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During the month wait since we camped out for
Rush
tickets in the end of September, our anticipation grew intense.
Four of us went to the concert -- me, my husband Ken, and our friends
Nicolas and Jim.
Alex was his normal goofy self. He loves entertaining the crowd.
Neil was intense as usual. Ken and Jim said they caught
him looking up at them. I never caught him looking up at all.
Before the show we were wondering how we could to get the guys'
attention, not realizing that just being in the front row was enough.
We made a banner and held up during Virtuality.
The guys tried to read it, but I think it was too distracting
-- a bit annoying. If I could do it all again, I wouldn't
bring a banner, or I would bring a very simple banner that just
said something like "Thank you!" and hold it up during the encore.
During intermission, I wanted so bad to get something to drink. My mouth was
so dry. But I didn't want to take chances on not getting back on time for the
second half. Jim, Ken and I were watching as one of the stage crew guys put
more bottled water in Geddy's frig on stage.
He also nabbed some snacks -- cheese balls and candy
(Tang-a-roos, a "Smarties" clone).
He saw us watching him and held his arm up to toss a piece of candy.
Ken jumped up. The stage guy yelled, "Not you!" and tossed the candy to me.
"If you eat that you're dead," Jim said. But my mouth was so dry!
I suppose the stage guy (I'd love to know his name)
was wondering why I wasn't eating it.
The images were taken at the Albany concert by
The Spirit of Rush.
They look exactly like my view from front row!