Top 3
1. Moving Picture (best album ever created)
The diversity of styles from this album is amazing. Love everything about the album from beginning to end.
2. Permanent Waves
3. Signals
Saw them on the Signal Tour back in High School. I had 2nd row the first night and 5 row right of center second night. That was the best concert PERIOD! Seeing them in Florida made Countdown extra special live.
Fun Fact about the two night show in Florida I saw. Rush was suppose to perform 1 show, but because of the situation explained below, they added an additional night for Florida fans.
On November 28, 1981, fans waiting to attend a Rush concert began throwing rocks and bottles at Pembroke Pines police officers and Sportatorium guards when the gates did not open on time due to the late arrival of Rush’s drummer, Neil Peart. Neil had been sailing on his sailboat in the British Virgin Islands during a 10-day break and missed his original flight in due to weather and other unforeseen issues. Having to take a later flight that would’ve got him there in time, he sent a telegram to the venue explaining this. However, the telegram never made it, and workers for the band couldn’t verify that he was on the plane (or as Neil put it in his book, Roadshow: Landscape with Drums, "In those pre-Homeland Security days, the airline I was flying on wouldn’t release its passenger manifest."). When the doors were finally opened, gate crashers scaled the 11-foot (3.4 m) wall surrounding the facility and started running toward the gates. Police sprayed tear gas on the intruders, resulting in additional rock throwing and fighting. Twenty-two people including 11 police officers were injured and two fans were arrested.] As a result of this incident, a Sportatorium task force was created to handle the rowdyism and related problems.
1. Moving Picture (best album ever created)
The diversity of styles from this album is amazing. Love everything about the album from beginning to end.
2. Permanent Waves
3. Signals
Saw them on the Signal Tour back in High School. I had 2nd row the first night and 5 row right of center second night. That was the best concert PERIOD! Seeing them in Florida made Countdown extra special live.
Fun Fact about the two night show in Florida I saw. Rush was suppose to perform 1 show, but because of the situation explained below, they added an additional night for Florida fans.
On November 28, 1981, fans waiting to attend a Rush concert began throwing rocks and bottles at Pembroke Pines police officers and Sportatorium guards when the gates did not open on time due to the late arrival of Rush’s drummer, Neil Peart. Neil had been sailing on his sailboat in the British Virgin Islands during a 10-day break and missed his original flight in due to weather and other unforeseen issues. Having to take a later flight that would’ve got him there in time, he sent a telegram to the venue explaining this. However, the telegram never made it, and workers for the band couldn’t verify that he was on the plane (or as Neil put it in his book, Roadshow: Landscape with Drums, "In those pre-Homeland Security days, the airline I was flying on wouldn’t release its passenger manifest."). When the doors were finally opened, gate crashers scaled the 11-foot (3.4 m) wall surrounding the facility and started running toward the gates. Police sprayed tear gas on the intruders, resulting in additional rock throwing and fighting. Twenty-two people including 11 police officers were injured and two fans were arrested.] As a result of this incident, a Sportatorium task force was created to handle the rowdyism and related problems.