Grateful Dead

Rush Signals. It was an excellent tour. We also saw them earlier on that tour in Nashville at the old Municipal Auditorium. Probably still my favorite single venue that I have been too. Saw many concerts there starting in the late 70's. It is a round coliseum like Madison Square or Oakland with no internal columns, all supported by steel girders overhead. Sound in that arena is spectacular. Plus since Broon's Bane was still around (i.e. Terry Brown - engineer) their live sound was spectacular. They seem to go down hill after he left. The last time I saw Rush was 1997 in Charlotte when I was in grad school. It was still very good. But the early years smoked. I saw them about 12-15 times between 79 and 97. Saw Yes on the 90210 (or is that the tv show) and the Big Generator tour in that Nashville Coliseum. Dozin oh so well. By the Big Generator tour, we were hooked into the folks that got us pure mothers milk. My freaky friend prepared us some cubes. He said one of the 7 is a double. Turned out they were all doubles but one was a triple. Zowie. So back to that old coliseum. Jeff Beck plays there this fall. I am trying to figure out if I am healthy enough to go. First, to see Beck, but also to be in that old coliseum where so many memories have been made. Man, look at all those dates. Wow Geddy could still do it.

https://www.rush.com/tour/signals/ Nice setlist, although it was the same for the entire tour.

I spent years wondering where Pembroke Pines was. As it never says sportatorium on it. Then I realized it was the old hollywood sportatorium. My freaky friend and I saw Rush there on the Signals tour. Did some research, seems that it was not called Pembroke Pines until the early 90's, I think, as that area north of Miami expanded. The fact that Dick's 3 sounds so good is a testament to Betty's skills and the fact that Bear figured out long before of an up channel split for her own mix. That place was a wild place back then, but was a dump. We were 17 and on a school trip. We snuck out to buy the tickets several days before the show. The day of the show, we took a city bus probably 10 miles north out of Miami. We then got a cab to take us further north. As we got close to the sporto, traffic backed up, and I mean for miles. There was only one way in from the south so all Rush heads in Miami were in that jam. We were poor as Shite. So the cab fair got to be too expensive. We jump out and start to walk/hitch hike. Fortunately some other freaks picked us up and were heading to the venue. They were also nice enough to burn a few and sell a few. We got up close so sound was decent. Wehn the show ended we were 20 miles north of our hotel with only a little bit of money. We got a ride that got us about 10 miles out from the hotel. Then walked close enough to where we could make it by cab. We got a cab made it to with a half a mile of the hotel. Paid the cabie out last bit of money. Got to bed around 4, had to wake up at 7 to eat breakfast and get on the school bus back home. We were truly young and stupid but the memory lives fresh. Very glad we did it, and were successful. http://www.hollywoodsportatorium.com/

Please send me a PM so we can get things just exactly perfect, or at least a little closer!

I went through at least two copies of the LP because the pop and click infiltrated not to mention skips. I bought a copy of the tape for my car before I had a tape deck to copy the LP. Bought the CD when it was first available. Got another CD in one of the GD box sets with some bonus tracks. Do I get it again? Of course! Buying the flacs because I have enough stuff in my life. Best GD "studio" album ever IMHO.

http://www.dead.net/show/november-26-1980

Dead.net, I'm in... What about Pembroke Pines?

https://youtu.be/UBmEkqoPQbkThis one is really good....

Guess the old copy’s jun... wait a tic... Oh no you don’t!! There’s no way I’m buying Two From The Vault again, haha!

My "original" remixed versions have the old olive green WB label and the Warner/Reprise beige inner sleeve with a picture of Burbank on it. The Anthem cover has a colour picture on the back.