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Recording Gear: CoreSound HEB(DPA4061s) > olympus LS-10 Digital Recorder: 24bit/96kHz
Transfer: SoundForge 10 (Resampled to 44.1)>CD Architect > FLAC Front End->MP3
Notes: Great, energetic show from the opening night of their two night stand in Chicago.
Lots of chatty drunks that can be heard during parts of the show along with wind noise that is very prevelant during the 1st 30 minutes; the wind is not very noticeable for the last 2+ hours of the show. We left during the closing film to avoid traffic as Charter One is notorious for long delays entering and exiting along with a sizeable walk from the parking area to the venue. Not the greatest location for a ampitheater, but then Chicago rarely shows forward-thinking when they are building anything.
Bonus Track: Announcement of show cancellation and rescheduling from 2010-07-07 due to weather.
The weather was iffy for both shows but somehow the storms missed us Monday, Wednesday we were not so lucky.
Chicago Sun-Times Article from the show:
Power trio Rush has sense of humor, after all
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July 6, 2010
BY JEFF ELBEL
Rush bassist and singer Geddy Lee stepped onstage Monday night at the Charter One Pavilion sporting a concert jersey emblazoned with the word “rash,” styled like the band’s original logo. “We like to refer to this as the Stupidest Show on Earth, so we hope there’s something in it for everybody,” he wisecracked.
Rush has been consistently lambasted as pretentious and aloof by the press, and perhaps feted with overeager zealotry by devotees. But the Canadian power trio crammed Monday’s two-and-a-half-hour set in Chicago with enough goofball humor to clarify that Rush may work hard on their chops but they don’t take themselves very seriously. Muscular instrumental “La Villa Strangiato” was introduced as a carnival polka. During hard-rock staple “Tom Sawyer,” video screens depicted chimpanzee doppelgangers playing instruments and miming the song.
Rush at Northerly Island
RUSH
RECOMMENDED
7:30 p.m. Wednesday
Charter One Pavilion, 1300 S. Lynn White Dr.
Tickets: $49.50-$134.50
(877) 598-8703 or livenation.com
Though Rush has long had a polarizing influence among rock fans, its seminal “Moving Pictures” is an anomaly — an album even casual fans can embrace. The album turned 30 years old in February, and on this tour Rush embraced the “play your classic album” trend by performing “Moving Pictures” in full. Rarely played material such as “The Camera Eye” sparked, but overall the band seemed to be running an obstacle course rather than celebrating its milestone. “Man, that felt like a whole album,” said Geddy Lee with mock relief as the final note of “Vital Signs” faded.
Truth be known, Rush is most compelling when making a case for continued relevance. On their last Chicago visit, the band performed eight fresh songs from “Snakes and Arrows” to enthusiastic response. Monday’s set featured a pair of songs from the forthcoming “Clockwork Angels.” “Caravan” hinged upon a doom-laden minor chord riff. As the song transitioned to a sparkling chorus, Lee sang, “In a world where I feel so small, I can’t stop thinking big.” A lengthy instrumental passage featured Lee’s thundering, John Entwistle-styled bass lines, while Alex Lifeson uncorked mean guitar licks reminiscent of luminaries Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck.
Another new tune, “BU2B,” featured revered drummer Neil Peart’s introspective and presumably autobiographical lyrics. Sandwiched between the similarly themed “Faithless” and “Freewill,” the song described Peart’s ultimate rejection of the concept of a higher power. Accompanied by a sledgehammer riff, “BU2B” uncharitably compared the faithful to a “blind man in the market, buying what we’re sold,” and marked the show’s most humorless extreme.
Known to embrace cutting-edge technology, Rush’s stage has gone Victorian. The spaces behind Lifeson and Lee typically occupied by conventional amplifiers were instead decorated with oversized steampunk artifacts. Peart’s enormous, wrap-around drum kit was designed to match, outfitted with brass-colored hardware and festooned with gears, wheels and runes. Lee’s rig stood atop a platform which lit signs indicating “Real Time,” “Half Time, “Bass Time,” or “Sausage Time.” Upon the latter, the unit cranked out strings of actual pork sausage. One hopes that Rush’s crew finds it amusing to have the same thing for dinner every night.
Jeff Elbel is a local freelance writer.
Rush's Monday night set list
“The Spirit of Radio”
“Time Stand Still”
“Presto”
“Stick it Out”
“Workin’ Them Angels”
“Leave That Thing Alone”
“Faithless”
“BU2B”
“Free Will”
“Marathon”
“Subdivisions”
“Tom Sawyer”
“Red Barchetta”
“YYZ”
“Limelight”
“Camera Eye”
“Witch Hunt”
“Vital Signs”
“Caravan”
“Love 4 Sale” (drum solo)
“Closer to the Heart”
“2112 Overture” / “Temples of Syrinx”
“Far Cry”
Encore:
“La Villa Strangiato”
“Working Man”
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Rush - 2010-07-05 - Well At Least It Didn't Rain.md5
