Awesome. It was one of the few times I saw a concert where it was 80% new stuff, and I didn't mind a bit.

I didn't know Limbaugh did music.

Got my tickets to the showing in Concord and I may just be picking this up. Last time around was pure awesome.

I'll probably see them this time around. Although Maiden is coming in May. Reperforming the Somewhere in Time tour. Nothing but 80's Maiden. \m/

What about the voice of Geddy Lee?

Atypical Person Reading Fark: I didn't know Limbaugh did music.

Probably "does" music the same way he "does" a Big Mac and fries. Maybe he wears the condom, maybe not.

I would love to see them, but sadly I do not think it is meant to be.

Thatguy: What about the voice of Geddy Lee?

He discovered testoterone therapy. All the songs will be sung an octave lower.

There is no farking drummer better than Neil Peart!

/It ain't easy being cheesy.

Did they return to form after Roll The Bones? I felt they kinda took too much of a left turn after that one.

Jesus Christ. Enough already.

doshus Did they return to form after Roll The Bones? I felt they kinda took too much of a left turn after that one.

S&A is very much the same as the last 2 studio albums (Vapor Trails, Test for Echo). If you don't like them, you won't like this either.

S&A in particular suffers from bad lyrics -- and it's been a long time since we last got that (1970's, perhaps). Peart has explored all of these themes in previous albums, to better effect. Some lyrics just don't make sense or contradict themselves -- unusual for Peart.

The playing and singing are top-notch, though, and the live show I saw on this tour was the best Rush show I've ever seen (out of 6 or 7, spanning 25+ years).

The S&A material is excellent live, no question.

S&A is probably my favorite Rush album since... god, I don't know... Permanent Waves, maybe? It's just a really solid disk in my opinion. I'm into just about everything Rush does, but I admit S&A took me by surprise on the first listen. I didn't think I would like it - it was a more mellow approach than, say, Vapor Trails or even T4E. But after listening to it several more times, it grew on me in a big way. It's great.

The Main Monkey Business is their best instrumental since YYZ.

And yes, the songs are excellent live.

/seeing them in Atlanta on July 22nd
//haven't bought tix yet because the ones on Ticketmaster suck
///probably taking my chances at the door

I've got my tickets for their performance at the Mark on May 20th...it's gonna be one helluva show.

I just stopped by for the Neal Peart comments. PS, he ain't the best drummer evar!

bigbottom: I just stopped by for the Neal Peart comments. PS, he ain't the best drummer evar!

Blasphemy !

Radiohead on May 11, Rush on July 19, Mark Knopfler on July 26. It's going to be a good summer.

I'm hoping the setlist for this leg of the tour is lighter on the S&A material. I like S&A just fine (I think it's their best since Roll the Bones, fwiw), but the older material got the shaft in favor of the new stuff on the first leg. But this series mid-way through the set blew me away:

Subdivisions
Natural Science
Witch Hunt

Wow.

I want more older stuff played on this tour (75% at least), i saw them on the first leg and was bored out of my mind with their S&A songs.

Thatguy: What about the voice of Geddy Lee?

how did it get so high?

/cant believe im the first with that

Like anyone is going to get out of heir basement and leave their D and D game to go see this craptastic old band. Pert = overrated. The rest of the band and their discography is just slightly less overrated. I would rather listen to the sound of my head bashing into my desk for six hours then listen to a rush album.

/the only band that is more overrated is the sex pistols
//please lets have a single Buckethead thread...just one
///slash ftw

kungfu jesus with a side of lime:

//please lets have a single Buckethead thread...just one


Submit one if you can find anything interesting about him.

/you diss my man
//i diss yours

Going in April! It will be awesome! As always!

kungfu jesus with a side of lime: Like anyone is going to get out of heir basement and leave their D and D game to go see this craptastic old band. Pert = overrated. The rest of the band and their discography is just slightly less overrated. I would rather listen to the sound of my head bashing into my desk for six hours then listen to a rush album.

/the only band that is more overrated is the sex pistols
//please lets have a single Buckethead thread...just one
///slash ftw

Meh, I admire the attempt but it just fell flat.

3/10.

mahavishnumj
Thatguy: What about the voice of Geddy Lee?

how did it get so high?


Geddy gets routinely kicked in the nuts before every concert and before doing vocals in the studio.

MISSION???!!! There's exactly one good song on Hold Your Fire, and it sure as hell isn't MISSION.

tarkus1980: MISSION???!!! There's exactly one good song on Hold Your Fire, and it sure as hell isn't MISSION.

Tai Shan?

/I keed, I keed

kungfu jesus with a side of lime: Pert = overrated.

He's right. I'm a Pantene man, myself.

/It's Peart
//piss off, haters

tarkus1980: MISSION???!!! There's exactly one good song on Hold Your Fire, and it sure as hell isn't MISSION.

I ask: what is the only good song on HYF? Cuz I like Mission a lot. But I like many others from HYF as well.

I think Mission was in their setlist for this tour just to shake things up a bit.

Another live album? How many does this make? I guess if your fanbase is a bunch of 30- and 40-somethings with lots of disposable income, may as well release as many live albums as you can.

Yes, I'm a 30-something fan, but no, I won't be buying this set.

mahavishnunj: Thatguy: What about the voice of Geddy Lee?

how did it get so high?

/cant believe im the first with that

I wonder if he speaks like an ordinary guy.

(I know him, and he does)

Travis McGee: Another live album? How many does this make? I guess if your fanbase is a bunch of 30- and 40-somethings with lots of disposable income, may as well release as many live albums as you can.

Yes, I'm a 30-something fan, but no, I won't be buying this set.

If you include the R30 DVD as an "album", then this will be 7. They used to only put out a live album every 4 studio ones... I really do think it's overkill to have a live show every single tour.

Having said that, I'll probably still get it because I'm a Rush fanatic.

/you know what would be cool?
//if they played some Victor or My Favorite Headache live
///Victor is underrated

jonathan_L: tarkus1980: MISSION???!!! There's exactly one good song on Hold Your Fire, and it sure as hell isn't MISSION.

I ask: what is the only good song on HYF? Cuz I like Mission a lot. But I like many others from HYF as well.

I think Mission was in their setlist for this tour just to shake things up a bit.

I'm a big fan of Force Ten. I don't like anything else on the album.

I'm not a Rush fan in general, though, so my opinion should be taken with a grain of salt.

Small coincidence that nearly every bridge troll with a computer thinks Rush is the be-all-end-all of rock musicianship?

(clears throat)

Rush Sucks!



/ducks and covers

//kidding... they only kinda suck and I'd want Alex Lifeson to have my back if I ever got into a bar brawl.

FileUnderCS: Small coincidence that nearly every bridge troll with a computer thinks Rush is the be-all-end-all of rock musicianship sucks?

FTFY.

/saw 'em in KC last year, seeing them in KC this year

kungfu jesus with a side of lime

You forgot your requisite Viking metal/Amon Amarth reference.

/Your troll-fu is slipping.

FileUnderCS: Small coincidence that nearly every bridge troll with a computer thinks Rush is the be-all-end-all of rock musicianship?

(clears throat)

Rush Sucks!



/ducks and covers

//kidding... they only kinda suck and I'd want Alex Lifeson to have my back if I ever got into a bar brawl.

True, but his speaking voice is higher than Geddy's, no shiat.

/debating whether or not to go to this show
//kind friend sent me boot of previous tour

jamminatorr!:

(I know him, and he does)

And you're my fact-checking cuz.

/didn't know who Geddy Lee even was at the time
//figured he was that guy with the high voice in 'Big Girls Don't Cry'

Travis McGee: Another live album? How many does this make? I guess if your fanbase is a bunch of 30- and 40-somethings with lots of disposable income, may as well release as many live albums as you can.

I think they're doing this to meet their contractual obligations with Atlantic Records. I'm guessing they might go independent from here on (so they can make more live records and pocket more of that money themselves).

But honestly, Distant Early Warning brought down the house at Madison Square Garden last year, which was surprising to me, but AWESOME.

tarkus1980:
I'm a big fan of Force Ten. I don't like anything else on the album.

I'm not a Rush fan in general, though, so my opinion should be taken with a grain of salt.

Fair enough. But I do like HYF, which I see as an extension of Power Windows, which was the soundtrack of my freshman year of HS. So I'm a bit biased. I think Mission is the best song on HYF followed closely by F10. So I was really pleased to hear it on tour this year.

Rush is the musical equivalent of fingernails on a chalkboard. Geddy Lee and Neil Peart can lick my taint. That is all.

amindtat: kungfu jesus with a side of lime

You forgot your requisite Viking metal/Amon Amarth reference.

/Your troll-fu is slipping.

My first ever canon reference on fark, what a proud day for me. You like me you really like me... or at least remember what I typed at some previous point. Either way it is still my ego trip for the day.

/Seriously though, way to many rush albums and links
//There can not be that many people that want to see ironing maidens on stage
///why not greenlight some amon amarth

I was so freaking bored I clicked on the music tab and thought to myself, "I bet there's another Rush thread, if not Rush it will be Zappa or Zeppelin".

Well now that I'm here. I would rather have the entire U.S. Patriot Act tattooed onto my scrotum two-thousand-one-hundred-and-twelve times than listen to Rush.

May 31 Seattle, WA The Gorge Amphitheatre

Excellent venue, but it isn't in Seattle. It's about 2 hours east.

/The Gorge in George

The Fark Pitchfork crowd is always jealous of Rush because none of their shiat bands matter, and none of them will live anywhere near as long as Rush has.

barneyfifesbullet: The Fark Pitchfork crowd is always jealoustired of Rush because none of their shiat bands matter suck, and none of them will live suck anywhere near as long as Rush has.

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The Glass Dragon: MISSION???!!! There's exactly one good song on Hold Your Fire, and it sure as hell isn't MISSION.

Nope - it's Lock and Key.

Would like to see them, but it's on a Sunday evening after I will have just gotten done camping for 4 nights and playing music that whole time.

*sigh*

Next time guys ...

Rush fans - if you haven't read Ghost Rider, I recommend it. It was a really interesting peek into Neil Peart's life.

Cowboy Spencer: Would like to see them, but it's on a Sunday evening after I will have just gotten done camping for 4 nights and playing music that whole time.

*sigh*

Next time guys ...

Rush fans - if you haven't read Ghost Rider, I recommend it. It was a really interesting peek into Neil Peart's life.

i remember the ghostwriter tv show, though i cant recall neil being on it... was he the ghost... how spooky

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That's more than I can say for you. You look like a roadie for a Dave Matthews tribute band.