Rush Time Machine Tour

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Anyone else go to the MEN last night?

I didn't go to the Snakes and Arrows tour in 2007 as I wasn't the biggest fan of the album, sure it had a few good tunes, but most were just average and I didn't want to go and be disappointed. I saw Deep Purple (who were great) a few years back and Styx and Thin Lizzy supported (obviously not original members, but Thin Lizzy were quite poor) and it jaded it for me somewhat having not had the chance to see them in their heyday.

I still regretted not seeing Rush as you never know how many more tours bands will do now, so managed to get tickets for the MEN at the start of the year as soon as they came out, plus as they are the original band and still releasing material I expected a decent performance.

I needn't have worried about being disappointed. It was flippin' amazing.

Fireworks, shooting balls of flame, a drum kit that took up 360 degrees around Neil Peart!

Oh and they played for just over 3 hours too!

I would definately go and see them again as obviously their library of material can't be covered in just one live show, and if you saw them again im sure that at least 50% of the tunes would be different.

They get a 10/10 from me, just the high prices of both tickets and the stuff at the arena is annoying. £65 a ticket, plus £4 a plastic pint and the merchandise was expensive, £60 for a hoody?!
 
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I actually had it pencilled in to go and see them in Newcastle on the 21st. It was only a couple of months ago I realised I had a prior engagement at the MEN with Roger Waters that night.

Seen them a few times before anyway over the years.
 
I haven't seen Rush live before - but I would love to - Is this going to be the last tour they do? I will cry if it is :p
 
Going to see the O2 show on Wednesday - can't wait!!!

Saw them on the Snakes tour in North Carolina in an outdoor ampitheatre - was great! Three times on the 30th Anniversary tour as well (as well as countless tours before that). :)
 
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Marky said:
Tell us the story Papa Poole... :p
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Well you forced me :D

When I lived in Nigeria during the mid 70s I had a Canadian mate and when we went back to our respective countries we kept in touch by letter.
One day he sent me two copies of an album by his mates Rush and they had asked for me to send one of the copies to our best music paper.
I chose Sounds and the rock guy was Geoff Barton.
The album was superb and sounded a lot like Led Zeppelin and I played it at every party I went to but sadly Geoff Barton didn't review it.
Some time later I get the second album (Fly By Night) sent to me and asked to send one of them to the best music paper.
Once again I sent it to Geoff Barton and this time he reviewed and went mental over it so I sent the clippings to my mate to pass onto Rush.
I then got the 3rd album and sent that on to Sounds but by the time the 4th album came out (2112) Rush were now having their records sold here.
The last album Rush sent me was the 3 gatefold sleeved All The Worlds A Stage.
A couple of albums later Rush did their first tour and they sent me tickets to Manchester Apollo and a backstage pass - I never used the pass.

Cool story bro and every word true.
 
dmpoole said:
Well you forced me :D

When I lived in Nigeria during the mid 70s I had a Canadian mate and when we went back to our respective countries we kept in touch by letter.
One day he sent me two copies of an album by his mates Rush and they had asked for me to send one of the copies to our best music paper.
I chose Sounds and the rock guy was Geoff Barton.
The album was superb and sounded a lot like Led Zeppelin and I played it at every party I went to but sadly Geoff Barton didn't review it.
Some time later I get the second album (Fly By Night) sent to me and asked to send one of them to the best music paper.
Once again I sent it to Geoff Barton and this time he reviewed and went mental over it so I sent the clippings to my mate to pass onto Rush.
I then got the 3rd album and sent that on to Sounds but by the time the 4th album came out (2112) Rush were now having their records sold here.
The last album Rush sent me was the 3 gatefold sleeved All The Worlds A Stage.
A couple of albums later Rush did their first tour and they sent me tickets to Manchester Apollo and a backstage pass - I never used the pass.

Cool story bro and every word true.
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That is freakin' awesome :p

Why didn't you use the pass?
Do you still have it?
 
Marky said:
I haven't seen Rush live before - but I would love to - Is this going to be the last tour they do? I will cry if it is :p
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I would imagine they will tour again, but as is the case with many of the bands, time shows no mercy and the members aren't getting any younger.

You could always buy tickets for a show on a later leg of the world tour. OK you might have to fly abroad to see them ;)
 
Went down to Dublin last week to see it. It was amazing. Epic stuff. Saw them in Toronto for the R30 tour a few years ago as well.



 
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Im off to the NEC tomorrow night to see them, should be a good show from them as always and the track listing for the gig looks good... shame theres no Xanadu though.
 
deSade said:
Going to see the O2 show on Wednesday - can't wait!!!

Saw them on the Snakes tour in North Carolina in an outdoor ampitheatre - was great! Three times on the 30th Anniversary tour as well (as well as countless tours before that). :)
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Still going on Wednesday - but managed (late on Saturday) to get 6th row tickets for last nights gig at the NEC (meant driving from Bristol to Plymouth to pick them up though!!).

Great concert, with some surprising songs thrown in - a cool lighting rig & and very funny intro movies to both sets!!! :)
 
Saw them at the MEN - Didn't spot this thread :o

Thoroughly enjoyed it, was a really good show.

Stopped in Manchester to go see another band the following night so was a pretty good couple of days really :D
 
I thought they were superb at the O2 and apart from The Camera Eye, which I don't think quite came off, they were spot on.

The light show was exceptional, as were the screen and video's.

One thing that surprised me was that I'd read the gigs all started at 1930 and finished at 2300, but they didn't come on until 1940 and finished about 2250, but I don't think they missed anything out.

Overall, A+, as per normal for the greatest band on the planet.:D
 
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