Saw Rush tonight at the Bell center and it KICKED ASS!
A three-and-a-half hour concert!!!! 31 songs!
You have to give it to Rush. They're the granddaddy of the show band. Pyrotechnics, light shows, AV to the max. It was EXCELLENT!
They played all the oldies and goodies, with tons of stuff I'd never heard before. They started with the electrifying riffs of Spirit of the Radio, and it didn't let up for an hour and a half. After a few songs, Geddy Lee introduced the band and said “all of you are responsible for us being on our 30th anniversary tour. We need to punish you by playing way too much music”. Subdivisions and Roll the bones had the whole Bell Center dancing in their seats. YYZ's solos were… spectacular. Neal Pearth is a drumming legend. He's poetry in motion to watch. Seeing Lee sing, play bass and play keyboard AT THE SAME TIME is something to behold.
The second set of the show had more new material, but they still had oldies like Tom Sawyer, 2112 (complete!), working man and La Villa Strangiato – with a really fucked up guitar solo by Alex Lifeson, where he was grunting and screaming about his poolboy. It was completely outlandish. Geddy Lee was laughing his ass off. Another hour-and-a-half set and then the first ovation. They played for another 30 minutes, including limelight and Crossroads :D They played a few covers, like Summertime Blues and The Who's Seeker.
All in all, well worth the price of admission :D
I'm all hyper now :D
YAY!
Cool! I just saw Sarah Maclachlan last week and I know how you feel, concerts just give you an awesome rush and you feel all hyper afterwards, glad you had fun…Im really bored and I cant sleep….
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where were these pyrotechnics you speak of? i saw no pyrotechnics. unless all the people toking up in the crowd counts…
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10-foot columns of flame don't count?
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hmm, must've missed those.
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it was one of their new songs – and the big CG dragon was throwing fireballs on the screen. They were kinda hard to miss, really.
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ah, that'd be when i was sitting down. we were close-ish, so i could see the top of the screen, but didn't see the stage itself.
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ah, gotcha. How'd you find the show?
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long. then again, i was in high heels :P
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ouch :(
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I have to ask.. what were you thinking wearing high heels to a show when you knew you'd be standing for most of it?
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i obviously wasn't thinking, now was i? :P
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*chuckle* that would be… no :)
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