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Makes me want to go even more just to see what I'm missing. Oh wait....I AM going!! I wish I'd have gone. ... oh wait, I did, ... four times, ... each time of course being exponentially worse than the last prompting me to go to another.

Alex, is that you? LMAO

Apparently you lead a rich and rewarding life to spend such a chunk of it wasting time perpetually posting these things. I wish I had your spare time. Otherwise, pardon me while I yawn at yet your next installment of Ow My Balls!

One tune from each album in a classic time machine tour: Finding My Way Anthem I Think I'm Going Bald Twilight Zone Xanadu La Villa Strangiato (Instrumental) Jacob's Ladder Witch Hunt Losing It Between the Wheels Marathon Time Stand Still Chain Lightning Where's My Thing (Instrumental) Leave That Thing Alone (Instrumental) Limbo (Instrumental) Ghost Rider Summertime Blues The Main Monkey Business (Instrumental) Hope (Instrumental) (also off of S&A) The Garden Mix it up of course, then as an encore ... what ...? The Trees YYZ Time Stand Still Dreamline

The Trees is great live, I haven't seen it live in like 30 years tho. I remember it.

It was definitely an improvement over Time Machine and TM was great. Well, and I think there you have it essentially, anyone that has a musical bone in their body appreciates CAs and this tour. It takes a very limited thinker, musically speaking, really what amounts to a poppie to have anything less than moderately positive to say about this tour. After that it's ignorance on display in spades. Even if you don't care for the tunes on CAs, one must appreciate the musical talent that went into them, altho I'm not sure it's possible to separate the two, but for strange minds we can allow the possibility for polemical purposes. Again, some people in their shallow and limited mental expanse want to simply go to a show entirely for nostalgic purposes. Whatever, ... talk about a boring intellectual existence.

LOL

:tsk: He's a very bad man!

And yet ... :guitar:

Yeah,. the Anarchist, Carnies, Clockwork Angels, and Headlong Flight are real snoozers. :eyeroll: LOL, I would tend to agree if BU2B were on the set-list, but it wasn't, anywhere. In fact, they did BU2B for Time Machine, and IMO it was too slow. Not a big fan of that particular song. People complaining about the modern show appear to be more poppies posing as fans of the band. Rush does a pretty good job of mixing things up from tour to tour, but as they realize, their fan base is too broad to make everyone happy.

While I don't agree about it being a boring show, I do feel there's some tweaks they could've made to the set in order to not lose people who may not like or even know the new material and deep cuts. I think Far Cry should've been dropped and Limelight should be the first set closer. The idea behind it being since they're going into a bunch of new stuff in the second half, at least end the first part with a song everyone knows. As for the second half I thought they should've divided up the new stuff with a couple hits as to not lose 90 percent of the crowd. The first part of the second set could've gone something like this: Caravan Clockwork Angels The Anarchist Carnies New World Man Seven Cities Of Gold The Wreckers Headlong Flight The Garden Freewill That's just the way I would've went with the set. I hardly think that would have made much of a difference to people like rayrushray that complained about the show. Otherwise, CAs is a concept album w/ a tour to match. It's a classic case of people going to a concert to rehash their past as is the case w/ most concerts these days. I mean take some of the more popular bands that started during the same era of the '70s and early '80s that are still touring and what do you hear, only their songs from that era, they have no new material and if they do it pretty much sucks and isn't relevant today. Not to mention when you go see a band like that, w/ few if any exceptions, key members of the original band are missing and the lead singer more often than not sounds like a car horn w/ one of the two frequencied horns broken. In fact, I refuse to go to any other shows because I feel like I've been robbed of my good memories when I do. e.g., last time I saw Kansas, in the early '90s, it wiped out every good memory I ever had of the band. Thank heavens that Kerry Livgren wasn't there. Then again, if he had been perhaps the cheap show would have been worth it. The fact that Rush commands the ticket prices that they do says worlds about them, ... TODAY, not yesteryear or nostalgically speaking.

Several questions: First, feel free to specify. Otherwise you get the troll comments. I for one am curious as to why you didn't enjoy the show. Not that I care, but I am curious. Secondly, in today's internet society it's easier and easier to find out what you're getting for your money. If you didn't spend your money wisely it would seem to be purely your fault, again, pending what you didn't like. But the set-list was online, videos of the shows are all over youtube, you knew about the strings, you can see pretty much every aspect of the show, so what's not to like and why didn't you spend at least a few minutes doing some basic research before you bought your tix? Thirdly, if it were a show that I were at I'd rather have seen another empty seat that someone sitting there sulking. From someone whose first Rush concert was c. 1980 I can quite honestly say that this was better than any of the numerous past tours that I've seen as an overall show.

I must say, from a show perspective the shows have gotten notably better in recent years over anything that they ever were. Between the funny video clips, alright, once you've seen them you've seen them, but still on the first time or two, to the visuals, strings, etc., I can't recall a better overall show to be honest. Sure, gone are the days when one could smoke a doob in the arena(s), but sheeet, pretty much any show is as good as the next if that's the only way to enjoy a show, eh.

:rfl: MY THOUGHT EXACTLY! I reckon it will be fall 2015. I'm thinking new album sometime in 2014 with support tour. Then 2016 it's a no holds barred R42 So Long an Thanks for all the Fish tour. :) Yikes! Give 'em some time to recollect their thoughts, eh. LOL

Again, not that it will happen for the reasons already stated, but I would love to see a scaled down mini-tour. Maybe a true time machine tour featuring one song from every studio album. Finding My Way Anthem I Think I'm Going Bald Twilight Zone Xanadu La Villa Strangiato (Instrumental) Jacob's Ladder Witch Hunt Losing It Between the Wheels Marathon Time Stand Still Chain Lightning Where's My Thing (Instrumental) Leave That Thing Alone (Instrumental) Limbo (Instrumental) Ghost Rider Summertime Blues The Main Monkey Business (Instrumental) Hope (Instrumental) (also off of S&A) The Garden Now I need a napkin for the drool. I think that would keep the poppies away and enable them to do the scaled-down tour since only the hardcores would want to go. Pick 20 cities and run w/ it. All of us here could get the Amtrak equivalent of the Eurail Pass and take a couple of months off of work.

A combined Hemispheres/Permanent Waves tour would be fantastic. Hemispheres is one of my if not my favorite album of theirs. I think that they should play all of their 8 primary instrumentals on the next tour. They're all excellent. I can see them doing an R41-1/2 or R41.5 tour or something crazy like that.

LMAO If Geddy did have to sing Fly By Night then it'd have to be the last song of the encore and he'd have to have an appt. to have an ambulance there to take him to the hospital to have throat surgery after every performance. LOL That's one of the songs on his "don't ever sing again" list. I hear ya. I see more people messin' w/ their phones than watching the show too. I'll spare us the conversation about that, but in short the attention span of Americans from children to adults has vaporized. As to people buying tix up close and not caring, what's funny about that is that other concert tix, say for Styx/REO, etc. can be had for a fraction of what a Rush show costs. Top tix for those shows rarely goes above $50 and I'm leaving a lot of room at the top in most cases. Not only that, but you get only half the original band, usually the douche bag half as in the case of Cronin and REO.

Roger that! If they do I would imagine that they would cut down the stops from 70 somewhat. This tour ends this summer, so if they were to start again in late spring they'd have plenty of rest w/ no album in between to work on. As w/ everyone I'd be eager to see the set-list. I really hope that their 8 primary instrumentals would be on it tho.

Yeah, it's one of the drawbacks of a much faster pace of the information age. Call me nuts, but I much prefer the intermediary days where the internet was functional so that websites worked, but these days I think it's all over the top.

LOL I 'spose someone that's had one too many beers, eh. Otherwise, let's not forget it's an aging post-50 crowd to a large extent. LOL At least I'm glad that they don't have Depends for sale at the concessions.

LMAO I'm tellin' ya! Also, I could understand it if the new album really wasn't that good, but it's fantastic. Easily among their best few ever as an album goes. I think that a huge part of the "problem" is that most fans that age see other bands come and perform their early hits since they've all pretty much put out shitty material and have otherwise sucked for two decades or more in some cases. I mean take Foreigner, Journey, REO, Styx, etc., all of which that tour now, none of them have any relevant music at all that post dates 1990. Most of their good stuff is from the late '70s and early '80s. Rush could perform a brilliant show just based on material from Roll the Bones, Counterparts, Test for Echo, Vapor Trails, Feedback, Snakes and Arrows, and CAs and they'd still have to cut some great tunes. What gets me is that the set-lists for these shows was known well before the tix even went on sale. If you only want to come see the band b/c of a song or two, and it's not even on the set-list or you take a big chance as one of the "revolving" tunes on the set-list, why even bother buying tix. I don't get it. Meh, whatever. I guess for the band you're damned if you do/damned if you don't, eh. Like I've said, I'd pay just to hear them jam for two hours or as you say, do covers. LOL In fact, the covers would probably be a perfect blend of humor and great music.

They could play the 20 best songs from their "worst" 5 or 6 albums and it would still be a great show.

Well yeah, for those of us that go to multiple shows, but some of these people only attend one show, eh. I'm also not sure how much the band really appreciates unoriginal signs too. If I were going to bring a sign it would be original.

Interesting. I hadn't seen at least one of those solos before. The first drum solo I believe is in all of the shows as was the first Alex solo. There were several "uniquenesses" if that's a word on Friday in Hershey. The funniest one was when Alex and Neil ended a tune but Geddy pounded out a few more notes. I forget which song it was on. But Neil then quickly, and seemingly jokingly, started up again and Alex followed suit. They all immediately started laughing roarously. It was the funniest thing and one of those things that contributes to making these shows great. It's good b/c the guys are so talented, but at the same time they can laugh at themselves when they make a mistake. It was hilarious.

Seizure man, ... LOL Was he fibrillating all night? Great pics! I wish I had brought my camera, I could have gotten some great shots from the 9th row all but dead center. Thanks to the girl that sold me my seat!! Muchos Gracias!! I'm already looking forward to the R41 tour or whatever's next.