RUSH on tour!

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RUSH tour dates

06/29 - Albuquerque, NM - Hard Rock Casino Albuquerque
07/01 - Kansas City, MO - Starlight Theatre
07/02 - Milwaukee, WI - Summerfest
07/05 - Chicago, IL - Charter One Pavilion
07/09 - Sarnia, Ontario - Bayfest
07/13 - Toronto, Ontario - Molson Canadian Amphitheatre
07/15 - Quebec City, Quebec - Festival d'ete de Quebec
07/17 - Toronto, Ontario - Air Canada Centre
07/19 - Uncasville, CT - Mohegan Sun
07/21 - Camden, NJ - Susquehanna Bank Center
07/23 - Saratoga Springs, NY - Saratoga Performing Arts Center
07/24 - Wantagh, NY - Nikon at Jones Beach
08/05 - Salt Lake City, UT - USANA Amphitheatre
08/07 - Seattle, WA - White River Amphitheatre
08/09 - San Francisco, CA - Shoreline Amphitheatre
08/11 - Inglewood, CA - The Forum
08/13 - Irvine, CA - Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
08/14 - Las Vegas, NV - MGM Grand Garden Arena
08/16 - Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre
08/20 - Wichita, KS - INTRUST Bank Arena
08/22 - St. Louis, MO - Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
08/25 - Omaha, NE - Qwest Center
08/27 - St. Paul, MN - Minnesota State Fair
08/29 - Columbus, OH - Nationwide Arena
08/31 - Allentown, PA - Allentown Fair
09/02 - Syracuse, NY - New York State Fair
09/03 - Holmdel, NJ - PNC Bank Arts Center
09/14 - Boston, MA - TD Garden
09/16 - Pittsburgh, PA - Consol Energy Center
09/18 - Washington, DC - Jiffy Lube Live Amphitheater
09/21 - Tulsa, OK - BOK Center
09/23 - San Antonio, TX - AT&T Center
09/25 - The Woodlands, TX - Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
09/26 - Dallas, TX - Superpages.com Center
09/29 - Atlanta, GA - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre @ Encore Park
10/01 - Tampa, FL - Ford Amphitheatre
10/02 - West Palm Beach, FL - Cruzan Amphitheatre

 

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Not Rush as in "Limbaugh" I hope.

 

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Rush Limbaugh? HAHA! That's a good one!

But seriously Piper, there's only one RUSH!

 

[DepravedMuscleFTL]

wow - ZERO Rush fans here - how pitiful

well I dont think I could bare to have seen them - I saw Rush 8 times - from the Fly By Night tour through the Moving Pictures tour - I think 2112 is probably thee greatest album made of all time - but honestly they lost me at signals - I havent kept track of them for over a decade now...

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQEgZNqa8jE[/ame]

 

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ZERO? Slow down a sec DeMuscle, there's me and you and that makes two...hehe

2112 is certainly their masterpiece, The Temples Of Syrinx is unparalleled bloody brilliance! I also love their follow up LP, A farewell to Kings -- Cinderella Man, Xanadu, Cygnus X1, all have such a classical feel to them; it elevates the entire album to an artistic level akin to Queen's A Night At The Opera and Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here.
Geddy Lee is a musical genius, and a lot of his synthesizer experimentation phase is what was coming out in the albums from Signals onward, and those albums all had rough gems if one looked for them, yet in recent years they've gone back to their heavy Guitar oriented roots.

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. The more that things change, the more they stay the same.
RUSH!
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZOgc8CgWUU"]All the same -- we take our chances[/ame]

we've taken care of everything
the words you hear, the songs you sing
the pictures that give pleasure to your eye

It's all for one and one for all
we work together, common sons
you never need to wonder how or why

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGROp5a2sUg"]those damned socialists![/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abL2_LXrXjo&feature=related"]a gem From Signals[/ame]

 

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Witch Hunt (Part III of Fear)
Music: Geddy Lee & Alex Lifeson
Lyrics: Neil Peart

The night is black without a moon
The air is thick and still
The vigilantes gather on
The lonely, torchlit hill

Features distorted, in the flickering light
Faces are twisted and grotesque
Silent and stern in the sweltering night
Mob moves like demons possessed

Quiet in conscience, calm in their right
Confident their ways are best

The righteous rise with burning eyes
Of hatred and ill-will

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj_wwybdfNE"]a most wicked witch hunt[/ame]


Madmen fed on fear and lies
To beat and burn and kill

They say there are strangers who threaten us
Our immigrants and infidels
They say there is strangeness too dangerous
In our theaters and bookstore shelves

Those who know what's best for us
Must rise and save us from ourselves

Quick to judge
Quick to anger
Slow to understand
Ignorance and prejudice
And fear walk hand in hand

 

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The Weapon (Part II of Fear)
From the album Signals [1982]
G Lee; A Lifeson; N Peart


We've got nothing to fear, but fear itself?
Not pain, not failure, not fatal tragedy?
Not the faulty units in this mad machinery?
Not the broken contacts in emotional chemistry?

With an iron fist in a velvet glove
We are sheltered under the gun
In the glory game on the power train
Thy kingdom's will be done

And the things that we fear are a weapon to be held against us...

He's not afraid of your judgment
He knows of horrors far worse than your Hell
He's a little bit afraid of dying
But he's a lot more afraid of your lying

And the things that he fears are a weapon to be held against him...

Can any part of life be larger than life?
Even love must be limited by time
And those who push us down that they might climb
Is any killer worth more than his crime?

Like a steely blade in a silken sheath
We don't see what they're made of
They shout about love, but when push comes to shove
They live for the things they're afraid of

And the knowledge that they fear is a weapon to be used against them...

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHlLk5m0S4o"]not afraid of your judgment He knows of horrors worse than your Hell[/ame]

 

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The Enemy Within (Part I of Fear)
From the album Grace Under Pressure [1984]
G Lee; A Lifeson; N Peart


Things crawl in the darkness
That imagination spins
Needles at your nerve ends
Crawl like spiders on your skin

Pow pow pow pounding in your temples
And a surge of adrenaline
Every muscle tense to fence the enemy within

I'm not giving in to security under pressure
I'm not missing out on the promise of adventure
I'm not giving up on implausible dreams
Experience to extremes

Suspicious looking stranger
Flashes you a dangerous grin
Shadows across your window
Was it only trees in the wind?

Every breath a static charge
A tongue that tastes like tin
Steely-eyed outside to hide the enemy within


To you -- is it movement or is it action?
Is it contact or just reaction?
And you...revolution or just resistance?
Is it living, or just existence?

Yeah, you! It takes a little more persistence
To get up and go the distance

I'm not giving in
I'm not missing out
I'm not giving up on implausible dreams
Experience to extremes

I'm not giving in to security under pressure
I'm not missing out on the promise of adventure
I'm not giving up on implausible dreams
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6-ViPrEeFk"]Experience two extremes[/ame]

Then after an eighteen year hiatus they developed a forth installment in the Fear saga...perhaps from the ravages of time?

Freeze (Part IV of Fear)
From the album Vapor Trails [2002]
G Lee; A Lifeson; N Peart


The city crouches, steaming
In the early morning half light
The sun is still a rumor
And the night is still a threat
Slipping through the dark streets
And the echoes and the shadows
Something stirs behind me
And my palms begin to sweat

Sometimes I freeze...until the light comes
Sometimes I fly...into the night
Sometimes I fight...against the darkness
Sometimes I'm wrong...sometimes I'm right

Coiled for the spring
Or caught like a creature in the headlights
Into a desperate panic
Or a tempest of blind fury
Like a cornered beast
Or a conquering hero

The menace threatens, closing
And I'm frozen in the shadows
I'm not prepared to run away
And I'm not prepared to fight

I can't stand to reason
Or surrender to a reflex
I will trust my instincts
Or surrender to my fright


Blood running cold
Mind going down into a dark night
Of a desperate panic
Or a tempest of blind fury
Like a cornered beast
Or a conquering hero

Sometimes I freeze
Sometimes I fight
Sometimes I fly
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYVbekOQCYs"]Sometimes I bite[/ame]

 

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The "Fear Suite" is a set of four songs by Rush.
The series consists of Part I: "The Enemy Within" (from 1984's Grace Under Pressure), Part II: "The Weapon" (from 1982's Signals), Part III: "Witch Hunt" (from 1981's Moving Pictures) and Part IV: "Freeze" (from 2002's Vapor Trails).
Parts I, II, and III were released in reverse order, while Part IV was released a little more than 18 years after Part I.
The songs do not follow a set storyline. Instead, they deal with topics relating to the emotion of "fear".

In a 1994 interview, Neil Peart described what inspired the original "Fear" trilogy:

"The idea for the trilogy was suggested by an older man telling that he didn't think life was ruled by love, or reason, or money, or the pursuit of happiness -- but by fear. This smart-but-cynical guy's position was that most people's actions are motivated by fear of being hungry, fear of being hurt, fear of being alone, fear of being robbed, etc., and that people don't make choices based on hope that something good will happen, but in fear that something bad will happen. I reacted to this the way all of us tend to react to generalities: "Well, I'm not like that!" But then I started thinking about it more, watching the way people around me behaved, and I soon realized that there was something to this viewpoint, So I sketched out the three "theaters of fear," as I saw them: how fear works inside us ("The Enemy Within"), how fear is used against us ("The Weapon"), and how fear feeds the mob mentality ("Witch Hunt").
As it happened, the last theme was easiest to deal with, so it was written first, and consequently appeared first on record, and the other two followed in reverse order for the same reason."

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Part One: The Enemy Within

"The Enemy Within" describes phobias and other situations that scare people.


Part Two: The Weapon

"The Weapon" explains how everything that people fear can be used against them.


Part Three: Witch Hunt

The concept of "Witch Hunt" is how manipulators can use fear to "possess" the "ignorant" masses to their liking, much like the naive and troubled townspeople during the Salem Witch Trials.


Part Four: Freeze

"Freeze" explores the fine line between running away and/or standing up to encounter one's fear, otherwise known as the fight-or-flight response.