Yeah, I was thinking the same thing and mentioned it to guitarist/vocalist buddy last night (he's going with me to the show), which is why I'm glad I'm seeing them May 20th.
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Once again, Rush dissapoints
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Yeah, I was thinking the same thing and mentioned it to guitarist/vocalist buddy last night (he's going with me to the show), which is why I'm glad I'm seeing them May 20th.
Wow. You could start a whole new thread just on that! My first guess would be that they would cancel the tour. However, if they didn't....Mike Portnoy from Dream Theater?
So now you don't know the difference between arenas, stadiums, and amphiteaters/pavilions.
Saying a stadium would be 5/6 empty was maybe an exaggeration (depends on the size of the stadium, but usually they're about 40-50k plus). But 1/2 to 3/4 empty? Definitely. I think Rush is probably averaging around 12-20k per concert these days.
And to the guy who brought up Pearl Jam, that's the exact OPPOSITE extreme, so of course it would make a lot of people unhappy as well. But I'm sure a ton of people were thrilled. I mean, really? Did you just go to see Jeremy and Daughter? BORING.
And I like the Stan Lee comment as well. But to me, that means you throw EVERYTHING into the setlist. So for Rush that would mean some of their super early hard rock stuff (maybe something BESIDES Working Man now and then), some stuff from the mid/late 70s where they were finding their sound (FBN through PW basically), then of course a good handful or so of their hits (PW through TFE basically), and a small smattering of new stuff (VT through CWA). THAT'S how you give people an overall introduction to Rush in 2 hours. I mean, if you don't play "obscure" stuff because it's obscure, guess what? IT STAYS OBSCURE! But Rush doesn't have any "obscure" stuff anyway, as I mentioned before. I think in their entire 40 year career, I'm not aware of a SINGLE b-side of theirs. I've heard rumours of a couple of unreleased demo type things, but let's assume if they didn't release it, they're not going to play it live. So everything except maybe the last 3 was released on a record that went AT LEAST gold.
Rush is actually in a unique position that way. No other band could literally play ANY song from their first 30 years and have like half or more of the audience know it. So why are they so risk averse to playing songs they haven't played in a while? I mean, ok, if they play I Think I'm Going Bald, it might not go over GREAT. But literally anything else from CoS and a huge chunk of the crowd would go apepoopie, and guess what, those people would remember that and talk about it for years to come. They ALWAYS play Subdivisions, but how about New World Man or Losing It or Countdown? I think Signals must be at least Platinum, so AT LEAST a million people know those songs! They're not rare or obscure, they're just rarely if ever played.
So that's why so many Rush fans are so disappointed that the setlists don't get scrambled up a bit more.
I was hoping to hang out here for a post-gig review, but the noise-level in this thread is too high to bother.
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Me wasting time? I posted one innocuous post of my opinion! I didn't request, ask for or in any way solicit the many responses here. Nor am I trolling, which is posting something for the express purpose of defamation or causing trouble. What, i'm not allowed to have an opinion? Please show me in any post where I personally insulted someone, told someone off, told someone their opinion was invalid. You won't be able to do that because it never happened. This is America, and I have no control over others attitudes, ideas and opinions. As far as getting banned, ummmm hasn't happened, nor will it because again, I did nothing personally insulting to anyone here, nor was my OP a trolling post.
Uhm, almost everybody in the thread seems to agree that Rush's setlists are pretty stale, even if for them that's not a reason to not go see them. There's really only like 2 or 3 people with the "get over it and shut up" d-bag take on it. This place would be super boring and super pointless if we could only talk about the things we're 100% happy about.
I mean, *I* like that song. I think it's fun. But I think there are a bunch of Rush fans that take themselves slightly too seriously to appreciate it. And of course other that wouldn't know it. Lakeside Park would probably be a better choice for a short song from CoS to break out again live (I think they've done Bastille Day here and there).
Presumably many of you have seen the ancient page from the dawn of the internet called "Deep Rush Thoughts". One of them was "Neil should write a sequel to I Think I'm Going Bald and title it Woah, I Was Right!"
Presumably many of you have seen the ancient page from the dawn of the internet called "Deep Rush Thoughts". One of them was "Neil should write a sequel to I Think I'm Going Bald and title it Woah, I Was Right!"
You can still see the concert and a playoff game, it's just that the Wild won't be playing.
While I personally don't anticipate being disappointed by R40, I really didn't see this as a troll thread. Nothing wrong with expressing a opinion that runs contrary to what most hold as long as it's done respectfully. In short, consider me unoffended.
Another one from the wishlist - I'd have flown (or walked, swam, crawled, whatever) to the remotest corner of the planet if I could see them play 'A Farewell To Kings' in its entirety 
