chrisw25

I'll refrain from reading prior comments as the nitpickers will try to destroy what was an absolute historical show. Best concert I've ever been to. I will say, though, I take back everything I ever said about Losing It. Seeing it performed live last night was an experience I'll never forget. An absolute stellar moment of moments!! I'm so blessed to be able to see it performed Live for the first time. It's funny how seeing/hearing a song performed Live can change your opinion of that song. Consider me a fan of the Losing It club. lol

Any chance someone can start a 'Losing It' thread so those who couldn't give a flying f*** about this song don't have to read the same "Ya think they'll play Losing It' posts?

I will hold you to that. Remember, proof is required.

Interesting. Recently Geddy had mentioned he and his wife had spent several weeks in New Zealand bird watching. OTOH, it's a little hard to believe. How much would it cost to send all that equipment overseas? And travelling between each of the countries would require more ocean shipping. I don't see the cost benefit, unless they pull off some sort of Iron Maiden Flight 666 deal. So, North American bands never play in Australia or New Zealand because of this? lol

Zach Thomas? Who is that? He's not listed in my R40 tourbook as being on the tour crew, SRO staff, or even related to video productions. Yeah, so the fact I met the guy, he had a laminate on stating who he was with a radio strapped to his belt means absolutely nothing because your tourbook bible tells you so.

I was a lot more kind on another site but, from my 5th row vantage point in front of Alex, I felt the first set was... in a word, strange. Seemed like every song was being played an octave lower and when Ged's vocals hit high parts, he'd bounce back up to the correct octave while the music didn't. His vocals, for the most part sounded great. I hear complaints coming from those watching through periscope feeds but, honestly, is that a great gauge of quality sound and mixing? I felt the second set was incredible. Yeah, a slight botch of a solo in Red Barchetta from Alex but not the train wreck everyone on here seems to think it was. In fact, most of what people are calling train wrecks are not at all that. I've seen shows from this close before and it seems like this is the most challenging show for all three members due to its difficulty and complexity. I was in awe that they were putting out as much as they were. All three were machines, especially Neil. On a side note, I ran into production manager Zack Thomas on the break who told me they'll be heading to Australia, New Zealand and Indonesia for shows in the fall and before Christmas. Yep. Indonesia. In the new year they'll be back for another leg of North American shows. So, the DVD will most likely not be released until next year. That last sentence is my speculation based on Zack's info. One last note: Can we put Losing It to bed? Based on the challenges of the current set lists night in and night out, I doubt they'll add to them by inserting a new song such as this. Look for it as a DVD extra at best.

Geez, I hope someone posts a live vid of How It Is on Youtube. Not sure if I can wait until mid-June to see and hear it nor am I guaranteed it will be played during that show.

Held my breath for a second making sure they didn't Superconduct it. lol

Xana fackin duuuuuuuu

I'm freakin' losing it over here. Cygnus my fuggin' gawd!!!!

OMFG!!!!!!!! I got a HEMI !!!!!!!!!!!!!

JL sounds the f***ing best so far! They're killing it!!

Okay. Chronologically threw me off. DEW

Great job with the RTB vid. Trailer Park Boys, Paul Rudd etc! Love it!

This.

Headlong Flight; The Wreckers; Far Cry; OLV; then it'll get really interesting hitting the TFE time period.

Was thinking that about the curtain as well.

QUOTE (savagegrace26 @ May 11 2012, 03:01 PM) - Corny intro video 1. The Spirit of Radio 2. Far Cry 3. Distant Early Warning 4. Force Ten Geddy: How y'all doin'? We have about a billion songs for y'all and right now we're going to torture y'all with some new stuff! - Dramatic Swirly Red Clock Video plays 5. Caravan 6. BU2B 7. Clockwork Angels Geddy: Ok. Enough of that new crap. Here's something we haven't played in a while. We pulled this one out of the vault fo' y'all. 8. Roll the Bones Geddy: That's one of our favorites and we missed playing it. Hope y'all enjoyed it. Here's another oldie for ya. 9. Animate Geddy: Now back to more CLOCKWORK ANGELS! - Dramatic Swirly Red Clock Video plays 10. The Anarchist 11. Carnies 12. Halo Effect Geddy: That new stuff sure depletes our energy so we're going to take a little break.... INTERMISSION - Clockwork Angels/Signals mash-up video with comedy (both intentional and unintentional) 1. Subdivisions 2. The Analog Kid 3. Digital Man 4. New World Man Geddy: Whew. That was our little tribute to our Subdivisions album....I mean Signals album. It's 30 years old now.....Ok, here's some more new stuff... - Dramatic Swirly Red Clock Video plays 5. Seven Cities of Gold 6. The Wreckers 7. Headlong Flight 8. BU2B2 9. Drum Solo 10. New acoustic stuff 11. 2112 Overture/Temples - Dramatic Swirly Red Clock Video plays 12. Wish them Well 13. The Garden 14. Limelight 15. Tom Sawyer Geddy: Thank you very much! Hope to see you next time! Good Night! Encore: 1. YYZ 2. Working Man - Corny outro video plays Just the Geddy commentary would be worth the price of admission, but... not much else on that setlist besides Digital and New World Man. Sorry.

I second the Prime Mover motion.

Last year they played Hamilton but not Toronto. This year, I guess it only seems logical (in the best interest of dispersing a limited amount of tour dates) since they are already playing Toronto to avoid Hamilton with maybe the hope of seeing them back that way for a possible 2013 leg of the tour. Probably one of the reasons Hamilton was packed was due to no Toronto date.

QUOTE (J2112YYZ @ May 10 2012, 09:34 AM) QUOTE (chrisw25 @ May 10 2012, 07:43 AM) People wanting to hear a complete album of which we haven't heard nine tracks just blows my mind. Yeah, let's forget about all the songs for the past thirty-five years that people have been whining about not hearing. Sorry, I just can't make any sense out of this. One tour they do a whole album, a classic album, and now everyone thinks it's the greatest idea ever. I'm with you on this. For all we know we've already heard the only new songs that are any good. I have my doubts on that but still, you never know. If they do the whole album live but I wouldn't want them to play it all in a row. Open the set with a couple oldies everyone loves to get the crowd going, then play the first three songs off the new album, then some old ones again and then play the next three songs off the new album. Repeat that format throughout the show and they'll still play the whole new album while following the concept in order but they won't lose the crowd completely because they'll be mixing in the old stuff with it. I don't believe they will play all of Clockwork Angels because even with them playing two sets having 12 spots reserved for the new album is taking up a lot of room and doesn't leave space for anything else. I didn't see Iron Maiden when they played all of their new album to start their shows back in 2006 but most of the reviews I read weren't that favorable. While it's a ballsy move for a classic rock/metal band to do that, it can also be suicide and can really turn fans off from coming to see the band again. But ultimately, the band has got your money and your attention for the length of the show so they can pretty much do whatever they want weather you like it or not. I agree. If you look at my setlist several posts above, I selected six tracks from CA (which is more tracks than Vapor Trails on that tour) and they are slotted throughout surrounded by songs old and recent. I think it would be a great way to do it rather than open with five songs(aka snorefest) like the S&A tour.

People wanting to hear a complete album of which we haven't heard nine tracks just blows my mind. Yeah, let's forget about all the songs for the past thirty-five years that people have been whining about not hearing. Sorry, I just can't make any sense out of this. One tour they do a whole album, a classic album, and now everyone thinks it's the greatest idea ever.

First Set: Headlong Flight Ceiling Unlimited Turn the Page The Big Money The Larger Bowel YYZ Halo Effect Red Sector A Dreamline Carnies Natural Science Second Set: Caravan Driven BU2B Limelight Freewill Manhattan Project The Main Monkey Business Clockwork Angels Earthshine Drum Solo O'Malley's Break Jacob's Ladder The Spirit of Radio Encore Tom Sawyer Xanadu Grand Finale

QUOTE (rushjoe @ May 7 2012, 06:28 PM) QUOTE (FT Tracker @ May 7 2012, 03:00 PM) So after reading the post on this site and buying a lower level ticket for Indy at 12:03 the best I could get at the time. I decided to go back and see what I could get a ticket for at 3:52. I got floor 2 row 8. Whats the deal? Now I need to sell my first ticket. Which by the way I paid the same money for. Did you know floor 2 row 8 is the second section of floor seats ? I would keep the lower bowl seats . I got sec 17 row 7 by the stage on alexs side. Looking forward to meeting you.

First ten minutes for Toronto, nothing would come up for the floors but seats available in lower bowl. I just kept re-entering then the first floors that came up for me were FLR Right Row 3. Very pleased although they are seats 43 and 44 which tells me I'm way to the right. The question is, how many seats are in the row?