[atlantaprog] Re: Rush Review...?

OK, I obviously had to miss this prime opportunity...and I KNOW that at least a 
few of you were there (Jeff, Sean, Derik, Wade...I could just go on...).
   
  That being said...anybody care to discuss the concert?  I haven't even picked 
up the new Rush platter yet!!! Can you believe that!!!
   
  Anybody want to share the setlist, anything unusual, etc.?
   
  As an aside, another fave band of mine, ASIA (all original members together 
for the first time in 25 years) began their tour the same night as Rush began 
theirs down in Florida.  Anybody catching any of their shows this summer?  
Sadly, they are not coming to Atlanta this time around.   The good news is that 
they have begun work on writing, rehearsing and recording new material for a 
new album!  It may still not be truly "progressive" in nature (usually the 
biggest knock Asia gets from proggers), but if you have listened to the recent 
Wetton/Downes ICON project recordings, you would get SOME idea of how it would 
sound...adding in tasty Steve Howe guitar licks and Carl Palmer drum fills, of 
course!
   
  Incidentally, the day before the first show was John Wetton's 58th birthday.  
He is clean and sober, and has never sounded better, according to those who 
have heard him live recently!  His only real problem is a nagging case of 
carpal tunnel in both his hands/wrists.  He had surgery in the winter on the 
worse of the two and it seemed to help, but healing has been slow.
   
  New Progression Mag is out.  Allan Holdsworth is the cover story.  It is my 
only real prog "fix" right now...at least until I can go see some shows!  For 
now, just being domestic with the wife and kids...!  And working all the time, 
it seems!
   
  Cheers,
   
  Bill

  
Jeff Blanks <jblanks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
  http://lpe.accessatlanta.com/gallery/view/music/concerts/0607/rush/




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