RushCon 2012!!! AND Some Concert Related Stories!

[BlueWag66n]

This event is SO cool....

Anyone ever been to one...?

One can ACTUALLY play Neil Peart's 1st drum kit used on the his 1st U.S. tour with Rush. The kit was used for the 2112 Tour. $10 gets you a pic at the kit,...$20 gets you a pic 'playing' the kit!

ANYONE know anything about this cover band Lotus Land....? Buddy looks oddly enough like Geddy!

LINK: http://www.rushcon.org/events.html

I'm sure if my memory serves me right, that was the kit he used for the concert we attended at Kitchener Aud. It's the tic beside the Nazareth tic,....which ALSO was a killer concert! Anyone ever hear of Savoy Brown....? lol......SB was HEAVY s&?t back then.

I'm glad he replaced the original drummer. I don't think Rush would have gone as far as they did without him....He's half the band! I guess you could say..... 'Three of a Perfect Pair'. Kudos to the person who knows what THAT reference is to, as my favorite drummer (Bruford..... Collins too...it's a toss up) plays occassionally for THAT band (not Rush).

Met him at a Crimson concert at Massey Hall in TO. THAT was the pinnacle event of my ENTIRE life!

Seen Rush 4 or 5 times since they first appeared. I was 15 or 16 (1975) when as a fledgling farty-assed bar-band they played a dance at my high school with Rutsey on drums!

Concert I MOST would liked to have attended EVER.........GENESIS at Knebworth England w/guest drummer: BILL BRUFORD for the Seconds Out tour..........KILLER!!!

***Funny Story: Genesis played a 2 nighter at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto summer of 1980 for the Duke tour. I grabbed my sweetie of the day and we headed down. Had time to kill in the afternoon, so I said "Let's sneak into the arena and see what's up. Maybe we can covertly watch the sound check,...OR...if nobody was around,....sneak up on the stage and play both Phil's and Chester Thompson's drum kits"... at risk of being arrested! Woulda been a dream come true!!! Playing the drum kits that is....not the getting arrested thing!

That would have been about the closest I could have EVER dreamed of getting near or meeting Phil!We didn't get ANY further than an entrance to the back stage area before some hairy bearded dude stopped us and asked what we were doing there....... I played dumb and said we were lost lol... Turned out to be Phil's drum tuner....:O He said we had to leave NOW!!! I struck up a friendly with him, and wound up with a pair of Phil's timbale sticks and a broken baseball bat size 'CLUB' that Chester broke the night previous....lol....

Oh well....never got what I came for...BUT,...never got arrested either. Believe it or not,.......Chester is actually one of the drummers that PHIL idolizes...

Anyhow...Saved almost ALL of my stubbs since...

...some notable concerts:

Jethro Tull and U.K.

King Crimson

Floyd.......so good we went back a 2nd night of a 3 nighter in TO.

GENESIS

Boston,...opener: Rick Derringer Rock and Roll Hootchie Koo

Toledo Speedway Jam,....BOC, Molly Hatchet,...don't remember the rest...we were all so hammered on that yankee beer (water) after we knocked off all the couple of 24s of the Molson Canadian we brought with us and others.

Let's hear YOUR stories of concerts YOU would have liked to have seen but missed,....and/or YOUR brushes with musical fame!

Halloween Bash tic: Big party we had in our house in Edmonton in 1981. About 250 bought tics and showed up...CRAZY

Never even got shut down by the police,...even considering on the tic was printed BYOB & D!!!

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