A rushed weekend

[greatbear]

It was a good, busy weekend. Friday night Jeff and I did some shopping, I bought a mount for the LCD teevee in the camper. Saturday I finished up installing the Star Trek horns in the truck, did a few other things around the garage, then we got cleaned up and headed into VA for the evening. Dinner at Ruby Tuesday's, then we found a little wine shop called 'Cork and Fork' where we picked up some bizzarre-looking pasta, some interesting sauce and dip, and a couple bottle of wine which included a bottle of Bitch Barossa Grenache 2005. We couldnt pass it up, especially since the cashier told us that some woman stormed out in a huff upon seeing the pink label with such an offensive term in pretty script. From there a trip to Lowes to pick up some t-nuts for the TV mount project in the trailer. then it was off to the real reason we were in town. RUSH!

Rush was playing the Nissan Pavillion. Jeff was never really a fan, but knew of the 'popular' tunes like "Tom Sawyer" and "Spirit of Radio". And, unless you count a Bon Jovi show, he's never been to a 'real' rock concert. In my ever evolving quest to corrupt his small-town values, the trip to see my favorite band was greatley enjoyed by Jeff, who ended up with a tour shirt to boot. The boys were tight, sounding better than they have in recent years IMO. The setlist contained a lot of suprises too. Songs that havent been heard live since they toured those respective albums I believe.

Opening video: Geddy in a kilt with bad Scottish accent. Alex and Neil as an old married couple. Hilarious!


First set:
Limelight
Digital Man
Entre Nous (!)
Mission
Free Will
The Main Monkey Business
The Larger Bowl (with intro by Bob & Doug McKenzie, eh)
Secret Touch
Circumstances
Between the Wheels
Dreamline

Intermission

Second set:
Intro film/graphics
Far Cry
Workin' Them Angels
Armor and Sword
Spindrift
The Way the Wind Blows
Subdivisions
Natural Science (!!)
Witch Hunt (!!!) (this one is even more relevent today)
Malignant Narcissism
Drum Solo
Hope
Summertime Blues
The Spirit of Radio
Tom Sawyer (with intro by the South Park kids as "Li'l Rush", and Cartman as Geddy Lee!)

Encore:
One Little Victory (the Rio dragon returns! Sets fire to the stage!)
A Passage to Bangkok
YYZ

Outro: Geddy-in-the-kilt returns, says "shite" and craves chicken. Geddy's 'amps' this time were a trio of huge rotisserie cabinets. A chef periodically popped in to check on them and take a couple out. I told Jeff that was in honor of him, being a chef and all that. lol

Jeff was amazed at Neil's drum solo (who wouldn't!). Other then getting a bit miffed at two young whippersnappers standing in front of Jeff, there was nothing but good times had by all. Here is another one of those bands that has an impossible-to-classify demographic. Everyone from grey haired old farts like me to prepubescent youths were in attendance. Who knew that Rush would be such a 'family oriented band'? I was going to smuggle my camera into the show, but it needs new batteries. I should get a new 'stealth' camera anyway.

My best friend was able to score front row tickets and meet the band to boot. Lucky bastid.

Since were had taken Kodi off to be doggie-sat and would not be picking him up till later today, we were able to sleep in. And sleep in we did, till after noon. Yikes. I played Norm Abram with forstner bits and nine-ply birch in the basement and finished up the trailer projects.

It was a great weekend.

Comments

[danlmarmot.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmmmmmm... Bitch is very good. Yum!

[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

I have a couple really comprehensive wine shops near me, and I keep telling myself that I will experiment more and see what is out there. I need to go to more wine tastings as well. This was what happened at the shop, I got a chance to taste a few 'different' (for me, at least) wines and pick up a couple bottles.

You guys take the cake for being oenophiles, in my f-list and in meatspace. lol

[danlmarmot.livejournal.com]

Our suggestion: don't buy anything over $15. There's enough good stuff out there in the $8 to $12 range to get a feel for what you like.

And also try some white varieties too. Great for summer, and many have that heavier mouth feel that reds give you--they're not all sickly sweet! Viognier and Pinot Gris/Griego are good for that.

[jkusters]

Whee! I get to see the boys at the end of July. Very much looking forward to it. I'll have to dig through my collection, since some of those song titles are unfamiliar...

Hope you have a great week, sir!

JOhn.

[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

I hope the setlist and overall show will be about the same for you. It was better than I expected.

Enjoy your week as well!

[bearlover.livejournal.com]

August cannot come soon enough!

[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

Rush to a lot of people are a love or hate band. I've always loved 'em, and have my original vinyl from the mid 70s on up. The music stands on it's own, but lyrically a lot of the songs are very involving and grow on you IMO.

[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

By rights, you should be able to get on stage and jam with the boys. ;)

[bearlover.livejournal.com]

I could do that, but then they would have the security guards take me away.

Rush

[dougoros.livejournal.com]

Somehow seems odd to hear people from the George side of the blessed border raving about Rush. I never realized they were popular in the States...thought they were our little secret....

Re: Rush

[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

I've known about them since the first album, and have gotten every release since. The apparent sellout show I went to leads me to believe they are more popular than ever down here. Which is great, IMO, since people need more bands like Rush that make music with substance.

[kevinesmeier.livejournal.com]

Dirk, Lerxst and Pratt RULE!