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  • Number of Rush Concerts Attended
    16
  • Last Rush Concert Attended
    I hope not!
  • Favorite Rush Song
    Where do I start?
  • Favorite Rush Album
    Currently CA, Hemispheres, Counterparts and COS
  • Best Rush Experience
    Manchester Apollo 1980, my first ever gig! 2004 when for years we thought we may never see them again. Front row at Oslo 2007. Manchester & Newcastle 2011 - brilliant audiences! Finally hearing The Body Electric live at Sheffield in 2013, and... Finally seeing Rush in Toronto, 35 years to the day (UK time!) from when I first saw them !!!
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    Zep, Sabbath, Tull, Thomas Tallis, William Byrd, Jan Garbarek, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Mozart, Arvo P�rt, Elgar, Shostakovich, The Be Good Tanyas, Fleet Foxes, First Aid Kit, Dar Williams
  1. 51 views & no replies ? Am I the only person to have wondered about the whole Don River / River Dawn thang ? C'mon Neil. You wrote the lyric. Surely YOU remember, eh? ;-)
  2. Hmmm... possibly, in fact probably, but... 1. How many other words has NEP made up in 41 years ? (OK, I realise that at this point I might be swamped by examples !). 2. What IS a Tobe anyway? Even if it is made up, what does it represent? Is it just easier to use "Tobe" in a lyric than "dank subterranean tunnel or chamber, or whatever a Tobe is meant to represent ? It is entirely logical that a Tobe could be a sort of lemon meringue pie which is a speciality of Hades, rather than a subterranean chamber ? By-tor was a play on "biter" (I believe) & Snowdog is a description rather than a made up word (I think).
  3. Is the River Dawn actually the Don River (or River Don) which flows to the east of Toronto ? The Don River looks very fordable when viewed from the high bridge which crosses it, & to my hearing, Dawn & Don, said in the correct North American accent, sound very similar, so is the Don River the River Dawn ? It's also not an unwalkable distance from Willowdale, especially if you are a traveller.
  4. What is a "Tobe" (as in Tobes of Hades) ? If you do not believe Hades exists, and if a Tobe is/was something only found in Hades, by definition a Tobe could not exist, however, if a Tobe could exist outside Hades, or you were to suspend your disbelief for a moment, then what actually is a Tobe ?
  5. To REALLY learn patience & "the art of waiting", become a Frank Marino fan & wait for HIS long promised DVD
  6. QUOTE (hughes&kettner @ Jul 2 2011, 02:32 PM)QUOTE (Scars @ Jul 1 2011, 07:09 PM) ONLY two? I think if given the option, I'd be dumping half the setlist... OUT: Faithless Workin' Them Angels The fact that S&A has 3 songs yet Fly By Night, Caress Of Steel, Grace Under Pressure, Roll The Bones, Test For Echo, and Vapor Trails don't even get touched ticked me off. So to compensate for at least some of those albums, I'd put in Test for Echo and Dreamline. ...ironically in 2004 I think (off the top of my head) the only album not represented was Presto ?
  7. QUOTE (bigmoney2112 @ Jul 1 2011, 04:04 PM) Out: Presto and Faithless In: Half The World and The Big Money Half The World - great idea !!!
  8. OUT - Stick it out & Tom Sawyee. IN - Available Light & hmmm... so many... erm... Madrigal, Different Strings, A Farewell to Kings, The Stars Look Down, Between Sun & Moon... I am also in total agreement with OUT MP, IN COS, not that I dislike MP but COS live would be total genius - even to a genius! Working Man would have to stay due to it's "closure" factor - effectively Rush's career took off when Donna Halper heard & started playing WM on WMMS in Cleveland in 1974, & I guess (well, I'm sure) the boys have DVD'd Cleveland on this tour as a nod to that starting point. For the same reason I think Time Stand Still needs to stay - very much an "end of the summer" "looking back" type of song - "old friends growing older" is now surely as much a nod to "us" - the people who have followed Rush for spans of geological time, as it was to whoever it referred to in the mid '80's. In many ways this song works even better with the boys being at this stage in their lives (& we at ours ?) that it did when it was written. I also think Closer To The Heart is another nod to "closure" - a song which allegedly at least one member of the band never wanted to play live again, but such an audience singalong in the past that it is back again to say bye-bye ? (that doesn't mean I wouldn't change it though!) I think some songs (& maybe not just/even the above ones ?) are in the set-list for certain "deeper" reasons - not just because one has a nice bass line or whatever ? ...then again I might be talking a load of rubbish & the songs are just "here because they're here"
  9. Just got mine - & just to (test for) echo greyfriar's words, many thanks to Nebbish and all involved!!
  10. QUOTE (sanzo @ Jun 12 2011, 09:26 PM) Horseman- I dont really recall what I was doing at the interval, I know I wenr to the stall and got a poster and badges then came back and stood in the aisles and they good stewards there let me too. How do you know I was talking to a Canadian and New yorker? I didnt even know that lol Hi Sanzo - The person in the Geniusses shirt was having a chat to a stocky coloured guy & his mate who, dare I say, had a look of Geddy about him, but maybe a generation or two removed. Me & my wife then spotted these same two guys when we went for a wander after breakfast the next morning. We saw the same two guys just past the Tyne bridge & had about 20 minutes chatting with them until it started raining. They both seemed like regular Rush fans, the coloured guy having seen them 22 times, mostly around the NY area. It was even weirder to find that the bloke whose appearance reminded me of Geddy was actually from Toronto!
  11. In no particular order... Rush - 2112 Rush - ATWAS I was lent these two simultaneously while at school - music was NEVER the same after that. Jan Garbarek - All Those Born With Wings Henryk Gorecki - Symphony No3 Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis John McLaughlin, Al Di Meola, Paco De Lucia - Friday Night in San Francisco Do you mind if I go over 6 ?... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem Black Sabbath - Paranoid Jethro Tull - Heavy Horses Rammstein - Links-2-3-4 (a song, not an album) Luciano Pavarotti - Greatest Hits Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No7 Gregorio Allegri - Miserere Led Zep - III & Physical Graffiti Django Reinhardt - Appel Direct Loreena McKennitt - The Book of Secrets Hodie - An English Christmas Collection The Stranglers - Black & White Radio 3 - Late Junction (OK, I admit it, it's a radio programme!) I think I better stop there !!!!!!
  12. QUOTE (phlaaps @ Jun 5 2011, 08:52 PM) QUOTE (sanzo @ Jun 5 2011, 02:11 PM) It was probably me you seen in Newcastle or nebbish +co , I think we were the only ones with them on but of course there could have been others Undoubtedly the finest tshirt to celebrate the boys FIRST visit to Ireland. Hi Sanzo, if you were stood for a while during the interval in the aisle that ran on the left hand side of the floor (when looking towards the stage) about 5 rows from the front , & were talking to a couple of guys, 1 from Toronto & 1 from New York, then it was you I saw.
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