On Saturday night I went to see Rush with my bro Steven, my cuz Dale, and Steven's friend Dazza (or Darren) and it really was a fun night.
To be honest my attention to the Rush gig did somewhat wonder due to a certain match in progress, which I have went into too much detail about already! But I definitely did get into some of their songs. Rush played a fine set but not one of their best at the same time, in the first half of the show they played too much of the newer stuff, some of which wasn't as good as their old classic tracks. However in the second half they did play more of their old school Rush tracks, not to mention the whole of the Moving Pictures album, so it was great to hear the classics such as "Tom Sawyer" and "Red Barchetta", and of course "YYZ" as well as "Vital signs" which is very Police-esque sounding.
Some of the other standout tracks on the night for me were "Far Cry" great song, replete with big firecrackers going off, the instrumental track "Leave that thing alone" which is one of my favourite instrumentals of theirs as well as "La villa strangiato" which is one of their most complex tracks. "Subdivisions" was a real good one, and of course we couldn't go without some "2112" which is of course just legendary Rush. Unfortunately though they still don't play the the second half of the first side of the album, just the Overture and Temples of Syrinx, I guess Geddy's voice just doesn't reach those high notes anymore like it used to!
But they did omit some of their best tracks though such as "Cygnus X-1" which they played a tiny 5 second snippet from before they went off stage! "Natural Science", "Digital Man", "Analog Kid", "Between the wheels", "Dreamline" the list could go on. They have of course a massive repetoire of songs and they can only play so many in three hours, and yes I have heard some of these at their previous gigs, but it would be nice to hear them again.
Another couple of gripes about the gig were that well first of all the tickets were rather extortionate at £60 each, yes you do get three high quality hours of Rush time, and yep the comic videos they play on the massive backscreen projectors are somewhat amusing, but I still think its a bit on the dear side. Not to mention the amount of money they must make off merchandising, as my brother Steven spent an amount I won't utter here on merchandise alone!
The other gripe was about the sound, again the sound at the SECC isn't the best, and whoever took care of the sound did a poor job that night, as straight from the get go, things did sound muffled, the songs lacked clarity. Mind you there are far worse venues in Glasgow for sound, one of which was and probably still is the O2 Academy, which had the most dreadful bass acoustics you will hear in one hall! Some venues are on the other hand not too bad such as the ABC which generally has quite a decent sound, and the Clyde Auditorium which has a terrific sound, but the last gig I saw in there was Tori Amos and that was over 13 years ago, so things might have changed.
But regardless of any of my gripes aside and lapses in concentration on the gig, it was a great fun night and it was good to see Rush return to the UK after a near four year absence. I think Rush are recording a new album soon, so I'll imagine another tour will be not far around the corner.
So that's it fer now. Time fer bedddd....
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