Canadian rock trio Rush are performing at Jiffy Lube Live (formerly Nissan Pavilion) on Sunday, September 9th, and ShowlistDC is giving away a pair of tickets before you can buy them! That’s right, tickets go on sale via ticketmaster.com this Friday, May 4th at 10 AM, but we’re giving away a pair of tickets before then! All you have to do to enter is leave a comment on this post telling me what song you’d most want to hear Rush play live, and I’ll pick a winner at random (using random.org) on Thursday, 3 May at 5 PM Eastern. Be sure to use a valid email address when you enter, so I can contact you if you win (and don’t worry: your email address won’t be posted publicly when you comment on this entry). Note that the tickets we’re giving away are seats inside the pavilion, not lawn seats– this is an awesome deal for Rush fans to see the band up close!
Rush formed in Toronto in 1968, and over the decades since then, the influential prog-rock trio has become known for the stratospheric vocals of bassist/keyboardist Geddy Lee, the powerhouse drumming of lyricist Neil Peart, and the guitar riffs of Alex Lifeson. Their last show in the area was in September of 2010, where they played their classic 1981 album Moving Pictures (the one with hits like “Tom Sawyer”, “YYZ”, and “Limelight”) in its entirety, as well as a bunch of other songs spanning their career (I was lucky enough to get to review the concert for the Washington Post’s Express; you can read my review– which includes the show’s set list– here). This time around, though, they’ll be touring in support of their new album, Clockwork Angels, which is due to come out on June 12th, so they’re almost certain to play a lot of new songs in addition to their old hits. You can listen to their latest single from the album, “Headlong Flight”, in the youtube video below, to get a flavor of what their new material will sound like. Rush is touring without an opener (that seems to be standard for them of late), so we’re expecting that they’ll play two long sets of music.
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Red Sector A
I think it’s time they brought back Xanadu! It’s truly my favorite song it always takes me on a journey every time i hear it!!
Hoping they’d play entre nous live
Leave that thing alone!
Great entries so far. I’m going with “Necromancer” part 1 (off of Caress of Steel), their best space rock song.
I’m gonna go old school with “Working Man”
The Fountain Of Lamneth
“Analog Kid” : )
I’m hoping for YYX
Subdivisions
In The End
Between the Wheels
Most rocking song they ever did, IMHO, was “Freewill.” Would love to see that live again.
The Camera Eye
The Fountain of Lamneth
Anything from CoS will do!!
Having never seen Rush, i’ll keep it basic and boring and say “Limelight”
Natural Science!
The rap notwithstanding, gotta go with Roll the Bones. They rip that song live.
Hemispheres!
Force Ten!
Old school….”Fly By Night”!
Roll The Bones is a rocker live
How about Cygnus X-I book one and two!
Working Man
Yeah, I gotta go with Working Man. Used to blast that on vinyl.
I’d make a mess if they played “Red Sector A” or “Distant Early Warning”. You’re been warned.
“Fly By Night” is always fun!
The Hemispheres prelude would be a dream come true.
I would love to hear them play Countdown.
Fly by Night!
Working Man! Love the old stuff!
I want to hear all of 2112! Prog masterpiece…
I’ll go with La Villa Strangiato, thanks! If I don’t win, Elizabeth who selected the Hemispheres prelude made an excellent choice!
Xanadu!
Limelight!
Lakeside Park.
I think I’m Going Bald!
Cut To The Chase!
Here’s a vote or is it really two half-votes for Hemispheres
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The Fountain of Lamneth
Subdivisions
Working Man!
ANTHEM. the 1st song i saw RUSH perform live in concert: 1/13/79 The Palladium, NYC, Hemispheres
Spirit of Radio!
Roll the bones
Broons Bane
There is trouble in the forest… THE TREES!
Alas I won’t be able to make the show. I hate it when people don’t consult showlistdc.com before setting wedding dates.
They call me the WORKING MAN
I guess thats what I am !!
I wanna see Bastille Day!!
By-Tor!!!!!!!
Double Agent!
Losing it.One of my favs. Apparently, there are string arrangements all through the new album. There’s also a rumor that they’ll have a small orchestra to do all of Signals for its anniversary. Sooooo might have a shot! If not: Lessons.
Subdivisions!
Sweet Miracle
In The End (one, two, buckle my shoe)
The Enemy Within!
Virtuality! :-D
I’m hoping for The Enemy Within
2112
Marathon
Jacob’s Lader
Everyday Glory
Xanadu!!
Time Stand Still
Losing It
The Fountain Of Lamneth
Red Sector A.
ANY SONG!
I Think I’m Going Bald
Everyday Glory
Red Sector A. too many favs to choose from
Double Agent would be beautiful, but as long as they keep Time Stand Still until they’re done touring I can die happy. That song means so much at a show, I can’t even begin to describe.
vital signs
Garden Road
La Villa Strangiato
Bravado the most beautiful Rush song ever!
Jacob’s Ladder!! :-)
Anthem
Losing It
Middletown Dreams :)
In the End. It’s a hidden gem!
2112 in its entirety, since it’s 2012
Batille Day!!! :)
A Farewell To Kings
Tom Sawyer ( they never play that ) jk Totem!!
Jacob’s Ladder!!!!
Headlong Flight
Free Will !!
Broons Bane right before The Trees just like in ESL.
emotion detector!!
It wouldn’t matter what they played its all good, but my favourite is Different Strings
Armor and Sword
So many conventional choices have been made. Let’s try something a little different: a live arrangement of “How it is.” The guys could make that one truly spectacular!
La Villa Strangiato
Jacob’s Ladder!!!
Jacob’s Ladder
If the vicious rumors of a “Signals” tour are true, then they will play my fav, “The Analog Kid”.
Sweet Miracle
Sooo hard to choose just one. I do love Far Cry though. They rocked it on the Time Machine tour.
I would like to hear Working Man
I really want to hear “Anthem” live. I’d settle for “Bastille Day” though.
Jacob’s Ladder
Available Light
sure hope they play VITAL SIGNS!!!!
SPINDRIFT
“Available Light” from Presto. It would be awesome to hear any song off of Geddy’s My Favorite Headache too!
Would love to see them open with Analog Kid!!!
Since the Lord of the Rings has recaptured the imagination of another generation, and The Hobbit will be released by the year end, I’d love to see their 1975 homage to the book, in their song Rivendell. Neil would find a way to add some percussion not found on the original.
Subdivisions
Love to hear Necromancer
Natural Science!
Please play “Countdown!” With all the nifty gadgets and doo-dads you have on stage you could make it look like a rocket really took off!!!
Analog Kid would rock.
Cut to the Chase
Can’t wait to hear Headlong Flight live!!!
Red Tide
Jacobs Ladder
Jacob’s Ladder
The entire 2112
I’d love to hear Countdown, written about the first shuttle launch.
I will be thankful beyond words to hear anything They choose to play! They have to want to play it to enjoy playing it! So if I had to pick one song that I wish they wanted to play then that would be “Chemistry”!!!
What can you say about the greatest rock band in the WORLD. Are you kidding me rock n roll hall of fame. Should be hall of shame with out RUSH period….
COUNTDOWN!!!
beneath, between, behind
“Countdown” is long overdue.
Between Sun & Moon
Jacob’s Ladder please :)
roll the bones
I would love to see them play Xanadu! Not the Olivia Newton-John version though.
hard to narrow down…all great suggestions, I would love to hear them all. My faves…
Presto…Marathon and Red Barchatta!!!!
Headlong Flight
Grand Designs!
Xanadu
Being that it is 2012… and I’ve never fully heard 2112 Live… 2112 in full glory, would be astonishing!
The Sphere: A Kind of Dream. This will be my honeymoon (I mean it – I get married on the August 25th).
I really wish they would play “Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres”, even at least the prelude.
Jacob’s Ladder or Losing it..
Kid Gloves!
Something for Nothing
I can’t wait to hear the new stuff live, especially ‘Headlong Flight’.
Best I Can
Been to 10 Rush shows and never heard it. Great song for people trying to get by in tough times.
Half The World from Test For Echo
I think I’ll go with ” New World Man”
‘Losing It’ — particularly if rumors of an accompanying orchestra prove true.
Losing It
NOT FADE AWAY :)
The Trees & Xanadu & Jacob’s Ladder
Would love to hear La Villa Strangiato. Greatest guitar rift ever!
“Bravado” is one of my favorite songs, so that’s the one I would like to hear live.
I would love to experience Cygnus x-1 Book II in its entirety!
Natural Science. It is my favorite live Rush song. Fun to bounce along to!!
Chemistry
Hemispheres and Xanadu
Jacob’s Ladder
It has elements of Prog, Rock, Fantasy, New Wave. One can imagine the 4 parts of the song quite literally enveloping the stage. Part 1: a storm forming in the distance; Part 2: (Distant Overture) the stage shrouded in clouds of smoke and simulated lightning during the heaviest part of the song; Part 3) during the middle section (keyboard break), the smoke begins to slowly dissipate (“clouds are parted, light streams…”), with Howard Ungerleider’s magic beams of light just starting to break through the storm, until…Part 4) “weaving fabric of dreams,” you see complete resolution, 2 beams from a single point converged above the stage traveling down, diverging like a ladder to the stage as the band completes the song, or journey. Anyway, that’s how I see it.
It’s time to dust off A Farewell to Kings.
I’d love to hear “The Weapon” I’ve listened to this song so many times and would really like to hear it live!
Beneath, Between, & Behind
Headlong Flight of course! New Song…
Something of Clockworth!
Kid Gloves
Circumstances would be cool to hear…
I’d like to hear Available Light from Presto or Tai Shan from Hold Your Fire.
Jacob’s latter
Jacobs Ladder !!!
Most like to hear? ‘Prime Mover’ or ‘Earthshine’
Xanadu in full!
All of Hemispheres
Peaceable Kingdom
Analog Kid
Tom Saywer
Cinderella Man
I really would like hear Something for Nothing! One of my favorite tubes and what I want from this giveaway! LOL!
Been many years. Time for Big Money.
Something for Nothing
A Farewell to Kings
Losing it!!! Bring on the strings.
I love circumstances!
circumstances
YYZ
Leave that thing alone.
RUSH is simply the best band ever! If I get to see them play Hemispheres Book II live before they retire, my life will be complete! Go RUSH!!!
Xanadu! It’s simply the best!!!
I see red . . . It HURTS my head!
Camera Eye
A Farewell To Kings !
Ghost of a Chance and Where’s my Thing?… Geddycorns 4evar!!! :D
Since they finally played Camera Eye on the last tour, I want to hear “Countdown”. I saw this live on the Signals tour.
Mark
RED SECTOR “A” – gives me chills every time I hear it but I’ve never heard it live.
Analog Kid
Ghost of a Chance
Natural Science!
Xanadu please!
Camera Eye. I know they played it last tour but I think it’s a great song.
Different Strings
Jacobs Ladder
Fly by night
I’d love for Rush to bring back Middletown Dreams
I would love to hear “the Pass” live. That song gives me goosebumps when I hear it!
Rush is my absolute favorite band and the only band I’ve seen multiple times on a single tour. I’ve gotta go!
Natural Science!!
Hemispheres!
XANADU!!!
La Villa Strangiato
Nocturne!
Cut to the Chase!
Freeze from the Rush album “Vapor Trails”
Emotion Detector
Rush is my favorite band, haha my birthday is september 9, the best gift ever, love to hear Xanadu, awesome masterpiece.
I would like to hear The Pass live.
The Stars Look Down
Freewill
Still my favorite jamming in that song!
Open Secrets!! Never done live to my knowledge and such an awesome track containing one of my favorite Lifeson solos. Second choice- done in Counter parts tour- I’d love them to do Hemispheres.
I would like to hear “Circumstances.”
Time and Motion
“Lakeside Park” why, becouse “Everyone would gather on the 24th of May, sitting in the sand to watch the fireworks display. Dancing fires on the beach singing songs together, though it’s just a memory some memories last forever”
“Middletown Dreams,” of course! It was a dream come true to see “Marathon” and “Time Stand Still” on the Time Machine Tour from the Power Windows/Hold Your Fire era, but we still need some more classic 1985 music from the greatest band ever!
Middletown Dreams
It’s understood
By every single person-
Who’d be elsewhere if they could-
So far so good-
And life’s not unpleasant
In their little neighborhood
They dream in Middletown…
the camera eye, “i feel the sense of possibilities”.
Jacob’s Ladder! Wouldn’t be too difficult for them to pull off, and not hard for Geddy to sing!
Didacts and Narpets
Emotion Detector!
The Pass!
Hmmm…I would love to hear Jacob’s Ladder, The Enemy Within, Available Light and ALL of Clockwork Angels on this tour.
2112 (complete)
La Villa Strangiato
What song should they play? Cinderella Man would make me the happiest Rushian in the universe.
Working man
Subdivisions!
LOL! I don’t care if Rush plays Mother Goose covers!! I’ll take “Bravest Face” off S&A’s however anything the boys rip out in concert = GOOSEBUMPS. Period.
Losing It.
Twilight Zone
The Body Electric
Cygnus X-1 Book II
Jacobs Ladder
Different Strings or Losing It
Losing It, with or without that scorching violin solo by Mr Ben Mink!
VAPOR TRAIL. I’d like to see it they playing!!
Hemispheres!
EVERYDAY GLORY !!!!!
AVAILABLE LIGHT !!!!!
Time Stand Still …
I’d love to hear The Big Wheel from Roll the Bones, since they haven’t played that one live before.
Jacob’s Ladder. The song is simultaneously spacey, orchestral, jazz fusion, in short a work of art. And they haven’t played it since at least 1981, when I saw them at the age of twelve. Alex Lifeson’s best sounding record, beginning at 1:35 of the song. Gold!
Countdown
Chemistry hands down.
Lakeside Park
Love to hear Analog Kid or Kid Gloves. Two of Alex’s best solos EVER. Can’ t wait for tour. Hope its true they’re playing all Signals on this Tour (First album i bought from Rush)
Anthem
I love GOOD NEWS FIRST.
jacobs ladder bastille day
La Villa Strangiato
Natural Science
The necromancer.
Available Light
Xanadu for sure..classic, epic.
In The End…would be awesome!
Madrigal!!!!
By-Tor! The whole thing…including the battle!
By-Tor or Time Stands Still.
Cygnus X-1 Book 2: Hemispheres
Xanadu!!!!!!
Middletown Dreams or Open Secret. Available Light would be cool too.
I have seen Rush at least once on every tour since 1982, yet I have never seen them perform “Jacob’s Ladder” live. Maybe they’re reading this right now!
Everyday Glory from Counterparts
Beneath Between Behind
the date of the Bristow show is the 30th anniversary of the release of Signals so hope they play Countdown or Losing It.
Hemisheres
I’ve always wanted to hear Kid Gloves live. When I was little I thought it said “And the Wicked Gloves” LOL!!
I would love to see the boys do Jacobs Ladder, I think it will fit in great with the new songs I’ve already heard.
I would offer a lifetime of free dentistry to the band to hear Lakeside Park with an extended alex solo.
Forget the free dentistry thing,now I’m serious, i would do a root canal on myself without anesthesia to hear Lakeside Park with an extended Alex solo
The Necromancer
Jacob’s Ladder
middletown dreams
I’ve got to go with Fly by Night. They haven’t played it live since the 1970′s.
Analog Kid would be awesome!
countdown!!
Xanadu
Earthshine…
Because the moon tells a lover’s story.
Wow. So hard to pick just one, but I’d love to hear Xanadu would be sweet!
A Passage to Bangkok
Vapor Trail
‘Territories’
Hmmmmmmmmm
One of the many songs I would LOVE to see them bring back is definitely The Enemy Within
rush resist is favorite song
‘The Pass’
I would love to hear Analog Kid; Alex’s solo is sick!!!
How about “Losing It” from Signals. Never been played live. It’s one of their darkest songs, would be a wicked suprise! ps. PICK ME!!!!
Losing it! with the possible “orchestra”
Fly By Night, one of their most popular songs but not played live since 76
I’ve always loved “Red Barchetta”
I would love to hear THE BIG WHEEL ILL TAKE NO CHANCES… ON PARADISE DELAYED !!
i would love to hear High Water
It’s a longshot but “Jacob’s Ladder” would be epic to hear again.
Please play HEMISPHERES on the 2012 TOUR !!!
I would love to hear “The Trees” and/or “Natural Science”.
I would love to hear Natural Science again. Also absolutely love hearing Circumstances. Either one would be fine with me….But of course, if it’s ANY Rush tune, it’s ALL good!
I would like to hear a What You’re Doing / Bad Boy medley.
Hemispheres
The Necromancer!
Subdivisions
I would love to hear Tom Sawyer live – I havent seem RUSH since the 80′s and it would bring back AWESOME memories!
Prime Mover. A straight up guitar, bass and drums tune from a synth heavy period. Love it!
Spirit Of The Radio
The first cut is always the deepest. To wit, “Finding My Way” from Rush (Moon, ’74)
I would love to see them resurrect “R30 Overture” from their R30 concert tour. I loved the way they blended all of those songs together. If not that “The Pass” is another great song.
Natural Science is my favourite Rush song and they have only played it on five tours tours so that is my choice!
Lock And Key
Jacob’s Ladder!
I would like them to play Between Sun & Moon.
Cut to The Chase from CounterParts
I have seen them 40 times now and they have never played The Necromancer.
I have listened to the song “Losing It” off Signals 3 times today. It is a difficult song to play live, and has Never been played live according to their concert history. I would love to hear the reflection on aging from and Album that is now 30 years old.
I would love to hear “Losing It”, with rumored live strings in the background.
The Necromancer
Love to hear The Necromancer
Dog Years
XANADU!!!!!!!
Anthem, In the End or Anything they choose to perform!
2112. The entire thing.
Red Barchetta
Territories baby.
Jacobs Ladder
Ceiling Unlimited!
Losing It
The Camera Eye
2112 all of it!
Countdown! Now that our shuttle fleet is gone we can appreciate even more the experience of a launch.
Kid Gloves!! Made from real kids haha!!
Jacob’s Ladder!
The Fountain Of Lamneth
This is a no brainer… HEADLONG FLIGHT!
Greetings!
Alien Shore!
Thanks and look forward to hearing from you!
The Analog Kid
Headlong Flight!
“I stoke the Fire…’
BY TOR AND THE SNOW DOG WOULD BE GREAT
Kid Gloves.