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That is such a funny interview. Neil is awesome. I wish they would do these sorta htings more often.

Rush Attemping to Play Rock Band

So, I saw my favorite band RUSH, for the 3rd time last night.

07/30/03 Downsview Park, Sars Benefit Concert - Toronto, ON

09/12/07 John Labatt Centre - London, ON

03/22/08 Air Canada Centre, Foo Fighters concert - Toronto ON (special performance of YYZ by Ged, Alex and Taylor of the FF)

07/09/08 Molson Amphitheater - Toronto, ON

What a show. totally blew out last years show. I have got to say, the crowd in Toronto was awesome. Just great. Stood for the entire show. Loved looking back during Spirit of Radio to see 15 000 other Rush fans clapping along, what a sight. Some people on Alex's side even whipped out some blow up monkey and waved them around and tossed them in the air during The Main Monkey Business. You could see Alex and Geddy looking and just smiling and laughing. A very vocal crowd aswell. Huge sing alongs and huge apluase after every single song. My favourite was right after a big Geddy bass riff the crowd flipped. (note to Rush: put more bass solos in next album) Like during Geddy's licks in YYZ and Malignant Narcissism the crowd would loose it right after, loved that.

After I made my way through like 4 gates and bought my $4 hot dog , 2008 Tour Shirt and 2008 Tour Book I finally made it to my seat. Section 203 Row U. Closest I've ever been to the boys.

Had a great view of Alex and Neil had to look a little further for Geddy but that was no problem. The guys played the usual 2 sets. Made me happy that I got to hear Mission (again), The Trees (one of my favorites) and Red Barchetta (classic) and "a gazillion other songs" as Geddy would say. Geddy introduced Red Barchetta as "song from the '80s, you guys probably had mullets". They also did an original ending to it with some kinda reggae vibe to it.

I was with my friend who is crazy for Rush like me and it was his first show. I could tell he loved it just like me.

Rush took their 30 minute intermission since "they are not spring chickens anymore" and came back with some great S&A tunes like Way The Wind Blows and Armor and Sword. After those we got to hear some real classics Subdivisions, Natural Science and Witch Hunt. I didn't think it would be but I have go to say Malignant Narcissism was fdefinalty one of my favourite performance of the night. It's like YYZ for my generation Cap it off with a 7 min. drum solo and you're golden. Neil easily got the biggest reaction of the night. The entire place lost it.

The last 6 songs were just an amazing way to close the show. 21****ing12 was so much fun to hear live. "dunaunadada HEY!" I was so pumped for that Then TSOR, Tom Sawyer, One Little Victory, Passage and YYZ. EPIC. Passage was another highlight. You could tell some people were lighting up during that one.

Rush, lasers, friends, other fans, pyro. It was a great night to be a Rush fan. Even as they were tearing down the set there were some fans still screaming. Alot of people online were saying this was one of their best shows. This is coming from people have have seen them 20+ times. For some reason I was watching the show and looking around, it felt like a special show for some reason even though this was only my second time seeing them headline. Weird.

The only thing that pissed me off was the camera situation. Tickets said NO AUDIO/VIDEO RECORDING. OK i'm fine with that so I took my crappy digital camera they took it and said I can get it after the show I was like "WTF, were not allowed cameras? Since when? This is bull****." Whatever I'm about to see Rush I can't let this get to me. During the show I see like 10 people aroudn me whip out camera and not even get a warning... omg, lame.

I hope it isn't covers. The ones available now are and the signer doesn't do Geddy justice.

Rock Band: Moving Pictures to be made available for download

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As most Rush fans know already, the popular video game Rock Band included Tom Sawyer as one of its featured tracks, with Limelight and Working Man later released for download. Harmonix Music Systems released a software update in March for the game which included an in-game music store. Since then they've made 3 full albums available for download in the store, the latest being the Pixies' Doolittle. The latest issue of Game Informer magazine (July 2008) reports in their Loose Talk section that the next album slated for release will be Rush's Moving Pictures! The big question then is whether these will be the master tracks or cover versions; all the Rush tracks released thus far have been covers. Thanks to Doug B for the heads up.

Very excited about this!

Awesome. Great quality. Thanks.

I got in email in my inbox with the subject Tixs today, apparently my tickets got skipped earlier, that is always good news.

BTW, do you understand the whole bootleg scene? I don't get it people make forum posts with no download links? Are we supposed to be trading in order to receive a CD? I just don't get it

I'm looking forward to getting a Toronto bootleg since I'm sure it will get recorded.

I don't get why people don't like Dog Years. T4E IS a very good album IMO. It's got the title track Test For Echo, Driven, Half The World, Dog Years, Virtuality and Resist.

RTB has Dreamline, Bravado and Where's My Thing but other than that I don't find alot of pleasure listening to that album.

Really? Favs? Interesting, that is usually the opposite of most Rush fans. RTB is probably the most "picked on" album by Rush fans on the internet.

So lately I've been listening to Presto, RTB and Counterparts albums since I am not as familiar with these as the rest. Presto is alot better than I originally saw it.

That sucks. You will have to catch them on their 40th Anniversary tour! I debt since this album such a success according to fans and the band they will have a new album and be on the road by 2010 or 2011.

My show is roughly 50 days away... w00t

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I had a chance to listen to the new album today. Pretty good release. Nothing amazing, but worth it if your a big Rush fan. They new material sounds great live and I can't believe I never noticed the slow down of songs. Certain songs like Between The Wheels and Circumstances really stand out as too slow. But I really never noticed any of this when I was there live and I probably won't this time either so I'm not gonna worry about it. A good 07 tour souvenir . Now I wanna see that DVD!

Welcome CSL.

As you may already know Rush kciked off their 08 tour in Puerto Rico last night and I thought I'd share the setlist. I put it as a spoiler encase someone plans to see them and doesnt want to know the songs.

I heard something a while ago about a Canadian film maker )the same guy who made Metal :A Head Bangers Journey) was working towards creating a movie about Rush from their beginnings to present day.

The info about a new album got me excited. Something tells me that the boys are very proud of S&A, just from how much of it they play live and are ready to write new material.

I'd love to see a bonus section with the songs that will be added to the 2008 set list.

Time For a Rush Update!

Rush makes the Bass Player Readers' Choice Awards

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[Web Exclusive Peek: The First Annual Bass Player Readers' Choice Awards]

 

Just like their sister magazine Guitar Player did, Bass Player magazine recently posted a web preview of their 2008 Readers' Choice Awards. Rush and Geddy Lee won in the following categories:

 

Best 2007 Cover Feature

Geddy Lee, August 2007

 

Coolest Bass Line In A Song Released In 2007

Rush's Malignant Narcissism gathered the most votes for a cool '07 line, followed up by Far Cry, also from the Toronto trio's Snakes and Arrows album.

 

2007's Best Album For Bass

Rush: Snakes & Arrows

Rush makes the Guitar Player Readers' Choice Awards

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[Exclusive Web Preview! The 2008 GP Readers' Choice Awards]

 

Guitar Player magazine recently posted a web preview of their 2008 Readers' Choice Awards. Rush and Alex Lifeson won in the following categories:

 

Best Article in 2007

Different Strings

Alex Lifeson

 

Best Rock Guitarist

Alex Lifeson

 

2007's Most Ferociously Brilliant Guitar Album

Rush: Snakes & Arrows

New Alex Lifeson interview at Billboard.com

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[Rush Promises Surprises On Summer Tour]

 

Billboard just posted some snippets of a recent conversation with Alex Lifeson to their website. Alex talks a bit about the upcoming tour; the Snakes & Arrows Live CD and DVD; and Rush's next studio album. He mentions that fans can expect some setlist surprises on the tour:

 

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.. "we thought we should maybe revisit some older songs we're not playing currently or haven't been in the last little while. So we changed out a few songs in the set. We're gonna keep it loose and maybe kind of bounce back and forth."

 

Lifeson says the group frequently gets fan requests for specific material. "We see 'Camera Eye' come up quite often, 'Jacob's Ladder' and some of the longer songs like that from our mid-period," he says. ...

 

So some of the rumors I'd mentioned a couple weeks ago might be true. Did he actually mention Camera Eye!? Now that would be a surprise. Let's keep our fingers crossed. He also addresses the Snakes & Arrows Live DVD:

 

... Lifeson says Rush is also starting to tuck into the video material from the [Rotterdam] show last October at Ahoy Rotterdam arena in the Netherlands for a DVD the guitarist says will be out in the late summer or early fall.

 

"We shot it in HD, and I hear it looks really dramatic," says Lifeson, who supervised the stereo mix for the CD. The group decided to put the CD out first, he says, because "we wanted to kind of bridge the two halves of the tour with a release so there's something there, and then we'll follow up with the live DVD." ...

 

So he confirms that the DVD will be released late summer or early fall as I'd mentioned a couple of months ago.

 

He also confirms that Rush is planning on another studio album with Nick Raskulinecz:

 

... Lifeson says that he and bandmates Geddy Lee and Neil Peart are also thinking a bit about Rush's next studio album -- mostly likely with "Snakes & Arrows" co-producer Nick Raskulinecz -- but suspects that will come later rather than sooner.

 

"I'm guessing that we're probably going to take a little bit of the break at the end of this tour," says Lifeson, who's been updating his Web site with a number of new features he hopes to roll out soon. "I don't see us really doing much in the way of any new material probably until the spring of next year, and then we'll see where we go. We generally prefer to just start on that first day and sit down and start jamming; it's such an exciting moment, and it becomes it's own living thing. We seem to be much more balanced and a lot happier working that way." ...

Camera Eye? Sweet. JACOBS LADDER!? Amazing if that happened.

Two weeks and counting down until the 2008 leg of Rush's Snakes & Arrows tour kicks off at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico. Reader shockobabble let me know that the Puerto Rican newspaper El Nuevo Día is sponsoring a Rush Pre-party for this show at the Coliseo for select subscribers. Rush is presumably still rehearsing in Toronto but - if what I'm hearing is correct - will be heading down to Puerto Rico later next week to start rehearsals there.

That really is too bad that you won't be making it to Rush. I feel for you. I know what it's like to have a band roll into town and you can't go. Hope for the best, maby you can snag a list minute deal. Hell I'd just get lawn if you really wanna go. Great sound, not the best view though.

Here are some Foo Fighter pics. This really was a great show. The show would have already been memorable but Rush showing up made it extra special.

Here are some pics. My sister took a couple Rush pics but only a few turned out because the lighting they used for YYZ was very dark and didn't show up well.

I'll get a couple FF pics up later too for the hell of it.

Guess what!!!

I just saw Rush play YYZ at a Foo Fighters concert in Toronto!!!

On my way to see the Foo Fighters in Toronto we were told by the radio DJ that FF had a special guest for us. I didn't think much of it. So about half way into the set Dave Grohl introduces some of his friends, "Geddy Lee and Alex ****ing Lifeson". My mouth dropped. I was like, "WHAT!? Did I hear that right!?" Then came the opening chimes of YYZ played by FF drummer Taylor Hawkings and they played an entire rendition of YYZ! It was awesome, I couldn't really concentrate on the rest of the show, it was amazing. I was basically going nuts throughout the whole song. Dave bragged about it the rest of the night, "We just had Rush play at a Foo Fighters concert" and how "Taylor had the balls to play drums for RUSH in RUSHs home-town" I will never forget this concert, they defiantly pulled a fast one on us!

My sister got a few pics of Ged and Alex that I will upload later.

That should hold me off till my Rush show in July.

Yeah, I read that too, what a bummer.

As we get closer to April 11 I'm excited to see what Rush has in store for their setlst. This tours set list was very unusual and they playted some stuff they have not 't played in decades and some really deep cuts, hopefully they do the same this tour and please bring back 2112 and The Tress, two of my favourite songs I never got to hear theme live

Opps, sorry, I leave myself signed in and forgot you can't view without being registered.

I created a little topic on another board and it's become kinda heated argument, have a look, Ever Buy Tickets at Over Face Value?

Yours was a bit different from mine, I see. We have very different opinions on Power Windows and A Farewell To Kings and Vapor Trails (do you know how long I've been calling it Vapor Trail :lol)

See, after a bit of time I probably would have gave Grace Under Pressure and Signals higher spots.

Ahh. Wait, if he's your ride, doesn't that make you his "company"? Maybe you should have paid for him, then!

Meh, I'm just using his Dad for a ride. His Dad already admitted he likes Rush but isn't crazy about them. Me and my friend love Rush but we needed someone to drive.

No, what I meant by company was my buddy and his father (who is our ride). His dad couldn't get the premium seats, so we went with the next best. I paid for mine, they paid for theirs.