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Up the lube. Hey cookie. it's a quarter to eight.

Nor do they understand the fanbase. 10 years on, and here we are. As hardcore as ever...looking for those f***ing gems.

The article in question: https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/music/some-call-it-rushs-worst-album-but-50-years-later-it-sounds-like-an-ambitious/article_150dcba1-53e0-46f8-8d00-dcd73e6cf239.html

Glad to hear it!

Didn't they open for The Tubes on that tour too?

“Down the tubes? More like UP the tubes!”

I can visualise what they must have said: "Caress of Steel, the heavy metal smorgasbord of 1975!"

The longer this goes on the more I think that the label didn't do their homework on this band when they bought the catalog.

"Headlong Flight" is top-drawer great, and I think that "Wish Them Well" and "The Garden" are wonderfully melancholy farewell tracks; if it's not a great final album, it is a great final song pairing.

I think you may have hit the nail on the head here - I guess these technically fall under the GUP tour, but feature nearly all of the Signals songs performed during the previous tour. It would make sense that they would have done SBD recordings of these shows being as there are quite a few "iconic" photos from these gigs. It would also satisfy our disappointment with the "Signals 40" set to get some live material from the era - as long as they don't use the night where "Countdown" wasn't played - that would be annoying in the extreme!!! So...could there be a "Regular" Deluxe set with an RCMH gig which would be 3-CDs, and then the "Super" Deluxe set with Toronto or maybe Largo '84 so that the main GUP tour is represented as a 5-CD set?? Interesting idea, I don't think my wallet would like it though!!!!

It was a blast! The cover bands were great, especially Moving Pictures. Terry Brown signed my CD copy of Caress of Steel and was an all around nice guy. It was really fun being around that many Rush fans for a couple of days. Good vibes!

My sister and I attended the SLC concert and I am forever grateful I got to see them one last time. I watched most of the final leg of the tour on Periscope and it was amazing, wish I had watched more and earlier on. When Neil came out from behind the drums, I felt that was truly the final gig. 10 years has certainly gone by fast.