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I have tried for years to get a contact high and it does not work. Holding your breath for a minute gets you a better buzz than second-hand herb smoke. I prefer to toke pre-show and bring a doob in for that "special" song to fire up, then pass it around. For the Sarnia show, you can't bring pot over the border from the US or they will confiscate your car. So we brought brownies and were fortunate enough to be surrounded by some awesome Rush-fans who kept the kind flowing once the sun went down. To keep the pot smoking from being too obvious, just wait until it gets dark.

IMO you complainers either turn her in to the ushers and bust her or quit your whining. You go Rushgirl!

After intermission, a group of arena staff members tried to get me free seats in Row W Section 116 while on a bathroom break at a kiosk. I stayed in my Front Row upper deck. They wanted me to trade my ticket in for their seats. She had a stack of at least 10. The show was tasty sweet, though the sound was pretty muddy and echoey.

I consider that cruel and unusual punishment for such a happy girl. Enjoy the show!

Tears of joy will be streaming from my eyes Sunday in Columbus. Its powerful stuff this music from People near me must think I am a wreck...

Kudos for the Super shots of some heavy riffs.

Just do what I did...Look at the setlist one time, do the WOW and wait until the show. Don't look it over enough to memorize, just get the general idea and let the short-term memory handle the rest

Everybody is assuming that they will play the songs in order, consecutively like the album. I say that would be boring, I would rather hear them in order, but spread throughout the night within both sets so you don't know when they are coming. In a way though I do like ending Set 1 with Side 1, and then starting Set 2 with Side 2. Which to me leads to a further question...where will Mr. Peart's drum solo be?

PT put on a great show Sunday in Detroit. Stephen was baffled at the lameness of the crowd though (as was I). It seemed to me that 95% of the crowd were first timers at the show and for the music. He said something about "demographics". Certainly Detroit was weak compared to the Chicago stories. Whomever decided to put seats down in the normally General Admission area put a major damper on the crowd. Everybody was sitting on their butts from my vantage point. I rocked as hard as I could from the section above main floor then did mainfloor for the encores. No way to bust to the front area. I wish I would have made it inside earlier to see Big Elf. The lead guy and other band dude was hanging out in the lobby after PT finished and was signing CD's and chilling with fans, pretty cool. I was trying to unload an extra sweet ticket and as usual, ate it and gave it away to a random fan. I did luck out after the show as I walked to the front of the stage and I asked a roadie for a pick, and he gave me a greyish/green pick out of a little cup attached to a mic stand that Stephen used. The pick was certainly used and abused with all the heavy riffing. Geekville

How about one of the new tunes? Though starting with side 1 of MP is my guess with Tom Sawyer.

The one from the Jules Verne movie would be sweet with some album cover images and band photos through a kaleidoscope

I know I can't post a link and I am too lame to figure out how to post the photo, but it can be found at musictoday and when you click to the t-shirt area. Also at TM site at the ticket area. The T-shirt has some cool "3-type" themes and some trippy smoke rising. I will be ordering this one with my pre-sale attempts at first 10 rows What do you all think of this shirt? I think it rocks! I hope they do a tye-dye for the shows, I can never have enough of those. The feedback style was my favorite over the last few years. Though I wear my baseball jersey style when it is cool outside

Seems that with the prices the way they are, I will be getting much less Rush for my $$$. Instead of five or six shows, I get one or two with VIP, which seems the only way to get close to the front (legally) . I actually thought it might be funny to pass out dollar sign stickers to put on our foreheads for the first 15 rows, or the very last row in the house center section in Chicago for $125, I think its kind of crazy to spend more on one VIP ticket at $300 then it costs to buy every single Rush CD in the catalogue.

Anybody else notice that the year digits are changing from 2010 to 2011 on the graphic? Is there a deeper meaning...obviously there must be with this sweet elemental info on the clock.

I'm actually forseeing in a non-spoiler, pure fantasy speculative fashion that the new Rush "album" IS called Time Machine. The six songs that they already have currently written are still quite young, so they will be slowly introduced into the set and tinkered with, show to show as the tour progresses. Then after the First Year of the Time Machine Tour is completed, Rush will after a one-week break, head to the Studio with Nick to produce, further explore, and record and those 6 new ditties. What are we going to get? Six new studio tunes on CD1 (plus the 4-6 more new songs that they were so pumped about and wrote during the tour). And on CD2, those first six songs that "happened" to be recorded live at the end of the tour . Since each song will likely be epic AND at least 10 minutes long they may need two disks for the studio set! The groundbreaking CD package will be released soon after the tour so they can get a decent break before the big slog next year...when they go back on tour with those 4-6 new tunes worked into the set and the process repeats, with a different classic album added to the set, a virtual time machine.

Those must be the two songs that have already entered the "pre-production" phase I heard about on RIAB last week or so.

QUOTE (krlowe @ Apr 11 2010, 04:53 PM) No Detroit show is pure bullshit for sure......that sucks Ditto on that one krlowe. Seems like the except for Toronto, all the places I went to last tour are being skipped: London, Ont., Blossom, Pine Knob/Joe Louis, Indy. But Sarnia, Ont. is nearby you, just across from Port Huron. Check out Sarniabayfest.com for the info. We can high-five in the front row dude...its a Gen Admission show and depending if you want to drink, or you can pick your side (Geddy drunk, Alex teetotalin). Geddy's side is $30 more per ticket because of the "drinking license".

One of my favorite "new" bands for sure. Seeing them in Cleveland on their tour was one of many highlights of my concert year.

There are Oktoberfest parties here in Michigan every weekend this time of year. Lots of local Brewpubs make their own recipe each year. Make sure you get out and try some and support your local brewer. My favorite store-bought one this year so far is Samuel Adams Oktoberfest. I am waiting for some cash to arrive to make the beer run and pick up some German ones in bottles: Spaten, Beck's, Hacker Pschorr and Hofbrau (already had a mini-keg...yummy). Fall is here in Michigan and its time for some Amber Malt goodness.

This thread is sweet, love the apple bowl on top...plus if you poke it to the center, the smoke will roll around amongst the seed pod area in which there is sometimes an air chamber. Back when the Spinal Tap movie first came out, me and two buddies went to downtown Keego Harbor to see the flick at the local theatre. Per usual, we had a little weed, but no papes or pipes. We had used the beer can method before (not recommended-burnt aluminum and paint), but I had a much better idea. There was a bag of large pretzel sticks in the car that we were munching on the way. So I took a pretzel stick (about 6-8 inches long by 1/2" diameter) and my house key and dug a little one or two-hit bowl in the top of the stick (not the end-though that should work too). Then, I sawed of the opposite end of the stick, blew the pretzel dust off of both ends. Then all it took was some bud and flames and we were getting stoked for the TAP.

Thanks for all the reviews! I just love reading them. I wish you could add more links to the highlight "rare" tunes. Getting excited about Night Two in Detroit at Cobo Arena. I have upper bowl front row dead on to the stage. It will be a great night. I hope they play some tunes off Sonic Boom too...too bad I have to walk into a WalMart to get one...that's why I don't have the AC/DC album.

Cleveland show at the House of Blues...small venue. I cannot believe that I was able to see PT there at such a nice place. The sound from Stage Left was excellent...very powerful music. I wish I could have worked my way to the front, but that did not seem like a cool idea as the people were all very mellow...until the music happened. Excellent experience for my first show. I met alot of nice people there. Josh from Cleveland even bought me a beer! A fair number of Rush T-shirts in attendance. I hope they come to the Detroit area on the next leg.

I just finished the first run through of The Incident. I finally got my pre-order today in the mail...maybe Best Buy next time, lost two days, plus spaced out the download. Anyway, the album is an awful lot to digest in just one listen. There were a few catchy riffs right off the bat and lots of cool jamming. I look forward to my next listen later tonite at louder volume in my house. Has the potential for me to really love it...I'll just let it happen if it does. This album is from outer space . I look forward to the next jam session. See you in Cleveland, it will be my first PT show! Oh yeah, thanks to the old Rush Radio that played other proggy stuff and TRF for turning me on to the TREE !!!!

Sounds pretty tasty. If you plan on ordering the CD, check out their website and order it there for $10 plus postage. Also they have some very creative and cheap $10 T-shirts. I ordered mine 15 minutes ago.

I just wanna use your love tonight, I don't wanna lose your love tonight! I don't wanna I don't wanna I love The Outfield, great harmonies, sweet licks, clean production and slick songwriting. I would not say that they rock, but they certainly jam.