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One of the most disappointing live shows I ever saw… Test for echo around 1997 at cap center

I just wasn’t into them anymore

Around 1985-87 it was all I listened to but by the mid 90s I was not into that type of music at all…everything was so un spontaneous and perfectly clean almost shrill …and some of their albums post power Windows are complete turds

All I remember about the show is insanely bright flashing lights and some horrible biggish suit Alex Lifeson was wearing and during set break being in bathroom and disgusting looking old people crowing they had done 2112 which of course meant nothing to me as I was obsessed with the permanent waves-power Windows stuff

I never even tried to see them again..sometimes you just can’t and shouldn’t go back but for a couple of years (9th and most of 10th) I was that misfit in high school with the Walkman and headphones finding belonging in listening to subdivisions.. I think even if I hadn’t been taken away from my school by my dad fleeing the US I would have still moved on …I was just beginning to be part of the in crowd…and they were listening to Standing on the beach

pretty sure that was my one an only cap center show, which I think at the time had changed it's name to USAir?
I feel like we had the second to the last row 400 level seats

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/rush/1996/usair-arena-landover-md-3d62113.html
it was a long show and I was not a fan of 2112 stuff either
did just read this " after the 76 tour, Rush would not perform the track in its entirety until their 1996 tour"

About the only thing I really remember is that stupid roll the bones rap with that silly video of the Skelton rapping

Yup we were really high up!

That’s why people were so into 2112 but that was a different Rush from what us young ones were into

Our ticket kungfu was so weak ..

My only cap center show but I was also there for a caps game once..so boring..my only hockey game to this day

I paid a scalper $18 to see Rory Gallagher open for Rush in 82. Rory was great. Rush was a bore.

StoneTheCrow wrote:
I paid a scalper $18 to see Rory Gallagher open for Rush in 82. Rory was great. Rush was a bore.

wow…that was some prime era rush IMO
https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/rush/1982/capital-centre-landover-md-53d31fe5.html

Although ended the show with a drum solo?!

Critical wrote:

StoneTheCrow wrote:
I paid a scalper $18 to see Rory Gallagher open for Rush in 82. Rory was great. Rush was a bore.

wow…that was some prime era rush IMO
https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/rush/1982/capital-centre-landover-md-53d31fe5.html

Although ended the show with a drum solo?!

Looks like that was par for the course on the Signals tour!

this is an absolutely FANTASTIC audio book, delivered as only jonesy could.  It would seem trite if anyone but him delivered it.  Even his bit where he imitates Malcom was just fantastic.  Highly recommended.  It is such a great and different perspective on a story I thought I knew a lot about.  And his delivery and thick accent just make you feel like he's telling you the story at 2am at some late night back room while a few of your mates are already passed out

"Magnetized
Conversations With A Serial Killer"

Carlos Busqued


Incredible

New black and white hard cover book about the dc punk scene
https://wtop.com/gallery/dc/first-look-at-photos-from-early-dc-punk-scene-in-jim-saahs-new-book/

RightInFrontofYouhatch wrote:
New black and white hard cover book about the dc punk scene
https://wtop.com/gallery/dc/first-look-at-photos-from-early-dc-punk-scene-in-jim-saahs-new-book/

Thanks. Will acquire.

Looks awesome. Thx for posting that.

Finally reading this

I maintain no band has aged quite as poorly as the Beastie Boys.

I could buy that


I still Enjoy Paul’s Boutique, Check your head and Licensed to ill…


I think when a band is ubiquitous and defines a decade like the Beastie Boys in the 1990s - music, fashion and culture-it becomes hard to age well.

Starsky wrote:
I still Enjoy Paul’s Boutique, Check your head and Licensed to ill…

86-96
things before and after this period…meh
you're never going to win Jules over on this one, I think they gave him a wedgie in junior high and he's still holding that grudge

but you missed The In Sound from Way Out! (yes just a compilation, but a great listen nonetheless) and Ill Communication

I'm a broken record on this…but this Audio book was top 5 I've listened to

Julian, wrote:
I maintain no band has aged quite as poorly as the Beastie Boys.

I would say Band of Horses. Awful band.

Sidehatch wrote:

Starsky wrote:
I still Enjoy Paul’s Boutique, Check your head and Licensed to ill…

86-96
things before and after this period…meh
you're never going to win Jules over on this one, I think they gave him a wedgie in junior high and he's still holding that grudge

but you missed The In Sound from Way Out! (yes just a compilation, but a great listen nonetheless) and Ill Communication

I'm a broken record on this…but this Audio book was top 5 I've listened to

I always get them mixed up

I meant Ill Communication!

I am borderline on Licensed to ill

One wonders if Yauch had lived would they have managed to reinvent themselves… seems unlikely but not impossible…

Starsky wrote:

One wonders if Yauch had lived would they have managed to reinvent themselves… seems unlikely but not impossible…

hard to say, they definitely had a whole decade of mediocre music after 96
I'd like to think they would have…

Hello nasty has to be amongst the albums that most disappointed me… the wait from Ill Communication felt interminable and then Intergalactic…ugh


I rank it with Wild Mood Swings, Republic

Julian, wrote:
I maintain no band has aged quite as poorly as the Beastie Boys.

Check.