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I have a shot at getting 2nd or 3rd row, but the ticket is on the far end of the section....like seat 3 or 5. Is that too far away, or is it still a great show?

The babies are getting BIG! Five peregrine falcon chicks, and they're ALWAYS HUNGRY..... They get a regular smorgasbord.....mice, pigeons, sparrows, even a blue jay (yesterday). We suspect that they enjoyed some good rabbit, too.....(we found a rabbit ear)..... The mother feeds then at dawn and dusk...and several times inbetween, of course..... http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff295/unk2112/20120521_19-19-15.jpg

Never underestimate the power of........a long, hot SHOWER. http://this-small-planet.com/wp-content/uploads/Hot-Shower.png Next...!!

QUOTE (EmotionDetector @ May 21 2012, 08:41 AM)I also finally got around to watching Iron Man 2 on blu-ray the other day. I loved it as well. Great stuff. Sadly, I forgot about Iron Man 2 the day after I saw it. I found it annoying and only mildly entertaining in parts. Iron Man, Thor, and The Avengers are my Blu-ray selections. Captain America......maybe.....

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QUOTE (Gompers @ May 21 2012, 11:44 AM) Jerry Garcia is still dead. SNL should announce this on Weekend Update......

Unless Robin Williams appears on Madden's video game cover, we have nothing to worry about......

"But just because we're nice doesn't mean you should like our music." - Geddy This may be the wisest bit of advice ever given.

QUOTE (Godeater2112 @ May 19 2012, 08:06 AM)People deserve to jump up and down and yell and scream and dance if they want. This is called a "rock concert". People behind you also have the "choice" to stand or sit. I like to stand for the entire Show, too. I hate sitting down for a rock concert. However, nowhere on the ticket is it written that we "deserve" or are "entitled" to stand, dance, jump around....and block other people's view. We have no "right" to do it. It ultimately comes down to working it out with the people around you. If people are sitting and they protest, then you have to work it out. If they don't protest, then so be it. People also have the choice to call security and have them deal with those of us who stand all Show long. And we all know that Security doesn't like "troublemakers".....

QUOTE (troutman @ May 18 2012, 10:10 PM) I will stand when I want to no matter what. A few bad apples are not going to ruin my Concert. There are idiots at concerts and at any other public event. Those of us who are respectful and considerate will not accept being put in the same class with the mindless fools! And when the people sitting behind you are calling YOU the "bad apple"? What happens when you're the one being disrespectful and inconsiderate?

QUOTE (CrossedSignals @ May 18 2012, 03:59 PM) I'd say Moving Pictures, just because it's Rush's most popular album and you have the greatest chance of hooking him on Rush. I agree. Either Moving Pictures or a compilation of their best stuff. I wouldn't give him any of the extreme stuff, like Cygnus X-1 or By-Tor.......

QUOTE (D3strukt @ May 18 2012, 01:35 PM)Wow, I was unaware that most Rush fans were unaware of Tony. He has been the Keyboard technician since AFTK. He's what makes everything work. Look him up on Facebook. I was unaware that Rush fans were supposed to know who Tony is. I don't know any of the tech's, roadies, or stagehands. Does that mean I'm not a "true Rush fan".....?

QUOTE (wilb1972 @ May 18 2012, 09:25 AM)The fervour for Rush was very nearly demonstrated in tragic fashion in Detroit in January. A month previously - December 3 to be exact - 11 fans had been killed in Riverfront Coliseum in Cinncinnati when the crowd rushed the gates at a Who concert. Good article, although it got the Cincinnati venue wrong. It was the Coliseum, not the Stadium. Good bands like Rush actually care about their fans' welfare. Other bands couldn't care less. Sometimes, I think they like seeing the insane crush up front...the borderline chaos and anarchy.....

QUOTE (ioc @ May 17 2012, 06:44 PM) Who? Oh, you mean the "Jump" guys. Didn't they die. Old dysfunctional bands never die. They just fade away into reality series.....until no one remembers who they are.....

QUOTE (greyfriar @ May 17 2012, 07:51 AM)Escape??? At a Rush show??? Indeed. I never anticipate having to "escape" anything at a Rush Show. Being retired from drinking, I'll get a large Coke (or maybe a beer) before the Show starts, and that's it. Maybe get a Coke at intermission. I only leave during a song if it's absolutely necessary......like if I REALLY have to pee......

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QUOTE (HowItIs @ May 17 2012, 04:24 AM) I read somewhere that Rush has a rider in their contract that there will be no standing aka Festival seating. I'm sure that the tragedy in Cincinnati is the reason. Well, the Who tragedy was over 30 years ago. It's a valid reason in the sense that bands and their promoters have become more concerned with fan safety over the years. The Who concert was the "Big One", but there have been plenty of other concert incidents that have awakened venues to safety problems. I think that today's concert venues use assigned seating primarily because festival seating has become obsolete in many cases. Let's face it, a lot of rock fans are older and not all that hip about going into a mosh pit or fighting all evening for a front row view. Older fans often prefer assigned seating, where they can stand or sit as they please. And when they bring their children, assigned seating becomes even more important.

QUOTE (metaldad @ May 16 2012, 01:41 PM)QUOTE (EmotionDetector @ May 16 2012, 01:36 PM) QUOTE (Workaholic Man @ May 16 2012, 02:32 PM) QUOTE (Khan @ May 16 2012, 12:12 PM) The Who-Cincinnati....that's why. Bingo. The Who tragedy started the end of general admission, the no-smoking rules, no open flames/ bic lighters, etc. Hmm...just looked that up. I had no idea...had never heard of this. Very sad. That's why reserved seating is very important. I for one, have no desire to be in General Admission personally. Ah to be young E.D. I remember it like yesterday . Very sad story . I remember they showed pix on the news the next day , what a mess I remember it very well, as I was there. I was just a few yards from the deadliest area of the crowd - the center - where 11 people were suffocated. The Who was performing a late sound check, and we all heard the music outside. Naturally, we all wanted IN. We thought the Show had started. It was one of the strangest things I've ever witnessed. It was a sea of people (thousands of us), moving back and forth, pushing back and forth, like the tide was coming in and out. I was lucky enough to be by the outside wall of the building, so I could keep myself upright. I wasn't sucked down into the crowd and suffocated, like the victims. We tried climbing over people, crawling under people.....I got my face pushed against a glass door (that no one cared to open), and I could see the bloody faces of the injured inside...and I could also see cops standing around, refusing to help..... The movement to "clean up" rock concerts got a huge push after the Who tragedy. Festival seating was the scapegoat for the tragedy, but the true cause was the refusal of Coliseum personnel to open more doors for the huge crowd trying to get in. Lawsuits went on forever. Venues across the country started banning festival seating, open flames, smoking,.....and Cincinnati became a very repressed place for future rock bands to visit. Van Halen was the first band to play in Cincinnati since the tragedy. David Lee Roth made the mistake of telling the crowd to "light up" when they played "Light Up The Sky". He was arrested right after the show. "Enciting a riot", the police charged......but it was later dropped. Judas Priest played most of their show with the house lights completely ON, as the crowd wouldn't stop smoking and flicking their Bics.....Halford basically said, "FU*CK 'EM! We'll rock the house anyways!" The crowd LOVED IT..... I understand the positive aspects of assigned seats, and I even agree with them. The positives of assigned seats outweigh the "fun" of festival seating, which, to be honest, is just too dangerous when certain bands play. I don't think a Rush concert with festival seating would be dangerous these days, but that's just my opinion. What I DON'T LIKE is the Lie that is still promoted about what happened at Riverfront Coliseum on December 3rd, 1979. Many people were at fault, but it was NOT the fault of festival seating.

QUOTE (Khan @ May 16 2012, 12:12 PM) The Who-Cincinnati....that's why. Bingo. The Who tragedy started the end of general admission, the no-smoking rules, no open flames/ bic lighters, etc.

The only person responsible for any angst and animosity over the release of a new album is one's self. It's totally self-inflicted. Meanwhile, I'm gonna sue the manufacturer of my tea kettle because it's not making water boil fast enough for me....

At long last....my trip to Bangkok has been confirmed.

QUOTE (MMCXII @ May 15 2012, 09:19 PM)I come here less and less because of this... Why would I want to read pages of children bickering when I could be listening to music or something?? It's completely up to YOU to either read or not read the childish bickering. It's YOUR time that YOU choose to spend/waste here. Partake in the good threads, and ignore the bad threads. DON'T add to the bad threads by creating new bad threads. It's that simple.

QUOTE (Tony R @ May 14 2012, 10:07 AM)Yeah, he said fanbois are sad bastards and the new album is shit. Actually, he said that the clock face on the new album does indeed read "9:11", and that the band is sorry if they offended anyone who may have lost family and friends in the attack.

QUOTE (Gedneil Alpeart @ May 14 2012, 09:12 PM)Mods, time to close this? The stink of failure is awful. http://dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/000000/00000/2000/900/2984/2984.strip.gif