Rush.

[Woodinblack]

21 minutes ago, RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE said:

fwiw , the last good experience I had of purchasing tickets , was for the Jean michel jarre oxygene  gig in 2007 at the Royal Albert Hall.  I actually went down there on a Monday morning  around 9am , and there was hardly anyone there ! I got a great pair of tkts very close to the stage .

 

I went to see NiN at scala in (I think) 2013 - the tickets were for the warm up of a tour (which I also saw), they were on line so they went fast but they weren't expensive and you had to use ID to buy them. When you went to the gig you had to show the ID that you had used to book the tickets to pick them up and get in, it worked well, it was a smallish venue and it was a fantastic gig.  I later saw them at the O2, but it was a completely different gig

[Woodinblack]

12 minutes ago, BigRedX said:

But you are far more likely to get the atmosphere and energy at grass roots level that made bands like Rush exciting back in the early 70s, then you are watching some old band on a video screen from a seat at the back of a stadium.

 

Agreed - I think it is the Scala gig that made me realised how I felt about stadiums, especially as there are 6 months between these two:

 

NiN, scala oct 2013

 

NiN, O2 May 2014 (actually pretty close to the stage)

 

The O2 gig was a lot more expensive. I enjoyed both, but in a very different way

 

[prowla]

1 hour ago, RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE said:

 

(I think you embedded your reply into my post.)

Anyway, I've seen them, got the T-shirt.

[Bassassin]

19 minutes ago, prowla said:

(I think you embedded your reply into my post.)

Anyway, I've seen them, got the T-shirt.

 

Hah - still got mine, somewhere...

 

That's an objectively awful design.

[Woodinblack]

All my rush tshirts died a long time ago, even if they still fit me, which they wouldn't!

[RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE]

7 hours ago, Woodinblack said:

 

I went to see NiN at scala in (I think) 2013 - the tickets were for the warm up of a tour (which I also saw), they were on line so they went fast but they weren't expensive and you had to use ID to buy them. When you went to the gig you had to show the ID that you had used to book the tickets to pick them up and get in, it worked well, it was a smallish venue and it was a fantastic gig.  I later saw them at the O2, but it was a completely different gig

was never a Nin fan for some reason. I have the head like a hole cd single . It as around that time as far as I can remember, they played a sold out show at the Astoria.

I used to get on really well with the nice chap at the booking office who told me there were tkts going fast / do I want any ? I declined , and one of my friends said it as a fantastic gig !🤦‍♂️🙂

Edited Friday at 17:54 by RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE

[Bassassin]

4 hours ago, Woodinblack said:

All my rush tshirts died a long time ago, even if they still fit me, which they wouldn't!

 

I never said it still fits me... 

[toneknob]

ok this is getting silly now 

 

[cetera]

Why silly? This is obviously gonna be an expanding tour, with Europe to follow....

[Woodinblack]

48 minutes ago, toneknob said:

ok this is getting silly now 

 

Hardly, they must be up to a few million dollars by now.

[toneknob]

59 minutes ago, cetera said:

Why silly? This is obviously gonna be an expanding tour, with Europe to follow....

 

If I was the dedicated Rush fan in say Detroit, San Antonio or Montreal and had already shelled out my $$$ for a gig in Chicago, Fort Worth or Toronto, I'd probably be using a stronger word than "silly"

[Woodinblack]

5 minutes ago, toneknob said:

If I was the dedicated Rush fan in say Detroit, San Antonio or Montreal and had already shelled out my $$$ for a gig in Chicago, Fort Worth or Toronto, I'd probably be using a stronger word than "silly"

 

Agreed - and it doesn't seem entirely honest to say 'we are doing this last ever tour in only these couple of places, which is why the tickets cost the price of your house' and then 'oh well, there was a demand, we are going to do lots of other places too'.

[cetera]

22 minutes ago, toneknob said:

 

If I was the dedicated Rush fan in say Detroit, San Antonio or Montreal and had already shelled out my $$$ for a gig in Chicago, Fort Worth or Toronto, I'd probably be using a stronger word than "silly"

 

Of course. It depends if you SERIOUSLY believed the 1st shows announced would be the ONLY shows. I didn't.... 

[Misdee]

It's a bit naieve to think that the demand for tickets was entirely unexpected and that these extra shows have been hastily arranged to accomodate that demand. They will have been scheduled at the same time as the other shows, and yes more shows and Europe will inevitably follow. This triumphant return will have been carefully choreographed.

 

And regarding Niel Peart's family giving their wholehearted endorsement, I would be very  surprised if they hadn't been shown proper consideration by Rush and given a cut of the proceeds to acknowledge Niel's part-ownership of the Rush brand. Nothing wrong with that, though.

[Bassassin]

Hark! Is that the echo of the sounds of salesmen?

[prowla]

1 hour ago, Misdee said:

It's a bit naieve to think that the demand for tickets was entirely unexpected and that these extra shows have been hastily arranged to accomodate that demand. They will have been scheduled at the same time as the other shows, and yes more shows and Europe will inevitably follow. This triumphant return will have been carefully choreographed.

 

And regarding Niel Peart's family giving their wholehearted endorsement, I would be very  surprised if they hadn't been shown proper consideration by Rush and given a cut of the proceeds to acknowledge Niel's part-ownership of the Rush brand. Nothing wrong with that, though.

(Neil)

[mep]

I came across this last night on YouTube. What a version!

 

 

[Misdee]

28 minutes ago, prowla said:

(Neil)

Him too.

Edited 8 hours ago by Misdee

[Bassassin]

22 minutes ago, mep said:

I came across this last night on YouTube. What a version!

 

 

 

AI slop, then. 

 

I'm curious but don't feel I want to encourage it.

[mep]

1 hour ago, Bassassin said:

 

AI slop, then. 

 

I'm curious but don't feel I want to encourage it.

AI yes. Slop? You'd have to listen to it and decide rather than make assumptions. I found it quite good. OK, there is a big debate about AI in music, but at least the people behind this are upfront about it. It's a cover, not someone hoodwinking us with a made up band with AI music. Any song can be re-imagined in a different genre, and this is a good way to do it and possibly bring new people to the music of the original artist.

[Stub Mandrel]

4 hours ago, toneknob said:

ok this is getting silly now 

 

 

Silly would be committing to a long tour without being sure of the demand.

[wateroftyne]

57 minutes ago, mep said:

AI yes. Slop? You'd have to listen to it and decide rather than make assumptions. I found it quite good. OK, there is a big debate about AI in music, but at least the people behind this are upfront about it. It's a cover, not someone hoodwinking us with a made up band with AI music. Any song can be re-imagined in a different genre, and this is a good way to do it and possibly bring new people to the music of the original artist.

Some people are easily pleased, I guess.
 

[Bassassin]

59 minutes ago, wateroftyne said:

Some people are easily pleased, I guess.
 

 

Regrettably a lot of people appear to be. You'd think musicians, who you'd expect have devoted a lot of time, effort & dedication to learning & refining their craft, might be skeptical about music 'created' in seconds from a handful of lines of text, whether it's supposedly 'original' or intended as some sort of jokey pisstake.

 

Maybe not being content, even eager to embrace my own obsolescence means I have finally succumbed to old-fartdom. I dunno.

[mep]

I guess I'm just trying to take life less seriously in my old-fartdom.