Stellar show tonight, as expected. Rush never fail to bring it when it comes to putting on a great live show.
The set list has been a bit of a love or hate thing for people, but it totally works. Even all of the new songs in a row works well, considering how strong all of the material is, although the obvious live standouts were Clockwork Angels, The Anarchist and Headlong Flight. Wish Them Well was phenomenal as well, and The Garden is such a great closer, and did a great job at "closing out" the long stretch of new songs.
I like Middletown Dreams more than Grand Designs in general, but the latter is the better live song; I can see now why it, not the other, is getting the every night treatment.
People can bitch all they want about songs like Dreamline, Red Sector A and The Big Money being overplayed live, but they are all always great live tunes.
We got The Spirit of Radio instead of Working Man at the end of the second set (THANK GOD!!), and also got The Pass instead of Bravado (I love both, but was thrilled we got The Pass).
Geddy's voice sounded surprisingly good. I have to think that doing shows no more than every other night and the material they are doing is a huge reason why. If he was having to wail a bunch of those really old songs every night, his voice would be gone by the third week of the tour, but they have done this really smart this time around.
Overall, just a great, great show!!