I'm new to TRF - Not new to RUSH

[WIDE-ANGLE WATCHER]

I was wondering if 20 shows attended is just the middle of the road among all the RUSH fanatics I've seen on TRF. How many shows have you seen?

• My RUSH Shows

• Hemispheres -- 11/13/78 -- Sports Arena, San Diego, CA -- with -- Pat Travers

• Permanent Waves -- 3/6/80 -- Sports Arena, San Diego, CA -- with -- .38 Special

• Moving Pictures -- 6/9/81 -- Sports Arena, San Diego, CA -- with -- FM

• Signals -- 2/21/83 -- Sports Arena, San Diego, CA -- with -- Golden Earring

• Grace Under Pressure -- 5/28/84 -- Sports Arena, San Diego, CA -- with -- Gary Moore

• Power Windows -- 2/3/86 -- Sports Arena, San Diego, CA -- with -- Steve Morse

• Hold Your Fire -- 2/3/88 -- Sports Arena, San Diego, CA -- with -- MSG?, Tommy Shaw?, Matchbox Twenty? -- I can't remember!! Help please.

• Presto -- 4/5/90 -- Sports Arena, San Diego, CA -- with -- Mr. Big

• Presto -- 6/29/90 -- Irvine Meadows Amphitheater, Irvine, CA -- no opening act

• Roll The Bones -- 1/20/92 -- Sports Arena, San Diego, CA -- with -- Primus

• Counterparts -- 2/7/94 -- Sports Arena, San Diego, CA -- with -- Candlebox

• Test For Echo -- 11/23/96 -- Sports Arena, San Diego, CA -- no opening act

• Test For Echo -- 5/7/97 -- Hospitality Point, Mission Bay, CA -- no opening act

• Test For Echo -- 5/10/97 -- Glen Helen Pavilion, Devore, CA -- no opening act

• Vapor Trails -- 9/25/02 -- Coors Amphitheater, Chula Vista, CA -- no opening act

• Feedback (30th Annv.) -- 7/7/04 -- Coors Ampitheater, Chula Vista, CA -- no opening act

• Snakes & Arrows -- 7/30/07 -- Coors Amphitheater, Chula Vista, CA -- no opening act

• Snakes & Arrows -- 9/15/07 -- Bell Center, Montreal, Canada -- no opening act

• Snakes & Arrows -- 5/11/08 -- Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, Irvine, CA -- no opening act

• Time Machine -- 8/13/10 -- Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, Irvine, CA -- no opening act -- *

• * have not seen #20 yet......

Edited May 5, 2010 by WIDE-ANGLE WATCHER

[ILSnwdog]

QUOTE (WIDE-ANGLE WATCHER @ May 5 2010, 01:14 PM)

I was wondering if 20 shows attended is just the middle of the road among all the RUSH fanatics I've seen on TRF.  How many shows have you seen? My RUSH Shows Hemispheres -- 11/13/78 -- Sports Arena, San Diego, CA --  with --  Pat Travers Permanent Waves -- 3/6/80 -- Sports Arena, San Diego, CA -- with --  .38 Special Moving Pictures -- 6/9/81 -- Sports Arena, San Diego, CA -- with --  FM Signals -- 2/21/83 -- Sports Arena, San Diego, CA -- with -- Golden Earring Grace Under Pressure -- 5/28/84 -- Sports Arena, San Diego, CA -- with -- Gary Moore Power Windows -- 2/3/86 -- Sports Arena, San Diego, CA -- with -- Steve Morse Hold Your Fire -- 2/3/88 -- Sports Arena, San Diego, CA -- with -- Matchbox Twenty Presto -- 4/5/90 -- Sports Arena, San Diego, CA -- with -- Mr. Big Presto -- 6/29/90 -- Irvine Meadows Amphitheater, Irvine, CA -- no opening act Roll The Bones -- 1/20/92 -- Sports Arena, San Diego, CA -- with -- Primus Counterparts -- 2/7/94 -- Sports Arena, San Diego, CA -- with -- Candlebox Test For Echo -- 11/23/96 -- Sports Arena, San Diego, CA -- no opening act Test For Echo -- 5/7/97 -- Hospitality Point, Mission Bay, CA -- no opening act Test For Echo -- 5/10/97 -- Glen Helen Pavilion, Devore, CA -- no opening act Vapor Trails -- 9/25/02 -- Coors Amphitheater, Chula Vista, CA -- no opening act Feedback (30th Annv.) -- 7/7/04 -- Coors Ampitheater, Chula Vista, CA -- no opening act Snakes & Arrows -- 7/30/07 -- Coors Amphitheater, Chula Vista, CA -- no opening act Snakes & Arrows -- 9/15/07 -- Bell Center, Montreal, Canada -- no opening act Snakes & Arrows -- 5/11/08 -- Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, Irvine, CA -- no opening act Time Machine -- 8/13/10 -- Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, Irvine, CA -- no opening act -- * *  have not seen #20 yet......

Welcome.

 

QUOTE

Hold Your Fire -- 2/3/88 -- Sports Arena, San Diego, CA -- with -- Matchbox Twenty

Question...how in the world could Matchbox Twenty open for Rush in 1988, when the band didn't form until the mid 1990s?

 

Edited to add: I've seen Rush 9 times...#10 will be this summer.

Edited May 5, 2010 by ILSnwdog

[circumstantial tree]

welcome. I have been a fan of Rush since 1982, but haven't been to that many concerts.

 

Power Windows - April 22, 1986 - Greensboro Coliseum, NC

 

Hold Your Fire - January 15, 1988 - Reynolds Coliseum, Raleigh, NC

 

Roll The Bones - March 7, 1992 - Dean Smith Center, Chapel Hill, NC

 

Vapor Trails - June 28, 2002 - Hartford, CT

October 28, 2002 TD Bank Garden, Boston, MA

 

Snakes and Arrows - June 2007- Walnut Creek Amphitheatre, Raleigh, NC

 

 

[WIDE-ANGLE WATCHER]

I guess I can't remember who opened for Hold Your Fire 1988 San Diego. I saw Matchbox or Rob Thomas somewhere. I do remember they recorded Mission for the Show of Hands. Maybe someone call tell me who I saw open that night. Damn memory!

[circumstantial tree]

QUOTE (WIDE-ANGLE WATCHER @ May 5 2010, 02:34 PM)

I guess I can't remember who opened for Hold Your Fire 1988 San Diego. I saw Matchbox or Rob Thomas somewhere. I do remember they recorded Mission for the Show of Hands. Maybe someone call tell me who I saw open that night. Damn memory!

For the HYF Raleigh show, it was Tommy Shaw (of Styx).

[WIDE-ANGLE WATCHER]

I have seen Styx a few times but it wasn't Tommy Shaw that night in San Diego. Damn, I can't remember.... I'm am looking for my ticket stub to see if it says. It might have been The Micheal Shcenker Group. I don't know where I came up with Matchbox 20. If anybody knows who opened on Feb. 3, 1988 @ San Diego Sports Arena.....Do tell

[snowdog2112]

Welcome!

 

I'd have to count how many shows I've seen but I know I added them up around the R30 tour and it was 25. I can't remember if that was before or after the actual R30 shows though plus the 4 shows I saw on the S&A tour including both legs. I guess I'm at around 30 or so but you've seen more actual tours than me which is a bigger deal. The first tour I saw was the Hold Your Fire tour and then starting with the Presto tour I've seen them at least twice on every tour. Tommy Shaw is who I saw on the HYF tour as well. The Power Windows website is great for looking up dates and opening bands (and many other things too).

 

Anyway, welcome again.

 

 

 

 

Beware. If you ask about the censored part of La Villa Strangiato on the A Show of Hands video we'll tar and feather you though.

 

 

 

 

Yeah, I looked it up on the PW site and the opening band isn't listed for that one. There's a picture of the ticket stub though.

 

It must have been one of these bands:

 

Opening Bands: MSG, Tommy Shaw, Chalk Circle, The Rainmakers

Edited May 5, 2010 by snowdog2112

[Mara]

Welcome! Heading for show #10 myself. (Should be #12, but financial considerations forced me to miss both the VT and R30 tours).

[trenken]

QUOTE (WIDE-ANGLE WATCHER @ May 5 2010, 01:52 PM)

I have seen Styx a few times but it wasn't Tommy Shaw that night in San Diego. Damn, I can't remember.... I'm am looking for my ticket stub to see if it says. It might have been The Micheal Shcenker Group. I don't know where I came up with Matchbox 20. If anybody knows who opened on Feb. 3, 1988 @ San Diego Sports Arena.....Do tell

Mr. Big maybe? Blue Oyster Cult? I saw them open for Rush around that time.

[tangy]

I am at 17, permanent waves to snake & arrows minus the presto tour. Sadly it appears that I will not add to my count this summer.

[tangy]

QUOTE (trenken @ May 5 2010, 02:06 PM)

QUOTE (WIDE-ANGLE WATCHER @ May 5 2010, 01:52 PM) I have seen Styx a few times but it wasn't Tommy Shaw that night in San Diego.  Damn, I can't remember.... I'm am looking for my ticket stub to see if it says.  It might have been The Micheal Shcenker Group.  I don't know where I came up with Matchbox 20.  If anybody knows who opened on Feb. 3, 1988 @ San Diego Sports Arena.....Do tell Mr. Big maybe? Blue Oyster Cult? I saw them open for Rush around that time. Y & T opened some shows too.

[Show Don't Tell]

Welcome! Love your username!

[Rush Cocky]

I've seen Rush 4 times in 4 different venues:

 

1989 in Greenville, SC

1992 in Columbia, SC

2002 in Raleigh, NC

2007 in Charlotte, NC

[tangy]

QUOTE (WIDE-ANGLE WATCHER @ May 5 2010, 01:52 PM)

I have seen Styx a few times but it wasn't Tommy Shaw that night in San Diego. Damn, I can't remember.... I'm am looking for my ticket stub to see if it says. It might have been The Micheal Shcenker Group. I don't know where I came up with Matchbox 20. If anybody knows who opened on Feb. 3, 1988 @ San Diego Sports Arena.....Do tell

most likely tommy shaw.

 

 

http://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/rush/tourdates.php

[metaldad]

Welcome

Since the M.P. Tour in 1981 ,i have seen them 36 times. That includes missing the Power Windows tour

[WIDE-ANGLE WATCHER]

Thanks for the help on figuring out who opened up for Rush 1988 @ San Diego. I just don't remember it being MSG or Shaw. Usually when a archive site doesn't list the opener it is because their either wasn't one or the local venue or promoter provided the band to fill in for the night because of the other warm-up bands scheduling conflicts. I've seen last minute 'fill-ins' before for other probable opening acts. Still........ I want to know, for sure, who opened that night. When did Matchbox Twenty form? Maybe my memory is not as bad as I think it is. I love MSG ( Micheal Schenker Group), I am just not ready to say I saw them that night. Damn memory, damn beer, etc.

[g under p]

WELCOME W-AW

 

 

I've now seen 40+ I think to be exact 43 I tend to lose track easily because I've seen way too many concerts in my life so far. I've only missed one tour Test For Echo in which was opening night for my softball team and was unable to see them any other time on that tour.

 

I plan on seeing them 4-5 times on this next tour from VA/PA/FL The last date on the tour in West Palm Beach FL my second home for now.

 

My first being Grace Under Pressure and i gather that's why Im so attached to that album. Again welcome.

 

peace

[ILSnwdog]

QUOTE (Mara @ May 5 2010, 02:03 PM)

Welcome! Heading for show #10 myself. (Should be #12, but financial considerations forced me to miss both the VT and R30 tours).

I should be at #14, but overbearing mother wouldn't let me see concerts before I was 16 (So, I missed Moving Pictures, Signals, and G under P), I was in away serving in the Air Force during the HYF tour, and financial constraints caused me to miss T4E (and 2112 in it's entirety).

[Funky Chicken]

9/18 in Virginia will be number 45.

I was very fortunate to live in metro NY most of my younger life which meant that there were always multiple shows within a pretty easy drive for me. If they were playing at MSG, The Meadowlands, and Nassau Coliseum I would go to all three shows. It was a lot cheaper to go back then-a $20 bill would get you a crappy seat, a 6 pack, and gas for the drive.

Most shows on a single tour-5 for Vapor Trails

Hartford

Camden

Jones Beach

MSG

Mohegan Sun

[In A Tidewater Surge]

I've seen a whopping total of... 0 shows

[Alex]

Welcome to the forum dude

[Some Half-Forgotten Stranger]

The shows I'm going to will be #'s 20 and 21.

 

Someone should start a poll thread.

[Rushchick10]

Been a fan since Counterparts, but I didn't get to see them on that tour. This summer will be concerts #7 and #8 for me at least, and if I am lucky I can squeeze in #9!

 

*May 19, 1997 BSU Pavillion, Boise, ID (T4E Tour)

*Aug 23, 2002 Delta Center, Salt Lake City, UT (VT Tour)

*Sept 15, 2002 Rose Garden, Portland, OR (VT Tour)

*June 30, 2004 USANA Amphitheater, West Valley City (Salt Lake), UT (R30 Tour)

*Aug 6, 2007 USANA Amphitheater, West Valley City, UT(S&A 1st leg)

*June 3, 2008 Idaho Center Arena, Nampa (Boise), ID (S&A 2nd leg)

 

Time Machine Tour:

*Aug 5, 2010 USANA Amphitheater, West Valley City, UT

*Aug 14, 2010 MGM Grand, Las Vegas, NV

 

[greg2112]

Welcome aboard!

 

The Time Machine tour will be my 17th since the Signals tour. Cant wait.

[micgtr71]

This tour will bring up the tally to a dozen or so since PoW. When I saw them in the fall of 87, they were with MSG. That was on the east coast though. I can understand why you might not remember if it was them. Totally unmemorable opening act. Sorry, Mike. liked you in the scorps though.