presto123 Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 I have seen Rush like 35 times and they are always excellent and I've always been blown away but I have seen my fair share of "flubs". Anybody else see any trainwrecks? Minor flubs? It would be fun to list them. I saw Neil get so lost(out of time) with the other two playing Natural Science in Dayton that he actually stopped playing for a second to get his bearings. LOL It was on the T4E tour. Who knows if it was Neil's fault or somebody else's but I got a kick out of the moment as it doesn't happen often. Feel free to list yours:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy Farrah Fowler Posted April 25, 2013 Share Posted April 25, 2013 Wasn't a flub, per se, but in Newark Neil's bass drum pedal was all wonky and part of The Big Money was without a bass pedal. They stopped for a moment after the song and fixed it. Sadly it wasn't long enough to be entertained by Alex. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P-Tor Posted April 25, 2013 Share Posted April 25, 2013 (edited) Not really a flub, but a technical glitch. In Calgary, on the S&A tour, Neil's kit wouldn't rotate so he did the electronic part of the solo with his back to the crowd. Edited April 25, 2013 by P-Tor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnus 2112 Posted April 25, 2013 Share Posted April 25, 2013 When I saw them in Edmonton in September Neil broke a stick, stopped for a two seconds and then tossed it in front of the drum set before carrying on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
presto123 Posted April 25, 2013 Author Share Posted April 25, 2013 When I saw them in Edmonton in September Neil broke a stick, stopped for a two seconds and then tossed it in front of the drum set before carrying on. That's unusual. Usually a drummer is able to discard a broken stick quickly without missing a beat usually by playing one handed for a second or so. I'm speaking from personal experience of course:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnus 2112 Posted April 25, 2013 Share Posted April 25, 2013 You're also playing less intensely than Neil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dscrapre Posted April 25, 2013 Share Posted April 25, 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MMCXII Posted April 25, 2013 Share Posted April 25, 2013 Not really a flub, but a technical glitch. In Calgary, on the S&A tour, Neil's kit wouldn't rotate so he did the electronic part of the solo with his back to the crowd. I was there. I'll never forget the look on his face when he was standing up to face his back to the audience. He wasn't too impressed for sure! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MMCXII Posted April 25, 2013 Share Posted April 25, 2013 When I saw them in Edmonton in September Neil broke a stick, stopped for a two seconds and then tossed it in front of the drum set before carrying on. That's unusual. Usually a drummer is able to discard a broken stick quickly without missing a beat usually by playing one handed for a second or so. I'm speaking from personal experience of course:) I was there too and I kinda remember this. Neil usually has no problem switching out a broken stick mid song! Must've been during a hard part of the song so his brain was too busy lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
presto123 Posted April 25, 2013 Author Share Posted April 25, 2013 You're also playing less intensely than Neil. No offense but you know nothing about my playing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShlappinDahBass Posted April 25, 2013 Share Posted April 25, 2013 When I saw them in Edmonton in September Neil broke a stick, stopped for a two seconds and then tossed it in front of the drum set before carrying on. That's unusual. Usually a drummer is able to discard a broken stick quickly without missing a beat usually by playing one handed for a second or so. I'm speaking from personal experience of course:) Usually they can. I've seen Neil do it before on his Taking Center Stage DVD. So, he knows how to do it (duh). Must've been a brain fart. Not something very noticeable, my dad and I went to their Chicago show last year and the string section started speeding up on YYZ. Oops. And my favorite is I believe for their R30 tour, during Roll the Bones, one of the techs must've messed up Alex's effects pedals because the Tom Sawyer synth kept playing throughout the song. It was pretty funny! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
presto123 Posted April 25, 2013 Author Share Posted April 25, 2013 I saw a major trainwreck as well on Earthshine in Columbus, Ohio on the VT tour. Something about Earthshine that seemed to cause trainwrecks. LOL They had a few on Earthshine I believe:) What a freakin great song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tas7 Posted April 25, 2013 Share Posted April 25, 2013 Geddy Lee made a mess of the keyboard at the beginning of the middle section of The Trees -Stafford Bingley Hall November 1981.The whole place cheered but he managed to get back into time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
analog guy Posted April 25, 2013 Share Posted April 25, 2013 The last Red Rocks show I went to had a few issues.... the opening video cut out about two minutes too early and plunged everything into darkness.... the band just sort of shrugged their shoulders and started playing TSoR. Then when they played "Time Stand Still" there were some sync issues with Aimee Mann's vocal track. Alex broke several strings during the first show I saw in '92. Frankly, I LOVE it when things like this happen... when the greatest rock band in the world reminds you that they are human, it's actually a good feeling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aikenrooster Posted April 25, 2013 Share Posted April 25, 2013 When we saw them in Atlanta, last year, Neil got a slow start on Subdivisions...he tried to throw the sticks up in the air a couple of times and dropped them, on the way back down, but, it was no big deal. I figured he had been hiking on the AT, all day, and was probably a little tired!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost In Xanadu Posted April 25, 2013 Share Posted April 25, 2013 Last time I saw them do Natural Science (June 27th, 2008) in Milwaukee during S&A, Geddy mixed up the last 2 verses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate1647 Posted April 25, 2013 Share Posted April 25, 2013 (edited) Time machine leg one in Seattle. It was the VERY end of the 2112 Overture, Alex completely butchered the little guitar run under "and the meek shall inherit the Earth." Geddy stopped singing and said "where are you" in the mic, and they went into Temples. Al ran and hid behind his amps, it was pretty funny hahahaha Edited April 25, 2013 by Nate1647 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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