Make-A-Wish Foundation

When it rains it pours…the good times kept rolling today. At around 4pm today I got a call from Mark wondering if I wanted to go see Rush. I knew they were coming, but with tickets starting at $65 I had planned to sit this one out. These tickets were better than anything I could afford, center stage, row W. I’d never been that close at Smirnoff before. A week ago I had spent a day listening to my Rush mp3s rating them in iTunes. The music had sort of lost the magic, and I found myself giving most things a 2 out of 5.

Seeing them live has rejuvanated my enjoyment of them. They didn’t play but one or two keyboard songs. This was a guitar/drum event. I was totally surprised when they played “The Pass” off Presto, and even more surprised by how much I enjoyed it. Highlights were the Professor’s drum solo, Natural Science, Spirit of Radio, La Villa Strangiato (complete with a bizarre, and funny sort of spoken word performance by Alex during the song) and Working Man. They even managed to get me to enjoy Resist with a new acoustic version of it.