SecondEdition wrote:Fuck that, just do Rush album covers instead.
Actually, I just spotted an ad in the local paper from a bunch of guys looking for a singer. They're doing a Rush tribute called 'Fly By Night'. With a wig, I'd totally make a great Geddy (if I could actually sing). Oh well, they'll probably be looking for a long time. Will go see.
RUSH CONCERT REVIEW
MAY 29, GM PLACE, VANCOUVER BC, CANADA
- Got a shitty seat. Turns out that my row 17 was actually the row 17 of a section in the stands, not the floor.
And I have to twist my neck to the right (for three hours) to watch the stage
-I note that there's tons of young, beautiful women there. WTF ? Am I at a Rush concert ?
- I note a disproportionate number of redheads in the crowd. It figures, seeing as the Irish like music that compliments galloping through the forest on horseback. Or jousting.
- After a few minutes sitting alone, I get sandwiched between two very 'agreeable' individuals. On my left, a coked-up white-trash cougar and her equally coked-up date. I remember her dancing to most of their radio hits and saying very loudly that she wanted Geddy and Alex to "shut the fuck up and let Neil Peart play his solo". Yeah, okay.
On my right are two brothers, tattooed and dressed in black. They're quite drunk. The guy closest to me starts by saying he's seen Rush eight times and how Neil Peart is his hero, how Peart was his musical main influence when he played drums back in high scholl blah blah blah... I tell him that I think Peart is pretty good, but also that Bonham is my favorite. Dude winces and then he's like, "No, Bonham's alright but Peart is just so...precise." He says this with more than a hint of irritation and anger so I decide to let it be and not tell him that I (and most rock fans) think Bonham is a hell of a lot better.
-A black Border Collie keeps wandering across the stage and I'm thinking that I've never seen a dog onstage before. Weird.
-Band starts with Limelight and the sound is actually really good (for a stadium) Sadly, the band look like ants and we have to rely on giant video screens to even see them clearly
-Band does way too many new songs and lots of obscure shit from the eighties. Remarkably, they don't even do Fly By Night, Closer To The Heart (or anything else from Farewell To Kings), and nothing from their first album.
-A couple guys in the aisle below us start throwing cans and cups at this wasted hesher four aisles down and all just 'cause he's out of his chair and rocking-out really hard. Everytime anything hits him from behind, he just turns around, stares them in the eye as if to say 'fucking bring it !'.
I decide I like that guy.
-Band takes a half-hour break and I wait in a line of a hundred doudes just to take a piss.
-Band comes out again and does a few 'suites' of 2112. For this, Geddy whips out a black Rick 4001 and the crowd freaks the fuck out out.
-The drum solo happens at some point in the set and admittedly, it's pretty painful. In a cold and calculated way, no less. He even butchers some Big-Band stuff that he plays along to. Gross.
-Eventually, they do Tom Sawyer and YYZ to close the night and that's about it.
7.5 out of 10
Marsupialized wrote:The last time I saw her, she had some Jewish bullshit going on
ubercat wrote:You're fucking cock-tease aren't you, you little minx.