The Nerdiest Post not Worth Reading

*SPOILER ALERT* This post is about Rush. If you hate the band, skip this post.

It's 1 am on Tuesday morning. I'll back-post this shit since it's pertinent to my Monday and I'll probably never get back to this topic if I don't cover it now. Okay...here we go:

After an interesting day at the office, I got together with Nick, Will and Eric to see Rush. I've known Will and Nick since kindergarten and we grew up together as nerdy Rush fans. Good times...but I digress. For the avid Rush Fans, I list my favorite songs played tonight (other than the standard classics):

"Xanadu" - I thought I would never hear this one live. I actually hate the song, but it was played nicely. Seeing a double-necked guitar is always fun, too. This song epitomizes everything geeky about the band.

"Working Man" - I love hearing stuff from the first album. The song is over 30 years old. Even though they dropped into a reggae style fashion in the third verse, It still rocked. On the old live albums, Peart used to drop crazy drum fills whenever and wherever he could. He doesn't do that on this song anymore...but a man can dream, can't he?

"The Seeker" - Rush plays cover songs now. It's interesting to hear. Their version of this Who song was very calm.

"La Villa Strangiato" - This is my favorite instrumental track by Rush. The 8 minutes just blow by when I listen to this. During the jazzy break towards the end of the song, the band went into a breakdown and Alex Lifeson started to scat. That was kind of wierd.

Songs I didn't need to hear:

"Summertime Blues" - They wasted a good amount of time on this song while they could have rocked out on something better. I mean, c'mon...we everybody hates the song in its original form. Why would Rush make that better?

"Between the Wheels" - I like the fact that they wanted to play an obscure song but this song is pretty depressing. It killed the flow of the set. If they wanted to play a fun obscure song, they should have dropped something happier like "Kid Gloves."

"The Trees" - This one is constantly on the set. The song is not necessary anymore. We all know what happens to the damn trees. Enough already.

"Resist" - No one wants to hear a ballad written in 2002. How can you enjoy yourself if you can't air-drum along?

In reality, there were lots of mullets. You rarely saw an attractive woman. If you unfocused your eyes and gazed into the crowd, all you could see were air-drummers. They looked ridiculous...but I had a good time.

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