has anybody seen Rush in concert?

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I got tickets to see these guys in Pittsburgh on May 31st. Should be a radical show!!!

― Baron Von MuseIix, Monday, 3 May 2004 00:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Yea, like totally gnarly, man.

― uh, Monday, 3 May 2004 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

First concert I ever saw, in fact.

I'm sure you'll have fun. I hope you get a better opening act than Marillion. You'll get laser lights, the whiff of marijuana smoke, a lengthy Neil Peart drum solo, they'll play "Closer to the Heart" and everyone will sing along at the top of their lungs, they'll encore with "Overture"/"Temples of Syrinx", and you'll go home a happy man.

― Broheems (diamond), Monday, 3 May 2004 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm seeing them in August with my older brother, who is still a big fan after all these years. This is their 30th Anniversary tour, right? The only other time I saw them live was on the Roll the Bones tour. That was a pretty crap album...well, maybe I'm being too harsh, I can't really remember it too well...but I can remember them playing the title track in concert, pre-recorded Peart rap and all (I don't think I need to say much more with the words "Peart" and "rap" side by side). Still, the rest of the show was fun.

― Joe (Joe), Monday, 3 May 2004 01:00 (twenty-one years ago)

classic canadian moment... rush w/ voivod @ maple leaf gardens!!!

― my name is... (downtown81), Monday, 3 May 2004 01:46 (twenty-one years ago)

watch out for Alex Lifeson's right hook.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 3 May 2004 01:48 (twenty-one years ago)

heh, Broheems OTM. I was a big fan back in high school and saw them a couple of times, that description is pretty much the shows I saw.

― webcrack (music=crack), Monday, 3 May 2004 02:05 (twenty-one years ago)

They play most of the 'classics'. They're really tight, though they don't always get the best sound live. (Really, they - and Radiohead for that matter - should be like Kraftwerk and refuse to play venues that don't provide a certain standard of sound quality.) Their stage gimmicks and banter for the Vapor Trails tour were pretty hokey. That was one reason why I liked them so much better at Downsview Park last summer. Are they still doing three-hour shows?

By the way, I just picked up Grace Under Pressure. It's pretty interesting - more intricate in some ways than some of the previous ones. Some of the instrumental moments are almost like proto-drum & bass or something. Peart sounds totally like a good drum machine. I also like the sonic detail in the production, the way guitar harmonics turn into ambient washes.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 3 May 2004 02:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Peart sounds like a drum machine "Grace Under Pressure" because he was using those Simmons synth drums on that record, which was pretty state of the art tech for those days. Their synth sounds on those early 80s records are great, they went from Moogs to Oberheims.

Rush was also one of my first concerts, I saw that same tour with Marillion. I saw them again a couple of summers ago and had a good time.

― earlnash, Monday, 3 May 2004 02:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw them once, it was fabulous. Wasn't even necessary to be up close or anything, just the all encompassing sound out in the hall was thrilling.

― bimble (bimble), Monday, 3 May 2004 03:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Was Lifeson using guitar synth?

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 3 May 2004 03:56 (twenty-one years ago)

if not, he was beating someone up to obtain one.

― uh, Monday, 3 May 2004 03:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Saw them in 1980 on their Permanent Waves tour and I gotta say that despite an exciting, flashy intro I almost fell asleep. But, then again, I wasn't exactly a fan at the time so wtf did I know. Still, quite a few of their fans seemed to be zonked out about 20 minutes into their set (at least as far as I could tell through the clouds of pot smoke). Maybe it was just a bad night for the band, but I didn't listen to them for the following 23 years or so because of it.

These days I wonder if that Rio DVD set is worth getting...

― nodogsbody (J. Sot), Monday, 3 May 2004 07:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Yep. They should retire the "extended jam" part of "Closer to the Heart", though. It's gotten a bit tired.p

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 3 May 2004 11:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Saw them on "Roll The Bones". They're a great band but the show made me want to forever avoid another arena concert -- no ambiance.

― christoff (christoff), Monday, 3 May 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Saw them nigh on 18 years ago -- on the Power Windows tour, I think. Went with some friends who were big fans. They were fine, I guess. The much-vaunted laser show was kind of like watching a giant screen of that tank video game with the green geometric lines. The visuals are probably better now.

― spittle (spittle), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 03:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw them on the Hold Your Fire tour. I remember:

1) Aimee Mann dueting via video on "Time Stands Still"- the first time I think I ever relaized that bands had to perform in a specific way to meet thir lighting cues and so forth.

2) red baloons falling from the sky.

3) Tommy Shaw was supposed to open. Hs band got to the stage and it was announeced that he was sick and the band left. It was probably the first time I realized that band don't always hang out togehter all the time.

4) The drum solo.

5) My t-shir was a misprint. It read "Hold Your Fir." I felt like quite the head-banging hesher enviornmentalist.

― Randy Reiss (undeadsinatra), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 04:49 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

I'm kinda annoyed that I missed seeing them last week. And I've seen them three times already! (tours for Grace Under Pressure, Presto, & Counterparts)

― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 23 May 2008 07:44 (seventeen years ago)

Don't miss them! They're the only classic rock act that still has the same members and isn't embarrassing. Totally on top of their game. Still.

― Nate Carson, Sunday, 25 May 2008 22:16 (seventeen years ago)

I saw them on the Presto tour. Mr. Big opened!

― Terrible Cold, Sunday, 25 May 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

my second-ever concert...(was the first concert at Joe Louis Arena, just a few weeks after the, gulp, Republican National Convention, aka Reaganstock)...Golden Earring opened...

― henry s, Monday, 26 May 2008 00:26 (seventeen years ago)

went to the show last thurs in st.paul still totally worth it.

it's pretty amazing how well they've held up. peart has to work a little harder for it now but he's still nailed down tight.

― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 26 May 2008 03:33 (seventeen years ago)

Hah! I saw them do the "All the World's a Stage" show when it was still new. Cats and dogs fornicated in the aisles. One of the finest moments of Seventies hard rock was Alex Lifeson playing the opening riff to "Bastille Day" followed by ninety solid minutes of no mercy metal artillery.

― Gorge, Monday, 26 May 2008 08:49 (seventeen years ago)

My step-cousin saw that '76 Massey Hall show with friends & claims you can hear him and his friends shouting something on that album! Suppposedly this occurs before or after "Lakeside Park" (the actual park of which was practically his back yard.) I've never tried to verify this claim. (Last played that album several years before I even knew the guy.)

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 26 May 2008 14:08 (seventeen years ago)

I've always meant to start a "non-musicians: have you ever heard yourself on a live album before?" thread!

― henry s, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 17:52 (seventeen years ago)

There is such a thread! You'll have to dig for it a bit but we have it on here somewhere.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 17:56 (seventeen years ago)

that's why I've never started it, I figured it had to have been asked at some point...(didn't know how to search for it, maybe "search: awooo!" or something like that?)

― henry s, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 18:04 (seventeen years ago)

I've always meant to start a "non-musicians: have you ever heard yourself on a live album before?" thread!

Is there one for people who aren't band members but are on album covers? Or not on them, in this case: if Pennie Smith'd pulled back about one more row of people I'd be on the back cover of London Calling!

― ellaguru, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 19:35 (seventeen years ago)

right place, wrong time!...(or is it the other way around?)

― henry s, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 19:39 (seventeen years ago)

On the positive side, if you'd been closer to the stage, who's to say you mightn't have been injured or even blinded (or worse!) by a flying chunk of broken bass guitar?

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 20:15 (seventeen years ago)

I was at the Sepultura Chaos AD show that was recorded in Minneapolis at the First Ave (tracks appear on Chaos AD reissues and Blood-Rooted).

I'm sure I can't be heard, but I think there may be video footage out there somewhere...

― Nate Carson, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 22:24 (seventeen years ago)

Hm. Well, I was present at the recordings of THESE:

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s553503.jpg
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s350973.jpg

...but can't differentiate between my own applause and that of everyone else's.

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 17:35 (seventeen years ago)

seven years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDICO6gKSqc

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 31 July 2015 03:22 (ten years ago)

They were stupid great last week in San Jose. Amazing stuff.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 31 July 2015 04:21 (ten years ago)

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