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Yes. He was cheating. I honestly don’t know why Geddy even bothered with the keyboards the last few tours. On videos it’s clear as a bell he’s holding one finger and playing full chords, and doesn’t even switch to different key for the next chord.

Yeah, the mix is fine really. The overall production is somewhat cold, but that could just be a symptom of the gear they were using. I want a Steinberger bass like there’s no tomorrow, but simply for nostalgia reasons. They actually sound kinda lousy. I’m wondering if there were parts buried or muted out altogether that Brown can bring some life to.

Yeah, I guess the guy got really weird after a while. He claimed that certain songs were written specifically to him. As for visions, when I was a teenager and didn’t know any better it was an OK book. As I got older and would reread it, it became cringeworthy. And if you can, pick up a copy of Geddy‘s autobiography. Bill Graham, Steve, Lillywhite and, even an uncle or two. 60 years later in some cases and he’s still mad.😅

Oh well. At least you came… The Terry Brown mix will find its way to Spotify. As much as I’d like to see the full p/g concert, at the moment I don’t even own a working blu-ray player.

Vapor Trails Tour, Mohegan Sun 2002. I was in the front row of the upper bowl dead center across from stage. I watched a guy for a good five minutes sitting right behind the soundboard, head down, completely engulfed in playing Secret Touch. He nailed it, down to the last beat. Don’t know if he actually watched a single second of the show.

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As someone with a last name that no one can pronounce when they see it spelled, or spell correctly when they hear it pronounced, I don’t hold that against people. Remember, we’re the die hards here. Had Geddy not introduced him that way on his drum solo on the RTB, I would’ve gone another decade thinking it was pronounced “pert”.

What is awesome about those people, though, is how easy they are to tweak on Facebook! I’ve sent people into complete meltdowns by saying that Peart was inferior to Phil Rudd or Karen Carpenter. Or that even John Rutsey had a better sense of groove. They go crazy! 😁

My wife has been on an extended paid break from work so she decided to clean out her walk-in closet, which is where I had kept my copies of Wandering the Face of the Earth and Geddy’s Big Beautiful Book of Bass. I came home from work and they are now displayed as coffee table books. I was flipping through the first one again after a couple years and just happened to notice that in a LOT of the footnotes for press clippings up through a certain period, they used interviews from Bill Banasiewicz (the B-Man who wrote the horrible Visions biography.) I just found that surprising as I had known that they had a major falling out with the guy, and knowing Geddy‘s ability to hold a grudge,, I didn’t think they would want to do anything to give him the idea he was back in the fold. Interesting to read little facts about shows that I was actually at, like how unhappy they were with the sound during the initial Power Windows tour shows, are that Alex broke a ton of strings on that tour. I saw them in Hartford and Springfield that tour. Alex broke a string during New World Man. Years later, I found the bootleg for that show and listened for the gap where just bass and drums. Springfield was a general admission arena and as we got there, there was a line of thousands of people around the arena and down the block. As we pulled around to the front, the doors opened and my friend and I jumped out of our folks’ car and ran past about 8000 people and got awesome seats right down low on the side. Poor Marillion deserved a better reception than they got. I have that boot as well. It still utterly blows my mind as a kid from Uncasville, Connecticut, that Rush has now played there several times, and will again in October. Before the casino, Uncasville was the kind of town that you only went to if you lived or worked there. There’s absolutely nothing there that isn’t available in some better form in one of the surrounding towns. The actual grounds of the casino itself used to be the location of a nuclear supply company for naval warships. If you’ve ever seen Rush at Mohegan Sun and came away feeling like you were glowing, it wasn’t because of the band. 😂

I remember seeing this. Instead of one continuous groove, it’s six parallel grooves. It shortens the available time on the side, so each one is only a two-minute snippet.

I have a ticket for the first BOSTON show. Balcony 313 row 5 seat 4. Face value is 244 bucks. I would even let it go for 234 since that’s what I’ll get from stubhub if it sells there.

The first Boston show has a grand total of eight seats left in the upper deck. There are two sets of three at 182 each for Citibank card holders, and then two singles at 269. For the set of three, you either have to buy one or three because it won’t let you buy two if it leaves one single seat next to it. I’m tempted to buy one, and then sell my seat that I got for 244.

Unless they signed a horrible contract, if they truly didn’t like him, they would’ve walked away from him, the same way they walked away from Terry Brown.

I’m guessing that for Mohegan Sun, they were probably about 100 seats at the lowest price level, if that. The very back row of the upper bowl is 356. I found a pair for 126 and clicked it, but they were gone. The second Mohegan show has barely sold.

Couldn’t get through to Boston or Mohegan Sun early. Tried later on and picked up a single for the 2nd Boston show, and a pair for the first Boston show. An hour later, I saw a screen that said you did not finalize the sale or something like that. So I panicked and bought a second pair. Then the screen updated and my original purchase was there. Now I have an extra pair for Boston. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ Mohegan Sun prices are nuts. $400+ for the BACK row of the upper section.

If I can get tickets to all four New England shows, I will sell my Cleveland tickets. I can cancel the hotel at no cost. Hell, even if I lose 40 or 50 bucks on the one I paid above market for, it still saves me 300 bucks on three nights in a dump hotel and 18 hours of driving, round-trip

I’m guessing heavy I’m the nostalgia, with Geddy supporting his voice with tracks. I just hope I don’t have a 73-year-old man singing “naked in our unity”….

Yep. I grew up two minutes from where Mohegan Sun is now. When I was a kid that was a nuclear supply company. It’s the type of town that no one goes to unless you live or work there, because there’s no other reason to be there.

Bummer. Now that Boston and Mohegan Sun will be available, if I do MSG, it would be the Saturday show so my wife and I could make a weekend out of it.

I have an individual nosebleed seat for each Cleveland show. Take it or leave it. That’s my final offer.

I think they have to be pairs because there are two available for Madison Square Garden on August 1, but you can’t buy either one of them individually. They are the only two seats left in the entire arena.

Another thing to keep in mind is that they are with a new management company that doesn’t particularly care about the longtime fan’s relationship with the band.

What do you have for MSG?

I’ve got one ticket for each show. I paid face value for the 17th ($136), and about $230 on Tickpick for the one on Saturday.

I have a friend who is deeply involved in this type of business. He says they probably went with a plan A, Plan B, and plan C. Plan A was the initial dates. Those were done just to gauge the demand. My friend actually thought they might have overestimated it just with the plan A date. Plan B was the extension of those initial dates. They were probably still overwhelmed by the demand and then the 17 cities, which is Plan C. but yes. They probably put a deposit down on the 17 cities right from the start, with the hope that it would get that far.