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Glad to help! :) Also, Thanks to the wonders of videotape, here's them performing it in 1994. Be warned, the vocals are a bit painful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH5jYLRcl08 THAT. IS. AWESOME!!!!!!! (Slightly painful vocals aside.) I believe credit goes to Les Claypool for convincing them to bring back Prelude on the Counterparts tour. Love seeing Shea was not demolished, but alive and well in Michigan. Hate seeing Hemispheres at 9, ouch.

Whatever THAT is. :D It's an island east of Savannah and South of Halifax. It's exotic.

If I paid for a Bermuda vacation and it rained every day, i would still go and be extatic.

Anarchist, seven cities of gold, headlong flight, caravan, far cry...all the songs they played last tour. Kings and Hemispheres, not even sure what that is? All of the above are very good songs.

Yes, the 1974 release, in full!!!! ;-)

Some have the right to make that choice and choose to decide for themselves

Thanks for the large font. Age does wonders for reading sight. Any indecision there?

Funny, I was just thinking how many good songs are on Signals. It Just doesn't get my blood boiling like No One at the Bridge. Something about the Synth era...although Signals is a good album.

But not their last "gigs." ;-)

Tuco gets 48% while Keith Moon 15%... A full day later? At least Neil is rolling along,but does this make any sense? I thought The Who would be as popular as the assistant manager?

Obviously, some care, hence this thread. Be thankful for that 70s material, without it they'd be playing the Deerfield Beach Boardwalk. Why is it an issue, check out the first 3 hours setlist of CA tour. love that town! It's effing Deerfield!

Tragic.

A lot of typing! Congrats!

Yes, exactly. I do love the 70s and early 80s stuff, but there's also a lot of fairly recent stuff I love. Clockwork Angels was a phenomenal album, and I'm so glad they played most of it! I could use more Vapor Trails, however (says the Vapor Trails ambassador). I agree to the extent CA is a very good album, albeit there is no way to regain youthful singing nor youthful guitar solos. That's life. But to refer to Rush's 1970s material as Oldies/ nostalgia act on this thread is unfair to Rush. These are influential hard rock prog tunes that influenced a generation of rock musicians. Other less influential acts from the 70s would not get away with ignoring their formative material for three hours ala Rush on CA tour. Respectfully, Applicant, Defender of 70s Rush Applicant, Petitioner for fair representation of all Rush material live

Unlike many fans, I thought the finale was a fair ending that ended the story well. But the rest of the last season, I am with you, was not its best. As you said, a new way of storytelling...this was a major show in terms of the serial, strange drama. JJ and ensemble further perfecting this style on Fringe, Person of Interest.

I can only speak for NYC, prime Rush tix are TRIPLE the price of Who tix, and DOUBLE the price of U2 (U2 for lower bowl, Who for first 20 rows, since all shows are sell outs, prices are manipulated resale market). Our cost component is in a completely different universe than how many on this thread are discussing. I am a fan, and will gladly pay, but let's all Please be fair to the realities of the market here. Rush fans are paying a huge price for loyalty. And they are willing to pay after watching the band ignore their 70s material for three hours last tour, then played a couple 70s tunes that were repeats from the prior tours. It's a testament to how patient Rush fans are, as other bands of that era would clearly not get away with ignoring their most influential material. Rush would not be such an expensive arena band without their pre Signals material.

Your willingness to spend your hard earned cash is a testament to your loyalty as a fan. My take on ticket prices- I am lucky to have seen Rush many times and am gladly forking over decent cash to see them twice on this tour. Happy to do it. I still have the right to say it's extremely expensive, and the cost on this tour has skyrocketed. Hopefully that will equate to an enthusiastic crowd compared to the fans openly snoozing last tour. After subdivisions, it seemed most of the crowd did not recognize a single tune til the end of set 2. These 70s tunes are in no way "nostalgia tunes." They are groundbreaking, pioneering, seminal, influential hard rock prog tunes. To play 5 from CA and 2 from PoW in R41 would demonstrate the band is in some sort of denial. Haven't we just had two CA tours in a row (2 feature tunes on TM) and a mini PoW tour? For Rush to play arena shows would be impossible now had it not been for the albums leading up to and including Moving Pictures. Had their career hypothetically started with Signals, they would not be drawing arena sized crowds nor ultra premium ticket prices in 2015.

To a non guitar player, it sounds like you are saying an awesome hard rock band from the 70s stopped liking hard rock? Presto should have been a monster, the songs are strong, but it sounds tinny and thin. But at least we can hear Alex, unlike some albums of that era. Broon challenged them, produced crisp hard rock albums that highlighted Rush's strengths as a power rock trio. They struggled post Broon to recapture that crisp hard rock sound since he was fired.

Same high school as John Petrucci and John Myung of Dream Theater. Craig Biggio also.

OG, I agree with a lot of your points. I like all Rush material, but The CA setlist, ignoring the 70s for three hours, was asking fans too much. I Couldn't imagine another band still playing that was around back then getting away with that. But it's Rush, I still go. Regarding prices, I also agree it's insane. This is nothing new for Rush fans. Except with the magnitude of this tour, there are more sell outs, and the expensive prices have climbed further from the stage. I disagree with those that say this is it, but Rush will one day soon no longer tour. I compare that to a sport I love, hockey. I had a chance to go today, get a decent seat for $80. Much less than Rush seats, but it's still $80. But there will always be hockey games available to go to. But not Rush concerts. And seats should get cheaper if willing to wait until a day of so before the show.

Agreed. I do love the song Presto also. I also really enjoy Chain Lightning, Scars, Red Tide and Available Light and am not ashamed to admit it. Obviously The Pass is a staple and its ok. I kind of like War Paint too ... I enjoy presto more than the other albums surrounding it. The songs are strong, but suffer from thin guitar production. Title track, where Ged is harmonizing with himself (who else?) wow, some of his best singing post 1982. Great guitar solo. I am with you on Chain Lightning, Scars, Red Tide and Available Light - actually was ready to dis Scars a little, but just sounded good. Chain Lightning great lyrics, plus it's an inspiration to some names...respond.vibrate.feedback.resonate. Superconductor suffers a lot from the thin guitar and keyboard as a feature instrument syndrome. Tune could have been executed better. That's Entertainment!

Shouldn't matter if they split everything even three ways now? So Victor is Alex's solo effort? I seem to remember it was offered not necessarily as a "solo Alex Lifeson" album, but just a different band featuring Lifeson--but I don't think anyone really considered it that way. His face is on the cover, for one thing. Several "bands" have a particular member or likeness appearing on covers in various guises. Jethro Tull is one, Max Webster, I'm sure here are more. Japan? I don't think victor is a band album, its clearly mostly Al. The cover works. Its not just his face its a distorted view of it Victor is definitely Lifeson solo. If you enjoy Alex' emotional, quirky, hard rock style, it is definitely worth a listen. To those wanting Geddy/Alex reincarnation, if need be, as Leafson, they would surely rock! Wiki - While the bulk of Lifeson's work in music has been with Rush, Lifeson's first major outside work was his solo project, Victor, released in 1996. Victor was attributed as a self-titled work (i.e. Victor is attributed as the artist as well as the album title). This was done deliberately as an alternative to issuing the album explicitly under Lifeson's name. The title track is from the W.H. Auden poem, also entitled "Victor". Both son Adrian and wife Charlene also contributed to the album

Is that a new Rush tune, or assistant night manager? https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en#hl=en&q=piss+boy

Elite eight voting is open. So far, Neil has big lead vs Keith Moon. Tuco more competitive than Freaking Keith Moon?? http://ultimateclassicrock.com/keith-moon-neil-peart-marc-drum-madness/

To me Tuesday, HYF was tough to digest at the time. I loved Force 10 and Turn the Page (awesome bass) but Tai Shan, High Water and a couple others were just another step away from their core sound. This new direction wasn't leading to a larger audience, radio play, nor perceived creativity rivaling their prog rock days. As a fan it was confusing back then because it was tough to see where this path would lead. These thoughts seem to be echoed by the band on BTLS, and their subsequent 22 year return to hard rock(CP thru CA).