has anybody seen Rush in concert?

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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)

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.

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

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...

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.

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.

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.)

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

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

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?)

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!

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

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?

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...

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.

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

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