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I think it will be the day that Clockwork Angels is released. I have a feeling they are in the studio right now before the Holidays putting the wraps on the first CD of the new album. Either that or they will wear Kimonos.

It's not the price of the ticket that is overly expensive, I blame it on the scalpers (oh, really? news to me). For the Toledo concert in April. There are a total of 46 seats in the front row section CR. So far, even BEFORE the public sale starts today Saturday at 10am, there are 14 Row A tickets for sale on Stub Hub. That is almost 1/3 of the total available seats in the front row already spoken for by scalpers. Yours for only $700 each. No doubt there are tickets in E-Bay as well. You can blame Rush all day long if you choose for the $125 dollar ticket, but you can't blame them for what the scalpers do after Rush gets their share from the first time the ticket is sold. I can't wait to see them again, even if it is the same show again. It won't be the same show because it simply isn't from my perspective. The time and place are different and it's the live "in the moment" experience that has made me a fan forever.

I couldn't get tickets because my account is set up in US Dollars so the program kept kicking me out. Hopefully all the Canadians got great seats.

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Umm, pre-sale tickets for the Palace of Auburn Hills are $326 Time Machine Package only, no other choice unless you have a Citi Card. I had 8 in row 4 alex side for only $2600 before service fees. Looks like I'll be sitting this one out at that price. I had 2 in row 4 center for almost $700. I love , but that's expensive. No chance at a lower ticket cost in the presale.

Nothing like being up front. Great shots!

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

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.