losingit2k Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 This is turning out to be a great year for tours! Rush, U2, The Wall! Anyway vote your mind and leave your thoughts! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metaldad Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 Since none of the tours have Started.............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg2112 Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 (edited) No contest, step into the TIME MACHINE!!! I like Dark Side, Animals and WYWE, but the Wall is dreadful, self-indulgent and depressing-PASS. (im already ducking from the flamers!) Edited May 12, 2010 by greg2112 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LERXST69 Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 By the time The Wall hits Boston, I'll be back in The Netherlands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nappy2112 Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 The Wall is probably my favorite album ever but Rush Rules !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarkus406 Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 Are you serious? Rush beats the crap out of Roger Waters 38 times over! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeaveMyThingAlone Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 Being that this is a RUSH forum, I have a small hunch that Rush will win out on this one However, I can guarantee you The Wall will be a much bigger grossing tour than Rush's Time Machine tour. Hell, Tool's tour may give Rush a run for their money too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apetersvt Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 QUOTE (greg2112 @ May 12 2010, 04:28 PM) No contest, step into the TIME MACHINE!!! I like Dark Side, Animals and WYWE, but the Wall is dreadful, self-indulgent and depressing-PASS. (im already ducking from the flamers!) It's scary how many times I seem to agree with you. I would edit your post to include Meddle. I won't go as far as to say The Wall is dreadful, but it I don't listen to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeaveMyThingAlone Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 The Wall has way too much filler and not enough Gilmour....too much theatrics that Waters grew so in love with...the last song (The Trial) is a pretty uneventful ending to the album Dark Side, Animals, and WYWH are pretty close to perfection from beginning to end Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micgtr71 Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 Roger Waters and David Gilmour maybe...unfortunately, Rick Wright would not be able to be part. I like my Floyd as one and pre-72. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocketom Posted May 13, 2010 Share Posted May 13, 2010 Since i'm the only one who voted for The Wall so far, i'll give you my reason. The Wall is one of the greatest albums. Rush is better than Pink Floyd, but the Time Machine tour will be like the last 3 tours hopefully more older and rarities will be played, but the stage and light show will be the same. The Wall will be completly different from anything we have ever seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merely Space Posted May 13, 2010 Share Posted May 13, 2010 I love the Wall, and if it was Pink Floyd doing it, I might even go see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mazyyz Posted May 13, 2010 Share Posted May 13, 2010 Musically I think Rush will outperform....Waters will put out a better show though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg2112 Posted May 13, 2010 Share Posted May 13, 2010 QUOTE (apetersvt @ May 12 2010, 05:52 PM) QUOTE (greg2112 @ May 12 2010, 04:28 PM) No contest, step into the TIME MACHINE!!! I like Dark Side, Animals and WYWE, but the Wall is dreadful, self-indulgent and depressing-PASS. (im already ducking from the flamers!) It's scary how many times I seem to agree with you. I would edit your post to include Meddle. I won't go as far as to say The Wall is dreadful, but it I don't listen to it. Ha - yes we have some good taste in the greater DC-VA area! Yes add Meddle, another great one... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WIDE-ANGLE WATCHER Posted May 13, 2010 Share Posted May 13, 2010 Pink Floyd is awesome and The Wall is epic. But no Gilmour, no Wright, probably not even Mason. Roger Waters is not Pink Floyd. It would be like seeing RUSH with Phil Collins on drums, it just doesn't work. I'd rather see Roger perform The Pros and Cons of Hitch-hiking with Clapton than Roger's Wall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Some Half-Forgotten Stranger Posted May 13, 2010 Share Posted May 13, 2010 I'd love to see The Wall, but it's too expensive from what I have heard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
30kwpa Posted May 13, 2010 Share Posted May 13, 2010 I asked my son (14) which he would prefer if he had to choose between the two. After a long discussion, weighing the Pros and Cons (pun intended), we decided on RUSH (for now). They both have obvious high points. Both have an entire LP being performed. Both are, in my opinion, incredible works. The RUSH concert will have other songs, new and old. The Wall will be... The Wall. Floyd and RUSH are my two favorites. If it were PINK FLOYD w/Waters, not just Waters, I have to say that it would be an automatic no contest in favor of The Wall. The Floyd vs. RUSH thing has always been a tough call. RUSH cannot do certain songs anymore and that we understand. Waters DOES and DOES use sampling and pre-recorded vocals. I cannot see Roger pulling it off "LIVE" vocally for that many shows. Plus, as some already stated, it ain't FLOYD. As far as the musicianship and individual performance(s), RUSH, in my opinion are hands down the best and flat-out untouchable. MONEY has played into it as well. Roughly three hours of RUSH for about $100 per seat vs The Wall at well over double. I'm sure we will see both but I have RUSH tickets and did not get Waters tickets... yet. As far as The Show? RUSH does THEIR thing and the staging/lighting/effects are great. Waters and Co. (Nick Mason has expressed interest to perform at a few shows) has now gotten enough fan support (on his own) and has the means to do a typical huge grandiose Floyd-esque spectacle complete with building and tearing down this massive wall, all the inflatables, pyro, theatrical staging, quad sound, yeah, yeah. I call it a draw because to me, one is a concert, the other is a show. Similarly with say the Eagles vs. KISS. You go to an Eagles concert for the music. You got to a KISS show for the show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apetersvt Posted May 13, 2010 Share Posted May 13, 2010 Although a no-brainer for me since I love Rush so much and hopefully the time machine will pull out some old 70s classics that I haven't seen live: the big thing for me is that it it not Pink Floyd. It is only Roger Waters. A tougher decision would be to see Pink Floyd (full band bringing Wright frome the grave) or Geddy Lee solo. Aside from the factor that seeing a dead guy brough back to life would be cool, I still would probably go with Floyd. Full PF vs full Rush: I'd go with Rush unless I knew ahead of time the setlist and realized its the same songs we've seen over and over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GernTheFish Posted May 13, 2010 Share Posted May 13, 2010 Although I've seen Rush 9 times and Waters only once (Hitchiker tour), I'd still vote for Time Machine. I would only pick the Wall if Pink Floyd (Gilmour & Waters) were doing it live, but I wouldn't be able to afford tickets anyway. Vote - Time Machine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trenken Posted May 13, 2010 Share Posted May 13, 2010 Ah Id rather go see the wall since ive never seen it live. Ive seen rush play probably much of what they'll end up playing on this tour, so I dont have a huge desired to get ass raped on these ticket prices, especially if its not supporting a new album. So yeah I would go with the wall just to say ive seen it live. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FootballYouBet Posted May 13, 2010 Share Posted May 13, 2010 There's no right answer to this one. I am both a huge Rush and Pink Floyd fan. I am going to both shows and I have had the luxury of seeing Rush and Roger Waters several times, but I have to give Roger Waters the edge on this one. The Wall "show" will be Epic...between the lights, the quadraphonic sound, the props(240W x35ftH wall) etc etc...not to mention that I love The Wall as an album. It's pure genius. The only way Rush could beat out The Wall in my mind is if they only played music from Moving Pictures and albums before... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tigershark2112 Posted May 13, 2010 Share Posted May 13, 2010 easily. David Gilmoure pwns Roger Waters anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weatherman2112 Posted May 13, 2010 Share Posted May 13, 2010 Let's see........ The whole band Rush, playing material that they wrote (and are still writing), most of it newer than the Wall, most of it BETTER than the Wall. vs 1 washed up guy from a band that hasn't put out any truly relevent music in more than a decade, maybe 2 decades, trying to cash in on past glory, an old album. I don't know. Let me think about this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg2112 Posted May 13, 2010 Share Posted May 13, 2010 QUOTE (Weatherman2112 @ May 13 2010, 05:15 PM) Let's see........ The whole band Rush, playing material that they wrote (and are still writing), most of it newer than the Wall, most of it BETTER than the Wall. vs 1 washed up guy from a band that hasn't put out any truly relevent music in more than a decade, maybe 2 decades, trying to cash in on past glory, an old album. I don't know. Let me think about this one. They actually havent put out anything relevant in over three decades... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysalii Posted May 14, 2010 Share Posted May 14, 2010 QUOTE (greg2112 @ May 13 2010, 05:18 PM)QUOTE (Weatherman2112 @ May 13 2010, 05:15 PM) Let's see........ The whole band Rush, playing material that they wrote (and are still writing), most of it newer than the Wall, most of it BETTER than the Wall. vs 1 washed up guy from a band that hasn't put out any truly relevent music in more than a decade, maybe 2 decades, trying to cash in on past glory, an old album. I don't know. Let me think about this one. They actually havent put out anything relevant in over three decades... I liked The Division Bell...but that was a Watersless Floyd (and it came out in 1994) ... Amused to Death was really good (probably the best Roger Waters solo album), that came out in 1992...so almost 2 decades. In any event, I don't want to see Waters playing a whole Pink Floyd album unless the other members were there (with the absence of Rick Wright, R.I.P.). It can't be pulled off without the rest of the band. It would be like Alex Lifeson touring 2112 with himself and a touring band. As big a Pink Floyd fan as I am, I don't want to see it. I would go in an instant if he was doing Amused to Death with a few classic Pink Floyd songs thrown in, like Gilmour did with Gdnansk. Still, the theatrics will be top notch, it is a Pink Floyd style concert. I would say Rush, just because the experience isn't complete without the rest of the band. It doesn't matter how big of a wall they build for the show, but it would be hard to top the one in Berlin. If the remaining members of Pink Floyd joined with Roger, it would be huge (remember Live 8) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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