Comments on: No Rush

By: Mark Morrissette

Mark Morrissette — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:25:00 +0000

I have been a fan of Rush since I was in junior high school and I’m still a fan today at 48 years old.

By: Andrea Crossan

Andrea Crossan — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 15:33:00 +0000

Dee, thanks for your comment. i hope you heard the show yesterday when I quoted you!

By: Andrea Crossan

Andrea Crossan — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 15:32:00 +0000

Lisa, you are a good daughter for accompanying your mom — thanks for sharing your story!

By: William Burton

William Burton — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 01:52:00 +0000

The first concert I went to was The Monkees. One of my friends who also went tried for years to tell me that we had seen a very special opening band that night. I always told him he was crazy. A couple years ago when my friend suffered a fatal heart attack, I thought of what he had said about that night and did a little research. Sure enough, when The Monkees played in Greensboro, NC in July, 1967, the very first rock and roll band I ever saw was Jimi Hendrix!

By: highhouset

highhouset — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 01:49:00 +0000

If I’d ever gone to a REM concert I’d definitly not tell anyone I know, period. I’ve been to more Rush concerts then any other band, dating back to the late 1970′s. I.M.O. they are one of the most talented and enduring bands in R&R history! By the way, my first concert… Cheech and Chong @ the Gannon auditorium in Erie, Pa.!

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 01:22:00 +0000

First concert? Rush’s Presto tour in 1990. No shame. I have cherished my 14-year old’s wonder at that music. Their new tour is better. The string section is a great addition and at nearly 60 years old, they are still making worthy new music.

By: disqus_oR3Y7Oa1SG

disqus_oR3Y7Oa1SG — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 19:57:00 +0000

Rush rock! Seen them twice but not my first: that was Squeeze…..opening for, the Tubes! go figure.

By: Adrian Cho

Adrian Cho — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 19:46:00 +0000

I have to say, as time goes by REM’s music is aging terribly. I hear it now, usually in the grocery store, and I have to wonder, why did I think this was interesting. Anything past Document is just insipid. So Rush is cringe-worthy (but not as much so as Yes, which I used to love, truth be told) but REM is just grating. If I were you, I would pretty much never admit to having been an REM fan.

By: Bob Wojcik

Bob Wojcik — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 01:18:00 +0000

I’d love to see Rush. First real concert was Cream aloooong time ago. Still have their first vinyl album. Great show in Stevens Point Wisconsin.

By: Mimi Varela

Mimi Varela — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 00:45:00 +0000

Yes my first concert was almost REM. Except the last letter was O. Add Speedwagon. rEO Speedwagon at the CNE. No station wagon though. Arrgh.

By: Peter Runrig

Peter Runrig — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 22:09:00 +0000

Snap! Rush was also my first concert which I saw in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1981 – also to support the Moving Pictures tour. The awesome setlist is available here – http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/rush/1981/royal-highland-exhibition-centre-edinburgh-scotland-23d0b4fb.html. Did you get the same songs? I still have the concert program! No-one that I knew in my high school was in to Rush, so one of the 2 tickets I bought went to waste and I ended up going alone :-( BTW, Scottish audiences were so awesome that they used Glasgow in their Exit Stage Left live album recorded in 1980.

By: Greggory Wood

Greggory Wood — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 21:48:00 +0000

Pretense versus paragon progressive rock? Your confession is safe with me!

By: Craig Kopp

Craig Kopp — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 20:04:00 +0000

Rush is a very high level first concert! Mine was Ted Nugent and the Amboy Dukes back when he was a revolutionary instead of a reactionary. The opening act — the James Gang featuring Joe Walsh. All on the cardboard covered hockey ice at
the Toledo Sports Arena.

By: Peter Thomson

Peter Thomson — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 19:48:00 +0000

Who knew that such a terrible dark secret was held just across the room from this very desk? I shudder to think of the therapy bills, much less the lengths you must now be going to make yourself right with the world. My own “first experience” was only slightly less humiliating–James Taylor, Boston Garden, 1970. With my mom. But at least I’ve always confessed this to anyone who’d listen, haven’t been living a lie all these years. At least I can live with myself.

By: joyhackel

joyhackel — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 19:48:00 +0000

REM actually was my first. I remember because security gave me such a hard time at the gate about the brownies I wanted to bring in. Unadulterated brownies, mind you. In those days, teenage girls from Little Chute, Wisconsin who traveled to concerts in big cities like Oshkosh brought along shoe boxes of homemade bakery. A more innocent time ….