The function of a sound check is to test the equipment, cables, microphones and instruments on stage, get levels (volume, EQ, etc) on stage and through the front of house speakers. It has nothing to do with talent.

@@AndyActionduh he’s saying they were haters of their talent and were the big rock stars and pissed on the little nerds who could play circles around them

Not the whole band, it was Steve Tyler that was an a$&hole to any warm up band. I heard the story where he pulled cables when Kansas opened for them on their encore. The band had to apologize for Tyler to keep a fight from breaking out.

Yeah pretty sure Geddy was talking about Aerosmith. It's no secret that Aerosmith never gave RUSH a sound check. Funny, now when I hear or think Aerosmith I immediately think a-holes who never gave RUSH a sound check.

@@AndyActionIt does when the opening act is a bonafide threat to the headliner. Aerosmith was the exact type of band to play that way and that’s what they did to Rush. Not getting a sound check before a show is something all bands who care about their performance worry about.

Yeah, me too!😊

Permant Waves tour I saw 3 times. Just curious if Neil was there as he never does meet n greets

@@scorpionsunbreakable Yes, he was. My programme is signed by all three.

@@scorpionsunbreakable I remember my buddy Julian, who was and still is a fantastic drummer, dropping his pen and his and Neil's head collided as they both went to pick it up. I distinctly remember Julian making a Mike Reid (Uk comedian) hand gesture of a bump growing on his head along with the sound of a small farty noise. I have a memory for these kind of things.

Watch your language. No need to spell out the filth in your head, just dance around it so we can enjoy your point, chum.

@@hankgarza4975 Oh. Fuck. I’m sorry I offended you.

I love you man wasn’t my kind of movie, but my respect for Rudd went off the scale because of the Rush inclusion. It’s a real shame Hollywood failed to include the band in Ready Player One as well , they totally missed a trick there and I think the movie would’ve been much more successful if they had. As it was, it turned out to be just another mediocre cgi action flick with the heart removed.

What do you mean "my kind of movie", you don't don't laugh? @@funkydozer

Hearing Geddy say "keep. Slappin dat bass" in the part 2 sketch, 'The Acccess all areas' backstage bit. 😂🤣👍🏻

I have all my original Rush albums AND still play them. My worst off is the 1st album Rush. It's the 2 cardboard sides, back and front not held together by anything and inside sleeve missing. So just the album between 2 loose cardboard sheets 😂😂. Just had to tell that little story lol

I was there in Pittsburgh, and he was awesome! 😊🫶🕺

Guarantee you additional dates are added later. Especially as demand begins to spike, which as we know, demand always spikes as a tour progresses. I live outside of Morgantown, WV, so Pittsburgh would be the one I would want as well. My intuition gives me this feeling that Neil told Geddy “forget about me, you go out there and promote that book and meet those fans”. I can picture him saying that to Geddy or Alex Just a bit of side knowledge, since I mention that I live close to Morgantown… I remember in 1989 when Cinderella headlined the WVU Mountaineer coliseum. That band violated the ever living shit out of every noise ordinance and played around 30 to 45 minutes past curfew, which was also covered in the city ordinance. The band had to pay all kinds of fines and were issued a lifetime ban from playing the coliseum ever again 😂 I wasn’t at the show, but heard all about it. I was only 11 years old back then. But that’s hilarious knowing that Cinderella came in and straight up blew the dome off the coliseum before burning it to the ground with mega amounts of decibels 😂 When I saw RUSH at the then new Consolidated Coal arena in 2010… that was THEE LOUDEST I ever heard them play. I’m guessing you were there as well. Were they not WAY louder than usual? I’m definitely not complaining, as I wish all bands would play that loud. But RUSH was very much along the lines of AC⚡️DC loud that night. My equilibrium was off for a couple of days after that, as was those chic that I took with me. She had a hard time hearing for a couple of days after that. She said it was “too much” and that they delivered the goods in ways she never expected from RUSH I saw Roger’s Water there just a few days later. He was nowhere near as loud as RUSH was that night, or AC/DC in the Civic Arena

I also met Geddy many years ago when i was 18 night after the Moving pictures tour in Vancouver BC was dehydrated and just hung out with my friends from Vancouver Island told them I'd stay another night so went into Pacific center mall around 11:30 am a got a Orange Julius 🍊 sitting on a bench sipping away when all of a sudden a side door opened up and it was Geddy Lee i was in shock since seeing Rush the night before Moving pictures tour as Geddy walked by me and went down the escalator i was frozen didn't know what to do and within a few minutes he came back up and as he walked pass me i made my move i walked up behind Geddy and said excuse me are you Geddy Lee and he replied yes and i said WOW what a RUSH and we both started laughing he said we're you at the concert last night and i replied yes 10th row on the floor told Geddy i attended Hemisphere tour in Nanaimo and Farewell to kings tour in Victoria BC talked for about 10min and i said where's Alex and Neil and he said we like going are own ways after a show finally words very nice to me you and I've got a few places to go and meeting up with Alex and Neil in Edmonton tonight memories I'll never forget such a wonderful 👏 person Rush for life 🤝👏

@@by-torandthesnowdog1647 back when I was in college… I was in my junior year in 2007 and was out one night at this club having a few drinks and seeing what I could pull out of there. There was this chic named Alex who DJd in one of the smaller bar rooms where she had her laptop playing 80s new wave / top 40 stuff I was talking to her and told her she should play some RUSH, like from Power Windows… one of their real “80s sounding” records. She then said “ewwww… I can’t STAND Geddy Lee!!!” Like she was a real BITCH about it and took offense that I would bring up RUSH and the likes of Geddy Lee at “her” beloved DJ table I was like “wow… i get that RUSH is an acquired taste for many, but man… you come as being very hateful in the most unhealthy of ways…” and I then went on the lay out a bit of history and such to help build a better picture for her as to who Geddy Lee really is. But she was having none of it I then told her “Shit… Geddy Lee is gong to sing at your wedding. What do you think about that?” And she said “oh HELL NO!!!” I then told her, I said “actually I think you might be right about that. Because of you hold that much hate and resentment to those who you perceive as different and not in line with your pristine interests that YOU believe are so superior to others, then either you will NEVER find a husband…. Or he’s a damn simp FOOL and you know it, and you like people who you can manipulate… and with that being said, you’re not RUSH material, and are NOR someone Geddy Lee would even claim as part of his base anyways… so enjoy your hits that the masses told you were timeless classics “ It was something like that. I was a bit drunk too. She was like “I don’t carrree!!” That also sums up what my time was like attending a “football first, football always” BIG 12 university after spending 8 years in the army with 2 combat tours and 31 combat equipped mass tactical parachute jumps under my belt, many of those conducted in the middle of the night at 800 feet. Add RUSH to the mix, and how the hell does one even begin to relate to anyone around you in that environment? How the hell I put up with 5 years of that and graduated is beyond me

Because Pitt is Thug Ridden. Not to mention the communist that occupy that hell-hole ghetto.

I think I saw Rush one time and Rory was opening for them in 1982ish

Seen Arrowheads in Toronto Derringer opened mopped the stag with them thay Sucked so bad we left

I loved that!

I guess they didn't have time for a sound check. : )

The venues usually provide the chairs. They're probably different every place he goes

Aerosmith, I think

@@trevorhardy9045 Joe Perry admitted as much recently. Then thanked Ged for not holding a grudge.

That is correct ! :) @@PrattDirkLerxst

Van Halen wasn't a tour headliner until 1979. Rush was headlining in 1977. Van Halen was never in a position to have Rush open for them.

thanks for setting me straight .@@stevebean1543

Maybe he needs glasses to read?

Why do you talk about things you know nothing about to people you do not know?

Those two are 124 years old. They Need the glasses to See.

It's quite a stretch to call this "being filmed." Everyone has a camera phone. People are filming everything nowadays and posting it online.