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The Rush in Rio disc is outstanding. The crowd noise is almost overwhelming at the beginning, but it is like you're right there. The second disc has a terrific documentary of the story behind their Brazillian dates and the problems they were facing setting up for the show and the DVD shoot. Essentially, they were just flying by the seats of their pants and the energy is incredible. Here's a terrific review of the companion album, and it describes the DVD perfectly. I really can't recommend the disc enough. I saw Rush for the umpteenth time here in Nashville this past May, and (as always) they were astonishing. I'd really forgotten how much I like them. Growing up, I was the biggest Rush freak around, but they started to lose me around Power Windows. So you grow up and get older and your listening habits change, but Rush is just one of those bands I'll always enjoy, even if their recent catalog isn't quite up to par. Watch the DVD (or see them live!) and any question of whether they've still "got it" goes flying out the window.

The most recent album is just a bunch of covers. I don't mean to dismiss it by any means (watching them play "The Seeker", "Heart Of Soul" and "Summertime Blues" Rush-ified was definitely a trip), but don't expect to find any original material on the CD.

I think the Grace Under Pressure album rocked it's been re-mastered and sounds phenomenal. This album is a personal favorite.

So it's like you're there, huh? Does that mean every time you play the disk, hired extras barge through your front door, stand reeeeally close to you, get stoned/drunk, constantly bump into you and apologize, and then they all get in line for your bathroom when you want to go?

Sounds like a great time to me...

O.k. It's not quite that real but it's pretty close

The best part is when the girls want to sit on your shoulders with their cloths painted on and their breasts planted in my face I'm such a perv....

Excellent points! How about a few more?

great list, i liked #7..

i had this exact experience when i went to see RUSH in june. the drunk guy behind me strated screaming for 'limelight' after about the 3rd or 4th song. thru the intermission, into the 2nd set, "LIMELIGHT, LIMELIGHT"....

unfortunately for me, and the rest of the people in my section, RUSH decided to play 'limelight' as the LAST song of their encore set.. great song, made even better cause it finally shut that guy up!!!

bigjohn

Eerie, isn't it? Seems like I've somehow managed to be next to that guy at every concert I've ever attended.

I've stood next to him a few times, too. But when I saw Weezer (with Tenacious D and Jimmy Eat World) a few years back, I got stuck next to that guy's drunker, fatter, stupider cousin.

He seriously spent at least half an hour singing the wrong song and asking me (at 155 lbs) to lift his 250 lb drunk ass up so he could crowd surf. I eventually went and stood elsewhere.

Honestly, what with the obnoxiously drunk crowds, the fact that I have to stand up the whole time, and the totally unneccessarily loud volumes, I find myself increasingly unable to enjoy most rock concerts. Of course, I still enjoy a good outdoor concert festival, and some bands seem to attract better crowds, keep the music at a more reasonable level, and play venues with actual seating room. And the tickets for most such concerts, in my experience, tend to be around $10, which is a far cry from the $40+ I've paid for a lot of unbearable shows.

Yeah, but at those better behaved events, you're not exposed to gratuitous boob flashing...

No, but the outdoor concert festivals one-up gratuitious boob flashing with drugged-out hotties walking around wearing nothing but paint. Sometimes less.

From one article on the aftermath of this year's Bonnaroo (which I attended):

"A lot of times they're picked up naked out in a field," Kemp said. "They have a tendency to get naked when they're on mushrooms."