Thunder Bay Rush

Has anyone from this forum seen her live? I'm really curious about her live show.

Hmmmm... I really don't think they're comments were rude or "assholish." Geddy made a valid point... hard rock was getting its ass kicked by disco back then. Alex was talking about vomitting over disco music, not Donna Summrs. In fact, he said she had a "fantastic" voice and was an accomplished painter. One of the biggest problems with reading text on a screen or in a magazine, is that it's hard to "feel" what they're saying. That's why we have these silly little emotion icons (that are very handy sometimes!) I think you may be taking their comments the wrong way... maybe. These guys have never ever dissed anyone... not that I've ever heard or seen anyway.

Something is bothering me about those pictures. No doubt Rush played that high school in May, 77. It said so in the newspaper clipping and that's reliable. But, those pictures, with the double-necked guitars and Neil's new and much bigger kit... I don't think they had that gear while on the road prior to the AFT Kings tour. The only way they would have had is if they were "test playing" the new songs from the AFT Kings album before they recorded it. That album was recorded in June 1977 in England and released on September 3, 1977. I guess it makes sense that they would be "test playing" material from the upcoming AFT Kings album the month before they recorded it. (Jesus Christ, I've given myself a headache.) But, is it possible that the person who took the pictures (or who has them for whatever reason) believes they were taken at that high school show, but were really taken later on during the AFT Kings Tour? I see the one of Alex and Neil going INTO the school... but in that shot we don't see any instruments. The mystery continues... (Or, is there NO mystery and TBR is retarded?)

Hey Cyg, KICK-ASS story! (Kinda jealous over here!) I have an idea for the marketing of a new dating site - I'm gonna (Canadian for "going to") call it: "The Cygnus Gal Two Hour Meet-The-One-And-Only Dating Site." I will need your written permission to use your awesome testimonial. However, I will gladly cut you in on the ad revenues... Deal?

I'll be starting a new garden this year... a big one. The problem is, that I live alone and I always have WAY too much fresh vegetables around here. So, everyone on TRF is invited to my house in mid September to help me pound 'er down. And, since our friendly, but somehow, furious "Gangster" is a veggie/vegan person, she's allowed to bring a U Haul trailer and fill it up for consumption back in southern Cal... Hey, it would only be about a 30 hour drive for most of you.. no big deal!

Sounds great... will it my hair grow??????????????????????????

I saw that show at the Ottawa Civic Centre... October, 1976. It was packed with 8,000 hosers. Hard to imagine that just about a year before that, they were playing in shitty baquet halls and biker bars in front of 50 people. (Unless they were on a KISS or Aerosmith Tour). Man, they really took off with 2112. I remember almost EVERYONE in my high school bought that album and played it non-stop.

I would love to shoot something like that just for shits and giggles... unfortunately, that type of firearm is prohibited up here in Canada. If someone ever got caught with one, they'd be going to the "Hard Luck Cafe" for a very long time. I have never even seen one accept for on TV...

Well, here comes a point of view from a typical Canadian... First of all, in Canada, it's nearly impossible to obtain a permit for a handgun. Just saying you "want one" isn't good enough. And, if you do get a permit to buy one, (which could take 8 months or more) the ONLY place in ALL of Canada that you would be allowed to shoot your handgun is at an approved gun range. Yes, that means, for example, if I was to shoot a little rim fire handgun (like a .22 or .17) in my back woods (I live off the grid, middle of nowhere) at tin cans for fun or practice, it would be a criminal code violation, no different from assault, drug selling, forgery, DWI or robbery. Some of you Americans must be in shock reading this... and one would NEVER get a conceal / carry permit up here. I have eight firearms, all for hunting. I've never even shot a handgun. I know a couple of people who own them and shoot at the local range. There's a BIG cultural difference between the US and Canada when it comes to firearms, mainly handguns and the so-called "military or assault style" rilfes. These guns are no different in firepower from a regular hunting rifle in terms of calibre and trajectory... in fact, most hunting rilfes have a larger calibre than any assault rifle, which are often chambered for a smaller calibre of .223 or so. But the high capacity magazines of anything more than ten rounds, to me, (a typical Canuck) is completely insane. Why does anyone need a rifle that has a mag cap of 100 rounds (or more?) The only reason they make high-cap magazines is so one can kill as many people as possible in the shortest amount of time. Deer hunters would never use one. I'm also not crazy about people owning handguns - but - and here it is... I live in Canada, and especially where I live, (north, rural) gun crime is almost unheard of. I don't remember the last time we had a gun-related murder around here. I NEVER, EVER lock my doors. I don't know ANYONE who has ever had a home invasion either. So, based on all of this, I am the wrong person to judge whether or not people should be allowed to carry a handgun. I really don't know what it is like to wake up in the middle of night with some asswipe standing in my bedroom... if that ever happened to me, I wouldn't mind having a gun close by. If I did have a handgun, the problem is, that it would have to be locked up at all times if not AT the range. So, for me, having one is useless for protection. I have a few shotguns that would serve in that regard. But, the odds of me ever having that scenario unfold in my house where I live, is virtually zero. By the way, last year, our feds deregulated the registration of our "long guns." None of our hunting rifles or shotguns have to be registered now. (They tried it for 15 years, but realized it was a waste of time and money). So, if I want to buy a shotgun, privately or from a store, all I have to do is show my federal firearms permit (easy to get if no criminal record... just a simple classroom course of four evenings and a simple test) and I can buy. The seller doesn't have to record any numbers or anything. He just has to "see it." At this time, the feds don't know how many firearms I have because they destroyed the info from the registry. (At least that's what they say, but I believe it.)

Not surprised... I still wish I could go to that ceremony (I'd be the guy yelling from the balcony, "In your face, in your face!") So, Gangst', ol' buddy, if you happen to have two more tickets hangin' around down there in California, and you "just don't know" what to do with them, you can send them up here to Canadia, addressed simply to "TBR." "Our Candian mailman" knows me.

Maybe they were already signed up to play the gig before the actual release of 2112. I'm scratching my head on this one, because on the same site that has the pictures from the high school, it has the concert listings for each tour. The shows before and after were all in theaters holdiing up to 5,000 seat or hockey areans holding about 8,000 - 12,000... and Rush was headlining all shows. I think your guess might be correct. Contractual obligation?? Something unusual... just a few months earlier they played (and sold out) two nights in Toronto at Maple Leaf Gardens, where the Leafs used to play before they built the ACC in 2001. Why would play a high school? Below is a copy and paste from that site - April 20, 1977 Agricultural Hall -- Allentown, Pennsylvania (Angel, Max Webster) April 21, 1977 Mid-Hudson Civic Center -- Poughkeepsie, New York (Max Webster) April 22, 1977 Broom County Arena -- Binghamton, New York (Max Webster) April 23, 1977 War Memorial Arena -- Syracuse, New York (Angel, Max Webster) April 24, 1977 Palace Theatre -- Albany, New York (Styx, Starcastle, Max Webster) May 4, 1977 Music Hall -- Omaha, Nebraska (Angel, Max Webster) May 5, 1977 Civic Auditorium -- Fargo, North Dakota (Max Webster) May 6, 1977 St. Paul Civic Center -- St. Paul, Minnesota (Styx, Starcastle, Max Webster) May 8, 1977 Duluth Arena -- Duluth, Minnesota (Styx) May 9, 1977 Wausau Newman High School -- Wausau, Wisconsin (Max Webster) - Click for Photos May 10, 1977 Riverside Theater -- Milwaukee, Wisconsin May 12, 1977 Bay Theater -- Green Bay, Wisconsin (Max Webster) May 13, 1977 McElroy Auditorium -- Waterloo, Iowa (Ted Nugent) May 15, 1977 Nelson Center -- Springfield, Illinois (Max Webster, Cheap Trick) May 17, 1977 Mary E. Sawyer Auditorium -- La Crosse, Michigan (Max Webster, Cheap Trick) May 18, 1977 Lakeview Arena -- Marquette, Michigan (Max Webster) May 20, 1977 Aragon Ballroom -- Chicago, Illinois (Max Webster) May 21, 1977 Aragon Ballroom -- Chicago, Illinois (Max Webster)

First, GREAT pictures, old and faded or not. They are great little pieces of rock history and thank you for posting them. Second, either I learned something, or something is just weird... I checked the release date of AFTK on Wikipedia and it was Sept 1, 1977. So, yes, this show was played before the release of AFTK. Hence, the "All The World's A Stage Tour." But, and here's where I may have learned something, the boys are playing their double-necked guitars and Neil has his new (black Slingerland) and larger kit, with wind chimes, the chrome uprights to hold them, etc... PLUS, we see the starman logo on the bass drums. I always thought that he had the "Chromey" kit for the ATWAS tour, along with the simple "RUSH" on the bass drum heads. So, my guess, is that yes, this was the ATWAS tour, but they were playing new material from AFTK, not yet released. Sort of like "testing it out" on the tour? They did this a few times later on. The newspaper clipping HAS the date on it, so if these pictures were taken when they are said to have been, then I guess this explains the double-necked guitars and Neil's new kit. Isn't it amazing though, that Rush had already been headlining (and selling out) 10,000 - 15,000 seaters mainly Canada, but in the US too in a few markets. In the very least, in the US, they were headlining 3,000 - 4,000 seaters (and selling them out). So, the BIG question is - why in the hell are they playing a high school? It must have been some special occasion. Anyone want to "chime" in? (Oh, come on, now, THAT was funny!)

Nothing cooler than wild-crazy chicks jamming at a rock show!!!!!!!!

Wouldn't it be cool to find out who the young woman is (holding the Rush kite) in the picture where Neil and Alex and talking to fans? Just like a few years ago, when the media thought they had found the young Afgan woman who, decades earlier, had appeared on the front cover of Time (I think it was Time) Magazine? The woman with the beautiful blue eyes... The girl holding the kite looks about 17 or so in that shot... okay, so WHO is it?

Hey Mika, I'd say there's an 80 % chance that Geddy is wearing a T shirt... it's mid-April and everyone has a shirt on. But, that doesn't mean you can't pretend, right? (I meam, YOU, not me.) :)

Here's her most recent single... (I think anyway)... Called Stompa.

Yes, all VERY good points here. Drummer here too... A while ago I started a thread about Neil's DW drum sound as compared to the earlier recording where he was playing Slingerland, Tama and Ludwig. I don't know if it's just the drums, or the way they're mic'd, mixed, produced or whatever, but, I really don't like the DW sound at all. (The snare drum sounds good though... a nice, clear, tight sounding "crack!") His 8 and 10 inch toms sound like extra large tomato soup cans... maybe because they have bottom heads as opposed to the concert toms of earlier days where the bottom of the concert toms did not? Just a guess. Would love to see Neil playing Tama or even Slingerland again. Do they even make Slingerland drums these days? I never hear about them...

This thread reminds me of back in English class, 1979. Our teacher actually brought in a copy of A Farewell To Kings and started reading some of Neil's lyrics. He then went on to disect them and helped us to understand what Neil was trying to accomplish with his work. The funny thing is (or was?) that this teacher didn't know that there were about 7 or 8 Rush freaks iin his class at the time. Ever since that day, "Mr. Lavarench" was THE coolest teacher ever. But, later that year, he got fired because the vice-principal (dickhead) caught him smokin' a J with a couple students in the parking lot! This story is true and "very 1970s."

Very interesting... I actually forgot about the instrumentals of the new era. "Where's My Thing" is a killer to play, so is the "Main Monkey Business."

Serena Ryder will be a household name to most of the Canadians on this site, but maybe not for the rest of you. She is originally from a small town near Toronto and now makes her home in the city. She sounds a bit like Adele, Steve Nicks and Diana Krall all rolled into one. She can hit any note she wants to, but the tone.. wow! She has a three octave range... plays almost every instrument. She's on the road right now, mainly smaller theatres of up to about 2,000 seats or so. I'm going to see her first chance I get. Check her out on the Google.

I often hear YYZ being talked about as one of the tougher songs to play. I disagree... the main riffs really are very straight forward and simple and there aren't much at all in the way of odd time signatures in the whole song, other than the opening morse code piece. And, that's simple too. For my money, La Villa HAS to be the hardest song for drums, guitar and bass. I've been playing drums all my life and now, at 50, I'm still not sure if I'm playing it right. The solos at the end are nuts, but do-able. The whole songs is crazy really. The guitar solos (including the opening on classical guitar) are maybe THE best Alex has ever done. The bass solos near end, in and out of the drum solos are wicked. Hemispheres is really not too bad on drums at all, but guitar and bass, I don't really know. It sounds tough... but I don't play guitar or bass. I still don't know how Geddy could ever sing AND play that damn thing at the same time - without losing his mind. Talk about patting your head and rubbing your balls at the same time... or however that saying goes. :D

wow thanks! :D TBR's "Top Ten" recommendations to MusicalAbby2112... or as I will call her from here on in, "The Kid." 1. Keep practicing your ass off... 2. Never mind learning the flute, trombone, trumpet or clarinet... (just in case you're in the high school band) 3. Join up with some cool cats who are equally as able as you are... (they will surely be about 5 years older, but who gives a sh**?) 4. Start writing material influenced by Rush and Dream Theater... 5. Quit school... 6. Don't tell your parents... 7. If your parents find out, DON'T tell them that TBR told you do it... (Blame it on the devil.) 8. When you have money falling out of your pockets, give 10% of proceeds to the Canadian guy (TBR, just so you don't mix me up with some other Canadian guy) who made all these killer recommendations back in March, 2013... 9. Practice your signature... 10. Get prepared to travel... a lot... :haz:

Hobo, prepare to have your mind blown. I`ve been seeing the since 1976 and EVERY time it`s simply amazing. Have FUN!!!

For me, it`s hard to beat the Permanent Waves tour. Loved the songs, they band played great, Geddy`s voice was near perfect... and, I really liked the drum sound on that tour. The drums sounded the way a rock drummer`s kit should sound. Plus, ALL of Neil`s percussion sounds were accoustic instruments, no electronics, no drum pads, no triggers, no midi, just the real deal. Hit something with a stick or mallet - it sounds real.

Good job, Sal! See, it pays to go to at least 30 Rush concerts!!!!!!! I need 3 more... at least I think it's 3. Maybe I'll do 4, just in case.