Rush going on tour next year

[bwana39]

Yeah, I'm expecting these tickets to be well out of my price range. I signed up for the presale for the four Chicago dates anyway, just in case.

I've only seen Rush once, in 2015 in Kansas City. Probably the best concert I've attended. Had tickets to a show in St. Louis a few years before that, but something else came up at the last minute and I wasn't able to attend.

I still proudly wear my Rush Tour 2015 t-shirt. (Actually it's my second such shirt; completely wore out the one I bought at the concert, so I bought a replacement on eBay a few years ago. It's now starting to fray as well.) Had an interesting experience while wearing it on my annual road trip this past May--was checking out of the Sleep Inn in Cross Lanes, WV when someone stopped to compliment me on my shirt. He told me that Rush was one of his favorite bands and that he particularly liked the one-armed drummer. I didn't bother correcting him. 

In FT Worth, the best ticket price I saw today was $175 for some singles.  $364 was the lowest for anything together and on the Sunday night show they lowest price was $738 per.

Oh and my cue position was 31K for the Wednesday show and 15k for the Sunday show.

[ModernDayWarrior]

I'll take this as a sign that hotdogPi actually knows who Rush are.

I was tempted to ping ModernDayWarrior if he wasn't already here ("might want to take a mean mean stride over to this thread").

Wasn't there another user who had a "US 2112" shield as their avatar several years ago?

Yes, there was. I believe his username was Rush-themed also.

I've been asked more than once to name another band that sounds like Rush and have never come up with a good answer. (A number of people have suggested Aerosmith, but I just don't hear much similarity there.) One of the things I love about Rush is that they don't sound like anyone else; it's trivially easy to identify a Rush song on the radio once you've listened to them for a while, even if you aren't familiar with the song in question.

To me, the two definitive Rush albums are Permanent Waves and Moving Pictures, the latter being my personal favorite. For anyone still interested in checking them out, I'd start with those two, and then move either forwards or backwards through the rest of their discography from there.