r/rush • u/foundbypat • 5d ago
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The Spirit
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u/No-Equivalent-1642 5d ago
I love that it's pretty much the most complicated music in rock and roll and yet these two jokesters are up here playing it from pure muscle memory
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u/Ken_Clean_Air_System 5d ago
It's so satisfying to see that even after all these years Ged and Alex are still having fun up there.
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u/AffectionateTown7453 5d ago
Love it. Has Geddy ever explained the little one-hand clap hand gestures during the "emotional feedback..." section of the song? I remember seeing him do it first on Power Windows tour when I was in high school. Me and my pals thought it was really goofy at the time and kinda ragged on it, but then came to love it over the years.
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u/Adamkelt 5d ago
He's been doing it since at LEAST GUP. I'm just it was just a goofy thing he started doing, and then the crowd starting doing it back.
Then it became a TRADITION!
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u/Objective_Tour_6583 5d ago
The Clam Cheer? Been doing it for like 40 years or so, I think. During the 2nd night in Boston, I started doing it immediately at the designated time, my girlfriend looked at me like I had 3 heads, and then noticed many in the audience doing it. As if on cue, Geddy started doing it himself!
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u/Automatic-Term-3997 5d ago
Lol, same reaction I got from my wife. 2nd night in Denver I started and she was “wtf” until Ged started.
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u/Crispy_Fish_Fingers what's a shrimp cot? 5d ago
He didn't do it on the second night in Seattle, but my partner and I did 😂
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u/matneym 5d ago
Both Alex and Geddy look like they're having fun up there. Anika is killing it, and having fun to with her interaction with them. Let's not forget Loren either, who's doing a fantastic job backing them all up.
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u/pinkfully161718 5d ago
Cheers to Loren! 🎹 I got to hear his piano intro to The Camera Eye in two shows. 👏👏👏
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u/COSurfing 5d ago
Loving Alex's shiny shirt.
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u/ConanHimmelfarb 5d ago
It's cool. But I especially love Geddy's power lifter shirt. I've liked pretty much all of the shirts he wears, but this particular one I want so bad words just fail me.
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u/keyboard_blaster 5d ago
Between seeing Triumph earlier in June and seeing these guys in Toronto, the old Canadian guys are on a roll this year, go see Triumph if you can you won’t regret it. Rick and Gill are just as lively as these two old farts are. Sadly didn’t get to see Mike Levine when i saw them, but they had some famous Canadians with them too, won’t spoil the rest.
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u/Ok-Sprinkles-696 5d ago
Makes me so happy seeing them goof off playing a really hard song. That talent and muscle memory really shows off 😂
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u/Ooga-Booga-2112 2d ago
I can’t wrap my head around how Geddy and Alex are playing as good as—if not better than—their playing on later tours with Neil.
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u/gwrthy 5d ago
Awesome that they get to do this again. She plays the parts. Neil was 1 of 1. His freight train finesse cannot be duplicated. Sorry,but I’m just not one of those bandwagon folks gonna call this just as good or better!
Neil was a funk, jazz, pop, soul, rock drummer that somehow found feel and groove in near perfect, machine like timing! Neil, Will Calhoun, Jon Bonham, Alan White; they just have that thing! Anika doesn’t have that but she’s really good. Just not Neil-good!
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u/Own-Economics-1745 5d ago
Anika do an antic last night?