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Location: Jet City | My son Zach turned 17 last week. For his birthday, I took him to the Gorge...
To see RUSH!
We were pretty close!!
And, we even saw an O!!!
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Those are some great shots!
Did he get his B'day guitar yet? |
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Location: WNC-God's Country | You made my day with these pics......My number 1 hero Mr. Peart!!!!!
Thanks for sharing
Keith |
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Location: Jet City | Not yet Iffy. I told him he had to figure it out (he's up in the air about 3 different ones).
Honestly, we got back yesterday, unloaded the camping gear, put stuff away, then dad was out!
He's at school now, so we'll get the guitar issue decided tonight. |
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Location: Jet City | You're welcome Keith. I wish I coulda taken all my OFC buddies along, it was a great show.
I'll put up a link later to a website with more pics and video (got some great vids!) It may take a day or two. I got a bit shutter happy and took roughly 1200 pics, so I got some sorting to do.
I just thought I'd put a couple up till then. |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | What's that behind Geddy in the 2nd pic? Looks like rotisserie chicken! Did he serve it up between songs?
Gotta love the LCD flatpanels on the floor. |
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Location: Jet City | FYI, Alex played Gibsons all night long. No Fender or PRS, I find that refreshing, back to his old ways. Acoustics were mostly Garrison (as well as the octave mando), and for the one classical piece to The Trees, he busted out the O.
Geddy was playing the Jazz Bass mostly, but we all screamed like little girls when he pulled out his old Ric! |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | Originally posted by dvd:
What's that behind Geddy in the 2nd pic? Looks like rotisserie chicken! Did he serve it up between songs?
Gotta love the LCD flatpanels on the floor. Geddy has been using a "SansAmp" Box and going direct to the P.A. for the last few tours. The "chicken rigs" are to fill up the empty space where his bass cabs used to be. They used a row of 3 Maytag coin operated dryers (real ones) for the last tour. At least they have a sense of humor! |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | lol, so it does say Henhouse. thought I needed to schedule an eye appointment there for a minute! very cool.. I can picture the brainstorming sessions now. |
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Location: Jet City | You can hear my son Zach sayin' "Look there's a guy comin' out" and them him laughing once he realizes what the guy's doing.
Bastin\' the Chickens |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | Here's a pic of Jack Black on stage with Rush during their 30th anniversary tour in Hollywood. They had two dryers and a fully stocked vending machine for that tour.
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Location: Nashville TN. | Kool |
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Location: Orlando, FL | Nice pictures Damon (as usual)! Glad you got Alex with his Ovation. I've seen a few videos of the tour with the dryers onstage and never could figure it out. The chicken rigs are a tasty touch!
I would ask how the show was but, well it's Rush, I'm sure it was great.
Did they play any of the newer material from Snakes and Arrows and Vapor Trails or just do all the classics? |
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Location: Jet City | 9 songs off Snakes and Arrows, their best album for a couple decades if you ask me.
27 songs total. It was a long and wonderful show. They're all having fun too, even after a year plus of shows every night, and the 1000 mile an hour winds we had there Saturday night. They were laughing it up on stage and having a great ol' time.
It was good to see. |
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| Can't wait now, nice photos! I've got me some 12th row right in the middle of Saratoga Performing Arts Center tickets July 5th. Right where the sub bass pounds you to death! Love it! My 12 & 15 year old Daughters went to the YES concert in 2004 in Syracuse with my wife and I and were absolutely blown away! They are totally into Rush & Yes & Floyd & Genesis and all the older big name rockers! And I am getting them to all these bands concerts before they cash it in.
I sure hope they play Camera Eye! |
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Location: Jet City | No Camera Eye :(
They did Witch Hunt, Tom Sawyer, Red Barchetta, YYZ, and Limelight from Moving Pictures though. 5 of 7 makes it the popular one of the night (aside from S&A, which if you don't have, go get it!). Come to think of it, those 2 albums make up more than half the show.
I think the idea was not to play the long ones like Camera Eye, Xanadu, La Villa Strangiato, and so on, and play more quantity instead. They did do Natural Science though, one of my personal favorites. |
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What a RUSH!
