This is where Marc and myself will be come June 30th for the next RUSH concert. Guess where we are sitting? In that little Orchetra pit in front of the stage, 3rd row baby, 3RD ROW!
So we spent most of this past Saturday traveling to and watching one of the best concerts by THE best band (There's no debate here...it's fact). Anyway, I just thought I'd show you guys some pictures of where we were in relation to the band members:
In the first picture, you'll see my head...I'm the guy with the red shirt on near the right. The second picture was a picture from my phone. You'll notice the giant standing in front of me. The third picture is just a shot of the three of them during the encore. Look at that drum set!
You'll also notice the Barbie dolls in front of Alex, the guitar player. That is his VIP section, each of which is holding a sign with a "special" note from the roadies.
Weird Al rocks. Zim...would be an amusing cartoon if my kids weren't psychotic over it.
Geoff said about 18 hours later
lol, now you need to name all the songs used in the polka! Got some good ones in there!
Abby said 4 days later
I'm not psychotic over Zim!
But I just found six different Zim videos on youtube in the past half hour. Let's see... one that has the Zim theme remix, two with the song 'This is Halloween' from the rereleased version of Nightmare Before Christmas (I didn't even know that existed...), one with Green Day's American Idiot, and one with Evanescence. It's fun, watching Zim synched to music that I enjoy. =D
Think you know that Lynyrd Skynyrd song "Sweet Home Alabama?" You are in for a treat. May I present the Lenigrad Cowboys, accompanied by the Soviet Red Army Choir. Glasnost, indeed!
As many of you probably know by now, I have Rock Band 2 and plan to bring it back during Thanksgiving and Christmas solely so I can hear Geoff sing again. One of the benefits now is we can download more music, which we couldn't do with the old Playstation 2 version we had.
I have uploaded a spreadsheet to my server which you guys can take a look at here. It's the list of all available songs to download and which ones I currently have (or think I have, hard to remember). Take a look through and let me know in the comments which songs you're interested in that I don't have and I'll look into picking those up before I come as I don't feel like paying $100 to get the wireless adapter for the Xbox 360.
I look forward to the many "You downloaded all that crappy Rush, but not xxx" comments likely to come.
Also note, I'll be bringing the less fun Guitar Hero World Tour, which has some more songs. Many it has in common though, and we could always try the Music Studio and see just how musically untalented the family is as a band.
Geoff said 17 minutes later
Metallica - And Justice For All
NIN - The Perfect Drug
Rush - Limelight??? You Don't Have, how dare you.
Shinedown - Devour
Six:A.M. - Life is Beautiful (great song)
Smashing Pumpkins - Siva
The Greatful Dead - Casey Jones
Marc said 20 minutes later
I knew the limelight song was coming. Notice I have the Limelight (Original Version). The original was a cover and a horrid one at that. You'll also notice I have two Working Mans. One is a cover and has the original solo. The other is the Vault Edition (master track) which has a pretty awesome and very different solo.
GJ said about 2 hours later
I think you have most of these...
War Pigs - Black Sabbath (tho I prefer the Faith No More cover)
Juke Box Hero (c'mon, I grew up in the early 80s)
Bad to the Bone (see above)
3's and 7's (tho this is in RB3, it's awesome)
Where the hell is the Black Crowes' 'Twice As Hard'???
Summertime Blues
Joker and the Thief - Wolfmother
Marc said about 2 hours later
Dang, Geoff how'd I miss Life is Beautiful? That is an awesome song. All good suggestions so far guys, I should have 'em all for Thanksgiving. Summertime Blues kinda stinks. I love to say it, but Rush really did a much better version...heck I've heard some better country versions than The Who's. Maybe it's just because it's their Live version. It's all the singer's fault, the music is really hard to make sound bad.
GJ said about 8 hours later
You just aren't playing the Who's version loud enough, or you haven't had quite enough beer. :)
Marc said 2 days later
I also just picked up the AC/DC track pack, which includes 18 songs from them, all of their good ones. To anyone who isn't an AC/DC fan, I've picked up 18 songs that sound exactly the same. :)
GJ said 2 days later
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
GJ said 2 days later
Get enough vodak in me and I'll sing. Which won't be pretty. Just ask Darcy.
Geoff said 2 days later
Nobody can sing like me, ok? I'm taking names come Turkey Day. I will own AC/DC.
Kristen said 2 days later
Drew will try to give you a run for your money on that Geoff--who is bringing the video camera??
Marc said 2 days later
Drinking + Rock Band is good...me and a couple IBM buddies gave it a go, we were playing until about 4 AM and I've got a couple funny videos from it as well.
GJ said 2 days later
Mom and Dad still have a fair amount of Stoli. I'm set...but I still can't sing to save my life. Or play guitar beyond "medium," nor even come close to playing drums on even "easy." Meh. Wii Tennis, anyone? Btw, we need to find a bigger room to do that in. :)
Geoff said 2 days later
I'm game for all the above. Well, save for the boos, I can act like an idiot all on my own :)
