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"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." -- John Rogers

Good story!

Apparently Alex is under the tutelage of Bill Bailey, and says he will reveal "something special" during the tour.

 

Here's the only video of Bill Bailey I could find on youtube:

 

Hope they bring out those quad-neck guitars!

 

This is a poll based on the original post by Jaminbenb. Is the following the real setlist, yes or no? The votes are public, so when Rush actually starts the tour, we will know who the "true believers" are, and who are the "ye of little faith!"

 

***SPOILER ALERT...!!!***

POSSIBLE R40 SET LIST...???

 

 

 

1. 2112- Overture

 

2. Hemispheres Prelude (no vocals)

3. Freewill

4. Limelight

5. By-Tor & the Snowdog

6. Xanadu (complete)

7. A Passage to Bangkok

8. Beneath Between & Behind( Instrumental only)

9. Jacob's Ladder

10. Carnies

Intermission

1. Headlong Flight(mid section drum solo)

2. Analog Kid

3. Red Barchetta

4. Witch Hunt

5. The Weapon

6. The Enemy Within

7. YYZ(drum solo) YYZ

8. Red Lenses(Bass Solo) Red Lenses

9. La Villa Strangiato (guitar solo) La Villa Strangiato

10. The Twilight Zone( vocals used from the album with bobble head geddy singing on the back screen video u have to see it to believe it lol!!!)

11. R40(grand finale)- Working Man==In the End==Bastille Day==Something for Nothing==A Farewell to Kings==Fly by Night==Spirit of Radio(Full Song)

Encore

1. Tom Sawyer

2. Cygnus X-1 (Full Song) some vocals left out

IMHO, this setlist looks like the real deal!

Buttclenching?

Screechtastic?

Chipmunk-y?

I'm pretty sure Neil wrote the Cold Fire lyrics after watching an episode of Oprah... "TRADITIONAL RELATIONSHIPS: REALITY OR FANTASY?"

Cold Fire lyrics are so very clunky.

I totally know what he's saying here, I sucked at sports too when I was a kid:

 

When your boyhood fate was to be pathetic at sports, you had no hope of being the one to catch the winning pass, hit the grand slam, or (best of all for a Canadian boy) score the overtime goal.

He's looking respectable these days!

 

http://www.thecanadianmusicscene.com/junoawards2015/saturday/juno2015_sat_011.jpg

Never trust a squirrel!

 

Neil's a great admirer of Herzog. Rumor has it that the next album will be called "Cygnus X-1 Book III - Cobra Verde."

 

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/03/22/movies/23cobr600.jpg

ACK... THBBFT...

 

Since we're destroying Tom Sawyer, here's one:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUqaVK69qPU

Don't worry about it... Alex just needed to go for a pee break, that's all!

Some of you have no idea what happens to you when you get older, but you will find out one day.

 

Answer: you keep on rockin! (See picture for evidence!)

 

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/12/05/article-0-1876541F00000578-464_638x427.jpg

Face Up:

 

You get all squeezed up inside

Like the days were carved in stone

You get all wired up inside

And it's bad to be alone

 

You can go out, you can take a ride

And when you get out on your own

You get all smoothed out inside

And it's good to be alone

• "Best Rock Talent" by Guitar for the Practicing Musician in 1983
  
• "Best Rock Guitarist" by Guitar Player Magazine in 1984 and May 2008
  
• Runner-up for "Best Rock Guitarist" in Guitar Player in 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986
  
• Inducted into the Guitar for the Practicing Musician Hall of Fame, 1991
  
• 1996 – Officer of the Order of Canada, along with bandmates Geddy Lee and Neil Peart
  
• "Best Article" for "Different Strings" in Guitar Player (September issue).
  
• Most Ferociously Brilliant Guitar Album (Snakes & Arrows) – Guitar Player Magazine, May 2008
  
• 2013 - With Rush, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee
  

These are just a few of his awards and acknowledgements...

 

I do agree he is an grossly under-rated guitar player....not sure why?

 

The industry has thrown him a few bones over the years...but he deserves so much more mainstream attention and rating by the industry and even his peers.

 

I think the biggest fact that Alex is not as highly rated overall , is that Alex's band is still basically an unknown ( in the mass music industry), weird, prog cult band.

 

Also made the Rolling Stone 100 Greatest Guitarists list (just barely though):

 

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-guitarists-20111123/alex-lifeson-20111122

All that being said... concerts do bring in wheelbarrows full of cash... so for that reason I think that a second leg is a true possibility, plus more concerts in the future.

"Secret Touch"

See link:

 

http://www.ctvnews.c...junos-1.2274006

 

"Among their charitable contributions, Rush has donated significantly to Toronto Food Bank, United Way, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, the New Orleans-assisting Make it Right Foundation, Doctors Without Borders, Alberta Flood Relief and Casey House."