18 Shows Added

[TheGhostRider]

Just saw another official announcement. Because of the crazy demand 18 additional shows have just been added to the new cities on the tour. Wild! 

 

 

 

https://www.rush.com/more-2nd-shows-added-to-rush-fifty-something-tour/

 

Edited October 22, 2025 by TheGhostRider

[grep]

Full blown tour. This is nuts.   

With the 2 in Charlotte I'm going to have seen them 30 times. 

Edited October 22, 2025 by grep

[TheGhostRider]

4 minutes ago, grep said:

Full blown tour. This is nuts.   

With the 2 in Charlotte I'm going to have seen them 30 times. 

I was already planning on seeing them twice, but with the second San Antonio show being added, I might just try and see them there as well, assuming I can pull it off. 

[joeyjojojunior936shabadoo]

Wow! Just saw this too. Two shows in Seattle now!

[TheHonestMan]

I'm honestly baffled at the decision to skip cities that have been on most of the past tours.

 

No Kansas City, no St. Louis, no Indianapolis? But we're getting 2 shows in Detroit?

 

I would love the know the reasoning behind those decisions. Guess the timing, logistics, or cost analysis didn't work out for this places.

[grep]

1 minute ago, TheHonestMan said:

I'm honestly baffled at the decision to skip cities that have been on most of the past tours.

 

No Kansas City, no St. Louis, no Indianapolis? But we're getting 2 shows in Detroit?

 

I would love the know the reasoning behind those decisions. Guess the timing, logistics, or cost analysis didn't work out for this places.

Now I'm thinking there will be a second US leg in 27.  Pure speculation. 

[ZachenFoot]

2 minutes ago, TheHonestMan said:

I'm honestly baffled at the decision to skip cities that have been on most of the past tours.

 

No Kansas City, no St. Louis, no Indianapolis? But we're getting 2 shows in Detroit?

 

I would love the know the reasoning behind those decisions. Guess the timing, logistics, or cost analysis didn't work out for this places.

Or they've got more shows in the can they'll announce in two weeks 

[zappafrank]

2 minutes ago, TheHonestMan said:

I'm honestly baffled at the decision to skip cities that have been on most of the past tours.

 

No Kansas City, no St. Louis, no Indianapolis? But we're getting 2 shows in Detroit?

 

I would love the know the reasoning behind those decisions. Guess the timing, logistics, or cost analysis didn't work out for this places.

There has been discussion that they're with Q Prime now, and someone on reddit made a good point: what did Q Prime recently do?  The 2 nights-per-city Metallica tour.

[joeyjojojunior936shabadoo]

It does make me wonder if the way things rolled out was a strategic effort to fight scalpers. Seems likely it will make it more difficult for scalpers to profit. 

[TheHonestMan]

1 minute ago, grep said:

Now I'm thinking there will be a second US leg in 27.  Pure speculation. 

 

You might be right. Hopefully the rollout announcement is a bit more straight forward.

 

1 minute ago, ZachenFoot said:

Or they've got more shows in the can they'll announce in two weeks 

 

Please no more, I'm already dizzy.

[That One Guy]

What if they cancel the first round of shows, as a long con way to stick it to scalpers?

[ZachenFoot]

2 minutes ago, joeyjojojunior936shabadoo said:

It does make me wonder if the way things rolled out was a strategic effort to fight scalpers. Seems likely it will make it more difficult for scalpers to profit. 

Could be! I do believe they've had these dates booked all along and the "wow, can you believe it, we need to add more!" stuff is just PR, I don't think you just call Little Caesar's Arena on a whim and go "shoot, we've got a lot of demand, can we book a couple dates?" lol. 

 

So this rollout is definitely intentional, and the reason you suggested seems like a plausible one. 

[That One Guy]

Just now, ZachenFoot said:

Could be! I do believe they've had these dates booked all along and the "wow, can you believe it, we need to add more!" stuff is just PR, I don't think you just call Little Caesar's Arena on a whim and go "shoot, we've got a lot of demand, can we book a couple dates?" lol. 

 

So this rollout is definitely intentional, and the reason you suggested seems like a plausible one. 

There could be a middle ground, arranging a guaranteed date with venues, and negotiating "options" after initial demand is known. Not my world, just a thought

[ZachenFoot]

Just now, That One Guy said:

There could be a middle ground, arranging a guaranteed date with venues, and negotiating "options" after initial demand is known. Not my world, just a thought

Also not my world so you could also be right

[Union 5-3992]

4 minutes ago, That One Guy said:

What if they cancel the first round of shows, as a long con way to stick it to scalpers?

No chance. By now actual fans who bought those tickets could be bag holding travel and hotel accomodations.

[zappafrank]

Just now, ZachenFoot said:

Could be! I do believe they've had these dates booked all along and the "wow, can you believe it, we need to add more!" stuff is just PR, I don't think you just call Little Caesar's Arena on a whim and go "shoot, we've got a lot of demand, can we book a couple dates?" lol. 

 

So this rollout is definitely intentional, and the reason you suggested seems like a plausible one. 

But what about the unintentional side effect of people shelling out money to travel when it turns out there was going to be a show in their backyard all along?  That's very real.

 

Not casting aspersion, just stating something that objectively has happened.

[That One Guy]

7 minutes ago, zappafrank said:

But what about the unintentional side effect of people shelling out money to travel when it turns out there was going to be a show in their backyard all along?  That's very real.

 

Not casting aspersion, just stating something that objectively has happened.

Happy I didn't do that.

[That One Guy]

If Alex/Ged get 1/3rd of the tour revenues to split, napkin math on utter napkin math, $40-50M each

 

Is that enough to buy an MLB franchise?

[joeyjojojunior936shabadoo]

8 minutes ago, zappafrank said:

But what about the unintentional side effect of people shelling out money to travel when it turns out there was going to be a show in their backyard all along?  That's very real.

 

Not casting aspersion, just stating something that objectively has happened.

That likely happened to some. 

[ZachenFoot]

10 minutes ago, zappafrank said:

But what about the unintentional side effect of people shelling out money to travel when it turns out there was going to be a show in their backyard all along?  That's very real.

 

Not casting aspersion, just stating something that objectively has happened.

I never said it was a good strategy lol. It just is a strategy 

[joeyjojojunior936shabadoo]

1 minute ago, ZachenFoot said:

I never said it was a good strategy lol. It just is a strategy 

Agreed.

[TheAnarchist2112]

27 minutes ago, TheHonestMan said:

I'm honestly baffled at the decision to skip cities that have been on most of the past tours.

 

No Kansas City, no St. Louis, no Indianapolis? But we're getting 2 shows in Detroit?

 

I would love the know the reasoning behind those decisions. Guess the timing, logistics, or cost analysis didn't work out for this places.

Because of the gap between the shows in the summer, I would assume that we will get yet another announcement in the coming days/weeks of new shows announced during the summer in locations like those

[TheHonestMan]

11 minutes ago, That One Guy said:

If Alex/Ged get 1/3rd of the tour revenues to split, napkin math on utter napkin math, $40-50M each

 

Is that enough to buy an MLB franchise?

 

Nowhere close to enough, but I love the idea of a Geddy and Alex hatching a scheme to buy the Blue Jays. Only for the team to go on to win the World Series this year and drive up the price astronomically haha.

[78jazz]

...and STILL nothing remotely close to me.

 

As of this post, likely the third night in Fort Worth for me. It may be the only time I see them (one of the Charlotte dates is my birthday next year and is on a weekend, so this may end being some sort of birthday present to me).

[GabesCavesOfIce]

42 minutes ago, joeyjojojunior936shabadoo said:

It does make me wonder if the way things rolled out was a strategic effort to fight scalpers. Seems likely it will make it more difficult for scalpers to profit. 

 

 

Fight scalpers? They did everything they could to drive up prices.

 

Those of us in the original seven cities are screwed because there was limited cities when tickets to our shows went on sale, drawing in out of towners and the majority of close seats had travel packages attached to them or were VIP.

 

If they were interested in driving down prices they would have done something to address the limited Supply in the run they originally announced. Double shows in some of these smaller cities is going to be a really easy ticket whereas New York and perhaps Toronto it's still going to cost a fortune

 

But they clearly do not give a crap

 

 

 

 

Edited October 22, 2025 by GabesCavesOfIce