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kevins_concerts) wrote2004-06-07 07:00 pm
kevins_concerts) wrote2004-06-07 07:00 pm
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Rush, R30
Great show. We had so much fun. Cyn, me, Phil and Bill. I enjoy seeing Rush with Phil. We're both Rush freaks. It was a fun show, though. We all cracked up few times. We had good seats, right at the front of the yellow section. Good sound but a little too old loud. The weather was perfect.
It was their 30th Anniversary Tour, so it had a little different feel than their usual shows. The first part was a bunch of songs that I'd characterize as the popular songs, but not my most favorite. A medley of their early hits, followed by "Spirit of Radio", "Force Ten", "Animate", "Subdivisions", "Earthshine", "Red Barchetta" (which was nice to hear again) and "Roll the Bones". The next song was "Bravado", so I left for the restroom and merchandise stand, and missed "YYZ", which is one of the greats. (They only had one merchandise booth, and it was all the way down the hill by the front gate.) They ended up the first half with "The Trees" (a favorite), "The Seeker" (a Who favorite) and "One Little Victory" (a favorite from Vapor Trails).
They really did well with "The Seeker". It's one of my most favorite Who songs, and it was quite enjoyable to hear Rush do it. Geddy had no trouble with the range - like he does with many of his own songs). The other cover songs - "Crossroads", "Heart Full of Soul", "Summertime Blues" - were good but not outstanding.
The second half opened with "Tom Sawyer". Not one of my favorites, but hearing it live is always better than hearing the record. Then was "Dreamline", which is one of my favorites of all their songs. Then were a few less interesting songs - "Secret Touch", "Between the Wheels" (which I didn't even recognize), "Mystic Rhythms", "Red Sector A" (okay, that's a good one). Neil's drum solo is always great to watch. The most rousing parts of "2112". "La Villa Strangiato", complete with the jazzy interlude with the insane rantings of Lerxst. They're still doing "By-Tor and the Snow Dog". It seemed like Geddy was having trouble keeping a straight face. Like, we really wrote this stuff? It was great to hear "Xanadu". That was only the second time I've ever heard them do that one.
The video was cool. The show opened with an animated film which worked in elements of all the covers of their records. Very cool. Then Jerry Stiller woke up and wondered where the band was. At the end, he came back on the screen and wondered why we were all still there. Before the second part, there was a film which seemed to be a takeoff of the Thunderbirds. The bandmembers - in bobblehead form - joined forces in a spacecraft to fight a giant marionette dragon, which was trying to destroy the city. Very humorous. Most of the video was new. They still had the rapping skeleton for "Roll the Bones", but almost everything else was either new or only from the last tour. My favorite was the aerial view of suburban sprawl subdivisions for "Subdivisions." It had a fractal generated feel to it. The screens were LED. There was one big standard shaped screen in the middle, and several narrow vertical ones on either side. Most of the video was rather abstract, so it went well on those screens, with colored floods lighting the curtain behind them.
The lights were good. They had a bit of everything - lasers, Vari-Lites, banks of LEDs, flash strobes, moving battens and flames.
As usual, the same four songs from Moving Pictures, and three from their latest. Three songs from Roll the Bones, and the only song from Test for Echo (my favorite record) was an acoustic version of "Resist".
The show was 3:20, start to finish, and the intermission was about 20 minutes, so three hours of music is pretty damn respectable.
It was their 30th Anniversary Tour, so it had a little different feel than their usual shows. The first part was a bunch of songs that I'd characterize as the popular songs, but not my most favorite. A medley of their early hits, followed by "Spirit of Radio", "Force Ten", "Animate", "Subdivisions", "Earthshine", "Red Barchetta" (which was nice to hear again) and "Roll the Bones". The next song was "Bravado", so I left for the restroom and merchandise stand, and missed "YYZ", which is one of the greats. (They only had one merchandise booth, and it was all the way down the hill by the front gate.) They ended up the first half with "The Trees" (a favorite), "The Seeker" (a Who favorite) and "One Little Victory" (a favorite from Vapor Trails).
They really did well with "The Seeker". It's one of my most favorite Who songs, and it was quite enjoyable to hear Rush do it. Geddy had no trouble with the range - like he does with many of his own songs). The other cover songs - "Crossroads", "Heart Full of Soul", "Summertime Blues" - were good but not outstanding.
The second half opened with "Tom Sawyer". Not one of my favorites, but hearing it live is always better than hearing the record. Then was "Dreamline", which is one of my favorites of all their songs. Then were a few less interesting songs - "Secret Touch", "Between the Wheels" (which I didn't even recognize), "Mystic Rhythms", "Red Sector A" (okay, that's a good one). Neil's drum solo is always great to watch. The most rousing parts of "2112". "La Villa Strangiato", complete with the jazzy interlude with the insane rantings of Lerxst. They're still doing "By-Tor and the Snow Dog". It seemed like Geddy was having trouble keeping a straight face. Like, we really wrote this stuff? It was great to hear "Xanadu". That was only the second time I've ever heard them do that one.
The video was cool. The show opened with an animated film which worked in elements of all the covers of their records. Very cool. Then Jerry Stiller woke up and wondered where the band was. At the end, he came back on the screen and wondered why we were all still there. Before the second part, there was a film which seemed to be a takeoff of the Thunderbirds. The bandmembers - in bobblehead form - joined forces in a spacecraft to fight a giant marionette dragon, which was trying to destroy the city. Very humorous. Most of the video was new. They still had the rapping skeleton for "Roll the Bones", but almost everything else was either new or only from the last tour. My favorite was the aerial view of suburban sprawl subdivisions for "Subdivisions." It had a fractal generated feel to it. The screens were LED. There was one big standard shaped screen in the middle, and several narrow vertical ones on either side. Most of the video was rather abstract, so it went well on those screens, with colored floods lighting the curtain behind them.
The lights were good. They had a bit of everything - lasers, Vari-Lites, banks of LEDs, flash strobes, moving battens and flames.
As usual, the same four songs from Moving Pictures, and three from their latest. Three songs from Roll the Bones, and the only song from Test for Echo (my favorite record) was an acoustic version of "Resist".
The show was 3:20, start to finish, and the intermission was about 20 minutes, so three hours of music is pretty damn respectable.