A rushed weekend
Jun. 24th, 2007 11:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greatbearIt 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.
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.
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Date: 2007-06-25 05:54 am (UTC)Hope you have a great week, sir!
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