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-When I Hear My Name -Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground -Blue Orchid -Passive Manipulation -Red Rain -Death Letter -My Doorbell -Hotel Yorba -Same Boy You've Always Known -Lovesick -Little Ghost -We're Going to Be Friends -The Hardest Button to Button -Black Math -The Nurse -I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself
Encore: -Ball and Biscuit -Seven Nation Army -Screwdriver
Many rush fans, including my stepdad, say they are the greatest people to ever walk the planet. They are very talented, not really my thing but I wouldn't run far far away from their set like kol. But I also do enjoy flips.
I'm seriously so tired of the Flaming Lips, no matter how good the last album was... they still blow live. Rush hasn't put out any studio stuff I've liked in a long time, but I'd dare say they are a far better concert than Flaming Lips.
Flaming Lips=one of the coolest bands on earth still making creative, artistically viable music
Rush= Boring Dad rock loved by prog nerds
I'm not a prog nerd, or a dad.
Maybe you are wrong on this one?
Most of my friends like Rush. Most aren't prog nerds or dads. I don't really understand the hate for all the fans. The band itself knows that some of their lyrics are pretentious, and they make fun of themselves for it on stage. They definitely don't take it as seriously as you guys have assumed. Also, just because they have passionate fans doesn't mean that they aren't any good.
Im not saying Rush isn't good, I own several of their albums, and have (looks over shoulder) borrowed the rest of them. But like the Phuckers and Deadbeats that would rather listen to (insert random bootleg tape of phish / dead show here) then any other album ever made, their fans (not all of them, but definately some of them) just piss me off.
(Note: not all dead fans are "Deadbeats", and not all Phish fans are "Phuckers", just the really annoying ones that quit their jobs and follow said band around on tour.)
Rush is a very talented group of dudes but they would more than likely be a headliner and that would be extremely underwhelming for this year.
Also saying that a band "knows" that their lyrics are pretentious is something I would take as a negative, not a positive. I don't care if something sucks for the sake of irony, it still sucks.
Pretentious =/= sucks. I'm referring to their earlier work. They realize that it's grandiose, and are willing to poke fun at themselves. It doesn't change the fact that their musicianship is top notch.
-When I Hear My Name -Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground -Blue Orchid -Passive Manipulation -Red Rain -Death Letter -My Doorbell -Hotel Yorba -Same Boy You've Always Known -Lovesick -Little Ghost -We're Going to Be Friends -The Hardest Button to Button -Black Math -The Nurse -I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself
Encore: -Ball and Biscuit -Seven Nation Army -Screwdriver
I feel like we make fun of people taste of music on here, but mostly just joke around (at least that's what I do). If you like Rush that's fine, people are gonna call you a prog nerd. I drive a VW bus with phish, dead, and bonnaroo stickers and people call me a dirty hippie. Everyone can like their own thing, but on here, you will get crap for it, in a good way.
Rush is a very talented group of dudes but they would more than likely be a headliner and that would be extremely underwhelming for this year.
I don't think they would necessarily be an underwhelming headliner. As long as they weren't considered the number 1 or 2 act. For example: a top line of Phish-Radiohead-Rush would be pretty solid overall, however something like Rush-RHCP-WSP would be a little underwhelming. Its all relative.
Rush just announced a show at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville on April 3 so I assume that takes them out of the running for Bonnaroo.
Not really, actually AC promotes a lot of our shows these days so the rules get broken more and more often.
It'd be one thing if the show was post-Bonnaroo but having it just 3 months before Bonnaroo in an already weak concert market is not smart. When have they ever done something similar? Local venues were noting last year about what a pain the radius/time clause was in strangling them for talent. They claim that several non-headliners passed on headlining Nashville dates to play Bonnaroo. The discussion was spawned from the lawsuit brought against Lollapalooza last year when Chicago club promoters argued the same thing. If they won't do it with a pre-headliner, they won't do it with a top 3 act.
The fact that AC does both only strengthens the case for Rush NOT being there, why would they shoot themselves in the foot like that?
Post by Mista Don't Play on Nov 29, 2010 17:05:00 GMT -5
April 3 might outside the radius clause. As far as I know they often exist over 60 days, although I suppose it may be 90 days in some cases. I think April 3 would be far enough out to have little effect on those planning on going to Bonnaroo. While many people there would want to see Rush, I don't see an influx of Rush fans buying tickets, as Phish and Dead fans would for their respective bands.