Shred XLIX: And then the North Koreans attacked

presdoug wrote: rushfan4 wrote: presdoug wrote: Talking about Rush live, i saw them in April of 1977 with the A Farewell To Kings tour-i remember it well, they played everything from that album except Cinderella Man-at the end of Cygnus X-1 was a gigantic screen with an animation of a space ship exploding-they did some earlier music from before AFTK, too          Opening band was Max Webster who started their set with "Oh War"            Man that was a heck uv a long time ago! That would have been so cool.  First time that I saw them was in 1989 as part of the Presto tour.  I've seen them just about every tour since then though. I remember my sister and her friend(who would have been only about 12 at the time) arrived early, and snooped around and found a way of getting inside the civic center, and found Rush inside rehearsing! They hung out just them and the band, and Neil Peart noticed them and said "Let's do one for the girls" and they played Closer To The Heart.

That is super cool!

presdoug wrote: Pekka wrote: Oh you lucky bstards. Rush ignored us every single tour until S&A. I know a guy who waited for 25 years to see them. That reminds me of a story of Blue Cheer's bass player Dickie Peterson, who when finally touring Japan in the late 1990s met a monk who said to him "We have awaited your arrival for 30 years"

presdoug wrote: smartpatrol wrote: so they played Madrigal? i didn't think they played that live Yep, as far as i remember, Cinderella Man was the only exclusion from that album

Not that I have that much

I would not give all of my money to see Madrigal live.

I would give all of my money to have all of Rush's money.

HolyMoly wrote: I would give all of my money to have all of Rush's money.

I'd certainly make that investment as well.

Haha.... love those Bill and Ted moments...

HolyMoly wrote: I just learned how to do a screenshot on my computer so I tried it out by taking a snapshot of a youtube video of me playing guitar and making it my avatar for a while.

You're Omar Rodriguez-Lopez? 

Neil Peart has a brother who opened a Musical instrument store in Kingston, Ontario, Canada appropriately titled "Peart Music" in the seventies.
               I remember travelling down the main drag of Kingston, and seeing it.

               i also remember being at a gas station on the outskirts of Willowdale north of Toronto in 1977, and hearing a live Rush bootleg being played at the station. I knew it was a boot, because it featured a song from All The World's A Stage that had some parts added to it that weren't on the official album.