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Has anyone gotten an e-mail about the pre-sales?

Yeah, every day when I would check RUSH.com, I'd instinctively say to myself "There's no way they'll be making a tour announcement while they still have the Clockwork Angels motif on the website." Needless to say, I was thrilled to see the change this morning. I would think we'd see an announcement no later than this coming Monday...hopefully sooner!

I too didn't get why Foreigner was on there. "The sweatshop equivalent of Journey"??? Ridiculous. I saw Lou Gramm just down the road from Syracuse at the Jamesville Balloon Fest a couple years ago and he was fantastic. All the big Foreigner hits plus his good solo stuff. Rush, Foreigner, RHCP, and Pearl Jam are all awesome. Never heard of Pretty Ricky, The Raconteurs, Fleet Foxes, Animal Collective, or LCD Soundsystem. Most of the rest I have absolutely nothing against. I do still stand by my assertion that DMB and The Eagles make a pretty good 1-2 combo for this list. Also the second half of the Rush paragraph clearly indicates that this Kai Flanders guy once tried to get an interview with Neil and wasn't given the time of day, so he had to sneak that last part in as revenge. Note how he never addresses the quality of their music, just his opinion of how they're perceived. And yet, despite his comments, they still somehow manage to scrounge together 10-13k people to come see them in pretty much every venue they play...pretty good for a band that supposedly most people hate.

Two words: L.A. Weekly. Bunch of pretentious ass-hats who probably sit around their offices (aka basements) adorned with Elvis Costello and Nirvana posters, falsely thinking they're better than everyone. Having said that, they're pretty spot-on with the Eagles and Dave Matthews Band...two of the least-tolerable bands I've ever heard in my 32 years.

"I'm dancin'! I look like I have something in my shoe!"

I like WTW (nowhere near as much as The Garden, Headlong Flight, BU2B, CA, The Wreckers, or Halo Effect), but every time that drum intro starts, just for a split-second I think it's Green Day playing Know Your Enemy just a tad too slowly, haha.

I like S&A Live, because S&A was my first in-person Rush tour (Darien Lake '07 and Saratoga '08). The setlist is very deep and both the audio and visuals are good. The two minor things about the DVD that are a turn-off to me are: 1. the fact that each half of the concert is on a different disc. Not a big fan of having to switch DVDs (not being lazy, just don't like the interrupting aspect of it). ...and 2. SPINDRIFT!!! Goodness gracious, I love S&A (the album) overall, but can't STAND Spindrift. Armor & Sword plods along live, too...they did a good job in the first set, sprinkling in TMMB and Larger Bowl, but when they came out of intermission, they should have ONLY done Far Cry, Workin' Them Angels, and TWtWB, then back into the old stuff (with MalNar and Hope still mixed in later). People like to point out all the songs on the DVDs that are "set killers" to them, but to me, in all 8 of my live shows across three tours (S&A, TM, CA), as well as the corresponding three DVDs, the only songs that were ever set-killers were Spindrift and Armor & Sword (okay, I lied...I didn't like 7CoG on the CA tour either).

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Didn't someone somewhere on here with historically accurate past predictions and/or insider info say the announcement would either be Monday the 12th or Monday the 19th? So, since Geddy's Soul Patch already guessed the 19th, I'll be super-optimistic and guess tomorrow the 12th!

This thread just reminds me I haven't done squat with my life...at my current age, the members of... -RUSH would've been working on Power Windows... -Metallica would've been finishing up the never-ending Black Album tour... -Queen would've been working on Jazz... -Green Day would've just released American Idiot... Meanwhile, I've...hmmm...let's see...self-published one book of poetry. Go me....Oh and drank a lot of Diet Pepsi! :d13:

They're definitely touring. If they weren't, Ged and Alex wouldn't hint at it, they wouldn't auction off a M&G pass, those couple of dates wouldn't have "accidentally" shown up on Ticketmaster, we wouldn't see suggestive tweets from Gump Wheaton, and Mosbach wouldn't be setting the "location" on Neil's Twitter to say "R40 Tour." I admit I'm getting impatient to know the dates so I can plan my expenditures for SPAC, Buffalo, Columbus, and possibly CT (if Uncasville or B-port is on the schedule), but I keep reminding myself that this could be the last "anxious lead-up to a Rush tour" ever, so enjoy it.

Hemispheres Prelude (even if Ged doesn't sing the 8 lines of lyrics...it would still be epic to bust out with that to start) The Spirit of Radio Turn the Page Between Sun and Moon The Enemy Within Roll the Bones Red Barchetta Prime Mover Subdivisions (intermission) Tom Sawyer Far Cry Headlong Flight Emotion Detector Resist YYZ Natural Science Xanadu Limelight Working Man encore: Jacob's Ladder La Villa Strangiato Sorry friends, but it's time to retire 2112, Closer to the Heart, Freewill, and The Trees (almost put Limelight on that list since it was pretty rough on the CA tour), as well as all the stuff from the earlier albums Ged can't do anymore.

The two best examples I can think of are... July 2012 -My then-girlfriend and I are at a local club where our friend Corey (from the Syracuse-area band Candid) was playing a solo acoustic set before the rest of the evening's bands (which were mostly local metal bands, oddly enough) were to go on. Corey gets up and does his thing, then while the second band is setting up their gear, the venue was playing piped-in music over the PA. I start to hear this weird clanging sound, like a train-crossing...then these familiar strings...DIN-Din-dinnnn, DIN-din-dinnnn....DIN-din-dinnn, DIN-Din-dinnnn...I looked at Jen and said "Holy $hit, that's Caravan!" So I rock out for the rest of the song, and was like "wow, that's pretty cool." Then I start to hear this spacey intro, and some familiar slow strumming. I turn to Jen again and said "Holy $hit, that's BU2B! They're playing the new Rush album!" Unfortunately, by the time BU2B was over, the next band had finished setting their gear up and was checking the levels on their guitars. But it was cool that whoever was manning the between-bands PA music was giving CA some play. October 2012 -Jen and I are driving around Syracuse running errands in her car, and I have it set to 96.9, which is one of those mostly-classic/slightly-modern-rock stations where in a given music set you'd hear White Wedding, followed by Crazy Train, followed by some new Five-Finger Donkey Punch song no one's ever heard of, followed by Welcome to the Jungle. You know what kinda station I mean. So on their way to commercial the DJ goes "after the break we'll have some Van Halen and Rush..." So we endure the commercials, then as promised, Van Halen (I think it was either "Panama" or "Jamie's Crying"...some sort of DLR goodness), and then I hear some familiar, bright-sounding Alex Lifeson strumming. I was like "Wait a minute, this isn't one of the Big Seven (TS, TSoR, Limey, Freewill, WM, FbN, CttH)." It took my brain a few seconds, as CA had only been a few months old at that point, but it was The Wreckers! That was pretty cool. Jen just rolled her eyes, as always, but I was pretty happy. She never truly "got" Rush, but she was a trooper, having attended four of my eight live shows. I'm sure she's glad she never has to hear them again. I'm pretty sure her new boyfriend has never heard of them.

Where is this at? It's just a list of rumored dates, but it's the most recent post over at rushisaband.com

Oh holy crap...Columbus and Buffalo!!! WEEEEEEEEE!!!!

Obviously it would be premature to get hopes up already...but I think the Boston listing on TM could be a good sign, because I think once the band's people are made aware that it's on there, it would force them to publicly address what the plans are, either way. Either to quash or confirm the rumors.

I hope for your sake that you get to go to one this year. It's a life experience you don't want to miss. I was late in discovering Rush and I've only seen them 3 times. I hope I get to see them again. They did say they were taking all of 2015 off before they even talked about it. I have my doubts due to the amount of time I've been gone . It sucks. Source regarding that 2015 statement? It's my understanding they said "a full year off"...now, whether you start counting from their last show (late summer 2013) or the beginning of the next full calendar year (January 2014), either way you slice it, they've taken a full year off. I would think we'd hear SOME announcement regarding their plans in January...it was a good marketing strategy to keep the R40 box set as the major headline through the Thanksgiving and holiday seasons. Ray Danniels laughing all the way to the bank!

You sat there while thinking for minutes, not blinking their glasses kept clinking but alas, no one drinking... What I think is impressive is the icon downing that whole glass of what looks to me like Guinness, without spilling a drop (even more amazing when you consider that icon has no arms...so he/she/it made the glass levitate and tilt at the right angle and speed for guzziling neatly).

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I honestly don't care about their mistakes since I very rarely notice them. I've seen them 8 times (all since July 4, 2007), and the only noticeable mistake I heard as it happened was at Saratoga on Leg 2 of Clockwork Angels, during TSoR. You can kinda hear it in this video, just before the one-minute mark. It's the drum part between the first two verses. Neil mistakenly starts to go into the part that's supposed to lead into the "invisible airwaves" breakdown, forgetting that they still had the "off on your way, hit the open road" verse still to go. It was definitely much more noticeable at the actual concert than in the clip, but you can hear it. (I'd also like to point out that that night, it was also the most uncomfortably humid conditions I'd ever experienced...not just for a concert, but EVER.)

Wow. Just to echo (no pun intended) everyone else's sentiments, this show in its entirety needs to see the light of day on DVD/BR. The audio for the 3 posted songs sounded fantastic, and the visuals were very good for 1997. I won't hesitate to say that if they could get the whole show together and have it sound even remotely like these 3 songs, the hypothetical T4E DVD would instantly become my favorite of their entire DVD lineup.

I saw her at the Buffalo show two years ago...actually, I was two rows ahead of her (surprising, considering she usually ends up closer to the front).

I think one of the main problems is that they wait far too long into a tour to film a DVD. With Time Machine, it was more of an unfortunate instance of Ged being sick that night. I was at the show in Hershey about a week before that, and he sounded great. With CA, I saw the Bridgeport (10/10) and Buffalo (10/26) shows, and he sounded great at both (especially Bridgeport...best I've ever heard his voice at a show I attended). The shows they recorded were a full month later, at the end of November, at the end of the first full CA leg. Even with the earlier DVDs of the 2000s, Rio, R30 and S&A, they wait until the end of the tour to film. While he sounds decent on all three, he'd probably have sounded even better had they recorded earlier shows.

Not sure which CA shows you're going off of (or maybe just the DVD), but he sounded amazing in Bridgeport (Oct. 10), good in Buffalo (Oct.26), and the following summer, decent at Saratoga (June 25). And as has been mentioned, Ged's 61! If anything, it's a lesson that they need to do the DVD within the first month or so of a tour.

Natural Science. S&A was my first Rush tour, and I wasn't familiar enough with the song to really appreciate it.