34 years and still kicking ass! Rush was AMAZING last night!!!

[charlie and algernon]

FINALLY got to see Rush for the first time last night and holy hell, they were AMAZING!! They played a bunch of songs from their new album, Snakes and Arrows, and a bunch of classics including Limelight, Freewill, The Spirit of Radio, 2112, Tom Sawyer, YYZ, A Little Victory, Passage to Bangkok. They got political with their new song, A Larger Bowl, by doing a slide show that hightlights the massive gap between rich and poor. Neal Peart did his signature drum solo which brought one of the biggest applauses of the night. After his solo, Lifeson got to do his own solo on a 12 string acustic guitar. Then they wrapped it up with Spirit of Radio, 2112, and Tom Sawyer with a great South Park Intro ('lil Rush). They came back for an encore and did Passage to Bangkok and concluded with and awesome YYZ. You'd never guess they were all in their 50s with the high level of energy they kept up the whole show.

Steven Colbert summed it up nicely Wednesday night when he talked about their not being in the Hall of Fame: "Are you going to name your next album This is Bullshit?"