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  • Number of Rush Concerts Attended
    5
  • Favorite Rush Song
    Xanadu
  • Favorite Rush Album
    Moving Pictures
  • Best Rush Experience
    Time Machine Tour 2010-2011
  • Other Favorite Bands
    Iron Maiden
  • Musical Instruments You Play
    Guitar
  1. This is probably because most of the people in the arenas are not fans who visit forums and take polls. They're casual fans who want to hear the 'hits.'
  2. I will abso-f@#k'n-lutely be buying this on the day of release. I saw them four times on this tour and it was better each time. My favorite Rush album played live plus the two new songs--what more could I want!?
  3. QUOTE (shaun3701 @ Jul 25 2010, 06:47 PM) I hope they film this tour, unless they're going to repeat the whole Moving Pictures thing again next year. Having MP performed in its entirety is just too epic not to film. Not to mention the drum kit and stage set up.
  4. I think the indoor shows are better because the acoustics are better quality and visibility of the video screen and lighting effects are more visible than outdoor shows before sundown.
  5. QUOTE (Necromancer23 @ Jul 20 2010, 03:14 AM) Saw both Toronto shows. Was really drunk for the Amphitheatre Show, but really wondered why the next day I couldn't remember anything for the show except Time Stand Still. I was more sober for the 2nd show but I realized then why I didn't remember most of the first show - the first set is totally forgettable. This was my 8th tour and (aside from the Moving Pictures set) for me this was the only tour where a large portion of the show's set list was quite noticeably sub par. Let's review: - The Spirit of Radio - with concerts, I love surprises. I don't want to know anything about a concert before I go to it! I love the thrill of hearing a totally unexpected old classic and then getting right into the groove (Digital Man was like that for me on the last tour). Spirit Of Radio is such an obvious, hackneyed opener. Playing this first is totally blowing your wad in the first 30 seconds. It's opened their shows before, and there was no surprise at all here, considering that unfunny, overlong intro film alluded to it so heavily. (BTW: best concert intro ever - the Thus Spake Zarathustra 2001-ish intro on the Counterparts tour. Spectacular start to a show for a great album!) - Time Stand Still - aRgH! Hold Your Fire would be an unblemished masterpiece were it not for this turkey and Mission, yet we've had to endure BOTH songs on the past 2 tours. Whereas total masterpieces from HYF like Second Nature and High Water have NEVER been played live EVER! - Presto - the one shining star in the pre-intermission first set. Although I wish Alex had been swapping between the Ovation acoustic and the electric guitar as he did in Closer To The Heart during ASOH instead of playing faux acoustic on his electric. I think it would have sounded quite a bit better. Stick It Out - I know where they should stick this one... Workin' Them Angels - of all the songs you could play ... on a retrospective tour ... and they chose THIS????? This song just plain sucks. Can anyone tell really tell me they're still listening to S&A with any regularity since it came out?? Leave That Thing Alone - I wish they HAD left it alone. For me, the least interesting Rush instrumental ever. Faithless - exactly how I was feeling at this point in the show BU2B - not bad - but again .... of all the songs you COULD play .... ??????? Freewill - way too overplayed on too many tours (plus overplayed on the radio)! Marathon - very nice to hear again - but what about all these other gems from PW very few of us have ever heard live? Such as Grand Designs or Middletown Dreams ... if they had done Emotion Detector I would have gone into orbit! Subdivisions - way too overplayed on too many tours! The thing that really disappointed me about this show was how many albums were not represented at all in the entire show, and yet this is a "Time Machine tour" where we're hearing 3 songs from S&A and 2 new singles! That's a full 20% of the entire concert from the 2 newest studio albums of 20 studio albums total! Yet ZERO songs from GUP, TFE or RTB, only tired old Subdivisions from Signals, and only tired old Closer To the Heart from AFTK (even the band said they stopped playing it because they got "sick of it"), We can all argue endlessly about what they should or shouldn't play, and to each his own, but I think I can say one thing for sure: not much imagination went into the song choices. There are SO many songs little or never played live from all previous albums, most any of which would have (if nothing else) piqued my interest for being novel due to being played and heard live for the first time. That's the sort of thing that's sustained my interest at Rush shows over the years - Circumstances did that especially on the last tour. To me, that's a real trip down memory lane - THAT is a time machine. PS What happened to Jacob's Ladder? Was really looking forward to that one! Wow. Do you even like Rush?
  6. QUOTE (coolcool23 @ Jun 30 2010, 01:09 PM) QUOTE (friendlyvoice @ Jun 30 2010, 10:48 AM)With it being a longer tune and with so much of the set devoted to playing MP, they may have decided to shelve JL until next year...when they play all of Permanent Waves! (just kidding...maybe?) I wouldn't get your hopes up. About playing the whole album, I mean. They basically already did that on the Snakes and Arrows tour; the only two songs we didn't get were JL and Different Strings, which they've never played live. That's not to say that they won't, I just won't hold my breath for it. As for Jacob's Ladder later on next year... I would say that is completely possible. They've played Jacob's Ladder live. It's on Exit...Stage Left.
  7. I like the set list, but Alex said they would play it live. I wonder why it was not included. I hope it's rotated in. It's one of my favorites.
  8. I like the set list, but Alex said in an interview that they were going to play Jacob's Ladder. I wonder what happened. I hope they rotate it in.
  9. QUOTE (ReflectedLight @ Jun 22 2010, 12:02 PM) my gut reaction is i don't think they are going to add msg or radio city. this will be a short tour plus there's no way they would come close to selling out msg. It probably wasn't sold out in 2007, but they had a very big crowd,
  10. Absolutely brilliant. Heaviest Rush song in years. Up tempo, great musicianship.
  11. QUOTE (metaldad @ Apr 21 2010, 09:20 PM) QUOTE (Score Out @ Apr 21 2010, 09:17 PM) Not Far Cry This makes me smile [if true] I love Far Cry but I don't think they'll open with it. Maybe One Little Victory?
  12. I hope they play Analog Kid. It's my favorite song off Signals.
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