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  • Number of Rush Concerts Attended
    1
  • Last Rush Concert Attended
    Summerfest 08
  • Favorite Rush Song
    YYZ
  • Favorite Rush Album
    2112
  • Other Favorite Bands
    Too Many
  • Musical Instruments You Play
    Drums
  1. Here's a short synopsis of the night song by song with my own opinions injected throughout: ---------------------- SET ONE: ---------------------- The Spirit Of Radio - Great intro song, really kicked the crowd into high gear. Time Stand Still - Definitely carry over from TSOR, but sounded like everyone was into it. Presto - Here's where we start losing ground (at least for me). It's cool that they're finally playing this live, but I just don't like the arrangement at all. That's definitely personal bias (since my least favorite albums are by far Hold Your Fire/Presto/Power Windows), but it seemed to me that the crowd wasn't quite as into this. I certainly wasn't. Alex's guitar was absent for a few seconds during the acoustic strumming even though he was playing, it eventually kicked in. Stick It Out - No problems here, I think that most of the stuff on Counterparts is cool and this was played well. Leave That Thing Alone - A personal fav, great to see it live. Probably a bit of the downer on the crowd but not me. Great Bass solo. Workin' Them Angels - A decent choice from Snakes and Arrows, photos of soldiers with wings gave me chills. Faithless - Probably not the best idea to put these two back to back, but I enjoyed it. (As with most of Snakes and Arrows) BU2B - Compared to what we've been hearing, the PA system almost exploded when this song started, or at least I thought it was going to. Sounds great loud and seemed like it surprised a few people. (Both because of the noise and the quality of the song itself) Freewill - A classic that everyone got into. Marathon - Another song off of one of my least favorite albums (the only other stand out for me would be Mystic Rhythms), but hearing it live has changed my mind. A great tune and one that many people were singing with, to my surprise. Solo sounds cooler than I remembered, this will have to get played a bit more on my commutes. Subdivisions - Another personal favorite, a good way to end the first set. Crowd roared when the opening notes were played. ------------------ SET TWO: ------------------ TOM SAWYER - Great response, everyone was definitely waiting to hear Moving Pictures. RED BARCHETTA - An excellent tune, but marred by an unexpected flub: Alex and Geddy seemed to get off beat from Neil towards the middle. It sounded bad for a second or two, but he made up the half beat and everything was back to normal. YYZ - Excellent, classic rush staple. Everyone loved it, and why not? It's like one of their signature songs. It would feel odd if they didn't play it. LIMELIGHT - Same as above. Well executed and a classic that everyone loved. CAMERA EYE - How could this song be bad? They could have totally screwed it up in any way and it still would have rocked. The arrangement seems spot on, except for the part where Geddy says, "Hello? ... Mornin' Gov." That got cut as far as I could tell. Still sounds AWESOME live. WITCH HUNT - Great to hear this live, sounds awesome. The guitar is really in your face rather than the studio version. VITAL SIGNS - I believe Alex's guitar cut out here as well. The synth suddenly ended towards the beginning and he ran to the side of the stage to quickly grab another guitar. CARAVAN - Love this tune as well. Again, sounds louder than the others for some reason. LOVE 4 SALE - Great solo from Neil, sounds pleasantly different from the recent ones I've heard so many times. (Not that I dislike the others, but the sound change was welcome and he changed up his normal patterns a bit differently) CLOSER TO THE HEART - Alex's new intro is unique, but not quite stand-out-ish enough IMO. More than a few people mentioned Broon's Bane leading up to it, that may have been a disappointment for them. (Although it would hardly surprise me that a very context specific guitar solo was not repeated years later, haha) 2112 OVERTURE / TEMPLES - Nothing wrong here. Just a great tune, played loudly and warmly recieved by the audience. Including me. FAR CRY - A good way to "end" IMO, especially with the pyrotechnics. ----------------- ENCORE: ----------------- LA VILLA STRANGIATO - Ugh... too bad that another flub happened here; this time it's a biggun. The polka intro goes fine, but as soon as there is supposed to be guitar, there isn't. Alex madly scrambles to get a working one (again) while Geddy and Neil continue playing. Geddy gets the spotlights for a second until Alex comes in and the rest of the song goes great. WORKING MAN - Again, a classic Rush staple that no one can't like to hear live. Nice to end on a positive note. (Ba-dum-tsch) -------------------------------------- There it is, most of the critical details from tonight's show as best as I can remember. Interesting from a young fan's perspective to hear all of the miscues because of Rush's reputation for perfection: then again my only other tour was Snakes and Arrows and I don't remember that show very well because I was only a beginning fan then who didn't know much of their material. Anyways, a good show overall which probably deserves a "B-" because of all the problems. But since They're my favorite band and they played The Camera Eye, they get an "A." rules.
  2. There were a ton of cameras/phones at Summerfest in Milwaukee. I've got a bunch of pictures; horrible cell phone ones but they get the point across.
  3. QUOTE (trenken @ Jun 30 2010, 10:00 AM) So no youtube clips yet of either caravan or bu2b? BU2B: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DJWOhGaoKc I haven't seen Caravan yet. I'll bet it'll be there after a few more dates. Never mind, here it is:
  4. I ordered just the shirt, and it came a week or two ago. I wore it to work and got a surprising amount of comments/conversation over it. I plan on getting an official tour shirt of course, since this one doesn't even have dates on it.
  5. QUOTE (friendlyvoice @ Jun 30 2010, 10:48 AM)With it being a longer tune and with so much of the set devoted to playing MP, they may have decided to shelve JL until next year...when they play all of Permanent Waves! (just kidding...maybe?) I wouldn't get your hopes up. About playing the whole album, I mean. They basically already did that on the Snakes and Arrows tour; the only two songs we didn't get were JL and Different Strings, which they've never played live. That's not to say that they won't, I just won't hold my breath for it. As for Jacob's Ladder later on next year... I would say that is completely possible.
  6. Yup, Milwaukee Tix arrived today. However, I'll probably think twice about ordering from Music Today again. To me, getting the tickets 10 business days before the event while they've been sitting on $200+ dollars for two months interest free is just not a good thing. I'm betting that getting in on tickets just a few days before they go on sale to the public probably didn't benefit me a whole lot in my case.
  7. To the OP: I know what you're saying, but Rush has tried this, as recently as the Snakes and Arrows Tour. I remember reading somewhere that they tried to warm up A Farewell to Kings on the Snakes and Arrows tour, but Geddy said they just couldn't make it work. Obviously they wouldn't have been happy with just tuning it down, which is the obvious solution. Here's the link : http://www.blender.com/blender-blog/76720/...-geddy-lee.html I know you're saying pre-2112, but I'd say that the majority of pre-Permanent Waves is off limits due to the band's dissatisfaction with how it would sound today. Additionally, their sound has changed a lot since the 70's, so although they may still be proud of what they've done it may not be the most important thing for them to revisit that stuff. Not trying to make excuses, just saying that's theirs. I'd love to hear that stuff in any form, especially on a Time Machine tour!
  8. I've got a tracking number finally for tix to the Milwaukee show FYI. That's a load off my mind.
  9. I just called Music Today and was informed by whomever I spoke to that they ship tickets out two weeks before the event. For what it's worth, I confirmed that that was like a firm date that they handle for all of their shows and that I should be able to see a tracking number on the page next Monday (ten business days out from the event). If I don't see that number on Monday, I'm calling again and literally demanding a tracking number. Based on my track record with this company, I have no faith whatsoever that they'll straighten out a problem via email in 10 business days.
  10. I'm also still waiting on my Milwaukee tickets, preordered in April as well from Music Today. Tomorrow is 15 business days away from the event and I was thinking about calling them because the order webpage still lists no tracking info/indication that it's shipped. I've sent three emails to two separate addresses over there (two about an issue with the time machine tour merchandise storefront, one about the tickets) and I've only gotten one response which came after about 10 days or so on it's own. Getting pretty nervous here.
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