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Originally Posted by Amail (Post 8876638)

Did get to the Rush concert on Jul 31- SOOOO glad I did! My first Rush concert, and looks likely to be the last as well. I sure missed out over the years!

Super happy for you, Amail! They are incredible, aren't they! I have seen Rush 16 times over the years. I would venture to say that their next tour might be their last... or hopefully not. The tours are literally killing Peart, who is now 63 years old.

In a Rolling Stone interview Geddy Lee talks about Rush's upcoming R40 tour and beyond -

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R40 is a celebration of Rush's 40th anniversary with Peart, but Lee doesn't expect them to still be touring when the 50th anniversary rolls around in 2024. "If I were a betting man, I wouldn't bet on it," says Lee. "When I see how hard it is to get everyone to agree to go out for our 40th, it's hard to imagine us having the same conversation in 10 years."

Part of the problem is the sheer physical toll that drumming throughout a three-hour shows takes on Peart, who turned 62 two months ago. "The way he plays is brutal and painful," says Lee. "Basically, he's in pain from the beginning of rehearsal until the end of the tour. And that's really not an exaggeration. So there's only so many miles a drummer like that has in him, and so it's hard to think ahead to the 50th."

Read more: Geddy Lee: Rush Undecided on 2015 Tour | Rolling Stone

All that I can say is, see them as much as you can before the lights go out.

I'd love to see Gilmore in a smaller venue....just not into large stadium/arena shows. Over the thousands of shows I've seen, it's the unknown surprises that I still recall most....

Derek Trucks first public gig sitting in with a great local blues band when he was only 9 years old...and had been playing a few months...only a few dozen there, but knew we'd witnessed something special.

Derek with some other "kid" a couple of years later in a big outdoor gig....13 yr old Llightnin' Joe Bonamassa channeling SRV.

Remember seeing the Ben Fold's Five (3 piece w/ Ben on baby grand, stand up bass, drums) play their first gig at the local corner college bar...it freakin' rocked. I told his mom that her son was a musical genius at work the next day

Most of the magical moments have been by folks you've never heard of, in small venues, with maybe a few hundred or couple of thousand, or maybe just a dozen or less....but it's still magic when it happens...

have to keep radar on for T Emmanuel now....;)

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Originally Posted by nostatic (Post 8876899)

Glad you liked it. Guys like him come along once or maybe twice in a lifetime. Not a bit of pretension in him.

Exactly right. He spend a half hour walking the audience through a Chet Atkins song, how he and his brother learned to play. It was a joy and a delight.

My wife the musician was speechless. Hard to do:cool:

Saw Midnight Oil at the Hard Rock cafe in Orlando when Peter Garrett was still with them.

One of the best concerts I've ever attended!

Springsteen at the old Spectrum the night after Lennon's assassination...

Clapton, "From the Cradle" tour

Hoyt Axton. live.
performing (after daily camera wrap) on the set of "We're no Angels" in the monastery set, which was built out onto the river above Stave Lake Falls.

EDM really doesn't send me, but I'm old. And a musician who plays real instruments as opposed to hitting the space bar :D

I saw Marshall Crenshaw play with The Bottle Rockets last year at a small venue in L.A. Must have been 50 people tops who attended in a venue that held 250, maybe it wasn't advertised well. The cool thing was you could just walk up and talk to Marshall and the band.

But the very cool thing was that of the 50 in attendance, 2 of them were Mark Knopfler and Colin Hay (Men At Work).

Muddy Waters in the mid-70s at the Colonial Tavern in Toronto with only 30 people in the bar. Billy Joel, in his early Pianoman tour at Massey Hall. Paul in the '76 Wings Tour. Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte at the Vienna Opera House - 3rd row orchestra. All bucket list worthy.

Ian

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Originally Posted by nostatic (Post 8877433)

EDM really doesn't send me, but I'm old. And a musician who plays real instruments as opposed to hitting the space bar :D

I understand. But, for the money, I think I could play a pretty mean space bar. :)