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I went nuts on Test for Echo tour - first time I had time and money to do it. (It wasn't outrageously expensive, because I could stay with friends, etc.) 11 shows My first was P/G Ha! That's awesome! I started with p/g as well. I was at one show with you - 2002 Woodlands! I'll be damned. That was a great show, too. Make that two shows - I was at ABQ opening night of Time Machine as well. Breaking Bad. Got 10000 feet high before the show. ;) That was the only opener I've seen. Loved it, but the wind screwed with the sound something fierce! The wind was brutal. I loved that show, but seeing the Tulsa opener just blew ABQ out of the water. I guess knowing 9 songs that would definitely be played hampers that experience. And I got 10,000 feet high on my drive to ABQ as well!

HF!!!!

Middletown was a vocal struggle. Definitely, but Limelight was no picnic either.

It would be awesomer if the slogan was LEG 2 ON SALE SOON!

Me too!

It would be wrong of me to feel cheated, but I saw the A setlist and B setlist of the CA Tour, and still missed out of Manhattan Project and Middletown Dreams. But one of those was for the DVD filming, and they randomly played Dreamline in place of MP, but I got to see the only show they ever played 10 songs form an album. (I love the album, so I greatly enjoyed it). And they pretty much gave up on Middletown in the last part of the tour, so I got a Limelight show.

Geddy must be totally spent tonight. Very exhausting, subdued goodbye.

"if there's a good song later, I'll be back." Good ole Jessica!

pre-emptive OMG YOUR SCOPE IS MAKING ALEX FLUB HIS SOLOS AND MAKING GEDDY VOICE WARBLE AND MAKING NEIL'S FACE APPEAR MORE GRUMPIER!!!!!11111 :laughing guy:

I think he's going to get especially sentimental by the Forum. I don't think he'll make a huge issue out of it, but I'm sure there will be some subtlety involved for sure. I wouldn't expect any Lou Gehrig-type speeches, but maybe a bit more chatty than usual. I don't know if most fans prefer the last night of a tour over the first night (in most case's I prefer the opener (made two of them)) but LA is one finale I'd have liked to have had a ticket for. Having seen the TMT and R40 openers and the CA closer, I definitely prefer seeing an opener not knowing what to expect. Tulsa was just mind-blowing. However, possibly seeing the last one ever in LA would be super special as well.

Who cares what Bottrill did on the VT remix? Listen to the TFE footage on the R40 box set. Aside from their live recordings form the 70s, that's the best, most honest representation of live Rush audio.

If family is what's truly holding him back, you'd think he'd have flown home after the show rather than ride, right?

Based on Periscope and Youtube, the first set was atrocious, but the second set was amazing on the first night. Then, the second show was one for the ages.

I got lucky in seeing A (Tulsa), B (Lincoln), and C (Dallas) in my first three shows, , then B again in Kansas City, but Losing It is playing hard-to-get, so either I make a miracle trip to LA or just face the reality that I' won't see it.

How can you cut the scope during LaserFest?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?

Phoenix: Vitamin D Capital of the Universe! So obvious, but so funny!

Only three of these left. :(

It keeps looping the same 10-15 seconds.

I doubt he'd be there just to soundcheck it. It was likely Ben Mink in sample-form.

That's not entirely true. David Botrill is mixing the audio. Based on h is work with Rush so far, this is a good thing!

I can see where the average person might find the solos kind of blah.... but the polyrhytmic stuff and playing over different ostenatos is really impressive, but not as flashy as playing 32nd notes all over the toms.

Pete had a feed go through the whole show in Toronto, I think! He really let me down tonight.

This one works. The next two in this thread are dead. Spoke too soon!

Technically, they never were in Kansas on this tour...

Well done! "They're too good to retire," but too tired to keep at this pace. I hope they take another good break, maybe release some new tunes, and find a way to play some shows throughout North America. Now that they seem comfortable with this tour, they are performing way too well and having too much fun to call it quits as long as their health is okay. .