Rush Concert: 8/26/07

Nick and I went to watch Rush in concert by Indianapolis on Saturday, 8/26/07. It was an outdoor stadium and boy was I glad it rained last week, otherwise we would've been baking. It was basically out in the middle of nowhere, so we decided to drive back to the O'Charley we passed for dinner.

While we were eating at the bar at O'Charley, the couple next to us told a waiter that they were going to the concert. The waiter told us that the lawn seats are basically party areas, with people passing around Jose Cuervo and bad acoustics. This had Nick and me concerned a bit since we thought we had lawn seats and we were not looking forward to being around a bunch of drunks. It turned out that we did have pavilion seats, not the lawn. They were also performing pat down checks at the gate, so we don't see how anyone could sneak that much liquor in. Then again, the waiter was talking about his high school graduation... ^_^;;

It was a good concert. The light show was a bit distracting to me. There were a lot of interesting animations and graphics. Neil Peart was amazing. Geddy Lee's voice was not as annoying in concert; probably lower than it used to be. They played many songs from the new album "Snakes and Arrows," which was ok.

On the trip back, Nick decided to play all of the songs I had on my iPod that were NOT played at the concert. It lasted the whole 2 and a half hour drive back to UIUC. O_O And it was like, "Wait, what's this song? They didn't play it?" I guess with 19 studio albums Rush had a lot of songs to choose from. :-)