September 30th

  Rush at Rexall Place in Edmonton on September 30th, 2012. As always with Rush, an amazing show.

September 10th

  It was on September 10th, 2002 that I saw Rush play the Skyreach Centre in Edmonton on their Vapor Trails Tour.

July 18th

  

 On July 18th, 2017 I was in Calgary to see Rush in concert at the Saddledome. Rush were touring for their Snakes & Arrows album.

March 20th

  

 This post is from the time I saw Rush on their Presto Tour with opening act Mr. Big in Edmonton at Northlands Coliseum on March 20th, 1990. What a great double bill this was, especially if you are a fan of bass players.

21 Years Ago Today...September 30th

It was twenty-one years ago today that I saw the band Bone Club from Minneapolis play the Bronx here in Edmonton.

And it was a year ago today that I saw Rush play Rexall Place in Edmonton.

Stats for the month of September...
I have been to shows 23 out of 30 days in the month of September.
And have seen 40 different shows out of them 23 days.

11 Years Ago Today...September 10th

It was eleven years ago today that I saw Rush play Edmonton at the Skyreach Centre.

6 Years Ago Today...July 18th

It was six years ago today that I saw Rush play in Calgary at the Saddlesome.

23 Years Ago Today...Mar.20th

It was twenty-three years ago today that I saw Rush with openers Mr.Big play at Edmonton at Northlands Coliseum.





As well it was twelve years ago today that I saw the SnoJam tour at Red's here in Edmonton. This bill included Zero Down, Sick Of It All, AFI, Death By Stereo and the Planet Smashers.

Rush Live In Edmonton Sept.30th 2012

On Sunday night my buddies Hurl, Buzzard and I went to see the legendary Canadian nerd prog-rockers Rush play in Edmonton at Rexall Place. This was my fourth time seeing Rush perform live in concert. Rush are on tour for their excellent 19th studio album Clockwork Angels.

Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart played a two set three hour show to a crowd of 12,000 people. The first set of the night was made up mostly of songs from their 80's era catalog. Opening with 'Subdivisions' from their 1982 album Signals, also from that album was the song 'The Analog Kid'. The 1985 album Power Windows was covered extensively, with Rush playing 'The Big Money', 'Grand Designs', 'Middletown Dreams' and 'Territories'. One of the songs that they played in which I have always really liked was 'The Pass' from their 1989 album Presto. The only two songs they played that weren't from the 80's was 'Where's My Thing' from the 1991 album Roll The Bones and closing out the first set with 'Far Cry' from the 2007 album Snakes & Arrows. Geddy Lee and the boys were sounding good with Geddy playing both keyboards and bass and even jumping around bit, which surprised me considering some of the comments Geddy has made recently about touring saying how much energy it takes out of him to tour nowadays. Maybe because this was the last concert date for 10 days he had a little more energy then usual. I thought the drums were lost in the mix a bit at the start of the show, but that could have just been because of where I was sitting.

The second set of the evening started with Rush coming out on stage with an eight piece string section. Geddy Lee had said it was the first time in their career that they had performed with someone else other then him Alex and Neil. Rush opened with 'Caravan' from their latest release Clockwork Angels and proceeded wit the next eight songs all from the same album. My favorite song from the album 'Headlong Flight' was also played, and is one of their heaviest songs in a long time, that song kicked my ass. It's not often a band can come out and play almost their whole new album and still have the fans in the palm of their hands. Usually that's a good time to do a beer run, but not with Rush, the fans were loving the new stuff.

Of course the crowd went wild when they went into the song 'Tom Sawyer', probably their best known song and most played radio hit. Rush ended the show with three parts from the 2112 album, ending with 'Grand Finale' of course. This was an amazing show from start to finish.

Something else I noticed at the show was how busy the merchandise booths were through out the night. Constantly a line up and not a small one either, huge line ups at all the merch booths.

All and all a fun night. Good times!!!

Rush setlist for the Edmonton show.

Set One
1.Subdivisions
2.The Big Money
3.Force Ten
4.Grand Designs
5.Middletown Dreams
6.Territories
7.The Analog Kid
8.The Pass
9.Where's My Thing?
10.Far Cry

Set Two, with string section
11.Caravan
12.Clockwork Angels
13.The Anarchist
14.Carnies
15.The Wreckers
16.Headlong Flight
17.Halo Effect
18.Wish Them Well
19.The Garden
20.Dreamline
21.Drum Solo
22.Red Sector A
23.YYZ
24.The Spirit of Radio
Encore:
25.Tom Sawyer
26.2112 Part I: Overture
27.2112 Part II: The Temples of Syrinx
28.2112 Part VII: Grand Finale

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Rush Memorabilia

Ok, it's a lame piece of memorabilia, but oh well, gonna show it off anyways.

It's a Rush lighter that Bic put out. The logo on the lighter is from their debut 1974 album. There are a few different lighters with other Rush logos on them available.

Rush Lighter.

Rush's debut album in which the logo on the lighter came from.

In concert news...The lighter may come in handy when Rush plays Edmonton on Sunday September 30th at Rexall Place on their 'Clockwork Angels Tour'. The concert is billed as an evening with Rush.

The new Rush album 'Clockwork Angels' comes out on Tuesday June 12th. You can hear the first single 'Headlong Flight' from the new album by clicking here. The song kicks ass. I am so looking forward to seeing Rush again.

Ticket Stub Of The Day Apr.28th (Rush)

Today's ticket stub is from the third time I saw Rush in concert. This show was in 2007 at The Pengrowth Saddledome in Calgary in 2007 as part of Rush's Snakes & Arrows Tour. Janis and I went to this show after I won tickets from the Edmonton classic rock station K97. It was an evening with Rush, hence no opening act, great show as usual by an excellent Canadian rock band.



Setlist for Calgary show.

Limelight
Digital Man
Entre Nous
Mission
Freewill
The Main Monkey Business
The Larger Bowl
Secret Touch
Circumstances
Between The Wheels
Dreamline

Second Set
Far Cry
Workin' Them Angels
Armor And Sword
Spindrift
The Way The Wind Blows
Subdivisions
Natural Science
Witch Hunt
Malignant Narcissism
Drum Solo
Hope
Summertime Blues
The Spirit of Radio
Tom Sawyer

Encore:
One Little Victory
A Passage To Bangkok
YYZ

Concert Shirt Of The Day Dec.15th (Rush)

Today's t-shirt is from the second time I saw Rush in concert. This show was in 2002 when Rush were touring for their Vapor Trails album. It was an evening with Rush, with them playing for two hours. The show was in Edmonton at The Skyreach Centre. I went to this show with A-Bomb.

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