So Much To Post

I have a few things I want to post about today, but will try to keep things simple. I will get into this past weekend of football later in the week.

Last night, Jessica and I went to see Rush, my all time favorite band. It was great! I was a little concerned with getting there on time since Jessica had to work and then I-71 was backed up pretty badly, but we got there in time for me to use the little boys' room and get to our seats. We had pretty good seats, but were farther back than I would have liked. We were in section F, row EE, which was center stage at least. I could see the guys really well and had a full view of the stage, so I was happy. Here is what they played:

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

INTERMISSION

Far Cry
Workin Them Angels
Armor and Sword
Spindrift
The Way The Wind Blows
Subdivisions
Natural Science
Witch Hunt
MalNar
Drum Solo
Hope
Summertime Blues
The Spirit of Radio
Tom Sawyer

ENCORE

One Little Victory
A Passage to Bangkok
YYZ

I enjoyed all of it except for the cover song, Summertime Blues. I think that a group with such a huge library of great songs shouldn't play covers, even if it is one of their favorite songs. they could have slipped in 2112 Overature in its place and I would have been WAY happier. They also played a few of their "B side" songs, like Digital Man and Witch Hunt. I also thought the encore could have been stronger than One Little Victory and A Passage to Bangkok. YYZ was great though. I was suprised that they skipped Closer to the Heart and Working Man, which are always crowd favorites. Still, they hit Spirit of Radio, Tom Sawyer, and played most of the songs off of the new album. I tried to call Rinnert during the drum solo, he answered, but I don't think that he could understand anything I said over the sound. He hung up. My guess is that the live concer doesn't translate well over the phone. Still I hope I made him jealous. The solo was GREAT by the way. Over five minutes easy. My highpoints were when they played Natural Science (my favorite song by Rush), Dreamline (which had a spectacular laser show to the music), and Far Cry (which had pyrotechnics). I hooted and hollared almost the entire show. I think I may be getting old since this mellow, new sound of Snakes and Arrows is growing on me. I listen to the album more than anything else on my Ipod at the moment.

The boys are showing that they are still having fun with an intro of animated snakes and arrows. Alex Lifeson wakes up acting scared and says, "Wake up honey. I just had the strangest dream... there were snakes everywhere, and arrows." Neil Peart gets up next to Alex, they look at each other and scream. Then, Geddy Lee is dreaming of a Scottish man, played by Geddy Lee, yelling and belittling him (Geddy). It was funny. Then, the South Park boys are dressed up as "Lil' Rush" (Cartmen was Geddy) and start playing Tom Sawyer. Cartman sings the lyrics something lite, "The real Tom Saywer built a boat and went down the river with a black guy..." Stan tells him to, "Shut up fat ass, thise aren't the right words. That's huck Finn you dumb ass. Let's try it again, but do it right this time. One, Two, three...." and, of course real Rush kicks into tom Sawyer. It was pretty funny. Holy cow what a great show!