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Thanks a ton for posting these amazingly fantastic vintage Rush photos. I just love the eighties ones. That was my favorite time period for collecting Rush concert pictures. I saw them in 1977 and 1978, then in 1980 and 1982 and that was the last time until 1990 and then 1992. If you have any more from the late seventies and eighties, please post them. Did you take photos of any other bands by the way? Especially of The Who with Keith Moon. I have fantastic Who shots I took at Maple Leaf Gardens on October 21, 1976 if anyone is interested in trading scans of any Who shots they took. And my brother took photos of the 77 and 78 shows. Mostly of Neil. Nice clear photographs for the most part.

Seeker - did you take photos at the eighties shows you attneded, and if so, I am interested in seeing, buying, or trading shots with you if you are into that sort of thing. Send me a message is you are.

If you have any rare concert photos before 1989 I am definately interested. I only collect live shots.

If there are some good live shots of vintage Rush I may get this. I don't really care much about reading about things I already know more than I need to know about. I already have hundreds of great concert pics of the band, but the more the merrier. Especially shots taken from different angles.

ReRushed - I like your anologies. I agree with your comment that some fanatics on this site might not understand your logic. I always say never underestimate the stupidity and shallow mindedness of the mass majority. Just look at how many people watch television and go see meaningless bullshit movies and you will know what I mean. As I said, Rush is great, but not the greatest. I like blue and he likes green. Big deal. Both are good enough for each person and it's like horses for courses. To each his own. Life goes on. As for Stewart Copeland and the Police, all their songs sound the same after awhile, although he is also one of my favorite drummers, so there you go. Bill Bruford is a fantastic drummer, but the bands he played in are a bit narcisstic in a non egotistical way. Too perfect timing puts me to sleep. The Who were the most powerful band to have stepped onto a concert stage in their heydays, and if you ask anyone who saw them with Moon they will say the same thing, no matter what other bands they saw. And I agree of course. There are many very good bands, but very few great ones, and The Who and Rush are two of them. Completely different styles and just as good as the other in some ways, but I do like the Who more for their stage presentations, which is neither here nor there. Pink Floyd is another fantastic band, but I saw them in 1977 and almost left because I was so bored. ELP are another great band, and Carl Palmer is one of the fastest drummers I ever saw, but they also can be a bit overbearing. But what do I know?

I am old enough to have been lucky enough to have seen the so-called best rock drummers and the dude who thinks Keith Moon is overrated has his head up his ass, no offense intended. If you know anything at all about drumming, which I do, timing is not everything. Peart has said many times that Moon was his first and foremost biggest influence on his drum style and is also his favorite drummer. John Bonham and Bill Ward were also two of the best drummers ever, although Bonham could get a bit sloppy. I saw Moon in 1973, 75, and 76 and he was by far the best supportive drummer I ever saw hands down. Yes, Peart is a phenominal time keeper and can play complicated rhythms, but you have to admit that he can sound a bit stiff at times. Moon played his own style and if you listen to Live at Leeds, you can hear how great he was. He didn't have to keep perfect time because the Who were not that kind of band. Townshend played some of the best guitar in the best rock band onstage ever, and Moon supported his style along with Entwistle, also the best bass player ever. I like Rush and their brilliant musical abilities, but the guy who said there is no such thing as the best drummer is correct. One style is different than another, and some play better or faster or sloppier than others. I also saw Peart nine times in concert from 1976-92 and he is by far the best drummer for Rush, just as Moon was the best drummer for The Who, and that is all that can really be said about it. We all have our favorites, and that is good. To say Moon is over-rated is ridiculous. I suppose thousands of people who saw him in concert and listened to Who records and are familiar with his fantastic drumming must all be wrong then. I like his style better than Peart's for some reasons and Peart's better than Moon's for other reasons, but to say one is better than the other is a non issue. Nuff said.

I have many rare mags and books to sell or trade, along with rare photos I took of Rush in the early seventies and eighties. I am mostly interested in concert photos of the band before 1992, especially from the seventies and eighties. A collectors site would be great to see for sure.

Absofuckinglutely amazing shots. Just wonderful pictures. Thanks a trillion.

Please post more Seattle pics. They look fantastic.

f***ing amazing pictures, Hugh. You are a real mensch to share these images with us Rush fans. Thanks a lot. Guys like you are a God send to be sure.

Wow. Thanks for the link. Great shots.

I have seen hundreds of pictures from almost all of the shows Rush has played on this tour, and Neil wears the headphones for most of the show, not just for a few songs like he used to starting in 1982. I think he wears them to dampen the sound of the other instruments and the echo bouncing off the walls so that he can stay in perfect time with the other guys, and also for the more obvious reason. Because of the backing tapes and click track he has to listen to in order to stay in sequence with the other instruments. Keith Moon of the Who is the only other drummer I know of that used earphones in concert for quite a few years before he died in 1978, and he wore them to listen to the backing tape and click track of the song being played to stay in time with the rest of the band, because it is very hard to hear backing tapes live because of the volume of the other instruments. Nuff said.

Lovely shots. You certainly know how to take good concert pics, my good chap. Thanks for sharing these rubies.

Oy, but the pics are lovely. It is amazing the number of pics I have collected from many people who saw Rush on this tour and posted them on various sites. Over six hundred so far, not including these ones. Thanks for sharing these gems.

Thanks for the link to the pics. A bit blurry, but a few are very nice.