Look at the above pictures. If you are in a rock band that is what your show absolutely must look like from the upper decks. Adjust to scale and budget. Club bands, there is no excuse! For whatever room you are rocking, you have a responsibility to give maximum entertainment value for your ticket price. Your local band charges $10? Rush charged me $80. You MUST provide exactly 1/8th of that awesomeness! Trust me, that is still quite a lot to live up to! In fact, laugh at Rush all you want, you should be so lucky to be considered 12.5% as awesome as they were up on stage!
Do they still genuinely care? Are they just doing it for the money? I don't give a SHIT. Just go up on stage and do your fucking job. Punch the clock, put on the happy face and ROCK. Then I'm happy. I don't care if you suffer for your art. Jesus and Mary Chain couldn't do it for 70 minutes and a $50 ticket. Rush did it for THREE HOURS. And not only did they play hits like Tom Sawyer and Spirit of Radio as energetically as if they were just written, they played some album cuts so deep you needed a mining helmet and a set of permits to excavate them off the grooves.
Everything was in perfect synergy. The band was super tight, Geddy Lee's voice has never been stronger, and they played an incredible mix of hits and the aforementioned deep cuts. The light show was perfectly complemented with the hi def video screens and there were beautiful color palettes drenching the stage in swirls of lights and future-kill fantasies. The spacier more futuristic songs would be awash in blues and purples, as the earthier rock songs were complemented with reds and oranges. And yes, there were lasers. Tons of lasers. It was like laser PORN. And God knows I love a good laser show!
So now young chaps, go forth and figure out how to be 12.5% as awesome as Rush. Me, I think I gotta talk to the band and hit up Halloween Adventure. We're going to have to hasten a few of our new ideas..................
