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Very surprised there's not a post about this (unless I missed it). Doubly sweet since I live in Pittsburgh, where it happened. Not a native yinzer, but I feel the love for sure. When Beyond the Lighted Stage was in theaters, when they showed an overheard shot of Civic Arena and mentioned Neil's 1st show, the entire auditorium erupted.

DONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Great evening in Cleveland (even though some of you booed the mentions of my city of Pittsburgh, the home of Neil's 1st show!!!!). I picked up the 5-card baseball card set for the fun of it. Seemed like a different kind of memento than the usual article of clothing.

DONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I knew she'd be in Cleveland, despite all the indications otherwise! Was a great surprise, I gave her a standing ovation. What a great night!!

I'm assuming it's not the same person each show, following Geddy around. So that being said, in Cleveland on Sunday, it's gotta be Donna, right??

"Oh, he's an entertainer!!"

"It was nice to know that if we decide to go out, Alex and I, whether we went out as part of a new thing, or whether we just wanted to go out and play RUSH as RUSH, we could do that now." Play together again? Yes, please! As Rush? No, please call it something else. So much of the live show was based around Neil, and it would feel off. Using some other name would feel like a fresh start and feel cleaner and most likely would sit better with people. Just my opinion.

...marriage?

Minor quibble I know, and probably hardly worth making a post over, hah, but maybe it's because I'm so used to the version of YYZ on ESL that hearing Neil sort of just roll into the solo as opposed to bouncing into it with some syncopation is jarring and takes me out of the experience a little bit. Anyone else finding themselves having a hard time completing immersing themselves into the 40th anniversary live set because you're so accustomed to ESL? For example, Alex's guitar on Broon's Bane comes across way more as a plugged-in classical guitar (a tone of which which I am not the biggest fan) than a mic'd classical.

Isn't one of the well known funny little tidbits about Neil that despite being really good friends with Stewart Copeland (The Police), Copeland has gone on record saying that he's not a fan of Neil's playing?

It's why I often order my burgers medium rare, with extra lasagna on top!

Or 100% definitely not

They don't make 'em like this anymore. Now it's just a FB post, "hey, we're releasing a new album on this date."

I'm vaxx'd, too, and obviously would be wearing a mask. It was sold out the last time, but there was only one theater showing it (on science center-type screen, to boot). This time, I see 3 or 4 theaters across different areas, (but smaller auditoriums, it seems). So... not sure whether that will affect the sales. My own stance is to be more cautious than not. I have a friend who was a breakthrough case a few weeks ago and he said it was the worst thing he's ever experienced. So, again, that's just me. I think it will be a wait-and-see type thing for me over the next few weeks.

Certainly not me...... Yeah, I dunno. I've seen all the docs over the last few years in theaters, and they were always an awesome experience. But with rising cases and this being an indoor thing...

Just checked the ticketing for my show (Pittsburgh), and one of the theaters listed no longer is grayed out and has a time listed with an active link. And when I selected # of seats just to see, it did carry on to the seat selection part (whereas previously I selected # of seats, hit "next," and got an error message. And it was for all theaters). So I guess it's good to go...?