I was lucky enough to catch them live a couple of times, including their Moving Pictures tour. What a band!
There's a line in a Pavement song that goes:
"What about the voice of Geddy Lee? How did it get so high? I wonder if he talks like an ordinary guy?...I know him, and he does!"
I've been to a few Rush shows over the years myself including the Signals tour, a couple weeks after seeing Van Halen on their Diver Down tour and in between those two shows Aerosmith Rock In A Hard Place tour. I had never been to a concert until the Van Halen one and then within three weeks time I saw Van Halen with Roth and Aerosmith on drugs and Rush then I bought myself a guitar
Wow, that must've been a whirlwind to see so many greats in that time-span. If I didn't already have a guitar, I sure would've been checkin' em out!
We didn't know how good we had it!
Yeah, I got to see 'em live but just a couple of times. They were a very polished band, which speaks to their skills. They would come really close to replicating their studio sound while in a live environment and with just three of them.
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