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It's fun to see what Rush shows other folks have attended. To think that some of us may have attended the same shows is kind of cool. Then you have to think, "Was that the dude/chick behind me who was singing so loud?"

Here are the shows I've been to:
Signals - 12/6/82 - Boston Garden, RIP, Boston, MA $11.50
Signals - 12/19/82 - Worcester Centrum, Worcester, MA $12.50
GUP - 10/03/84 - Worcester Centrum, Worcester, MA $13.50
GUP - 11/7/84 - Providence Civic Center, Providence, RI $11.50
PW - 12/??/85 - Providence Civic Center, Providence, RI $12.50
HYF - 12/2/87 - Worcester Centrum, Worcester, MA $17.50
In total that I seem to have missed Presto!
RTB - 6/3/92 - Irvine Meadows, CA $19.75
CP - 2/5/94 - Arrowhead Pond, Anaheim, CA $23.50
CP - 2/7/94 - San Diego Sports Arena, San Diego, CA $21.50
T4E - 11/??/96 - First Union Center, Philadelphia, PA
VT - 10/27/02 - First Union Center, Philadelphia, PA $65.00

** Honorable Mention Concert **
PW - 12/13/85 (A Friday the 13th no less), Worcester Centrum, Worcester, MA $14.50

I have the unused ticket stub still in my posession. I was at college in RI and my friends were supposed to drive down from NH to pick me up and take me to the show. Well, NH got blasted with a snowstorm and all highways were closed so they couldn't get me. I didn't have my own transportation so I couldn't get to the show.

I am feeling quite disorganized, as I have no ticket stubs and no firm dates that I attended. I shall do my best to recollect.
Signals-- Spring (March?) 1983
Presto
Roll the Bones--June 92 (Possibly when PV was there!)
CP
T4E
VT--9/28/03 Irvine Meadows $65

I have not been to near as many as I would have liked. I also missed almost half of the Vapor Trails show! I have already been promised that we'll go to more than one when they come back out this way.

ummmm......i believe it was:

August 11 2002 Vapor Trails (got teh ticket upstairs)
and i saw them at the Sars Fest i forget the date of that...30?-31? of July possibly?

AND i will see them on their next tour! yayaya!

Moving Pictures - 7 Apr 1981; Municipal Auditorium, New Orleans, LA
Signals - 9 Apr 1982; Centroplex, Baton Rouge, LA
P/G - 27 Oct 1984; UNO Lakefront Arena, New Orleans, LA
Power Windows - 10 Jan 1986; Cajundome, Lafayette, LA
HYF - 13 Jan 1988; Civic Auditorium, Jackson, MS
HYF - 27 Jan 1988; UNO Lakefront Arena, New Orleans, LA
Presto - 25 Feb 1990; UNO Lakefront Arena, New Orleans, LA
Presto - 26 Feb 1990; Summit Arena, Houston, TX
RTB - 23 Feb 1992; UNO Lakefront Arena, New Orleans, LA
Counterparts - 22 Jan 1994; Civic Center, Pensacola, FL
Counterparts - 23 Jan 1994; UNO Lakefront Arena, New Orleans, LA (2nd row floor, center)
TFE - 5 Dec 1996; Summit Arena, Houston, TX
TFE - 6 Dec 1996; UNO Lakefront Arena, New Orleans, LA
TFE - 8 Dec 1996; Coral Sky Amphitheater, West Palm Beach, FL
TFE - 1 May 1997; Civic Center, Pensacola, FL (still have ticket, show was canceled)
Vapor Trails - 16 Aug 2002; Woodlands Pavilion, Houston, TX
Vapor Trails - 19 Aug 2002; Reunion Arena, Dallas, TX
Vapor Trails - 13 Oct 2002; Phillips Arena, Atlanta, GA

GUP-9/15/84-Glens Falls Civic Center, Glens Falls, NY*
*(at the age of 13, first concert ever)
Hold Your Fire-11/12/87-RPI, Troy, NY
Presto-5/11/90-Worcester Centrum, Worcester, MA
Presto-6/2/90-Knickerbocker Arena, Albany, NY
**Roll The Bones-12/12/91-Knickerbocker Arena, Albany, NY
**(skipped a final in college to see the show)
Counterparts-5/3/94-Knickerbocker Arena, Albany, NY
Test For Echo-10/19/96-Pepsi Arena (f/k/a Knickerbocker), Albany, NY
Vapor Trails-7/6/02-SPAC, Saratoga, NY
Vapor Trails-11/8/02-Mohegan Sun, Uncasville, CT

I was just rereading this thread looking for some info and I saw this:

doctorbraino wrote:Hold Your Fire-11/12/87-RPI, Troy, NY

My brother attended RPI at this time! He should have known to call me and invite me! He is so toast...

None. Well, if you count the one that my dad went to about three months before I was conceived...but that's an odd thought.

Believe it or not....i'm a fan since 1975, but i've only had the luck to see them once...
This happened in 1982 when they were here in my country (Netherlands) after the wrapping up of exit stage left.

Tonny.

DutchRush wrote:Believe it or not....i'm a fan since 1975, but i've only had the luck to see them once....

I'm with ya on that one Tonny. Been a fan since 1981 and got to see them for the first time last tour in Kansas City, Kansas (ok, well actually the venue is in Bonner Springs, Kansas, about 20 min. outside of KC, but it's close enough...great show). Aiii, and unless something really cool happens financially, I may not get to see them this tour ...dang, and I was really hoping to take my son to see them this time....

By the way, DutchFan...good luck in Euro 2004...Group D...that's a tough one.

Kevin wrote:None. Well, if you count the one that my dad went to about three months before I was conceived...but that's an odd thought.

Hate to tell you this, Kevin, but you weren't with your dad that day. Sorry, but the gamete that would become you wasn't formed yet.

awip2062 wrote:

Kevin wrote:None. Well, if you count the one that my dad went to about three months before I was conceived...but that's an odd thought.

Hate to tell you this, Kevin, but you weren't with your dad that day. Sorry, but the gamete that would become you wasn't formed yet.

...course, if your mom went, that would count, since all ovaries are present at birth... Ahh, curse the short life of the sperm cell....

I don't remember dates, but here's my list:

Presto Tour - Cal Expo (Sacramento)
Counterparts Tour - Arco Arena
Roll the Bones Tour - Arco Arena
Test For Echo Tour - Arco Arena
Vapor Trails Tour - Sleep Train Amphitheater

Been to see them everytime they toured Scotland since 1980....which is only 5 times

KaelMwithascrubbrush wrote:...course, if your mom went, that would count, since all ovaries are present at birth... Ahh, curse the short life of the sperm cell....

This is true.

I like thinking about this kind of stuff, not that it matters.

The way I see it is, when I took H to see gigs while pregnant with her, in a way I oculd have been taking my gandkids to the gigs too!

Hrm, well, we can shine a quack-doctor's scientific light onto this subject. Due to the intrinsic nature of Rush's performance it will stay with you forever and be passed onto your children.

Vapor Trails - 16 Oct 2002; Blue Cross Arena, Rochester, NY