i761.photobucket.com/albums/xx257/andreww1962/RUSH012_zpsc53d41c9.jpg http://i761.photobucket.com/albums/xx257/andreww1962/RUSH001_zps74c7b16c.jpg http://i761.photobucket.com/albums/xx257/andreww1962/RUSH024_zps9661066d.jpg http://i761.photobucket.com/albums/xx257/andreww1962/RUSH006_zps38708026.jpg http://i761.photobucket.com/albums/xx257/andreww1962/RUSH005_zps78d2358c.jpg http://i761.photobucket.com/albums/xx257/andreww1962/RUSH002_zpsed85a8f2.jpg http://i761.photobucket.com/albums/xx257/andreww1962/RUSH004_zpsfdc2246f.jpg http://i761.photobucket.com/albums/xx257/andreww1962/RUSH010_zps34f15304.jpg 21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syrinx Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Cool! I was there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andreww Posted July 25, 2013 Author Share Posted July 25, 2013 Cool! I was there. Did you go to multiple shows? I used to love those three and four night Gardens stands. I'd always try to catch at least two of the shows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EagleMoon Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Great pics! Thanks for sharing them. :) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnus 2112 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Those are amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theanalogmiddleagedman Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Incredible. I like Alex's yellow jacket... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluefunk Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Great pictures, thanks! Geddy in zips! :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andreww Posted July 25, 2013 Author Share Posted July 25, 2013 Hehe, gotta love the clothes. But really, Geddy has got to bring that Ricky bass back in to the rotation, it looks so cool. It was kind of fun scanning and retouching those photos after so many years. Things like Photoshop make life so much easier ;) Anyway I'll see what I can find in my box of negatives tomorrow, but I can guarantee that we'll be going back in time even further! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crimsonfrippy Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Thank you for sharing these! Cheers, frippy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nhlrush Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 my goodness, just check out the stage set up.... no offense to howard, the lighting for rush is spectacular, but i would love some stripped down future shows, just the three of them, no lighting, no steam punk, no theme, just them....like a bunch of club shows.....that would be awesome... great pics, thanks for sharing.....hard to believe its over thirty years ago.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorraine Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 I just love them! Alex looked great back then. Come to think of it, so did Geddy. I wish they were that young again.I wish I was that young again. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greyfriar Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 WOW - these pics are really great. Like most people here, I love that period in Rush history. Thanks for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddiescott98 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Very nice!! Thanks. I miss the multiple nights in town shows... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjgittes Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Great shots, thanks for the memories.With all the comments about the suit, anyone have a "collage" of the "Pajama" phase through today? Seems like that would be fun for us older members that can barely remember their outfits at the R30 tour let alone AFTK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
driventotheedge Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Thank you so much for sharing. Absolutely awesome pics! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
losingit2k Posted July 26, 2013 Share Posted July 26, 2013 Awesome, Thanks for sharing! :rush: :haz: :rush: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andreww Posted July 26, 2013 Author Share Posted July 26, 2013 Okay, the time machine is going back three years, almost to the day. Its March 25, 1978 and I was a 15 year old kid on vacation with his family in Fort Lauderdale Florida. Rush was playing in nearby Hollywood and my dad was cool enough to buy my brother and I tickets and drive us to and from the show. Somehow we ended up in the front row! Anyway, I ad a POS 35mm point and shoot at the time, so these pics aren't the greatest, but decent enough for you guys to catch a glimpse of what they were like back then. Enjoy :) http://i761.photobucket.com/albums/xx257/andreww1962/RUSH042_zps337130a3.jpg http://i761.photobucket.com/albums/xx257/andreww1962/RUSH063_zps9a9c8cae.jpg http://i761.photobucket.com/albums/xx257/andreww1962/RUSH053_zps64e669d9.jpg http://i761.photobucket.com/albums/xx257/andreww1962/RUSH064_zpse37e2470.jpg 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bootlegguy Posted July 26, 2013 Share Posted July 26, 2013 I liked the Toronto pics, but your Double Neck pics are so cool you lucky bastard lol. I wonder if Alex had a streak of Don Cherry in him when it came to clothes for a few years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andreww Posted July 26, 2013 Author Share Posted July 26, 2013 I liked the Toronto pics, but your Double Neck pics are so cool you lucky bastard lol. I wonder if Alex had a streak of Don Cherry in him when it came to clothes for a few years. Ah, if you want doubleneck pictures you'll have to see the Permanent Waves set on the next stop of the time machine. I was pretty lucky as I was able to see four shows between the period of 1977 - 1981 from the front row. In my opinion that was when the band hit their zenith. Still a great band, don't get me wrong, but there was something magical about that period in the bands history. As for the jackets? It was a period in music known as "New Romantic" and bands like Bowie, Roxy Music, Japan, Duran Duran were kind of an underground thing. Alex was always following fashion at the time so I'm pretty sure thats where the jackets and skinny ties came from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EagleMoon Posted July 26, 2013 Share Posted July 26, 2013 I'm loving these pics. Keep em coming. :) I never took a camera when I saw them back in the 80's and wish I had. Miss those days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syrinx Posted July 26, 2013 Share Posted July 26, 2013 Cool! I was there. Did you go to multiple shows? I used to love those three and four night Gardens stands. I'd always try to catch at least two of the shows.Yes I used to attend multiple shows. Usually around Christmas / New Years at Maple Leaf Gardens. I saw many of those concerts in the 70's and 80's. Did you see them at Varsity Stadium? That was an odd show. If I remember it was raining for most of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollo Posted July 26, 2013 Share Posted July 26, 2013 Great pics from the '81 shows, there is a pretty good bootleg of the 3-24-81 Toronto show out there that is worth tracking down. Also does anyone who saw the Hemispheres tour remember if there was any kind of video backdrop footage for the Hemispheres tour, I have always wondered that but I wasn't able to see it but it was before I had ever heard of Rush. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hcm Posted July 26, 2013 Share Posted July 26, 2013 Cool thanks for sharing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andreww Posted July 26, 2013 Author Share Posted July 26, 2013 Cool! I was there. Did you go to multiple shows? I used to love those three and four night Gardens stands. I'd always try to catch at least two of the shows.Yes I used to attend multiple shows. Usually around Christmas / New Years at Maple Leaf Gardens. I saw many of those concerts in the 70's and 80's. Did you see them at Varsity Stadium? That was an odd show. If I remember it was raining for most of it. Actually it didn't rain at all. It had rained the previous day and it was a little foggy during the show. You probably remember that because the crowd stated ripping up the damp chunks of turf and chucking them at the stage. (You'll see one of these projectiles in a coming post ;) ). But you are right, it was an odd show, kinda last minute if I recall correctly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andreww Posted July 26, 2013 Author Share Posted July 26, 2013 Great pics from the '81 shows, there is a pretty good bootleg of the 3-24-81 Toronto show out there that is worth tracking down. Also does anyone who saw the Hemispheres tour remember if there was any kind of video backdrop footage for the Hemispheres tour, I have always wondered that but I wasn't able to see it but it was before I had ever heard of Rush. I'm not 100% sure. In the above pics you can see that the screen is already in place, but at this point they were only projecting light on to it. I think by Hemispheres they had graduated to projecting still images on to it as I seem to recall some imagery from Cygnus X1/Hemispheres. My memory is a little sketchy though. Anyway, the next stop the time machine will make will be on Monday when I'll post some pics from the Permanent Wave show in Buffalo NY. Strangely the band avoided Toronto on that tour, probably because they'd played here 3 times for the Hemispheres tour and once on the Mini Hemispheres tour (Varsity). That was a drag because Waves was one of my favourite tours! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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