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I had a few d-bags around me tonight, unfortunately. Whatever you do, don't sit in Row 18 at Red Rocks unless you want to get beer spilled on you all night, because that's the fast track to your nearest Coors Light stand. I had one guy walk in front of me, stop, yell at his friend 50 feet away, walk in front of me again, stop, turn around, walk in front of me a third time, before finally going back to his damn seat. At this point, I just said "come on, man" and the moron grunted something at me before sitting down. Made it very hard to enjoy La Villa in the encore.

They were definitely filming tonight. Initially people were saying they were just going to do Wednesday night, but I think they filmed tonight as well.

Yep, few snafus early. When the video went out, the whole place did a collective "WTF". Geddy looked like he had some issues with the in-ears early; looked frustrated. All was soon forgotten from about Freewill onwards. Choked up at Subdivisions again... what can I say? My favorite band playing my favorite song in a place about as close to a slice of heaven as it gets. Can't say I dug the crowd. A little too inebriated at the end for my liking. Maybe I'm just getting old, but the fast track to the beer line seems to go right in front of me and I get tired of it very quickly.

There's a million of these. By-Tor & the Snowdog: The guitar chords at 1:36-1:50. Lakeside Park - the opening drum fill, which is the first fill I play on my drum kit during sounchecks at gigs (it uses the snare and all the toms). Cygnus X-1, Book II: Hemispheres. 2:35. Ding! La Villa Strangiato: Bass solo at 6:08, drum fill at 6:42 The Camera Eye - Guitar chords at 1:38-1:43 and similar. This is gonna send chills up and down my spine tomorrow night when I hear these played live for the first time. Subdivisions, 2:27 and 4:08 - that sprawling G chord resolving the synth lead breaks. Digital Man - drum fill at 4:35 and all the little Stewart Copeland-y stuff. The Weapon - three drum fills from 5:10-5:20, bringing out of guitar solo back into opening riff and into final chorus New World Man - the drum fills at 1:24 and 2:34 Big Money - drum fill at 1:15 Aimee Mann's laugh at the beginning of Force Ten. And right before that, that drum sample that sounds like someone dribbling a basketball in a huge gymnasium. Boom, BAFFFF, Boom Boom, BAFF. Boom, BAFF, Boom Boom. The piano bridge of Anagram (For Mongo). Cut to the Chase - 3:44 - that drum break towards the end which is mixed and panned all funny. The Hemispheres-like F# chord that punctuates Far Cry.

I'm going to enjoy my Rush show out here in Colorado tomorrow night even more, now that I've read this. Thank you for sharing!

Man that sucks.... I'm going to the OTHER Red Rocks show.

QUOTE (RodrigoAltaf @ Aug 10 2010, 05:22 AM) subdivisions to me, regardless of where it's paced in the setlist, is an untouchable song. It should be on each and every concert they play, as it speaks directly to the majority of Rush fans. It's right up there with Tom Sawyer and TSOR as their most important songs. Agreed. For me personally, it is the single most direct relationship I have with a song. Any song, not just Rush. I actually think it is in the perfect place for me, because I will have 20 minutes to savor it when it ends, instead of having the next tune start right away. For someone with an emotional connection to that song, it is one that I will be very happy to absorb for a few minutes.

Was hoping to see the double-necks. Doesn't sound like they make an appearance this time.

QUOTE (danielmclark @ Jul 20 2010, 02:55 PM) QUOTE (Hemispheres89 @ Jul 20 2010, 02:25 PM) If one of the members of Rush dropped dead tomorrow (god forbid), then the complaints we'd be dealing with would be more of a "why didn't I see them, and why didn't they tour more often!!? instead of "why did their setlists suck!?" My greatest regret in life (and I only have a couple) is that I kept putting off going to see George Carlin perform live. Every time he came to town, I had some excuse for putting it off because I took for granted that he'd be back in town in a year or less. Then he died. I don't have many regrets, and my life has been really good considering not seeing a comedian perform is one of them... but there it is. Don't put off meeting people, seeing artists perform or doing what you want to in life... because you may not get to later on. I'll never, ever complain about a Rush setlist. As long as they're on stage in front of me, I'm a happy guy. <Homer> It's like that time I could have met Mr. T at the mall. The entire day, I kept saying, 'I'll go a little later, I'll go a little later...' And when I got there, they told me he just left. And when I asked the mall guy if he'll ever come back again, he said he didn't know. Well, I'm never going to let something like that happen again! </Homer>

QUOTE (1-0-0-1-0-0-1 @ Jul 20 2010, 01:01 PM) Maybe it's different up in Canada, but in the U.S. "Freewill" is almost never heard on the radio. I have probably heard Freewill played more than any other Rush song on US radio. Even more than Tom Sawyer. Must be a regional thing. I hear Limelight too much as well, to a point where I don't get all that excited about it anymore. I suppose that is the reason for a lot of the setlist angst you see going on here.... any classic rock station in the middle third of the country plays a good chunk of this setlist every day.

You lost me at Subdivisions. A classic tune I never get tired of hearing. Now, if you just want more of Signals represented, well, I'm totally on that.

This will be my second Rush show at RR. The first one is my personal highlight, so I naturally have high expectations. I can't think of a better place to see them, to be honest.

I'm curious to know if Neil's French is good enough to have actually done that interview without a translator.

QUOTE (tangy @ Jul 2 2010, 07:44 AM) Steely Dan. Seconded. Absolutely. Except for the one song on each tour that Becker sings. Not so good. Last time I went, they did the entire Aja album start to finish, note for note. Incredible.

The Camera Eye, by a very wide margin. That's gonna be an almost religious experience. I'm actually quite excited about Presto... that was kind of the unexpected pleasant surprise of this tour so far. I've given the studio track a good workout this week and now I'm excited. And of course, Subdivisions. Never, ever gets old.

AK has always kind of got the rough end of the stick, it seems. As far as Signals goes, there are three or four tunes I actually prefer. But I like it very much and would much rather hear it over just about anything Counterparts and later, such is the strength of that album itself. I think it might be symptomatic of the under-representation of Signals in general that we've been getting the last few tours. One song on this tour. Now, for me Subdivisions is untouchable, but I can understand how some people might like to hear something else from that record. I think they should play ALL of it. For my money, I'd pay to hear THAT album performed entirely.

Consensus on tonight's show seems to say no rant.

IN: Jacob's Ladder The Pass The Weapon Hemi Prelude/Armageddon By-Tor & The Snowdog OUT: Freewill Stick it Out Faithless LTTA 2112 (for me, only worth hearing when complete)

22 out of 25 is a pretty good deal. I'm not going to tear my hair out over (un-named song taken out of setlist). It would have been really nice to hear it, but it isn't a deal-breaker. I've only seen the band twice, so it would take a really, really weak set to keep me away.

Ged's jazz is different. Pickguard has a symbol on it and is off-white with a texture. And it is hard to tell but it looks like the solid black fret blocks are gone.

Curious to see if La Villa has "the rant".

Jacob's Ladder is why people are disappointed. I am disappointed, and I actually like the set list. Because of Alex's admission, people were expecting this, and really excited about it. So imagine the confusion and angst when it isn't there. That's the source of it.

I see. Interesting title.

.... scroll down... "LOVE 4 SALE" New song?

Major drumkit picture spoilers in those. I've seen it... all I can say is wow.